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  • Sermons, Separatists, and Succession Politics in Late Elizabethan England

  • Michael Questier
  • Journal:
    Journal of British Studies / Volume 52 / Issue 2 / April 2013
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 May 2013, pp. 290-316

  • In late 1599 the population of York was able to witness a fairly extraordinary sight. In York Castle, the Catholic prisoners of conscience, as they saw themselves (though others regarded them as dangerous political dissidents), were being compelled to listen, once a week, to a Protestant sermon. These sermons were preached at them by a slate of godly ministers. This exercise was something the prisoners actively contested by murmuring, blocking their ears, shouting, and attempting to rush out of the hall. The prisoners' antics provoked the authorities into increasingly coercive measures to make them hear the Word of God. This outwardly rather ridiculous and unseemly charade went on, week after week, for nearly a year, at which point the whole business was abandoned by the lord president, Lord Burghley, as a waste of time. However, by decoding the extant manuscript narrative that we have of the sermon series and by looking at who was involved in this business and why, and what political messages were being sent during the course of it, we can say something about the popular politics of late Elizabethan England. In particular, we can comment on the strategies adopted by those who were anticipating the moment, surely not far off, when Tudor power would be extinguished and Elizabeth's crown would pass to her successor.

  • Ethnicity, Prejudice, and Justice: The Treatment of the Irish at the Old Bailey, 1750–1825

  • Peter King
  • Journal:
    Journal of British Studies / Volume 52 / Issue 2 / April 2013
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 May 2013, pp. 390-414

  • Using a unique source on offenders' place of birth, in combination with trial reports and newspapers, this article offers the first systematic analysis of how the Irish were treated by the English criminal justice system when they came as witnesses, prosecutors and accused. Although the Irish were massively over-represented amongst the accused, in the vast majority of Old Bailey cases – i.e. those involving property crime – they were no more likely to be convicted than other groups and overall the sentences they received were slightly less severe. However, doubts about their evidence and their reputation for violence meant that they were less successful as prosecutors and were more heavily punished when they were accused of violent offences. Thus the Irish were on the receiving end of both justice and prejudice and their treatment was intimately linked to contemporary English discourses about the Irish.

  • Editors’ Introduction

  • Brian Cowan, Elizabeth Elbourne
  • Journal:
    Journal of British Studies / Volume 52 / Issue 2 / April 2013
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    02 May 2013, pp. 285-289
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