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This chapter considers the four Anglican clergymen involved in the printing of the letter about Perks in 1704: Arthur Bedford, Benjamin Bayly, Henry Shute and Edward Fowler (Bishop of Gloucester) and why they would have been interested in the case, reflecting their anti-Jacobite involvement in reformation of manners and the SPCK. It also explains its printing history in both Bristol and London by William Bonny and Henry Hills. It considers its first reproduction in 1705 by John Beaumont and why his treatment reflects a different, hermetic interest in communications with spirits.
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Jonathan Barry (ed.), ‘The Society for the Reformation of Manners 1700–5’ in Jonathan Barry and Kenneth Morgan (eds), Reformation and Revival in Eighteenth-Century Bristol (Bristol Record Society, 45, 1994), PP. 1–62
id., ‘The “Great Projector”: John Cary and the Legacy of Puritan Reform in Bristol, 1640–1720’, in Margaret Pelling and Scott Mandelbrote (eds), The Practice of Reform in Health, Medicine and Science 1500–2000 (Aldershot, 2005), pp. 185–206.
Orlando A. Mansfield, ‘Bedford’s “Great Abuse of Musick”; Musical Quarterly, 16:4 (October 1930), 547–62
William Weber, The Rise of the Musical Classics in Eighteenth-Century England (Oxford, 1992)
Jonathan Barry, ‘Hell upon Earth or the Language of the Playhouse’, in Stuart Clark (ed.), Languages of Witchcraft (Basingstoke, 2001), pp. 139–58; Bedford, Serious Remonstrance, pp. 9, 15, 24, 85, 257.
Peter Marshall, ‘Piety and Poisoning in Restoration Plymouth’, Studies in Church History, 42 (2006), 261–71, discusses this genre perceptively.
TNA, Prob 11/589, fos. 134–7; The Case of Henry Shute MA and Lecturer of Whitechapel (1705); W.K. Lowther-Clarke, A History of the SPCK (1959), pp. 89, 91
C. Rose, ‘The Origins and Ideals of the SPCK 1699–1716’ in John Walsh et al. (eds), The Church of England c.1689–c.1833 (Cambridge, 1993), pp. 172–90.
Barry, ‘Society’, pp. 41, 43, 45; Arthur H. Grant, ‘Barrington, John Shute, First Viscount Barrington (1678–1734)’, rev. Philip Carter, ODNB, 1531; Leonard Cowie, Henry Newman: An American in London, 1708–43 (1956), p. 159; BRO P/StMR/1/15.
Henry Shute, A Sermon Preach’d at the Funeral of Mrs. Catherine Lorrain (1705), pp. 9, 19–20.
Peter Marshall, ‘Ann Jeffries and the Fairies’ in Angela McShane and Garthene Walker (eds), The Extraordinary and the Everyday in Early Modern England (2010), pp. 127–41
Jane Shaw, Miracles in Enlightenment England (New Haven and London, 2006), pp. 147–9, 154
Peter Elmer, The Miraculous Conformist (Oxford, 2013), pp. 140–1.
Beaumont’s previous book had been a 1693 response to Burnet’s work on earth history (which many had regarded as dangerous theologically for its Cartesian account) sponsored by leading Anglican clergy in London, perhaps Fowler himself. Jonathan Barry, ‘John Beaumont’, in Witchcraft and Demonology in South-West England c.1640–1789 (2012), p. 139.
Thoresby Society (2009), available at http://www.thoresby.org.uk/diary/1712. html. For Thoresby see Michael Hunter, ‘The Decline of Magic’, Historical Journal, 55:2 (2012), 399–425.
Hillel Schwartz, Knaves, Fools, Madmen and that Subtile Effluvium (Gainesville, 1978); id., The French Prophets (1980).
Henry Plomer, Dictionary of Booksellers and Printers 1668–1725 (1922), p. 155.
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Barry, J. (2013). Arthur Bedford and His Circle. In: Raising Spirits: How a Conjuror’s Tale Was Transmitted across the Enlightenment. Palgrave Historical Studies in Witchcraft and Magic. Palgrave Pivot, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137378941_3
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