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Message: <blockquote data-quote="scolairebocht" data-source="post: 144719" data-attributes="member: 8">Catholicism possibly causing offenceAnother controversy at issue between Phillips (allied to the Commissioners) and the Londoners in Coleraine, and related to the above, would be religion. These Londoners were said to be weak in stamping out Catholicism like Phillips and the Commissioners would like them to do, for example one of the questions that the Commission had to look into and report back to the King about, was this:One of the Commissioners who signed the above document was George Downham (or Downame), Church of Ireland Bishop of Derry, and you can see the kind of trouble he had with Catholics from his visitation of his diocese a few years earlier in 1622:Camus, where this Oliver was from and where he was succeeded by presumably his son Richard at that address, is only about two and a half miles South of Coleraine.Anyway the point is that the Catholics were getting a bit uppity in these parts and certainly the Commissioners would be very offended by anything that smacked of Popery. Possibly the song had something like that in it and then the Londoners took cold feet if the play had too?There is not much evidence to support this, except that, moreso than the Irish aspect of the play which in truth is very well hidden, the religious aspect of this play can really hit you if you are acquainted with the religious controversies of those years. You will notice, for example, the reference to Benedictus above, that phrase would leap out at you as a trad Catholic because its a well known sung refrain from the High Latin mass, but which Protestantism, then using the vernacular, had dropped. Here are a few phrases from the very first scene of Much Ado About Nothing, its clear that a lot of this is a disguised debate between Protestantism, in the person of Benedick, and Catholicism, in Claudio and Beatrice:</blockquote>

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