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‘Englishmen in vaine’: Roman Catholic allegiance to George I

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2016

Eamon Duffy
Eamon Duffy*
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Magdalene College Cambridge
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Of the many problems confronting post-reformation English catholics, that of national identity was among the most acute. For the nation at large, to be English was to be protestant, and to be papist was to be an alien.’ That catholics owed primary allegiance to the pope, to Spain, to France, was an axiom throughout the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, and the exile of the catholic Stuarts at the revolution of 1688 merely varied the form in which the national tradition expressed itself. In his last public utterance William III equated ‘a Popish Prince, and a French Government’, judicial proclamations spoke of ‘papists and disaffected persons’, and George I’s first parliament declared that catholics

take themselves to be obliged by the Principles they profess to be enemies to His Majesty and to the present happy Establishment, and watch for all opportunities of fomenting and stirring up new Rebellions and Disturbances within the Kingdom and of inviting Foreigners to invade it.

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Research Article
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Studies in Church History , Volume 18: Religion and National Identity , 1982 , pp. 345 - 365
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Copyright © Ecclesiastical History Society 1982

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1 On this, see my ‘Poor protestant flies’, SCH 15, especially pp 289-90 and references there cited.

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34 Ep Var 6, 50, R. Witham 15 July 1717.

35 Ep Var 6, 48, bishop Giffard 28 May 1717.

36 Ep Var 5, 47, Stonor 13 May 1717.

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38 Ep Var 6, 83, R. Witham 24 April 1718; 6, 109, Witham 22 February 1719. Strickland had arrived in Paris from Spa, where he had appeared ‘in poor condition’ having been mugged and robbed en route from Italy.

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50 Ep Var 7, 6, Stonor 14 February 1720; 7, 9 and 10, Witham 22 February, 7 March 1720.

51 Ep Var 7, 3, Witham 25 January 1720; 7, 12, Stonor 23 March 1720; 7, 39, R. Witham 7 January 1721; 7, 40, Giffard 28 January 1721; 7, 62 Stonor 9 June 1721.

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59 UCM ii no 3, Edward Blount to William Pulteney 23 July 1723.