A Catholic Petition to the Earl of Essex

Loomie, Albert J.

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“…87 Essex had also been the recipient of at least one formal Catholic toleration petition. 88 Though not sympathetic toward Catholicism as such, he certainly seems to have been looked to by loyalist Catholics, such as Henry Constable and Thomas Wright, who rejected the notions of Robert Persons's notorious Conference about the Next Succession to the Crowne of Ingland, a tract (dedicated, ironically and mischievously, to Essex himself) to which James himself took extreme exception. 89 We can safely assume that these issues were prominent in the minds of those York Catholics who were conducting their brinkmanship exercise with Lord Burghley over the sermons.…”

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Sermons, Separatists, and Succession Politics in Late Elizabethan England

Questier¹

2013

J. Br. Stud.

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In late 1599 the population of York was able to witness a fairly extraordinary sight. In York Castle, the Catholic prisoners of conscience, as they saw themselves (though others regarded them as dangerous political dissidents), were being compelled to listen, once a week, to a Protestant sermon. These sermons were preached at them by a slate of godly ministers. This exercise was something the prisoners actively contested by murmuring, blocking their ears, shouting, and attempting to rush out of the hall. The prisoners' antics provoked the authorities into increasingly coercive measures to make them hear the Word of God. This outwardly rather ridiculous and unseemly charade went on, week after week, for nearly a year, at which point the whole business was abandoned by the lord president, Lord Burghley, as a waste of time. However, by decoding the extant manuscript narrative that we have of the sermon series and by looking at who was involved in this business and why, and what political messages were being sent during the course of it, we can say something about the popular politics of late Elizabethan England. In particular, we can comment on the strategies adopted by those who were anticipating the moment, surely not far off, when Tudor power would be extinguished and Elizabeth's crown would pass to her successor.

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Sermons, Separatists, and Succession Politics in Late Elizabethan England

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J. Br. Stud.

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“…Howard tried again in the 1590s, but was stymied by the feud between the earl of Essex and the Cecils. 29 His recompense was to be taken as Robert Cecil's partner in arranging the smooth succession of King James, one of whose chief ministers he then, as earl of Northampton, became. 30 I offer him as a contribution to Walsham's revision without I hope undervaluing the recusancy which has been the topic of this journal until now.…”

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Recusant history and after

Bossy

2015

Br. Cathol. Hist.

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It is now fifty-six years since I wrote my first piece for Recusant History, and I am happy to have survived to welcome its reincarnation. Since its foundation in 1951 as an addendum to Gillow’s Biographical Dictionary of English Catholics it has had an honourable career, getting into print a number of essential contributions to the history of Catholics in England, mainly between the sixteenth and eighteenth centuries. It has been a companion to the distinguished bibliographical work of Anthony Allison, David Rogers and Tom Birrell. It was a creation of laymen, which is to say that it was an attempt to transcend the efforts of a period when this history had been largely a monopoly of the clergy, and ran the risk of degenerating into feuds between rival sections of that body. This lay input was much strengthened by the effect of the 1944 Education Act, which produced numbers of students keen to make a mark in the field. In view of their education, they did not necessarily alter the terms in which questions were put, and when the modest journal was launched a degree of hegemony in the Catholic Record Society was being exercised by the Jesuit side, which ought to have but failed to put out the letters and papers of Robert Persons. It had an invitation to wider thoughts in the philo-Jesuit lectures on the Counter-Reformation of the Cambridge academic Outram Evennett, delivered also in 1951.1 As these were not published until 1968 the invitation was muffled, but something of it was in the atmosphere.

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Filling in the Blanks: Catholic Hopes for the English Succession

Houliston

2015

Sederi

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English Catholics, both at home and abroad, were faced with difficult choices as the question of the succession became increasingly acute in the last decade of Elizabeth’s reign. In an attempt to analyse the complexity of Catholic expectations and manoeuvres, this article examines the actions and writings of three prominent figures: the courtier-poet and recent convert Henry Constable, the Jesuit leader Robert Persons, and the layman Sir Thomas Tresham. Their relations with King James VI of Scotland illustrate the precariousness of his position, and their interactions during this period of shifting allegiances call into question some received assumptions about the divisions within the English Catholic community. Close attention to their writing also reveals the significance of an appeal to a chivalric code of honour in these politico-religious negotiations.

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A Catholic Petition to the Earl of Essex

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Sermons, Separatists, and Succession Politics in Late Elizabethan England

Sermons, Separatists, and Succession Politics in Late Elizabethan England

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Filling in the Blanks: Catholic Hopes for the English Succession

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