Enforcing Reformation in Ireland and Scotland, 1550–1700 (St. Andrew's Studies in Reformation History)

277 Pages·2006·0.93 MB·English

by  Elizabethanne Boran

Enforcing Reformation in Ireland and Scotland,
1550–1700
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Enforcing Reformation in
Ireland and Scotland,
1550–1700
Edited by
ELIZABETHANNE BORAN
Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland
and
CRAWFORD GRIBBEN
University of Manchester, UK
© Elizabethanne Boran and Crawford Gribben, 2006
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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data
Enforcing reformation in Ireland and Scotland, 1550–1700. –
(St Andrews studies in Reformation history)
1. Reformation – Ireland 2. Reformation – Scotland 3. Ireland
– Church history 4. Scotland – Church history
I. Boran, Elizabethanne II. Gribben, Crawford
274.1'106
ISBN – 10: 754655822
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Enforcing Reformation in Ireland and Scotland, 1550–1700 / edited by
Elizabethanne Boran and Crawford Gribben.
p. cm. – (St. Andrews studies in Reformation history)
ISBN 0–7546–5582–2 (alk. paper)
1. Reformation – Ireland 2. Ireland – Church history. 3. Reformation –
Scotland. 4. Scotland – Church history.
I. Boran, Elizabethanne. II. Gribben, Crawford. III. Series.
BR380.E64 2006
274.11'06—dc22
2005024023
ISBN 0 7546 5582 2
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Contents
Acknowledgements vii
Abbreviations ix
Notes on Contributors xi
Introduction 1
Elizabethanne Boran
1 Sir Henry Sidney and the Reformation in Ireland 14
Ciaran Brady and James Murray
2 Printing in Early Seventeenth-Century Dublin:
Combating Heresy in Serpentine Times 40
Elizabethanne Boran
3 The Problem of ‘Scottish Puritanism’, 1590–1638 66
John Coffey
4 ‘Force and Fear of Punishment’: Protestants and Religious
Coercion in Ireland, 1603–33 91
Alan Ford
5 The Covenanters and the Scottish Parliament, 1639–51:
The Rule of the Godly and the ‘Second Scottish Reformation’ 131
John R. Young
6 Robert Leighton, Edinburgh Theology and the Collapse of
the Presbyterian Consensus 159
Crawford Gribben
7 Godly Order: Enforcing Peace in the Irish Reformation 184
Raymond Gillespie
8 Enforcing the Reformation in Ireland, 1660–1704 202
Toby Barnard
9 Conformity and Security in Scotland and Ireland, 1660–85 228
Richard L. Greaves
Index 251
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Acknowledgements
The papers in this collection were initially prepared for a conference held
at Trinity College, Dublin, in December, 2001. The editors wish to thank
the Department of Modern History and the Centre for Irish–Scottish
Studies for the provision of funding that made this conference possible.
We would also like to thank our contributors and series editors for their
ready assistance in the production of this book. This collection pays
tribute to the life and scholarship of one of its contributors, Professor
Richard L. Greaves (1938–2004), one of the most generous historians of
early modern religion.
Elizabethanne Boran
Crawford Gribben
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Abbreviations
Anc. Rec. Dublin The Calendar of the Ancient Records of Dublin,
edited by J.T. Gilbert (19 vols, 1889–98)
APC Acts of the Privy Council 1542–1604, edited by
J.R. Dasent (32 vols, London, 1890–1907)
APS The Acts of the Parliaments of Scotland, edited by
Cosmo Innes and Thomas Thomson (12 vols,
Edinburgh, 1814–75)
BL The British Library, London
CSPI Calendar of State Papers relating to Ireland (24
vols, London, 1858–97)
HMC Historical Manuscripts Commission
NAI National Archives, Dublin, Ireland
NLI National Library, Ireland
Oxford DNB Dictionary of National Biography
RC Record Commission
RCGA The Records of the Commissions of the General
Assemblies of the Church of Scotland
1646–1653, edited by Alexander F. Mitchell and
James Christie (3 vols, Edinburgh, 1892–1909)
RPCS The Register of the Privy Council of Scotland,
edited by P.H. Brown (8 vols, Edinburgh,
1899–1906)
RIA Proc Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy
SP State Papers
TCD Trinity College, Dublin
UW The Whole Works of the Most Reverend James
Ussher, edited by C.R. Elrington (17 vols, Dublin
and London, 1847–64)