Blair Worden - A Book of Friendship

Contents

Foreword .................................................................................................................................................................... 1

A Good Man’s Life Richard Davenport Hines .............................................................................................................................. 2 A Suitor For Queen Elizabeth Susan Brigden ......................................................................................................................................................... 6 Autobiographical Apology As Political Intervention In Late Elizabethan And Early Stuart England Alexandra Gajda .................................................................................................................................................. 16 Cromwell In The King’s Inn or What Did He Say On 4th July 1653? John Morrill .......................................................................................................................................................... 30 Two Speeches Made In The House Of Peers and the Civil War Polemic of Edward Hyde Paul Seaward ......................................................................................................................................................... 40 An Honest Archdeacon And A Reasonable Philosopher John Spurr .............................................................................................................................................................. 50 Cromwell Among The Radicals: The Puzzling Case Of Thomas Hollis Rachel Hammersley . ....................................................................................................................................... 60 In Christ Church Meadow: Dr Johnson, The Reverend John Taylor, And The Pursuit Of Happiness In Enlightenment England Brian Young ........................................................................................................................................................... 70 Ode to Blair Tom Holt ................................................................................................................................................................ 80