Author: Robert E. Scantlebury (editor)
Title: Catholic Record Society: Hampshire Registers IV, the Registers of Gosport and Portsea, Volume 49
Description: London, Catholic Record Society, 1955. First Edition. Hardcover. Blue cloth. Plates. vi, 271p + 330p + short report from society. Some pages unopened and uncut. Reader will have to slice open in order to access content. Corners bumped. Light signs of shelf wear. 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 is split into two paginated series. The first, contains the registers of Gosport, the second, Portsea. These records give us historical insight into Catholic life in these towns in the late 18th century. .

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


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