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A Squire's Tale- The Story of Little Crosby
The story of a village in Lancashire UK and one family's struggle to survive the problems of being Recusant in Protestant 17th Century England. Audio excerpts need Real Audio 5.
http://members.aol.com/ejcrig/
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Act Against Jesuits and Seminarists (1585)
Mandating the death penalty for English born Jesuits.
http://history.hanover.edu/texts/ENGref/er85.html
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Anglo-Saxon Church
Article outlining the conversion of Anglo-Saxon England. From the New Catholic Dictionary.
http://www.catholic-forum.com/saints/ncd00563.htm
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Anglo-Saxon Church, The
History of the occupation, conversion, and development. From the Catholic Encyclopedia, 1913.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/01505a.htm
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Catholic Parish Histories
A short article on the development of the English Catholic parish with a link to a directory of links to histories maintained by various parishes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_Catholic_Parish_Histories
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Concession Of England To The Pope
John I was involved in a destructive battle with the church, and he was forced into this surrender in 1213 - two years before the Magna Carta. From the Medieval Sourcebook.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/john1a.html
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Condemnation of Wycliffe, 1382
The Condemnation of the prominent and protected English heretic Wycliffe in 1382 with Wycliffe's Reply, 1384. Wycliffe is seen by many as a prototype of later Protestant reformers such as Luther and Calvin. From the Medieval Sourcebook.
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/source/1382wycliffe.html#condemn#reply
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Douay-Rheims: a Story of Faith
An article about the Douay-Rheims version of the Bible and its different revisions.
http://www.catholicculture.org/docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=1061
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England (After 1558)
An article from the Catholic Encyclopedia on the relation of the post Reformation Catholic church to the English state.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05445a.htm
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English Reformation Sources
A list of pivotal documents regarding the Tudors' religious policies.
http://members.shaw.ca/reformation/
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Erdington Abbey 1850-1876-2001
Article on the history of this Birmingham monastic establishment. PDF format.
http://www.catholic-history.org.uk/ebc/2001hodgetts.pdf
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Fox's Book of Martyrs
This book claimed to chronicle the suppression of English Protestants under the Catholic queen "Bloody Mary". It profoundly influenced the anti-Catholicism that became a defining mark British national identity.
http://bible.christiansunite.com/foxindex.shtml
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Lingard, John
English priest and prominent historian. From the Catholic Encyclopedia.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09270c.htm
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Mission Registers
A list of Mission Registers for England and Wales listing baptisms, confirmations, marriages, deaths etc. dating back as early as 1694 held in the Catholic Central Library in Westminster, London.
http://www.catholic-library.org.uk/registers.html
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N.D. versus O.E: Anonymity's moral ambiguity in Elizabethan Catholic contro
From "Criticism". A study of how the use of anonymity shaped Elizabethan Catholic apologetics.
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m2220/n3_v40/21182129/p1/article.jhtml
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Recusant Historian's Handbook
Full text of a book to help those studying the Catholic church during the "penal years".
http://www.catholic-history.org.uk/nwchs/recushandbook.htm
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Reorganization of the English Hierarchy
The restoration of the English Hierachy in 1850 was a milestone for English Catholics after the Penal Times. Article from the Catholic Encyclopedia.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/16037d.htm
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Suppression of Monasteries in England
A Catholic view of the suppression of the Monasteries by Henry VIII.
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10455a.htm
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The Act Against Recusants (1593)
The recusants were Englishmen who would not take the Anglican eucharist - at this time they were almost entirely Catholic. This Act was the cornerstone of the "Penal Laws" which were to ensure that English Catholics would be a smaller religious mino
http://history.hanover.edu/texts/engref/er87.html
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The Re-establishment of the Catholic Hierarchy in England, 1850
An essay on the effects of the re-establishment, which to Catholics marked a definitive end to the "Penal Years". From the Victorian Web.
http://www.victorianweb.org/religion/Hierarchy_Reestablished.html
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The Recusant Group
A Yahoo! discussion group devoted to the study of English Catholic experience during the Penal Times between the Reformation and the Catholic Relief Act.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/recusant/
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Tyndale's Heresy
An examination of William Tyndale's translation of the Bible and why he was condemned for heresy.
http://www.catholicculture.org/docs/doc_view.cfm?recnum=4749
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