Fear, Exclusion and Revolution

Between the years 1677 and 1691 the puritan minister Roger Morrice compiled an astonishingly detailed record of the day-to-day public affairs in Britain. His 'Entering Book' provides a unique record of late seventeenth-century political and religious history, and charts the rise of British party politics and the transformation of Puritanism into the 'Whiggery'. Drawing on many of the key issues raised in Morrice's entering book, this collection of essays provides a fascinating snapshot of Britain in one of its most troubled and uncertain decades, the 1680s.