The Journal of William Dowsing: Iconoclasm in East Anglia During the English Civil WarTrevor Cooper A full scholarly edition of Dowsing's record of his and his deputies' activities in Suffolk, Cambridgeshire and Norfolk, 1643-4. During the Civil War, in late 1643 and 1644, the Suffolk puritan William Dowsing visited some hundred parish churches in Cambridgeshire, and about a hundred and fifty in Suffolk, smashing stained glass and other 'superstitious' imagery, ripping up monumental brass inscriptions, destroying altar rails and steps, and pulling down crucifixes and crosses. He dealt equally vigorously with the chapels of the Cambridge colleges, still fresh from their Laudian re-ordering. This modern edition of Dowsing's journal brings together, with commentary, the Cambridgeshire and Suffolk sections of his record of what he destroyed, never previously published together. Dowsing and his character and beliefs are set in context, with coverage of Dowsing and the administration of iconoclasm; the work of Dowsing and his deputies in Cambridgeshire, Norfolk and Suffolk; Dowsing and Cambridge University, and the arguments at PembrokeCollege; evidence of destruction in the other counties of the Eastern Association; the text and history of the journal. Contributors: JOHN BLATCHLY, TREVOR COOPER, JOHN MORRILL, S. SADLER, ROBERT WALKER. |
Contents
William Dowsing and the administration of iconoclasm in | 1 |
Dowsings homes JOHN BLATCHLY | 29 |
Dowsing at Cambridge University TREVOR COOPER | 47 |
Dowsings arguments with the Fellows of Pembroke | 56 |
Dowsings deputies in Suffolk JOHN BLATCHLY | 67 |
2 | 102 |
Parishes with belldamage in Norfolk and Suffolk | 111 |
Documentary evidence for 164344 iconoclasm in Essex | 127 |
Items forbidden under the terms of the Parliamentary | 338 |
a biographical note | 345 |
Parish records | 351 |
Bell damage in Norfolk and Suffolk | 381 |
Number of cases of each type of evidence for iconoclasm | 387 |
The chronology of iconoclasm outside the Journal | 388 |
Frequency distribution of expenditure on replacing | 394 |
How many brasses were damaged? | 396 |
Hertfordshire brasses in which the prayer clause has been | 134 |
The history and nature of the Journal TREVOR COOPER | 138 |
The text of this edition TREVOR COOPER | 146 |
Items from Peterhouse chapel | 158 |
Expenditure on glass in Kings College chapel 164153 | 182 |
his immediate family | 323 |
The organisation of Dowsings set of Parliamentary sermons | 328 |
a Dowsing associate in Ipswich | 334 |
How many churches in Suffolk were visited? | 409 |
Questions | 418 |
134 | 471 |
328 | 482 |
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