Catholic Gentry in English Society: The Throckmortons of Coughton from Reformation to Emancipation

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Peter Marshall, Geoffrey Scott (OSB.)
Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2009 - History - 282 pages
Advancing scholarly understanding of English Catholicism in the early modern period, this volume offers a series of interlocking essays that address the history of a single family: the Throckmortons of Coughton Court, Warwickshire, whose experience over several centuries encapsulates key themes in the history of the Catholic gentry.
 

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George Throckmorton and Henry Tudor
31
Throckmorton Men
69
Coughton and the Gunpowder Plot
93
A Jacobean Recusant Widow
123
Sir Robert and Sir Francis
143
The Throckmortons at Home and Abroad 16801800
171
Sir John Courtenay
213
Political and Social
247
Index
273
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