Chorley Virtual Branch - Catholic Research

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English Catholic Records in the 19th and 20th Centuries.
Jim Lancaster

The eighteenth century was a period of change. The government's fears of an armed rebellion, possibly supported by the Catholic community, materialised in the 1715 Jacobite Rebellion. This was supported by some of the younger sons of Catholic gentry. Then there was the second Jacobite Rebellion in 1745, though this did not get the same Catholic support.
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