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Jesuit and gentleman planter: Ingle’s rebellion and the litigation of Thomas Copley S.J.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 April 2019

Helen Kilburn*
Affiliation:
Department of English and American Studies, School of Arts, Languages and Cultures, The University of Manchester, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL. Email: [email protected]

Abstract

Father Thomas Copley S.J. (d. 1652) was born in Madrid in 1595/6 to an exiled English Catholic family. He joined the Maryland mission in 1637 under the alias Philip Fisher. In 1645 in the midst of the English Civil War, Richard Ingle, captain of the Reformation and under the authority of a Parliamentary Letter of Marque, plundered Maryland. Ingle, who mostly pursued wealthy Catholics, brought to England under arrest the Jesuit priests Thomas Copley and Andrew White on charges related to the legislation, An Act Against Jesuits, Seminary Priests and Other Such Disobedient Persons (1585). This article examines the proceedings of the High Court of Admiralty and the High Court of Chancery that relate to Ingle’s Rebellion (1645-1646). In particular, it examines the methods employed by Fr. Copley not only to escape execution but also to pursue Richard Ingle for damages to property and person. It therefore delineates the intersections between national allegiance, civil rights, and confessional adherence in Catholic and non-Catholic imaginations in both England and her empire. Importantly, this case study illustrates how English Jesuits navigated and used an immature English imperial jurisprudence to their advantage.

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Footnotes

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I would like to thank my supervisor Dr. Natalie Zacek, as well as the attendees of the EMBIC Conference (2017) organised by Durham University and University of Notre Dame, and the Transatlantic Conversations Workshop (2018) organised by The Obama Institute and the Society of Early Americanists for their valuable feedback in the early stages of writing this article. I would also like to thank a number of organisations for their support of this research: the English Catholic History Association through the ECHA grant; the Maryland Historical Society through the Lord Baltimore Fellowship, the Catholic Record Society through the David Rogers Research Fund and the PhD Studentship in British and Irish Catholic History; and the Andrew C. Duncan Catholic History Trust.

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2 Little is known of Richard Ingle (c. 1609-1653). He lived in Stepney, Middlesex and in 1642 claimed that he had been trading tobacco for ten years although he is first recorded as a master of ship in 1639. See, Riordan, Timothy B., The Plundering Time: Maryland and the English Civil War 1645-1646 (Baltimore, MD: The Maryland Historical Society, 2004), 28-29.Google Scholar

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55 Ibid., 367.

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73 Examination of John Lewgar, Answer 14, [26 September 1645] in C24 690/14, NA.

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78 William Berkeley (1605-1677) was a member of the aristocracy and established church who governed Virginia from 1642 until his death in 1677. He was a courtier, adventurer, and even playwright but he best remembered for governing Virginia during Bacon’s Rebellion in 1676. See: Warren M. Billings, ‘Berkeley, Sir William’ (1605-1677), ONDB, https://doi.org/10.1093/ref:odnb/2225. [Accessed 25/01/2019].

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81 ‘Court and Testamentary Business’ [1649] in AOMOL 10: 211-13.

82 ‘L. Calvert to Lt. William Lewis,’ [1646] in AOMOL 3: 178-179. In 1651 Copley also reissued land patented to Cuthbert Fenwick in trust in 1641 to Fenwick again, but also to Ralph Crouch: ‘Certificate of Survey for St. Inigoes’ [1 October 1651], Land Office and Prerogative Court Records of Colonial Maryland, 1634-2012 (Patent Record), Liber AB&H, f. 173, The Maryland State Archives (MSA), Annapolis: MD.; ‘Patent for St. Inigoes’ [4 November 1651], Patents, Liber RRO, f. 8, MSA.

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