The Gages of Hengrave and Suffolk Catholicism, 1640-1767

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-0-902832-29-9
Verlag: CATHOLIC RECORD SOC

Buch, Englisch, Band 8, 277 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 137 mm x 218 mm, Gewicht: 612 g

Reihe: Catholic Record Society: Monograph Series

Account of an important Catholic family in early modern East Anglia, demonstrating their influence upon their wider community.

For almost 250 years the Gages of Hengrave Hall, near Bury St Edmunds, were the leading Roman Catholic family in Suffolk, and the sponsors and protectors of most Catholic missionary endeavours in the western half of the county. This book traces their rise from an offshoot of a Sussex recusant family, to the extinction of the senior line in 1767, when the Gages became the Rookwood Gages. Drawing for the first time on the extensive records of the Gage familyin Cambridge University Library, the book considers the Gages as part of the wider Catholic community of Bury St Edmunds and west Suffolk, and includes transcriptions of selected family letters as well as the surviving eighteenth-century Benedictine and Jesuit mission registers for Bury St Edmunds. Although the Gages were the wealthiest and most influential Catholics in the region, the gradual separation and independent growth of the urban Catholic community in Bury St Edmunds challenges the idea that eighteenth-century Catholicism in the south of England was moribund and "seigneurial". The author argues that in the end, the Gages' achievement was to create a Catholic community that could eventually survive without their patronage.

Francis Young gained his doctorate from the University of Cambridge.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Young, Francis

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder England, UK, Irland: Regional & Stadtgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Christliche Kirchen, Konfessionen, Denominationen Katholizismus, Römisch-Katholische Kirche
• Geisteswissenschaften Christentum, Christliche Theologie Kirchengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Soe great a resort of Papists: The Household at Hengrave, 1640-60
Bon temps viendra: The Gages from Restoration to Revolution, 1660-88
Revolution and Recovery, 1688-1727
Hengrave and the Benedictine Mission, 1727-41
Gentry Chaplaincy to Proto-Parish, 1741-67
Appendix 1: Selected Gage Family Letters and Papers, 1640-1744
Appendix 2: Hengrave Hall in the 1661 Inventory
Appendix 3: Extracts from Richardson Pack's Bury Toasts, 1725
Appendix 4: The Benedictine Mission Register (Hengrave Register), 1734-51
Appendix 5: Catholic Non-Jurors in Bury St. Edmunds in 1745
Appendix 6: The Jesuit Mission Register (Bury Register), 1756-67
Appendix 7: Catholic Families in Bury St. Edmunds and District, 1715-67
Bibliography
Index of People and Places
Index of Subjects

Über Autor(innen)

Young, Francis
Francis Young teaches for the University of Oxford's Department for Continuing Education and is the author or editor of 20 books, including Rookwood Family Papers, 1606-1761 (SRS 59). He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Francis Young gained his doctorate from the University of Cambridge.