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The Vicars Apostolics' Returns of 1773

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 September 2015

J. H. Whyte
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In 1773 the four English Vicars Apostolic made detailed reports on the state of their districts to the Congregation de Propaganda Fide in Rome. A summary of tl1ese reports was published by Maziere Brady in 1877. This summary contains statistics for the number of priests and the number of Catholics in every county in England, and is valuable as providing the earliest detailed statistical picture of the English Catholic community to come from a Catholic source. It is not surprising, therefore, that it has frequently been quarried by historians.

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Research Article
Information
British Catholic History , Volume 9 , Issue 4 , January 1968 , pp. 205 - 214
Copyright
Copyright © Catholic Record Society 1968

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References

1. Maziere Brady, W., The Episcopal Succession in England, Scotland and Ireland, A.D. 1400 to 1875, vol. iii (Rome, 1877), pp. 169, 212, 263, 301.Google Scholar

2. Scritture riferite Anglia, vol. 5, ff. 51–4.Google Scholar

3. Nicola Kowalsky, O.M.I., Inventario dell Archivo storico della S. Congregazione “de Propaganda Fide” (Schöneck/Beckenried. Switzerland, 1961). p. 30.Google Scholar

4. Lettere della Sacra Congregazione, vol. 222, f. 409.Google Scholar

5. Berkshire is omitted in the original.

6. This figure does not agree with the figures given for the individual counties, which add up to 9240.

7. These figures do not agree with the figures given under the individual counties, which come to the following: seculars 45, Jesuits 22, Benedictines 9, Franciscans 7, Carmelites 1, Dominicans 1, a total of 85.