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THE CURSE OF MEROZ AND THE ENGLISH CIVIL WAR*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 May 2014

JORDAN S. DOWNS
JORDAN S. DOWNS*
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Abstract

This article attempts to uncover the political significance of the Old Testament verse Judges 5:23, ‘the curse of Meroz’, during the English Civil War. Historians who have commented on the printed text of Meroz have done so primarily in reference to a single edition of the parliamentarian fast-day preacher Stephen Marshall's 1642 Meroz cursed sermon. Usage of the curse, however, as shown in more than seventy unique sermons, tracts, histories, libels, and songs considered here, demonstrates that the verse was far more widespread and politically significant than has been previously assumed. Analysing Meroz in its political and polemical roles, from the outbreak of the Irish Rebellion in 1641 and through the Restoration of Charles II in the 1660s, sheds new light on the ways in which providentialism functioned during the Civil Wars, and serves, more specifically, to illustrate some of the important means by which ministers and polemicists sought to mobilize citizens and construct party identities.

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The Historical Journal , Volume 57 , Issue 2 , June 2014 , pp. 343 - 368
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I am grateful to Richard Cust, Barbara Donagan, Peter Lake, Isaac Stephens, Stefania Tutino, and the two anonymous reviewers who read and commented on earlier versions of this article. Special thanks are due to Tom Cogswell for his guidance and extensive feedback.

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20 The process of ‘shaping and being shaped by’, perhaps best defined in terms of the sociological concept of ‘structuration’, is raised frequently by Browell in ‘The politics of providentialism’, pp. 2, 13, 17, 273–4. For an important study of the long-term significance of a scriptural curse, see Whitford, The curse of Ham.

21 Early English Books Online (EEBO) and the Text Creation Partnership (TCP) have aided my discovery of many of the printed examples of Judges 5:23 that are cited in this article. Numerous other references, however, have come from the first hand reading of printed texts and manuscripts. Where possible, and in recognizing the limitations and occasional issues associated with EEBO and the TCP, I have consulted original copies of the printed materials in order to validate their accuracy.

22 Collinson, The birthpangs, p. 128.

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34 Meroz curse, title page. Marshall, Stephen, Meroz cursed, or a sermon preached to the honourable House of Commons (London, 1642), p. 10Google Scholar. Marshall here claims that evidence of providential wrath and cursing was ‘most plain in many other Scriptures’, but that his intention was to ‘cull out but three among three hundred’ to support Meroz, starting with Jeremiah 48:10 and the curse pronounced against Moab.

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36 Ibid., p. 22.

37 Ibid., p. 53.

38 ‘The Proposition of the Com[missione]rs for Ireland’, 17 June 1642, State Papers Ireland, 63/260/230.

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52 To the right honourable the Lords of the higher house of parliament (London, 1642). Many thanks to Tom Cogswell for bringing this petition to my attention.

53 A letter to the kingdome of England (London, 1642).

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61 The only other evidence regarding the frequency with which Marshall preached on Meroz comes from an anonymous and critical biography, The life & death of Stephen Marshall (London, 1680), p. 26, in which the claim is made that Marshall ‘himself has boasted, that he preach'd one Sermon (I believe that was Curse ye Meroz,) threescore times’. This figure has proven popular among historians since it was mentioned in Sir Stephen, Leslie and Lee, Sir Sidney, eds., Dictionary of national biography, xi (London, 1917–), p. 1131Google Scholar; Trevor-Roper, , ‘Fast sermons of the Long Parliament’, p. 99; Bernard Capp, ‘Popular culture and the English Civil War’, History of European Ideas, 10 (1989), p. 31Google Scholar; Burgess, ‘Was the English Civil War a war of religion? Evidence of political propaganda’, pp. 173–4; Walsham, Providence, p. 316.

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