LIVERPOOL'S CATHOLIC MERCANTILE AND MARITIME BUSINESS COMMUNITY IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY PART 1.

The article focuses on the participation of Catholics in the mercantile and maritime business in Liverpool, England during the second half of the eighteenth century. In this paper, the emergence of Catholic middle class, which is consists of Catholic businessmen and ships captains, is discussed. This social class emerged in English towns during the second half of the eighteenth century.