Author: Robert E. Scantlebury (editor)
Title: Catholic Record Society: Hampshire Registers I, the Registers and Records of Winchester, Volume 42
Description: London, Catholic Record Society, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Ex library blue cloth. Gilt stamping. Plates. xii, 237p + more than 50pp of reports from the society. Corners bumped. Light signs of shelf wear. Library sticker on free front endpaper. Foxing on page edges. Otherwise a clean and tight book in very good condition. The Catholic Record Society (Registered Charity No. 313529), "the premier Catholic historical society in the United Kingdom", founded in 1904, is a scholarly society devoted to the study of Reformation and post-Reformation Catholicism in England and Wales. Particularly active members in its early years were Joseph Gillow, J. H. Pollen, and Joseph S. Hansom. The society was initially established as a text publication society, with the aim of publishing Catholic historical records. Only later did it become a more general historical society. It has been credited with making much otherwise obscure archival material more readily available. This volume contains registers and records that give us some historical insight into Catholicism in Winchester, in the county of Hampshire in the south of England. Many different types of data are available here, including burial records, details of family relations, copies of letters, lists of "papists," memoranda, obituaries, etc. .

Keywords: Anglo-Catholic, British, English, anti-Catholicism


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