Benjamin Whichcote
(1609–83)English liberal theologian. Whichcote was the senior of the Cambridge Platonists, and through his position as Provost of King's was an influential opponent of the Calvinism of his time. He ...
Book of Common Prayer
(often BCP).The major prayer book of the Anglican Church, and official service book of the Church of England. Its centrality and continuing use is advocated by the Prayer Book Society.[...]
census
n. a ten-yearly enumeration of the population based on the actual presence of individuals in a house or institution on a designated night (known as a de facto census). This contrasts with the ...
congregationalism
Protestant churches based on local autonomy and the equality of all believers. Baptism and the Lord's Supper are the only sacraments accepted. As in other reformed Churches, there are ministers who ...
Henry Vane
(1613–62), English politician. In the Long Parliament he was a bitter opponent of W. Laud and of Strafford, and he was one of the commissioners chiefly responsible for the Solemn League and Covenant. ...
High Churchmen
The group in the Church of England which gives a high place to the authority and antiquity of the church, to the episcopate, and to sacraments. The title is first attested at the end of the 17th ...
John Bramhall
(1594–1663), Abp. of Armagh from 1661. He went to Ireland as Strafford's chaplain in 1633, becoming Bp. of Derry in 1634. He retired to England in 1642 and to the Continent in 1644. He devoted his ...
Oliver Plunket
(1625–81),archbishop of Armagh, martyr. Born of a noble, royalist family at Loughcrew (Co. Meath), he studied under Jesuit guidance at the Irish College, Rome, from 1645 at the expense of the ...
Peter Gunning
(1614–84),Bp. of Ely. He was a fellow of Clare Hall, Cambridge, from 1633 to 1644, when he migrated to Oxford. A staunch royalist and High Churchman, opposed to both ...
Presbyterianism
A form of Protestant Church government in which the Church is administered locally by the minister with a group of elected elders of equal rank, and regionally and nationally by representative courts ...
Sir William Petty
(1623–76),published economic treatises, the principal of which was entitled Political Arithmetic (1690), a term signifying that which we now call statistics. In this he examined, by the quantitative ...
Triers and Ejectors
In 1640 a committee of Parliament was formed to eject ‘scandalous’ ministers [i.e. those with Laudian or ‘Arminian’ sympathies]. Local committees were later formed to eject those who would not accept ...
William Prynne
(1600–69)English Puritan pamphleteer, a fearless campaigner on religious, moral, and political issues. His most famous pamphlet, Histrio Mastix (1632), was an attack on stage-plays; he was tried ...
William Sancroft
(1617–93), Abp. of Canterbury from 1678 to 1690. His primacy was distinguished by a major effort to renew the strength of the C of E, both politically and spiritually. On the accession of the RC ...
