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Roman Catholics in Pre-Civil War England: The Problem of Definition

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2016

P. R. Newman
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The purpose of this paper is to draw attention to what appears to be a developing gulf in the study of the Catholic community during the early seventeenth century. How do we determine whether an individual was or was not a Catholic? It looked for a time as if the conventional wisdom concerning Catholics and the Civil War was to maintain that they were, as a body, neutral. It is now hard to see how that view can be substantiated. By no means connected with that view, but threatening in the same way to establish itself as a dictum, is the idea that there can be no Catholicism without a recorded conviction for recusancy.

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British Catholic History , Volume 15 , Issue 2 , October 1979 , pp. 148 - 152
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Copyright © Catholic Record Society 1979

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1 See Newman, P. R., ‘Catholic Royalist Activists in the North, 1642-46’, Recusant History 14 (1977), pp. 26–38.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

2 See, for example, Phillips, C. B., ‘The Royalist North’, Northern History, 14 (1978), esp. p. 175.Google Scholar

3 Aveling, J. C. H., The Handle and the Axe (1976), esp. pp. 145–8.Google Scholar

4 For Read, see also Squibb, G. D., Doctors’ Commons (1977), p. 178.Google Scholar

5 Bossy, J., The English Catholic Community, 1570-1850 (1975)Google Scholar

6 Ibid., p. 187.

7 Aveling, op. cit., p. 97.

8 See, for example, Atkinson, J. C., ed.: Quarter Sessions Records, The North Riding Record Society, vols 1-7 (1884–89).Google Scholar

9 Wood, H. M., ed.: Durham Protestations, Surtees Society, 135 (1922).Google Scholar

10 Bossy, op. cit., pp. 404-05.

11 Forster, A. M. C., ed.: Durham Entries on the Recusants Roll, 1636-37, Surtees Society, 175: Miscellanea, vol. III (1960).Google Scholar

12 Wood, op. cit., p. 144.

13 Ibid., p. 136.

14 Ibid., p. 170. So too, his brother (?) Robert Porret.

15 Ibid., p. 7.

16 The Salvins of Croxdale took the Oath, and their Catholicism was notorious.