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Modern Rome in Modern England, Some Account of the Roman Catholic Revival in England During the 19th Century
Modern Rome in Modern England Some Account of the Roman Catholic Revival in England During the 19th Century Author:Philip Sidney General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1906 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: Chapter II THE DECLINE OF GALLICANISM TVTOTWITHSTANDING the very insig- , L| nificant position held by the Roman Catholic community during the hundred years immediately prior to the Act of Emancipation, and in spite of the low ebb to which its numbers had sunk, Rome in England could boast of a far larger number of clever men than would be imagined from listening to the deceptive rhetoric of Newman's ' Second Spring.' The truth is that the majority of these capable men were Gallicans, that is to say, they were Roman Catholics who, following the example of certain famous French ecclesiastics, were determined to defend the prerogatives of their religion, and the laws and liberties of their native country, against undue and arbitrary encroachments, political as well as spiritual, on the part of the Holy See. The list of these English Gallicans, who lived mainly during the last half of the eighteenth, andduring the first half of the nineteenth century, includes such names as those of the Rev. Joseph Berington (1747-1827), an industrious historian and antiquary; Charles Butler (1750-1832), a sagacious lawyer,1 brilliant controversialist, and erudite historian, nephew to the Rev. Allan Butler (1710- 1773), the pious hagiographer ; Dr. James Archer (1751-1834); Richard Challoner, Bishop of Debra (1691-1781), the compiler of the Garden of the Soul; Canon Mark Tierney, F. R. S., F. S. A. (1795-1862), editor of Charles Dodd's2 Church History; Bishop Talbot; Sir John Throckmorton (i753-i8l9); Dr. Lingard (1771-1851), the great historian ; and Bishop Poynter (1762-1827). Amongst other famous names, outside the...« less