English Pastime Music, 1630–1660

1974 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
James I ◽  
English Music ◽  
Charles Ii

This is an entertaining collection of keyboard “songs and dances” for household use, dating from the death of James I to the restoration of Charles II—a period during which English music, deprived of noble patronage, managed to flourish underground.

A Leicestershire Recusant Family: The Nevills of Nevill Holt – I

1984 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 173-180 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bernard Elliott
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Civil War ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
James I ◽  
The Reformation ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Charles Ii ◽  
Eighteenth And Nineteenth Centuries ◽  
The Church

At the Reformation, three possibilities faced English Catholics. They could continue to be Catholics and so suffer the penalties of the penal laws; they could conform to the Church of England; or they could adopt a middle course and become Church Papists. The Nevills of Nevill Holt, near Market Harborough in Leicestershire, went through all three phases. In the reign of Edward VI, Thomas Nevill I became a Protestant. His grandson, Thomas Nevill II, became a Church Papist under James I; and Thomas II’s son, Henry Nevill I, continued to be one at the time of the Civil War. But Henry l’s son William was definitely a Catholic and went into exile with King James II, while William’s son, Henry Nevill II, was an open Catholic under Charles II. Henry Nevill II’s descendants continued to be Catholics throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries until they left Nevill Holt in the late nineteenth century.

‘Stampt with your own Image’

2018 ◽  
pp. 303-318
Author(s):  
B. J. Cook
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Extra Dimension ◽  
James I ◽  
Charles Ii

The most familiar representation of European monarchy in the seventeenth century still remained the coinage. By this time it was unremarkable in itself that a new reign would produce new coin designs, but virtually every Stuart succession involved an extra dimension of some significance, including the accession of a foreign monarch; the restoration of the monarchy; and the joint sovereignty arrangements of William and Mary. Two Stuart reigns, those of James I and Charles II, began with two new coinage redesigns in quick succession, following an initial acknowledgement of the new reign with a more thoroughgoing revision, even though this had the potential to distract from the image and message each had initially established. This chapter reviews how these highly unusual adjustments proceeded and what motives lay behind them.

The Ups and Downs of Louis Grabu

2017 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 1-64
Author(s):  
Andrew R. Walkling
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Vast Number ◽  
Administrative Records ◽  
English Music ◽  
Music Making ◽  
History Of ◽  
Periodic Fluctuations ◽  
Charles Ii ◽  
Ultimate Fate ◽  
Considerable Detail

This article explores the career of Louis Grabu, Master of the Music to Charles II of England and an important but often overlooked and unnecessarily denigrated figure in the history of English music and music-making during the last third of the seventeenth century. While both his origins and his ultimate fate remain obscure, Grabu's activities between 1665 and 1694 are sufficiently documented to enable us not only to trace in considerable detail the periodic fluctuations in his fortunes, but also to establish a paradigm for exploring the lives of the vast number of seventeenth-century court musicians whose personal details must be gleaned from a mix of administrative records, surviving musical compositions and occasional observations recorded in contemporary diaries and correspondence. When these sources are carefully and exhaustively mined, a picture begins to emerge that belies the often glib dismissal of the musician's activities and abilities by contemporaries and modern scholars alike.

King Charles II, Fundator et Patronus (1630-1685)

1960 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 39-45 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Royal Society ◽  
General Character ◽  
James I ◽  
Interest In Science ◽  
Charles I ◽  
Charles Ii

Charles II ranks as founder of the Royal Society because he granted to it the charter which incorporated it and gave it its name. Its arms declare their origin; if not devised or proposed by him, at least they were consciously granted by him. The mace, which is placed before the President of the Society at all meetings of the Society and of Council, was also given to the Society by Charles as its founder. These (and other) benefactions were due not so much to any profound interest in science on Charles’s part as to his general character and to the tendencies of his time, and more especially to his friendship with some of the royalists among the founding members of the Society. He was born on 29 May 1630, the son of Charles I, King of England, Scotland, France, and Ireland, and of his French queen, Henrietta Maria; his grandparents were James I, ‘the wisest fool in Christendom’, Anne of Denmark, who was almost a nonentity, Henri IV, one of the most genial of men and the ablest of kings, and Marie de Medicis, at all times a source of trouble.

Robert Sanderson (1587–1663)

2022 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 68-86
Author(s):  
Norman Doe
Keyword(s):  
Canon Law ◽  
Church Of England ◽  
Roman Catholic ◽  
James I ◽  
Charles I ◽  
Prayer Book ◽  
The Republic ◽  
Charles Ii ◽  
Jeremy Taylor ◽  
Personal Rule

Over the course of the reigns of the last two Tudors and first three Stuarts – just in excess of a century – the national established Church of England was disestablished twice and re-established twice. Following the return to Rome under Mary, Elizabeth's settlement re-established the English Church under the royal supremacy, set down church doctrine and liturgy, embarked on a reform of canon law and so consolidated an ecclesial polity which many today see as an Anglican via media between papal Rome and Calvinist Geneva. However, as a compromise, the settlement contained in itself seeds of discord: it outlawed Roman reconciliation and recusancy; it extended lay and clerical discipline by the use of ecclesiastical commissioners; and it drove Puritans to agitate for reform on Presbyterian lines. While James I continued Elizabeth's policy, disappointing both Puritans and Papists, Charles I married a Roman Catholic, sought to impose a prayer book on Calvinist Scotland, asserted divine-right monarchy, engaged in an 11-year personal rule without Parliament and favoured Arminian clergy. With these and other disputes between Crown and Parliament, civil war ensued, a directory of worship replaced the prayer book, episcopacy and monarchy were abolished and a Puritan-style republic was instituted. The republic failed, and in 1660 monarchy was restored, the Church of England was re-established and a limited form of religious toleration was introduced under the Clarendon Code. In all these upheavals, understandings of the nature, source and authority of human law, civil and ecclesiastical, were the subject of claim and counter-claim. Enter Robert Sanderson: a life begun under Elizabeth and ended under Charles II, a protagonist who felt the burdens and benefits of the age, Professor of Divinity at Oxford and later Bishop of Lincoln, and a clerical-jurist who thought deeply on the nature of human law and its place in a cosmic legal order – so much so, he may be compared with three of his great contemporaries: the lawyer Matthew Hale (1609–1676), the cleric Jeremy Taylor (1613–1667) and the philosopher Thomas Hobbes (1588–1678).

Welcoming the King

2018 ◽  
pp. 186-204
Author(s):  
Andrew McRae
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Aphra Behn ◽  
Political Expression ◽  
James I ◽  
Political Literature ◽  
Dynamic Form ◽  
Charles Ii ◽  
William Iii

The seventeenth century was the great age of English panegyric, and no events stimulated writers of this genre more than royal successions. This chapter considers panegyric as a dynamic form of political expression: poems, at their best, engaged with contemporary debates about the authority of the monarchy and relations between subjects and their rulers. The chapter focuses on panegyrics produced for the three Stuart reigns that began with monarchs arriving in England from elsewhere: those of James I in 1603, Charles II in 1660, and William III and Mary II in 1688–9. The chapter argues that the century’s manifold political changes placed intense strains on panegyric, and concludes by considering two poets who, under conditions of intense personal pressure, openly rejected it. Despite their different politics, George Wither and Aphra Behn both reflect valuably upon the limitations of this vital genre of political literature.

Arnold Quellin's Statues at Glamis Castle

1984 ◽  
Vol 64 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-61 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. R. Apted
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
National Gallery ◽  
James I ◽  
Charles I ◽  
Charles Ii ◽  
Trafalgar Square ◽  
New Evidence

SummaryOn 23rd December 1685 Arnold Quellin, Carver, signed an agreement with Patrick, Earl of Strathmore and Kinghorne, to provide statues of the four Stuart kings and a bust of the Earl himself, to be completed by 1st June the following year for a fee of £160. Although Quellin died in September 1686, the contract was evidently completed since all four statues and the bust are recorded at Glamis Castle in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. Two of the statues, the James I and Charles I, as well as the bust are still at the castle today. Of the missing statues, one, the James II, is known from an engraving to resemble closely the James attributed to Grinling Gibbons which now stands in front of the National Gallery in Trafalgar Square, itself one of a series of statues of monarchs depicted as Roman conquerors. The other, the Charles II, may possibly have been similar to the Quellin Charles now at the Guildhall.The document and statues provide new evidence of a sculptor popular in his day, whose reputation has been largely obscured by the fame of his master, Grinling Gibbons.

II. The Decline of Parliamentary Government under Elizabeth I and the early Stuarts

1957 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 116-132 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. W. K. Hinton
Keyword(s):  
Elizabeth I ◽  
Henry Viii ◽  
James I ◽  
Charles I ◽  
Parliamentary Government ◽  
Charles Ii ◽  
Image Position ◽  
William Iii

Parliament governs by means of acts of parliament. When the number of acts of parliament increases over a period we may speak of a rise of parliamentary government, and when it decreases, of a decline. Under Elizabeth I and the early Stuarts parliamentary government declined. Taking into account the length of their reigns, Elizabeth and James I passed fewer acts than either Henry VIII, Edward VI or Mary. Charles I passed fewer again. Under Charles II, however, the number increased, and under William III it was much higher than ever before. Thus:

Occasional Architecture in Seventeenth-Century London

2006 ◽  
Vol 49 ◽  
pp. 35-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christine Stevenson
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
James I ◽  
Present Essay ◽  
Intellectual System ◽  
History Of ◽  
Complex Relationships ◽  
Charles Ii ◽  
The Moment ◽  
City Of London ◽  
The City

The present essay is mainly concerned with the coronation entries staged for James I and Charles II by the City of London in 1604 and 1661, and especially with the temporary arches made out of wood and canvas and erected to mark nodal points along the routes. These events have been the subjects of scholarship keenly attuned to their place in accessions more than usually demanding upon representations of the king’s majesty, in as much as James was the first Stuart king of England and, by the terms of hereditary monarchy, his grandson’s reign began twelve years before his coronation, at the moment Charles I’s head was severed from the neck. Here, however, the arches will explain, or emblematize, a particular way of conceiving architecture: as an assemblage of readily-dismountable parts like Lego bricks, or like a trophy, the ornamental group of symbolic or typical objects arranged for display. In this kind of architecture ‘classical’ ornament comprises, not the material realization of a stable, rational, and universal intellectual system elsewhere promoted by the early Stuarts’ patronage of Inigo Jones, for example, but what Sir Balthazar Gerbier in 1648 called a ‘true History’ of destruction and triumph, the result of more or less random despoliation and reassembly. What follows is not, therefore, directly concerned with majesty, nor with the arches’ iconography or their audiences, their place in London’s ceremonial geography, nor even their elaboration of the ‘complex relationships between two distinct but interconnected political domains’, the City that built them and the monarchy that graced them.

Sign in / Sign up

Export Citation Format

Share Document