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The Entring Book of Roger Morrice I

Roger Morrice and the Puritan Whigs

by Mark Goldie

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First edition of an eye-witness account of seventeenth-century England - the dark side of Pepys.

The Entring Book is the longest and richest diary of public life in England during the era of the Glorious Revolution. Spanning the years 1677 to 1691, in nearly a million words, it records the downfall of the House of Stuart. This is a chronicle not only of politics and religion, but also of culture and society, gossip and rumour, manners and mores, in a teeming metropolis risen phoenix-like from the Great Fire. Its author, Roger Morrice, was a Puritan clergyman turned confidential reporter for leading Whig politicians - well-connected, a barometer of public opinion, and supremely well-informed. Written just twenty years after Pepys's Diary, the Entring Book depictsa darker England, thrown into a great crisis of `popery and arbitrary power'.

MARK GOLDIE lectures in History at the University of Cambridge and is a Fellow of Churchill College.
Foreward by Grayson Ditchfield
Politics and religion in the era of the Entring Book
Roger Morrice: fragments of a life
The text of the Entring Book
Puritan Whigs
Country Whigs
Middle way religion
The history of the Puritans
Epilogue: the Entring Book and the historians

Mark Goldie is Emeritus Professor of Intellectual History in the University of Cambridge and a Fellow of Churchill College. He has edited or authored 12 books and published more than 60 essays on British political, religious, and intellectual history in the period 1650-1800. Two of his books are published by Boydell and Brewer: The Entring Book of Roger Morrice and Roger Morrice and the Puritan Whigs.

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April 2007

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Title Details

720 Pages

0 x 0 cm

4 b/w, 18 line illus.

Imprint: Boydell Press