Introduction : the Catholic gentry in English society / Peter Marshall and Geoffrey Scott -- Crisis of allegiance : George Throckmorton and Henry Tudor / Peter Marshall -- Reputation, credit and patronage : Throckmorton men and women, c.1560-1620 / Susan Cogan -- Coughton and the gunpowder plot / Michael Hodgetts -- Agnes Throckmorton : a Jacobean recusant widow / Jan Broadway -- Stratagems for survival : Sir Robert and Sir Francis Throckmorton, 1640-1660 / Malcom Wanklyn -- The Throckmortons at home and abroad, 1680-1800 / Geoffrey Scott -- An English Catholic traveller : Sir John Courtenay Throckmorton and the continent, 1792-1793 / Michael Mullett -- The Throckmortons come of age : political and social alignments, 1826-1862 / Alban Hood.
Summary:
Advancing scholarly understanding of English Catholicism in the early modern period, this volume offers a series of interlocking essays that address the history of a single family: the Throckmortons of Coughton Court, Warwickshire, whose experience over several centuries encapsulates key themes in the history of the Catholic gentry.
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