The Dudleys, Sir Christopher Hatton and the Justices of Elizabethan Warwickshire

Enis, Cathryn

doi:10.1179/0047729x14z.00000000031

Midland History

2014

DOI: 10.1179/0047729x14z.00000000031

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The Dudleys, Sir Christopher Hatton and the Justices of Elizabethan Warwickshire

Cathryn Enis¹

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“…Hatton was more sympathetic to Catholics, and increasingly influential in Warwickshire politics. 60 Local suspicions of the Sheldon family's unreliability in the matter of religion persisted. Late in 1586 a Worcestershire clothier, Thomas Morley, probably a member of a local family living some five miles north of Worcester, voiced his fears of Sheldon's undue influence in the county to the queen's spymaster, Sir Francis Walsingham.…”

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Ralph Sheldon (1537–1613) of Beoley and Weston: cloaked in conformity?

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2019

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On two occasions, in 1580–1 and 1587, the Worcestershire gentleman Ralph Sheldon of Beoley and Weston (1537–1613) undertook to attend services in his parish church. This article seeks to make sense of these occasions of ‘conformity’, in the context of the situation and choices facing Catholics in Protestant England. It argues that Ralph consciously rejected the Jesuit message about non-attendance at the state church, a view he never abandoned. Never described by his contemporaries as ‘papistically affected’, let alone as an ‘obstinate recusant’, his later reputation as such is mistaken. By exploring the evidence relating to these occasions of official conformity, it is possible to see how he managed the challenge of being a Catholic living within the law. He could be regarded, and treated, as an obedient subject. He might thus be viewed as a church papist. However, since occasional conformity must itself also suggest recusancy, a more nuanced understanding of his position requires a reconsideration of some of the evidence.

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Ralph Sheldon (1537–1613) of Beoley and Weston: cloaked in conformity?

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Edward Arden and the Dudley earls of Warwick and Leicester, c. 1572–1583

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Between c. 1572 and his execution in 1583, Edward Arden, a Catholic gentleman from Warwickshire, was involved in a lineage dispute with Ambrose and Robert Dudley, earls of Warwick and Leicester and two of the most powerful men in early modern England, over their shared ancestral claim to a Saxon known as Turchil. This article explores the significance of this dispute from a number of perspectives, including the ancestry of Edward Arden, the history of the Warwick and Leicester earldoms and Philip Sidney’s Defense of Leicester, in order to explore lineage as central to the prevailing ideology of power. It uses the clash between Arden and the Dudleys to present an environment in which Catholics were still part of the political mainstream and in which different political discourses led to conflict as well as consensus during the 1570s and early 1580s. Moreover, the article suggests that the activities of the heralds and the pedigrees they produced had a political function during this period which merits changing our approach to an underused manuscript source.

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Account of an Elizabethan Family: The Willoughbys of Wollaton by Cassandra Willoughby (1670–1735)

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The Dudleys, Sir Christopher Hatton and the Justices of Elizabethan Warwickshire

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Ralph Sheldon (1537–1613) of Beoley and Weston: cloaked in conformity?

Ralph Sheldon (1537–1613) of Beoley and Weston: cloaked in conformity?

Edward Arden and the Dudley earls of Warwick and Leicester, c. 1572–1583

Account of an Elizabethan Family: The Willoughbys of Wollaton by Cassandra Willoughby (1670–1735)

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