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The Surrey town of Mitcham attracted national attention in 1665 when a brief pamphlet war erupted between its vicar, Anthony Sadler, and his parishioners. In this testy public altercation, Sadler accused his patron, the local landowner Robert Cranmer, not only of neglecting his duty to maintain the ruinous vicarage and of misusing tithes, but also of disloyalty and nonconformity. Cranmer was vindicated in print by a neighbour who dismissed and ridiculed Sadler, pointing to the patron’s presentation of future Anglicans to the vicarage during the Interregnum. This article uses a remarkable body of evidence from ecclesiastical court records and elsewhere to unpick these claims and counter-claims to conformity and loyalty. In doing so, it demonstrates that the protracted dispute between Sadler and his parishioners, of which the pamphlets of 1665 were only one manifestation, was borne along by the development of equally strong but opposing positions with respect to the thorny issue of how to bridge the divisions of civil war and revolution. Moreover, the article demonstrates that this positioning had the effect of prolonging the dispute until Sadler resigned from the parish in 1669, and bringing it into several other venues of conflict resolution. This episode sheds light on several features of English society in the decades immediately before and after the Restoration, especially change and continuity in a parish within a shifting national political and religious context; the participation of men and women in law and religion; and the enduring and volatile legacy of civil conflict.

Sadler Saddled: Reconciliation and Recrimination in a Restoration Parish *