Census of the numbers and (often) the names and occupations of Roman Catholics (2531)
Type of Data: Census of the numbers and (often) the names and occupations of Roman Catholics (2531)
Faith Community: Christianity (Roman Catholic Church)
Date: 1705-1706 (two separate surveys)
Geography: England and Wales
Population: Known Roman Catholics
Keywords: Papists, recusants, Roman Catholics
Collection Method: Returns by Anglican incumbents and their churchwardens
Collection Agency: Bishops of the Church of England and their clergy
Sponsor: House of Lords and Privy Council
Published Source:
House of Lords Record Office, Main Papers, 1 March 1706 (Papist Returns, 1705-06)William Owen Hassall, 'Papists in Early Eighteenth-Century Oxfordshire', Oxoniensia, Vol. 13, 1948, pp. 76-82Gordon Huelin, 'Some Early Eighteenth Century Roman Catholic Recusants', Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 7, 1956, pp. 61-8Philip F. Coverdale, 'The Number of Essex Papists in 1706', Essex Recusant, Vol. 2, 1960, pp. 16-29Edward Stanislaus Worrall, 'The Catholic Recusant Minority in Middlesex in 1706', Middlesex Local History Council Bulletin, No. 10, 1961, pp. 2-8 and London Recusant, Vol. 3, 1973, pp. 47-53Kevin M. MacGrath, 'Devon and Cornwall Catholics in 1705', Buckfast Chronicle, Vol. 32, 1962, pp. 1-36John Anthony Williams, 'Wiltshire Catholicism in the Early Eighteenth Century: The Diocesan Returns of 1706', Recusant History, Vol. 7, 1963-64, pp. 11-22Edward Stanislaus Worrall, 'The Recusant Minority in Hertfordshire, 1705-1706', Essex Recusant, Vol. 11, 1969, pp. 32-8Michael Washington Greenslade, 'Staffordshire Papists in 1705 and 1706', Staffordshire Catholic History, No. 13, 1973, pp. 1-55Norman Mutton, 'Shropshire Recusants in 1706, 1767 and 1780', Worcestershire Recusant, No. 24, December 1974, pp. 18-31, No. 25, June 1975, pp. 28-42, No. 26, December 1975, pp. 21-5Margaret Clare Hine, '1706 Recusant Returns for the City of London', London Recusant, Vol. 5, 1975, pp. 88-90The Derbyshire Papist Returns of 1705-6, ed. Richard Clark, Derbyshire Record Society Occasional Paper No. 5, Chesterfield: the Society, 1983The Return of the Papists for the Diocese of Chester, 1705, ed. Allan Joseph Mitchinson, Wigan: North West Catholic History Society, 1986Robert Paul Matthews, 'The Monmouthshire Papist Returns of 1706', University College, Cardiff M.A. thesis, 1987J. A. Lancaster, 'Returns of Papists for the Parishes of Bolton and Deane in the Diocese of Chester, Oct. 1706', North West Catholic History, Vol. 18, 1991, pp. 1-6John Fendley, 'Counting Gloucestershire Catholics', Journal of the Gloucestershire and North Avon Catholic History Society, No. 26, 1995, pp. 18-27'Oxfordshire Returns of Papists, 1705/6', Catholic Ancestor, Vol. 8, 2000-01, pp. 138-43
BRIN ID: 2531
Remarks:
In addition to the main manuscript source at the House of Lords Record Office, parochial returns survive for some dioceses in county and diocesan record offices
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