ABSTRACT

First published in 1968, this book provides an introduction to the subject of anti-Catholicism in Victorian England and a selection of illustrative documents. It demonstrates that Victorian ‘No Popery’ agitations were in fact almost the last expressions of a long English tradition of anti-Catholic intolerance and, in reality, the legal and socia

part |111 pages

Introduction

chapter 1|10 pages

The Anti-Catholic Tradition

chapter 2|29 pages

Maynooth

chapter 3|28 pages

‘Papal Aggression’

chapter 4|25 pages

Gladstone and Vaticanism

chapter 5|17 pages

Ritualism

part |113 pages

Documents

chapter 3|9 pages

The Catholic Emancipation Act, 1829

chapter 4|4 pages

The Orange Oath and Rules, 1834

chapter 5|4 pages

The Anti-Maynooth Address, 1845

chapter 6|6 pages

A Letter on the Maynooth Question, 1845

chapter 7|5 pages

Anti-Maynooth Propaganda, 1845

chapter 10|9 pages

A Sermon on ‘Papal Aggression’, 1850

chapter 12|3 pages

‘The Blight of Popery’

chapter 14|5 pages

A Lecture on Ritualism

chapter 16|10 pages

Report of the Convent Inquiry, 1871

chapter 18|7 pages

J. H. Newman’s Reply to Gladstone, 1874

chapter 19|4 pages

Benjamin Disraeli on Ritualism, 1874