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

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.