- Title Pages
- For my parents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 ‘[T]aking up <i>Plots</i> upon <i>Trust’:</i><sup>1</sup> Titus Oates, Roger L’Estrange, and Popular Polemic
- Chapter 2 ‘[W]ill you have your <i>Throats cut</i> ere you will believe?’:<sup>1</sup> Popish Plot(s)
- Chapter 3 ‘Tis the Press that has made ‘um Mad’:<sup>1</sup> Publishing the Popish Plot and Exclusion Crisis
- Chapter 4 ‘A Popish priest is a certain seducer’:<sup>1</sup> Catholics and Anti-Catholicism
- Chapter 5 ‘Hell, and Rome…have long been confederate against us’:<sup>1</sup> Jesuits and Protestantism
- Chapter 6 ‘The Subduing of a Pestilent Heresy’:<sup>1</sup> Edward Coleman’s Letters
- Chapter 7 ‘A Matter too hot…to be Handled’:<sup>1</sup> The Death of Edmund Berry Godfrey
- Chapter 8 ‘A Few Words among Many, about the Touchy Point of Succession’:<sup>1</sup> The Duke of York and the Exclusion Crisis
- Chapter 9 ‘Have a Care of perverted Authorities’:<sup>1</sup> Parliament, Partisanship, and the Earl of Shaftesbury
- Chapter 10 ‘After-Birth-Inscriptions’:<sup>1</sup> Historical Disputes and the Great Fire of London
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1 Chronology of the main events mentioned in the text between August 1678 and June 1679
- Appendix 2 The Organization of the English Province of the Society of Jesus (1678–85)*
- Appendix 3 The Test Acts*
- Appendix 4
- Appendix 5 The Oath to be sworn by subscribers to the Protestant ‘Association’*
- Bibliography
- Index
‘A Few Words among Many, about the Touchy Point of Succession’:1 The Duke of York and the Exclusion Crisis
‘A Few Words among Many, about the Touchy Point of Succession’:1 The Duke of York and the Exclusion Crisis
- Chapter:
- (p.292) Chapter 8 ‘A Few Words among Many, about the Touchy Point of Succession’:1 The Duke of York and the Exclusion Crisis
- Source:
- ‘The Horrid Popish Plot’
- Author(s):
Peter Hinds
- Publisher:
- British Academy
This chapter focuses on the Duke of York and the crisis over the succession, which was precipitated in part by Oates' allegations. It sets concerns over a potential Catholic successor in several contexts, such as analysing the rhetoric of debate both in Parliament and on the printed page, and placing the succession issue in context of the Duke's periods of exile between 1679 and 1682.
Keywords: Duke of York, succession, Catholic successor, rhetoric, debate, print, exile
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- Title Pages
- For my parents
- Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Chapter 1 ‘[T]aking up <i>Plots</i> upon <i>Trust’:</i><sup>1</sup> Titus Oates, Roger L’Estrange, and Popular Polemic
- Chapter 2 ‘[W]ill you have your <i>Throats cut</i> ere you will believe?’:<sup>1</sup> Popish Plot(s)
- Chapter 3 ‘Tis the Press that has made ‘um Mad’:<sup>1</sup> Publishing the Popish Plot and Exclusion Crisis
- Chapter 4 ‘A Popish priest is a certain seducer’:<sup>1</sup> Catholics and Anti-Catholicism
- Chapter 5 ‘Hell, and Rome…have long been confederate against us’:<sup>1</sup> Jesuits and Protestantism
- Chapter 6 ‘The Subduing of a Pestilent Heresy’:<sup>1</sup> Edward Coleman’s Letters
- Chapter 7 ‘A Matter too hot…to be Handled’:<sup>1</sup> The Death of Edmund Berry Godfrey
- Chapter 8 ‘A Few Words among Many, about the Touchy Point of Succession’:<sup>1</sup> The Duke of York and the Exclusion Crisis
- Chapter 9 ‘Have a Care of perverted Authorities’:<sup>1</sup> Parliament, Partisanship, and the Earl of Shaftesbury
- Chapter 10 ‘After-Birth-Inscriptions’:<sup>1</sup> Historical Disputes and the Great Fire of London
- Conclusion
- Appendix 1 Chronology of the main events mentioned in the text between August 1678 and June 1679
- Appendix 2 The Organization of the English Province of the Society of Jesus (1678–85)*
- Appendix 3 The Test Acts*
- Appendix 4
- Appendix 5 The Oath to be sworn by subscribers to the Protestant ‘Association’*
- Bibliography
- Index