Title: Witchcraft and whigs : the life of Bishop Francis Hutchinson, 1660-1739 /
Authors: Sneddon, Andrew.
Publisher: Manchester University Press,
Year: 2008
Subjects: Hutchinson, Francis,; Bishops England Biography; Bishops Ireland Biography.; Church and state England; Church and state Ireland; Witchcraft England History.; Witchcraft Ireland History.; England Church history; England Church history; Ireland Church history.
Abstract: This book breaks new ground in important areas of British and Irish 18th-century history, as well as providing a rare portrait of an early 18th-century Irish bishop and witchcraft theorist.
Contents: Preface; Introduction; Part I -- England; 1. Childhood and early career, 1660 -- c. 1690; 2. The national church in a Suffolk parish, St. James', Bury St. Edmunds, 1692-1720; 3. 'A well affected man': Hutchinson and party politics, 1700-20; 4. Angels and demons: the mental world of an eighteenth-century Anglican pastor; 5. Hutchinson and witchcraft: An historical essay concerning witchcraft (1718); Part II -- Ireland; 6. The bishop of Down and Connor and the established Church and state in Ireland, 1721-39; 7. 'Darkness must be expell'd by bringing in the light': the conversion of Irish Catholics, c. 1721-34; 8. 'Improve everything that is improveable': the social, economic, and cultural 'improvement' of Ireland and the Irish, 1721-39; Conclusion; Index.