Table of Contents

Introduction
Soe great a resort of Papists: The Household at Hengrave, 1640-60
Bon temps viendra: The Gages from Restoration to Revolution, 1660-88
Revolution and Recovery, 1688-1727
Hengrave and the Benedictine Mission, 1727-41
Gentry Chaplaincy to Proto-Parish, 1741-67
Appendix 1: Selected Gage Family Letters and Papers, 1640-1744
Appendix 2: Hengrave Hall in the 1661 Inventory
Appendix 3: Extracts from Richardson Pack's Bury Toasts, 1725
Appendix 4: The Benedictine Mission Register (Hengrave Register), 1734-51
Appendix 5: Catholic Non-Jurors in Bury St. Edmunds in 1745
Appendix 6: The Jesuit Mission Register (Bury Register), 1756-67
Appendix 7: Catholic Families in Bury St. Edmunds and District, 1715-67
Bibliography
Index of People and Places
Index of Subjects

About the Author

Francis Young teaches for the University of Oxford's Department for Continuing Education and is the author or editor of 20 books, including Rookwood Family Papers, 1606-1761 (SRS 59). He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.

Reviews

A valuable case study for students of religious history, local history and the early modern gentry.
*JOURNAL OF ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY*

A model study of a Catholic family living amongst the embers of persecution... a vivid account of the number of really tough choices that the family had to make, which changed from generation to generation and which were rooted in a clear end (to preserve the family's faith and its fortune).
*HISTORY*