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- Title
Laurence Hyde and the Politics of Religion in Later Stuart England*.
- Authors
Tapsell, Grant
- Abstract
Religion has been increasingly reintegrated into the study of later seventeenth-century English politics. Nevertheless, historians of the later Stuart period have not displayed the same gusto for case studies of individuals’ careers as their colleagues working on the pre-civil war era. This article looks at the important role of religion within the career of Laurence Hyde, earl of Rochester (1642-1711), a very significant but under-studied politician whose long career in public life stretched from the Restoration to the latter part of Anne’s reign. It is argued that a vital dimension of Hyde’s religious beliefs can be supplied by a detailed consideration of his family life. His father’s example, his sister’s conversion, a series of early deaths, and his relationships with his brother-in-law – James II – and nieces – Mary II and Anne – all combined to define Hyde’s public status. The interplay of these factors would lead to acute crisis in the winter of 1686/7, when his position as the protestant chief minister of a catholic king became untenable, and chronic discontent thereafter until his death in 1711.
- Subjects
ENGLAND; UNITED Kingdom; HYDE, Laurence; HISTORY of church &; politics; NOBILITY (Social class); ENGLISH church history; ENGLISH civilization; BRITISH politics &; government, 1660-1714; SEVENTEENTH century; RELIGION; RELIGIOUS life
- Publication
English Historical Review, 2010, Vol 125, Issue 517, p1414
- ISSN
0013-8266
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/ehr/ceq344