'Voluntary Bounty and Devotion to the Service of God'? Lay Patronage, Protest and the Creation of the Parish of St Paul Covent Garden, 1629-41

Merritt, J.F.

doi:10.1093/ehr/cep408

All Outputs (7)

Monarchy, Protestantism and Revolution, 1603-1714 (2019)
Book Chapter
Merritt, J. (2019). Monarchy, Protestantism and Revolution, 1603-1714. Westminster Abbey: A Church in History (179-223). New Haven and London: Yale University Press

Voluntary military organizations, associational life and urban culture in early modern England (2019)
Journal Article
MERRITT, J. (2020). Voluntary military organizations, associational life and urban culture in early modern England. Seventeenth Century, 35(6), 693-714. https://doi.org/10.1080/0268117X.2019.1673805

This article presents a rethinking of the nature and functions of voluntary military organizations in early modern England. Where previous scholarship has concentrated on their potential military significance and links with political puritanism, this... Read More about Voluntary military organizations, associational life and urban culture in early modern England.

Religion and the English parish (2017)
Book Chapter
Merritt, J. (2017). Religion and the English parish. In A. Milton (Ed.), The Oxford history of Anglicanism: Volume I. Reformation and identity c.1520-1662. Oxford University Press

Reinventing Westminster Abbey 1642-1660: a house of kings from revolution to restoration (2015)
Journal Article
Merritt, J. (2016). Reinventing Westminster Abbey 1642-1660: a house of kings from revolution to restoration. Journal of Ecclesiastical History, 67(1), 122-138. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022046914002000

While historians are familiar with the destruction wrought on the nation's cathedrals during the Civil War, the rather different fate experienced by Westminster Abbey--an important symbolic building that tied together royal and religious authority--h... Read More about Reinventing Westminster Abbey 1642-1660: a house of kings from revolution to restoration.

Fashionable society in 'these our cloudy days' (2013)
Book Chapter
Merritt, J. (2013). Fashionable society in 'these our cloudy days'. In Westminster 1640–60: A royal city in a time of revolution. Manchester University Press

Contested legitimacy and the ambiguous rise of vestries in early modern London (2011)
Journal Article
MERRITT, J. F. (2011). Contested legitimacy and the ambiguous rise of vestries in early modern London. Historical Journal, 54(1), 25-45. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0018246x10000555

Studies of the rise of London's vestries in the period to 1640 have tended to discuss them in terms of the inexorable rise of oligarchy and state formation. This article re-examines the emergence of the vestries in several ways, moving beyond this tr... Read More about Contested legitimacy and the ambiguous rise of vestries in early modern London.

'Voluntary Bounty and Devotion to the Service of God'? Lay Patronage, Protest and the Creation of the Parish of St Paul Covent Garden, 1629-41 (2010)
Journal Article
Merritt, J. (2010). 'Voluntary Bounty and Devotion to the Service of God'? Lay Patronage, Protest and the Creation of the Parish of St Paul Covent Garden, 1629-41. English Historical Review, CXXV(512), 35-59. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cep408

While historians have long appreciated the political and cultural importance of the famous Covent Garden development of the 1630s, they have neglected one of its remarkable features, namely the building of an entirely new church combined with the cre... Read More about 'Voluntary Bounty and Devotion to the Service of God'? Lay Patronage, Protest and the Creation of the Parish of St Paul Covent Garden, 1629-41.