Catholic ‘conscience’, duty and disputes over English liberties in Jacobean Ireland

Hutchinson, Mark A ORCID: 0000-0003-1413-6382 (2021) Catholic ‘conscience’, duty and disputes over English liberties in Jacobean Ireland. History of European Ideas, 47 (1). pp. 38-57. doi:10.1080/01916599.2020.1778390

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Abstract

The article examines Old English claims to catholic ‘liberty of conscience’ and the way in which this engendered a discussion of English liberties in Ireland. Old English representatives sought to ground their claims to ‘liberty of conscience’ in established practice, custom and law. Their claims to ‘liberty of conscience’ also brought into play the vocabulary of corporate and parliamentary liberty. In response, New English protestants turned to ideas of duty and citizenship, which were equally embedded in conceptions of English liberties. They argued that a catholic ‘conscience’ sat in opposition to ideas of duty to the king and the commonwealth. In doing so, the New English questioned both the basis and extent of the liberties possessed by the Old English. Such an exchange, this article argues, is illustrative of the way in which an English pairing of liberties, with ideas of duty and active citizenship, opened up an area of dispute involving a shared set of political concepts and vocabulary.

Item Type:	Article
Article Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Duty and citizenship; corporate and parliamentary liberty; liberty of conscience; custom and law; catholic Old English; protestant New English
Subjects:	D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain > DA1 History of Great Britain > DA20 England > DA28 History > DA129 By period > DA300 Modern, 1485- > DA385 Early Stuarts, 1603-1642 D History General and Old World > DA Great Britain > DA1 History of Great Britain > DA900 Ireland > DA909 History > DA938 Modern, 1603- J Political Science > JC Political theory
Divisions:	Schools and Research Institutes > School of Creative Arts
Research Priority Areas:	Culture, Continuity, and Transformation
Depositing User:	Mark Hutchinson
Date Deposited:	03 Oct 2023 11:38
Last Modified:	09 Oct 2023 09:10
URI:	https://eprints.glos.ac.uk/id/eprint/13242

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