David L Wykes
Biographic Data
| ID | 5400636 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David L Wykes |
| GIVEN NAMES | David L |
| FAMILY NAME | Wykes |
| SIGNATURE | WYKES D L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Leicester |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3935-6587 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1960 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Early Nineteenth-Century Unitarian Campaign to change English Marriage Law
The 1836 Marriage Act has received surprisingly little attention from historians of Dissent, despite its significance in permitting non-Anglicans to conduct legally recognized marriages according to their own ceremonies in Dissenting places of worship. The Clandestine Marriages Act (1753), better known as the Hardwicke Act, had limited valid marriages to the rites of the Church of England. Only Jews and Quakers were exempt. By the early nineteent…
After 1662
This study reviews the development of Dissent during the first decade after the 1662 Act of Uniformity. It focuses on the laity as well as the ministers who were silenced, and on the Presbyterians rather than the radical sects. It discusses the number of ejected ministers, their continued involvement in ministry, and the crucial role of lay supporters in setting up meetings and encouraging ministers to preach. Many ejected ministers were not invo…
William R.Smith
Colman (1673Colman ( -1747)), for nearly 50 years minister of the Brattle Street Church, Boston, and one of the leading ministers in New England and the Atlantic religious world in the first half of the eighteenth century.Colman is familiar to historians, but Smith seeks to use his extensive surviving correspondence to explore what he calls the making of the Dissenting Interest in the British North Atlantic world.He makes the ambitious claim that…
Protestant Dissent and the Law
Religious Dissent was shaped by the law. The Act of Uniformity (1662) set out the terms of conformity, and those who could not accept those terms risked prosecution. A great many were convicted under the earlier Elizabethan and Jacobean recusancy statutes, but new laws, such as the Conventicle Acts (1664, 1670) and the Five Mile Act (1665), were also passed. Anthony Fletcher's essay, published in 1984, remains almost the only study of enforcement…
Rational Dissent, Unitarianism, and the Closure of the Northampton Academy in 1798
The decision by the Coward Trustees to close their academy at Northampton in June 1798 has generally been attributed to the prevalence of Unitarianism amongst the students. The reasons are more complex. Neither John Horsey, the theological tutor, nor the students at the time of the closure were Unitarian, though the latter were probably not Calvinists either. The appointment of David Savile, a zealous Calvinist, as assistant tutor by the trustees…
Religion in the Age of Enlightenment, volume 1
Book Review| January 01 2012 Religion in the Age of Enlightenment, volume 1 Religion in the Age of Enlightenment, volume 1McInelly, Brett C. David L. Wykes David L. Wykes Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Wesley and Methodist Studies (2012) 4: 153–154. https://doi.org/10.2307/42909836 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation David L. Wykes; Religion in the Age of Enlightenment, volume 1. We…
Dissenting Praise
Dissenting praise
Introduction
The Norfolk Controversy
Dissenting Influences
‘The Sabbaths …. Spent Before in Idleness & the Neglect of the Word’
Historians have long been aware that during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the intensely religious were especially strict in their observance of the Sabbath, in their rejection of amusements and diversions, and their dedication of the day to public duties and religious exercises. The godly did not restrict their religion to the Sabbath nor indeed to public exercises, for they attempted to maintain a daily regime of family worship and pri…
From David’s Psalms to Watts’s Hymns
The introduction of hymns and hymn-singing has been described as one of the greatest contributions made by dissent to English worship. Yet, with the exception of specialist studies by hymnologists, church historians have largely ignored eighteenth-century hymns and hymn-singing, though it is clear they represented a powerful and popular source of contemporary religious expression. Hymns, that is compositions which depart too far from Scripture to…
To let the memory of these men dye is injurious to posterity’
Edmund Calamy is celebrated as the biographer of Restoration Nonconformity. His account of the sufferings of the ministers ejected from their livings following the Restoration religious settlement is well known to historians of Dissent. As a biographer he was responsible for rescuing many details and even the names of ejected ministers which would otherwise have been lost. His account remains therefore the pre-eminent source for the study of the …
Quaker Schoolmasters, Toleration and the Law, 1689-1714
Quaker Schoolmasters, Toleration and the Law, 1689–1714
The 1689 Toleration Act allowed Protestant dissenters freedom to worship in public, but it was only a limited toleration and dissenters continued to suffer discrimination. This article examines the experience of Quakers in one important area, the Anglican monopoly in teaching. Although the prosecution of unlicensed teachers was patchy, localised, and dependent upon the hostility and zeal of particular individuals, few dissenters escaped harassmen…
After the Happy Union
The Glorious Revolution encouraged Presbyterians to hope for comprehension within the Church of England. The failure of those hopes led them to co-operate more closely with their Congregational brethren. In London the earliest practical outcome of this increased co-operation was the Common Fund, which held its first meeting in June 1690. Controlled by managers drawn from both denominations, the Fund was established to offer financial help to poor…
Friends, Parliament and the Toleration Act
It is surprising to find that Friends were included within the terms of the Toleration Act. The political situation they faced in 1689 was distinctly unpromising. They not only continued to experience the hostility and prejudice that they had suffered since their earliest days, but they were seriously compromised by the close identification of William Penn with the discredited Catholic policies of James II. An examination of the debates in parlia…
The East Midlands from AD 1000
Religious Dissent and the Penal Laws
Aspects of restoration Irony
Ben Jonson's “Chast Booke”‐The Epigrammes
(1969). Ben Jonson's “Chast Booke”‐The Epigrammes. Renaissance and Modern Studies: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 76-87
Elgar's Cello Concerto
Friends, Parliament and the Toleration Act
It is surprising to find that Friends were included within the terms of the Toleration Act. The political situation they faced in 1689 was distinctly unpromising. They not only continued to experience the hostility and prejudice that they had suffered since their earliest days, but they were seriously compromised by the close identification of William Penn with the discredited Catholic policies of James II. An examination of the debates in parlia…
Protestant Dissent and the Law
Religious Dissent was shaped by the law. The Act of Uniformity (1662) set out the terms of conformity, and those who could not accept those terms risked prosecution. A great many were convicted under the earlier Elizabethan and Jacobean recusancy statutes, but new laws, such as the Conventicle Acts (1664, 1670) and the Five Mile Act (1665), were also passed. Anthony Fletcher's essay, published in 1984, remains almost the only study of enforcement…
Religious Dissent and the Penal Laws
Introduction
Quaker Schoolmasters, Toleration and the Law, 1689–1714
The 1689 Toleration Act allowed Protestant dissenters freedom to worship in public, but it was only a limited toleration and dissenters continued to suffer discrimination. This article examines the experience of Quakers in one important area, the Anglican monopoly in teaching. Although the prosecution of unlicensed teachers was patchy, localised, and dependent upon the hostility and zeal of particular individuals, few dissenters escaped harassmen…
After the Happy Union
The Glorious Revolution encouraged Presbyterians to hope for comprehension within the Church of England. The failure of those hopes led them to co-operate more closely with their Congregational brethren. In London the earliest practical outcome of this increased co-operation was the Common Fund, which held its first meeting in June 1690. Controlled by managers drawn from both denominations, the Fund was established to offer financial help to poor…
Elgar's Cello Concerto
Ben Jonson's “Chast Booke”‐The Epigrammes
(1969). Ben Jonson's “Chast Booke”‐The Epigrammes. Renaissance and Modern Studies: Vol. 13, No. 1, pp. 76-87
Aspects of restoration Irony
The East Midlands from AD 1000
Religious Dissent and the Penal Laws
Friends, Parliament and the Toleration Act
It is surprising to find that Friends were included within the terms of the Toleration Act. The political situation they faced in 1689 was distinctly unpromising. They not only continued to experience the hostility and prejudice that they had suffered since their earliest days, but they were seriously compromised by the close identification of William Penn with the discredited Catholic policies of James II. An examination of the debates in parlia…
After the Happy Union
The Glorious Revolution encouraged Presbyterians to hope for comprehension within the Church of England. The failure of those hopes led them to co-operate more closely with their Congregational brethren. In London the earliest practical outcome of this increased co-operation was the Common Fund, which held its first meeting in June 1690. Controlled by managers drawn from both denominations, the Fund was established to offer financial help to poor…
To let the memory of these men dye is injurious to posterity’
Edmund Calamy is celebrated as the biographer of Restoration Nonconformity. His account of the sufferings of the ministers ejected from their livings following the Restoration religious settlement is well known to historians of Dissent. As a biographer he was responsible for rescuing many details and even the names of ejected ministers which would otherwise have been lost. His account remains therefore the pre-eminent source for the study of the …
Quaker Schoolmasters, Toleration and the Law, 1689-1714
Quaker Schoolmasters, Toleration and the Law, 1689–1714
The 1689 Toleration Act allowed Protestant dissenters freedom to worship in public, but it was only a limited toleration and dissenters continued to suffer discrimination. This article examines the experience of Quakers in one important area, the Anglican monopoly in teaching. Although the prosecution of unlicensed teachers was patchy, localised, and dependent upon the hostility and zeal of particular individuals, few dissenters escaped harassmen…
From David’s Psalms to Watts’s Hymns
The introduction of hymns and hymn-singing has been described as one of the greatest contributions made by dissent to English worship. Yet, with the exception of specialist studies by hymnologists, church historians have largely ignored eighteenth-century hymns and hymn-singing, though it is clear they represented a powerful and popular source of contemporary religious expression. Hymns, that is compositions which depart too far from Scripture to…
‘The Sabbaths …. Spent Before in Idleness & the Neglect of the Word’
Historians have long been aware that during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the intensely religious were especially strict in their observance of the Sabbath, in their rejection of amusements and diversions, and their dedication of the day to public duties and religious exercises. The godly did not restrict their religion to the Sabbath nor indeed to public exercises, for they attempted to maintain a daily regime of family worship and pri…
Dissenting Influences
Introduction
The Norfolk Controversy
Dissenting Praise
Dissenting praise
Religion in the Age of Enlightenment, volume 1
Book Review| January 01 2012 Religion in the Age of Enlightenment, volume 1 Religion in the Age of Enlightenment, volume 1McInelly, Brett C. David L. Wykes David L. Wykes Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Wesley and Methodist Studies (2012) 4: 153–154. https://doi.org/10.2307/42909836 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation David L. Wykes; Religion in the Age of Enlightenment, volume 1. We…
Rational Dissent, Unitarianism, and the Closure of the Northampton Academy in 1798
The decision by the Coward Trustees to close their academy at Northampton in June 1798 has generally been attributed to the prevalence of Unitarianism amongst the students. The reasons are more complex. Neither John Horsey, the theological tutor, nor the students at the time of the closure were Unitarian, though the latter were probably not Calvinists either. The appointment of David Savile, a zealous Calvinist, as assistant tutor by the trustees…
Protestant Dissent and the Law
Religious Dissent was shaped by the law. The Act of Uniformity (1662) set out the terms of conformity, and those who could not accept those terms risked prosecution. A great many were convicted under the earlier Elizabethan and Jacobean recusancy statutes, but new laws, such as the Conventicle Acts (1664, 1670) and the Five Mile Act (1665), were also passed. Anthony Fletcher's essay, published in 1984, remains almost the only study of enforcement…
The Early Nineteenth-Century Unitarian Campaign to change English Marriage Law
The 1836 Marriage Act has received surprisingly little attention from historians of Dissent, despite its significance in permitting non-Anglicans to conduct legally recognized marriages according to their own ceremonies in Dissenting places of worship. The Clandestine Marriages Act (1753), better known as the Hardwicke Act, had limited valid marriages to the rites of the Church of England. Only Jews and Quakers were exempt. By the early nineteent…
After 1662
This study reviews the development of Dissent during the first decade after the 1662 Act of Uniformity. It focuses on the laity as well as the ministers who were silenced, and on the Presbyterians rather than the radical sects. It discusses the number of ejected ministers, their continued involvement in ministry, and the crucial role of lay supporters in setting up meetings and encouraging ministers to preach. Many ejected ministers were not invo…
William R.Smith
Colman (1673Colman ( -1747)), for nearly 50 years minister of the Brattle Street Church, Boston, and one of the leading ministers in New England and the Atlantic religious world in the first half of the eighteenth century.Colman is familiar to historians, but Smith seeks to use his extensive surviving correspondence to explore what he calls the making of the Dissenting Interest in the British North Atlantic world.He makes the ambitious claim that…
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