1st Edition
Factionalism and Dissent in an English City Chichester, 1678-1685
By Danae Tankard
Copyright 2025
240 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
240 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
240 Pages
8 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This book is about the political and religious controversies that beset the small English city of Chichester between 1678 and 1685, which intersected with wider political turbulence at the heart of government and in the nation at large. This period of seventeenth-century English history has been overshadowed by the more dramatic events of the English Civil War and the Glorious Revolution, but... Read more
Introduction: A pretty story and a very true one
Chapter One: Weep together, and lament
Chapter Two: An old doddling rogue
Chapter Three: Take away this saucy fellow
Chapter Four: A factious sort of people
Chapter Five: Mischievous vermin
Chapter Six: But silly boys and children
Chapter Seven: Under a great dark cloud
Chapter Eight: The days of mourning being not over
Chapter Nine: Freed from the fears of persecution
Conclusion: I crave pardon for this excess of writing
Biography
Danae Tankard is a Reader in Social History at the University of Chichester, UK.






