Chapters in this book

1. Front matter i
2. Dedication v
3. Epigraph vi
4. Contents vii
5. Preface viii
6. Notes on quotations x
7. List of abbreviations xi
8. Introduction 1
9. Part I England
10. 1 Childhood and early career, 1660–c.1690 9
11. 2 The national Church in a Suffolk parish 20
12. 3 ‘A well affected man’ 53
13. 4 Angels and demons 77
14. 5 Hutchinson and witchcraft 93
15. Part II Ireland
16. 6 The Bishop of Down and Connor and the established Church and state in Ireland, 1721–39 129
17. 7 ‘Darkness must be expell’d by bringing in the light’ 148
18. 8 ‘Improve everything that is improveable’ 177
19. Conclusion 200
20. Select bibliography 206
21. Index 215