George Thomason and London in the 1650s
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Vernon, Elliot
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January 29, 2024
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Thomason’s involvement in public politics, which had been extensive during the 1640s, brought him considerable personal trouble following the execution of Charles I, an event that he clearly opposed. Like many others who had been active Presbyterians before 1649, he became an opponent of the republican regime, and this chapter traces his career during the 1650s, when he became a leading member of the Stationers’ Company, during a period which witnessed notable in-fighting, and when he was briefly imprisoned and investigated upon suspicion of being involved in a royalist conspiracy that became known as the ‘Love plot’. The chapter also traces his eventual support for the Restoration of Charles II in 1660, and reflects upon his response to the policies of the restored Stuart regime.
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Electronic British Library Journal
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2023
Article number
3
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British Library
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London, UK
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1478-0259
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March 3, 2023
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Author note: Elliot Vernon is the author of London Presbyterians and the British Revolutions, 1638-64 (2021). With Hunter Powell he edited Church Polity and Politics in the British Atlantic World, 1635-66 (2020), and with Philip Baker he edited The Agreements of the People, the Levellers, and the Constitutional Crisis of the English Revolution (2012). His other publications include: ‘What was the First Agreement of the People?’ (with Philip Baker, Historical Journal, 2010); ‘A Ministry of the Gospel: The Presbyterians during the English Revolution’, in C. Durston and J. Maltby (eds.), Religion in Revolutionary England (2006); and ‘The Quarrel of the Covenant: The London Presbyterians and the Regicide’, in J. Peacey (ed.), The Regicides and the Execution of Charles I (2001). His current projects include research into the life and career of John Wildman.
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