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Some Aspects of Yorkshire Catholic Recusant History, 1558–1791

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 March 2016

Hugh Aveling*
Affiliation:
Monk of Ampleforth Abbey; Senior History Master, Ampleforth College

Extract

This paper will be divided into two parts: in the first—and much the shorter—part, I want to discuss the place of Catholic recusant history in general, and that of Yorkshire in particular, in the whole field of English ecclesiastical history of the years 1558 to 1791. The second—and much the longer—part will be a statistical survey of Yorkshire Catholic recusancy.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Ecclesiastical History Society 1967

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References

Page 103 of note 1 Birrell, T., communications to the Catholic Recusant History Conference, Oxford, 1963-4Google Scholar; Bossy, J.A., Elizabethan Catholicism: The Link with France (Cambridge Univ. Ph. D. thesis, 1961)Google Scholar; G.H. Tavard, Holy Writ or Holy Church (1959), 230 ff. (to be contrasted with Richards, J. M., Thomas Stapleton (Newsletter for Students of Recusant History, 1965, Nijmegen))Google Scholar.

Page 104 of note 1 Tavard and Richards, op. cit.

Page 105 of note 1 H. Aveling, ‘The Education of Eighteenth-Century English Monks’, Downside Review, Spring 1961,135 ff. There are several copies of Stanhope’s commentaries, with missioners’ names in them, in the library of Ample-forth Abbey.

Page 108 of note 1 Borthwick Institute, York, Bishopthorpe Archives, H. 2/8 ff. (especially H. 2/9 (71), the 1767 returns). The surviving Subsidy Books and Poor Rate Books for 16th and 17th century York show that, out of a population of 10-12,000,2500-3000 households, only 350-400 householders contributed to Subsidies, and 500-600 to Poor Rates. (York City Records, passim).

Page 109 of note 1 R. Marchant, The Puritans and the Church Courts, 1560-1642, 1960, passim.

Page 109 of note 2 H. Aveling, The Catholic Recusants of the W. Riding of Yorks., 1558-1790, 1963; Northern Catholics: The Catholic Recusants of the N. Riding of Yorks., 1558-1791, 1966.

Page 111 of note 1 Aveling, West Riding, 273-5 (W. Riding sources).

Page 112 of note 1 Borthwick Institute, York, Bishopthorpe MS, 1764 returns.

Page 113 of note 1 Amplefofth Abbey, Allanson MS, Biographies of English Benedictines.

Page 113 of note 2 Catholic Record Society, LVII (Recusant Roll, 1593-4); Westminster Archives, Old Brotherhood MSS, i/26; Brady, The Episcopal Succession.

Page 114 of note 1 Aveling, opp. citt. and Post-Reformation Catholicism in E. York ., 1558-1790, 1960.

Page 115 of note 1 Ibid. Thus geographically remote areas often received special official attention—Richmondshire seems to have been in the jurisdiction of both the York and Chester High Commissions; Allertonshire was traversed by the North Road and inspected by both the archbishop of York and bishop of Durham; East Cleveland was, at various times, overlooked by very anti-Catholic landlords, Lord Sheffield and Sir Thomas Posthumous Hoby. Contrariwise, a number of important Catholic centres were planted on estates belonging to the archbishop—the South Shields ‘reception centre’ for priests, the house at Mount St John, Thirsk where Campion stayed safely, the Ripon area.

Page 116 of note 1 Aveling, Northern Catholics cit.

Page 117 of note 1 Ibid.; for a useful view of the outlook of a Catholic gentry family of Allertonshire, see The Meynell Papers, Cath. Rec. Society, LVI.

Page 117 of note 2

Page 119 of note 1 Aveling, opp. citt.