Talk:Henry Care

Henry Care, English liberties, or the free-born subject's inheritance. Being a help to justicies as well as a guide to constables (London, 1703)

http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/projects/english_folk/EFS/liberties.htm ----- http://www.lancs.ac.uk/fass/history/profiles/Sarah-Barber/

" The sum total of the other categories adds up to a sentiment which has earnt the epithet 'English liberties'. It is usually expressed as a historico-political statement, such as in the 1703 tract by Henry Care, English liberties, or the free-born subject's inheritance. Being a help to justicies as well as a guide to constables (London, 1703) detailing legal safeguards of individual rights, starting with the iconic Magna Charta, and running to several editions, which grew in size with each republication;"

FRONTISPIECE c1703 - IT RAN THROUGH MANY EDITIONS FOR A CENTURY AFTER HIS DEATH - http://library.brown.edu/find/Record/b5325268

English liberties or, the free-born subject's inheritance. Being a help to justices as well as a guide to constables. Containing, I. Magna Charta, the petition of right, The Habeas Corpus Act, &c. With Comments upon each of them. The Proceedings in Appeals of Murder; The Work and Power of Parliaments, the Qualifications necessary for such as should be Chosen to that great Trust. The Advantage Englishmen enjoy by Trials by Juries That they are Judges of Law as well as Fact; and are not Fineable, nor to be Punish'd, for going contrary to the Judges Directions. II. Of justices of the peace; their Oath, Office, and Power, in many Respects; With several Law-Cases Alphabetically Digested for Ease and brevity, and Warrants proper thereto. concluding with Directions for Drovers, Badgers, Butchers, Toll-Keepers, and Clerks of the Market, &c III. The coroner and constable's duty, Relating to Dead Bodies, Murder, Man-Slaughter, and Felo-de-se; Arreste, Escapes, and Conservation of the Peace, The Church Warden, Over Seer, and Scavenger's Duty at Large, in the most necessary Particulars. And Lastly, An Abstract of the act now in force against Popery and Papists First compiled by Henry Care, and now inlarged with new and useful additions, by a wellwisher to his country.

( I see a note here that questions whether Henry Care ever originally wrote this book at all - http://www.jstor.org/discover/10.2307/1917132?uid=3738032&uid=2129&uid=2&uid=70&uid=4&sid=21101679904627 )

- Just passing through - it seems that more could be written on the front page about this book which is not mentioned there but was influential ?DaiSaw (talk) 12:38, 19 January 2013 (UTC)

BOOK : The Ingenious Mr. Henry Care, Restoration Publicist - Lois G Schwoerer - 2001 - Johns Hopkins University Press

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0801867274 ---- BOOK DESCRIPTION GIVEN ON AMAZON ---

Henry Care (1646-88) was a Restoration publicist from middle-class London who made his living by his skillful pen during the Exclusion Crisis and the reign of King James II. In both eras he developed a large following in the popular press. Although he is little known today, both friends and enemies in his time regarded him as someone to be reckoned with. The Stuart kings also appreciated the influence and potential threat of Care and of the press in general, and they sought to restrain him and to tighten controls on the press, even as they themselves used propagandists to combat both.

By exploring Care's life and work from his anonymous origins to his eventual celebrity as a polemicist first for the Whigs and later for James II, and by examining the influence of his ideas in the American colonies, Schwoerer offers new insights into how the nonelite participated in and affected politics. Care's career illuminates many issues currently of interest in the study of Restoration England, including print culture, the uses of law, women's history, attitudes toward religious liberty and toleration, the Exclusion Crisis, and the Revolution of 1688--89. Using Care's life as a window into the period, Schwoerer contributes significantly to the ongoing reevaluation and rethinking of the Restoration.

BOOK REVIEW CONTAINING FURTHER USEFUL INFORMATION TO FILL OUT ARTICLE - HALF IS ABOUT ANOTHER BOOK - SEEMS FAIR TO COPY SOME LEST PAGE DISAPPEARS

http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=9179 - Reviewed by Andrew Barclay (History of Parliament Trust, London)

Henry Care (1646-88), the subject of Schwoerer's book, is hardly a major name. Few beyond the ranks of the specialists on the print culture of the reign of Charles II would have heard of him before Schwoerer decided to write a whole monograph about him. Between 1670 and 1678 Care earned a living as a professional writer, producing a series of minor works on subjects ranging from notable women to medical remedies, from letter-writing to the Jewish calendar. One of those books, a eulogy to the French published in 1673, implicitly supported Charles II's pro-French foreign policy. Schwoerer is inclined to accept the theory that during these years he was also the author of the newssheet Poor Robin's Intelligence (p. 40). Up to 1678 Care can fairly be described as no more than a hack; the real question is whether he was ever anything more than that. The Popish Plot was certainly the making of him. From 1678 to 1683 he penned the savage anti-Catholic periodical, the Weekly Pacquet of Advice from Rome, which Schwoerer goes so far as to describe as "the most important popular history of the seventeenth century in England" (p. 44). Having established himself as the most effective voice against the threat of popish tyranny, he then dramatically changed sides. He re-emerged in 1687 as the leading Protestant writer publishing in support of James II's policy of religious toleration. He died in 1688 before that policy had ended in failure.

Given the scholarly neglect of Care, Schwoerer's book is first and foremost a work of biographical recovery. Simply on that level, it ranks as a major achievement. One cannot imagine that Schwoerer has missed much in the archives in her search for information about her hero. The result is that his works can be placed in sharply contextualized focus. There can now be no doubt that Care was indeed one of the leading polemical writers working in London in the ten years preceding the Revolution of 1688. Schwoerer also makes large claims for Care's intellectual impact. To her, Care as an advocate of religious toleration stands comparison with John Locke, with Care anticipating most of the arguments Locke would later make famous. Aware that this would mean that Care made his most lasting contribution while working for James II, Schwoerer is quick to emphasize that Care published his final works on his own terms. She refuses to see him merely as James's journalistic lackey. He was only ever putting forward his own views.

Schwoerer's own sympathies are always clear, which does sometimes mean that she applies subtly varying standards in her judgments. For example, she claims that Care in his Animadversions on a Late Paper (1687) "insisted" that "James II had always believed in religious toleration" and that Care "must have known this to be false" (emphasis in the original, p. 203). That is not entirely fair to either man. What Care had actually said was that James's support for toleration was "no sudden or occasional Overture to serve a present turn, but the well-weigh'd and long-confirmed Result of his Royal Judgment, which as he had many years ago declared on sundry occasions."[1] Which indeed it was. James had been expressing support for religious toleration for at least as long as Care.[2] Given that Care's comment was thus true, there is no need to accept the insinuation that Care must have knowingly exaggerated James's commitment to toleration.

APOLIGIES FOR HAVING NO FURTHER TIME THAN FIVE FOR THISDaiSaw (talk) 12:59, 19 January 2013 (UTC)