The Gages of Hengrave and Suffolk Catholicism, 1640-1767 by Francis Young

The Gages of Hengrave and Suffolk Catholicism, 1640-1767 by Francis Young

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.

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 *

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.

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ISBN 13	9780902832299
ISBN 10	0902832298
Title	The Gages of Hengrave and Suffolk Catholicism, 1640-1767
Author	Francis Young
Series	Catholic Record Society: Monograph Series
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Catholic Record Society
Year published	2015-06-18
Number of pages	277
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