Henry Bennet, Earl of Arlington, and his World by Robin Eagles Coleman A. Dennehy

Author:Robin Eagles, Coleman A. Dennehy [Robin Eagles, Coleman A. Dennehy]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780367513108
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Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2020-07-15T00:00:00+00:00

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Any argument within Arlington’s family or household over his conversion has left little or no trace in the historical record, and wider political developments probably overtook any concerns about the conversion of a deceased and recently low-profile politician. Much more can be said about the controversies surrounding Anne. All the pleas of her father and former confessor, and all the fury of her brother about the personal and political disaster they saw looming could not dissuade her from her course. Furthermore, while York apparently ignored Clarendon’s letter, he was clearly infuriated by Henry Hyde’s efforts to argue with him: Hyde had to write a profound apology for bringing up the ‘very nice subject’ of Anne’s religion in December 1670.87 Yet, whether from the accident of her death, political discretion or the happenstance of circumstance, Anne’s conversion was rather a success in political terms. It provoked rumours, but no major crisis, and it did little more than add fuel to the anti-popish flames in the 1680s. As one pensive reader noted on their copy of the 1686 printing of her narrative, Anne was a ‘mistaken, and deceived Lady’. Her conversion ‘deserves Lamentation’,88 but it was never lambasted in quite the way her husband’s was. This was one crisis over Stuart popery that was, surprisingly, contained.

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