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Archive | 2007

The Alehousekeeper’s Revenge: London’s Role in the Reformation Process in a Lancashire Parish

Joseph P. Ward

In 1621, Isabel Berely, an alehousekeeper, donated £30 towards the construction and maintenance of a free school for the children of Kirkham, Lancashire. There had been a school in Kirkham from at least the mid-sixteenth century, but it was poorly endowed. Effective control over the school and all other ecclesiastical and civil affairs of Kirkham rested in the hands of its self-perpetuating, 30-man council. Apparently inspired by Berely’s generosity, the council undertook a voluntary collection throughout the parish to support the school, raising over £170. When it came time to choose a schoolmaster, the council followed Berely’s advice and hired Thomas Armesteed, who taught until 1628. At that point, several of the wealthier parishioners, including Sir Cuthbert Clifton, the leading local gentleman, proposed that they should appoint the next schoolmaster because they had contributed the greatest part of the school fund. Their nominee was a ‘Mr. Sokell’ who, like them- selves, was Catholic. Berely and several other parishioners opposed this move and asked Bishop John Bridgeman of Chester to intervene on their behalf. Bridgeman called for the election of between six and nine school trustees from the parish, with the stipulation that one of these trustees would have to be John Wilding, who had married the former Isabel Berely following the death of her first husband. In the event, Sokell became the schoolmaster and served until the early 1630s.1


Archive | 2012

Introduction: London's Importance

Robert Bucholz; Joseph P. Ward

Between 1550 and 1750, London became Europes largest city, a world-bestriding economic and cultural center, and the crucible for many of the hallmarks of modern life. This book presents Londons history during the period when it rose to global prominence and came to dominate the economic, political, social, and cultural life of the British Isles as never before, nor, it will be argued, since. London: A Social and Cultural History, 1550–1750 synthesizes recent work in urban history, testimony by contemporary Londoners and tourists, and fictional works in which the city plays a part to trace Londons rise, its role as a harbinger of modernity, and the ways in which its inhabitants coped with those achievements. One of those inhabitants, Samuel Johnson (1709–1784), famously said “there is in London all that life can afford.” Indeed, to evoke the full range of Londoners’ experience, it is necessary to traverse the whole of the metropolis, from the splendid galleries of Whitehall and St. Jamess to the damp and sooty alleys and courts of the City outparishes, along the way braving the dangers of plague and fire; witnessing the spectacles of the lord mayors pageant and the hangings at Tyburn; and taking refreshment in the citys pleasure gardens, coffeehouses, and taverns. Having spent some years making this trek ourselves, the authors trust confidently that, at its end, readers will find themselves, to echo Johnson again, no more tired of London than they are tired of life. L ondons I mportance In 1550, as this book opens London was already the most prominent city in England, containing its principal harbor; its largest concentration of population, wealth, and culture; and its capital, in suburban Westminster. But England, sitting on the periphery of Europe, the military equivalent of Denmark, the economic inferior of Flanders, was not a terribly important country. In fact, it could be argued that Londons greatest significance in 1550 was as the funnel through which the ideas and products of other, more powerful European states passed into England. Two centuries later, much had changed. London was still the seat of government and greatest city in England, but England was now the dominant country in the British Isles, a leading player in Europe, and the proprietor of a worldwide empire. Indeed, by the end of the Seven Years’ War in 1763, the Union Jack flew from Canada to India, and from Gibralter to Tahiti.


Journal of Social History | 2006

Meanings of Manhood in Early Modern England (review)

Joseph P. Ward

there significant regional variations?6 Historians interested in Vichy’s political engagements, antecedents, and legacy will have to reckon with Childers’ argument that Vichy and post-war French family policies were discontinuous not for reasons reducible to left-right politics (79) but because the latter eschewed gender as a marker of citizenship (3). Future research will necessarily benefit from and securely build on Childers’ scholarship.7


Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies | 2000

The country and the city revisited : England and the politics of culture, 1550-1850

Carl B. Estabrook; Gerald MacLean; Donna Landry; Joseph P. Ward


Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies | 1999

Metropolitan communities : trade guilds, identity, and change in early modern London

Ronald M. Berger; Joseph P. Ward


Archive | 2012

London: A Social and Cultural History, 1550-1750

Robert Bucholz; Joseph P. Ward


Archive | 2008

Violence, politics, and gender in early modern England

Joseph P. Ward


The Eighteenth Century | 2001

Protestant Identities: Religion, Society, and Self-Fashioning in Post-Reformation England

Marvin A. Breslow; Muriel C. McClendon; Joseph P. Ward; Michael MacDonald


The Eighteenth Century | 1999

The New Draperies in the Low Countries and England, 1300-1800.

Joseph P. Ward; N. B. Harte


The Welsh History Review / Cylchgrawn Hanes Cymru | 2006

Metropolitan Puritans and the Varieties of Godly Reform in Interregnum Monmouth

NewtonE. Key; Joseph P. Ward

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Robert Bucholz

Loyola University Chicago

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Eastern Illinois University

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