Sept 16 Problems of Confessional Governance

Dictionary of National Biography

War of the Austrian Succession

1738 Jenkins displays his ear to the Hosue of Commons
1739 (Oct) Britain declares war on Spain
1740 death of HRE Charles V; succession of Maria Theresa (r. 1740-1780) [Pragmatic Sanction of 1713]
Frederick II (r. 1740-1786) of Prussia invades Silesia
Prussia, France, Spain, Bavaria, and Saxony vs. Austria, Great Britain, and the Netherlands
1742 collapse of the anti-Austrian alliances when Prussia concludes a separate peace with Austria: MT recognizes Prussia's conquest of Silesia
1745 Frederick, having re-entered the war to ensure his conquest of Silesia, drops out again

British troops and the Massachusetts militia capture Louisbourg
British naval action disrupts French Caribbean trade

1746 the French take Madras from the British
1748

Peace of Aix-la-Chapelle: Prussia retains Silesia but all other conquests restored to their former owners

recognition of:
MT's right to inherit Hapsburg domains
Francis I (MT'S husband) as HRE
British claims to Hanoverian lands
Prussia's emergence as a great power

 

I. Toleration and the Enligtenment

Voltaire, Treatise on Toleration (1763): Jean Calas

 

II. Religious disabilities

Test Act (1673)

penal laws

 

III. Incorporating and Peopling

confession

Acadian expulsion (le Grand Derangement)

toleration: both an idea and a policy of governance

Treaty of Paris (1763), articles IV and XX: "His Britannick Majesty, on his side, agrees to grant the liberty of the Catholick religion to the inhabitants of Canada: he will, in consequence, give the most precise and most effectual orders, that his new Roman Catholic subjects may profess the worship of their religion according to the rites of the Romish church, as far as the laws of Great Britain permit."

freedom of conscience

assimilation (anglicization) vs. accommodation

Royal Proclamation (1763)

 

A. East Florida

James Grant

Grant to the Lords Commissioners for Trade and Plantations (1764)


Governor James Grant

 

B. New France > Canada

Chief Justice Mansfield

James Murray and Guy Carleton

Quebec Act (1774) [link]

 

Henry Grattan

IV. Implications/ Ireland

Ascendancy grievances

Declaratory Act (1720)

William Molyneux, The Case of Ireland's being Bound
by Acts of Parliament in England Stated (1698)

the Patriots (Henry Flood and Henry Grattan)

the Volunteers