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UC - Ushaw College Administration

Repository	Ushaw College Library
Ref No	UC/P2
Title	John Barrow Papers
Date	1790 - 1809
Description	Two files of photocopies of the private correspondence of John Barrow of Claughton, with two volumes of transcripts of the letters from the first file. The first file of correspondence relates to the foundation of Ushaw College and in particular highlights a long and protracted dispute between Barrow and the vicar - apostolic of the Northern District, William Gibson. This dispute, lasting nearly two decades, proved to be a major stumbling block in the establishment of the new college. It centred on the role of episcopal authority within the college. Barrow favoured the system adopted at the English College in Douai which limited the involvement of the local bishop and allowed for greater presidential autonomy. In contrast, Gibson wished to see a more direct rule by the episcopacy. The correspondence reveals both the fractious nature of this dispute and the stormy meetings involving the clergy of the Northern District which resulted from it. The second file is concerned with various controversies surrounding the Cisalpine movement of the late eighteenth century. This movement was organised by Joseph Berington, a Staffordshire priest, who believed in restricting the temporal authority of the papacy and its influence on the affairs of English Roman Catholics, promoting the link between Catholicism and English constitutionalism, and introducing an English vernacular liturgy. The controversies discussed in the correspondence include divisions over the signing of an oath of loyalty introduced by the pro - Cisalpine Catholic Committee, the effect on the Catholic community of the publication of Berington's pro - Cisalpine work An Appeal to the Catholics of England by the Catholic Clergy of the County of Stafford(1792), and the suspension (and subsequent reinstatement) of the Benedictine Rev Joseph Wilks for expressing anti - episcopal and anti - papal views.
Admin_History	Rev John Barrow (1735 - 1811), Claughton Mission [1766 - 1811?]
Related Material	Copies - A proportion of Barrow's letters are draft copies made by the author of letters subsequently sent.
AccessConditions	Open for consultation.

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