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This book examines the activities of William Blundell, a seventeenth-century Catholic gentleman, and using the approaches of the history of reading provides a detailed analysis of his mindset.Blundell was neither the passive victim nor the entirely loyal subject that he and others have claimed. He actively defended his family from the penal laws and used the relative freedom that this gave him to patronise other Catholics. Not only did he rewrite the histories of recent civil conflicts to show that Protestants were prone to rebellion and Catholics to loyalty, but we also find a different persp

History of civilization --- History of the United Kingdom and Ireland --- anno 1600-1699 --- Catholics --- History --- Blundell, William, --- Great Britain --- Politics and government --- Catholicism. --- Little Crosby. --- Poor Clares. --- Protestants. --- Rouen. --- William Blundell. --- civil conflicts. --- history of reading. --- penal laws. --- rebellion.