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• Alumni lists (13)
  • University of Cambridge (1)
  • University of Oxford (8)
  • Venerable English College, Rome (4)
• Anglo-Saxon Church (2)
• Anti-Catholicism (1)
• Cardinals of the Roman Catholic Church (8)
  • English cardinals (8)
    • Allen, William (1532–1594) (5)
    • Howard, Philip Thomas, OP (1629–1694) (2)
    • Pole, Reginald (1500–1558) (1)
• Catechisms (see under *Education–Religious instruction and education*) (0)
• Catholic Emancipation, 1829, and earlier discussion of the Catholic Question (5)
• Catholic non-jurors (1)
• Catholic Record Society (CRS) volumes (1904– (1)
• Catholic Who's Who (1)
• Cecil Papers (2)
• Christian feminism (1)
• Converts (1)
• Counter-Reformation (2)
• Education (60)
  • Catholic Institute of Great Britain, 1838 (1)
  • Convent education (2)
  • Religious instruction and education (10)
    • Catechisms (8)
  • Seminaries — arranged by date of foundation (46)
    • 1568 — English College, Douai, moved to England, 1794, dividing into two institutions, St Edmund's College, Ware, and Ushaw College, County Durham (9)
    • 1579 — Venerable English College, Rome (21)
      • Drama programmes (4)
      • Martyrs of the Venerable English College, Rome (1)
      • Theses defended by students of the Venerable English College (3)
    • 1589 — English College, Valladolid (2)
    • 1592 — English College, Seville, suppressed 1767 (1)
    • 1611 — English College, Madrid, suppressed 1767 (1)
    • 1628 — English College, Lisbon, closed 1971 (0)
    • 1667 — St Gregory's College, Paris, lost 1825 (1)
    • 1794 — St Edmund’s College, Ware (3)
    • 1794 — St Mary's College, Oscott, Birmingham (8)
    • 1794 — Ushaw College, County Durham (1)
• Episcopal registers (pre-Reformation) (1)
• Episcopal succession in England and Wales (5)
  • Vicars Apostolic (1)
    • Challoner, Richard (1691–1781) (0)
• French émigré clergy and laity (1789–1815) (1)
• Genealogy (9)
  • Blundell family of Crosby, Lancashire (8)
  • Plowden family of Plowden, Shropshire (1)
• General reference works (13)
• Gerard, John, SJ (1564–1637) (1)
• History of English and Welsh Catholicism in particular localities (64)
  • Aire (1)
  • Brussels (1)
  • Capheaton, Northumberland (1)
  • Cheshire (1)
  • Dorset (2)
  • Douai (7)
  • Dunkirk (1)
  • East Bergholt (1)
  • Ghent (2)
  • Gravelines (1)
  • Hampshire (7)
  • Isle of Wight (1)
  • Lancaster (1)
  • Lincoln (1)
  • Little Crosby, Lancashire (8)
  • Liverpool (3)
  • London (3)
    • Embassy chapels (2)
    • Lincoln's Inn Fields (1)
  • Monmouthshire (5)
  • Newton Abbot (2)
  • Northamptonshire (1)
  • Paris (3)
  • Preston, Lancashire (1)
  • Rome (11)
  • Rouen (1)
  • Saint-Omer (8)
  • Seville (2)
  • Whitby (1)
  • Winchester (1)
  • York (1)
• Hymns (2)
• Ireland – ecclesiastical history (4)
• Kings and queens of England (4)
  • James II (2)
• Libraries of English and Welsh Catholic institutions at home and abroad (1)
• Literary materials (1)
• Liturgy — convents (1)
• Liturgy and worship (1)
• Lollardy (1)
• Louvain (2)
• Maps and plans (2)
  • Catholic Netherlands (2)
• Martyrs, English and Welsh (10)
  • Walpole, Henry, SJ (1558–1595) (1)
• Medieval Church – England (4)
• Missals (post-Reformation) (1)
• Missions -- England and Wales (3)
• Monasticism (2)
• Oath of Allegiance (1)
• Penal laws against Catholics (4)
  • Penal laws against Catholics in England and Wales (1)
  • Penal laws against Catholics in Ireland (2)
  • Penal laws against Catholics in Scotland (1)
• Periodicals (12)
• Plots (1)
  • Gunpowder Plot (0)
  • Popish Plot (1)
• Recusants and recusancy (20)
• Reformation (3)
  • Reformation in England and Wales (3)
    • The Elizabethan religious settlement (1)
• Religious orders (female) (24)
  • Bridgettines (Order of St Saviour) (2)
    • English Bridgettines (2)
      • 1415 – Syon Abbey (1)
  • English Augustinian canonesses (2)
    • 1629 – Bruges (1)
  • English Benedictine nuns (8)
  • English Canonesses of the Holy Sepulchre, or Sepulchrines (2)
  • English Carmelite nuns (1)
  • English Dominican nuns (3)
  • English Franciscan nuns (2)
  • English Poor Clares (5)
  • Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary, or IBVM, or Institute of Mary, or Congregation of Jesus, or CJ (2)
    • 1686 – Bar Convent, York (1)
  • Order of the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady, or Conceptionists, or Blue Nuns, Paris (2)
• Religious orders (male) (76)
  • Order of Preachers (Dominicans) (6)
    • English Dominicans (6)
      • 1657 – English Dominican priory and school at Bornhem, Antwerp (2)
  • Order of St Benedict (Benedictines) (33)
    • English Benedictines (32)
      • 1607 – St Gregory's, Douai (3)
        • Downside Abbey (0)
        • Downside School (0)
      • 1608 – St Laurence's, Dieulouard, Lorraine (5)
        • Ampleforth Abbey (4)
        • Ampleforth College (2)
      • 1611 – St Benedict's, Saint-Malo, Britanny (0)
      • 1615 – St Edmund's, Paris (11)
      • 1633 – La Celle-sur-Morin, Seine-et-Marne (1)
      • 1643 – SS Adrian and Denis, Lambspringe, near Hildesheim (1)
      • Baker, Augustine, OSB (1575–1641) (1)
  • Order of St Francis (Franciscans) (2)
    • English Franciscans (2)
      • English Franciscans (Recollects), Douai (1)
      • Friars Minor (1)
  • Society of Jesus (Jesuits) (35)
    • British Jesuits – English and Welsh Mission, 1580–1623; English Province, 1623–1985; and British Province, 1985– (29)
      • 1593 — English College, Saint-Omer, also known as St Omers College (1593–1762) (14)
        • 1608 – English College press, Saint-Omer (St Omers Press) (1)
        • 1762 – English College, Bruges (1762–1773) (1)
        • 1773 – English Academy (Académie anglaise), Liège (1773–1794) (1)
        • 1794 – Stonyhurst College, Lancashire (1794– (1)
        • St Omers College Library (2)
      • 1608 – English Jesuit novitiate, Watten (1608–1763) (3)
      • 1614 – English College, Liège (1614–1773) (1)
      • 1742 – English Jesuit international preparatory school, Boulogne-sur-Mer (1742–1752) (1)
      • 1896 – Campion Hall, Oxford (0)
    • Jesuit education (19)
      • English Jesuit theatre (3)
    • Jesuits worldwide (3)
• Rituals, Breviaries, Manuals, Missals, and Pontificals (pre-Reformation) (6)
  • York (6)
• Rome (4)
  • –1362, English Hospice, Rome (1)
    • English Hospice Rome, Library (1)
  • 1622 – Sacred Congregation de Propaganda Fide (1)
  • Roman Curia (1)
  • Sede vacante in Rome (1)
• Sacraments (1)
  • Marriage (1)
• Saints (6)
  • Becket, St Thomas (c. 1118–1170) (1)
  • Hugh, of Lincoln, Saint, 1140–1200 (1)
  • Newman, St John Henry (1801–1890) (2)
  • Sales, St Francis de (1567–1622) (1)
  • Winefride or Winifred, St (1)
• Schools — arranged by date of foundation (2)
  • 1763 – Sedgley Park School, Wolverhampton (1763–1873) and Cotton College, Oakamoor, Staffordshire (1873–1987), also known as St Wilfrid's College (2)
• Scotland – ecclesiastical history (1)
• Secular clergy (5)
  • Secular clergy of England and Wales (5)
    • The Old Chapter (1623–1850) and the Old Brotherhood of the English Secular Clergy (1850– (3)
• Sermons (3)
• Synods (8)
  • -664 – Synod of Whitby (1)
  • 1556 – Legatine Synod of London, convoked by Cardinal Reginald Pole (1)
  • 1852 – 1st Provincial Synod of Westminster, held at St Mary's College, Oscott (3)
  • 1855 – 2nd Provincial Synod of Westminster, held at St Mary's College, Oscott (2)
  • 1859 – 3rd Provincial Synod of Westminster, held at St Mary's College, Oscott (2)
  • 1873 – 4th Provincial Synod of Westminster, held at St Edmund's College, Ware (2)
• Wales – ecclesiastical history (3)
• Weld (1)