Overview
Account of an important Catholic family in early modern East Anglia, demonstrating their influence upon their wider community. For almost 250 years the Gages of Hengrave Hall, near Bury St Edmunds, were the leading Roman Catholic family in Suffolk, and the sponsors and protectors of most Catholic missionary endeavours in the western half of the county. This book traces their rise from an offshoot of a Sussex recusant family, to the extinction of the senior line in 1767, when the Gages became the Rookwood Gages. Drawing for the first time on the extensive records of the Gage familyin Cambridge University Library, the book considers the Gages as part of the wider Catholic community of Bury St Edmunds and west Suffolk, and includes transcriptions of selected family letters as well as the surviving eighteenth-century Benedictine and Jesuit mission registers for Bury St Edmunds. Although the Gages were the wealthiest and most influential Catholics in the region, the gradual separation and independent growth of the urban Catholic community in Bury St Edmunds challenges the idea that eighteenth-century Catholicism in the south of England was moribund and ""seigneurial"". The author argues that in the end, the Gages' achievement was to create a Catholic community that could eventually survive without their patronage. Francis Young gained his doctorate from the University of Cambridge.
Full Product Details
Author: Francis Young
Publisher: Catholic Record Society
Imprint: Catholic Record Society
Volume: v. 8
Dimensions:
Width: 13.80cm
, Height: 2.30cm
, Length: 21.60cm
Weight: 0.598kg
ISBN: 9780902832299
ISBN 10: 0902832298
Pages: 277
Publication Date: 18 June 2015
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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Professional & Vocational
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
A model study of a Catholic family living amongst the embers of persecution... a vivid account of the number of really tough choices that the family had to make, which changed from generation to generation and which were rooted in a clear end (to preserve the family's faith and its fortune). HISTORY
A valuable case study for students of religious history, local history and the early modern gentry. JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY A model study of a Catholic family living amongst the embers of persecution... a vivid account of the number of really tough choices that the family had to make, which changed from generation to generation and which were rooted in a clear end (to preserve the family's faith and its fortune). HISTORY
Author Information
Francis Young teaches for the University of Oxford's Department for Continuing Education and is the author or editor of 20 books, including Rookwood Family Papers, 1606-1761 (SRS 59). He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.
