PLOTS, PROPERTY AND THE ENGLISH CATHOLIC COMMUNITY IN THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY
The eighteenth century is often thought of as a period of burgeoning religious toleration and intellectual enlightenment. Yet, though the ‘Glorious Revolution’ of 1688 gave freedom of worship to most Protestants, it also heralded a strengthening of punitive anti-Catholic laws, justified on the basis of the Jacobite threat: that England’s Roman Catholics were presumed to […]