Chaplains in Early Modern England

Hugh Adlington, Tom Lockwood and Gillian Wright are all Senior Lecturers in English Literature at the University of Birmingham

• 1. Introduction – Hugh Adlington, Tom Lockwood, Gillian Wright2. The roles and influence of household chaplains, c. 1600–c. 60 – Kenneth Fincham3. Chaplains to the Elizabethan nobility: Activities, categories and patterns –David Crankshaw4. Episcopal chaplains and control of the media, 1586–1642– Mary Morrissey5. Chaplains to embassies: Daniel Featley, Anti-Catholic controversialist abroad – Hugh Adlington6. Poetry, patronage and cultural agency: the career of William Lewis – Tom Lockwood7. ‘His lordships first, and last, CHAPLEINE’: William Rawley and Francis Bacon – Angus Vine8. Richard Corbett and William Strode: Chaplaincy and verse in early seventeenth-century Oxford – Christopher Burlinson9. The Isham family and their clergy – Erica Longfellow10. A chaplain and his patron: Samuel Willes and Lord Huntingdon – William Gibson11. The reluctant chaplain: William Sancroft and the later Stuart Church – Grant TapsellSelect bibliographyIndex