Includes bibliographical references (p. 294-315) and index.
Contents:
The seeds of discord: an English church established in Boston -- Discord enlarged: the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel -- A handmaiden for episcopacy: John Checkley of Boston -- The English origins of a colonial American controversy -- Noah Hobart decries Anglican expansion: Thomas Sherlock proposes an American bishop -- Jonathan Mayhew fears a bishop and challenges the purpose of the S.P.G. -- Pleas for an American bishop in the 1760s: Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Secker and Thomas Bradbury Chandler -- A radical response to a bishop: John Adams, Samuel Adams, and John Wilkes -- The controversy over a bishop in the colonies outside New England -- The impact of the First Continental Congress and the local committees of safety -- Critics of the Continental Congress and Common Sense: Jonathan Boucher and Charles Inglis -- A challenge to radical politics: Samuel Seabury Jr. and Thomas Bradbury Chandler -- Quiet and militant patriots -- William Knox seeks to extablish an ecclesiastical imperial policy for the American church -- The state of the clergy in 1775 and 1783 -- The English Church, a cause of the American Revolution -- Political sentiments of colonial clergymen of the Church of England during the American Revolutionary War,, 1775-83 -- A summary of the birthplaces, birth years, and colleges attended by colonial American Church of England clergymen, 1775
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