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. 76-82

Gordon Huelin, 'Some Early Eighteenth Century Roman Catholic Recusants', Journal of Ecclesiastical History, Vol. 7, 1956, pp. 61-8

Philip F. Coverdale, 'The Number of Essex Papists in 1706', Essex Recusant, Vol. 2, 1960, pp. 16-29

Edward 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. 47-53

Kevin M. MacGrath, 'Devon and Cornwall Catholics in 1705', Buckfast Chronicle, Vol. 32, 1962, pp. 1-36

John Anthony Williams, 'Wiltshire Catholicism in the Early Eighteenth Century: The Diocesan Returns of 1706', Recusant History, Vol. 7, 1963-64, pp. 11-22

Edward Stanislaus Worrall, 'The Recusant Minority in Hertfordshire, 1705-1706', Essex Recusant, Vol. 11, 1969, pp. 32-8

Michael Washington Greenslade, 'Staffordshire Papists in 1705 and 1706', Staffordshire Catholic History, No. 13, 1973, pp. 1-55

Norman 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. 21-5

Margaret Clare Hine, '1706 Recusant Returns for the City of London', London Recusant, Vol. 5, 1975, pp. 88-90

The Derbyshire Papist Returns of 1705-6, ed. Richard Clark, Derbyshire Record Society Occasional Paper No. 5, Chesterfield: the Society, 1983

The Return of the Papists for the Diocese of Chester, 1705, ed. Allan Joseph Mitchinson, Wigan: North West Catholic History Society, 1986

Robert Paul Matthews, 'The Monmouthshire Papist Returns of 1706', University College, Cardiff M.A. thesis, 1987

J. 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. 1-6

John 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

Posted by: Clive D. Field

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