sacheverell

Updated: June 19, 2025

He also produced two novels, The Sea Kings in England and The Handwriting on the Wall. Controversialist and preacher, was b. near Newport Pagnel, Bucks, and ed. at Westminster School and Oxford. He became the leading protagonist on the High Church side in the ecclesiastical controversies of his time, and is believed to have been the chief author of the famous defence of Dr. Sacheverell in 1712.

John W. (John William) Cousin - A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature

The City of London, which had returned four Tories in 1690, returned four Whigs in 1695. Of the proceedings at Westminster an account more than usually circumstantial has come down to us. In 1690 the electors, disgusted by the Sacheverell Clause, had returned two Tories.

Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay - The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 4

Boyer gives a curious description of Sacheverell: "A man of large and strong make and good symmetry of parts; of a livid complexion and audacious look, without sprightliness; the result and indication of an envious, ill-natured, proud, sullen, and ambitious spirit" clearly not the portrait of a friend. Lord Campbell thought the St.

James Anson Farrer - Books Condemned to be Burnt

Henry Blunt, who also thoroughly restored and renovated the building some thirty years ago. The most interesting of the interior fittings is a porphyry altar, placed by Sacheverell, who was Rector from 1713 to 1724, and who is buried beneath it.

Sir Walter Besant - Holborn and Bloomsbury: The Fascination of London

And even in the height of Whig rule and amidst the blaze of Whig victories, England rose in the Sacheverell riots, forced Tories again into power, and ended the Whig war by what it deemed a Tory peace. And yet every Englishman knew that from the moment of the Revolution the whole system of government had not been Tory but Whig.

John Richard Green - History of the English People, Volume VII : The Revolution, 1683-1760; Modern England, 1760-1767

The other, circulated by the Tories, contained the names of those Whigs who had supported the Sacheverell clause.

Baron Thomas Babington Macaulay Macaulay - The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3

Henry Sacheverell, an event which excited intense interest at the time, and, though insignificant in itself, touched some vital principles of the constitution.

John Lord - A Modern History, From the Time of Luther to the Fall of Napoleon: For the Use of Schools and Colleges

He headed the inquiry into the danger of the Church. In 1706 he proposed and negotiated the Union with Scotland; and when the Elector of Hanover received the Garter, after the Act had passed for securing the Protestant Succession, he was appointed to carry the ensigns of the Order to the Electoral Court. He sat as one of the judges of Sacheverell, but voted for a mild sentence.

Samuel Johnson - Johnson's Lives of the Poets — Volume 2

All the troubles of the country are due to parliaments constantly demanding more power and thereby endangering the supremacy of the mother country. The Banner is astonished by the unblushing avowal of these doctrines, which had not been so openly proclaimed since the days of "High Church and Sacheverell," and which if acted upon would reduce the people to the level of abject slaves.

John Lewis - George Brown

Statesmen dreaded nothing much more than 'a Church clamour. Their dread was in a great measure justified by the passions which had been excited in the times of the Sacheverell and Church in Danger cries, and by the unreasoning intolerance which broke furiously out afresh when the Bill for naturalising Jews was brought forward in 1753, and when relief to Roman Catholics was proposed in 1778.

Charles J. (Charles John) Abbey - The English Church in the Eighteenth Century