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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 February 2015
In volume twenty-three of Recusant History an attempt was made to consider the origins of St. Edmund's House at Cambridge in the light of changing ecclesiastical attitudes to the admission of Roman Catholic undergraduates to study at the ancient universities. The present article examines some of the vagaries in governance and managerial construct that were to prove inimical to the fulfilment of a widening function for the Cambridge foundation.
1 Cambridge University Library (CUL), St. Edmund's College Archives (SECA), Vaughan's conditions of 26 September, 1896. Grateful thanks are offered to archivists at CUL, SECA and Westminster for their unfailing help and courtesy.
2 Anatole von Hugel to Mgr. A. C. Stanley (selected as one of the nine ordinary members of the Council of St. Edmund's), 3 November 1896. Unless stated otherwise, correspondence quoted is from SECA.
3 T. B. Scannell to Bernard Ward, 6 January 1896.
4 Britten was to have a significant role in popularising the work of the Jesuit polemicist, Herbert Thurston (see Joseph Crehan's memoir of Thurston, Sheed & Ward, 1952, pp. 95 et seq.). Thurston was only at the beginning of his publishing career when he met Britten.
5 James Britten to Edmond Nolan, 17 May 1896.
6 Bernard Ward to Edmond Nolan, 8 November 1896. For the chequered history of the Birmingham movement to establish a house in connection with Oxford, see John Sharp's article ‘Oscott in Oxford—Lost Opportunity or Misguided Pipe Dream’ in a forthcoming number of Recusant History.
7 William Robert Brownlow, appointed Bishop of Clifton in 1894 was a Cambridge man (Trinity) and a convert from the Church of England.
8 A. C. Stanley to Edmond Nolan, 16 November 1896.
9 Rogers, N. (ed): Catholics in Cambridge, Gracewing, 2003, pp. 97 Google Scholar seq.
10 When he finally left Cambridge in 1909, Nolan (Mgr. since 1902) was given a D.Litt honoris causa by Louvain and subsequently became responsible for the parish at Marylebone until 1916 and, then, of Moorfields until 1921.
11 See McClelland, V. A.: ‘Bourne, Norfolk and the Irish Parliamentarians: Roman Catholics and the Education Bill of 1906’, Recusant History, v.23, 1997, pp. 470–482.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
12 Norfolk to Archbishop Bourne, 31 December 1903.
13 University Colleges had been established in Newcastle in 1871, Leeds in 1874, Bristol in 1876, Sheffield in 1879, Birmingham in 1880, Nottingham in 1881, Liverpool also in 1881, Reading in 1892. Victoria University, Manchester, had become fully independent in 1880, Liverpool and Leeds gained full university status in 1903–04 and Birmingham earlier in 1900.
14 William Gordon to Sutcliffe, 18 February 1904.
15 Brownlow to Sutcliffe, 18 February 1898.
16 Edmund Ilsley to Sutcliffe, 28 November 1897.
17 ‘The Old Hall Memorial’, Edmundian, v.ii, n.11, July 1896.
18 Casartelli to Nolan, 6 March 1905.
19 Petit to the bishops, Low Week 1946.
20 Ibidem.
21 Petit's letter of resignation to the bishops, 30 September 1945.
22 Petit's notes to the sub-committee of the House considering the appointment of master, 1946.
23 Bishop Joseph McCormack to St. Edmund's House, 23 July 1946.
24 Report of G. D. Sweeney to Archbishop George Patrick Dwyer of Birmingham, 12 April 1969.
25 Ibidem.
26 Report of the Conference on Catholic Higher Studies, Strawberry Hill, 1958.
27 Michael, J. Walsh: The Westminster Cardinals: The Past and the Future, Burns & Oates. 2008, pp. 155 Google Scholar et seq.
28 William, Cardinal Godfrey to Corboy, 12 June 1962.
29 Ibidem.
30 Draft Response from the Governing Body of St. Edmund's House, for the Cardinal, in relation to his request of n.28 (above).
31 Ibidem.
32 Note from M. V. Sweeney to Dwyer, 12 April 1969.
33 Ibidem.
34 Ibidem.
35 Letter of Godfrey to the Archbishops and Bishops, 15 February 1962.
36 Letter of Petit to Godfrey, 26 February 1992.
37 Ibidem.
38 Ibidem.
39 Ibidem.
40 Bishop George Patrick Dwyer of Leeds to Cardinal Godfrey quoted in a letter of the latter to Corboy, 8 March 1962.
41 Letter of J. C. Heenan to Petit, 14 March 1942.
42 Corboy to Godfrey, 23 May 1962.
43 Corboy to Godfrey, 25 May 1962.
44 Memorandum of views recorded by the meeting of St. Edmund's House Governing Body, 17 July, 1962.
45 John, W. O'Malley: What Happened At Vatican II, Harvard, 2008, pp. 127 Google Scholar seq.
46 Godfrey to Corboy, 13 November 1962.
47 Ibidem.
48 Notes—A meeting of the Cambridge Committee held at St. Edmund's House, Cambridge, on 29 November 1962. (Present: Canon Corboy [chair], Dr. B. Towers, Dr. W. Ullmann and Dr. F. Wild.)
49 Godfrey to Corboy, 7 January 1963.
50 Derek Worlock to Corboy, 6 February 1963.
51 Bishop Joseph Rudderham of Clifton to Corboy, May 1963 (n.d.), following the Low Week Meeting of the Hierarchy.
52 Archbishop Heenan to Bishop Petit from the Venerabile, 21 October 1963.
53 Ibidem.
54 Response to Heenan's request, 5 November 1963.
55 Ibidem.
56 Heenan to Corboy, 8 March 1964.
57 Petit to Corboy, 16 April 1964.
58 Ibidem.
59 Walsh outlines Heenan's achievement in The Westminster Cardinals, op. cit., pp. 184–185, where he refers to Heenan's perspicacity in the support given to the availability of higher education for his seminarians. A more critical view is taken by Robert, Butterworth, The Detour: Towards Revising Catholicism, Gracewing 2005, pp. 173 Google Scholar et seq. For the nineteenth-century Catholic connection with London, see my English Roman Catholics and Higher-Education, 1830–1903, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1973, pp. 23 et seq.
60 Parker to Petit, 13 May 1966.
61 Sweeney to Bishop Gordon Wheeler, 10 September 1966.
62 Petit to Sweeney, 13 March 1965.
63 Sweeney's Report to the Ecclesiastical Superiors for 1967–68.
64 Sweeney's Document to the Hierarchy meeting in October, 1972.
65 Ibidem.
66 Ibidem.
67 Archbishop Dwyer to Sweeney, commenting on the latter's draft constitutional proposals, 21 October 1970.
68 Dwyer to Sweeney, 11 June 1972.
69 Dwyer to Sweeney, 30 October 1972.
70 Ibidem.
71 Sweeney to Dwyer, 1 November 1972.
72 Letter of Bishop John Petit to Rome, via the Apostolic Delegate, 28 October 1972.
73 Heenan to Archbishop Enrici, 21 November 1972.
74 Ibidem.
75 Heenan to Sweeney, 13 January 1972.
76 Heenan to R. A. G. O'Brien, 12 March 1973.
77 Ibidem.