Firmly I Believe and Truly celebrates the depth and breadth of the spiritual, literary, and intellectual heritage of the Post-Reformation English Roman Catholic tradition in an anthology of writings that span a five hundred year period between William Caxton and Cardinal Hume.

Foreword ; General Introduction ; Authors and Texts: Principles of Selection ; PART 1: 1483-1688 ; Introduction ; William Caxton, c. 1420-1492 ; Wynkyn de Worde , d. 1534/5 ; Richard Pynson, 1448-1529 ; John Colet, c.1467-1519 ; Margaret Beaufort, Countess of Richmond, 1443-1509 ; St John Fisher, 1469-1535 ; Nicholas Harpsfield, 1519-1574 ; William Roper, 1498-1572 ; Margaret Roper, 1505-1544 ; St Thomas More, 1478-1535 ; Royal Injunctions, 1554 ; Reginald Cardinal Pole, 1500-1558 ; Bishop Edmund Bonner, c.1497-1569 ; Bishop Thomas Watson, 1513-1584 ; John Harpsfield, 1516-1578 ; John Heywood, c.1496-c.1578 ; Miles Huggarde, fl.1533-1557 ; Thomas Vaux, 2nd Lord Vaux of Harrowden, 1509-1556 ; Laurence Vaux, 1519-1585 ; Thomas Stapleton, 1535-1598 ; Pope Pius V, 1504-1572 ; A Defence of Regnans in Excelsis ; William Cardinal Allen, 1532-1594 ; St Edmund Campion SJ, 1540-1581 ; Blessed Thomas Alfield, 1552-1585 ; The Words of Tortured Priests, 1582 ; Gregory Martin, c.1542-1582 ; A Manual of Prayers (i), 1583 ; Anne Dormer, Lady Hungerford, 1525-1603 ; Robert Parsons SJ, 1546-1610 ; St Robert Southwell, 1561-1595 ; Elizabeth Grymeston, c.1563-1604 ; Richard Verstegan, 1548-1640 ; St Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel, 1557-1595 ; John Wilson, fl.1608 ; Henry Constable, 1562-1613 ; Benjamin Carier, 1566-1614 ; A Manual of Prayers (ii), 1618 ; The Venerable Mary Ward, 1585-1645 ; Edward Dawson SJ, c.1579-1622 ; William Stanney OFM, d.1626 ; Anthony Browne, 2nd Viscount Montagu, 1574-1629 ; Catherine Francis, fl.1628 ; Matthew Kellison, 1561-1642 ; (Helen) Gertrude More, 1606-1633) ; Augustine Baker OSB, 1575-1641 ; Richard Crashaw, c.1613-1649 ; Sir Basil Brooke, 1576-1646 ; Manual of Prayers (iii), 1650 ; Sir Kenelm Digby, 1603-1665 ; Thomas White ( Blacklo ), 1593-1676 ; Henry Holden, 1596-1662 ; St John Southworth, 1592-1654 ; Miles Pinkney (alias Thomas Carre), 1599-1674 ; Anne Hyde, Duchess of York, 1637-1671 ; A Manual of Prayers (iv), 1687 ; Bishop John Leyburn, 1620-1702 ; Bishop Bonaventure Giffard, 1642-1734 ; PART 2: 1688 - 1850 ; Introduction ; John Gother, d. 1704 ; Edward Hawarden, 1622 1735 ; John Dryden, 1631 1700 ; Edward Scarisbrick (alias Neville) SJ, 1639 1709 ; Philip Leigh (alias Layton or Metcalfe) SJ, 1650 1717 ; Jane Barker, 1652 1732 ; Thomas Ward, 1652 1708 ; (Mary Howard) Mary of the Holy Cross OSC, 1653 1735 ; Sylvester Jenks (alias Metcalfe), 1656 1714 ; Thomas Tyldesley, 1657 1715 and Nicholas Blundell, 1669 1737 ; Christopher Tootell, 1662 1727 ; Hugh Tootell (alias Charles Dodd), 1671 1743 ; Alexander Pope, 1688 1744 ; Bishop Richard Challoner, 1691 1781 ; Alban Butler, 1710 1773 ; Thomas West (Daniel) SJ, 1720 1779 ; Joseph Reeve SJ, 1733 1820 ; Charles Plowden SJ, 1743-1821 ; Peter Newby, 1745 1827 ; Joseph Berington, 1746 1827 ; Charles Butler, 1750 1832 ; James Archer, 1751 1834 ; Bishop John Milner, 1752 1826 ; Elizabeth Inchbald, 1753 1821 ; Bishop William Poynter, 1762 1827 ; John Chetwode Eustace, 1762 1815 ; John Lingard, 1771 1851 ; William Eusebius Andrews, 1773 1837 ; George Leo Haydock, 1774 1849 ; Arthur Clifford, 1777 1830 ; Henry Weedall, 1788 1859 ; William Joseph Walter, 1789 1846 ; (Domenico Giovanni Luigi Barberi ) Blessed Dominic of the Mother of God CP, 1792 1849 ; (George Spencer) Ignatius of St Paul CP, 1799 1864 ; Nicholas Patrick Stephen Cardinal Wiseman, 1802 1865 ; (Margaret Mary Hallahan) Margaret of the Mother of God OP, 1803 1868 ; George Duncombe Cox, 1807 1840 ; Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin, 1812 1852 ; PART 3: 1850 1999 ; Introduction ; Blessed John Henry Cardinal Newman, Cong. Orat., 1801 - 1890 ; Canon Frederick Oakeley, 1802 - 1889 ; Archbishop William Bernard Ullathorne, 1806 - 1889 ; Henry Edward Cardinal Manning, 1808 - 1892 ; Lady Georgiana Fullerton, 1812 - 1885 ; Edward Caswall, Cong. Orat., 1814 - 1878 ; Frederick William Faber, Cong. Orat., 1814 - 1863 ; Coventry Kersey Deighton Patmore, 1823 - 1896 ; Thomas Edward Bridgett CSSR, 1829 - 1899 ; Herbert Alfred Henry Joseph Thomas Cardinal Vaughan, 1832 - 1903 ; (Arthur) Bertrand Wilberforce OP, 1839 - 1904 ; Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ, 1844 - 1889 ; Joseph Rickaby SJ, 1845 - 1932 ; Francis Neil Aidan Cardinal Gasquet OSB, 1846 - 1929 ; Alice Christiana Gertrude Meynell, 1847 - 1922 ; Canon William Francis Barry, 1849 - 1930 ; Herbert Henry Charles Thurston SJ, 1856 - 1939 ; (Edward Joseph Aloysius) Cuthbert Butler OSB, 1858 - 1934 ; Francis Joseph Thompson, 1859 - 1907 ; Bede Camm OSB, 1864 - 1942 ; (Henry Palmer) John Chapman OSB, 1865 - 1933 ; (Margaret) Laurentia McLachlan OSB, 1866 - 1953 ; Lionel Pigot Johnson, 1867 - 1902 ; (Joseph) Vincent McNabb OP, 1868 - 1943 ; Joseph Hilaire Pierre Rene Belloc, 1870 - 1953 ; Robert Hugh Benson, 1871 - 1914 ; Robert Henry Joseph Steuart SJ, 1874 - 1948 ; Maurice Baring, 1874 - 1945 ; Gilbert Keith Chesterton, 1874 - 1936 ; (Martin) Anscar Vonier OSB, 1875 - 1938 ; William Edwin Orchard, 1877 - 1955 ; Cyril Charles Martindale SJ, 1879 - 1963 ; Alfred Noyes, 1880 - 1958 ; (Cyril) Bede Jarrett OP, 1881 - 1934 ; Arthur Eric Rowton Gill, 1882 - 1940 ; Siegfried Sassoon, 1886 - 1967 ; Vernon Cecil Johnson, 1886 - 1969 ; Sir Arnold Henry Moore Lunn, 1888 - 1974 ; Monsignor Ronald Arbuthnott Knox, 1888 - 1957 ; Martin Cyril D Arcy SJ, 1888 - 1976 ; Henry Christopher Dawson, 1889 - 1970 ; Mary Josephine Maisie Ward, 1889 - 1975 ; John Ronald Reuel Tolkien, 1892 - 1973 ; John Cameron Andrieu Bingham Michael Morton, 1893 - 1979 ; David Jones, 1895 - 1974 ; (Michael Clive) David Knowles OSB, 1896 - 1974 ; Frank Joseph Sheed, 1897 - 1981 ; Cecily Hallack, 1898 - 1938 ; Frances Caryll Houselander, 1901 - 1954 ; William Abel Pantin, 1902 - 1973 ; Archbishop David James Mathew, 1902 - 1975 ; Evelyn Arthur St John Waugh, 1903 - 1966 ; Henry Graham Greene, 1904 - 1991 ; John Carmel Cardinal Heenan, 1905 - 1975 ; (Claud) Hubert van Zeller OSB, 1905 - 1984 ; (Anthony) Gervase Mathew OP, 1905 - 1976 ; (Lawrence Samuel) Gerald Vann OP, 1906 - 1963 ; Bernard Basset SJ, 1909 - 1988 ; Group Captain Leonard Cheshire, 1916 - 1992 ; John Bradburne, 1921 - 1979 ; (George Haliburton) Basil Cardinal Hume OSB, 1923 - 1999

Brings together a diverse array of writers from the last five hundred years to celebrate the English Roman Catholic tradition Includes authors who maintain a high profile today and reintroduces key figures whose writings have recently been neglected Provides authoritative introductions to each author Chronologically ordered with a clear three part structure to aid navigation Thoughtfully illustrated with images relevant to each part of the anthology

Brings together a diverse array of writers from the last five hundred years to celebrate the English Roman Catholic tradition Includes authors who maintain a high profile today and reintroduces key figures whose writings have recently been neglected Provides authoritative introductions to each author Chronologically ordered with a clear three part structure to aid navigation Thoughtfully illustrated with images relevant to each part of the anthology