Childhood, Youth, and Religious Dissent in Post-Reformation England (Palgrave Studies in the History of Childhood)

## Note on the Text xvi was indispensable. I would also like to thank Simon Healy, for giving me several references and some transcripts, reading various drafts, and especially for supplying me with his data on recusancy fines from the Exchequer records, which gave me painless access to information which would otherwise have had to be painstakingly sought. I am grateful to Malcolm Underwood for occasional assistance with Latin palaeography; Sarah Taylor for help with reading some Spanish texts; Neil Jones and Michael Hawkins for advice on studying the Court of Wards; and Michael Questier for his supportive interest. I would like to thank John Morrill, particularly for reading and commenting on Chapter 5. I am also grateful to the archivists and librarians who have helped me, especially Timothy and Alison McCann at the West Sussex Record Office, Anna Edwards at the Jesuit Archives in London and the staff of Cambridge University Library. Gratitude is also due to my long-suffering siblings, and to the many relatives and friends who extended their hospitality during visits to archives: my sister Margaret (in many successive flats), and on more recent trips her husband, Michael Nicholson; my brother John (I will never forget your student house in York); my godmother and her husband, Yvonne and Richard Windsor; my sister Mother M. Catherine OSB and her community in Rome; Sarah Taylor; Fiorella and Edmund Nash; Henry Whisenant, then at Oscott College; Sr Tamsin and her community; Janet Hoskins. I would like to thank my sister Rosemary, who inspires me in many ways. Finally, I would like to thank my husband, Simon Healy, and my parents, Malcolm and Clare Underwood, for everything. x Abbreviations AEN 'An Ancient Editor's Notebook ', anon., c.1592 Cover -1 Half-Title -1 Series -1 Title -1 Copyright -1 Dedication -1 Contents -1 List of Illustrations -1 Acknowledgements -1 List of Abbreviations -1 Note on the Text -1 Introduction -1 Part I: Making Catholics -1 1 Call Yourself a Catholic? Methods of Forming Identity -1 2 Calling Their Souls Their Own: Converting and Claiming -1 3 Children, Catechesis and Religious Practice -1 Part II: The Protestant State and Catholic Children -1 4 The Court of Wards -1 5 Notable Stratagems: Control of Catholic Children Outside the Court of Wards -1 Part III: Youth and Catholicism -1 6 Speaking to the Young -1 7 Encountering and Participating -1 8 Authority and Agency -1 9 Writing Catholic Childhood -1 Coda: A Catholic Household in the 1660s -1 Conclusion -1 Appendix A: The Responsa Scholarum and the Liber Primi Examinis -1 Notes -1 Select Bibliography -1 Index -1 "This book explores the role of children and young people within early modern England's most controversial minority: Catholicism. It examines Catholic attempts to capture the next generation, Protestant reactions to these initiatives, and the religious, social, legal and political contexts in which young people formed, maintained and attempted to explain their religious identity. The young, it argues, were not inevitably pawns in a world governed by hierarchies of kinship, workplace, church and state. The motives and even the voices of those who challenged various manifestations of authority in the early modern world can often be recovered, and the choices they made tell us much about the complex and changing relationships between society, church and state in the post-Reformation world"-- Provided by publisher Front Matter....Pages i-xvi Introduction....Pages 1-7 Front Matter....Pages 9-10 Call Yourself a Catholic? Methods of Forming Identity....Pages 11-30 Calling Their Souls Their Own: Converting and Claiming....Pages 31-50 Children, Catechesis and Religious Practice....Pages 51-71 Front Matter....Pages 73-74 The Court of Wards....Pages 75-91 Notable Stratagems: Control of Catholic Children Outside the Court of Wards....Pages 92-112 Front Matter....Pages 113-114 Speaking to the Young....Pages 115-127 Encountering and Participating....Pages 128-141 Authority and Agency....Pages 142-161 Writing Catholic Childhood....Pages 162-183 Coda: A Catholic Household in the 1660s....Pages 184-192 Conclusion....Pages 193-198 Back Matter....Pages 199-275 This book explores the role of children and young people within early modern England's Catholic minority. It examines Catholic attempts to capture the next generation, Protestant reactions to these initiatives, and the social, legal and political contexts in which young people formed, maintained and attempted to explain their religious identity.