Thomas Cogswell
Biographic Data
| ID | 378134 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas Cogswell |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas |
| FAMILY NAME | Cogswell |
| SIGNATURE | COGSWELL T |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Riverside |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 20 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Political and Religious Practice in the Early Modern World
Ten Demi-Culverins for Aldeburgh
Historians have not paid close attention to the activities of freebooters operating out of Dunkirk in the late 1620s. This essay corrects that omission by first studying the threat from Dunkirk to England's east coast and then addressing how the central government, counties, and coastal towns responded. A surprisingly rich vein of manuscript material from Great Yarmouth and particularly from the Suffolk fishing community of Aldeburgh informs this…
The Canterbury Election of 1626 and Parliamentary Selection Revisited
In 1626, after losing a bitterly fought parliamentary election in Canterbury, Thomas Scott wrote Canterburie cittizens . Initially, he planned to present it to the House of Commons, but the text quickly became too lengthy and, most importantly, too controversial in its assessments. Scholars can only be glad that he produced such an extensive account of the contest. His book allows us to see how the ‘Rule-alls’ on the corporation, dominated by bre…
The Murder of King James I
A year after the death of James I in 1625, a sensational pamphlet accused the Duke of Buckingham of murdering the king. It was an allegation that would haunt English politics for nearly forty years. In this exhaustively researched new book, two leading scholars of the era, Alastair Bellany and Thomas Cogswell, uncover the untold story of how a secret history of courtly poisoning shaped and reflected the political conflicts that would eventually p…
Princely Education in Early Modern Britain
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The Correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia, Volume I
Whatever the ultimate fate of the United Kingdom’s relationship with the European Union, and, indeed, of the United Kingdom itself, the old notions of English exceptionalism are plainly fading, and, as scholars try to place Britain in its continental context, they have no finer illustration of a British woman thoroughly, if sometimes reluctantly, at home in Europe than Elizabeth Stuart, the daughter of James VI and I and the wife of Frederick V o…
The Murder of King James I
A year after the death of James I in 1625, a sensational pamphlet accused the Duke of Buckingham of murdering the king. It was an allegation that would haunt English politics for nearly forty years. In this exhaustively researched new book, two leading scholars of the era, Alastair Bellany and Thomas Cogswell, uncover the untold story of how a secret history of courtly poisoning shaped and reflected the political conflicts that would eventually p…
Murder of King James I
Nero in Warwickshire
This chapter discusses how Eglisham's most infamous work continued to percolate through English and Scottish political culture during the 1630s. Discussion of James' murder had not ended with Buckingham's assassination in 1628. Contemporaries continued to circulate and read copies of The Forerunner, and other documents on the secret history, as they tried to understand what had gone so wrong under Buckingham's rule. In one particularly sensationa…
The Human Comedy in Westminster
The completion of the House of Commons, 1604–1629 , a sprawling research project involving over a dozen scholars who have toiled in the archival vineyards for the past quarter century, is a development of fundamental importance for the study of early Stuart history. This essay highlights some of its many findings and suggests some directions for further research, deploying the riches in these six volumes
The Return of the ‘Deade Alive’
Previous scholars of parliamentary history and political culture in the early seventeenth century have only paid scant attention to the earl of Bristol’s role in the 1626 Parliament and none at all to that of George Eglisham. Yet they played a dramatic role in the session. They blackened the reputation of the duke of Buckingham and even besmirched the young king. Indeed Eglisham’s accusation did more than merely follow Charles I to the grave; it …
The Warre of the Commons for the honour of King Charles'
Journal Article ‘The Warre of the Commons for the honour of King Charles’: the parliament-men and the reformation of the lord admiral in 1626 Get access Thomas Cogswell Thomas Cogswell University of California, Riverside Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Historical Research, Volume 84, Issue 226, November 2011, Pages 618–636, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.2011.00570.x Published: 13 October 2011
In the Power of the State
Scholars have generally assumed that the dissolution of the Virginia Company in 1624 initiated an extended period of benign royal neglect in which Virginia were able to develop as they wished. Yet the recent discovery of detailed minutes for a Whitehall committee makes abundantly clear that Charles I and his councilors had not forgotten about the colony -- and the wealth it might bring into the Exchequer. As this article will make clear, a remark…
Religious Politics in Post-Reformation England
New scrutinies of the most important political and religious debates of the post-Reformation period. The consequences of the Reformation and the church/state polity it created have always been an area of important scholarly debate. The essays in this volume, by many of the leading scholars of the period, revisit many of the important issues during the period from the Henrician Reformation to the Glorious Revolution: theology, political structures…
John Felton, Popular Political Culture, and the Assassination of the Duke of Buckingham
This article analyses the motivation behind John Felton's assassination of the duke of Buckingham in August 1628. It focuses attention on his family's tortured relationship with the regime, and it highlights Felton's military service in Spain, Ireland, and France. Wounded in the disastrous withdrawal from the Ile de Ré, he returned to London to convalesce, and there he slipped into the metropolitan ‘underground’ manuscript culture that was satura…
The Politics of Propaganda
John Rous did more than record the news that reached his isolated parish in Suffolk; he also recorded the local discussions of these reports. The latter practice was potentially dangerous. Two recent royal proclamations had expressly prohibited discussions of “affairs of state,” and, as Rous's diary reveals, these private talks could easily become extended critiques of royal policy. Perhaps for that reason Rous, the local parson, consistently sou…
A Low Road to Extinction? Supply and Redress of Grievances in the Parliaments of the 1620s
When his colleagues at the beginning of the 1621 session were puzzling over whether supply should precede redress of grievances or vice versa, Sir George More rose to give them the benefit of his considerable experience. The question could best be resolved, he suggested, if redress and supply were thought of ‘as twins, asJacob and Esau’ which ‘should go hand in hand, for though grievances go first, yet the blessing may be upon subsidies’. The bib…
Coping with Revisionism in Early Stuart History
Prelude to Ré
Charles I and the Popish Plot
Foreign policy and Parliament
Journal Article Foreign policy and Parliament: the case of La Rochelle, 1625–1626 Get access THOMAS COGSWELL THOMAS COGSWELL University of Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCIX, Issue CCCXCI, April 1984, Pages 241–267, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCIX.CCCXCI.241 Published: 01 April 1984
The Politics of Propaganda
John Rous did more than record the news that reached his isolated parish in Suffolk; he also recorded the local discussions of these reports. The latter practice was potentially dangerous. Two recent royal proclamations had expressly prohibited discussions of “affairs of state,” and, as Rous's diary reveals, these private talks could easily become extended critiques of royal policy. Perhaps for that reason Rous, the local parson, consistently sou…
Foreign policy and Parliament
Journal Article Foreign policy and Parliament: the case of La Rochelle, 1625–1626 Get access THOMAS COGSWELL THOMAS COGSWELL University of Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCIX, Issue CCCXCI, April 1984, Pages 241–267, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCIX.CCCXCI.241 Published: 01 April 1984
John Felton, Popular Political Culture, and the Assassination of the Duke of Buckingham
This article analyses the motivation behind John Felton's assassination of the duke of Buckingham in August 1628. It focuses attention on his family's tortured relationship with the regime, and it highlights Felton's military service in Spain, Ireland, and France. Wounded in the disastrous withdrawal from the Ile de Ré, he returned to London to convalesce, and there he slipped into the metropolitan ‘underground’ manuscript culture that was satura…
A Low Road to Extinction? Supply and Redress of Grievances in the Parliaments of the 1620s
When his colleagues at the beginning of the 1621 session were puzzling over whether supply should precede redress of grievances or vice versa, Sir George More rose to give them the benefit of his considerable experience. The question could best be resolved, he suggested, if redress and supply were thought of ‘as twins, asJacob and Esau’ which ‘should go hand in hand, for though grievances go first, yet the blessing may be upon subsidies’. The bib…
Prelude to Ré
In the Power of the State
Scholars have generally assumed that the dissolution of the Virginia Company in 1624 initiated an extended period of benign royal neglect in which Virginia were able to develop as they wished. Yet the recent discovery of detailed minutes for a Whitehall committee makes abundantly clear that Charles I and his councilors had not forgotten about the colony -- and the wealth it might bring into the Exchequer. As this article will make clear, a remark…
The Human Comedy in Westminster
The completion of the House of Commons, 1604–1629 , a sprawling research project involving over a dozen scholars who have toiled in the archival vineyards for the past quarter century, is a development of fundamental importance for the study of early Stuart history. This essay highlights some of its many findings and suggests some directions for further research, deploying the riches in these six volumes
Coping with Revisionism in Early Stuart History
Ten Demi-Culverins for Aldeburgh
Historians have not paid close attention to the activities of freebooters operating out of Dunkirk in the late 1620s. This essay corrects that omission by first studying the threat from Dunkirk to England's east coast and then addressing how the central government, counties, and coastal towns responded. A surprisingly rich vein of manuscript material from Great Yarmouth and particularly from the Suffolk fishing community of Aldeburgh informs this…
The Return of the ‘Deade Alive’
Previous scholars of parliamentary history and political culture in the early seventeenth century have only paid scant attention to the earl of Bristol’s role in the 1626 Parliament and none at all to that of George Eglisham. Yet they played a dramatic role in the session. They blackened the reputation of the duke of Buckingham and even besmirched the young king. Indeed Eglisham’s accusation did more than merely follow Charles I to the grave; it …
Charles I and the Popish Plot
Foreign policy and Parliament
Journal Article Foreign policy and Parliament: the case of La Rochelle, 1625–1626 Get access THOMAS COGSWELL THOMAS COGSWELL University of Georgia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The English Historical Review, Volume XCIX, Issue CCCXCI, April 1984, Pages 241–267, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/XCIX.CCCXCI.241 Published: 01 April 1984
Prelude to Ré
The Politics of Propaganda
John Rous did more than record the news that reached his isolated parish in Suffolk; he also recorded the local discussions of these reports. The latter practice was potentially dangerous. Two recent royal proclamations had expressly prohibited discussions of “affairs of state,” and, as Rous's diary reveals, these private talks could easily become extended critiques of royal policy. Perhaps for that reason Rous, the local parson, consistently sou…
A Low Road to Extinction? Supply and Redress of Grievances in the Parliaments of the 1620s
When his colleagues at the beginning of the 1621 session were puzzling over whether supply should precede redress of grievances or vice versa, Sir George More rose to give them the benefit of his considerable experience. The question could best be resolved, he suggested, if redress and supply were thought of ‘as twins, asJacob and Esau’ which ‘should go hand in hand, for though grievances go first, yet the blessing may be upon subsidies’. The bib…
Coping with Revisionism in Early Stuart History
Religious Politics in Post-Reformation England
New scrutinies of the most important political and religious debates of the post-Reformation period. The consequences of the Reformation and the church/state polity it created have always been an area of important scholarly debate. The essays in this volume, by many of the leading scholars of the period, revisit many of the important issues during the period from the Henrician Reformation to the Glorious Revolution: theology, political structures…
John Felton, Popular Political Culture, and the Assassination of the Duke of Buckingham
This article analyses the motivation behind John Felton's assassination of the duke of Buckingham in August 1628. It focuses attention on his family's tortured relationship with the regime, and it highlights Felton's military service in Spain, Ireland, and France. Wounded in the disastrous withdrawal from the Ile de Ré, he returned to London to convalesce, and there he slipped into the metropolitan ‘underground’ manuscript culture that was satura…
In the Power of the State
Scholars have generally assumed that the dissolution of the Virginia Company in 1624 initiated an extended period of benign royal neglect in which Virginia were able to develop as they wished. Yet the recent discovery of detailed minutes for a Whitehall committee makes abundantly clear that Charles I and his councilors had not forgotten about the colony -- and the wealth it might bring into the Exchequer. As this article will make clear, a remark…
The Warre of the Commons for the honour of King Charles'
Journal Article ‘The Warre of the Commons for the honour of King Charles’: the parliament-men and the reformation of the lord admiral in 1626 Get access Thomas Cogswell Thomas Cogswell University of California, Riverside Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Historical Research, Volume 84, Issue 226, November 2011, Pages 618–636, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-2281.2011.00570.x Published: 13 October 2011
The Human Comedy in Westminster
The completion of the House of Commons, 1604–1629 , a sprawling research project involving over a dozen scholars who have toiled in the archival vineyards for the past quarter century, is a development of fundamental importance for the study of early Stuart history. This essay highlights some of its many findings and suggests some directions for further research, deploying the riches in these six volumes
The Return of the ‘Deade Alive’
Previous scholars of parliamentary history and political culture in the early seventeenth century have only paid scant attention to the earl of Bristol’s role in the 1626 Parliament and none at all to that of George Eglisham. Yet they played a dramatic role in the session. They blackened the reputation of the duke of Buckingham and even besmirched the young king. Indeed Eglisham’s accusation did more than merely follow Charles I to the grave; it …
The Murder of King James I
A year after the death of James I in 1625, a sensational pamphlet accused the Duke of Buckingham of murdering the king. It was an allegation that would haunt English politics for nearly forty years. In this exhaustively researched new book, two leading scholars of the era, Alastair Bellany and Thomas Cogswell, uncover the untold story of how a secret history of courtly poisoning shaped and reflected the political conflicts that would eventually p…
Murder of King James I
Nero in Warwickshire
This chapter discusses how Eglisham's most infamous work continued to percolate through English and Scottish political culture during the 1630s. Discussion of James' murder had not ended with Buckingham's assassination in 1628. Contemporaries continued to circulate and read copies of The Forerunner, and other documents on the secret history, as they tried to understand what had gone so wrong under Buckingham's rule. In one particularly sensationa…
The Correspondence of Elizabeth Stuart, Queen of Bohemia, Volume I
Whatever the ultimate fate of the United Kingdom’s relationship with the European Union, and, indeed, of the United Kingdom itself, the old notions of English exceptionalism are plainly fading, and, as scholars try to place Britain in its continental context, they have no finer illustration of a British woman thoroughly, if sometimes reluctantly, at home in Europe than Elizabeth Stuart, the daughter of James VI and I and the wife of Frederick V o…
The Murder of King James I
A year after the death of James I in 1625, a sensational pamphlet accused the Duke of Buckingham of murdering the king. It was an allegation that would haunt English politics for nearly forty years. In this exhaustively researched new book, two leading scholars of the era, Alastair Bellany and Thomas Cogswell, uncover the untold story of how a secret history of courtly poisoning shaped and reflected the political conflicts that would eventually p…
Princely Education in Early Modern Britain
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Ten Demi-Culverins for Aldeburgh
Historians have not paid close attention to the activities of freebooters operating out of Dunkirk in the late 1620s. This essay corrects that omission by first studying the threat from Dunkirk to England's east coast and then addressing how the central government, counties, and coastal towns responded. A surprisingly rich vein of manuscript material from Great Yarmouth and particularly from the Suffolk fishing community of Aldeburgh informs this…
The Canterbury Election of 1626 and Parliamentary Selection Revisited
In 1626, after losing a bitterly fought parliamentary election in Canterbury, Thomas Scott wrote Canterburie cittizens . Initially, he planned to present it to the House of Commons, but the text quickly became too lengthy and, most importantly, too controversial in its assessments. Scholars can only be glad that he produced such an extensive account of the contest. His book allows us to see how the ‘Rule-alls’ on the corporation, dominated by bre…
Political and Religious Practice in the Early Modern World
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