Creating Communities in Restoration England
Parish and Congregation in Oliver Heywood’s Halifax
Biographical note
Samuel S. Thomas, Ph.D. (2003) in History, Washington University in St. Louis, teaches history at University School outside Cleveland, Ohio. He has published scholarly articles and in 2013 will publish his first novel, The Midwife's Tale: A Mystery (Minotaur Press).
Readership
Those interested in religious history, early modern England, social history, religious persecution or toleration, Reformation history.
Table of contents
1: Introduction: Religious Communities in Restoration England
“Community” and the Historians
“I’m Not Dead!”: Religious Community in Early Modern England
The Parish of Halifax: “In Short, It Is a Monster”
The Abridged Oliver Heywood
Heywood’s Notebooks
Part I: Anglicans and Dissenters in Restoration Halifax
2: Oliver Heywood and Coley Chapelry
Heywood’s Curacy
Ejection and Exile
Big Shoes to Fill: The Restoration Curates of Coley
Heywood as Preacher and Pastor
3: Persecution in Coley
Richard Hooke, Vicar and Bête Noir
Unofficial Persecution in Coley
Persecution and Accommodation
The Tory Reaction
4: Litigating Community in Revolutionary Halifax
Dramatis Personae
Supporting Players
Women, Servants, and Poor People, Oh My!
The Battle to Define the Parish
Part II: Creating a Dissenting Society
5: The Laity in Heywood’s Society
The Journey into Dissent
What Does a Dissenter Do?
Heywood’s Society in Conflict
6: Worlds Within Worlds: A Closer Look at Heywood’s Society
Young Men’s Meetings
The Core of Heywood’s Society
The Geography of Heywood’s Community
7: Old Age and Evangelism
A Preacher Looks at Sixty (and Sixty-Five, and Seventy…)
Old Age and Community
New Pastoral Strategies
Planting a Godly Seed
Coda
Bibliography
List of Figures
1: Oliver Heywood Frontispiece
2: The Parish of Halifax and Its Townships
List of Tables
1: Occupations of Corlas’s Supporters from Wills
2: Oliver Heywood’s Ministry
“Community” and the Historians
“I’m Not Dead!”: Religious Community in Early Modern England
The Parish of Halifax: “In Short, It Is a Monster”
The Abridged Oliver Heywood
Heywood’s Notebooks
Part I: Anglicans and Dissenters in Restoration Halifax
2: Oliver Heywood and Coley Chapelry
Heywood’s Curacy
Ejection and Exile
Big Shoes to Fill: The Restoration Curates of Coley
Heywood as Preacher and Pastor
3: Persecution in Coley
Richard Hooke, Vicar and Bête Noir
Unofficial Persecution in Coley
Persecution and Accommodation
The Tory Reaction
4: Litigating Community in Revolutionary Halifax
Dramatis Personae
Supporting Players
Women, Servants, and Poor People, Oh My!
The Battle to Define the Parish
Part II: Creating a Dissenting Society
5: The Laity in Heywood’s Society
The Journey into Dissent
What Does a Dissenter Do?
Heywood’s Society in Conflict
6: Worlds Within Worlds: A Closer Look at Heywood’s Society
Young Men’s Meetings
The Core of Heywood’s Society
The Geography of Heywood’s Community
7: Old Age and Evangelism
A Preacher Looks at Sixty (and Sixty-Five, and Seventy…)
Old Age and Community
New Pastoral Strategies
Planting a Godly Seed
Coda
Bibliography
List of Figures
1: Oliver Heywood Frontispiece
2: The Parish of Halifax and Its Townships
List of Tables
1: Occupations of Corlas’s Supporters from Wills
2: Oliver Heywood’s Ministry
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