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The Churches and the ’45
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 March 2016
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The limits of this short paper will not allow me to give a full account of the question, but only to consider some aspects of the sermons preached on the occasion of the 1745 Jacobite rebellion. There was a spate of sermons published at the time, not only by famous whig bishops, understandably eager to prove their zeal for the house of Hanover, but also by unknown members of the inferior clergy who felt the need to express their loyalty to the establishment. In many cases, the sermons they preached were the only ones they ever published. It is worth noting, in this respect, that the names of only five antijacobite preachers are to be found in the DNB. This phenomenon, namely the crucial part played by humble preachers, is all the more remarkable as it is in marked contrast with other fields of eighteenth-century pulpit oratory. (Charity sermons, for instance, could only be delivered by bishops or archdeacons or by well-known speakers with a good preaching reputation). Besides, nonconformist ministers were as anxious as their Church of England counterparts to be regarded as pillars of the Hanoverian cause, so that they too had many sermons printed for the occasion. From the available evidence, it is reasonable to assume that they sold well. On the flyleaf of any one of these pamphlets, John Hildyard, the York printer, with his usual advertising techniques, set out a list of other sermons published on the same theme, as an incentive to buy further books on the subject.
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