OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 16/10/18, SPi STUART SUCCESSION LITERATURE OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 16/10/18, SPi OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 16/10/18, SPi Stuart Succession Literature Moments and Transformations Edited by PAULINA KEWES and ANDREW McRAE 1 OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 16/10/18, SPi 3 Great Clarendon Street, Oxford, OX2 6DP, United Kingdom Oxford University Press is a department of the University of Oxford. It furthers the University’s objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Oxford is a registered trade mark of Oxford University Press in the UK and in certain other countries © the several contributors 2019 The moral rights of the authors have been asserted First Edition published in 2019 Impression: 1 All rights reserved. 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Oxford disclaims any responsibility for the materials contained in any third party website referenced in this work. OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 16/10/18, SPi In memory of Kevin Sharpe (1949–2011) OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 16/10/18, SPi OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 16/10/18, SPi Acknowledgements This book derives from The Stuart Successions Project, a collaboration between the Universities of Exeter and Oxford. We are grateful to the Arts and Humanities Research Council for funding both this project and the follow-on project that led to the creation of Stuarts Online (http://stuarts-online.com/). The Stuart Successions Project also produced Literature of the Stuart Successions: An Anthology, ed. Andrew McRae and John West (Manchester University Press, 2017), as well as two PhD dissertations and a number of articles. Its open-access database of Stuart succession writing (http://stuarts.exeter.ac.uk/database/) is intended as the basis for further research in this rich field. We are also grateful to our excellent core pro- ject team: our postdoctoral research associate, John West, and our PhD students, Joseph Hone and Anna-Marie Linnell. In addition, these projects were supported by the University of Exeter; Jesus College, Oxford; the University of Oxford English Faculty; the Bodleian Libraries; the Ashmolean Museum; the Huntington Library; the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust; and Historyworks. Numerous individuals contributed to the intellectual development of The Stuart Successions Project, and also to the essays included in this volume. In particular, we would like to acknowledge the audience at our 2013 project colloquium, at which most of our authors presented initial versions of their work. Others to have supported the project include: Tim Amos, Charlotte Campton, Justin Champion, Susan Doran, Alexandra Franklin, Gabriel Glickman, Tim Harris, Clive Holmes, Jessica Knight, Nicholas McDowell, Gerald Maclean, Roger Mason, John Morrill, Glyn Parry, Giovanna Vitelli, and Blair Worden. Joseph Hone provided invaluable help in preparing the manuscript for publication. At Oxford University Press, we have benefited from the expert guidance and support of Jacqueline Norton and Eleanor Collins. The Stuart Successions Project was conceived and developed in collaboration with the late Kevin Sharpe. Although Kevin died in 2011, shortly after the grant was awarded, the project remained greatly indebted to his work. This volume aims to honour his memory. OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 16/10/18, SPi OUP CORRECTED PROOF – FINAL, 16/10/18, SPi Contents List of Figures xi Notes on Contributors xiii Introduction 1 Paulina Kewes and Andrew McRae PART I. MOMENTS 1. Panegyric and Its Discontents: The First Stuart Succession 19 Richard A. McCabe 2. Writing the King’s Death: The Case of James I 37 Alastair Bellany 3. ‘He seems a king by long succession born’: The Problem of Cromwellian Accession and Succession 60 Steven N. Zwicker 4. Charles II and the Meanings of Exile 75 Christopher Highley 5. 1685 and the Battle for Dutch Public Opinion: Succession Literature from a Transnational Perspective 95 Helmer Helmers 6. ‘A great Romance feigned to raise wonder’: Literature and the Making of the 1689 Succession 114 John West 7. The Last Stuart Coronation 132 Joseph Hone PART II. TRANSFORMATIONS 8. ‘The Idol of State Innovators and Republicans’: Robert Persons’s A Conference About the Next Succession (1594/5) in Stuart England 149 Paulina Kewes 9. Welcoming the King: The Politics of Stuart Succession Panegyric 186 Andrew McRae 10. ‘I have brought thee up to a Kingdome’: Sermons on the Accessions of James I and Charles I 205 David Colclough 11. ‘Eyes without Light’: University Volumes and the Politics of Succession 222 Henry Power