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Fear, Exclusion, and Revolution: Roger Morrice and Britain in the 1680s. Edited by James McElligot. (Burlington, Vermont: Ashgate Publishing Company, 2006, Pp. xii, 228. $103.95.)
Roger Morrice, a cleric ejected from the Church of England in 1662, kept an "Entring Book" in which he recorded public events and related matters between 1677 and 1691, when he lived in London. This voluminous work is a remarkable source for the political, religious, social, and cultural history of later seventeenth-century England (Morrice had some interest in Scotland, little in Ireland) ; and the decision that a team of fine scholars should produce an edition was greatly welcomed by those studying the period. In 2003, a conference was held on "The World of Roger Morrice" in Cambridge, UK This volume comprises twelve papers delivered at that event....