‘A Trial for the Patience of Reason’? Grand Tourists and Anti-Catholicism after 1745

摘要: It has been thought that anti-Catholicism faded from elite British thinking after the Jacobite rising of 1745, evidenced most obviously by passing three Relief Acts between 1778 and 1829. This view needs some modification because was still rehearsed extensively in Grand Tour literature well into nineteenth century. Three common tropes anti-Catholic discourse are explored: attitudes to Jesuits, monks nuns; places pilgrimage; construction Roman Catholicism as a twofold system faith. The conclusion is drawn maintained it essential both Protestant identity toleration.