Sources and Debates in English History, 1485 - 1714

Newton Key is Professor of History at Eastern Illinois University. He has written articles on preaching, on feasting, on charity, and on provincial and metropolitan politicking in Stuart England and Wales. He is currently at work on a study of patrician/plebeian politics in seventeenth and eighteenth-century London.Robert Bucholz is Professor of History at Loyola University of Chicago. He is the author of The Augustan Court: Queen Anne and the Decline of Court Culture (1993) and, with Sir John Sainty, Officials of the Royal Household 1660–1837 (2 volumes, 1997–8). He has written articles on Queen Anne and the court.

Praise for the first edition:"At last students and teachers of early modern England have a sourcebook of their own that is everything they could have asked for. The sources, both old favorites and some refreshing surprises, are enhanced by thought-provoking introductions and reference to the latest scholarship. Most happily, they are printed in substantially long excerpts rather than the unsatisfying snippets available elsewhere." Michael B. Young, Illinois Wesleyan University "The sources give insight into the lives of individuals as well as politics, religion, and culture. They are also thoughtfully selected and open to a multiplicity of interpretations. Well-chosen illustrations add significantly to the value of the book." Carole Levin, University of Nebraska-Lincoln

• List of Documents viiList of Plates xivPreface xvAcknowledgments xviiiAbbreviations xix1 Social Order and Tensions in Tudor England 1Great Chain of Being 2Social Order, Social Change, and the State 9Foreigners View English Society 16Historians’ Debates 19Additional Source Collections 212 Reviving the Crown, Empowering the State: the Tudor Challenge 22Edward IV, Richard III, and the Reassertion of Royal Power 24Claiming the Throne: Richard III, Henry VIII, and the Pretenders 28Henry VIII and Cardinal Wolsey 37Tudor Revolutions in England, Wales, and Ireland? 41Historians’ Debates 46Additional Source Collections 483 Religious Reformations 49The Old Church Remembered, Criticized, and Defended 50Henry VIII’s Great Matter 55The New Church Established 57Conservative Reaction 62Protestant vs. Catholic under Edward VI, Mary I, and Elizabeth I 65Historians’ Debates 74Additional Source Collections 774 Elizabethan Worlds 78Imperial Ambitions; Geopolitical Realities 78Between Jesuits and Puritans 90Elizabethan Performances 96Historians’ Debates 105Additional Source Collections 1085 Masterless Men and the Monstrous Regiment of Women 109Rough Music, Food Riots, and Popular Rebellions 109Good Wife, Bad Wife, Poor Wife, Witch 119Poor Laws and the Reform of Popular Culture 127Historians’ Debates 133Additional Source Collections 1366 Early Stuart Church and State 137Divine Right of Kings and Ancient Constitutionalism 137Puritans and Anti-Puritans 142The Crisis of Parliaments 148The Personal Rule 158The Constitution Reformed or Deformed? 160Historians’ Debates 167Additional Source Collections 1707 Civil War and Revolution 171War and Reaction in the Three British Kingdoms 171Constitutional Experiments, Regicide, and Reconfiguration 184Radicals, Sectaries, and Revolving New Notions 193Historians’ Debates 203Additional Source Collections 2068 Religion, Restoration, and Revolution 208Dissenters, Catholics, and the Church of England 208Whig vs. Tory 219James II, William of Orange, and the Revolution of 1688–9 229Historians’ Debates 237Additional Source Collections 2409 Later Stuart Politics, Thought, and Society 241Revolution Settlements Debated 241The Rage of Party 259Landed Interest versus Monied Interest, and the Reformation of Ideas 266Historians’ Debates 278Additional Source Collections 280Bibliography of Online Document Archives 282Index 285