Dedication

pp v-vi

Contents

pp vii-viii

Preface: The Taxonomy of the Press

pp ix-xvi

List of Abbreviations

pp xvii-xviii

Introduction: From Censorship to the Freedom of the Press

pp 1-22

Part I - Providence, Salvation and the Lapse of Licensing

pp 23-24

1 - The Politics of Coercion: Maintaining Truth

pp 25-60

2 - Christianity not Mysterious (1696): Deism and the Liberty of the Press

pp 61-85

3 - Letter to a Convocation Man (1696): Restraining the Press after the Lapse of Licensing

pp 86-115

4 - Legislation in the Late Seventeenth Century: Matthew Tindal, Francis Gregory and the Press

pp 116-140

Part II - Freedom of the Press and Ecclesiastical Identity

pp 141-142

5 - Legislation in the Early Eighteenth Century: Anonymity and the Press

pp 143-169

6 - High Churchmen and the Politics of the Press: Defining the Cause of Restraint

pp 170-204

Part III - The Church in Danger

pp 205-206

7 - The Church in Danger: Prosecuting the Memorial (1705) and the Rights of the Christian Church (1706)

pp 207-234

8 - The Press and the Pulpit: Prosecuting Preaching

pp 235-274

Conclusion: Partisan Loyalties

pp 275-280

Bibliography

pp 281-326

Index

pp 327-334

STUDIES IN EARLY MODERN CULTURAL, POLITICAL AND SOCIAL HISTORY

pp 335-337