James B. Bell is author of The Imperial Origins of the King's Church in Early America, 1607-1783, and is currently Visting Research Fellow at the Rothermere American Institute, University of Oxford
List of Illustrations and Tables
p. ix
Prologue
p. x
Acknowledgements
p. xvii
Some Useful Dates
p. xix
A Century of Controversies
The Seeds of Discord: An English Church Established in Boston
p. 3
Discord Enlarged: The Society for the Propagation of the Gospel
p. 17
A Handmaiden for Episcopacy: John Checkley of Boston
p. 33
The English Origins of a Colonial American Controversy
p. 42
Noah Hobart Decries Anglican Expansion: Thomas Sherlock Proposes an American Bishop
p. 58
Jonathan Mayhew Fears a Bishop and Challenges the Purpose of the S.P.G.
p. 67
Pleas for an American Bishop in the 1760s: Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Secker and Thomas Bradbury Chandler
p. 81
A Radical Response to a Bishop: John Adams, Samuel Adams, and John Wilkes
p. 91
The Controversy over a Bishop in the Colonies outside New England
p. 107
A New Controversy: The Political Sentiments of the Clergymen
The Impact of the First Continental Congress and the Local Committees of Safety
p. 123
Critics of the Continental Congress and Common Sense: Jonathan Boucher and Charles Inglis
p. 140
A Challenge to Radical Politics: Samuel Seabury, Jr., and Thomas Bradbury Chandler
p. 156
Quiet and Militant Patriots
p. 170
William Knox Seeks to Establish an Ecclesiastical Imperial Policy for the American Church
p. 187
The State of the Clergy in 1775 and 1783
p. 195
The English Church, a Cause of the American Revolution
p. 211
Political Sentiments of Colonial Clergymen of the Church of England during the American Revolutionary War, 1775-83
p. 222
A Summary of the Birthplaces, Birth Years, and Colleges Attended by Colonial American Church of England Clergymen, 1775
p. 241
Notes
p. 246
Bibliography
p. 294
Index
p. 316
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