Protestant Empire

Pestana, Carla Gardina

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“…The needs of the plantations had harnessed Catholics alongside Indians, Huguenots, Dutchmen, and Jews into royal service, but these fluid, mobile populations stood at the outer edges of English authority, in the shadow of French or Spanish garrisons, where opportunities for treasonable conduct abounded. 135 Fears of runaways and renegades-an anxiety in English trading bases in the Mediterranean-were projected onto the Caribbean as commerce moved into the hands of the resident Irish. 136 Suspicion over Thomas Dongan's "popish commanders" became an increasing preoccupation of sermons and pamphlets in Boston.…”

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Catholic Interests and the Politics of English Overseas Expansion 1660–1689

Glickman¹

2016

J. Br. Stud.

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Throughout the reign of Charles II, a growing number of Catholics entered into the civil and military infrastructure of the overseas colonies. While Maryland was consolidated as a center of settlement, a new crop of English and Irish officeholders shaped the political development of Tangier, New York and the Leeward Islands. Their careers highlighted the opportunities of overseas expansion as a route into the public domain: a chance for Catholics to sidestep the penal restrictions of the three kingdoms and construct an alternative relationship with the crown. This article examines the emergence of Catholic authority within the plantations, and situates the experiment within larger shifts in strategic and ideological debate over English colonization. I suggest that experiences in the colonies invigorated economic and political strategies that became central to the advancement of Catholic interests in the domestic realm. While colonial trade bolstered Catholic estates against penal pressures, the new settlements provided the training ground for attempts to demonstrate the compatibility of confessional pluralism with commercial flourishing and civil allegiance. The effect, however, was to raise conflict in colonial politics and heighten anxieties in the domestic realm over the effects of overseas plantation. I argue that by uncovering a neglected sphere of “recusant history” we gain new insights into the ideological fragilities that disrupted the pursuit of territories overseas. Catholic promotions exposed a growing tension between the “Protestant interest” and the principles and practices that informed the expansion of the Stuart realm.

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Catholic Interests and the Politics of English Overseas Expansion 1660–1689

Glickman¹

2016

J. Br. Stud.

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“…Spanish priests made few inroads and the only other real support came from occasional French ministries.Visits to Catholics on English islands were only ever peripheral trips and in certain contexts complicated the situation, particularly for Catholics on St Christopher. The general rule is that Catholics population persevered for long periods without the ministry of a priest 91. The only internal factor that significantly affected thetreatment of Catholics was the sudden rise and fall of James II.…”

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Catholics in a Puritan Atlantic: The Liminality of Empire’s Edge

Spurlock¹

2015

Puritans and Catholics in the Trans-Atlantic World 1600–1800

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England's triumph over its Catholic rivals for dominance in the Atlantic has its merits, but it has also served to overshadow the important fact that a very significant number of Catholics played a critical role in the expansion of the British Atlantic in the seventeenth century. Yet the role and, more importantly, the experience of these Catholics has, until very recently, remained an understudied component of the colonial and transAtlantic story. Although Aubrey Gwynn and others focussed on the role of the Irish, as a largely Catholic, component in the early modern English Atlantic, other historians have failed to highlight the importance of their religious persuasion. 3 Alternatively, studies focusing on Catholics centred on Maryland and the strongly Catholic nature of that colony's development, almost without reference to any Catholic presence beyond the Chesapeake. 4 It is only in the last few years that 3 Aubrey Gwynn, 'Early Irish Emigration to the West Indies (1612-1643)', Studies:

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The Loyalist Church of England Clergy and the Politics of Martyrdom in the American Revolution

Walker

2021

A Companion to American Religious History

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Protestant Empire

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Catholic Interests and the Politics of English Overseas Expansion 1660–1689

Catholic Interests and the Politics of English Overseas Expansion 1660–1689

Catholics in a Puritan Atlantic: The Liminality of Empire’s Edge

The Loyalist Church of England Clergy and the Politics of Martyrdom in the American Revolution

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