MDMD: The Fifteen and the Forty-five

[Steven Maas (CUTR)]

_Anti-Catholicism in Eighteenth-Century England, c. 1714-80_, by Colin
Haydon, Manchester University Press, Manchester and New York (distributed
exclusively in the USA and Canada by St. Martin's Press), 1993.

I've only perused the book, not read it--but it seems useful for those who
want more detail on the Fifteen (James Edward Stuart) and the Forty-five
(Charles Edward Stuart, aka "B.P.C.") as well as a more general discussion
of the roots and the hisory of anti-Catholicism in 18th c. England and how
it was different from and how the same as anti-Jacobitism.  Apparently
many of England's Catholics, aristocrat and commoner alike, were
implicated in the Fifteen, but a much smaller proportion in the
Forty-five. 

The only mention of Tunnels that I've found in the book: In 1745 "[a]t
Lower Cheam [somewhere in Essex, I think?], for instance, they [the
authorities] raided the house of Lady Petre and took away Father Morgan
Hansbie, a Dominican.  The search was conducted, according to one
newspaper, because of 'the great uneasiness of the inhabitants of all the
adjacent villages, who firmly believed that great numbers of men, horse,
and arms, were concealed there in subterranean passages'" (p.157).

	Steve Maas