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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 September 2015
In the archives of Propaganda there is an evocative letter in which John Henry Newman urges the Cardinal Prefect not to grant permission for Catholic youths to attend Oxford or Cambridge. It is of significance because the views evinced are not those commonly associated with Newman in the years after 1865:
This article is an abridged version of a lecture marking the centenary of St. Edmund's College, Cambridge. It was delivered at the College on 16 May, 1996.
1 Archives of Propaganda Fide, Rome. Scritture Riferite nei Congressi 1855–1857, Anglia 14, Nos. 473, 474. Newman to Propaganda, 12/3/1856. Thanks are expressed to Bishop B. C. Foley for bringing this letter to my attention.
2 ‘The Work and the Wants of the Catholic Church in England’, Dublin Review, July 1863, reprinted in Manning, H. E., Miscellanies, Vol. I [Burns & Oates, London, 1877] p. 29.Google Scholar
3 Ibidem, p. 30.
4 Ibidem, p. 33.
5 Ibidem, p. 71.
6 The Rambler, December 1848, vol. III, Pt. XII, pp. 235–236.
7 Ibidem, p. 237.
8 Ibidem, p. 239.
9 Ibidem, p. 241.
10 Milburn, D.: A History of Ushaw College (Durham, 1964), p. 303,Google Scholar n. 17. Letter from Bishop William Gordon of Leeds to Bishop Thomas Wilkinson of Hexham and Newcastle.
11 Manning to Talbot, quoted in Cardinal, Gasquet: A History of the Venerable English College, Rome (Longmans, Green & Co., London, 1920) p. 257.Google Scholar
12 Thomas, Hooley: A Seminary in the Making (Longmans, Green & Co., London, 1927), p. 63.Google Scholar
13 Anatole von Hügel papers, Cambridge. Von Hügel to E. C. Butler, 17/1/1896 (copy).
14 Milbum, op. cit.
15 Universities1 Catholic Education Board Report, 1897.
16 Northampton Diocesan Archives. Bishop Riddell's ms. ‘Clerics at the English Universities’, pp. 1 seq.
17 Ibidem.
18 Ibidem.
19 Cambridge University Library. St. Edmund's College Archives. Letter from John C. Heenan to John F. Pettit, 14/3/1942.
20 Ibidem. T. B. Scannell to B. Ward, 6/1/1896.
21 Ibidem. Memorandum and Articles of Association, St. Edmund's House at Cambridge, 3(A).
22 Ibidem.
23 Ibidem. Norfolk to all the bishops, 20/4/1906.
24 Ibidem.
25 Ibidem. Bourne to Norfolk, 6/5/1906. See my article in Recusant History, vol. 23. No. 2, 1996, pp. 228 et seq.
26 Ibidem. Norfolk to Anatole von Hügel, 18/4/1898.
27 Ibidem. F t. Joseph Corbishley to Fr. William Sutcliffe, 13/1/1902.
28 Ibidem. Bishop Thomas Wilkinson to Sutcliffe, 16/11/1897.
29 Ibidem. Bishop Thomas Whiteside to Sutcliffe, 17/11/1897.
30 Ibidem. Bishop Edward Ilsley to Sutcliffe, 28/11/1897.
31 Ibidem. Bishop Robert Brownlow to Sutcliffe, 18/2/1898.
32 Ibidem. Bishop William Gordon to Sutcliffe, 18/2/1904.
33 Ibidem. Memorandum of Anatole von Hügel on St. Edmund's House, 5/5/1898.
34 Ibidem. Bernard Vaughan to Norfolk, 25/3/1898, written from Mill Hill.
35 Robert, O'Neil: Cardinal Herbert Vaughan (Burns Oates, Tunbridge Wells, 1995), p. 412.Google Scholar
36 Rev., J. E. MacTaggart, Cambridge Anti-Popery Gazette (May 1898).Google Scholar
37 Anatole von Hügel Papers, Cambridge, Arthur Gray to von Hügel, 6/5/1898.
38 Ibidem. F. Jenkinson to von Hügel, 28/4/1898.
39 St. Edmund's College Archives, op. cit.
40 Ibidem. Henry Jackson to von Hügel, 17/5/1898.
41 Ibidem. Mgr. Bernard Ward to von Hügel, 16/5/1898.
42 Ibidem. Louis Charles Casartelli to Nolan, 6/3/1905.
43 Ibidem. Algernon Stanley to Nolan, 12/1/1909.
