English Provincial Engagement in Religious Debates: The Salisbury Quarrel of 1705–15
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Abstract
From 1705 until his death in 1715, Gilbert Burnet, Bishop of Salisbury, was embroiled in a series of disputes in his diocese.The origins of the disputes lie in Burnet's support for the toleration of religious dissent.But the disputes spread into the issue of the legitimacy of the Glorious Revolution and resistance to tyrants.The disputes provide an insight into the ways in which provincial and national controversies interacted.The actions of the mob, the electorate, the clergy and tract writers of all persuasions in London and Salisbury were the cause and consequence of this complex interplay of national and local identities.Salisbury was in some ways a microcosm of the issues that confronted people in the quarter century after 1688, but in the intensity of the conflict it was unique.The religious and political history of the period 1688 to 1720 was dominated by intense anxiety over the legitimacy of the Glorious Revolution and religious toleration.Passive obedience, resistance to rulers, oaths and parliamentary authority were all hotly contested.Consequently the accession of Queen Anne in 1702 and the identification of the Hanoverian dynasty as her lawful successors were highly controversial.Historians have paid considerable attention to the various expressions of these national debates: the Convocation controversy of 1705, the Sacheverell trial in 1710 and the intellectual backdrop to the Bangorian controversy in 1713-17.They have not however considered the relationship between national and local events in this period.An opportunity to examine this interplay is afforded by the 'Salisbury quarrel' 1 of 1705-15 in which Bishop Gilbert Burnet defended the Whig cause of the Glorious Revolution in his own diocese.It is also an aspect of Burnet's life that has not been examined by historians before.The Salisbury quarrel engaged with significant national controversies in the context of the parliamentary, civic and ecclesiastical politics in the city and diocese of Salisbury.The quarrel demonstrates the close interplay between local and national debates, and the ways in which people in a locality engaged with national events and issues.The quarrel also shows how national debates were understood within, and 1 The name was first used in 1711 in a tract entitled The Salisbury Quarrel Ended.It makes no appearance in Martin Greig's article on Burnet in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography.
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Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.006 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.027 | 0.013 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.008 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.006 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.004 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.010 | 0.001 |
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