The Seventeenth Century (1603 - 1714)

fortunes of the Church after the next revolution have also
attracted attention. Thus Every argues that both in name and
fact the high church party belongs to the post-i688 situation.424
Straka, on the other hand, defends the view that high-church
doctrines of divine right, inherited from the Stuarts, continued
to be generally preached in the face of all the difficulties even
after the expulsion of James II and with reference to his succes-
sor.425 No fewer than six bishops have found their biographers,
a phenomenon which one may regard as somewhat unneces-
sary; still, the bunch contains Sykes's chief work.426 On quite
another track, Vann has produced a most valuable, and
entertaining, social history of the first century of Quakerism,
a book which in its combination of record work, social science
approach, demographic precision, and intellectual penetration
should become a model of its kind.427

There is too little to tell of foreign affairs and war. Routledge
examines England's (tiny) role in the peace of i659.428 Lachs
attempts something new and much to be desired: a study of the

484 George Every, The High Church Party, 1688-1718. L: SPGK: 1956.
Pp. xv, 195. Rev; EHR 72, 752.

425 Gerald M. Straka, Anglican Reaction to the Revolution of 1698. Madi-
son: State Hist. Soc. of Wisconsin: 1962. Pp. x, 180. Rev: Hjf 6,
31 off. - Idem, 'The final phase of divine right theory in England,
1698-1702', EHR 77 (1962), 638-58.

4« A. Tindal Hart, The life and Times of John Sharp, Archbishop of
Tork. L: SPCK: 1949. Pp. xi, 352. - Idem, William Uoyd, 1627 -
J7/7. L: SPCK: 1952. Pp. xii, 282. Rev: EHR 69, i5if. - Edward
F. Carpenter, The Protestant Bishop, being the life of Henry Crompton,
bishop of London* 1632-1713. L: Longmans: 1956. Pp. xiii, 398.
Rev: CHJ 13, 86n\ - Idem, Thomas Tenison, Archbishop of Canter-
bury: his life and times. L: SPCK: 1948. Pp. x, 466.-Norman
Sykes, William Wake, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1657-1737, 2 vols.
CUP: 1957. Pp. xiii, 366; 289, Rev: EHR 73, 4948". - G. V.
Bennett, White Kennett, 1660 -i/stf, Bishop of Peterborough. L:
SPCK: 1957. Pp. xii, 290. Rev: EHR 73, 529^; CHJ 13, 1920%

4*7 Richard T. Vann, The Social Development of English Quakerism,
1630 -1750. G (Mass.): Harvard UP: 1969. Pp. xvi, 259. - Idem,
*Qj*akerism and the social structure in the Interregnum', PP43
(1969), 71-91.

4ts F. J. Roudedge, England and the Treaty of the Pyrenees. Liverpool
UP: 1953, Pp. x, 136. Rev: EHR 69, 667^