SACHEVERELL, HENRY

səshĕˈvərəl, 1674?–1724, English clergyman, the center of a religio-political incident in the reign of Queen Anne. In two sermons (1709) Dr. Sacheverell attacked the Whig government, lashing out especially against its toleration of religious dissenters. He was charged with seditious libel, tried, convicted, and sentenced (1710) to a three-year suspension from preaching. The trial created a furor, and the light sentence made Sacheverell the victor in the eyes of the public. The Whigs were severely humiliated by the trial.

See study by G. Holmes (1973).

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1.
Great Houses of Europe
Book by Sacheverell Sitwell, Edwin Smith; Putnam, 1961
Subjects: Architecture, Domestic--Europe, Palaces--Europe
...had been founded sixteen years earlier by Henry V and was the only house in the country...of Sweden. Shakespeare refers to it in Henry V : I have built Two chantries, where...dissolved, without undue opposition, by Henry Vlll, and the Abbess was pensioned off...
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All Summer in a Day: An Autobiographical Fantasia
Book by Sacheverell Sitwell; George H. Doran Company, 1926
Subjects: Fiction
III The Polish Musicians THERE was the sound of heavy footsteps first on wood and then on stone as Henry, my fathers Yorkshire servant, passed on his way to the ballroom, where the family were having tea, and soon his enormous form...
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The Gothick North: A Study of Medieval Life, Art, and Thought
Book by Sacheverell Sitwell; Houghton Mifflin, 1929
Subjects: Civilization, Medieval
...these were lands of mountains and lakes. The great castles of the Welsh marshes were built for Edward I by the architect, Henry de Elreton. Their purpose was to keep the Welsh in check and to hold the coasts for his armies embarking for Ireland. Beaumaris...
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The Drawings of Henry Fuseli
Book by Nicolas Powell, Henry Fueseli; Faber and Faber, 1951
Subjects: Fuseli, Henry--1741-1825
...innovator Fuseli was certainly a man who liked to write about painting and to paint about literature, in the phrase of Mr. Sacheverell Sitwell, 2 but his stylistic affinities cannot lie only in Michelangelo and the Runciman brothers, but also in the mood...
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Henry Bennet, Earl of Arlington, Secretary of State to Charles II
Book by Violet Barbour; American Historical Association, 1914
Subjects: Arlington, Henry Bennet--Earl Of--1618-1685, Great Britain--History--Charles Ii, 1660-1685
...253 n.; mentioned, 115 , 149 n., 247 . Sacheverell, Mr., 235 n. St. Albans, Henry Jermyn, Lord Jermyn, later Earl of, a favorite...3 , 4 , 102 , 205 n. Schomberg, Frederick Henry, Duke of, 227 , 231 . Scotland, Covenant...
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Rebellion Redux: Figuring Whig History in 'Tom Jones.'
Journal article by Richard Braverman; CLIO, Vol. 24, 1995
Subjects: Fielding, Henry--Criticism, interpretation, etc., Tom Jones (Book)--Criticism, interpretation, etc.
...first: Martin C. Battestin and Ruthe R. Battestin, Henry Fielding: A Life (London: Routledge, 1989...South Atlantic Quarterly 70 (1971):265-86; and Henry Knight Miller, Henry Fieldings "Tom Jones" and the Romance Tradition...
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Persona, Elegy, and Desire
Journal article by Chris Mounsey; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 46, 2006
Subjects: Elegiac poetry--Analysis, Elegies--Analysis, Personality (Psychology)--Analysis, Personality--Analysis
...place between John Clendon and Henry Sacheverell (1674?-1724) in 1710...Test Act. (14) It was up to Henry Sacheverell to take on Clendon, but as...of Passages Referrd to by Dr Henry Sacheverell in His Answer to the Articles...
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Wit and the Spectator's Ethics of Desire
Journal article by Elizabeth Kraft; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 45, 2005
Subjects: Addison, Joseph--Criticism and interpretation, English Augustan age, 1700-1750--Criticism and interpretation, English essays--Criticism and interpretation
...Here, the High Church Tory, Henry Sacheverell, is described as the object...Effigies of the Reverend Dr. Henry Sacheverell done to the Life, and several...of violently "high Church" Henry Sacheverell. In fact, the country had...
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A Puritan Subject's Panegyrics to Queen Anne
Journal article by Barbara Olive; Studies in English Literature, 1500-1900, Vol. 42, 2002
Subjects: Anne, Queen of Great Britain and Ireland--Portrayals, depictions, etc., Chudleigh, Mary--Criticism, interpretation, etc., English literature, 1700-1775 (Early 18th century)--Political aspects, English poetry--Women authors, Laudatory poetry--18th century, Politics in literature--18th century, Puritans--Authorship
...1709 impeachment trial of Dr. Henry Sacheverell, who was arraigned for preaching...The thirty-four-year-old Sacheverell had already for some years been...Conformists in the Queens Dominions," Sacheverell is described, along with only...
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Britannia and John Bull: From Birth to Maturity
Journal article by Roy T. Matthews; The Historian, Vol. 62, 2000
Subjects: British--Psychological aspects, Signs and symbols--Political aspects, United Kingdom--History
...intensified in 1709 when the Reverend Henry Sacheverell, a Tory leader, delivered sermons...certain rituals and belief. Sacheverell also included in his attack the...Whigs brought him to trial, and Sacheverell was found guilty and barred from...
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1.
Ascending the Greasy Walpole
Magazine article; History Today, Vol. 56, January 2006
Subjects: Politicians--Biography, Walpole, Robert--Biography
...parliamentary impeachment of the high-churchman Dr Henry Sacheverell. Sacheverells prosecution was for libel, a charge...as an attack on the Glorious Revolution of 1688. Sacheverell was found guilty, but the politically-motivated...
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The Fan: I Open Some Mateus Rose at Half-Time and Spot the Vicar in an England Shirt
Magazine article by Hunter Davies; New Statesman, Vol. 133, June 21, 2004
Subjects: Soccer--United Kingdom, Sports spectators--Humor and anecdotes
...in print by one of my predecessors, Sir Sacheverell Sitwell, so he always claimed, saying...shirt. With the walker was a dog. Its Henry, I shouted, jumping up. No, not Thierry Henry. Henry the black Labrador who writes a column...
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Classics of the Future
Magazine article by Alan Cheuse; The Antioch Review, Vol. 65, Spring 2007
Subjects: Novelists--Biography, Settle, Mary Lee
...selected by Dan Wakefield * Party Going, Henry Green -- selected by Mary Lee Settle...by Thomas McGuane * Far From My Home, Sacheverell Sitwell -- selected by James Purdy...selected by Frederik Pohl * Ultima Thule, Henry Handel Richardson -- selected by Mildred...
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Osbert Sitwell
Magazine article by Brooke Allen; New Criterion, Vol. 17, October 1998
Subjects: Books--Reviews, Osbert Sitwell (Book)--Reviews
...Osbert, five years her junior, and Sacheverell, five years younger still and known to...subsequently rendered back into English by Henry James." Ziegler is fully aware of his...silver age. Evelyn Waugh, Graham Greene, Henry Green, Aldous Huxley, Anthony Powell...
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The Honorable Schoolboy: P. G. Wodehouse Was a Very Advanced Case of Arrested Development. Lucky for Us
Magazine article by Christopher Hitchens; The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 294, November 2004
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Wodehouse: A Life (Book)--Book reviews
...the most snobbish school team in the country. Writing about Henry Hyndman, the founder of the Social Democratic Federation and...Uppo" reminiscences, and the accounts of Archibald and Sacheverell), one would have a real corker that could never, ever die...


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How I Got into Eva Braun's Nightie! How I Got into Eva Braun's Nightie! HOW I SEE IT
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 2, 2007
Subjects: Braun, Eva
...three of his names - Sacheverell Reresby Sitwell - are...Boy In Pink, a young Henry Sacheverell. Drowned in his teens...he was supported by Henry Moat, the faithful...Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell. The trio went on to...
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How I Got into Eva Braun's Nightie!
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), June 2, 2007
...three of his names - Sacheverell Reresby Sitwell - are...Boy In Pink, a young Henry Sacheverell. Drowned in his teens...he was supported by Henry Moat, the faithful...Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell. The trio went on to...
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LAWN & ORDER
Newspaper article; The Mail on Sunday (London, England), July 25, 2004
Subjects: Sitwell, Osbert
...taken. My father, Sachie (Sacheverell), and mother, Georgia, didnt...Towcester, Northamptonshire. While Sacheverell manically wrote books or was...old relation of ours called Henry Sacheverell, who died here in 1726. The...
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The Middle Sitwell Gets a Book
Newspaper article by Colin Walters; The Washington Times, December 19, 1999
...Sitwell siblings - Edith and Sacheverell being the other two - whose...his retainer of many years Henry Moat, to Osberts woman confidante...poetry and other writing - Sacheverell is known for his books on...coming five years later and Sacheverell (Sachie to the family) another...
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Oh Yes, the Butler Did It ... and So Did the Maid and the Dairy Girl! Cutting His Lordship's Throat, Bedding His Family, Marrying Elderly Aristocrats for Their Money. A New Book Reveals ..
Newspaper article; The Daily Mail (London, England), November 26, 2009
Subjects: Aged, Books, Elderly
...famously odd writers Edith, Osbert and Sacheverell Sitwell, Sir George dined exclusively...fell to his equally unconventional butler Henry Moat, who once returned from his home...between Sir George Sitwell and his butler Henry Moat, who finally retired in 1936. Despite...
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Sacheverell, Henry
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
SACHEVERELL, HENRY s she v r l, 1674? 1724, English...Anne. In two sermons (1709) Dr. Sacheverell attacked the Whig government, lashing...furor, and the light sentence made Sacheverell the victor in the eyes of the public...
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St. John, Henry, Viscount Bolingbroke
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
ST. JOHN, HENRY, VISCOUNT BOLINGBROKE sin jun, bol ingbrook, 1678 1751, English...When the unpopularity of the War of the Spanish Succession and the Henry Sacheverell incident brought in a Tory ministry (1710) under Harley, St. John...
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Anne , Queen of England, Scotland, and Ireland
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...unpopularity of the war and the furor over the prosecution of Henry Sacheverell showed the power of the Tories (who won the elections...colleague and rival, Viscount Bolingbroke (see St. John, Henry ). Soon afterward the queen died, and Jacobite hopes...
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Harley, Robert, 1st Earl of Oxford
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...unpopularity of the War of the Spanish Succession and the uproar caused by the trial of Henry Sacheverell brought the fall of the Whigs, and Harley came to power with Henry St. John (later Viscount Bolingbroke) in 1710. He survived an attempt on his...
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Marlborough, John Churchill, 1st Duke Of
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...was accused of prolonging it for his personal glory; the prosecution of Henry Sacheverell was unpopular; and in 1710 the Whigs fell, yielding power to Harley and Henry St. John (later Viscount Bolingbroke). The duke was falsely charged with...
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