Catholic Church in England and Wales his mock-heroic poems, Rape of the Lock and The Dunciad. Around this time, in 1720, Clement XI proclaimed Anselm of Canterbury a Doctor of the Church. In 1752, mid-century, Great Britain adopted the Gregorian calendar decreed by Pope Gregory XIII in 1582. Later in the century there was some liberalisation of the anti-Catholic laws on the basis of Enlightenment ideals. In 1778 a Catholic Relief Act allowed Catholics to own property, inherit land and join the army. Hardline Protestant mobs reacted in the Gordon Riots in 1780, attacking any building in London which was associated with Catholicism or owned by
Abondance (1780 ship) with T. Eve, master, L. Teffier, owner, and trade London–Ostend. She is no longer listed in 1786. Citations References Abondance (1780 ship) Abondance was a French "Baleine"-class gabare (cargo ship) launched in 1780. The Royal Navy captured her on 11 December 1781 and took her into service as a troop transport and store ship under the name HMS "Abondance". After the end of the war with France the Admiralty sold her in 1784. She then became a merchantman. "Abondance" was launched at Le Havre in September 1780. She sailed on 11 December 1781 for the Antilles in a convoy under