raharris1973
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How do we achieve what is on the tin?
Maryland was founded by the Calverts as a refuge for English Catholics and this was reflected in early settlers and place-naming from the the 1600s. But no later than 1700, even though the Calverts remained lord proprietor, Protestants (Many puritan migrants either direct from England or New England or people who followed Methodism or others who followed CoE) collectively made up the majority of the white population, had gained a superior control over colonial political institutions and had relegated the Catholic Church and Catholics to a second-class civic status.
Catholicism did not disappear in the colony, Some remained. A few were very wealthy, like John Carroll, a founding father.
But how could we forestall the trend toward that turned the the haven for Catholic owned by a Catholic proprietor into a place of Catholic numerical and political inferiority?
The easiest suggestion would seem to be increasing Catholic numbers/ share of population. Given the population of Britain to the colonies in 1700 was in the ballpark of 6 million to under a million, I would think adequate numbers of English and Scottish Catholics shouldn’t have been had to find, and that’s even before you take Ireland into account, which should open up an en bigger pool.
What was the class and occupational distribution of English and Scottish and Welsh Catholics in the 1600s between the upper classes, middle classes, and poor? Was it for some reason more poorly suited for trans-Atlantic migration than Protestant dissenters or CoE populations because of its class or occupational profile? Did Crown or Parliament or Admiralty actively impede Catholic migration through policy? Did the Catholic Church discourage it?
Maryland was founded by the Calverts as a refuge for English Catholics and this was reflected in early settlers and place-naming from the the 1600s. But no later than 1700, even though the Calverts remained lord proprietor, Protestants (Many puritan migrants either direct from England or New England or people who followed Methodism or others who followed CoE) collectively made up the majority of the white population, had gained a superior control over colonial political institutions and had relegated the Catholic Church and Catholics to a second-class civic status.
Catholicism did not disappear in the colony, Some remained. A few were very wealthy, like John Carroll, a founding father.
But how could we forestall the trend toward that turned the the haven for Catholic owned by a Catholic proprietor into a place of Catholic numerical and political inferiority?
The easiest suggestion would seem to be increasing Catholic numbers/ share of population. Given the population of Britain to the colonies in 1700 was in the ballpark of 6 million to under a million, I would think adequate numbers of English and Scottish Catholics shouldn’t have been had to find, and that’s even before you take Ireland into account, which should open up an en bigger pool.
What was the class and occupational distribution of English and Scottish and Welsh Catholics in the 1600s between the upper classes, middle classes, and poor? Was it for some reason more poorly suited for trans-Atlantic migration than Protestant dissenters or CoE populations because of its class or occupational profile? Did Crown or Parliament or Admiralty actively impede Catholic migration through policy? Did the Catholic Church discourage it?
