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My latest article, 'Profitable settlements: the earl of Warwick and toleration in the English Atlantic, 1643–8', is now available on advance access with Historical Research. Check it out at https://doi.org/10.1093/hisres/htad016 #earlymodern #histodons #history #toleration #seventeenthcentury #englishcivilwar @histodons @englishcivilwar (2023-08-16 ↗)

Maybe the deponent was just sick to death of hearing about how great Will Turner's horse was. (Source: Fiona McCall, "‘Breaching the laws of God and man’: secular prosecutions of religious offences in the interregnum parish, 1645–60," in Church and people in interregnum Britain, p. 153.) (2022-11-29 ↗)

I still chuckle to myself every single time I remember this great anecdote from Fiona McCall's 2021 essay on secular prosecutions of moral offences in Interregnum parishes. "In 1658, William Turner, constable of Matley in Cheshire, was prosecuted for swearing repeatedly in praise of his horse, ‘by God this is a good horse, as god judge mee, by my faith and troth, yes by the masse’, ‘and so continued all along his discourse’, twenty-four oaths in total, reported the witness." @englishcivilwar (2022-11-29 ↗)

With apologies for the re-post, since I've now moved my account to the new h-net.social server. For anyone unable to access my Past & Present article on "Christian Hospitality and the Case for Religious Refuge in Interregnum England" (Feb. 2022), please don't hesitate to reach out. #earlymodern #histodons https://doi.org/10.1093/pastj/gtab007 (2022-11-23 ↗)