Viscount Scudamore's ‘Laudianism’
The Religious Practices of the First Viscount Scudamore
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8958893 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ian Atherton (0000-0001-8908-1123, University of Sheffield, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1991 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 567-596 |
| Publication date | 1991-09-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The Historical Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0018-246X • E-ISSN: 1469-5103 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0018246x00017507 |
| OpenAlex | W2072183727 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 2 |
| References cited | 13 |
Viscount Scudamore had three great passions: God, cider and cattle, in that order. He was remembered for cultivating cider apples, breeding cattle, his learning, and most of all for his piety, rebuilding one church, endowing others and aiding distressed divines during the interregnum. Many commended his erudition. He stood on the fringes of that republic of letters which revolved around Mersenne, a friend of the philosophers Hobbes, DuBosc and Grotius, and known to Samuel Hartlib who considered him ‘a great schollar and studying hard continually’. In particular he was a great reader of theology. William Laud had to warn him to ‘Booke it not to much’ while William Higford advised his grandson to ask the viscount, ‘a great lover of learning and very learned’, to guide his own study. The viscount recommended Jeremy Taylor's Holy living and Holy dying to his son, whilst consulting with Laud and Henry Hammond for his own reading. Hammond directed him to Augustine, Aquinas, Peter Lombard, Suarez and Grotius; clearly he was no beginner. In the early eighteenth century Matthew Gibson, Scudamore's first biographer, was astonished at the amount oftheological notes amongst the first viscount's papers. These, however, have all but disappeared. DespiteScudamore's famed ‘affection to Divine knowledge...[and] good proficiencie in it’, it is no longer possible to construct a system of divinity for the viscount, if he did ever work out his theological position comprehensively; perhaps like his friend William Laud he preferred to leave off the deep points of divinity
Divinity · Interregnum · Passions · Piety · Politics · Theology · Classics · History · Law · Philosophy · Scottish History and National Identity
Before the English Civil War
Conflict in Early Stuart England
History of the College of St John the Evangelist, Cambridge
Continuity and Change
Anti-Calvinists. The Rise of English Arminianism c. 1590–1640
Anti-Calvinists
Leaders of the Reformation
A Commons Investigation of Arminianism and Popery in Cambridge on the Eve Of the Civil War
William Laud and the Reunion of the Churches
Thomas Hobbes's Departure from England in 1640
Activities of the Puritan Faction of the Church of England, 1625-33
Thomas Hobbes and His Disciples in France and England
| Citations per year | 0.17 |
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| Citation span | 2014 - 2024 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |