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Catholicism in Jacobean Durham (1)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2016

J.A. Hilton
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The reign of James I saw the recovery of Catholicism in Durham with the re-organisation of the clerical mission, influenced by the religious orders of the Counter-Reformation, and an increase in recusancy. Despite the initial disappointment of Catholic hopes of some measure of toleration from James, the application of the penal laws was eventually relaxed. The resulting safety allowed the establishment of a formal missionary organisation under the impulse of the revived religious orders, and permitted recusants to increase in numbers. Durham recusancy remained, however, limited to a minority of the gentry and their dependants consisting largely of a circle of families linked to the house of Neville.

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British Catholic History , Volume 14 , Issue 2 , October 1977 , pp. 78 - 85
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Copyright © Catholic Record Society 1977

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Notes

(1) My thanks are due to Dr Ann Forster, Mr G.C.F. Forster and Rév. Vincent Smith for their help in the research involved in this paper.

(2) James, pp. 67–171.

(3) V.C.H. Durham 2, pp. 40–41; Joseph, B. Gavin, ‘Reverberations in Durham: The Case of Eleanor Jackson and the Gunpowder Plot’, Recusant History 11 (1972), pp. 299–305;Google Scholar Anstruther, pp. 315–6.

(4) James, pp. 152–3; Reinmuth Jr, H.S., ‘Lord William Howard (1563–1640) and his Catholic Associations’, Recusant History 12 (1974), pp. 226–34.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

(5) S.P. 14/8/54/ii.

(6) V.C.H. Durham 2, p. 41; Anstruther, pp. 324–6; S.P. 14/81/54/i-iv and /58/i; Foley 3, pp. 119–122.

(7) Aveling, p. 218.

(8) For the Catholic clergy and religious see: Anstruther; Foley; Knox, Douai Diaries; C.R.S. 5 (Martyrs); C.R.S. 10 (Third Douay Diary); C.R.S. 30 (Valladolid); C.R.S. 33 (Benedictines); C.R.S. 37, 54, 55 (Liber Ruber and Responsa of the English College, Rome).

(9) V.C.H. Durham 2, p. 41; Aveling, pp. 167–8; Anstruther, pp. 235, 325; Foley 7 (1), pp. 171–2, 270–1, 584; S.P. 14/81/58/i.

(10) Aveling, p. 235.

(11) Foley 3, pp. 8–15, 107, 116–7, Foley 7 (2), pp. 682, 1111–2, 1117–8, 1124–5; James, p. 126.

(12) V.C.H. Durham 2, pp. 40–1.

(13) Prior's Kitchen (The College, Durham), Presentments, 1609.

(14) James, p. 142.

(15) C.R.S. 53, pp. 45–55; P.R.O. Records of the Palatinate of Durham, 17/1/2.

(16) P.R.O. E.377/13.

(17) Durham County Record Office, Recusant Roll, 1607.

(18) P.R.O. E.377/16.

(19) As n. 13.

(20) James, p. 142.

(21) P.R.O. Durham 17/1/3.

(22) C. Sharpe ed., Recusants, 1614 (Sunderland, undated).

(23) P.R.O. E.377/32.

(24) James, p. 142.

(25) S;P. 14/81/54/ii.

(26) Ibid. /54/iii.

(27) James, pp. 143–6.

(28) S.P. 14/81/58/i.

(29) As n. 13.

(30) Aveling, pp. 203–4, 217, 283; James, pp. 139–40; Ann M.C. Forster, ‘The Maire Family of County Durham’, Recusant History 10 (1970), pp. 332–46.

(31) As n. 13

(32) Gavin (n. 3), p. 300; P.R.O. E.135/12/8; 377/17/3, 8, 10.

(33) Act Book, f. 31 and passim.

(34) Act Book, ff. 3, 10, 15, 18, 22, 23, 29, 31, 47, 50, 53, 58, 63–4, 70, 89.

(35) C.R.S. 57, p. cxi.

(36) Surtees, History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham (1816–40) 3, pp. 160–288,Google Scholar 418;P.R.O. E.377/13/l;/14/2;/16/2;/17/3, 5, 6, 8, 10, 15, 17, 21; /18/4, 5, 8; /22/14; /23/30; /25/3; /27/3; /32/21, 34, 38, 46; Newcastle Reference Library, Greenwell Deeds; Durham University Library, Mickleton and Spearman MSS 2, ff. 412–4;C.R.S. 53, pp. 337–57.