The inaugural John Drury Lecture in honour of the mayor of Sandwich slain in the great attack of 1457.

Professor Fincham explores the challenges facing Charles II, the bishops and Anglican loyalists to settle religion after the upheavals of the Puritan Revolution of the 1640s and 1650s. An intolerant religious settlement in the early 1660s did not confer peace and stability, with a sizeable body of protestant dissenters rejecting the newly modelled Church of England. Flashpoints were ceremony and the railed altar, and disputes in St Clement’s Sandwich in the early 1680s illustrate these tensions within church and society.

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