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St Martin's Parish, Birmingham, in 1767: A Study of Urban Catholicism

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2016

Judith F. Champ
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This work is the product of team research carried out by a group of Extramural Department students of the University of Birmingham, using locally available primary and secondary material. None of the group were professional historians, though some have pursued private research on aspects of local history, and all had been prepared by a term's lectures on the Catholic Revival in Birmingham, 1650-1850.

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British Catholic History , Volume 15 , Issue 3 , May 1980 , pp. 342 - 369
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Copyright © Catholic Record Society 1980

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1 The group consisted of Miss C. Chambers, Miss A. Clarkson, Miss M. Clarkson, Mr P. J. Coleman, Rev. J. Davis, Miss A. Gregory, Mrs M. Grisbrooke, Dr A. Sharp, Miss D. Shaw, Rev. F. Thomas.

2 Lichfield Joint Record Office, D. 56.

3 W.P.R., Vol. 3.

4 B.P.L. (Archives).

5 Jean, Alain Lesourd, Les Catholiques dans la Société Anglaise, 1765-1865, Ph.D. thesis, University of Nancy, 1974.Google Scholar

6 Laslett, P., The World we have Lost (Methuen, 1961), p. 48.Google Scholar

7 Ibid., p. 72.

8 Undercounting in the Papist Return is a possible explanation, but it is too widespread to be accidental. As a deliberate means of supplying an underestimated total it seems an overelaborate ruse on the part of the vicar.

9 B.P.L. Local Studies 383066.

10 Laslett, p. 108-09.

11 Ibid., p. 86.

12 Cole, W. A. and Postgate, R., The Common People, 1746-1946, pp. 68–87.Google Scholar

13 Sketchley's Birmingham Directory, 1767; B.P.L. Local Studies, Ref. 348585. Sketchley & Adams Universal Birmingham Directory, 1770; B.P.L. Local Studies, Ref. 60356.

14 B.P.L. (Archives).

15 Still illegal in 1767 and since she was not on the list of staff at the Franciscan school, was probablykeeping a small private school. Surprisingly, no comment was passed on this by the Anglican vicar, as itoften was in other parish returns—perhaps a sign of general acceptability.

16 W.P.R., Vol. 3.

17 W.P.R., Vol. 3.

18 W.P.R., Vol. 3, p. 49.