John Walker's "Sufferings of the clergy during the Grand Rebellion" was published in 1714 to counter Edmund Calamy's attack on the Anglican Church for its ejection of Nonconformists from benefices after the Restoration. As Calamy was committed to Nonconformity, so Walker was committed to Toryism and High Churchmanship and this was a political pamphlet in the style of Swift. It is a survey of the penal measures carried out during the Interregnum against the Church and the universities and also contains personal information about the Anglican clergy. Following his revision of Calamy's account in 1934, A.G.Matthews turned his attention to Walker. He was able to correct and supplement the original volume having had access to parochial records. He added the names of some 1100 clergy to the original list as well as investigating claims that their treatment was harsher than that meted out to the Nonconformists.
- ISBN10 019821264X
- ISBN13 9780198212645
- Publish Date June 1988
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 12 June 1997
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Oxford University Press
- Imprint Clarendon Press
- Edition New edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 492
- Language English