Epistolary Spaces by James How

Author:James How [How, James]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Social Science, General, Sociology
ISBN: 9781351774154
Google: pzmDDwAAQBAJ
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2019-01-15T04:51:17+00:00

24 If she is also the recipient of the letter dated 17th June 1717 (which is disputed) then Lady Rich is here more explicitly the butt of humour in the embassy letters. Montagu wrote: Ί heartily beg your Ladyship's pardon, but I realy could not forbear laughing heartily at your Letter and the Commissions you are pleas'd to honnour me with. You desire me to buy you a Greek slave ... The Greeks are subjects and not slaves ... Your whole Letter is full of mistakes from one end to 'tother' (367-8).

25 In her biography of Montagu, Grundy traces the progress of her subject from 'superstitious piety to Enlightenment philosophy' at the hands of two elderly bishops: Gilbert Burnet and Thomas Tenison, friends of her father. 'Both men were latitudinarians, ecumenicals who wished to see a liberal, progressive Church of England opening her doors to protestants of every sect; they might have contributed towards making the young Lady Mary an egalitarian' (Grundy 1999, 87-8).

26 And indeed Grundy goes as far as to term Montagu 'a near-Deist' (1999, 148).

27 Grundy describes how as early as 1715 Montagu was acquainted with the 'radical and heterodox churchmen' (1999, 88) Samuel Clarke, William Whiston and John Toland.

28 Langford notes that looking back on the course of religious controversies of the early eighteenth century 'William Jones, a High Churchman of the reign of George III, observed that "natural religion" had "produced the deistical substitution of naked morality, or Turkish honesty, for the doctrines of intercession, redemption, and divine grace'" (1989, 241). This linking of the pejorative 'Turkish honesty' to 'naked morality' is particularly apposite in relation to Montagu's embassy letters.

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