The local setting -- The emergence of a Catholic dynasty : the Brownes of Cowdray -- The Brownes, Catholicism and politics until the Ridolfi plot -- The Brownes, Catholicism and politics from the 1570s until the early 1590s -- The entourage of the first Viscount Montague -- A period of transition -- The 1590s to the Gunpowder Plot -- Catholic politics and clerical culture after the accession of James Stuart -- The household and circle of the second Viscount Montague 'Grand captain' or 'little lord' : the second Viscount Montague as Catholic leader -- The latter Jacobean and early Caroline period -- The second Viscount Montague, his entourage and the approbation controversy -- Catholicism, clientage networks and the debates of the 1630s -- Epilogue : the Civil War and after.
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