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James II and the Trial of the Seven Bishops

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  • © 2009

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  1. William Gibson

    1. Oxford Brookes University, UK

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Table of contents (9 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. Introduction: The Seven Bishops and the Glorious Revolution

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    Pages 1-19

  3. The Bishops: Unlikely Revolutionaries

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    Pages 20-46

  4. The King’s Policies 1685–7

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    Pages 47-72

  5. The Confrontation

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    Pages 73-96

  6. The Tower

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    Pages 97-113

  7. The Trial

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    Pages 114-138

  8. The Reaction

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    Pages 139-161

  9. The Revolution

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    Pages 162-193

  10. Conclusion

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    Pages 194-203

  11. Back Matter

    Pages 204-251
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The trial of the seven bishops in 1688 was a signifcant prelude to the Glorious Revolution, as popular support for the bishops led to a widespread welcome for William of Orange's invasion. Their prosecution showed James II at his most intolerant, and threatened the only institution for which most English people felt more loyalty than the monarchy.

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'...a refreshing work...' - Sybil Jack, Journal of Religious History

'Gibson's well written and well-documented account of James and the bishops will surely become the new standard authority on these "implausible revolutionaries" (20) for many decades.' - Barbara Brandon Schnorrenberg, Anglican and Episcopal History

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  • Oxford Brookes University, UK

    William Gibson

About the author

WILLIAM GIBSON is Professor of Ecclesiastical History at Oxford Brookes University, UK. He has published widely on religion and society in the seventeenth, eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, including books on Benjamin Hoadly and religion and the Englightentment between 1600 and 1800. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society and of the Royal Society of Arts.

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