Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Note on the text
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The local setting
- 3 The emergence of a Catholic dynasty: the Brownes of Cowdray
- 4 The Brownes, Catholicism and politics until the Ridolfi plot
- 5 The Brownes, Catholicism and politics from the 1570s until the early 1590s
- 6 The entourage of the first Viscount Montague
- 7 A period of transition
- 8 The 1590s to the Gunpowder plot
- 9 Catholic politics and clerical culture after the accession of James Stuart
- 10 The household and circle of the second Viscount Montague
- 11 ‘Grand captain’ or ‘little lord’: the second Viscount Montague as Catholic leader
- 12 The later Jacobean and early Caroline period
- 13 The second Viscount Montague, his entourage and the approbation controversy
- 14 Catholicism, clientage networks and the debates of the 1630s
- 15 Epilogue: the civil war and after
- Appendix 1 The Brownes in town and country
- Appendix 2 The families of Browne, Dormer, Gage and Arundell
- Index
- Titles in the series
10 - The household and circle of the second Viscount Montague
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 06 July 2010
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of illustrations
- Preface
- Note on the text
- List of abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- 2 The local setting
- 3 The emergence of a Catholic dynasty: the Brownes of Cowdray
- 4 The Brownes, Catholicism and politics until the Ridolfi plot
- 5 The Brownes, Catholicism and politics from the 1570s until the early 1590s
- 6 The entourage of the first Viscount Montague
- 7 A period of transition
- 8 The 1590s to the Gunpowder plot
- 9 Catholic politics and clerical culture after the accession of James Stuart
- 10 The household and circle of the second Viscount Montague
- 11 ‘Grand captain’ or ‘little lord’: the second Viscount Montague as Catholic leader
- 12 The later Jacobean and early Caroline period
- 13 The second Viscount Montague, his entourage and the approbation controversy
- 14 Catholicism, clientage networks and the debates of the 1630s
- 15 Epilogue: the civil war and after
- Appendix 1 The Brownes in town and country
- Appendix 2 The families of Browne, Dormer, Gage and Arundell
- Index
- Titles in the series
Summary
There had evidently been a radical change of clerical culture in the household of the head of the Browne family by the beginning of the seventeenth century. We have already seen that several of Anthony Maria Browne, second Viscount Montague's servants were convinced Catholics, notably Richard Lambe, William Coningsby and Robert Barnes. Montague's experiences as a young man in the 1590s probably served to push him towards more overt expressions of Catholicism than he had made (or been allowed to make) in his childhood and adolescence. There was clearly something of a Catholicising process going on around him now in a way that was not the case when the first viscount was alive. We have noted how, in the 1590s, Henry Lanman, Montague's servant, was persuaded towards Catholicism by the arguments of his fellow servant William Coningsby. (Lanman was actually reconciled to the Church of Rome by the priest Richard Davies who, we know, was a friend of the first viscount's brother, Francis Browne.) There was even more of this explicit household Catholicism in evidence after 1605. Some of the family's servants enrolled at the seminaries on the Continent. Richard Lambe's son Anthony, who had been one of the second viscount's pages, entered the English College in Rome. Anthony Fletcher, one of Montague's stewards, when he lost his wife, travelled to Rome and enlisted at the English College in 1609. He was ordained shortly afterwards (on 18 December 1610). He used the alias of Blackwell.
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- Catholicism and Community in Early Modern EnglandPolitics, Aristocratic Patronage and Religion, c.1550–1640, pp. 315 - 340Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2006