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‘Suspicions, Jars & Disturbances’: the Scottish Mission in Crisis in the 1730s (and beyond)

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In the 1730s, the Scottish Catholic Mission had to face multiple crises as a consequence of a dire lack of funds and of priests, but also of perceived outside and, more ominously, inner threats. The penal laws then in force in Scotland made it possible for Scottish Catholics to be prosecuted by civil magistrates egged on by ministers of the Church of Scotland, alledgedly making life particularly difficult for priests. But what seems to have wrought the greatest havoc in the ranks of the Scottish Catholic clergy and, more generally, the whole Scottish Mission, was a self-inflicted wound – the Jansenist controversy that rent the Mission in the fifteen years prior to the Jacobite Rebellion. Constant wrangling between the two factions imperiled the daily work of the priests among the faithful, but also the standing of the Catholic Mission in Rome, as Scottish bishops constantly had to defend themselves against the accusations of Jansenism repeatedly levelled against them by some of their own priests in Scotland and the latter’s supporters on the continent. This paper will first seek to explore the nature of these potentially existential threats and then examine the ways in which the Scottish bishops and their supporters home and abroad endeavoured to rebut the arguments of their opponents.

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hal-04348016 , version 1 (15-12-2023)

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Clotilde Prunier. ‘Suspicions, Jars & Disturbances’: the Scottish Mission in Crisis in the 1730s (and beyond). Scots Abroad, Eighteenth-Century Scottish Studies Society, Jul 2022, Liverpool, United Kingdom. ⟨hal-04348016⟩
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