The Thomason Tracts and Presbyterian Mobilization
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Hughes, Anne
Date published
January 30, 2024
Abstract
This chapter uses the Thomason Tracts as a collection, as well as the partisan attitudes of Thomason himself, to assess the use of print in the bitter conflicts that divided parliamentarians in the 1640s. It compares the stress on division revealed in printed accounts of two particularly fraught episodes in 1646 - the March petition from zealous Presbyterians against lay commissioners, and the controversies over the City Remonstrance in May - to the more ambiguous account in the manuscript journal of the Independent leaning Thomas Juxon. It seeks to complicate simple dichotomies between print, manuscript and oral communication in revolutionary London.
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Electronic British Library Journal
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2023
Article number
6
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British Library
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London, UK
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1478-0259
Date accepted
March 3, 2023
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Author Note: Ann Hughes is Professor of Early Modern History (Emeritus) at Keele University. She has published extensively on the English Revolution, including Politics, Society and Civil War in Warwickshire, 1620-1660 (1987), Gangraena and the Struggle for the English Revolution (2004), and Gender and Politics in the English Revolution (2012), and (as co-editor) The Complete Works of Gerrard Winstanley (2009). She is now working on a biography of the Presbyterian activist Walter Boothby, and on responses to preaching in the 1640s.
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