Mark Goldie's authoritative and highly readable introduction to the
political and religious landscape of Britain during the turbulent
era of later Stuart rule. An exceptionally significant monograph,
and without doubt one of the most important to appear in the field
of Restoration history in the last twenty years. Mark Goldie has
done more than anyone else to illuminate the political and
religious assumptions of late seventeenth-century Englishmen.' Dr
Grant Tapsell, University of Oxford. Roger Morrice and the Puritan
Whigs explains a movement, illuminates the world of its emblematic
representative, and explores one of the most remarkable documents
of the seventeenth century. Morrice's Entring Book was supremely
well-informed, passionately committed, and relentlessly
opinionated. Chronicling the years 1677 to 1691, nearly a million
words in length, it is the fullest surviving record of the
tumultuous final years of the Stuart regime, from the Popish Plot
and Exclusion Crisis to the Glorious Revolution. Morrice was a
Puritan clergyman turned confidential reporter for leading Whig
politicians, a barometer of opinion, for whom reliable information
was vital for public action. Just twenty years after Pepys's Diary,
the Entring Book depicts a darker England, gripped by a new crisis
of 'popery and arbitrary government'. Mark Goldie's deeply
considered book examines the fortunes of Puritanism in the later
Stuart age. It offers a story of disillusion and diminuendo,
ofstruggles for survival in the face of intolerance, and of
self-understanding among those who hoped to transform England
through 'Godly rule'. Yet the book also tells a countervailing
story of revitalized and transformed Puritanism. Puritans worked
through parliament, the royal court, and the households of gentry,
merchants, lawyers, and clergy. Setting out to galvanize civil
society, they mobilized public opinion, organized electorates, and
deployedthe arts of journalism, influence, and persuasion. This
book has been adapted, with a new substantial introduction and
updated bibliography, from the first volume of the Entring Book of
Roger Morrice. Mark Goldie is Professor of Intellectual History at
the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College.
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