Walker Revised: Being a Revision of John Walker's 'Sufferings of the clergy during the Grand Rebellion 1642-60'

Matthews checked all Walker's sources and used a great many more: the Lords' Journals (which ironically are more useful than the Commons'); petitions to the Lords by clergy seeking to recover their livings at the Restoration; all extant county committee records (county committees were...

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Published inBunyan studies Vol. 2; no. 1; p. 81
Main Author Hughes, Ann
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Newcastle Upon Tyne Northumbria University, Department of Humanities, Faculty of Arts, Design and Social Sciences 01.04.1990
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British & Irish literature
Bunyan, John (1628-1688)
English literature
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Summary:Matthews checked all Walker's sources and used a great many more: the Lords' Journals (which ironically are more useful than the Commons'); petitions to the Lords by clergy seeking to recover their livings at the Restoration; all extant county committee records (county committees were from the mid 1640s the initial ejecting bodies); and most importantly the records of the Committee for Plundered Ministers which are now divided between the British Library and the Bodleian. An important study by Ian Green, 'The Persecution of "scandalous" and "malignant" parish clergy during the English Civil War', English Historical Review, 94 (1979) has concluded that Matthews underestimated the troubles of the clergy of whom Parliament and its supporters disapproved, and that Walker's original discussion gave a more accurate impression. In an important article on Essex 'scandalous ministers' (in C.Jones, M.Newitt and S.Roberts, eds., Politics and People in Revolutionary England (Oxford, 1986)) Jim Sharpe has shown how the material found by Walker and Matthews can be used to study popular Puritanism, currently over-shadowed by historians' stress on 'popular Anglicanism'.
ISSN:0954-0970