The Madman and the Churchrobber Law and Conflict in Early Modern England

by Peacey, Jason

• ISBN13: 9780192897138
• ISBN10: 0192897136
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2022-04-06
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Author Biography

Jason Peacey, Professor of Early Modern British History, University College London

Jason Peacey is Professor of Early Modern British History at UCL, which he joined in 2006, after working at the History of Parliament. He was educated at the universities of Lancaster, York, and Cambridge. He is the author of Politicians and Pamphleteers: Propaganda during the English Civil Wars and
Interregnum (2004) and of Print and Public Politics in the English Revolution (2013), and he has published widely on politics and political culture in early modern Britain. He is currently researching Anglo-Dutch relations in the seventeenth century, as well as the history of citizenship in early
modern England.

Table of Contents

Introduction
Part One: Suits
Introduction to Part One
1. 'Strange passages in divers suits': waging law over Warrens Court, 1560-1615
2. 'Given to superstitious uses': contesting Lady Katherine Berkeley's Grammar School, 1615-1662
Part Two: Strategies
Introduction to Part Two
3. 'A lawyer by practice': John Smyth of Nibley as litigant
4. 'Power and wicked practices': John Smyth, influence, and intimidation
5. 'A huntsman after broken titles': Benjamin Crokey as litigant
6. 'For your sake I sent this down': the battle over Crokey's pamphlet, 1625-1631
Part Three: Structures
Introduction to Part Three
7. 'Country malice', the 'inferior sort', and the Church of England: the mental world of John Smyth
8. 'The many-headed multitude': the royalism of John Smyth junior
9. 'For God's cause and the public good': the mental world of Benjamin Crokey
Conclusion