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MISSIONS

BY
JOHN ORLEBAR PAYNE, M.A.

LONDON : BURNS & OATES, LIMITED
NEW YORK: CATHOLIC PUBLICATION SOCIETY.
1889,

S. Cowan &> Co., Printers, Perth.
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PREFACE.

ON the 13th of September, 1836, a Royal Commission was
issued for the purpose of enquiring " into the state, cus
tody, and authenticity of any such Records of Births or Baptisms,
Deaths or Burials, and Marriages lawfully solemnized," as had
been formerly kept in England and Wales, " other than the
Parochial Registers ;" as also for enquiring what measures could
be adopted for their collection, arrangement, and final deposit
within the office of the Registrar-General.
On the 26th of October, in the following year, this Commission
was renewed, and a Secretary appointed, who, by letters addressed
to dissenting ministers and others having custody of such Regis
ters, acquainted them with the existence and object of the
Commission itself, while, — what is more to our purpose, — the
Commissioners, in their Report, dated 18 June, 1838, add that
" communications to a similar effect were also addressed to the
prelates of the Roman Catholic Church." These prelates at this
time were the Rt. Revv. Peter Augustine Baines, John Briggs,
Thomas Griffiths, and Thomas Walsh, respectively Vicars
Apostolic of the Western, Northern, London and Midland
Districts. Further on, however, the Report proceeds as follows :
" The Roman Catholic prelates have declined to deliver up.

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or to authorize the inferior clergy of their persuasion to deliver
up any registers in their possession, partly on account of the
omissions and defects incident to records made and preserved
for so many years, with so much danger and difficulty under the
severe pressure of the penal laws, and, partly also on account of
the practical inconvenience that would result from depriving the
Roman Catholic clergy of the custody of Records to which
frequent reference is made for purposes purely religious and
canonical." The language of this extract may be taken as undoubtedly
that employed by the Bishops in their reply to the Commission
ers, yet, strange to say, within little more than two years from
this date, i.e., in the autumn of 1840, seventy-eight old Catholic
Mission Registers were forwarded by the clergy to the Authori
ties at Somerset House. Still more perplexing is the fact that
one of these registers, that viz. of St. Mary's Crathorne in York
shire, as will appear hereafter, is accompanied by a letter signed
by Bishop Briggs himself, shewing that the removal of the
register in question was with his Lordship's full knowledge and
concurrence. From all this then, and from what follows, it will be evident
that some considerable difference of opinion must have prevailed
-amongst the Catholic hierarchy as to the expediency of allowing
the registers to change hands by passing from the cupboards of
the presbytery into the apparently safer custody afforded by the
fire-proof rooms in Somerset House. Moreover, it was but
natural that a sort of jealous reluctance — not to say alarm —
should have existed in many quarters at the very notion of
parting vsrith original and authentic records of Catholic life to a
Government whose predecessors, not so very long before, would
have condemned to death the custodian of each register for the
mere fact of his being a priest.
Another cause of confusion and misunderstanding must surely
also have arisen from the wording of a clause in the Commission,
wherein it is suggested that the Registers, "or copies thereof"
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Accordingly, we find, for example, the priest of Berwick-on-
Tweed writing to the Commissioners when forwarding his
registers, " Please, have the kindness to return them after inspec
tion." These words, however, are afterwards erased. A vener
able priest, also, who is still living, and who in 1840 had the
charge of a country mission, most obligingly writes to me as
follows :
. . . " I received an order from the Bishop, Dr. Griffiths, to
send the Baptismal Register to Somerset House, which I did,
with the request that as soon as they had copied or inspected it
they would send it back ; they did so almost immediately, in
forming me that it was no use to them, unless I would allow
them to keep the original book : I am surprised to learn that you
found any of the original Catholic Registers at Somerset House.
As well as I recollect, there was a general order from the Bishop
that the priests who sent the Registers should request their
immediate return."
Pasted inside a register, now at St. Thomas', Canterbury, is a
paper stating that it too had on the same occasion experienced
a similar double journey. This was probably the register kept
at Hales Place. The fact, also, of the retention of one of the
Durham Registers, noticed in its place, affords too, further
evidence of an existing reluctance to part with them.
It is very evident at any rate, that there was a warrantable
belief prevalent among the Catholic clergy at that time that
copies of their Registers were to be made at Somerset House and
the Originals afterwards returned. Be this, however, as it may,
another Commission was issued on ist January, 1857, having the
same objects as those already mentioned. Overtures were again
made— this time to Cardinal Wiseman— to obtain possession of
the Catholic Registers, with what result, however, the subjoined
reply of His Eminence will shew :
(Cardinal Wiseman to tlie Registrar General.)
Sir, Leyton, Essex, April 8, 1856.
In reply to your note of the Sth instant, referring me
to your communication of the 20th October of last year, I beg to

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say that the subject to which they both relate is one on which I
could not give an answer without consulting my fellow bishops.
As they all met in London last week for the first time since I
had the honour of hearing from you in October, I embraced the
opportunity of bringing before them your proposal that our
Catholic Registers of Baptisms and Marriages should be deposited
in the Registrar General's Office.
It is necessary to observe that almost continual applications
are made from the Continent and from America to us for certifi
cates of Baptism, Confirmation, and Marriage, both for legal and
(still oftener) for ecclesiastical purposes. Persons about to receive
Orders or to marry require the two first, and the third is wanted
to determine succession.
In Catholic countries no merely civil certificate is sufficient for
such purposes. Any such document must be extracted from the
Register by the priest in charge of the church or chapel where
the entry was made, and it must be accompanied by a declaration,
signed and sealed by the Catholic bishop, that the person whose
signature is affixed holds such office, and is entitled to full
credence. Were the Registers to pass out of the custody of the priest in
charge of the place to which they belonged, it would be necessary
for the priest to come up to London, say from Manchester, to
verify any extract, or to make it himself, every time a certificate
was applied for to him from abroad. This would be a serious
expense and inconvenience.
So particular are authorities abroad as to the forms of these
documents being conformable to those prescribed in the Roman
Ritual, that they have been sent back from Italy, and even from
Brazil, because some formality was wanting, or some omission
occurred from peculiar usages of our own (e.g. omission of a
parochial seal), and I have had to make particular declarations
to make the document valid or efficient. I need not add that
these forms and certificates are universally in Latin. I may also,
however, observe that throughout the Catholic Church a Bishop
is, by virtue of his office, a Prothonotary Apostolic, so that his
signature and seal require no further verification or authentication.
To show to what extent this condition of things may proceed,
I will mention that some time (perhaps two years) ago a Hun
garian nobleman came to England and married a Protestant lady
in a Protestant Church. On returning home he found that his
marriage was not recognised, the Protestant minister's certificate
not being recognised, and he applied to me to give him a declara
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the Protestant certificate. This, of course, I was obliged to
decline doing, having no official cognizance of the signature, nor
any relation with the officiating parties.
At this moment I have before me an application from a highly
respectable advocate at Madrid to disprove, as far as possible, an
alleged marriage twenty years ago, which, if it took place, cuts off
from considerable property the children of a later marriage. My
attestation of search and non-discovery will be official and
admitted by the courts. Difficulties might arise if the Registers
were totally out of my keeping or control, nor, I suppose, in the
present state of the law, could you send documents for episcopal
verification, or recognise any official declaration or attestations
from us.
As, therefore, our references to our registers are ten times on
account of foreign or ecclesiastical demands for once in connec
tion with domestic civil purposes, you will see the serious
obstacles to our depositing our Registers in any general office. — I
have, &c.,
N. Card. Wiseman.
The date of this letter as printed in the Commissioners' Report
for 1857, and the reference in it to a still earlier date, are evidence;
however, that these efforts to obtain possession of the Catholic
Registers had been renewed some little time previous to the
Commission of January, 1857.
Two things are, perhaps, worthy of notice in this correspond
ence : 1st, there is apparently no allusion to the fact that a large
number of Catholic Registers had already been sent to the
Registrar-General in 1840, and, 2ndly., the grounds of the
Cardinal's refusal to sanction the forwarding of other registers
are not altogether those alleged by the Vicars Apostolic in 1838.
The Commissioners accordingly report on 31st Dec, 1857, that
their "application .... to the Roman Catholics has been
attended with no good result."
Lord Hardwicke's " Marriage Act " of 1754, had for its primary
object the suppression of the scandalous contracts at the Fleet
Prison and Mayfair Chapel, &c., yet its details were a source of
annoyance to Catholics as well. An interesting and contempor
aneous note on this subject will be found in these pages, in the

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Register of Holme, co. York. No Institution, save one
divinely protected, however, could possibly have survived all the
Acts of Parliament which human and diabolical ingenuity have
devised, and which for nearly two centuries before this time had
been levelled against the very existence of the Catholic Church
in this country. Here, for example, as we are upon the subject
of " Births, Deaths, and Marriages," is a summary of a portion
of one, 3 Jac. I. cap. 5 . • •
"All persons married otherwise than in some open church or
chapel, and othervyise than according to the orders of the Church
of England, by a minister lawfully authorised, shall be disabled
to have any freehold, dower, thirds, &c. . . . and every Popish
Recusant shall within one month after the birth of any child of
his, baptize the same in the open parish church, under a penalty
of ;£'ioo, and if any Popish Recusant shall be buried other than
in the church or churchyard, or not according to the ecclesiastical
laws of the realm, the executors shall forfeit ;^20."
The " excommunication " of and refusal to bury John Gabriel,
in 1686, who, as recorded in the Worcester register, Was recon
ciled to the Church on his death bed, afford a typical illustration
of the odium theologicum, all the more odious in a cathedral city.
These Fleet and Mayfair Marriage registers towhich allusion has
just been made, came also within the scope of the Non-Parochial
Commissioners' enquiry in 1837, ^iid this unsavoury collection
now reposes peacefully and in wonderful contrast by the side of
our Catholic Registers in Somerset House. " The generality of
these marriages were celebrated," says the Report, " by clergymen
of low character ;" or, as a correspondent of the Gentleman's
Magazine for Feb., 1735, describes them, "by a sett of drunken
swearing Parsons." It should however be added, that the Com
missioners state that the registers of these worthies '' stand on
other and less favourable ground," and that they do not "include
them in their recommendation." This merely means that they
were not " admitted as evidence in a Court of Justice," in the
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Parochial " afterwards were, by the Act 3 and 4 Vict. cap. 92,
specially passed for that purpose.
Turning, however, more particularly to these Registers, a
summary and short account of which is given in these pages, we
notice first that of the seventy-eight deposited in 1840 at Somer
set House, no less than seventy are from the Northern District,
then under the jurisdiction of Bishop Briggs, and that of these,
forty-five are from Yorkshire, twelve from Durham, ten from
Northumberland, and one each from the counties of Cumberland,
Westmoreland, and Lancashire. Here again, it is worthy of
notice, that out of the nearly two hundred missions then existing
in this diocese, of which about fifty-four were in Yorkshire, and
nearly ninety in Lancashire, only one register, — that, viz., of St.
Alban's, Blackburn — was parted with from the last-named county
to the Registrar-General. Catholic Lancashire, then, was very
evidently loth to give up her Records of the past. Of the
remaining eight registers, two in Hampshire and Hertfordshire
are from the London District, five from the Midland, and one
only is from the Western District, that, namely, of Lulworth
Castle. We may therefore assume that in 1 840 it was left to the
option of each individual priest to forward his register, or not,
according to his discretion, and that in 1857 it was decided that
no more were to be sent at all.
The " date of the foundation " of each mission was also, we
may remark, required to be endorsed on each register forwarded
to the Commissioners. For this purpose a small printed " cer
tificate or statement " accompanied each book, and the date of
transmission, with one or two other facts, such as the name of
the priest, or " Proprietor of the Chapel," had to be filled in by
him. Very often there is a discrepancy between the alleged date
of the Mission " foundation " and the date at which the register
commences. The latter, however, was a question of fact, easily
answered, but not so the former. Some priests passed the
question by altogether, and left a "blank" under the words,
a

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" date of foundation." Others, perhaps, interpreted the words to
mean merely the date of the building of some humble Catholic
Church, or the time from which Mass was first said regularly in
the hired room of a private house.' Ever since, however, that
compulsory national apostacy under Queen Elizabeth, popularly
known as the Reformation, it is matter of notoriety that the
Church in this country from that time up to within the last sixty
or seventy years, worshipped as it were in the catacombs ; while
there are whole districts, more especially in the North of England,
in which Faith can never be said to have died out at all, and very
likely there is hardly a county which cannot boast of some little
oasis of this sort. There is plenty of Protestant evidence for this
which we shall hope presently to adduce. For example, the
secretary of the recently established "North Riding of Yorkshire
Record Society " quotes the following passage from the " Report
to the Magistrates of the North Riding " on those important
Records :
" Affording a variety of materials for the sufficient exhibition
of the social history of the district to which they relate, the
manuscripts are especially rich in three different classes of docu
ments, that enable the student to measure the numerical force,
to estimate the material resources, and to observe the activity and
resoluteness of the seventeenth century and eighteenth century
Catholics, where the gentry and yeomanry throughout successive
generations adhered with singular tenacity to the doctrines and
usages of the unreformed church!'
The Quakers and the Baptists certainly did not find much
difficulty in giving to the Commissioners, very accurately, the
" date " of their respective " foundations,"-^nay, for the matter
of that, had a like home question been gently put to Dr. William
Howley, Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1 840, who would venture
to speculate as to what might have been His Grace's reply in an
unguarded moment ? — but the poor Yorkshire priests who had
kept to the Old Faith of St. Augustinfe and Archbishop Warham
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names the year 1290 A.D., another, "the time of the Reforma
tion," another, " the time of Edward VI," two Durham priests
give "time immemorial" as the "date of the foundation" of
their Missions, and eleven more Yorkshire men keep silence on
the matter entirely.
The following extract is from the " Gentleman's Magazine "
for February 1735, p. 106:
" Sunday 23. About 1 1 o'clock, the Peace officers going their
rounds to the public houses, to prevent disorderly smoaking and
tippling in time of Divine Service, discovered a private Mass
House at a little ale house at the back of Shoreditch, where
nearly 100 people had got together in a Garret, most of them
miserably poor and ragged, and upon examination appeared to
be Irish. Some few were well dressed and several Mass books
were found with them. The Priest made his escape out of a back
door, leaving the rest to shift for themselves, whereupon, some
got out of a trap door, and others, after giving an account of
their names and places of abode, were let quietly depart. Not
withstanding, a great many met in the evening at the same
place, declaring that Mass should be said there."
Dr. Oliver, also, in his " Western County Collections," p. 14,
takes the following from the " Universal Museum " for 1767 :
" March. Another Mass House was discovered in Hog Lane,
near the Seven Dials  John Baptist Malony, a Papist priest,
was taken up for exercising his functions in Kent Street contrary
to law .... he was convicted at Croydon on 23rd August, and
sentenced to perpetual imprisonment."
Dr. Oliver adds that " his crime was administering the Sacra
ment to a sick man. After four years' imprisonment he was
banished from England for life." . . . . " The Rev. James Webb
was tried for priesthood in the Court of King's Bench, 25 June,
1768." After giving other similar examples, he adds in a note,
p. 33, " Mrs. Lingard, mother of the late historian, remembered
when her family used to go in a cart at night to hear Mass, the
priest, in a round frock, to resemble a poor man. She died at
Winchester, sth August, 1824, aged 92."
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paratively recent* date at which actual persecution was waged
against the Church in this country, but also, because they point
at once to the difficulty that must attend any endeavour to ob
tain much accurate detail of our Catholic Mission life during a
period when so much secrecy of action was still unhappily found
to be necessary. It is hoped, therefore, that the short epitome
of these registers now for the first time made public, will, in
the aggregate, prove a real assistance to future collectors of
material for our Catholic history.
Then again, we may nolice in passing that the register of
Clint's Hall in Yorkshire dates from 1786, but a priest was cer
tainly there some time prior to this year, for Mr. Chester Waters
in his " History bf Parish Registers," p. 68, quotes the following
from the Parish Register of Marske: " 1781. James Postle-
th waite, the Popish Priest at Clintz, buried 10 Feb. The service
by request was read as usual." He is evidently the " Jacobus
Postelwhate" mentioned in Douay Diary, p. 6'], as "Filius
Richardi et Annoe Newsham, discesis Cestrensis, secundi jam
anni philosophus ; natus fuit 11 Dec. 1723."
All these facts, then, point more or less to the secrecy of our
Mission life practised even after the passing of the first Catholic
Relief Act in 1778.
Or again, it might very naturally be supposed that the earlier
copies of our " Laity's Directory," would prove an admirable
source of information as to the status of our old English Catholic
Missions. But here again we are doomed to encounter further
disappointment ; for, owing to their extreme reticence on all
practical church matters, — of course this reserve was a necessity,
— they are little more than curiosities for the bookshelves of a
Catholic Antiquarian. A very interesting paper appeared on
this subject in the "Month" for February, 1882. The author
names 17S9 as the date of their first issue : that of 1768, however,
is the earliest of the collection at the British Museum. It is en
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on Sundays and Holy days for the year of our Lord MDCCLXVill :
By permission and with approbation." It consists merely of a
calendar of 24 pp. i2mo., and 14 pp. more are devoted to a
' Discourse on the Name of Jesus." Page 5 is headed, " Plenary
Indulgences granted to the Faithful in the L  District." Not
a priest or a mission is named, and the sole advertisement in its
pages is as follows : " Lately printed on a fine writing paper,
Altar cards of different sizes."
The issue of 1769 contains a little homily on the unity of
belief between the Eastern and Western Churches " with regard to
the Eucharist," and some extracts are afterwards given from the
Liturgies of St. James and St. Chrysostom, and from the Greek
Liturgy used by the Russians. The idea of the whole seems
rather to suggest a wish to instruct Protestants than to give
church information to Catholics. As far as I have been able to
ascertain, the " Directory " for 1789 is the first that ventures to
give an " Obituary of persons Clerical and Lay," and that doubt
less for a double reason ; the first of course being a desire to
obtain prayers for the repose of their souls, the second reflection
that probably inspired the insertion of the names being that
"dead men tell no tales." That of 1791 appears to have been
the first to contain the name of a living priest, the Rev. Mr.
Griffiths, who appeals for ;£'i200 for the " Chapel in St George's
Fields," but that bf 1793 gives a list of eighteen "chapels in and
near London:" it explains also the " Toleration Act " of 1791,
but warns gentlemen returning from abroad that "the importer
or receiver of such things as crosses, pictures. Ladies' Psalters,
Missals, Rosaries, Breviaries, &c. alike incurs a prcemunire !"
Such then were the magnificent first-fruits of the " Catholic
Relief Acts"!
The year 1801 reveals also for the first time the locality of a
few country Missions, and very slowly from this date we begin
to emerge into the light, after nearly two centuries and a half of
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ence of some Catholic Schools in England is first advertised in
1789, and that in 1798 there is a remarkable " exhortation to
decent behaviour in chapel " wherein the Faithful are affection
ately invited to avoid " the unclean trick of hawking, spitting, or
spawling about," and " the Sex are prayed to forbear the unbe
coming freedom of approaching to Communion with hats or
bonnets on," partly on the ground that " St. Paul orders their
heads to be covered but not to be muffled." Furthermore, they
are cautioned against "the more than masculine boldness of
stalking into church with pattins on, and of flinging them loudly
on the floor when in it, as also against the shameful act of
see-sawing in their chairs as if to court a nap ! "
While, however, on this subject, we must not omit to mention
the apparently solitary instance of a Catholic Almanac that
appeared for one year only, at a very much earlier date, viz., in
the reign of James II. It is a little book of twenty-four leaves,
the last four pages being a catalogue of books sold by the pub
lisher, one of these being, " Consensus Veterum, or the Reason
of Edward Sclater, Minister of Putney, for his Conversion to the
CathoHc Faith and Communion : 4to." The full title of this
interesting little book is : " The Catholic Almanac for the year
1687, containing both the Roman and English Calendar, an ex
planation of the principal Holy days of the whole year with Cata
logues of the Popes from St Peter to this present Innocentius
XL, and of the Kings of England and Archbishops of Canter
bury from the year 600 to the Reformation : London, printed
by Henry Hills, printer to the King's Most Excellent Majesty,
for his household and chappell, MDCLXXXVli." Three copies of
this are in the British Museum.
The Register of St Alban's, Blackburn, being the solitary re
presentative of Lancashire at Somerset House, the subjoined ex
tracts from Abram's exhaustive " History of Blackburn " will
serve to illustrate not only the early history of the Mission
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dence — of the condition and position of Catholics at the periods
referred to.
We read (p. 353) :
" The incidental information we have suffices to show an un
interrupted maintenance of religious worship by the members of the
Roman Church in Lancashire .... during the more than two
centuries of statutory proscription of English Catholicism ....
For long, no public chapels of that Communion were allowed to
be erected. It devolved upon the Catholic gentry and richer
families to provide for the worship of their tenants and poor
neighbours of the same faith in chapels connected with private
mansions." It might be .observed, in passing, that many incidental and
authentic notices of this fact will be found in the Appendix to
English Catholic Non-jurors of 171^ (Burns & Gates, 1886).
Mr. Abram, however, proceeds :
" Traces are frequent of the existence of a respectable minority
of Roman Catholics in this district throughout the 300 years of
Protestant ascendancy, and it is a question if in some parts of
Ribblesdale, under the continuance of landlords of that faith,
the Catholic section of the population was not at times in the
majority" ....
The following letter, written in 1709 by the Rev. John
Holme, vicar of Blackburn, to the Primate — the original
MS. of which is in Lambeth Palace Library — betokens the
strength of the Roman Catholic party in Lower Ribblesdale at
that time :
" Blackburne, Nov. 3, 1709. — May it please your Grace, —
According to your Lordship's directions, I have made the best
inquiry I could to find out the particular circumstances of the
Popish Bishop's Visitation within my parish, and the Discoveries
I have made are as follows : — The first week in July (which was
the next week after my Lord of Chester held his Visitation
here) Bishop Smith [Roman Catholic] came to Mr. Walmsley's,
of Lower Hall, in Samlesbury, within my Parish, and confirmed
there on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, vizt., the Sth, 9th, and
lOth of July. I cannot find that any Persons of Note were
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servants, who dare make no Discoveries of these matters. The
number of the Papists that were there was very great ; Mr.
Hull, my Curate at Samlesbury Chappell, tells me that he saw
multitudes goe that way past his house, some on foot, some on
horseback, most of them with little children in their arms. But
the greatest concourse of people was on Sunday, because the
Bishop was to preach that day. The neighbouring Protestants
seemed to take little notice of the matter, it being no novelty with
them, the same Bishbp having been there upon the same occa
sion about five years ago. I think the Papists have been a little
more reserved this, than they were the last time the Bishop was
in this Neighbourhood. For then they made great Boasts of
their vast Numbers, but now I have heard nothing from any of
them of this matter. If this account be not so perfect as your
Grace could wish, I desire you will not impute it to my negli
gence, but to the unwillingness of people in this country to in-
termiddle against Papists, which if it should come to any of
their Ears they would study to requite them, with the greatest
mischiefs they could think of And indeed 'tis dangerous
meddling with them here, where they bear down before thetn with
Power and Interest. I do not know that my Lord of Chester has
any Notice of this matter, but if your Grace think fitt I shall
communicate it to him. — I am, my Lord, your Grace's most
obliged and obedient son and servant, JO. HOLME."
Mr. Abram, afterwards, citing as his authority the Brindle
Catholic Chapel Register, records the fact of " other Catholic
episcopal visitations to this district in 1749, 17SS. 1760, and
1766," and adds that " eight or nine years after the date of Vicar
Holme's letter, Gastrell, Bishop of Chester " . . . . states " there
were then in existence, in the townships of which Blackburn was
the parochial centre, three ' Papist Meetings,' and S32 professed
Papists, or in the whole parish 1023 avowed Papists out of a
total of 1800 families, &c." And further :
" In the town of Blackburn there was found, in the hardest
times of the penal laws against ' Popery,' a small colony of
staunch Roman Catholics " . . . . who " may have found it un
safe to have their place of worship in the town, for I find no
trace of any public chapel of that communion in Blackburn until
about a century ago. It is stated that the Catholic Chapel in
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1773. This was a plain structure of brick, concealed by houses
surrounding, and this chapel sufficed for the needs of the Roman
Catholics about fifty years, until the erection of St. Alban's in
1824, when the old chapel in Chapel Street was sold. The walls
are yet standing, but since its disuse for Christian worship it has
been used as a workshop. About seven years after this chapel
was built, the Rev. William Dunn was appointed priest of the
Blackburn Mission. This useful priest died suddenly at the
altar, when offering Mass, on Sunday, October 27, 1805, a
memorial of . . . whom was fixed in St Alban's Chapel in
1844. ... A succeeding priest was the Rev. R. Albott, who
occurs in 18 19, when a return was made of the Catholic congre
gation in Blackburn, numbering 1200 persons. Father Albott
was still priest in Blackburn in 1824."
Mr. Abram, in addition to further important information
relative to Catholics in this locality, then gives an elaborate
description of St Alban's and other Blackburn churches, to
which we must refer our readers. He adds also that " the Rev.
James Sharpies, D.D., was priest of St. Alban's from about the
time of the removal of the congregation of the older chapel
thither until 1842, when he was consecrated Bishop of Samaria."
The catalogue of the library, as given in the Pontefract
Register, is perhaps suggestive of another interesting feature of
some of our old secular missions. Very often a collection of
books in the Presbytery, known, it would seem, as the priests'
library, is handed down in trust from one Missionary Rector to
another, being presumably the property of the Bishop of the
diocese. Some of these volumes seem to tell their own tale of
the hands through which they may have passed in bygone
times. In the venerable old Staffordshire Mission of Brewood,
for instance, there is a thin quarto missal, published in 1623
the title page of which is " Missale Parvum pro Sacerdotibus in
Anglia itinerantibus, ordo etiam. Baptizandi, aliaquce sacramenta
¦ministrandi, et officia qucedam Ecclesiastica rite peragendi." The
very existence of such a volume enables us rapidly to picture
to ourselves the disguised priest carrying on his work of mercy,
and bringing vividly to our minds the words of St. Paul, " Even.
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unto this hour we both hunger and thirst, and are naked and
are buffeted, and have no fixed abode, and we labour, working
with our own hands : we are reviled and we bless, we are
persecuted and we suffer it, we are ill-spoken of and we intreat,
we are made as the refuse of this world, the off-scouring of all
even till now."
Not always, however, are these mission volumes necessarily
of a theological character. At Dorchester in Oxfordshire, for
example, is a fine copy of Bewick's " History of British Birds," a
work for which ;^io or £\ 5 is sometimes now asked. Another
interesting and valuable collection of old Catholic books is in
the presbytery of Weston-Underwood in Buckinghamshire, the
property of Sir Nicholas Throckmorton. Of course, however,
many others could be named.
This leads us, finally, to say something of three Registers, not
in Somerset House, but noticed here by way of appendix and
by the kind permission of the Rev. E. J. Purbrick, S.J., the Rev.
Raymund Palmer, O.P., and the Very Rev. Canon Stokes of
Weston-Underwood. Assuming that these Registers are fair
samples of others that are undoubtedly scattered up and down
the country, it is surely a matter of regret that more is not
known of records, a good summary of which could not fail to
illustrate very faithfully the history of the Church in England
for the period to which they relate.
The first upon our list is the Register of Weston-Underwood
that dates from 1702. , Lipscomb in his "History of Buckingham
shire," iv., 402, in his account of this parish says : —
" Soon after the accession of Sir Charles Throckmorton to the
estate at Coughton, the old Mansion at Weston being much
dilapidated and decayed was taken down, excepting the chapel
wing and a portion of the offices : .... an extensive and valu
able library . . . was amongst the ornaments of Weston ....
the old Chapel was formed out of three of the attics on the west
side of the house, which were thrown together. When the man
sion was demolished in 1827, hiding places were discovered

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which had probably been unknown to the family during many
years. In the floor of one of the garrets near those which had
been made into a chapel, was a trap-door opening into a small
room below, within which was a closet containing an old bed,
and a ladder long enough to reach the trap-door. In another
place was a concealed door, which, when bolted within, could
not be distinguished from the wainscot"
Very probably, then, these were at times the apartments of the
Benedictine Father, William Blakey, whose death is recorded in
the Register as on 5 January, 172 1.
"After the house was taken down, one of the wings in the
north front (formerly a stable) was converted into a Chapel, and
a small portion of the west side of the House left standing for
the residence of the Priest . . . The scenerj- of the park and
gardens, with the course of the river, and the venerable groves
which shelter the mansion have been the theme of Cowper' s
Muse." The "Quarterly Review" for January, i860, in its review of
Southey's "Life of Cowper," — probably paraphrasing Cowper's
own description — thus describes the inhabitants of Olney in
1767, the neighbouring town from which Cowper walked daily
to Weston : — " The majority of the people were brutal in their
manners and heathenish in their morals. Little creatures, seven
years of age, made the place resound every evening with curses
and villainous songs," — a striking contrast this, to the spirit
which breathes in every line of the Catholic Register of Deaths
and " Conversions " in the few extracts we give of a date not
so many years prior to 1767.
Weston-Underwood, it may be added, is still a little Catholic
stronghold, and a considerable portion of the old parish church
yard is set apart for Catholic burials. A mural tablet in the
south aisle records the following : — " Hie jacet Rev. Gulielmus
Gregson, Romanae Catholicze Ecclesis Sacerdos et per 30 annos
hujus Pagi Catholicorum Pastor. Obiit 18° Octobris Anno Salutis
1800° aetatis suae 6S. Vir fuit ore serenus ac mente Sanctus
moribus, pauperum Medicus et Amicus." This Benedictine

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Father of Samlesbury in Lancashire was, according to Weldon,
professed, i8 April, 1751 ; William Blakey of Northumberland,
the Father already mentioned, being entered as professed, 3 Nov.,
1682. The Register of Cheam, in Surrey, that of a mission unhappily
long since discontinued, is now amongst the Archives of the
Dominican Priory at Haverstock Hill. Father Raymund Palmer,
O.P., has kindly permitted me to copy the following account of
it from his valuable unpublished MS. collections.
"The Mission of Cheam was for some time served by the
English Dominican Fathers, but never belonged exclusively to
them, as it was always in the hands of the Vicar Apostolic of the
district. Still, as the Register of Cheam is now in the Archives
of the Province, I have thought it useful and interesting to give
as succinct an account as possible of the entries in this book,
with a few additional particulars from one or two other docu
ments. There appears to have been a Mission at Cheam,
regularly served by the Secular Clergy from the time at least of
Charles I. Bartholomew Fromond, lord of the manor, charged
his estate there with £5 towards the support of it. Father Joseph
Hansbie" [j^g "English Catholic Nonjurors of 171 5," p. 304]
" resided at Lower Cheam from in or after 1742, to about the
end of 1747, and served the Catholics there. In 17s S Cheam
was attached to the Portuguese chapel in London, and at this
time commences the Register  William Heatley, O.S.B.,
a most zealous Missionary, appears to have laboured 4t Cheam
with indefatigable energy. He has left a list of S3 converts,
whom in those unfavourable times he gathered into the fold of
the Church. So great was his success that in 1760, the enmity
and opposition of Dr. James King and of his satellites was
excited, who incessantly harassed the Catholics with summonses
before the Magistrates, in which these worthies would not appear
as prosecutors." [Dr. King was instituted to the Rectory of Cheam
— a living in the patronage of St. John's College, Oxford — on J
December, 1747. He died in 1780.] "This legal persecu
tion endured for three months. Dr. King's opposition continued
for many years and was exercised on every available occasion.
For some time he refused to inter an infant (Mary Andrews)
that died 6 Nov., 1765, saying he knew nothing of the individual
said to have baptised her, and wrote to the mother reminding
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functions in England. On April 6, 1780, while fanaticism was
yet hatching the riot and destruction of the Gordon Mob, one
William Bryant was hounded to his grave in the parish church
yard by the 'hellish' rabblewhich composed the populace of Lower
or East Cheam." Unhappily the MS. giving an account of this
event has been accidentally destroyed, but it will be seen that
the register makes some allusion to the fact. Father Palmer
continues : —
" William Heatley was succeeded by B. Bradshaw, chaplain to
the Portuguese Embassy, who . . . arrived on Sunday, 20 Dec,
1 76 1. His last entry is dated 31 May, 1768. H. Elliot signs
from 30 July, 1769 to 10 June, 1770 : R. Harris- from 21 Jan.,
1772, to 26 Mar., 1775 : John Bede Brewer, O.S.B., 10 June,
^17^ '• ]• ]¦ Placid Naylor, O.S.B., from 3 Nov., 1776, to 11 April,
178s, and Fr. Benedict Short OR, from about April, 1785, to
Feb., 1788. For attending the Catholics there he received, i
Mar., 1787, from the Hon. James Talbot, £13 3s 6d, for two
years', and 3 Jan., 1788, £6 i6s 8d, for one year's proceeds of the
fund established for serving that mission. These small sums
barely sufficed for paying travelling expenses . . . The Register
closes with 28 Oct, 1788, . . . and after 1761 appears to have
been very imperfectly kept, especially as to converts . . . Fer
dinand Watkins, M.D., was the principal Catholic of Cheam."
Though somewhat irregular in point of order, yet as it is from
the same source, the following abridged account of the Missions
of Leeds is here given, the registers being in the Somerset House
collection :
"When Fr. Albert Underbill left Selby in 1802, on account of
ill-health, he took up his abode in Leeds. His zeal soon sur
mounted bodily infirmities, and he was destined to restore the
Faith in that important town. For a long time he had to
struggle on in deep obscurity and poverty. His dwelling, with
the room in which he assembled the few Catholics whom he
could collect together to hear Mass, stood in a miserable alley or
yard behind the public shambles, and so straitened were his
means that very often he had nothing more for dinner than
potatoes mashed with butter-milk. It was one of his economical
expedients to go to the shambles late on the Saturday night
when the general marketing had closed, and buy scraps of meat
and bones remaining on the butcher's hands, and this supply
which he obtained at a very trifling cost, served him for the
whole of the ensuing week. For some time he did occasional

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duty at Roundhay and also at Chappeltown, 27 miles from
Leeds and 6 from Sheffield. It was his most ardent desire to
erect a chapel at Leeds, but it was long before he could carry
out his design. A legacy of about £600 then fell to him, and in
1805, with his Superior's approbation, he undertook the holy
work. He purchased a piece of ground in Lady Lane, and
erected a chapel in honour of St Ann, with a priest's residence.
He had immense difficulties to overcome, but with additional
assistance from the charitable he completed his task, yet not
without incurring a very considerable debt
" In Leeds, Protestant bigotry was then most bitter. One night,
soon after he entered his new house, a brick-bat was thrown
through his bedroom window which fell upon the bed where he
was lying, but fortunately did not strike him. About this time,
too, he was seized with a dangerous illness, caused probably by
mental anxiety and the dampness of his new abode, so that he
was brought to death's door. But he was happily spared for
some years longer to rescue the Province from extinction. The
finances of Fr. Albert Underbill were materially ameliorated by
the generosity of Lord Stourton, so that when he made his
report to the Provincial, 26 Feb., 1807, they appeared in a
favourable condition. Lord Stourton allowed him an annual
salary of £30, with ;^s for the poor and ;^S fo*" the chapel. The
pew-rents amounted to ;^4i. The congregation had promised
him ;^I2 a-year when he left off going to Selby, but £g only was
realized. The interest of ;^S00 left by Mr. Wade, came — taxes
deducted — to ;^22 los, and presents, &c., came to about £7.
Thus the income was £1 10. By slow degrees he reduced the
debt on the chapel to ;^46o, and on this he had to pay ;^22 lOs,
yearly interest. So he had a clear £?>2, a-year, and as he lived
rather within bounds, he was enabled to decrease his liabilities
from time to time.
" The want of school room was greatly felt In October, 1805,
Fr. Albert retired to a tenement in his garden, and gave up his
house to Miss Humble, a young lady of property and great piety,
who there taught girls gratuitously, and the good which this
excellent person did is thus told by Fr. Albert : ' As an instance,'
he writes, ' of the change she has brought about in my little ones,
I need only mention that before she began to teach, there used
to be 5 or 6 boys and as many girls that came to catechism on
Sunday afternoon, but at present, the number of boys continuing
the same, there are sometimes above thirty girls, . . . and all of
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can say it well : ... for my part I consider her occupying the
house as a blessing upon it' About 1810, he built a school
adjoining the Presbytery, which he employed also as a Sunday
school, and there too, being the only Father whose hopes for the
continuance of the Order in England were not well nigh ex
tinguished, in addition to his Missionary duties, he taught Latin
to some youths who seemed to show some vocation for the
ecclesiastical state. It was the only Seminary and support of
the Order, and saved it from extinction. This additional build
ing increased the debts of Fr. Albert to about £600, which he
was unable to liquidate. His creditors became very clamorous,
and threatened him with arrest, so that he was in constant
expectation of the debtor's prison, and in dread that the mission
property being seized, all his labours would be rendered abortive.
From this strait he was relieved by the kindness of Mr. James
Holdforth of Burley, who lent him the money he required, and
eventually most generously cancelled the debt When Father
Albert emerged from his obscurity and became publicly known,
his virtues and talents attracted the respect of the Catholic
nobility and gentry around Leeds, especially of the Stourtons,
Vavasours, Middletons, and Watertons, and even Protestants
contributed their meed of praise. On one ocasion, the leading
newspaper in the town spoke of him in the highest terms, and
associated his name with those of the most venerable Fathers of
the Church. . . ¦ About the end of August, 18 14, Fr. Albert left
Leeds, and was succeeded by Fr. Hyacinth Lefebvre, who
employed his spare time in teaching French to numerous pupils.
Mr John Robinson of Leeds bequeathed for the support of the
priest resident in Lady Lane, the sum of ;£^20o. . . . payable
upon the death of his wife Mrs. Mary Robinson ; her decease
taking pilace in October, 1822, this sum was transmitted to the
Province in the November of the following year.
" Fr. Lewis Oxley joined Fr. Hyacinth at Leeds on 23rd Oct,
1822. Through his exertions, partly by subscription and in part
by the liberality of the Earl of Shrewsbury, the Tempests of
Brough Hall — the Rev. J. P. Tempest contributing, I believe,
;£200 — and other benefactors, a second chapel was erected in
Leeds on the northern road leading to York. The foundation
stone was laid ist March, 1831, and the chapel, dedicated to St
Patrick, and capable of accommodating 700 persons, was solemnly
opened on 12th July and two following days by the Rt Rev. Dr.
Penswick. There were present on this occasion Fr. Ambrose
Woods, many clergy, both of England and Ireland, and several

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of the Catholic nobility and gentry of the surrounding country.
On the second day, the Bishop administered the Sacrament of
Confirmation to upwards of soo youths and adults, 40 or more
of the latter being converts. To this new chapel became attached
a congregation of more than 4000 souls : it was placed under the
immediate jurisdiction of the Vicar Apostolic with whom it was
stipulated that St. Patrick's should be served by the Dominican
Fathers only as long as it was convenient to them.
" The feeble state of the Dominican Province compelled the
Fathers to surrender their connection with Leeds in 1833. It
was agreed that ;^400 should be paid by the Bishop to the Pro
vince for St. Anne's. Mr. Robinson's bequest had been placed
in the funds, and it was now left as part of the ;^400, the Bishop
agreeing to settle an equal amount on the Mission. Fr. Hyacinth
Lefebvre was succeeded at Lady Lane by the Revv. — Brown and
H. Walmsley, and Fr. Lewis Oxley at St. Patrick's by the Rev.
Henry Newsham. The transfer of the two chapels was com
pleted in 1837. . . . The land and property in Lady Lane was
soon sold, and the chapel destroyed, while a mural marble was
put up on the Gospel Side of the Sanctuary of St Patrick's,
bearing the following inscription : " Sacred to the Memory of the
Rev. Albert Underbill, D.D., O.S.D., many years the Pastor of
the Catholic congregation at Leeds, who departed this life 22
Oct, 1 8 14, aged 70 years. The blessing of him that was ready
to perish came upon me, and I comforted the heart of the widow.
Job xxix. 13."
Such then is the authentic record of some of the early struggles
of missionary work at Leeds. When it is remembered that prior
to the Restoration of Charles II., the Catholic clergy did not
venture to keep Registers, that of Worcester — the last upon our
list — dating from i68s, may certainly be regarded among the
earliest, if not actually the earliest, on record. The first little
volume of this interesting Register, the leaves of which are eight
inches long and only three in width, bears also every trace of
having been deprived of its earlier pages. At all events, the
first entry in it is dated less than six years after the martyrdom,
at Worcester itself, of the Franciscan Father, John Wall. The
Rev. Father Foxwell, S.J., writes that he believes " the Society
took up this district in the year 1619." Foley also in his " Re-

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cords S.J." V. 84s, says, that "from 1720, the Missionary Fathers
of Worcester can be clearly traced to the present day.' Wor
cester however was the scene of Fr. Oldcorne's martyrdom in
1606. It might be added that a priest's signature appears twice
only in the first volume of the Register, that covers a period of
nearly a hundred years, that is, from 1685 to 1778 : the signatures
are those of the Rev. Charles Hanne, S.J., on 12 March 1749, and
of Fr. Butler, O.S.B., in 1776.
The recently published volumes of Canon Plasse, entitled
" Le Clergd Fran9ais Refugi6 en Angleterre," have proved a
valuable and interesting means of identifying several of the
French clergy whose names frequently appear in the Somerset
House Registers. Enough then of these ; but let it be finally
and again stated that many other similar and as valuable Records
are still in private hands. " It is to be wished," says a writer in
Notes and Queries, 17 July, 1886 — " that all these precious docu
ments were made safe for ever by being printed."

John Orlebar Payne.

Holly Village,
HiGHGATE, Nov., 1888.

OLD ENGLISH CATHOLIC MISSIONS.

^umlrerlanti (Penrith).
Of the Catholic Mission Registers now deposited at Somerset
House, the first upon the list is that of Penrith in the county of
Cumberland. [No. 19.] Of no particular interest, it consists of
four leaves only, the baptismal entries dating from " the opening
of the Chapel, Jan. 27, 1833," until Sept 30, 1838. The Register
itself was forwarded to the Commissioners, Nov. 3, 1840, by the
Rev. Geo. Leo Haydock, who styles himself " the present Incum
bent  appointed by the Roman Catholic Bishop, Dr.
Briggs, near York." During the period over which it extends,
the priests in charge appear to have been the Revs. John Dow-
dall, James Seddon, J. Fielding Whitaker, and H. Newsham.
Of the last-named it is recorded at the foot of p. S, that he was
"stationed here at least in August, 1834, and seems to have only
registered the Baptisms with a pencil at y« end of y^ Ritual in
haste, intending' perhaps to put dates, &c., afterwards. Dis
pleased at some reports, he got removed, Oct, 1836."
Borset (Lulworth Castle).
The Lulworth Castle Chapel register, [Dorset, No. 16.] a large
folio volume, of which only some seventy-five pages are filled.

2 OLD ENGLISH CATHOLIC MISSIONS.
dates from March 24, 17SS. the Rev. Charles Plowden, S.J.,
being apparently the first who ventures to enter his name as
" Sacerdos," Nov. 20, 1785. Other Fathers in succession from
the year 1790, who served the mission there, were the Revs. A.
Clinton, J. Jenison, Leonard Brooke, John Joseph Reeve, Joseph
Tristram, and lastly the Rev. E. B. Moutardier who, as chaplain
to the Weld family, on forwarding the volume to the Commis
sioners writes : " As burials, with exception of a few in the family
vault, are in the parish churchyard, no regular register has been
kept : the first registers of births and baptisms do, however, date
from the year 17s S) Prayers being then said, and baptisms
administered within the castle."
Among the conditional baptisms, probably those therefore of
converts, are the following : —
"6 Dec, 18 18, Hannah Bartlet, sub conditione, setatis suae, 26.
17 Jan., 1 8 19, Joseph Shott, „ „ 16.
24 June, 1820, Eliz. Cobb, „ „ circa, 37.
4 Nov., „ Maria Baggs, „ „ „ 18."
The last entry in the book is " 29 Sept, 1840, Mary Parmiter,
aet 34, sub conditione baptizata est"

©urfjant (Ancroft, Haggerston Castle).

The Haggerston Castle register — the first of the Durham
collection — dates from 1790, from which year until 1832, the
chaplain appears to have been the Rev. Michael Tidyman, who
died on May i^'Ca.oi\}a.?Xyea.x(Laiety's Directory, 1833), the priests

OLD ENGLISH CATHOLIC MISSIONS. 3
following being the Revs. William Birdsall, James Anderton,
Richard Tyrer, Geo. J. A. Corless, and Robert Smith, while
among the conditional baptisms of converts are those of Mary
Gilly and Eliz. Sotherland, 17 June, 1835; Eliz. Westle, Oct
nth, and Thomas Hogarth, Dec. iS of the same year; Margaret
Murray, Alice Westle, Jane Grant and Mary Graham, all upon
13 Mar., 1836 ; Mary Boyd, ist June, 1836, and Mary Harrington,
15 April, 1838. l3tsi5oiJ=OT[Mrniout!j.
The register of St Mary's Chapel, Bishop-Wearmouth, opens
only with the year 1809, though the Rev. William Kearney,
priest there in 1840, tells the Commissioners that "the old
Catholic Chapel was opened in 1790." No baptismal register
appears to have existed here before 1809.

Barlitigton.
This register of St Augustine's Chapel — a small book of 30
leaves only — is entitled : " Baptismal register of the Darlington
Congregation from 10 July, 1783 : until page 25 inclusively,
extracted from the Baptismal register preserved at Stockton by
Rev. Thomas Story." The clergy successively in charge here
appear to have been Revs. John Daniel, William Coghlan, Lewis
le Crornier, Thomas Story, Jos. Curr, and Will. Hogarth.
Burliam [St. Cuthbert's.]
" Saint Cuthbert's Chapel, Old Elvet, of the Secular clergy
and the Jesuits' Chapel," — the latter being "closed in 1827,"—
are returned as " founded from time immemorial." The baptismal
and marriage register of the former dates from I739. but a

4 OLD ENG LISH GA THOLIG MISSIONS.
register of a considerably earlier date is curiously enough still in
the custody of the Durham clergy, so that all could not have
been sent to the Commissioners : in this some familiar Northern
Catholic names occur : e.g. " Margaret Carnaby, ob. 1 1 Jan.,
1708-9. Margaret Pudsey, ob. 19 July, 1717; Mary Garnett
ob. 21 April, 1718; John Forcer, ob. 25 Dec, 172S," — The
register of the Jesuits' Chapel, served by the Fathers Edward
Walsh and John Scott S.J., dates from 1768. In the St Cuth
bert's book, a closely written volume, and after the entry of
the baptism of Sarah Watson, 20 Jan., 1746, occurs the following
note : " Not continued for y*- year, probably on ace*- of y^ diffi
culty of ye Times." The priest's name first entered in this
register is that of Nic Clavering, Nov. 10, 1778, singularly enough
the year of the passing of the first Catholic Relief Act.
Croxirale.
St Oswald's Chapel, Croxdale [No. 18.], the seat of the Salvin
family, is also returned by the Rev. Thomas Smith in 1840, after
a thirty-two years' residence there as priest in charge, as "founded
from time immemorial." The register, a neatly kept and clearly
written volume of 44 pp., only dates from 1801. On its fly-page
is the following entry : " Some priests, Incumbents in succession
of Croxdale congregation. Rev. Kendal, about 1730, Hankin,
Waram, Dunn, Taylor, Talbot Arthur Storey came Aug*- 9,
1 77 1, left 1808. Thomas Smith came to Croxdale 1802, suc
ceeded A. Storey, 1808." 3Es!j=1Latttre.
No. 19, the Esh-Laude register, is in two books. Book I., "Liber
Baptizatorum -f- ad Majorem Dei gloriam," 1795-1828, being
partly indexed. On its cover is written : " The Rev. John Yates

OLD ENGLISH CA THOLIG MISSIONS. S
came to Newhouse, near Esh, Durham, 17 June, 1795 ; he de
parted this life I June, 1827, at Esh-Laude, aged 62, and was
buried at Ushaw. Rev. William Fletcher came to Esh, 9 June,
1827." Book II. continues the register from 13 April, 1829, and
it is added that " Rev. Roger Glassbrook venit ad Esh-Laude
an. 1837." The mission is returned as "founded in 1790."
f^attkpool.
The register of St Hilda's Chapel, Hartlepool, covers only a
period of six years, viz. 1834-1840. The Rev. Will Knight, in
the " Laity s Directory ' for 1840, announces "Divine Service at
half-past 10 in the morning." In the "Directory" for 1835, he
writes, " This Chapel, which has been erected principally by a
Lady long resident of the town, is supported only by the small
sum which is paid for the Sittings," and he appeals to visitors to
help him in " the necessities of this new mission."
|gou5!)ton40=Sprtns»
This register. No. 26, dates only from 1831. The Rev. James
A. M'Evoy, when forwarding it from St Michael's, in 1840,
writes, " I should perhaps have observed that a new Catholic
Chapel, under the above designatibn, St. Michael's, and situated
a short distance out of the town or village of Houghton-le-Spring,
was opened on 7th November, 1837. For about seven years
previously a private room in Houghton-le-Spring served as a
chapel, and was used for that purpose exclusively." In the
" Directory " for 1833, he appeals for help in his mission, as "the
first resident priest there since the Reformation."
Joseph, George, and John, three sons of John and Mary Magee,
are entered in the register as baptized, sub conditione, 14 April,
1833, the dates of their birth being left blank.

6 OLD ENGLISH CATHOLIC MISSIONS.
ILancljcster antt pontop i^all.
St Cuthbert's Chapel, Lanchester, No. 28, and the Mission
attached to Pontop Hall are returned as founded in 1748. Of
the clergy, the name of John Lingard occurs as priest here in
1796 ; John Jones, Thomas Eyre, John Bell, also are named as
priests, the last named arriving at Pontop ist April, 1803. The
following entries are extracted from the " Registrum obituum in
Congregatione de Pontop ab initio Nov. 1778."
" 1780. 18 Jan. Obiit Margarita Punshon, mater GuL Punshon
de Bushblaides, quae in banc congregationem venit circa mediam
aestatem usu rationis orbata prae aetate, et propter hunc defectum
sancta tantum extrema unctione sublevata est
" Die 19 Jan. 1781. Obiit Joa. Winship prope Pixton, cum vix
horam graviter et periculose aegrotasset, non eram certior factus
ut sacma ministrarem, sed circa initium ejusdem mensis, ad sacmii
penitentiae &c accesserat
" 20 April, 1 78 1, Obiit Ric Carrick. inter 6&i7 annos natus, qui
orare didiscerat, sed non eram monitus ut ilium viserem ante
mortem." A second book, — " Registrum Baptismatorum in congregatione
de Brooms: ad Majorem Dei gloriam" — for the period 1827-
1839 was forwarded together with the foregoing in Oct 1840, by
the, Rev. Thomas Gillett Jlotift=3^aseIKen»
No. 30 is the register of Hardwick House and Hutton
House in the parish of Monk-Haselden, " the chapel of Hardwick
being removed to Hutton House in 1825 ;" so writes the Rev.
Thomas Augustine Slater, its custodian since 1822. Of his aged
predecessor, the Rev. Christopher Rose, Fr. Slater also writes, 7
Feb. 1 827 : " The undersigned successor to the Rev. Mr. Rose

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by whom Joseph Sidgwick was baptised has been unable to find
any register of baptisms kept by the late Mr. Rose, and believes
no such registers are existing. But in these circumstances
nothing further can be done than for the undersigned to declare
his firm conviction that such a baptism did take place on or
about the loth Dec 1796, from the general and regularly exact
conduct of Mr. Rose in the discharge of his duties." The regis
ter dates from 1808. Stella.
Two other Durham books complete the collection for that
county. The first is that of the Chapel of St Thomas Aquinas,
Stella, in the parish of Ryton, and is entitled " Liber Baptizatorum
Missionis Stellanae in agro Dunelmensi ab anno Dni MDCCLXXV.,
inchoavit Thomas Eyre, Derbiensis, C.A.D.A. Ad majorem Dei
gloriam." The Rev. Thomas Story appears to have succeeded
here in 1792, and to have been followed afterwards in succession
by the Revs. William Hull, R. Glassbrook, Joseph Dent Thomas
Cock and Vincent Joseph Eyre.
" 1776. 12 Jan: natus et baptizatus, Thomas, filius Thomae et
Annae Bewick (olim Pratt)"

Stocftton=on=2refS antr ©arltngton.
The last register in this county is that of St Mary's Chapel,
Stockton-on-Tees, (No. 48), dating from 1783, which is also
returned as the date of the foundation of the Mission. A note
states that "the Rev. Thomas Story died on Friday evening, 13
Sep. 1822, having rec^ all the rites of the Church: Req. in pace,"
that Joseph Curr arrived at Stockton, 2nd Oct, in the same year,
being succeeded i8th Nov., 1826, by Joseph Render, whose place
was in his turn supplied by Joseph Dugdale, loth Oct, 1830.

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flampsl^ire (Lymington.)
Of the Hampshire Missions, the registers — dating from 1863
to 1840 — of one only are located at Somerset House, those
namely of " Lymington, Pilewell House, and Rook Cliffe."
Father William Waterton, S.J., on forwarding the two register
books to the Commissioners, writes upon the cover of one of
them : " I came to Pilewell as chaplain, 28 Oct 1826, and from
that time to the present day, 3 Nov. 1840, all the names in this
book were duly entered by me." The names of the clergy that
occur in it from 1803 downwards are, J. Blot, John Alleway,
Thomas Tilbury, Rev. Dom. Le Tellier, Presb. GaL (absente
Thom. Tilbury), John Brown, John Leadbetter, and lastly William
Waterton, S.J. The entries in the second book — 1813-1815 —
" Registre des BaptSmes, &c.," which consists of only a few leaves,
appear to have been made by the Rev. FranQois Marie Le Tailleur,
perhaps the French refugee priest of the diocese of Rouen men
tioned by Canon Plasse in his " Clerg^ Fran9ais r^fugi^ en
Angleterre," who names also the AbbS Le Tellier as at Lyming
ton about the year 1806. [Id. ii. 190.J
^tXtfoxtiSU^t (Ware.)
One , Hertfordshire Mission Register — No. 37 — dating from
1832 to 1840, is also all that represents that county. It is
described as the " Register of Baptisms, &c., in the Flock of the
Holy Catholic Apostolic Church " in French Horn Lane at
Ware. THe clergy in their order are Revs. Fred. Inglis, Will.
Watson, Fred. Elwell, William Smith, and J. L. Miller. Though
of so recent a date, the old fear to rnention the word " Priest '
betrays itself, for it is added that the register is " in the custody
of the Pastor, Joseph Lawrence Miller of 5 Artillery Street,
Bishopsgate, in the Liberty of the Old Artillery of the Tower

OLD ENGLISH CATHOLIC MISSIONS. ' 9
Hamlets, who has kept it since 1839 as Chief Pastor of the
Congregation." lEattcasfjiu (Blackburn.)
It is worthy of note that from the Catholic County of Lanca
shire, only one register, that of St Alban's, Blackburn, No.
21, was forwarded to the Commissioners. In six books, and
covering the period 1783-1837, it possesses, however, little curious
matter, being chiefly valuable on account of the large number of
entries it contains. No priest's name, previous to that of Richard
Albott in 1813, appears to be entered, nor is the date of the
foundation of the Mission hinted at. '
SLincoInsfiire (Market-Rasen.)
Lincolnshire supplies two registers. The first. No. 43, is that
of Market Rasen. The Mission is returned by the Rev. Francis
Willoughby Brewster in 1840 as founded in 1782, the register
proper dating from 1797. Pinned inside, however, are some
extracts of an earlier date from the prayer books of private in
dividuals : the first, e.g., being as follows : " Mary Champney was
bawrn 16 Nov. 1765." Further on comes : " Extractum e libro
Precum Janae Cash : 27 Feb. 1777, James Cash bap. by Rev. Mr.
Johnson." Two other priests' names occur in these extracts
" Mr. Lisley " in 1781, and " Mr. Alaine" in 1794.

The Mission of Osgodby, co. Lincoln, No. 47, is returned as
founded in the year 1793. The register is in two books, dating
from 1799, and, like its predecessor, No. 43, contains many entries
of the family of Young. In Book I. occurs the following entry :
"The Rev. James Egan commenced the duties oi Pastor at

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Osgodby under the auspices of the Holy Mother of God, 20
Aug. 1839."
§.mi^\m^itX\mCa (Alnwick.)
Ten Mission Registers are forwarded from Northumberland
The first is that of St. Mary's Chapel, Barliffgate Street, Alnwick,
returned in 1840 by the Rev. John Fishwick as founded in 1769,
the registers dating from 1794. The Rev. Francis Howard writes
in Book I., " I introduced my people into my new Chapel in
Alnwick the 14 Aug. 1796, and on 21 of the same month were
confirmed by the Right Rev. Will. Gibson " twenty-seven people.
Later on the death of Fr. Howard is recorded as on 9 March,
1802. For his life and that of his successor, Fr. John Beaumont,
S.J., See Foley's " Collectanea, S.J." "21 Mar. 1802, was baptized
at Lemington by the Rev. M. Gautier, French exiled clergyman,
Margaret; da. to Thomas and Jane Anderson." Among other
clergy named in the register are the Rev. Thomas Gillow of
Callaly, in 1802, and John Beaumont in 1813. This Mission was
given up to the Bishop of the diocese in 1857.
^Itomton.
The register of Biddleston Chapel and Biddleston Hall in the
parish of Alwinton [No. 8], next follows, and is returned, 28
Oct., 1840, to the Commissioners, by the Rev. George T. A.
Corless, D.D., as that of a mission "founded about the year
1200," Catherine Clavering being named as "proprietor." The
register dates from 1767, and the mission appears to have been
under the care of the Benedictine Fathers, one of whom, the
Rev. J. Naylor, on 10 July, 1786, makes the following entry:
" Christopher Davison of Yeldon [?] was married by me to Ann
Frizzel [?] of the same place, Protestant, the 10 July, 1786, and
promised to be married at church the next day, but afterwards

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refused to be married to her or own her for his wife : he has
since married another woman with whom he lives at present, and
Ann Frizzel has married another man at Alnwick."
Subjoined are a few specimen entries in the register of more
or less interest :
" John Athe}- [?] of Harbottle Village was married to Elizabeth
Redhead, 28 Feb., 1838, not in the Catholic Church but in the
Protestant Church, without leave and consent of his pastor,
Joseph Howard, Miss. Ap."
"Anne Brown obiit apud Biddleston die 2 ilar., 1838, sine
absolutione et sacri olci perceptione per negligentiam illorum
habitantium cum illS, : aged 82. J. T. Howard, Miss. Ap."
" Henricus Stourton, filius secundus Hon. Caroli et Luciae
Stourton obiit collegii, 24 Feb., 1838, absolutione et sacri olei
perceptione munitus. R.I.P."
"Rob. Hixton, many years gamekeeper at Biddleston, died 15
July, 1825, aged 86. R.LP."
" Will. Graham of Burradon, in the parish of Alwinton, died
on 18 of April, 1824, in his 95th year,oibs. SS. munitus. R.I.P."
The number of communicants at Biddleston Hall in 1837 is
reckoned at 82, and in the same year 10 converts were " taken
in to the Church," all of a humble class.

BElIingfjam.
The ]\Iission of St Oswald's, Bellingham, is stated by the
Rev. Nicholas Brown, when writing to the Commissioners, to
have been founded in 1794, and he adds that " a new chapel was
opened in 1839." The baptismal register dates from 1794 to
1837; that of the deaths, however, is eariier and extends from
1775 to 1790. The book is much faded and discoloured. The
Benedictine Fathers had at one time charge of the mission.

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'^zx'mit%ti\iM'mztti,
The register of the Mission at Berwick-on-Tweed, No. 1 3, also
a Benedictine one, dates from 1793, and contains little of inte
rest "The books sent," writes the Rev. M. E. Smith in 1840
" are not very correct as to order, on account of the many clergy
men who have been here from time to time, but they are
authentic beyond a doubt : [please have the kindness to return
them after inspection.]" From the words in brackets being
afterwards erased, it would seem that Mr. Smith imagined that
he was merely lending his register to the Commissioners.
SSstoell St. fetor's.
The register of "Bywell St. Peter's, Minstreacres Chapel,"
dates from 179S, the mission being returned by the Rev. Edward
Brown as founded five years previously. It calls for no parti
cular noti.ce.
Of more interest, however, is that which follows, " Cheeseburn
Grange and Stella in the parish of Ryton," dating from 1775.
The Rev. Thomas Cock, chaplain there from the year 18 17,
writes to the Commissioners in 1840: "The Chapel at Cheese-
burn Grange in the parish of Stamfordham, in the county of
Northumberland, belongs to Edward Riddell, Esq., of the said
Cheeseburn Grange, and was duly certified as a place of Public
Religious worship in the year of our Lord 1792, and was regis
tered for the solemnization of marriages therein, 28 April, 1840.
It had been used as a place of public religious worship, I do not
know how long, but during the time that two chaplains, the
Rev. Messrs. Haughton and Taylor, officiated there ; before the

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Rev. Dominic Phillips took charge of Cheeseburn Grange con
gregation previous to the 4th of March, 1775." He returns the
" date of foundation " of the mission, however, which occasionally
appears to have been under the care of the Dominican Fathers,
as in the year 1768. One of these. Father James Sharp, O.P.,
writes in Book I. : "I do not find any register before the time of
Mr. Dominic Phillips, O.P. ; the following are copied from a loose
paper in his handwriting." Fr. Sharp then transcribes a bap
tismal list from 1775 to 1783, and adds, "the Rev. Mr. Phillips
departed this life at the Grainge, Aug. 7, 1783, and was suc
ceeded by me, James Sharp, Ord. Praed. : I came July 22, 1784."
A few extracts from the register will suffice to illustrate it :
" 10 Jan., 1786. Died George Elliot of West Matfen, a con
vert, om. sacr. Eccl. munitus.
" 1787, 26 Feb. Married George Jonson et Mary Simmons, a
Catholic. George Jonson was a Postulant ad fidem, and signed
a paper of which the following is a copy. Memorandum that I
George Jonson, do hereby agree and promise to Mary Jonson,
my now wedded wife, that in case we are blessed with any
children, I freely give my consent for them to be christened and
brought up Catholics, as it is her Profession and the one I fully
intend to follow myself, as witness my hand, 26 Feb., 1787 : John
Potts and James Sharp, testibus."
A similar entry occurs further on, the promise being made by
Margaret Wilson, Protestant, to her Catholic husband, John
Carrick, on the occasion of their marriage at Capheaton, 4 Nov.
1794- " 2 Sep., 1787. Took into the church, Martha Heymers of
the Legherhouse.
" 1788, 26 Nov. Died, John Watson of Newcastle; of the ma
lignant smallpox: he came out of town to avoid them, but
brought them with him (om. sacr. Eccl munitus), ann. aet 17.
" 1789, April 24. Died Ann Wilthew, of Capheaton, aged 91^
om. sac. Ecc munita.

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" 1790, 23 Feb., at 9.5 a.m., died at Capheaton, Mrs. Mary
Neville, aged 88 years, 3 months, i day, om. sac. Ecc. munita.
She came to Capheaton, aged 27, lived housekeeper in the family
56 years, from which she had retired about 5 years.
" 1792, 9 Aug. Died Isabella Dickenson of the Burnies [?],
aged 102 and 10 months, sacm. EccL munita.
"1792, II Mar. Died, John Linn of Ingoe, consumptive, a
postulant to the Catholic faith, aged 23."
The Revs. John Tate, and J. Fleet, Miss. Ap. appear to have
been chaplains in 1794, in which year the entry occurs, " Took
into the Church William Fawcett, Grange."
" 1794. Dec. I. Sacro regenerationis Lavacro tincta fuit Anna
Carrick, Filia legitima Joannis et Margaritae Carrick, Capheaton
susceptores Joannes Wilthew et Maria Errington : Ita tester, J.
Fleet M.A.
" 1795. Sep. 3. Ex hac vit§, discessit Joannes Leadbitter, setatis
89, Ingoe, cujus dies anniversaria ex proprio desiderio observanda
per quatuor annos.
" 1795. 24 Dec. Ex hac vitS, discessit, Sarah Atkinson, Cap
heaton, praevia conf et coioe. recreata. J. Fleet
" 1797. 22 Feb. Animam efflavit Dominus Radolphus Riddell,
omnibus sanctae M. Ecclesiae sacramentis rite pieque susceptis
aetatis 65. J. Fleet Miss. Ap.
" 1797- Junii die octava pie obiit in Domino, Domina Anna
Barron, (Street Houses) omnibus S. M, Ecclesis Sacramentis
munita. J. Fleet M.A."
Father Fleet varies his baptismal entries thus :
"Unda regenerationis lotus fuit Thomas Dods . . ... 15 July,
1797. Baptizavi Joannem Dod ... 2 Jan. 1798.
Baptismum suscepit Anna Potts ... 23 Sep. 1798.
Aqua Baptismali tincta fuit Helena Hildrith. 15 Sep. 1798.
1 809. Julii die decima nona sacro regenerationis lavacro tinctus
fuit." &c

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^5

The Rev. John Leadbitter appears to have been chaplain here
in 1815, while upon the last sheet of Book I. which ends with
1 8 16, and after many blank pages is written in a small hand :
•^ Recordare quantum si placet obtulerit quidam ut ex his omni
bus miseriis salvus fieres."

HEIIinsfiam and at Htngsteati %tHtst, in Kent.
This register, in two Books, is forwarded to the Commissioners
by " Thomas Parker, Catholic Priest of Ellingham."
Book I. opens thus : " The Register Book of Christenings,
Burials, and Marriages from y^ year of our Lord 1775, by M.
Joy, S.J S.
At Lingstead Lodge, Kent, the seat of the R. H. Lord Teynham,
Samuel Woodrofeof Lingsted was born on the i ith of June
1775 and christened on the same day : obiit 25 ejusdem
mensis." This is the first entry by Fr. Matthew Joy who Mr. Foley
(Collect. S.f. 410) says died at Ellingham Feb. 21, 1798, aet 56.
A few Kentish registers of births and deaths follow, but without
any priest's signature, after which comes a mixed entry of
Baptisms, Deaths, and Marriages "at Ellingham, Northumber
land, the seat of Edward Haggerston Esq."
"17 July, 1783." Twenty-two "persons were confirmed at
Ellingham by Mr. Gibson."
" William Gibson of Newham Mill in the parish of Bamborough
was marry'd to Ann Dod of the County of Durham on ist day
of May 1790. N.B. They were first cousins and a dispensation
was obtained from Bp. Gibson.
"John Moore of Ellingham departed this life on 12 Sep. 1793.
sacramentis penitentiae et extremae unctionis munitus."
The Easter Communions made at Ellingham in 1796 were 83 ;

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25 persons were confirmed on 2Sth Aug. of that year, and 32 on
24th August, 1809.
From this year, 1805 to 1810, the register entries are signed
"John Forshaw": probably the Benedictine Father named in
" Weldon's Chronology, O.S.B." [App. p. 27.]
"June 12, 1809. I baptized sub conditione Mary Ann (born 11
April 1807) of Alexander and Ann (olim Mac Mannes) Balentine.
N.B. According to the report given by the mother of the child, >
it was born in Fifeshire, the father being at that time in the Fife
shire Militia, and not a Catholic : she had not been able to get
the child to a Roman Catholic minister to be baptized, altho' she
had travelled with her husband through a great part of Scotland :
she constantly persisted the child had not been baptized, but
some other parts of her story rendered it very dubious whether
it had or had not been baptized, I baptized it sub conditione, as
above noted. John Forshaw, Ellingham."
"July 15, 1809, was baptized Jane, born (here) of Hugh and
Margaret (olim Muris ?) Conner, by John Forshaw. N.B. The
father of this child, an Irishman, having left the country, after
having married and lived with the said woman, has not since been
heard of, the mother, though not a Catholic, sent for me to baptize
her child, and promised before the above sponsors (Thomas
Brown and Mary Maginnis) and Betty Colwin, a Protestant, as
witnesses, that her child should be brought up in the Roman
Catholic Faith, as the father was a Roman Catholic."
Beginning from the other end of Book I, is the following
obituary list.
Defuncti Societatis Jesu sacerdotes et Fratres Laici
1776
27 Sep  R. D. Jac. Lewis  Knightsbridge.
 Ant Bruning. S  Liege.
 — . Clough. S.  Worcester.

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1777.
2 June.  Joa. Worthington. S 
I Aug.  GuL Mercer. S  Liege,
 Thos. Leckonby. S 
1778.
19 Feb.  Mously. S.  Maryland.
 Scudamore. S.  Wells.
7 July.  Ed. Scarisbrick. S 
3 Sep.  Jos. MoUyneux. S 
1779.
Jan  A D. Thorpe. S 
Feb  Era. Brudenal S 
(j2V)2Mar.22  Wm. Gillibrand. S 
Mar. I  Jac. Chamberlain. S  Demerara.
23june  Ed. Galloway. S  London.
10 July  Thos. West S  Sizar.
 Nic. Tourner. S. 
[A line is drawn through all the 1779 obits.]
1780.
2 Feb  Ed. Southcote. S  Woobum Farm.
1783.
erased — 21 May... Dan. Piatt S.  Worcester.
„ — 30 „ ... John Panting. S.  Bonham.
Junei3  Benj. Blyde. F.L.  Antwerp.
Oct 16  Joa. Howard. S.  Liege.
N0V.19  Pet Morris. S.  Maryland,
1784.
Jan. 8  Hen. Brent S.  Irnham.
erased Jan. 16 ... Wm. Doyle. S.  Cowley Hill
Jan. 30  Falkner. S. 
Feb. 18  Jac. Stuart S  Liege.

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178S.
Jan. IS  Wm. Doyle. S  Cowley Hill
Ap. 22  Ber. Cross. S.  Worcester.
May 15  Fran. Houssoulier, (?) F.L. ... Liege.
„ 18  Jac DarrelL S.  Liege.
July 19  Thos. Hawkins. S 
Sep. 22  Ed. Boone. S.  Danby.
1786.
Feb. 3  Bap. Ruyter. S.  Pensylvania
Ap. 26  Tho. Weldon. S  Schowas.
June30  John Butler. S.  Hereford.
Nov. 3  Marm. Langdale. S  Wigan.
„ 30  Hen. Stanley. S  Moor HalL

Mess. Fermor & \
Geeflec — time > Pensylvania.
unknown. S.S. j
Fra.BenoitF.L.)g Q^^^^
time unknown J

It might be added that this Mission is also, like some few
others, returned as " founded from time immemorial." Book IL,
dating from 1810 to 1840, gives too the following priests as con
secutively in charge : Will. Birdsall, John Beaumont, S.J., Thomas
Lawson, O.S.B., Ric. Albott, John Parsons, Edward Crane, and
lastly, Thomas Parker.
Three Confirmation lists are also given. The following entry
must conclude this summary.
"Preston, 1833. John Anderson died on i April, 1833. He
embraced the Holy Catholic Religion, and received all the last
rites of the Church. Aged 58 jears. R.LP."

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JFelton.
There is little worth noting in the Felton Park register [No.
17] returned by the Rev. Joseph Orrell. It covers a period of
48 years, dated from 1792, when the Rev. John Robinson was
priest there. It is also stated that the date of the foundation of
the mission is " unknown." STIjropton.
The register of " Thropton Catholic Chapel in the parish of
Rothbury [No. 48], founded about the year 1700," was sent to
the Commissioners 26 Oct., 1840, by the Rev. Geo. J. A. Corless,
D.D., "the officiating Catholic clergyman of Thropton Hall
since 1839."
Upon the inside of the cover is written as follows : " Joannes
Midford 2^ Sacerdos Throptonii mortuus est circa annum I7S0'
Cui Lucas Potts successit, diem obiit 16 Aug., 1787. Robert
Himsworth came to Thropton, Aug. 22, 1788.
"Thomas Stout came to Thropton, September 23, 1797; Rev.
James Al bot came to Thropton June i, 1828, obiit 28 Jan., 1837;
James Pemberton came to Thropton Feb. 3, 1838.
" Thropton Bridge was founded 24 May, 1810, finished May 30,
'1811 ; built by Geo. Robson, Catholic. It cost £'^6^, of which
£160 was paid by subscribers, the rest by the county, exclusive
of leading.
"June 9, 1814. Ice a shilling thick.
" Pulled down Thropton Hall, 4 June, 181 1 ; covered the new
house, Jan. 26, 1812 ; flitted into do., Dec. 7, 18 12, and finished
the whole house, 25 Nov. 181 5.
" Protestantes baptizati in periculo mortis. Flutterton : I die
Sep. 1820, Joanna Green filia Thomae et Joarmae Green conjugum
a me Thoma Stout, Misso-Apostolico.
" Thropton. Ralph Black, son of William Black and Susanna

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his wife, born 21 Jan., 1823, was baptized by me on, the same
day, Thomas Stout." This good priest's death is recorded in
a mortuary list at the other end of this book : " Rev. Thomas
Stout died at Thropton 26 July, 1828, aged 62. The Rev.
Thomas Stout was pastor of the congregation at Thropton 30
years and ten months within one day."

STpemoutfj.
The Tynemouth and North Shields baptismal register. No.
51, the last of the Northumberland series, dates only from 1821
to 1846. The Rev. Thomas Gillow, however, by whom all the
entries for this period are made, gives a few at the end of the
book for the years 1807- 1809, and writes: " The above is a faith
ful extract taken from a register left by Mr. Aubin Donniville, a
French priest, who for several years officiated as pastor of the
Catholic congregation in North Shields and its vicinity, and in
witness thereof we have signed our names this 23 day of Octo
ber, 1826, Thomas Gillow, James Worswick."
Among the entries of Mr. Aubin Donniville, the name of Peter
Dubuisson occurs once as priest at North Shields.
Canon Plasse in his " Clergd Fran9ais Refugid en Angleterre,"
II. 423, describes the latter as formerly cur^ of Preuilly in the
diocese of Bourges, and as resident in 1803 at Robin Hood's
Well, Burghwallis, co. York, where it appears some few others
of the French clergy were at intervals in charge of the mission,
but the name of Aubin Donniville does not appear in his list.
^ottmsljattt.
There is a solitary register [No. 34] for the county, that,
namely, of St John the Evangelist, Nottingham, dating only
from 1825 to 1837. It contains, however, nothing of special

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interest The Rev. Rob. William Willson adds, in a note to the
Commissioners, " the Baptismal registers up to the year 1828
were taken at our old chapel. King's Place, Stoney Street, in
this town." ©xforisfitre (Stonor.)
The Stonor Park register [No. 19] is likewise the only one for
the county of Oxford. It is contained in three very neatly
kept books, in the first of which is the following explanatory
note: "The chapel of Stonor at Stonor, founded before the reign
of King Henry VL, and which still subsists, the said books
commencing with an entry dated on the 13 of Jan. 1758, and
ending with an entry dated 27 Oct, 1840, being forwarded by
Rev. C. P. A. Comberbach, now chaplain, through J. Fleming,
Esq., barrister-at-law, who has kept them since 7 Nov. as the
friend of Lord Camoys, the proprietor of the chapel at Stonor and
of the said Rev. C. P. A. Comberbach, for the purpose of placing
them in the custody of the Commissioners: signed 9 Nov., 1840,
James Fleming, for the Rev. C. P. A. Comberbach."
Book I. dates from 1758 to 1790, no priest's name of that
period occurring in it, a notice of the death at Stonor, 23 Aug.,
1790, of the Rev. Joseph Strickland, being evidently an addition
of a more recent date. It contains, however, apparently a list of
school attendance. In Book II. the name of George Gildart
occurs as priest in 1791, and that of J. B. Mortuaire in 1796, the
register of the death of the latter occurring afterwards in Book
III., as follows: " 1830, 12 Sep., Reverendus Dominus Joannes
Baptista Mortuaire, Ecclesiae Romanae Sacerdos, et triginta
ultra annos Pastor Capellae St — ad Stonor, omnibus ecclesiae
praesidiis tempestive praemunitus, ex diuturno morbo obiit, aetat
ferme— ann. R.LP."
Later on occurs the following entry: "1837, I Mar., Anne
Comberbach at Antwerp in the — year of her age. Deus qui

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nos patrem et matrem honorare precepisti, miserere clementer
animae matris meae : meque earn in aeternae claritatis gaudio fac
videre, per Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum, Amen. C. P. A.
Comberbach.'

SEartotcftsJjtre (Leamington.)
The register of " St Peter's Chapel, Leamington " [No. 43],
dating from 1 822-1 840, is the only one of the county of War
wick handed over to the Commissioners, which was effected by
the Rev. William Cunningham. In part, however, it is an ex
tract from the old Wappenbury register, a document of much
earlier date, which is still in the custody of the Catholic clergy at
Leamington.

CSttttorcIanti (Kendal).
The register of the " Chapel of the Holy Trinity, at Kendal,
under the patronage of St George," returned by the Rev. Thomas
Wilkinson in Oct, 1 840, as that of a mission " founded about
the year 1724," is the solitary representative of the county of
V/estmoreland. It dates from 1762, but calls for no special
notice.

i[orfts|iire (Aberford.)
No fewer than forty-five Catholic Mission Registers of York
shire are deposited at Somerset House, some of them being of
very considerable interest The earlier ones, however, are un
fortunately somewhat barren of any curious detail. First upon
the list is the mission of Aberford [No. i], "founded," according
to the Rev. John Robinson, in 1786, his register dating only

OLD ENGLISH CATHOLIC MISSIONS. 23
from 1806-1838. No priest's signature appears in it prior to
that of W. Chew in iSia ^Ilerton ^uxh
The mission of St Mary's, Allerton Park [No. 4], comes next,
" founded," writes the Rev. Thomas Weston, in 1807, the re
gister dating from 18 16- 1840. ^mplefortfj.
The register of " Ampleforth College [No. 9], formeriy Ample-
forth Lodge," dating from 1 802-1 81 8, and forwarded by the
Rev. Thomas Cockshot, is somewhat disappointing.
^nsram.
So also is the next one [No. 10], that of "Angram or Os-
motherley," 1771-1839, forwarded by the Rev. Joseph Dugdale
of Stockton-on-Tees.
The register of Aiskew Chapel in Bedale, stands No. 25 on
the Yorkshire list, and dates from 1 812-1840.
That of "the Chapel, called Mount St Marie at Bradford"
[No. 44lj dates from 1823, and on Nov. 7, 1840, was in the pos
session of the then " Incumbent" Peter M'Kaye.
Brantrs&g.
The mission attached to Brandsby Hall is reported as founded

24 OLD ENGLISH CATHOLIC MISSIONS.
in 1746, the register, 1820-1840, being forwarded by " the pro
prietor, Francis Cholmeley, Esq.," on Oct 9, 1840. The title
page betrays the customary and clever shirking of the word
" Sacerdotes," thus : " Catalogus Baptizatorum apud Villam de
Brandsby et in vicis circumjacentibus per illos, qui dictae Capellae
Brandsbeianae deserviunt" Priests who sign the register from
1824 downwards, are, Thomas Rooker, Christopher and William
Shann, Richard Tyrer, Placidus Sinnott, James Dowding, James
Sheridan, and in 1840, Thomas Jackson.
33rouflI)ton ?§all.
No. 54 is the Broughtbn Hall register contained in two books
dating from 1757, and forwarded to the Commissioners by " John
Middlehurst, clerk, and private chaplain to Charles Robert
Tempest, Esq. of Broughton Hall." Most of the clergy in charge
of the mission appear to have been priests of the Society of
Jesus, of whom the first-named in 1757, is the Rev. James
Heatley, in 1786 J. Beeston, and afterwards, Frs. Crathorne,
Thomas Kay, Charles Brooke, Edward Pugh, Michael Trappes,
&c. The following are a few entries of conversions taken from the
first book of the register:
"29 May, 1757, Professionem fidei emisit Joan. Swainson coram
me Jac. Heatley and John Kighley.
" 1760, 8 Jan., Eliz. Stanly (olim Speakey) in Painley.
" „ 12 Jul., In Broughton Sacello, Eliz. Nutter Edmundson.
uxor Jacobi Edmundson.
" 1761, 29 Junii, In do. — Eliz. GilL
" 1762, 1 5 Aug., In do. — Eliz. Gibson, coram me J. H. et testibus,
Eliz. Walmesley, Mary Hodgson.
" 1762, 12 Dec, Francisca Preston.
" 1763, 27 Dec, Rob. Parker.
" In Townley Sacello, Gulielmus Netherwood in manibus Dm.
Jo. Boone coram me J. H.

OLD ENGLISH CATHOLIC MISSIONS. 2 5
"18 Nov., 1777, Prof. Fidei emisit Maria Thakaray in aedibus
Gul, Netherwood."
Book II., from the subjoined entry made upon the inside of
the cover, would appear to have originally done duty for house
keeping purposes before finding its way into the Sacristy :
"The Great Arke in the Backhouse holds 207 Bushells of
Wheat, Barley, or Malt, Winchester Measure.
"The Great Arke in the Store Chamber holds in the great end
thereof 57^ bushells, in the little end 43 bushells of Wheat,
Winchester Measure.
" The Middle Arke 80 bushells.
" The Little Arke (all in the Store Chamber) 70 bushells of
Corn, Winchester Measure.
" So of trodden oatmeal they will hold twice as much.
"The new Gilefat holds 140 gallons.
' The Great Copper Bruing Pan holds 215 gallons.
"The Great Iron Pan in the Bruhouse holds 72^ gallons, under
the zone, and to the top of the zone 28| gallons, in all lOl
gallons. "The Pan in the Scullery 29 gallons."
Several leaves are then torn out, after which the register con
tinues. 3Surs!)ixralUs.
No. 56 is the register, dating from 1761, of "Burghwallis and
at Sheephouse," and forwarded, 5 Nov., 1840, by Louis le Roux
its custodian since 1828, and " the officiating minister of Michael
Tasburgh, Esq." The printed form, however, that accompanies
each register and which is intended to afford a descriptive
summary of the date, &c., of the mission is in this instance
signed by John Ball, as the " representative of Louis le Roux,
superannuated." This " Louis le Roux " is probably he who is
described by Canon Plasse (II. 420, Le Clergi Francais Rifugii

26 OLD ENGLISH CA THOLIG MISSIONS.
en Angleterre), as formerly vicar of Courbevoye in the diocese of
Paris and as resident in 1803 at Rodney Hall, Southwark.
The mission is returned as founded " about the time of the
Reformation," but the register itself contains little worth noting.
Fathers James Lewis and John Shaw, S.J., were here in 1761,
and Fr. Henry Pile, S.J., in 1774. In Book II. the names of two
other apparently French clergy occur, viz. that of  ' Beury, in
1798, and the Rev. John Poisnel.

Cattertcft.
Next to this. No. 57, is the register of Catterick, the Brough
Hall Chapel, stated by Robert Johnson, "Clerk" of Brough
Hall, the priest who forwarded it to the Commissioners, to be
" the private property of William Lawson, Esq., who maintains
his own chaplain." In addition, of course, to several Lawson
entries, there are others of the families of Meynell, Storey,
Rowntree, Ridesdale, Dale, Thwaites, Strickland, &c.
The register opens with the year 1758, when the Rev. Rob.
Knatchbull, S.J., was stationed there, and on 22 March, 1765,
" in consequence " of his baptising " Margaret da. of John and
Elizabeth Young of Catterick [' Sponsors, N.N.'] Mr. Knatchbull
(to silence the complaints and threats of the Vicar Harrison)
was removed from Brough and was succeeded by the Rev.
Thomas Brent, S.J." It is significantly added that in the years
" 1766 and 1767 none were registered."
" 1769, Mr. Brent quitted Brough Hall this year, and was
succeeded by Mr. Hoskins from Liverpool," i.e. the Rev. Raphael
Hoskins, S.J.
" 1794, N.B. The Rev. Thomas Ferby arrived at Brough
Hall from Crathorne on 25 August, 1794, and enregistered the
following names," among which may be mentioned those of
Kirkley, Scott, Danby, Newsam, &c.

OLD ENGLISH CATHOLIC MISSIONS. 27
The name of the "Rev. Kerbonel, emigrant French clergyman,"
occurs in 1799. Afterwards, it is added, that "the Rev. Thomas
Ferby having been appointed director of the Poor Clares of
Scorton, was succeeded at Brough Hall by the Rev. John
Laurenson, S.J., who arrived on 18 Sept., 1807, and Mr. Ferby
quitted Brough."
"1830, The Rev. J. Laurenson, S.J., quitted Brough Hall, 13
June, 1830, and was succeeded by the Rev. Thomas Dilworth,
who arrived at Brough, June i, 1830.
" 1834, N.B. The Rev.T. Dilworth, S.J., quitted Brough Hall,
I Aug. ; he was succeeded by the Rev. Robert Johnson, S.J.,
who arrived at Brough Hall, 30 July, 1 834," in time therefore to
celebrate together the Feast of their Holy Founder on the
intervening 31 July.

Cratijornc.
No 71, the register of St Mary's, Crathorne, is entitled " A
Baptismal Book belonging to Crathorne, in which an account is
kept of the children that have been baptised by me, Thomas
Kerby, Engl*i Miss'^-. since Nov., 1777." Forwarded on 26th
Oct, 1 840, the following note appears at the foot of the printed
certificate : —
" The undersigned Roman Catholic Bishop of Yorkshire begs
leave to add that in consequence of there not having been an
Incumbent of the Catholic Chapel at Crathorne since July last,
the Register Book is transmitted by the Rev. Joseph Dugdale
Roman Catholic clergyman of Stockton-on-Tees. John Briggs."
Priests successively in charge of this mission were. Revs. T.
Kerby, J. Taylor, Jos. Maini (1798), Thomas Story (1804),
George Corless, " Successori Dni. J. Maini, post inter-regnum 20
fere annorum, proximus huic, longo sed proximus intervallo,"
(1816), Henry Greenhalgh, A. Macartney, and Henry Irving.

28 OLD ENGLISH CATHOLIC MISSIONS.
2ian6s[.
"Danby-upon-Yure,(Parish of Thornton Steward) West Witton
and Leyburn, St. Bartholomew and St Peter's Chapels," No. 76
is returned as a mission founded about the year 1771 : yet the
register dates from 1742, while some few entries of baptisms and
deaths of members of the family of Scrope made upon two
leaves that have been pasted into Book IV., date from 1663.
This register contained in five books was forwarded to the
Commissioners on 31 Oct, 1840, by the Rev. R. Bolton, its cus
todian from the year 1837. Several of the entries presenting
detail, more or less curious and interesting, not a few illustrations,
are here subjoined.
Written upon the cover of Book I. is the following : —
" iEternae sit honos Triadi, sit gloria Sanctis.
"This register Mr. Boone bought 1771, and set down what
Mr. Oakley, S.J., did concerning his mission at Danby from 1742
to 1758, and from 1758 what Mr. Wappeller did in his mission
at Danby to 1764, when Mr. Boone, S.J., began the Mission at
Danby, the seat of Simon Scroope, Esq. His utere mecum.
" 1742. The register of Christenings and Marriages at Danby
by F. Frank Oakley, S.J.
" April 28. I administered Charles Robinson, of Wensley, re
covered. " May 2. I administered Frank Stabler at East Witton, he
dyed. "Dec. 15. I received into the Church Margarite Stabler of
Thornton, wife of Will. Stabler.
" 1743- 15 Nov. I christened at Danby a Scotchman beggar,
with one Legg, his son Claud.
" 1744. February 6. I administered to Margaret More at E.
Witton the viaticum, she the 1 5 [sic] without the holy oiles : I
was sent for too late.
" Aug. 22. I administered the viaticum to Will. Slie [?] at E.

OLD ENGLISH CA THOLIG MISSIONS. 29
Witton, he dyed Sep. 3, without the holy oyles, I not being called
in time.
" Dec. 7. I baptised at Thornton, Barbara, B. child of Mary
Natteras. The Father, young Christ. Hall. I stood godfather,
Molly Fletcher was godmother : the child was born 27 Nov., and
dyed in 1746.
" 1745. Jan. 12. I baptised at Ulshaw Bridge, James, son of
Will. Topham, and Lucy his wife of Middleham : sponsors John
Pease, sen^- and Eliz. Allen, jun^-i for which I hardly escaped
[banishment] A line is drawn through the word in brackets.
1749, May ... I helped Mary Winn at Thornton : She dyed
4 days after.
I7S4) Oct 6, I baptised at Danby, Frances, da. of Simon
Scroope, Esq., and his Lady Ann Clementina : Sponsors,
William Sheldon, Esq., and Mrs. Tempest. See the new Missal
at Danby in the beginning. Hucusque, P. Oakley.
The same continued by F. W. Wappeller, S.J., 1758., Received
into the Church Eleanor Corbeck of Ellinstring. [Entered in
Book II. as " a widow at Ellington."]
December 29, Baptised at Danby, Simon Thomas, born the
same day, son of Simon Scroope, Esq., and his Lady Ann
Clementina. Sponsors, Henry Scroope, Esq., and Mrs. Margaret
Strickland of Sizergh.
1759, Mar. 26, Old Mrs. Ingram died at Middleham, unex
pectedly : I was not called.
May 29, Died at Leyburn, Christopher Barker. I administered
to him the extreme unction. He died of an apoplexy.
1760, Jan. 7, William Hornby died at Middleham. He had
the last sacraments. He was received into the Church some
time before by Mr. Siddal of Yarm.
[This "Mr. Siddal" was Fr. Charles Hodgkinson, S.J. See Foley's
Records S.J. vi. 472.]
In April, received into the Church N. N. of Leyburn, in the West
Riding : he was instructed by Mr. William Strickland at Sizergh

30 OLD ENGLISH CATHOLIC MISSIONS.
In November, received into the Church Dorothy Thomson
born near Borrowbridge.
1761, June 12, Received into the Church Elizabeth Thakerer.
[Entered in Book II. as Eliz. Taker. The name also occurs
again later on in the same book : "1764, July 12, Baptized at
Harmby, Jane, da. of Eliz. Taker, born the 23 of January:
godmother, Eliz. Taker, the child's grandmother." Several of
the Thackeray family appear among Peacock's "Yorkshire
Recusants of 1604. "]
July 12, Administered the last sacraments to Mrs. Lucy
Topham, at Middleham. She recovered.
1762, Jan. 8, Received into the Church John Nelson of Rich
mond. Jan. 24, Died at Danby, Francis Pinchback : he had the H.
oils, but not the Viaticum on account of his illness : he was
buried at Thornton.
Feb. 2, Assisted at the marriage of William Topham, junr.
and Jane N. N., a Prot
Mar. 16, Died at Middleham, Eliz. Atkinson, aged 78 : She
had the Viaticum and was buried 18.
Aug. 18, Assisted at Danby at the marriage of Ralph Standish,
Esq. and Miss Henrietta Strickland : Witnesses Mr. and Mrs.
Scroope ; Mr. and Mrs. Strickland, &c.
In November, rec^- into the Church William Topham, senr.,
of Middleham.
Dec 23, Administered the last sacraments to old Mother
Courtley at Constable Burton : she died the next day and was
buried at Fingel.
1763, Mar. 25, Baptised James, born 21, son of William and
Jane Topham.
June 6th, Received into the Church and administered the last
sacraments to John Grey at Richmond : he died the 9th,
following. Aug. 7th, Received into the Church, Elizabeth Muncaster.

OLD ENGLISH CATHOLIC MISSICNS. 3 1
Oct 1 8, Received into the Church, Mark Scot, tenant of Mr.
Scroope. 1764, February 10, John Sanders, Mr. Scroope's groom was
drowned in the river Yore ; the corpse was found some weeks
after and buried at Thornton.
Aug. 8, Reed, into the Church, Rachel Hill, wife to Gerry Hill
at Middleham.
Sep. 2, Baptised Dorothy, born 31 Aug., da. of Gerry and
Rachel Hill. Sponsors, Thomas Hill and his sister Dorothy at
Richmond. Hucusque, P. Wappeller.
The same continued by F. Edward Boone, S.J.
1764, Nov. 22, Edward Staveley died at E. Witton: he had
the last sacraments from Mr. Wappeller.
Nov. 26, Eliz. Cook at the Bridge had the last sacraments :
she recovered.
1765, June 2, 1 administered the Viaticum to John Pease, sen'^-i
the 3rd, the H. oils, he died and was buried that day.
Sep. 6, I adminiscered the last sacraments to old Mr. Kirton
at Gunnerside in the Dales : he recovered.
Sep. 28. 1 admint<l- the last sac^- to old Chappellar at Leyburn:
he recovered.
Nov. 29, Will. Topham, senior, died suddenly at Middleham,
no help, I not called.
1766, Feb. 3, 1 administered the Viaticum to old Nelly Mud at
Melmerby : the 5, the H. oils : she recovered.
April 22, 1 baptized at Danby, Clementina Elizabeth Frances,
born the same day, d. of Simon Scroope, Esq. and his Lady
Anne Clementina : Sponsors Will. Constable of Burton, Esq.,
and Lady Brown. E.B.
May 18, Baptized at Danby, Mary, b. the 17th, da. of John
and Mary Topham : Sponsors, Master Scroope and Miss Witham
of Durham. E.B.
Aug. 13, I administered the last sacraments to Mary Millar in
the Dales. She recovered.

32 OLD ENGLISH CATHOLIC MISSIONS.
Nov. nth, I assisted at the marriage by proxy of Nicholas
White, Esq. of Orotava in Teneriffe and Miss Barbara Strickland
of Richmond. Simon Scroope, Esq., stood proxy. V/itnesses,
William and Ralph Sheldon, Esq™.. Mrs, and Miss Fanny
Scroope: Mr., Mrs., and Miss Strickland.
1767, Mar. 18, I administered the last sacraments to James
Cook at the Bridge : he recovered.
Mar. 20. I baptized at Richmond, Mary 6 weeks old, da.
of Will, and Anne Branson.
1768. Jany- 23. Michael Errington foolishly married a Pro
testant. Feb. 20. James Cook at the Bridge died suddenly : I was sent
for but not in good time : he was buried the 22nd.
Mar. 2nd. Mr. Howard of Richmond baptized at the Bridge,
Eliz. and Lucy Topham, born the 19th of Feb?- twin children of
Will and Eliz. Topham. Sponsors to Eliz., William Sturdy and
Molly Topham : to Lucy, James and Eliz. Topham. Lucy died
1770. January 27, 1769 the 2 children were re-baptized at
church. O tempora, O Parson, O Shame. [In Book II, it is
added concerning this entry : " Mr. Howard of Richmond supplied
an account of 2 troublesome neighbours : I hope we shall hear
no more about it." This Mr. Howard was in all probability Fr.
Francis Holme, S.J. who Foley {Collect. S.J. 367) says died at
Alnwick in 1802, aet 78.]
Nov. 6. Baptized at Danby, Thomas, born the 2nd., son ot
Michael and Isabella Errington.
Nov. 20. I assisted at the marriage of Joseph Harker, a Pro
testant and Jane Errington, a Catholic : witnesses Will, and Eliz.
M'Arthur at the Bridge. E. B. maxime invito. Harker after
wards broke his solemn promises about changing his religion :
never will I again take a Protestant's word about religion.
1769, June 5 th. I administered the last sacraments to Rachael
Hill at Middleham : she recovered after a long illness.
Sep. 2nd. John Milburn died at Thornton, without the sac
raments by my fault : he was buried the next day.

OLD ENGLISH CATHOLIC MISSIONS. ZZ
Oct 19. Ralph Riddell, Esq., was married to Miss Molly
Thornburgh at Leyburn.
1770. Jan. 10. Jane Courtley died at Burton. I was never
sent for.
Mar. 9. I administered the H. oils at Danby to Elizabeth
Aukland, (Mrs. Tempest's maid) ill in the small pox : she could
not receive the Viaticum on account of a cough : she died the
13th in great pain and convulsions.
April. 17. I administered the Holy Oils to Mary Mallem at
Danby, (the steward's mother) she could not on account of her
illness receive the Viaticum. She died the 19.
May 29. I administered the last Sacts. to Jane Courtley at
Thornton : she died the 30.
July 31. I assisted at the marriage of Robert Sturdy and Jane
Dunn, at Danby : witnesses Miss Fanny Scroope and Thomas
Mallem, steward, E.B.
[It might be added here that the entries of the family of Sturdy,
besides of course those of Scroope, are very numerous throughout
this register.]
1771. July 30. I administered the H. oils to Thomas Hill
(coachman at Danby) : he could not receive the Viaticum on
account of his illness, and on the i Aug., the Viaticum, he being
somewhat better. Repeated the 3 September and he died the
loth. 1772. July 25. I administered the Viaticum to old Mrs. Coates
at East Witton : recovered.
Aug. 18. I administered Jerry Hill at Middleham, ill in a
fever : recovered.
1773. May 22. I administered the last sacraments to Nelly
Mudd at Melmerby in Coverdale : she recovered.
1774. March 22. I administered Viaticum to Nelly Mudd at
Melmerby : recovered.
July 1st I administered the Holy Oils to Mrs. Cook the 2nd
time.

34 OLD ENGLISH CATHOLIC MISSIONS.
July Sth. . Died at the Bridge House, Mrs. Cook. R. in P.
Some time in August, I administered the last sacraments to
Nelly Mudd at Melmerby in Coverdale. She has had a long,
very long illness.
Nov. 23. Nelly Mudd died at Melmerby in Coverdale. R. in
Pace. [Her reception of the last sacraments extends over nearly
10 years.]
1775. June 5. Administered the Holy Oils to Mark Scot : he
died June 11 at Spennithorne, aged 79. R. in C.o-
1776. Aug. 10. Jane Mecalf [PMetcalf] died suddenly at East
Witton : as I had no notice of her illness, she died without any
help, R, in^. . P,
Aug. 12. I baptized at Hutton-Hang, James, born the same
day, son of John and Dorothy Pease : sponsors, Michel Erring
ton and Dorothy Woodman : he died the 29 of Nov. following.
Oret pro me.
Dec. 16. Died at East Witton, some time in summer, Eliz.
Jefferson, a Protestant, a Methodist a Catholic, or, it is to be
feared, nothing. She had often in her former days come to
prayers [sic] at Danby, but not for several years past : during her
illness I never heard of her, nor that she ever asked or desired I
should visit her, neither did I ever hear of her death till this day
16 of December. E. Boone.
Dec. 29. I received into the Church, Henry Brown, a boy
about 17 years old.
1777. Mar. 31. Died suddenly at the Bridge House, John
M'Arthur in the 14 year of his age. R. in P.
1778. Feb. 1 1. Betty Topham of the Bridge House without
my consent or knowledge married a Protestant.
April 1st Died at Middleham, old Mrs. Jefferson. I was not
informed of her illness, neither did I hear of her till after she was
dead and buried.
May 24. I administered the H. oils to Mr. Strickland at
Danby, ill in a fever. He could not receive the Viaticum on

OLD ENGLISH CATHOLIC MISSIONS. l^
account of his medicines : he (Robert S.) died at 4 o'clock on the
2Sth, setatis 45. R. in Pace.
Oct 21. Bap. at Middleham, William, born 20th, son of Rob.
and Jane Sturdy : sponsors, John Dunn of Newcastle and Mrs.
Traps of Nidd.
1779. Aug. 24. Betty Pease foolishly married a Protestant
1780. April 5. Thomas Pease foolishly married a Protestant
girl. 1780. June 14. Mary Pease foolishly married a Protestant
1783. I received into the Church, Edward Harrison, supposed
to be on his death bed, but he recovered after 8 months' illness.
E.B. June 28. Died at Witton, Mrs. Coates, aetatis 93. R. in P.
Sep. 28. James Kirkby foolishly married a Protestant.
1784. In the summer of 78 and 82 I received into the Church
Mary and Catherine Blackburn.
June 6, 1 received into the Church Mary Kirkby of Thornton.
1785. Ap. 26, I received into the Church, James Slinger, an
old servant supposed to be on his death bed. James Slinger
d.'ed on the 12 May. R. in P., sine scmentis.
July 17, Apostatized, Elizabeth Pease.
A few confirmation lists occur at the end of this interesting
little book.
Book III, dating from 1790, contains several registers of the
families of Scroope and Sturdy.
1793, April 12, Born half-an-hour past one in the afternoon
and baptised same day by me undersigned, Anna Clementina,
da. of Simon Thomas and Catherine Scroope : sponsors Rev.
Thomas Meynell of London and Clementina Maxwell of Ker-
conell in Scotland. Thomas Lawson.
Upon two leaves — already noticed — that have been pasted into
Book IV., occur the following entries, in some cases almost too
faded to decipher : —

3S OLD ENGLISH CA THOLIG MISSIONS.
"Nomina Filiorum et Filiarum Symonis Scroop de Danby
Super Yore, armigeri.
Catherina, baptizata fuit die 13 Dec, 1663

Maria,

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23 Sep., 1665

Symon,

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14 Nov., 1666

Joannes,

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18 Sep., 1668

Christopher,

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M

23 April, 1670

Margarita,

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27 „ 1672

Nomina et natalitia Filiorum et Filiarum Symonis junioris
Scroop de Danby Super Yore armigeri.
Maria Dorothea S. bap. fuit die 29, nata die 23 Nov., 1702.
Francisca S. nata Londini. Sep. 6*° 1705
Catherina S. „ „ Aug. 10, 1706
Edward S. natus apud Thorrock, Aug. 20, 1707
Simon S. „ „ „ Mar. 21, 1709
Henry Joseph S. „ Danby Jan. 11, 1711-12
James S. born at Danby 5 Nov., 171 5, between 8 and 9 at
night 1683, Jan. 29 [MS. imperfect] Quiescit in Domino Domina
Brigitta Scroope aetatis suae 75. Requiescat in Pace.
1691, Dec. 22, Simon Scroope Esq. changed this life for a
better, anno aetatis suae 79. Req. in Pace.
1723, Feb. 28, Symon S. Esq. changed this life for a better, anno
fBtatis suae 57.
Edward S. departed this life aetatis suae 13.
Book V. is entitled " Registres des Morts. Chapelle Catholique
de Danby p. C. Devienne, Cur^ de Troulleville (?), proche
Dieppe en France, ami de Mr. Delalonde,"and dates from 1793 to
1805. I fail to identify either of these apparently French refugee
clergy in the index of those named by Canon Plasse.
1798, Ob. 9 April at York and buried at Ulshaw Chapel,
parish of East Witton, aet 73, Anna Clementina, widow of late
Simon Scroope Esq. of Danby."

OLD ENGLISH CATHOLIC MISSIONS. 37
The Register of St Peter's Chapel, " situate in Prince's Street,
Doncaster " [No. 89] covers only a period of five years, namely
from 1835 to 1840, and contains little that is worth recording.
ISasinstooID.
No. 94, that of St Austin's, Easingwold, dates only from 18 19,
The Rev. John Dowding, when forwarding the register to the
Commissioners in 1840, writes : " This book was formerly kept at
Craike where the Chapel used to be till removed to this town of
Easingwold in the year of our Lord, 1830."
^0ton=23rttfsc.
The Mission of St Edda's Chapel at Egton-Bridge [No. 99]
is returned by the Rev. Henry Greenhalgh as founded in 1790
and the entries in the register dating only from 1835 are all
signed by him. !Ebertng]&am.
Next upon the Catholic List, No. 105, is that of St. Mary's
Chapel, Everingham, near Pocklington. The Rev. Matthew
Newsham, "the appointed pastor of this place since 18 14," when
on 17 Oct, 1840, he forwarded the register to the Commissioners,
describes it as a " Register of the Baptisms, Marriages, Confirm
ations, and Deaths of the Roman Catholics belonging to the
Congregation of Everingham, from 28 March, 1771." The
Mission itself, he describes as " a domestic chapel from the reign
of Edward VL," and he adds that " a public church was opened
in 1839."
The Rev. John Bennet, on ist April, 1771, makes the
first entry : " Baptized John, son of Will, and Elizabeth Dolman:
sponsors, Robert Dolman and Nancy D., grandmother.

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The names of '' Dean," " Nottingham," and " Howe " occur not
infrequently in this register.
" 1777, 23 Oct, were baptized at Everingham by Mrs. Cattin,
Sara, and Eliza. Dean, twins and died soon after."
The clergy next in succession in charge of this Mission up to
1 8 14 appear to have been Frs. T Gurnall, Ed. Clarkson, and S.
Hodgson. I^altfax.
The register of the Mission of St Mary's, Halifax, No. 140,
dates only from 1827, which is returned also by the Rev. John
Rigby in 1 840, as the date of the foundation of the Mission itself.
He adds that he " has kept the register since he was appointed
to the Incumbency." I^ajletooolr.
The " date of the foundation " of the Mission of St. Leonard's
Hazlewood [No. 146] is returned in Nov., 1840, by the Rev. J. C.
Fisher as in the year 1290, its register in three books dating from
1772 when the Rev. Will. Daniel was priest in charge.
Entries of the families of Heptonstall and Turpin occur in it,
that of the former, it may be remarked in passing, appears also
among Peacocks' "Yorkshire Recusant" of 1604.
" 1832, Born on 8 June and on 29 June, christened after being
baptized by Rev. Thomas Ratcliffe of Bramham in the
Protestant Church, Mary Ridsdale, da. of William and Mary
Ridsdale. Robert Tate."
Books II. and III. date from 1806 and contain the "obituary
of Hazlewood congregation," the cause of death being given in
some instances.
" 1806, April 26, The Rev. James Melling, aged 58, 26 years
Pastor of Hazlewood congregation." His name occurs in "Douay
Diary I' p. 75, as " filius Ricardi et Margaritae Adamson, Dioecesis
Cestrensis, natus die 10 Junii, 1749," and as taking the Colleges
oath in 1770.

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"1832, Feb. 25: The Rev. Wm. Che^, aged 61, nearly 26
years Pastor of the Hazlewood congregation."
1832 — "Robert Elliot, aged 78, coachman of Dowager Lady,'
Stourton." l^iSfl aErisall
The baptismal register [No. 154] of "High Wrisall, Friarage
Yarm, Yarm Chapel," in two books dates from 1795 and contains
little of interest The first of these concludes with the year
181 1 and was kept by the Rev. Peter Potier, probably a French
refugee priest, but whose name, however, cannot be accurately
verified in the list given by Canon Plasse.
The second register is " continued in a New Book from April,
1 81 1, by the Rev. John Bradley," who seems to have been the
priest in charge from that date until in 1840 he forwarded both
to the Commissioners : he adds, " N.B. I find no register of
baptisms kept in the chapel previous to the year 1795."
" 1800, 12 Mar., was baptised by me, P. Potier, Edward 
a natural child, godfather, Richard Todd, godmother, Nelly
Todd. N.B. The name of the father of this child was Shaw, the
mother's name I never learned."
Several entries of the families of Meynell and Swinburne
occur in this register. JHartati,
The register in three books. No. 157, of "Marton Chapel in
Holderness," dates from 1774, the first entry being made on the
IS Aug. of that year by the Rev. Charles Howard, D.D., Miss.
Ap., who appears to have been on this mission until July, 1815.
" 1775) June 29, Baptized, Edward, son of Thomas Jackson
labourer of Sproatley and Martha [blank] of the Church of
England, but since reconciled to the Catholic Faith."

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Nearly in the middle of the book, however, comes what pur
ports to be its title page : thus
"A register of all the Catholic children baptized in the con
gregation of Marton in the parish of Swine and the adjacent
towns or villages in different parishes and also of those born in
the town of Kingston-upon-HuU from the iSth of Aug., 1774-"
A child has apparently been then allowed to scribble on this
page and re-write the title in a large text hand. The register
continues on odd pieces of paper sewn together, one of which is
the leaf of a child's copybook, apparently, that of Master Jona
than Youle who in 1777 writes " the Angels did Rejoice."
One register (12 Oct, 1777) is entered in pencil on the back
of an old bill, wherein it appears that " Mrs. Bates bought of
Thomas Johnson, linen draper. Market Place, Hull, half-a-doz.
handffs. for \2s." while another register is written on the back
of a sheet of a MS. sermon.
" 181 3, 13 Oct, was interred the body of Michael Reynoldson,
gamekeeper at Burton-Constable who shot himself on the I2th,
verdict of the crown-jury. Lunacy, in the burying ground of
Roman Catholics, at Marton, parish of Swine."
The register was forwarded to the Commissioners in 1840, by
the Rev. Robert Hogarth, " the officiating minister " at that time,
who writes also that he " succeeded the Rev. Mr. Hodgson at
Marton, 19 Mar. 1823." Fr. Hogarth adds that " the books and
papers of Marton Chapel, Holderness, founded, the memory of
the oldest saith not at what period, and monumental inscriptions
on tomb-stones vouch for upwards of a century and a half"
Lying loosely inside Book II. is a French letter apparently
addressed to a refugee priest and explaining to him the method
of making entries in a register.
Some of these entries are very precise, as, e.g. :
" 1801, II June, buried James Bird, farmer and timber mer
chant, late of Sproatley, in the burying ground of the Roman
Catholic Chapel at Marton in the parish of Swine, Holderness,

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in the presence of his two sons James and Robert, and of his da.
Ann, wife of Robert Buckely. C. Howard."
A list of the congregation from 1820 to 1840 is given in Book
III., the names of Caley and Douthwaite frequently occurring ;
at the end is entered by the Rev. Thomas Hodgson, " I came
into Holderness June 19, 18 16." This makes the period of the
residence of Dr. Howard in this mission extend to over 40
years. I^oltne.
The Holme Hall Chapel register. No. 160, dating from 1743,
was forwarded to the Commissioners in 1840, by the Rev. John
Turner, " Pastor of the Holme congregation since 1815."
The Langdale entries in this register are, of course, very
numerous and the mission appears to have been under the care
of the Benedictine Fathers.
Almost the first entry in the book is the following : —
" Constantia Langdale, lawful da. of Marmaduke Langdale of
Holme and his wife Constantia (da. of Sir John Smythe of
Acton-Burnall, Bart., in Shropshire), born 26 June, 1744, baptized
next day; godfather Hon. Marmaduke, Lord Langdale, repre
sented by Jordan Langdale of Cliffe, Esq., godmother Mrs.
Mary Dicconson of Wrightington, in Lancashire, represented by
Mrs. Mary Langdale of Cliffe"
No priest's name is attached to this entry, and in the earlier
portion of the register itself, the old timidity to give them is
frequently apparent Later on, however, come the following
clergy obituary notices : —
" 1798, The Rev. Mr. Marsh, my predecessor, departed this
life Feb. 16, and was buried in Holme church-yard."
Under this date too (Clergy Obit., Laity s Directory, 1799).
occurs the entry, "Dom Jerom Marsh, O.S.B., Holme, Yorkshire."
This " Thomas Marsh of Lancashire " is recorded in " Weldon's
Chronology" as professed in 1759.

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" 1815, 16 July. At 8 o'clock In y^ morning, departed this life
ye Rev. Edward Clarkson, and was buried in Holme churchyard
on ye left side of his predecessor. Rev. T. Marsh."
Weldon s " Chronology " identifies him as " Dom Alban, Ed
ward Clarkson, of Goosnargh, Lancashire," and as professed
Nov. nth, 1787.
A little further on in the Holme register comes
" Catalogus Mortuorum."
" Persons who have Deen assisted at their deaths and buried
by me from the time I took the administration of the congrega
tion at Holme, as far as I can recollect : I shall only mention
the adults to whom I administered the Rites of the Church and
buried with Catholic Solemnity. As to ye dates or years it's not
in my power to ascertain them, but believe their deaths to have
happened pretty much in y^ order here sett down."
" 1765. Valentine Barker, farmer, ye other side the common,
departed this life on the 20th day of December, 1765, leaving a
widow, Ann, and 2 sons, John and Valentine, and a da., named
Ann, On 18 of January, 1769, was assisted by me att North
Cliff, and died, Mary Thomson, a wife, who came thither from
the North Riding about some business, and was seized with a
fever that carried her off. She was da. to Rob. Dale of some
where about Kilvinton, and his wife, formerly a native of Holme,
whose maiden name was Reyly.
" 1772. Mary Siddal, who had lived in ye family between 18
and 19 years in quality of housekeeper, departed this life on ye 28
of December after a painful illness, the only person that has
died in the house since the present Lord Langdale took posses
sion of it, which is now 30 years. She bequeathed all she had
by her to the poor and charitable uses. Req. in pace. She was
buried in Holme Church.
" 1773. On the 5 July, John Stoaks, who had lived in ye family
about 27 years in quality of stable groom, was unfortunately

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killed by a stroke from, or a fall off, an horse within a few yards
of ye door. He was never able to give an account how the acci
dent happened, though he lived 3 hours after it. He lies buried
also in Holme Church, near Mrs. Siddal. His kindred in Lin
colnshire got pretty well by his death. Req. in pace
" 1778, April 5, The Rt Hon. Marmaduke Langdale.
" 1780, February. Departed this life RIary Jefferson, wife to
Thomas Jefferson, and da. of the late John Barnes and Mary his
widow - she left 2 daughters behind her, but brought up in
ye Father's way.
"April 19. Departed this life at Aislaby, Margaret Cade, v/idow
of the late Jonathan Cade of Willitoft : her maiden name was
Smallpage of Coxwold : aged near 70, assisted by me a very few
days before her death, which at that time seemed not so near at
hand. She left no issue.
" Hannah, the da. of Rob. Johnson, a young woman of 22 years
of age, departed this life at her father's house, ye 27 April, 1782,
assisted with all the rites of the Church.
" Mary Johnson, sister of the latter, and da. of R. Johnson, de
parted this life on ist August, same year, and carried off in the
same m.anner by a galloping consumption at ye age of about 17
years old.
" The December following, 2 boys of the said Rob. Johnson, the
one 7, the other about 4 years old, were carried off hy the small
pox, named Edward and Matthew.
" Eliz., sister to the 2 former was carried off by the same dis
temper, which has been of late very fatal, on the 28 of the month
of December, 1782.
" 1784. Laurence, son of Robert Johnson, tailor, departed this
life on ye 4th of March, carried off by a consumption at ye age
of about 12 years: have buried six out of that family within
ye compass of less than 2 years.
"On the 5th of May, 1784, died here Catherine Stourton, 5th
and youngest da at that time (and aged 10 months), of Lord

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and Lady Stourton, who made their residence at this place
whilst their house at Stourton Place, near Ferry Bridge, was
fitting up for y™-
" 1786. Catherine, da. of Rob. Johnson and his wife Jane, de
parted this life on ye 23 Nov., aged about 24, carried off by con
sumption, after lingering a long while, the 9th. I have buried out
of that same family in ye compass of 4 years : 3 indeed were
carried off by the small pox very young, the rest by consump
tions. " Eliz. Ramsdale, wife of James Ramsdale of Holme, departed
this life on Saturday evening, 14 Nov., 179S, after having re
ceived all the ' rights ' of the Church, aged 45 : maiden name
Holmes. " Dorothy Matson of Bilton, my housekeeper, after receiving all
the • rights ' of the Church, and suffering most violent pains
with incredible patience, died 29 April, 1796, about IO.30 p.m.,
aged 32, being born 24 June, 1764. She is buried in Holme
churchyard, nearly opposite the great Front Door."
The foregoing obituary registers have evidently been entered
by the Rev. T. Marsh, O.S.B., already mentioned.
" 1798, July 8. Rob. Johnson departed this life, after having
received all the ' rights ' of the Church."
The Rev. J. Turner writes, when forwarding the register, that
' no other accounts of ye deaths in ye parish of Holme than
j-e preceding ones have been found."
The Register continues as follows :
" A list of those presented to the Bishop for ye Sacrament of
Confirmation, Sunday, 8th July, 1753. Mary Agar, an old
woman and convert : Ann Gosling, a servant in ye family ; Ann
Reynoldson, servant and convert " and 6 others.
"The Willitoft congregation at that time supplied by Mr.
F . . . . " / [sic]
Twenty others were confirmed on Sunday, July — 1758 at
Everingham, one of whom, Mary Syddal is described as "a

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convert," and lastly it is added, " The 2 eldest Miss Langdales
presented at York." • • • • ^ ¦ ¦
"The Misses Mary and Apollonia Langdale confirmed at
York, June, 1765, as was also Elizabeth Holmes. Bishop Petre
expected here on Sunday the 9th of the said month, and the
people prepared for conf . . . n [ste], but his Lordship being taken
ill at Gilling returned some time after to Lancashire without
paying us a visit"
Among those " presented on the 4th of September to Bishop
Maire for conf . . . n " are the following converts : " Rob. John
son of Holme " — ^the deaths of so many of whose children have
been recorded — , " Richard Pindar, a joiner of Laxton and his
wife Margaret ; Mary, the wife of Martin Johnson, and Ann, wife
of John Richardson."
At a confirmation in 1776 the converts are, "James Kingman,
Geo. Benson, Richard Thomson, Eliz. Rowson, and John Single
ton, sen''-," and on Sep. 18, 1785, Bishop Matthew Gibson gave
confirmation to another little neophyte band consisting of " Sarah
Barker, Ann Sawle, Sarah Johnson, Eliz. Millington, and Eliz.
Atkinson," in addition of course to a longer list of those who had
the happiness to be born of Catholic parents.
Further on begins a Marriage register and after an entry dated
" 19th Jany. (New Style) 1754," there is the following note :
" N.B. The Act of Parliament taking place at this time where
by Catholics were put under an obligation of being maryed at
church and registered there, otherwise the Marriage declared null
and to no effect as to all Intents and Purposes, it was judged
useless to continue the register any longer, as their marriages are
to be found in the church register. However, as it seems now
the desire of the Apostl . . . [sic] Vicar that a Marriage register
should be accurately kept by Cath. Pr . . . [sic\ so will resume
it from 1764."
" 1775. July 12. The Hon, Charles Philip Stourton, only son

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and heir of Rt Hon. Will™- Lord Stourton, of Witham Place,
CO. Essex, and his wife, Winifred Howard, deceased some years
since, took to his lawful wife, the Hon. Mary Langdale, 2nd da.
of the Rt Hon. Marmaduke Langdale, Baron of Holme-in-Spald-
ing-Moor, and his wife Constantia, and received the nuptial
benediction at Holme, in presence of the under-written v/itnesses
and many more : Eliz. Langdale, Apollonia Langdale."
The register closes with the subjoined
" Anniversaries of the Family."
January. 7° The Rt Hon. Eliz. Lady Langdale, da. of William,
Lord Widdrington of Widdrington Castle, co, Nor
thumberland, obiit Lond. aetatis 75, aut circiter an.
1765.
Ii.° Rt Hon. Frances, Lady Langdale: — grandmother.
8.° The Rt. Hon. Marmaduke, Lord Langdale, ob,
Londini, an. 1771, aet 88 ("a mistake I apprehend
of 10 years in the age ") son of ye above Frances
Lady Langdale whose maiden name was Draycot,
and by whom the Draycot, and Painsley estates
in Staffordshire came to the Family.
30.° 1786. The Hon. Eliz. Langdale in Ormond Street,
London, aged about 70.
15.° 1793. Rt Hon. H. Hugh, Lord Clifford.
March 31st Charlotte Langdale died at Ugbrook, 1819.
Aprilyei3th Sir Walter Vavasour of Hazlewood, ob. ibidem, ffit
circiter 60™°- an. 1766.
„ 17th. Ob. Will. Langdale at Hasslewood 1819.
„ Sth. 1778 in Jermyn Street, London, the Rt Hon. Mar
maduke Langdale, ast 69, leaving a widow Con
stantia, da. to Sir John Smythe, Bart, of Acton-
Burnall, Salop, by whom he had one son, Marm.
Edward, who died at Bath, aet 5 years, & 3
daughters, Constantia, (ob. 1761), Eliz.-Mary, and
Appolonia.

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May. 6." Hon. Dorothy, Lady Vavasour, wife of Sir Walter
Vavasour of Hazlewood, ob. an. 1751, aet circiter
39, leaving 3 sons, Walter, Thomas & Peter.
1 8.° Constantia, wife to Sir John Smythe of Acton-
Burnall. An. 1733.
, . . Mary, Lady Smythe, of Acton-Burnall, wife to Sir
Ed'"^- an. 1764.
June 14. Philip Langdale of Houghton, 181 3.
July 8. Hon. Alathea Langdale, died of the small pox at
Holme, aged about 20, about ye year 1738 or 9.
Aug. 4. ¦ Miss Constantia Langdale died of the small pox at
Richmond in Surrey, in her return home from
abroad, set 17. An. 1761.
Sep. 18. Died at Twickenham, Eliz. Butler, da. of last Lord
Langdale of Holme, 1823, aged 75 years.
„ 28° Sir John Smythe of Acton Burnall, An. 1737.
Nov. 23. The R. H. Constantia, Lady Langdale.
Dec 19. Rt Hon. Marmk. Lord Langdale : grandfather, ob-
Londini.
„ 31. Rt Hon. Apollonia (Langdale) Lady Clifford died at
Thorpe- Arch. 1815.
?lutitiersfieHr,
The Mission of St Patrick's, Huddersfield, No. 175, is returned
by the Rev. W. Trapps as founded in 1 828, the date also of the
commencement of the register, of which there is little of sufficient
interest to record.
" Memorandum. Mr. Mans of Huddersfield has presented and
given to the Cath. Chapel, Halifax Road, Huddersfield, the entire
mourning which was used in said Chapel on the interment of his
late wife .... 11 Sep. 1 837," an elaborate description of which
follows. The Rev. W. Trapps writes to the Commissioners, 4 Nov.
H

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1840, from St. Patrick's Church, Huddersfield, as follows : " I have
forwarded to you the original copy of the register of births,
baptisms and marriages. On your perusing the 2 or 3 first years,
you will find many irregularities as to the entry of the baptisms.
This irregularity I have no doubt arose from the peculiar situa
tion of the Catholics of this town, at those periods, the only place
where they then met for Divine Service was a room above some
work shop, and I have no doubt but the Priest was accustomed
to go to their houses to baptize them, inserting in his pocket-book
their names and the date, and afterwards forgetting to insert them
in regular order in the register. This appears the more evident
from the circumstances that so soon as they got well established
in theif new Church, the registers are regular, as then the people
are generally obliged to bring their children to the Church to be
baptized. The register of marriages you will find at the end of
the book. I shall be glad to hear that our registers have been
reed" The register as well as the foundation of the mission of St
Anne's, Keighley, No. 204, dates from the year 1835. Covering
only a period of five years, it is devoid also of any especial
interest ltnares6oro'.
No. 217 is the register — dating from 1765 — of the old Bene
dictine Mission of St. Mary's, Knaresboro', founded there in
1797. First we have a series of addresses but without any dates
attached to them. They are, however, evidently those of some
Benedictine Fathers, nearly all of whom are identified by Dom
Bennet Weldon in his " Chronological Notes, O.S.B." They are
as follows : —

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" Mr. Steare at Parlington, near Aberford.
„ Fisher at Holme, near M. Weighton.
„ Watkinson at Middleton Lodge, near Ilkley.
, Wareing at Lawkland, near Settle.
„ Bennet at Everingham, near Pocklington.
„ Bradshaw at Angram, near Easingwold.
„ Lacon at Bransby, near York.
„ Bolton at Gilling Castle, near Easingwold.
„ Gregson at Sefton, to be left with Mr. Kaye, Linnin
Draper, Liverpool, Lancashire.
Mr. Bolas at Hesleyside, near Hexham, Northumb.
„ Bolas, Warwick Bridge, Carlisle, Cumberland.
Monsieur Heatly, a Lambspring, proch d'Hildesheim, en Basse
Saxe, per Amsterdam.
To Mr. John Bidenham, in the Neustader Fulentwicte, Ham
burgh, per Amsterdam.
To Samuel Younghusband, Esq., at Tuggel Hall, near Alnwick,
Northumberland. A Monsieur, Mon^. Thos. Story, chez Mon'. Wilkinson, a St
Omer, en Artois, per Dover et Calais.
Mr. Warburton, on the Quay, Newcastle-upon-Tyne.
Charles Selby, Esq., Earle, near Belford, Northumberland."
The register itself, as has been already stated, opens with the
year 1765, but no priest's signature is attached to any entry
earlier than the 4th January, 1797, the first name being that of
" Thos. Appleton, P  1" [sic], — another illustration of the old
terror at even writing the word, "priest." This Fr. "Anselm,
Thomas Appleton of Lancashire," was according to Weldon's
Chronology, O.S.B., professed on Jan^- 12, 1788.
Next, we have a short account of the establishment of this
mission :
"August 2nd, 1797, the chapel was transferred to Knaresboro'
from Follifoot, to which latter place it had formerly been trans
ferred from Plumpton, about the time when the male branch of

so OLD ENGLISH CATHOLIC MISSIONS.
the Plumpton family failed, which was about the year of our
Lord 1755. Follifoot chapel house with about five acres of good
land was sold to one Jackson, Esq. of Fletwood[?] for £6^0.
Knaresboro' Chapel in Brigate was built in ye year 1790, by one
Thornton, a cotton manufacturer. Soon after the war broke out
with the French Republic, he failed, and Mr. Lacon, the then
existing Provincial, purchased the building for ;^425."
On the margin of this page of the register it is added: "During
the troublesome times the priest lay concealed at the farm house
on Thistlehill, and there did duty occasionally. N.B. The
Plumpton fund was left not for Follifoot but Thistlehill or
Plumpton." Then follow some notes relative to the purchase of
land and cottages, written on the back of a letter addressed to
" Rev. Mr. Appleton, Bridge Street, Knaresboro'."
" 1799, Jan. 24, was baptized conditionally and reconciled Ann
Clapam of Knaresboro', and received the rites of the Church the
26 of the said month."
" About 60 persons were confirmed at Knaresboro', 9 Nov.
1808, by the Rt Rev. W. Gibson," at which time the Rev. Denis
Allerton, O.S.B., appears to have been in charge of the mission.
On the last page of the book we have a list of "Obligations on
the Catholic Chapel, Knaresboro'," as follows:
" Elizabeth Knight i, Mr. Knight i, Mary Knight i, Anne
Knight I, Wm. Knight i. Relations 2. Mrs. Farmor 6, Mr.
Trapps I : Rev. Mr. Steare i, Mr. Luntley 3, Cecily Blakey i,
Mr. Benson 20, Mr. Molyneux i. Miss Commaleach i, with a
com : of Thomas, Anne, James and Henry Commaleach."
iLarttnuton.
The register of the mission of Lartington, No. 220, dates from
1769, the mission itself being returned by the Rev. Michael
Ellis, "chaplain in Lartington Chapel" since 181 1, as founded
in the year 1700.

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ILain^Iantr.
The Rev. Henry Sutton in forwarding the Lawkland mission
register. No. 221, to tlie Commissioners, writes to them, 30 Oct,
1 840: " Gentlemen, I deem it proper to explain some little regarding
the apparent incongruity between the book of baptismal registers
and the certificate." [i.e. the certificate, or printed statement that
accompanies all the registers.] "The Catholic Chapel was
formerly in Lawkland Hall, but as it was afterwards removed to
its present locality about the year 1790, the same book of baptis
mal registers has served for both chapels."
The first entry is as follows: "Anno Domini 1745, die 29
Mensis J unii, ego Jacobus Legrand, Monachus, Anglo-Benedictinus,
et Missionarius residens in aedibus Johannis Stephani Ingleby
armigeri, in parochia Claphamensi, baptisavi Annam Taylor."
Other Benedictine Fathers who consecutively had charge of
this mission after Father Legrand are Dom. James Wareing,
William Allam, J. Chew, S. Mitchell, &c., all of them identified
in Weldon's " Chronology." ILeettS (St. Patrick's).
The Mission of St Patrick's, York Road, Leeds, is returned
as founded in 1831 ; yet the register dates from ist April, 1780.
In the Non-Parochial Register Index at Somerset House it is
there noted that "the entries in this Book, No. 236, refer in
many cases to the R. C. Chapel, No. 237," i.e., to the next
register. The first entry is that of a " Christening by B. Albert, Under
bill, O.S.D. glipioqusfig [sic] minister of ye Catholic Church at
Roundhay." This enigmatical description of himself may be a
piece of pleasantry or a character in cipher designating his
ecclesiastical office.

S2 OLD ENGLISH CA THOLIC MISSIONS.
In Book IL, "The Rev. Charles Hyacinth Le Febvre," is
named as " Pastor of the Leed's congregation from Sep. 1 8 14."
Both of him and of his predecessor. Father Raymund Palmer,
O.P., in his Obituary Notices of the Friar Preachers, gives an
interesting account, the life of Fr. Le Febvre— a former French
artillery man — being particularly eventful. A note at the end
of this book adds :
" Observanda : Gulielmus Hutton de Knaresboro', Benefactor
hujus sacelli munificus."
Among other clergy afterwards attached to this mission ap
pear to have been, the Revs. Henry Lewis Oxley, Henry News
ham, and R. Brown. leelts (St. Mary's).
No, 237 purports to be the register — in six bocks — of St
Mary's, Lady Lane, Leeds, a mission returned by the Rev
Henry Walmesley as " founded about the year 1790, and trans
ferred to St Anne's in 1838." He adds that he has kept the
registers "since 1834 and took them with him to St. Anns.'
The first sheet that has found its way into this little book is a
portion of a letter, on one side of it being the following address :
"Pour le R. P. Thomas Wortington, Missionaire Apostolique
^President h, Middleton entre Leeds et Wakefield, dans le comte
oe Yorck en Angleterre."
Curiously enough, however, the entries in this register by Fr.
Worthington are all Lancashire ones and he must have brought
the book with him to Middleton from Croxteth.
" Liber conjugatorum a Fr. Thoma Worthington, O.P., Anno
Dni., 1714."
Four marriages are there recorded, the second on the list, that
viz., of Lord Molyneux, who died in the following year, 8
March, 171 7 — his first wife dying in 17 13 — not appearing in
the Peerage. " Anno Domini, 1716. Mense Julii, die 22, De-

OLD ENGLISH CATHOLIC MISSIONS 53
nunciationibus omnibus omissfs, nullo legitimo impedimento
detecto, in oppido dicto, Warrington, ego infrascriptus, Guliel-
mum L'' Molineux et Filiam Mariam Skelton, interrogavi,
eorumque mutuo consensu habito, solemniter per verba de prae-
senti matrimonio conjunxi, praesentibus testibus notis . . .
Skelton, Roberto Molyneux, Jacobo Leyburn. Thomas Worth
ington." The rest of the book contains 31 baptismal registers under
the heading :
" Liber Baptizatorum a F. Thoma Worthington, Mo. Ao. O.P.
Anno Domini 171 3-17."
These baptisms mostly took place " in capella de Croxteth."
Book II. appears also to be largely in the handwriting of Fr.
Thomas Worthington and opens with a small " account of what
I received from Mr. Molyneux at several times." Next, and in
Book II. we have some remarkable medical prescriptions, pre
ceded however by accounts with my uncle — doubtless a gen
uine one.
I. Remedies against the Infection of Aer, sickness, &c.
A quart of Brandy : infuse into it an ounce and half of
Roman Treakle : when incorporated, drink a little glass ;
before you drink it, shake it and then let it settle again a
while : It will keep for years.
II. Against wormes in the Stomack.
A glass of right red Burgundy evei y morning for a month :
This kills 'em. Then take a glister of your own vrine with
two spoonfulls of comon Treakle.
III. Against the graveill.
Take 9 quarts of water: boil therein 4 spoonful of Barley, a
pound of rasons stoned, 3 ounces of Lickorish after the
rasons are well consumed, boyl in it for 6 or 7 minutes a
handfull of Luson [?] then take it off the fire, being strained,
and pour it hot on a pound of clarified virgin honey;
bottle it and it will drink brisk ; take it for a fortnight."

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Following upon this we have a number of addresses, evidently
those of the clergy. Many of those named are Dominican
Fathers, as a reference to Fr. Raymund Palmer's Obituary
Notices of the Friar Preachers clearly identifies them, while some
few are Fathers of the Society of Jesus. The addresses are of
interest and importance as they afford evidence of the locality in
which various priests were labouring.
To Mr. Roydon, near Kendall, Westmoreland.
" Sir Edward Gascoigne, Bart., at Parlington near Tadcaster.
" Mr. Rogers at Hazlewood, near Tadcaster, Yorkshire.
" Mr. Tompson, to be left at Mr. Rymer's, merchant in
Hexham, Northumberland.
" Mr. Brownlow Doughty, at Badgmore, near Henley in
Oxfordshire.
" Mr. Will. Bullock at Ness, to be left at the Post House iu
New Malton, Yorkshire.
" Mr. Green at Mr. Knights', Kingerby, near Market Rason,
Lincolnshire.
" Mr. Hansbie at Esq. Porter's at Bardney near Lincoln.
" Mr. Lovett, at the Rt Plon. Lord Clifford's at Ugbrook,
near Excester, Devonshire.
" Mr. Lovett, at the Hon. Hugh Clifford's, at Cannington,
near Bridgewater, Somersetshire.
« Mr. Robert Bruce at Mr. Holland's in Palin (?) Street,
Mattock Street, by Hanover Square, London.
« [blank in MS.] at Esq. Tunstal's at Wickliff near Rich
mond, Yorkshire.
" Mr. Hansbie, at John Porter, Esq., at Mill Hill, near
Hendon, Middlesex.
" Mr. Darbyshire at Borwick Hall, near Lancaster.
*' Mr. Bruce, at Mr. Beesly's in Panton Street, near Leicester
Fields, London.
* Mrs. Atkinson's at the Fann in Great Wild Street, near
Drury Lane, London. See 'em from their father
and mother at Middleton Lodge.

OLD ENGLISH CATHOLIC MISSIONS. 55
To Mr. Darby at Sir Francis Mannock's, Bart, at Gifford's
Hall in Suffolk by Bexford bagg, by way of
London.
" Mr. Williams to be left with Ralph Brandling, Esq., at
Middleton, near Leeds.
" Mr. More at Newbrough at Ld Falconberg's by Easing
wold bagg, Yorkshire.
" Mr. Ecop, at the Great Golden Lion, Warrington.
" Joseph Porter, Esq., in old Elvett in Durham. A Mon
sieur Jean Green, accomade a Madame Tyldsley
chez les Dames Angloisses, sur la Foss^ St. Victor, a
Paris.
" Mr. Hatton at Jordon Langdale's Esq., at Cliff: to be left
at the Post House at Weighton, Yorkshire.
" Mr. Westby with Dr. Elliot at Beobridge, to be left at the
Post office bagg (sic) in Woolverhampton, Stafford
shire.
" Mr. Bruce (Hansbie) at Mr. Duxon's in New Turnstile
over against the Vine Tavern, Holborn.
" Mr. Burgis at Mr. More's in Kingsinton Gore, by London.
" Mr. Brown, at Mr. Aston's, undertaker in Little Wild
Street near Lincoln's Inn Fields, London.
" Mr. Morgan Hansbie at Mr. Marltons in Panton Street
near the Haymarket, London.
« Mr. Clarkson at Francis Turville's of Aston, Esq., near
Hinckley, by Coventry Bagg, Leicestershire.
" ^° {sic) these to be left at Mr. Dowson's, upholsterer, in
Leicester.
* Mr. Bruce at ye Hon. Mrs. Porter's at Hamton, by London.
Middlesex.
« Mr. Hansbie, at Mr. How's tin shop near Dean Street.
Holborn, London.
« Mr. Eaton (Petre's) at Wycliff, near Greta Bridge, York
shire.

56 OLD ENGLISH CATHOLIC MISSIONS
To Monsieur More chez Monsieur Corby, chez Monsieur
Caffieri, Maitre des Posts, a Calais.
From a Mortuary List that ensues, a few extracts are here
given. Mortuarium, a F. Tho. Worthington, O.P.
1739. Aug. 4. Dns. Carolus Ireland — near Newton.
1740. April 3. Reverendiss. Dns. Tho. Dominicus Williams
episcopus Tiberiopolitanus, et Vicarius Apostolicus ad partes
Boreales Angliae. — Huddleston.
1 74 1. May 7. Ex. P. M. Raymundus Green — Louvain.
1742. Oct. 3. Thomas Worthington, nepos. — ^Hooton in
Cestria. 1748. July I. Ann Brandling of Middleton.
1749 June 20. Radulphus Brandling of Middleton, Esq.
„ July 7. Radulphus Brandling, Jun"^- Esq. — Felling.
1750 May 13. S. V. Edwardus Gascoigne, Bart — Cambray.
1739 Sep. 9. Anna Brandling, Jun'^ — Felling.
The number of those reconciled to the Church between the
years 1732 and 1758 appears to have been about 90 : a few are
here given. Recep. ad Eccla.
1732, July 2. George Addison. — Halifax.
1734, June 30. Susanna Royson. — Middleton.
Aug. 15. Arnold Griffith. „
173S, Jan. 26. Thomam Horbury. „
„ Aug. I. D. Radulphus Brandling. — Morpeth in Nor
thumb. 1736, Ap. 4. Gul. Harrison. — Middleton.
„ Dec. 25. Johann. Stephens. — Potterton [?].
The last conversion entry in this book is " 1758, 31 Dec. John
Thompson of Sherburn receptus est in ulnam Eccl. Cathol."
Some pages at the other end of the book are full of accounts
of sums of money received for masses for the dead. Such at
least, e.g., appear to be the following.

OLD ENGLISH CATHOLIC MISSIONS. 57
" 1727, Aug. II. J Rd. of S*r. Veronica a croun for Bro : X
won A duckate on account of M. Sheldon.
Mrs. Mary Edwards, April 19th 1684 gave Mr. John Jacobs
20 li for a yearly immediately after her death signed by 4 
never don y* [sic]. I find she was not dead 1703 but appre
hended she was " [?].
Book III. in addition to a Baptismal register dating from 1763
to 1797 contains notices of many receptions into the church be
sides anniversaries of death &c., and an account of the bequests
of the Brandling Family to the Dominican Mission, which were
afterwards unhappily lost by the failure of the banker Wright,
or as it would seem by the defalcation of the son of the Mr.
Tuite, in whose hands the money had been placed.
Subjoined are extracts. Anniversaria.
Feb. 25. P. M. Thom» Worthington.
Mar. 5. P. M. Ambrosii Gage.
Oct 23. P. M Antonini Hatton.
Pium Legatum
Dae. Annse Brandling de Middleton in Comltatu Eboracensi.
Domina Anna Brandling, uxor Radulphi Brandling de Middleton
in comitatu Eboracensi prope Leeds, armigeri, obiit die primo
Julii, anno millesimo septingentesimo quadragesimo octavo, et
per ultimum suum testamentum in Honorem et Gloriam Dei
Omnipotentis reliquit Edoardo Gascoigne de Parlington in
Comitatu Eboracensi, Bar.to- summam octingenta librarum ster
ling monetae Anglicanse in confidentia, eo scilicet consilio ut ipse
prefatus Edoardus Gascoigne, prefatam suiham Pecuniae consig-

5 8 OLD ENGLISH CATHOLIC MISSIONS.
naret in manus F. Thomae Worthington Ordinis Predicatorum
Provincise Angliae ea Intentione ut erigeretur fundus perpetuus
ad alendum Missionarium ejusdem ordinis et Provincise FF.™
Predicatorum qui pabulum vitae spirituale Catholicis Romanis de
Middleton et vicinis administraret Ego igitur, F. Thomas
Worthington, auctoritate accepta ab Edwardo Gascoigne, Bar.,*".
recepi a Radulpho Brandling, armigero, uxoris suae Annae Brand
ling solo executore et administratore summam predictam octin
genta Librarum sterling monetae Anglicanae.
Predictam summam octingenta librarum sterling transmisi
R. P. Mro F. Josepho Hansbie Provinciali Londinum. Quani
summam se recepisse testatur per Litteras. Etiam per alias
litteras mihi datas, Mali 8° 1750, notificat mihi predictam sumam
apud Benedictinos Anglos coUocatam, initiis sumere, uti per
contractum apparet die 28° Feb. 1749.
^P° Hsec Pia et munificentissima Donatio et fundatio nullam
habet expressam obligationem strictae obligationis ad Anniver
saria pro Defunctis celebranda.
Est tamen obligatio gratitudinis erga nostram tam Insignem
Benefactricem ut singulis Annis pro animS, ipsius fiat officium
Defunctorum et celebretur missa anniversaria. Haec erat ejus
Intentio et desiderium. Et insuper, sicut dum viveret non
omisit procurare ut singulis annis celebrarentur missae anniver-
sariae pro Animabus Parentum ejus, viz. Johannis Legh, patris
ejus, et Helense Legh, matris ejus, atque Francisci Legh,
patrui ejus. Ita conveniens videtur ut missae illae anniver-
sariae continuentur. Insuper ut singulis septimanis una missa
celebretur pro Anima Benefactricis nostrae, et quotidiana
memoria specialis ejusdem inter alias memorias.
^p° Cum vero Pauperes semper habebimus nobiscum, In-
digentibus et egenis succurramus, et manus nostras extendamus
ad Pauperes, cum omni charitate et discretione.

OLD ENGLISH CATHOLIC MISSIONS, SO
Anniversaria.
obiit
Mar. 17. Anniv. Johannis Legh, patris. ...  1707.
April 3. „ R. P. F. Thomae Dominici. "i
Williams, Epis. Tiberiopolitani. V. Ap. J
„ 29, „ D. Helense Legh, matris  1701.
June 20. „ „ Radulphi Brandling, mariti  I749.
July I. „ „ Annae Brandling, Benefactricis. ... 1748
Nov, 23. „ „ Francisci Legh, Patrui  171 5*
There is something, too, peculiarly touching and solemn in the
following entries in the handwriting of four Dominican Fathers
who consecutively served this mission.
^S' F. Thomas Worthington, ord. Predicat. memoriam post
obitum suppliciter deprecatur.
Feb. 25. Anniv. Venerab. & Eximii P. M. Thomae Worthing
ton, Provincialis Angliae, ordinis Praedicatorum. I754-
Idem Charitatis officium enixfe postulat F. Antoni
nus Hatton, ord. Praed.
Oct 23. Anniv. Eximii P. M. Hatton  17S3.
Quod idem beneficium ut in se conferatur, obsecrat F.
Ambrosius Jacobus Gage, Ord. Praed.
Mar. 5. Anniv. Exim. P. M. Gage.  1796.
this last being probably in the handwriting of F. Albert Under
bill The record of the Brandling benefaction continues as
follows :
Pium Datum
D* Annae Brandling, de Middleton in Comitatu Eboracensi.
Eadem Anna Brandling uxor Radulphi B. de Middleton in com.
Ebor. prope Leeds, armigeri, dum adhuc viveret consignavit
mihi F. Thomae Worthington, ord. Praedicat. Provincise Angliae
summam 300 lib. sterling : ea intentione ut addita summa 800
lib sterling per Testamentum ut supra, fundus esset sufficiens ad
alendum perpetuo missionarium ejusdem ordinis & Provinciae

60 OLD ENGLISH CATHOLIC MISSIONS.
FF. Prsedicatorum qui pabulum vitse spirituale Catholicis Ro
manis de Middleton et vicinis administraret.
Ego igitur, F. Thomas Worthington acceptam supradictam
summam transmisi R. P. F. Magistro Josepho Hansbie Provin
ciali Londinum. Qui per litteras predictam summam se re
cepisse agnoscit. Etiam per alias mihi epistolas datas R. P. Mr.
F. Josephus Hansbie, ii° Octob. 1748, notificat mihi prsedictam
summam apud D. — Tuite mercatorem Hibernum Londinen-
sem collocatam, initium sumere, uti per contractum patet
^g" Per litteras mihi datas a P. F. Josepho Hansbie, P. F.
Patricio Bradley, P. F. Roberto Bruce, illi receperunt meo
nomine et secundum Beneplacitum meum: mihique diversis
temporibus remiserunt omne interesse summse 300 lib. & 800 lib.
usque ad Festum S. Michaelis anno 175 1. Quando duse illse
summae capitales in una coagulatae sunt et collocatse apud
supradictum D™- Tuite. Et ab illo tempore, viz. Festo S^i-
Michaelis anno 1751 incipit interesse. Ita P. F. Robertus Bruce
epistola mihi missa London o'^er. 19 anno 1751.
Post obitum R. P. Antonini Hatton, qui R. P. Tho. Worthing
ton successit, filius et hseres supradicti Tuite, dissipato patri-
monio, cum solvendo non esset, ex Anglia aufugit, quo factum
est, ut sacerdoti qui in locum F. Antonini Hatton suffectus est,
ex pecuni§, testamento legata, nihil dum emolumenti accesserit.
Ita Ambrosius Gage.
Interesse s™* Anni a 175 1 ad 1752.
Meo nomine, ut per litteras, recepit
P. F. Patricius Bradley ... ,,, 30. o. O
P. F. Robertus Bruce ... ... 25. o o
a 1752 ad 1753.
P. F. Robertus Bruce  55
The following extracts from conversion entries are of interest.
1765. Oct 27. Emiss^ prius Fidei professione, &c., introducta
est in Ecclesiam Christi, Maria Johnson.

OLD ENGLISH CATHOLIC MISSIONS. 6l
1771. Die 2 Feb. Receptus est in Ovile Christi Ecclesiae Cath.,
Stephanus Brown.
" Nov. 23. Mary Ballance de Garforth.
1772. Jan. 19. John Hoyle.
" May 3. Will. Orrell of Holbeck.
" " 10. Dorothy Whitely of Methley.
" July 12. Sarah Williams.
1773. May 30. Recepi in Domum Dei, Gulielmum Johnson,
Leodiensem.
" Aug. 10. Recepta est in eandem, D*- Brigitta Turner de
Leeds.
" Sep. 26. Eliz Hoyle.
1774. Ap. 1 1. Recepi in S. Rom. Ecclesiae gremiura, Francis-
cam Hicks de Leeds.
" Die 26 ejusdem mensis in S. Matris Ecclesiae gremium est
receptus, Timotheus Hicks, de Leeds.
" Aug. 28. Recepi in gremium Sanctae Romano-Catholicae
Ecclesiae, Mariam Roper.
" Sep. 4. Joshua Roper.
1775. 7 Nov. Their child Sarah (Roper) was baptized.
1776. April 8. Mary Turner.
" June 10. Martha Esther Hield.
Sep. 21. Sarah Forge.
1778. Dec. 21. Recepi in gremium S. Matris Ecclesiae, Dom-
inam Maeson Sanders, Dunelmensem nunc de
Hebor House.
Many other names could be added.
1796. Mar. 5. Mortuus est R. P. Amb. Gage. an. aet 77.
Book IV. is an "Obituary — 1814 to 1834 — kept in the Catholic
chapel of Leeds," the Rev. Charles Lefebvre being "priest of
that congregation " at that time : in it is recorded the death on
Oct 24, 1814 of the "Rev. Albert Underbill, D.D."

62 OLD ENGLISH GATHOLIG MISSIONS.
3Linton=uji[on=®u0e.
Linton-upon-Ouse, No. 243, is returned by the Rev. James
Wrennall, the "incumbent since 1827," as a mission founded in
the year 1700, the register dating from 1771. There is little in
it deserving of any particular notice : three apparently French
clergy were at intervals on the mission here, the Rev. Francis
Peter Thebault in 18 10, the Rev. P. Chatelais in 1813, and the
Rev. Lude. de Henne in 1816, the first named of these being
identified by Canon Plasse in his "Refugee Clergy," II. 317, 416,
as a priest of the diocese of Rennes and as resident at Hull in
1803. JlanMlr (Cliffe Chapel).
The Rev William Hogarth, (afterwards Bishop of Hexham),
priest here at the time of forwarding his register No. 252, and
on this mission since 18 16, thus fills up the printed certificate :
"Baptisms for R. C. Chapel, called Cliffe in the parish of Man-
field in the County of York, and of Cliffe, united to Darlington
from the year 1824, Co. Durham. Cliffe had been an old estab
lishment before the Reformation : the ancient registers were
destroyed by fire." The register dates from 1792, and there are
also a few loose leaves dating from 1785. It contains entries of
the families of Witham, Plowden and Swinburne, &c.
iKarSlte (Clint's Chapel).
No 256 is the register dating from 1786 of " Clint's Hall,
parish of Marske." The Rev. Robert Johnson, "the clergyman
of Richmond and the neighbourhood," when forwarding it to
the Commissioners in 1840 writes that "the chapel was dissolved
last September."
Priest here in 1790 was the Rev. Roland Davies, and in 1805,
the Rev. James Wheeler. Some Errington baptisms are entered
in the register.

OLD ENGLISH CATHOLIC MISSIONS. 63
#ortfj Ittl&inflton.
No. 281 In two books is the register of the mission of " North
Kilvington near Thirsk, founded" — writes the Rev. Edward
Crane — "probably about the time of the Reformation and never
dissolved, the existence of the R. C. Congregation being with
certainty traced back for 150 years." Accordingly, he returned
his mission as founded in the year 1690. The register, however
only dates from 1775 ; among the earlier entries is the baptism
of John, son of Charles and Mary Heveninghara on 30 Aug.
1778. Etcfjtnonlr.
No year is given as the date of the foundation of the old mis
sion of Richmond [No. 304] but from the date of the register,
1748, up to the present time, it has been under the care of the
Fathers of the Society of Jesus. The register is in four books, in
the first of which no other priest's name occurs but that of James
Nelson in 1765 : the register opens thus :
In the year 1748, In ye last week of May, I received into the
Church Ambrose Nun, near Coldham in Suffolk.
1748. July 31. At Richmond, I rec^- into the Church Mary
Pert, bom of Protestant parents, but brought up a Pres-
b3^erian. Sep. 3. I received into the Church John Pert
christened and brought up a Catholic, who had afterwards turned
Protestant, Mary's husband.
1752. May 24. At Gonnerset, I received Into the Church
James Peacock, son to a Protestant parson.
[This wzayhave been a son of William Peacock, LL.B., who was instituted
to the Incumbency of Danby- Wiske 26 June, 1761, the patron of the living
at that time being Samuel Peacosk, gent. (Whitaker's Richmondshire I.
356).] 1751. Dec. I. At Scarr house at Ackendale, I christened

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John, son to Christopher and Sarah Barningham : nobody was
there to stand godfather or godmother.
1753. Sep. 20. At Richmond I rec^. into the Church Jane
Coats of or near Selby of Protestant parents.
1753. Dec 30. I rec<J. into the Church at Gonnerset, Mary,
wife to Jos. Kearton of Muaker, and Jane, wife to Rob. Loftus :
N.B., both born of Protestant parents.
1754. Oct 12. I reed, into the Church, William Rennison,
born of Protestant parents, yet for several years a Presbyterian.
1755. Nov. 19. At Danby, I christened Simon (born the
same day) son to Mr. Simon & Clementina Scroope : Will
Sheldon of Weston & Mrs. Strickland stood sponsors.
[Probably, therefore, several of the above entries are by Fr. F. Oakley,
S.J. See the Danby register.]
1761. Nov. I. At Richmond, I rec^- into the Church, Ann
Kitchen, born of Protestant parents.
1765, April 13. I, James Nelson, christened at Ivelet, Mar^
garet, da. of Jos. and Mary Kearton.
The register also contains several entries of the following
families : Dormer, Errington. Metcalfe, Middleton, Stapleton,
Swinburne, Trapps, &c. From 1794 to 1814 the majority of the
entries are made by the Rev. Thomas Lawson, O.S.B., who was
professed (Weldon's Chronology, p. 14, App.), 22 Aug., 1779.
Later on in Book III. occurs the following note : " The Rev. Mr.
Dupont lived in Richmond, French priest during the French
Revolution, an emigrant from his country."
" 1802. Bap. 8 Aug. by Mr. Perrot, French priest, Mary, d. of
Michael and Mary Martin : the above was the da. of a soldier,
the regiment having halted at Richmond."
Of these two refugee clergy, the first named is probably
identical with the Rev. J. J. Dupont, vicaire d'Ecalles in the
diocese of Rouen mentioned by Canon Plasse in his Clergi
Frangais Rifugii en Angleterre, 1 1., 408 : That of M. Perrot does
not appear however in his index.

OLD ENGLISH CATHOLIC MISSIONS. CS
Subjoined are a few further extracts :
"1809. Bom Jan. 26, bap. 28th, Mary, da. of Thomas and
Mary Wright by Thos. Lawson : the poor woman was travelling
to Carlisle, her place of residence : her husband was a soldier
and abroad."
"18 12. 5 Dec I baptised sub. con., Edward, son of Edward
and Mary Caley : the latter was travelling through Richmond,
her husband was a soldier in Spain.''
Then is added: "The Rev. Thomas Lawson left the con
gregation of Richmond, 10 June, 18 14, and was succeeded by
the Rev. Rob. Johnson, who arrived 18 June, 18 14."
181 3. Born 6 Feb., and bap. 27th, sub. conditione, Jane, da. of
John and Jane Evans of Darlington : the above Jane was a
traveller, and both parents Protectants.
1815. Baptizatus est a me Roberto Johnson, James, son of
James and Elizabeth Raper, sub. conditione, prius enim minister
Protestans euni baptizaverat
1820. June 7, baptized Ann, da. of Richard and Eliz. Fendley :
the father of this child belonging to the 31st regiment was with
his wife on his road from Manchester to Sunderland.
1825. June 5th, bap., born 31 May, Hugo Tyevey, son of
Samuel and Sofia T. (olim Farmer) : the father was a Portuguese
and died on the 5th April : the mother was an Irish woman on
her way to Liverpool.
A list of upwards of sixty names occurs at the other end of
the book under the heading, " In Ecclesiam Recepti," made up
mostly of adults and between the years 1814 and 1825. "The
Roman Catholic Chapel at Richmond," it is added, " was built
by Sir John Lawson, bart of Brough Hall, co. York., A.D. 1806."
The following are some of the principal " donations to the
Richmond Chapel."
" Before June 19, 1814 : Lady Lawson, a cope : Mrs. Errington
a white vestment : Mrs. Stapleton, a set of artificial flowers :

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Miss F. Scroope, an alb and communion cloth : Mrs. Mair, an
alb. April, 1835. Mr. Stapleton gave to the Chapel the thurible,
&c., which he had only lent before : he gave an altar and its
appendages to the Chapel in the Dales.
Donations to the Chapel since June 19, 18 14, when the Rev.
Robert Johnson, S.J., succeeded the Rev. Thomas Lawson,
O.S.B., in the mission of Richmond.
181 5. Mrs. Stapleton — a surplice.
Dow'- Lady Lawson — a set of artificial flowers.
1816. Dowr- Lady Lawson — a painted velvet vestment
„ Dowr- Lady Gerard — a handsome carpet for the
sanctuary.
„ Mrs. S. Standish — a magnificent scarf.
Dow'f- Lady Gerard, \
Dowr. Lady Lawson, f A superb Roman missal, folio, red
Mrs. Stapleton, j morocco, gilt
Mrs. S. Standish, )
• • ¦ • • •
Mrs. S. Standish — Satin and Gold Lace for the Expository.
Dow'- Lady Lawson — a pair of elegant sconces for the ex
pository, and in 1820 a p^. of silver cruets.
1 8 17, April 7. Miss F. Scroope — a worked fringe for the altar.
1820. Mrs. Pierson placed in my hands ;£'20 for three or four
annual Masses for the repose of the soul of her sister Eliz.
Pierson : remitted said sum to Provincial, Rev. Charles Plowden."
Other and similar donations and legacies being specified, the
following memorandum occurs :
" I have been frequently applied to by persons of this con
gregation to know if money left to this place may be ever
alienated from this particular chapel by the Provincial, S.J., or
any Superior of the Mission, or otherwise. I have invariably
assured them that this can by no means be done ; that what is
left to, or belongs to this Mission, cannot be taken from it by

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any present or future Superior. In consequence of this assur
ance, the above monies have been added to the fund of the
chapel: they would not have been given unless for such
assurance : in giving this assurance, I have only repeated what
I was taught by my Master of Novices, the Rev. Charles
Plowden. Lady Lawson frequently asked me concerning the right of
Superiors to alienate the funds of this chapel to other places or
purposes. I gave the same assurances stated above : — to Mr.
Stapleton the same reply."
In 1818 a Sunday School was opened for the Richmond
Catholics. An obituary list follows in which the cause of death
is given :
" 1824. Dec. 17. Ann Lewis, aged 31, drowned herself: she
was somewhat in liquor."
Book IV., a baptismal register dating from 18 14 to 1840, is all
signed by the Rev. Robert Johnson, S.J. It contains several
Stapleton entries : the book closes with the following memor
andum :
A. M. D. G.
"On this day May 7, 1837, the Rt Rev. Dr. Briggs, vicar
apostolic of the Northern District, gave Confirmation in this
Chapel to the following persons :
I do not find it recorded that Confirmation was ever given in
Richmond before this day since the Reformation. Rob. Johnson.'*
Fifty-six names of candidates ensue, of which twenty-seven
are converts. 2£lipon [Bishop-Thornton].
The baptismal register of the Mission of Bishop-Thornton,
No. 312, is returned as dating from 1806. It was forwarded to
the Commissioners in 1840 by the Rev. James Piatt, " Pastor of
the said chapel since 18 13." The earliest entry, however, is that

68 OLD ENGLISH CATHOLIC MISSIONS.
of 7 May, 1803, when the Rev. Richard Talbot was in charge of
the mission. The Rev. Charles Saul succeeded him. In the
Obituary of the Laity's Directory for 18 14, his death is given as
on "5 June, 1813, at Thornton, Yorkshire, aged 46. [Crook
Hall]. The name also of the Rev. Joshua Roulhac occurs as
priest here at one time. No particular Interest attaches to this
register. Sancton [Houghton Chapel].
No. 321 is the register of Houghton Chapel forwarded by the
Rev. George Keasley "incumbent there since 1838." The
mission is returned as founded in 1780, the first entry in the
register bearing date 11 Nov. 1787, when the Rev. Thomas
Slater was priest in charge. Many entries also of the Langdale
family occur of course in this register. It is also interesting to
record the conditional baptism of several converts, as follows,
the first few entries being made by the Rev. John Rigby :
1809, June 10. Baptized sub. con. Hannah Anderson, convert,
da. of Harper at South Cliffe, aged 24, a soldier's wife.
1809, Bap. sub. con., Robert Gordon, a convert at Sancton,
aged 32.
June II. Thomas White, a convert at Sancton, aged 27.
1820, April 3. bap. sub. con. Mary Dent, a convert, aet, 24
1822, „ 4. „ Sarah Perkins, „ ,,21
1826, Mar. 26. „ Thomas Young, , „ 50
„ June 14. „ Catherine Young, „ „ 24
1828, May 15. „ Maria Steel, „ „
1829, Jan. 6 „ Thomas Wild, „ „
1831, Aug. 14 „ Mary Ann Holmes, „ „ 23
„ Dec. 24. „ James Cook, „ , 27
1832, June 15. „ John Young „ 17
„ July 4. „ Edward Appleton, „ „ 24
1835, Oct 3. „ Mary Chapman „ „ 19
„ „ „ „ Margaret Cranston, „ „ 22

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183 s, Oct 8.

il

Mary Ann Potter, „

, 32

„ Dec 27.

91

Mary Davidson, „

„ 40

1836, AprU 12.

»

John Featherstone, ,,

» 29

, July 3.

>

Thomas Beal „

.. 17

Some entries occur also In this register of the families of
Stourton and Sturdy. Sculcoatcs [Hull].
No. 326, the register of the Hull Mission, dating from 1798
was forwarded by the Rev. Joseph Render, priest "since 1830 of
the Hull Catholic Chapel formerly in North Street and now in
Jarett Street" In filling up the usual certificate, he calls himself
" the Catholic clergyman appointed by the Catholic Bishop to
the Catholic Mission In Hull as successor to the Rev. John
Smith." On the first page of the register is the following memorandum :
"On Saturday, Oct 15, 1808, Bishop Gibson confirmed here
72 persons, and on Oct, 4, 181 5, accompanied by Bishop Smith,
83 persons."
Next comes a page of anniversaries, one entry being " Rev.
Robert Johnson ob., 2 June, 1799." This is given, however, in
the " Obituary " of the Laity's Directory of the year 1800 as " R.
Rob. Johnson, Dodding Grove, Westmoreland" an early mission,
established about 1723 : possibly, therefore, Fr. Johnson may
have secretly laboured at Hull prior to the actual or reported
foundation of the mission there in 1798. ,
Following immediately upon this anniversary page, however,
is the subjoined interesting and authentic account of the Hull
Mission. " On March 10, 1790, the Rev. Peter Francis Foucher, Vicar
General of Aix, was sent to Pocjclington by the Rt Rev. Bishop
Gibson. On Sep. 14, 1798, he left the congregation of Pock
lington, and came to Hull, where he found about 40 Catholics.
On Mar. 20, 1799, he laid the foundation of the house and

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chapel. On July 26th of the same year, he blessed the chapel,
and said Mass In it for the first time. St Peter and St. Paul
are the first Patrons and St Anne, the Second. On Sep. 22,
1799, M. de Boisgelin, Archbishop of Aix in Provence, said High
Mass in the new Chapel.
On 28 Sep. 1797, Mr. Foucher came into the House. He
lived five years at his own expense, before there was any income,
and together with what he has at different times sunk in the
building, he has expended above ;£'2000 of his own money to
maintain himself, since he first came to Hull. He only mentions
this to induce his successors to whom he leaves a numerous con
gregation and a fine establishment, to pray for him as he would
pray for them.
Mr. Foucher being appointed first Canon and Vicar General
of St Diez will leave this place on 8 March, 1820, to return to
France. He makes a present to the Chapel of the Vestments
which are all his own, and of a ciborium and chalice, both silver,
which cost him nearly thirty pounds. In consideration of which,
and of the great expense he has been at for the benefit of this
place, both Bishops Gibson and Smith have ordered that one
mass shall be said annually for Mr. Foucher during his life, and,
after his death, his anniversary to be perpetually kept by his
successors, and to be recommended to the prayers of the con
gregation on the Sunday preceding his anniversary. The above
to be registered here and at York by the Rev. William Croskell.
Mr. Foucher begs leave to recommend himself in a particular
manner to the prayers of his successors, and he will pray for
them as long as he lives. P. F. Foucher, Hull, March 6. 1820."
The foregoing is in the handwriting of the Rev. P. F. Foucher ;
from the date which he gives of his arrival as a missionary priest
at Pocklington, he would seem to have been sufficiently far-
seeing In escaping from France with his property before the
¦worst of the terrors of the revolution had developed themselves.
His name does not appear on the list of the French refugee

OLD ENGLISH CATHOLIC MISSIONS. 7l
clergy given by Canon Plasse who at the same time frequently
mentions " Jean de Dieu-Raymond de Boisgelin," Archbishop
of Aix, consecrator in 1799 of the French Chapel in King Street,
Portman Square. {Le Clergi Frangais, &c., II. 159.) The Rev.
J. Hodgson succeeded the Rev. P. F. Foucher, (whose anniver
sary Is entered as "Sep. ist, or about that time,") in 1820,
who in his turn was followed by the Rev. John Smith before
mentioned. " Miss Ann Heatley of Brindle, Lancashire, and who died at
Barton Lodge, i June, 1803, was a great benefactress to this
Mission." In the later years of this mission, the number of Irish names
in the register increases very considerably.

The date of the foundation of this Mission is returned as in
the year 1791. The Rev. George Best, "officiating minister
since 1822," when forwarding his register. No. 331, to the Com
missioners in 1840 writes ; "No register was kept at Selby till
1822 : the Mission was founded about the 31st year of George
IIL, in a room licensed for the purpose, the present chapel hav
ing been opened In 1839." The register is one of "births and
baptisms " only, and it is added on the first page of it that " all
deaths and marriages are registered In the Parish Church of the
respective parties."
No. 346 is the register in two books of the " Catholic Chapel,
Norfolk Row, Sheffield," forwarded by the Rev. " James Sharpies,
Senior Incumbent"
The first entry in it made by the Rev. Samuel Sayles, bears

72 OLD ENGLISH CATHOLIC MISSIONS.
date 4 July, 1783, and a large number of entries of the Eyre
family occur throughout the register.
" 1790, 19 Mar. baptized Joseph, S. of Martin and Hannah
Lingard." The Rev. Richard Rimmer was for long a priest on the
Sheffield Mission.
Book II, dating from 1827- 1840, contains nothing particularly
worth recording. ,Sjjoffortij (Stockeld Park)
The Mission of Stockeld Park is returned as " founded from
time immemorial and renewed in 1813," and its register. No. 363,
dating from 1785, was forwarded by the Rev. James Knight,
"Chaplain since 30 Nov. 1838, the Proprietor being Peter
Middleton." John Beaumont was in 1832, " Pastor Congregationis," some of
his predecessors having been the Revs. John Fairclough, John
Weston, Thomas Brownbill, and James Lesley, all of them
Fathers of the Society of Jesus.
On 29 Sep., 1838, a marriage is registered as " under the new
act of Parliament legalizing Catholic marriages." Several
entries of the Middleton family occur in the register, the birth of
one being thus entered " 18 13, 13 Dec. born Miss Mary, d. of
Peter and Juliana Middelton."
"Anno Domini 1840, die 23 Julii (dispensatione obtenta) Ego,
Jac. Knight, Miss. Apostolicus Loci in sacello Stockeld Park,
Henricum Maxwell et Julianam Middelton servat^ formi
ecclesiae conjunxi in vinculo matrimonii, solemniter et miss^ pro
sponso et spons&, peracti, presentibus testibus notis, Gulielmo
Maxwell, et Petro Maxwell in com Ebor." A few deaths are
also registered. STansfielt (Pontefract.)
The Pontefract register. No. 381, dating from 1787 was for-

OLD ENGLISH CA THOLIC MISSIONS. 7^
warded, 7 Nov. 1840, by "James Holden, officiating clergy
man of the Pontefract Roman Catholic Chapel in the Parish of
Tanshelf," who adds that the mission was " founded about the
year 1800, the congregation having at that time removed from a
chapel in the parish of Pontefract"
Like several others in Yorkshire, this mission has for long
been under the care of the Fathers of the Society of Jesus. On
the first pages of the register occurs the following :
"Books in the Library, Hally-Wall, Pontefract 181 1. In folio
vol: Baronil Annales, 3 : Alfordii item, 4 : Henrici Mori Historia
Provinciae Anglicanae Soe Jesu, i : Spondani Annales, i : O.
Bernardi, 2 : S. Cyrili, 2 ; S. Epiphanii, 2 : de Valentia, ] :
Longii polyanthea, i : O. Ambrosii, i : Lessius, 2 : Godsalfi
histor. eccles., I : Bonacina, 2 : Barradas in L. S. Evangel, i : B.
Gregorii Magnl opera, i : Azorius, S. J., 3 : Concordantia Bibliae,
3 : Josephus' Works, i : Dionysius Carthus, i : Mariana in vetus
et novum Test i : de Pineda S. J. in Job, i : Bible Fran9oise, i :
Sanchez de Matrimonio, i : Coccio's Thesauri Catholici, 2 : The
History of York, l : Maffaeus, i : Rudimenta Hebraicae linguae,
I : Malmsbury de rebus Anglicanis, i : Life of Reginald Pool, 2
In. 4° : Petavius, 3 : Summa S. Thomae, i : Cornelius a Lapide
in Acta et Epistolas, i : Sanchez de Matrimonio, i."
Then follow a few registers, one of which is as follows :
" 1802, die 16 Mail, vinculo matrimonii conjuncti sunt Georgius
Thrush, acatholicus, et Martha Hackett : Testes erant Jos.
Pinder et Eliz. Champney : N. B. Sponsus promisit se minime
molestum fore uxori ob religionem, sed et educaturum infantes
quos Deus concesserit in Religione Catholici"
Next, but in a much earlier handwriting comes the following
somewhat obscure passage —
" 2 arguments brought from Scripture to prove yo doctrine of
pre-existence. ist Rom. V. 14. Adam was the figure of him y* was to come
upon which D. M. thus comments : ye office, saith he of Adam

74 OLD ENGLISH CATHOLIC MISSIONS. '
was preludious to and typicall of ye office of Christ, which would
be very dilute, if it was only in this, y* he was a publick person
as he was, but had not in any sense incumbent upon him ye care
of ye redemption of ye sons of men. Wherefore the office of
Adam was to transmit y* wholesome and Paradisiacall com
plexion of body to his seed, and thereby to be as It were a
Saviour to his posterity from ye ill effects of y* former lapse they
had fallen into : which failing of Christ was surrogated in his
roome. Whence he was exquisitely the figure of him y* was to
come. John IX. The other is, " Master, who did sin, y« man or his
parents, that he was born blind."
On the next page, but in a different handwriting, and after
wards crossed through, is another entry.
"April 15, 1729: Then and at different times before lent to
Mrs. Paston 28 guineas and a half, ten of which Mrs. Piass [?]
had of me for her.
Oct ye I. Then lent to Madam Paston, £1.
Also advanced to her 15 li belonging to Mr. Gage
April II, 1749. Began to take the York Courant."
Then re-commence the registers.
"Die, 16 Jan. 1798, obiit Catherina Waterton, de Walton,
annos habens fere 17.
Die 11° Aprilis, 1799, obiit Josephus Silvester Saul, de Stubbs
Walden, a die nativitatis 74°, variolis correptus.
Die II Feb. 1800, obiit Joan. Beurey in hoc oppido, sacerdos
Gallus exul, anno aetatis 40." This French priest is probably
identical with " — Burey, vicaire de Carantans, Coutances,"
named among the deceased exiles in the Laity s Directory for
1 801. The Abb^ Plasse does not mention him, though he
certainly names one, "Jean Francois Botiry a. canon in the
diocese of Nevers, (II. 435.) as resident in London in 1794.
Oct. 22, 181 2, Obiit Anna Thacker, vidua in Pontefract,
obus rite munita, aetate 66.

OLD ENGLISH CATHOLIC MISSIONS. 7S
1787. 18 Dec born and baptized, Christopherus, filius Thomte
et Annae Waterton (olim Bedingfield) : "
Also, "1792, 21 June, Isabella," da. of foreg., brother and
sister therefore of Charles Waterton, the naturalist
David Spink spopondit uxori pueros in Cath. fide esse educan-
dos : a sponsione fefellit
1812, II Sep., baptiz: fuit Georgius — natus erat circa decem
diebus ante : the father and mother were Irish vagrants, and as
I could not ascertain the truth of their account, the child was
christened under conditions, nor could I obtain the family name
as they Immediately went away. J. B. Fountaine.
1815. 24 Dec. Catholicam fidem professus est In sacello
Pontefract Thomas Lea, ab acatholico ad eandem fidem
conversus. 25 Dec Catholicam fidem professus est, ab acatholico, George
ThrusL 1816. 31 Mar. Eliz. Mountain Catholicam fidem professa est."
The Fathers, most of them of the Society of Jesus, who
served this mission appear to have been, the Revs. Richard
Barrow, Edward Howard, J. B. Fountaine, S. J. Reeve, William
Waterton, William Ibbotson, E. G. Pugh, and James Holden.
See Foley's Collectanea, S. J.
Mr. B. Boothroyd in his somewhat entertaining " History of
Pontefract" published in 1807, writes as follows, p. 484, concern
ing the adherents to the Ancient Faith :
"Religious Sects."
"Within this town there are the usual and prevailing de
nominations of professing Christians, Catholics, Dissenters,
Wesleyan-Methodlsts, and a society of friends commonly called
Quakers !
" Catholics.
" Several ancient families, respectable for their property in

76 OLD ENGLISH CATHOLIC MISSIONS.
this neighbourhood, maintained an unshaken attachment to the
Catholic Cause, tho' exposed to all the rigour of the penal
statutes ; and when the lenient and tolerant spirit of the age
outrun that of the law, the Catholics emerged from their ob
scurity, and assembled to worship in their own modes and
opinions. They ventured publicly to address the Virgin-Mother,
and to revere the hallowed rites of past ages: to offer the
sacrifice of the mass and again to celebrate their holy mysteries.
Their number in this place has never exceeded 30 or 40 persons.
Their place of worship till lately was a room in the house occu
pied by their teacher. They have now erected a place of wor
ship on a more enlarged scale ; and adapted to all the peculiar
ceremonies of their worship. The building is a neat structure,
and its interior well finished. The ground on which this build
ing has been erected is in old deeds, called Halywalls. As In
the times of the Saxons, lands were often held of the church, on
the condition of the tenant keeping the church in repair, &c., is
It not probable that this land was held by such a tenure ? That
the proprietor was bound to keep in repair the holy walls, t.e. the
church ? It was either held by such tenure or otherwise It has
been the site of some religious house."
Mr. Boothroyd writes too in his preface that " he has rarely
had an opportunity of attending to his language, and of giving
to It that polish and grace which would have enlivened the sub
ject and rendered the whole more pleasing and interesting," but
surely, the paradoxical description of Catholics as Sectarians
sufficiently " enlivens his subject" SEafeefiellf.
The title page of this register. No. 400, Is as follows : —
" Ad Majorem Dei omnipotentis, optimi, gloriam."
Anno Domini, 1828.
The Baptismal Register of the Catholic Chapel of Saint Austin,
Apostle of England : Wakefield, Co. York.
" Under the Incumbency of the Rev. J. G. Morris, S. J."

OLD ENGLISH CATHOLIC MISSIONS. 77
" The Chapel of St Austin's was opened on the 4th day of
March, 1828, at which time there were but 29 communicants,
J. G. M."
Father Morris who appears to have been at Wakefield since
1 827, and whose signature Is attached to all the registers in the
book which only dates from 1828, not Infrequently signs himself
as " Catholic Vicar of Wakefield."
One entry Is as follows : —
" 1837. Baptized by J. G. M., Aug. 29, Mary- Ann, Richard,
Jane, children of Ric. and Mary Spurr, Protestants, at their
special desire."
Father Morris remained at Wakefield until 1844, and
ultimately retiring to Birkenhead died there at an advanced age,
Oct 10. 1855. [Foley's Collectanea S. J. 527.]
SEfjitlJS.
This register. No. 409, was forwarded to the Commissioners
on Oct 17, 1840, " by John Conaty, Catholic priest of St Hilda's
Whitby, since 1836," he adds that "the mission was founded in
1794, by a French Emigrant."
The first entry in the register, dated 3 Aug. 1803, is made by
Nicholas Gilbert, who is evidently the priest referred to by Fr.
Conaty as the founder of the mission, as Canon Plasse in his
Clergi FranQais Rifugii en Angleterre," II., 418, mentions
— " Gilbert, prUre de St. Malo" as resident in Whitby in 1803.
The register also contains a long and confused list of " con
verts" and of "Catholics reclaimed" between the years 181 8,
and 1828, among them being the following "Enoch Arden "
entry :
" 1824, Jan. 26, John Hurst, M. 60 : he had been married long
before and had gone to the E. Indies, and at last after 20 years,
returned to his wife, who had re-married since, unknowingly, but
she was dead."

72,

OLD ENGLISH CATHOLIC MISSIONS.

Another death is thus recorded : " Thomas Brown, 32, by a
man striking him on ye belly, he survived only 17 hours and
rec^. the last rites of the Church."
The following note entered on p. 20 of the register testifies in
directly to the successful labours at Whitby, of the poor emi
grant priest: "About 1774, there were not above 15, and in
1803, perhaps 70 — only 42 in ye Red book — comm. at Whitby
meeting In private houses till 10 April, 1805, when ye new
chapel was blessed: at Easter, 181 5, there seem to have been
18 i comm. at Mr. Gilbert's — 18 16 about 160 who applied to
Messrs. Woodcock and Haydock and in 1 8 17 to ye latter
stationed at Whitby since July 15, 1816."
"Die 8 Sep. 1839, nata est et 29 ejusdem mensis et anni
baptizata fuit solemniter sub conditione (propter baptismum
privatum per hereticum ministrum collatum) Maria Anna
Winter filia Johannis et Margeritse Marsy Winter (olim Read-
man) a me Johann. Conaty."
This register. No. 416, in six books, is somewhat barren of in
teresting detail. It was forwarded by " John Bradshaw, officiat
ing minister since 1831, of Wycliffe Catholic Chapel," the date of
its foundation being returned as "unknown." The first book
however dates from 1743 to 1791, but apparently no priest enters
his name in it. The second is a pocket book, while the third
contains entries on only a few leaves mostly in pencil.
Subjoined, however, are one or two specimen entries :
"24 Aug. 1763. Baptized Maria (Dulcibella) Lissabe of
Dominick and Ann Armstrong, the said Dominick's wife, he a
French prisoner at Brampton."
The baptism of children of other French prisoners is also
recorded. '2 July, 1779. John Stewart, of Charles and Elizabeth: no
fixt habitation : the father a penmaker.

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5 Dec. 1787. Ann Robinson of Antony and Jane, de Oving-
ton : sponsors Antony Barker and Dorothy Robinson the
grandmother Protestant : but was held all the time of
'xtining by a woman called Moor, whom I supposed was a
Catholic, but was not undeceived, being quite ignorant till after
it was 'xtened : the child about 4 days old."
^orft (Little Blake Street.)
No. 422 Is the baptismal register of the "Roman Catholic
Chapel in Little Blake Street in the city of York, founded about
the year 1760 as near as can be ascertained." So, at least, is it
described by the Rev. Thomas Billington priest there from 1826
up to the time of his forwarding his register in 1840.
The register opens with the date 12 Jany. 1771, when the Rev.
John Lonsdale was priest in charge, identical probably with J. L.
named as follows in Douay Diary, 73.
"In Dominica 17U. Sep. 1763, ejusdem mensis die i8a., jura-
mentum alumnorum proestitit JMagr. Joannes Lonsdale, filius
Ricardi et MarisB Thornburgh, dioecesis Cestrensis, annos natus
27." The name of John Douglass next appears as priest here from
24 Mar. 1776, who was afterwards on 19 Dec. 1790, consecrated
at Lulworth Castle, Vicar Apostolic of the London District. In
Douay Diary, p. 73, he is mentioned as taking the college oath
there on 24 May, 1764, and his name is then recorded as follows •
" Joannes Duglass, D. Eboracensis, physicus, annos natus, 20 et
menses 5." ^ The Revs. John Gillow, William Croskell and
Benedict Rayment afterwards served this mission. Beyond the
fact that several familiar Catholic names occur in this baptismal
register, there is little of much importance to record. Among
these, however, may be noticed the names of Bedingfield, Blun-
dell, Cholmley, Dolman, Doughty, Eyre, Gascoigne, Gibson,
Langdale, Lawson, Middleton, Metcalfe, Maxwell, Plowden,
Sheldon, Stourton, Tempest, Waterton, Weld, Witham, &c.

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|![arfe (Micklegate Bar.)
The last mission register. No. 423 in the Somerset House
collection, is another of York city, that of the Chapel in Mickle
gate Bar, forwarded to its destination by the Rev. A. Macartney,
"clergyman of the chapel since 1839," who writes that the
Mission was "founded in 1680 and given up in 1826."
The register, the first entry in which bears date, Feb. 3, 1771*
is headed thus,
"Nomina Baptizatorum a Joanne Chamberlain,
Sacerdot Missionario, dum moraretur apud moniales."
This interesting convent of the Sisters of the " Institute of the
Blessed Virgin Mary " enjoys the distinction of being the most
venerable In the country, having lately entered upon the third
century of its existence, after braving all the storm of per
secution, the Rev. Mother Frances Bedingfield being in the year
1689, at the age of 78, imprisoned in Ouse Bridge gaol, York.
The Rev. W. Hutch, D.D., in his biography of Mrs. Ball,
Foundress of the Rathfarnham convent of this order in Ireland,
gives a detailed account of it from Its commencement in Munich
to the present day, while the author of " Terra Incognita" p. 261,
says : " this congregation is entirely of English origin, and has
laboured for many years, most successfully, in the education of
girls, rich and poor, in these kingdoms."
Father John Chamberlain, S.J., before mentioned, was chaplain
here from 1770 until his sudden death on January 17, 1796, set.
6g. Br. Foley in his " Records S.J." v. 757, also says that " all
the chaplains of the York community from 1710 until 1800 were
of the Society of Jesus."
In the year 1796, however, the Rev. Ludovic Dehenne appears
to have been chaplain here until about 181 1 : he enters his name
as "Presbyter dioecesis Audomarensis in Gallia." The Abbd
Plasse, however, does not give his name among the St. Omer's
clerg>'. It was noticed that he was on the Linton-upon-Ouse
mission in 18 16.

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The Rev. William Croskell succeeded in 1811. During his
chaplaincy, four entries are made by him, possibly of young girls
at the convent school then received into the Church : they are as
follows. " 1820. Die 6 Martii, sub. conditione baptizata fuit Anna Burke
annos nata 13.
1820. 7 Aprilis, sub. cond. bap., Eliz. Hilton, annos nata 13
„ „ „ Helena Waddington, „ 14
„ „ „ Joanna Carnes, „ 12"
The names of Mostyn, Blundell, Eyre, &c., also occur in the
register, and the last entry in it bears date 12 July, 1826, during
the chaplaincy of the Rev. James Newsham. Dorothy Beding
field alias Paston a niece of the formerly imprisoned Frances,
" succeeded her aunt," says Dr. Hutch, " in the government of
York Convent, and was so revered by all classes for her many
virtues that several of the nobility attended her obsequies on
October 20th, 1734."
Under the Act i Geo. I. " compelling all Papists to register
their names and real estates," Dorothy Bedingfield in conjunction
with Helena Walker registered the Convent as the " lease of a
house in Holy Trinity, Micklegate, purchased by them in 1699 of
Frances Bedingfield," who in this, the eighty-third year of her
age, was then recalled to the Parent House at Munich where she
died in 1704. [See English Catholic Nonjurors of 1715, p. 298.]

APPENDIX.

Extracts from the Register of the Catholic Church at Weston-
Underwood, CO. Bucks. JHarrs'f.
1710. Septeme I7*i». Matthew Poole & Mary Purden.
171 1. Feby. 4*^ Michael Laite & Anne Evetts.

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1712. August 13. Tobias Hoarwood, sexagenarius. Protest &
Frances Cole, prope Septuagenaria, jam quarto uxor.
October ye 27*^- John Evetts & Sara Wise, Protest
December ye 23^ George Eeds, Prot, & Mary Reeve.
17 1 3. February ye 2^- Samuel Hinks & Sara Stiles.
August 25*11. James Fermour, Esq^. , & M^s Mary
Throckmorton : teste numerosa Congregatione.
1714. January the 19*11. William Throckmorton, Prot, & Mar
garet Chapman : testibus Mrs. Gough and her
Daughter.
1715-
At Weston
January 13*- M'- John Wright & M" Elizabeth Rook : testibus
Sponsse Patre, &c. Matre, &;c.
July S*!"- Philip Dawson & Elizabeth Osburn : testibus duobus
fratribus et fratrinas et sorores sponsae.
July 30*1'. Gecrge Parrott & Elizabeth Goodwin : testibus Matre
et avunculo Sponsae.
August 211^- William Jacques, alias Charles, & Frances Mawbey :
testibus Joanne Flint cum uxore & duabus filiabus.
Aug. ye \d^ Charles Goudes & Catharine Goodwin : testibus
Simone Goudes, fratre Sponsi, Joanne Boucher, avun
culo Sponsae, duobusq alijs.
1716.
May 20*l». Joseph Wakeman and Mary Hill < testibus Georgio
Ryland et Maria Hight
Eod : ditto. John Boucher and Mary West : testibus Parentibus,
etc. Sponsse.
September ye 30. Thomas Andrews and Margareth Arrow-
smith : tcitibus Richardo Boucher, Sen., Michaele
Archer, etc.
1718. Jany. 27. Edward Foster & Anne Bentley : testibus N,
Whitgreave & Mary Billington.
March 25. Samuel Peach & Anne Penderel : testibus
Gulielmo Smith, ejusq uxore.

OLD ENGLISH CA THOLIC MISSIONS. 8 3
June g^ Thomas Hanson, widower, & Mary West,
Widow. Wittnesses : Thomas Nitchil with his wife
and Aunt.
1719. February 8^ Paul West and Elizabeth Toms. Witt
nesses ; Thomas Nitchil with his Wife, Aunt, &c.
April the S^^- Francis Goode and Elizabeth Watford.
Witnesses: John and Anne Goode, &c. the Bride
groom's Parents.
Item. ibid. Thomas Edwins & Rebecca Charles. The Witt
nesses were the same as the former.
October 18. John Errington & Mary Goodes. The
Wittnesses were Simon Goodes & James Goodes,
both the Bride's brothers.
1720. May 2^ S' Windsor Hunloke & Charlotte Throckmor
ton : before a numerous assembly.
 15. John Goodes and Elizabeth Stretton : before
Father and Mother and brothers.
Septem. 1 1. Clement Goude and Susanna Flint, before
her Father and Mother and her Sister, Etc.
1723. Jany- etii- Peter Giffard of Chillington, Esq., & Barbara
Throckmorton, before a full assembly, on Epiphany.
38a}ittsetf«
17 14. January the 14^^^ Anne Allen, Daughter to George and
Mary Allen, at Winford.
 2S*'i- Ann White, daughter to Matthew White and
Mary White, At Alcester.
 2$^^ Joseph Waters, Son to William Waters and
Elizabeth Waters, Ouversley Lodge.
 26tii- Richard Davies, Son to Edward Davies and

Frances Davies at the Ridge way.
At Weston. September 17*11 Mary Ruddey, the daughter of William

84 OLD ENGLISH CATHOLIC MISSIONS.
Ruddey and Elizabeth Batten. Gossips, George
J Ryland and Elizabeth Laughton.
November 17. Elizabeth Frazie, the daughter of Francis
Frazie. Gossips, Elizabeth Watford and myself
1719. Decem 5^'^' John West, immediately after he was fcorn ;
in haste, without the ceremonies, because he seem'd
to be dying. He living till next day, had all that
was omitted, performed. He is the Son of Paul
West and Elizabeth Toms. William Hughes was the
Godfather, and M'^. Rook the Godmother.
1720. May 18. Edward Osburn, at Weston, the Son of John
Osburn and Mary Willcocks. The Godfather William
Dawson. The Godmother Eleanor Goudes, Sen.
172 1. Feb. 6*11. Will. Hobs, at Turvey, the Son of Will, and
Doll Hobs. The Godfather Will. Eaton. The God
mother Anne Eaton.
Ditto. Simon Godwin, at Turvey, the Son of Rob. &
Margaret Godwin, The Godf'- Will. Eaton, the
Godm. Mary Hobs.
1723. June 9. Miss Teresa Mary Throckmorton. Born on
Trinity Sunday, Bap*
Conbfrtetr.
1710. Nov. 12. George Ryeland, a Serv*- to the Steward at
Coughton.
171 1. Feb. 3. Michael Laite, a young man on the Ridge-way.
May 28. Anne Bolt A Servant maid at Lawford.
1712. Mar. 25. John Stanford, Esq., on his death bed. [See
Eng. Cath. Nonj. p. 279.]
Aug. 7. Edward Miller, a farmer at Morton-under-hlll,
on his death bed. Recovered and did well.
1713. Apl. 7. Richard Hemmin, a Servant of 20 years age at
Ouversley Lodge.

OLD ENGLISH CATHOLIC MISSIONS. 85
Septem. 5. Thomas Gibs, a Servant of about 24 years
age at Coughton Lodge.
1 7 14. November 17. At Turvey. Anne Eaton, wife to an
honest Catholick Countrey-man.
1715. April 12. At Weston, Mary Osburn, wife to a Catholick
husband.
Item, Mary Griffin, honesta puella, ibid.
Xber. ye 27. At Weston, Anna Ready, honesta puella
— Item, Lydia Hobs, wife to a Protestant Husband.
1716. Feb. 17^ Mary Kitchener, vetula, at Olney, wife to
Richard Kitchener.
1718. Apl. 3. At Weston, Anne Willcocks, honesta puella.
May 31. Ibid. Anne Osburn, uxor Egidij Osburn,
hortulani nostri.
Julij the 6*ii. George Perrott, primarij aratoris nostri.
17 18. Dec. 31. Philip Dawson, an honest labouring young
fellow, husband to Elizabeth Osburn.
Item. Anne Griffin, a Good young girl, the late Shep
herd's daughter.
1719. March 25. William Ready, our shepherd.
September 3. Thomas Gilloway : a young man, the
keeper's Son, in the chase. In a fitt of sickness.
October 18. Anne Atterbury. A marry'd woman of
Northampton : she seemed to have received the
thought of her conversion by a particular inspiration.
asurs'o.
1711. May 20. Rachel Horn. A dropsy.
June 5*ii Charles. At Lawford. A Small Poxe.
„ 9 Elizabeth Preston. A sudden death.
July y 17. Elizabeth Cale. A sudden death.
SepT y 5. Francis Mould. Feaver.
„ 10 Thomas Chapman. The small poxe.

86 OLD ENGLISH CA THOLIC MISSIONS.
Decem. I3*'i. Elizabeth Mould. Feaver.
26. Elizabeth Baker. Feaver.
1712. March 29. John Stanford, Esqe.
June 14. Mary Hands. Feaver.
1713. March 18. Josepha AUwood. Lenta phtysi. Lawford.
May ye 3. Frances Sturdey. Bedrid.
„ 21. Mary Sturdey. Lenta phtysi.
June 25. Frances Harwood. Vetula. febri.
Aug. the 25*'i- Steven Morgan. Senex. Coughton.
hydrope.
1 7 14. Febrary ye 2<i- Winifred Biddle. Vetula. Lenta phtysi
Sandburn.
May ye g^^- M^- George Throckmorton, febri. Wes-
tonia.
171 5. March 16. Frances Goods. Vetula.
Novr- 6*li Susan Butcher. Lenta physi.
1717. Jan. 27. Frances Hanson. Vetula. apoplexia: agon-
izavit ab 19"" circa horam octavam vespertinam : qui
erat dies Sabbati usq ad meridiem diei 27"" qui erat
Dominicus hoq toto spatio septem dierum nihil cibi
sumpsit nisi pauculas guttas vini neq verbum unicum
audita est loqui, nisi semel ; — O my God.
February 3^. Susanna Bennett Infans.
April ye 12. Dorothea Joyce, at Carlton. Vetula*
hydrope.
26. Mary Kitchener, at Olney. Vetula. phtysi.
May I itli. Mary Hobs. Vetula. At Turvey.
Magdalene Good. Reumate.
September 29. EHzabetha Laughton. Suffocata evomito
crudo sanguine.
November 27. Thomas Jackson. Apoplexia et subitanea
morte.
17 1 8. March 26. James Sturdey. hydrope. Suddenly in one
respect, viz., in a slumber, but prepared by a long
sickness.

OLD ENGLISH CATHOLIC MISSIONS. g-
May the 2?,^^^ Dorothea Eaton, at Turvey, of old age &
its distempers.
June the 19. M« Elizabeth Wright, at Weston, in
Child-bed of fitts, or rather by mis-carriage, for the
child was still-born, & about 2 months before its time.
September the i9*t. Robert Rook, at Weston, the said
Elizabeth's father, of ye gout in his stomach, in 3 days
sickness. Intestate.
October 6^^- Mary Clarke, at Weston, the wife of John
Clarke, in Childbed : a person of a very holy life.
She left seven children.
Nov. 9. Clement Friday.
December g^^- Margarita Brand, at Turvey. Septua
genaria. A person of a very holy life. She left one
Son and five daughters.
1 7 19. January 2. Martha Charles, at Weston. Sexagenaria
innupta ; a good devout woman.
January 16. Elizabeth Boucher, at Weston, wife to
Richard Boucher, Jun"^- A good devout woman.
January 31. Eleonora Fryday, at Stoke, widow to Cle
ment Fryday. She left three daughters.
March g^- Richard Boucher, at Weston ; about four
score years old : a good honest man.
May 25. Mary Goodman, at Weston, above fourscore
years old ; a vertuous good woman.
October i^*- Thomas Gilloway, in the Chase. Became a
Catholick three weeks before his death, made an happy
end : and out of desire of lying among Catholicks was
bury'd at Weston.
October 18. Nicholas Fortescue, Esq. at Weston. He
was in his 83'^ year, and had spent the latter part of
his life in prayer and piety.
December 8. John West ; an infant of 3 days. Eleonor
Fryday ; a girl of 14 years. Both at Weston.

88 OLD ENGLISH CATHOLIC MISSIONS.
1720. March 28. Thomas Clifford, at Weston, of a violent cold
and feaver. He devoutly prepar'd himself for the
Viaticum and Extream unction from the beginning
pf his last sicknesse, which took him at Chappel, and
lasted eight days.
1721. Jan. 5tii- William Blakey,'^ Priest of the H. Order of S^-
Bennet Sweet Jesus Have Mercy on his soul. He
dyed at Weston.
Feb. 10. Mauritius Sturdy. At Weston. A devout old
man.
March 8*ii. 172^. S' Robert Throckmorton. A person of a
Good, Charitable, & Compassionate Temper, extreme
ly Lamented by all that knew him, both Rich & poor.
He died an unexpected, but I hope not unprovided
Death. Sweet Jesus grant him an Eternal Rest
May 7*11. 1722. Dyed the Lady Mary Throckmorton, having
received all the rites of ye Church. Requiescat in
pace.
June 17^^' 1723. Dyed the Lady Teresa Throckmorton, having
received all ye Rites of ye Church. Requiescat in
pace. IL
Extracts from the Register of the Old Catholic Mission at
Cheam, Co. Surrey. Liber.
BaptizatorumConversorum Confirmatorum , t t^. . . , , ^,
Matrimoniorum > In Districtu de Cheame
Status Animarum ( Comitate de Surrey.
&
Mortuorum ^ The entry of William Blakey is in a different handwriting from the fore
going Registers, from which it may be inferred that he was the Priest wh»
wrote them. His name is nowhere signed in the book.

OLD ENGLISH CATHOLIC MISSIONS.

89

Inchoatus die 2omo mensis Julii Anno Domini Millesimo
Septingentesimo quinquagesimo quinto per me Gulielmum
Heatley, sacerdotem missionarium ordinis S*". Benedicti Con
gregationis Anglicanae hujus Districtus Pastorem in Dno.
1755.
Liber ab HaeresI Conversorum
The most Interesting portion of this register consists In the
number of conversions that took place from t'ne year 1755.
They are given here mostly in an abridged form.
Anno Dni die 5*°. Dec Anna Gree uxor Valentine Gree
Parochiae de Cheame in Surrey Professionem fidei Catholicae
coram me Gulielmo Heatley, hujus Districtus de Cheame Pas-
tore fecit aetatis Suae quinquaginta circiter annorum.
Eodem firme tempore Maria ^Ethiops infidelis gravl laborans
infirmitate petiit baptizari sicque in . . quantum sinebat angustiae
morbi Catholice instructa susceptoque baptismi sacramento per
me Gul. Heatley . . post tres dies in gremio S.*®. ecclesiae
Catholicae confessa . . uncta pie in Dno obiit
1755. Maria Morgan, Scota, aetat 80, . . profess, fidei fecit
Gul. Briant, de Cheame, aetat 50, . . „ „ „
Maria Briant, uxor praedict, ... „ „ «
Maria Briant, filia prsedict., ^tat 18, „ „ „
Ex quo tempore praedictorum parentum liberl, Richardus
Briant, aetat 1 5, Georgius B., aetat 1 3, Elizabeth B.,
aetat 10, Catholice educati sunt sub me Gul. Heatley,
Pastore, &c.
1756. Liberi N. et Mariae Besley, ex parochia de Tooting in
Surrey, Maria Besley, aetat 14, Josephus B., aetat 12,
Rebecca B., aetat 11, et Anna B., setat 9, Catholice
aeducari caeperunt sub me Gul. H., &c.
Maria Owen, Londinensis, professionem fid. fecit
Samuel Sadler, ex com. de Berks, aetat 33, „

90 OLD ENGLISH CATHOLIC MISSIONS.
1757. Aug. 28. Thomas Feldwick, ex com, de Sussex, aetat
34, professionem, &c.
Mattheus Early, ex com. de Somerset, setat 19, profess,
&c.
Maria Early, setat. circiter 15, profess, fid., &c.
Samuel Turner, ex paroch. de Ewell In Surrey, setat. 22
professionem, &c.
Georgius Hartley, sculptor, et EHzabetha, conjuges
apud Cheame commorantes, professionem, &c
1758. Susanna Smith ex oppido de Ewell in Surrey, vidua
Joannis Smith viri Catholici anno prsecedenti defuncti
fidem Catholicam amplexa est
Ex que tempore praedictorum parentum Joann. et Sus.
Smith feliciter Catholice aeducati sunt liberl, viz.,
Joannes Smith, aetat. 1 1, Henry S., aetat 9, Cathar-
ina S., setat. 8, EHzabetha S., aetat 7, et Maria S.,
aetat S, sub me Gul. H., &c.
Thomas White ex parochiS, de Corrinton prope Cheame
in Surrey, professionem, &c.
Item, eodem anno Hester White, uxor praedicti, &c Ex
quo horum parentum liberi, viz., Maria W., setat 16.
Gul. W., setat. 14, Thomas, setat. 12, Johannes, setat
II, Josephus, aetat 9, Joanna, aetat 6, Benjemin,
setat 3, Georgius, infans. Catholic^ aeducari caeperunt,
&c
1759. Maria Harrison, parochiae de Mestham in Surrey, uxor
Nicholai Harrison, professionem, &c.
Maria Rome, puella aetat. 18, neptis praedictse Mariae
Harrison, professionem, &c.
1760. Maria Brayley, parochiae de Mordon prope Cheam, pro
fessionem, &c.
Sarah Crockford, filia Thomae Crockford, parochiae de
Cheam, aetat 28, professionem, &c.
Thomas Crockford, de Cheam, vir aetat circiter 60, de-

OLD ENGLISH CA THOLIC MISSIONS. 9I
functa conjuge, professionem, &c. Horum curS. et
pio zelo ad fidem Catholicam adducti sunt, Cather
ina, aetat 16, EHzabetha, aetat 14, Johanna, aetat, 12,
Gulielmus, setat 8, praedicti Thomae Crockford liberi.
1760. Sarah Wells, de Cheame, vidua, aetat 60, et amplius,
professionem, &c.
Gulielmus Turner ex Ewell In Surrey, aetat. 26, profes
sionem, &c.
About this time. Dr. James King, rector of Cheam — probably
meditating the words of Demetrius, the silversmith, " Viri, scitis
quia de hoc artificio est nobis acquisitio," (Acts xix. 25) — seems
to have thought it necessary that " something must be done."
Accordingly the following note next appears in the register :
" Hoc anno mota est persecutio per Jacobii King ministrum
Protestantem de Cheam aliosque adversus Pastorem Grcgemque
Catholicam hujus districtus qui vexati sunt per tres menses con-
tinu6 per Litteras citatorias vulg6 summotts non tamen ante
tribunal comparentes tandem sedata est Persecutio."
1 761. Daniel Peard de Tiverton in com. de Devonshire, vir
aetat. 40, professionem, &c.
Gulielmus Wood, ex Wallia, puer, ^tat 15, Catholic^
aeducari caepit sub me Gul. H.
Sep. 6. Anna Feldwick, uxor Thomae F., setat 40, de
Turners HiH, com. de Sussex, professionem &c.
Oct 9. Anna Heath, aetat. 36, uxor Joannis Heath, ex
com. de Stafford, professionem &c., ex quo ejus
liberi Catholice aeducari cseperunt
Nov. 26. EHzabetha Newman, aetat. 1 5, professionem &c.
1762. Jan. 31. Maria Beshford, renunciavit hseresim . . .apud
Cheame in qua vixit parochia, setat. 26.
Feb, 6: Gulielmus Wooddus, profess., setat 16.
There then appears to be a break in the register here which
at a later date continues in a different handwriting.
1780. April 9. Abjurans hseresim sponsae Christi immaculatse

92 OLD ENGLISH CATHOLIC MISSIONS.
sociatus est In Cheam, Joannes Lee, faber lignarius,
setat 26, qui operam sequitur in Palatio Noblissimi
Duels Norfolcise apud Dibden, in Surrey.
1781. Feb. 9. Abdicavit hseresim . . . et Christojunctusest,GuL
Dearlove, apud Cheam degens, et conjugatus, setat 27.
April 18. Fidem Christi amplexus .... est. Jacobus
Macdonald, incola nunc in Sutton, cselebs, aetat 37.
Ita testor D. J. J. PI. Naylor.
1783. April 14. Haeresim renunciavit . . . Anna, uxor Garret
Fitzgerald, setat 40. D. J. J. PI. Naylor.
On another leaf of the register, however, which is In a tattered,
unpaged and fragmentary condition occurs,
1763. Nov. 25. Catharina Verry, In anno aetatis 21, renun
ciavit hseresim, &c.
Maria Smith \
 Richardson ( haeresim renunclaverunt,
 Houghton T coram me, B. B.
¦  Reed de Sutton /
And elsewhere : " Auctoritate Superiorum, Londino missus ex
Sacello Regis Portugalliae (ubi unus ex capellanis eram) veni ad
villam Cheam inferiorem, 20 Dec. 1761, die Dominica." This is
probably in the handwriting of Fr. Bernard Bradshaw, O. S. B.
of Preston Goballs, Shropshire, who is named in Weldon's Chro
nology as professed on 28 Mar. 1723.
In the paper headed " Status Animarum," a careful estimate
seems to have been made at times of the number of Catholics
who came to their Easter duties at Cheam, some of whom in
1773 are described as "The old Irishwoman," "Irish Jemmy,"
&c. ; a man from Cashalton, a woman from the workhouse at
Epsom, " Molloy not being able to come at Easter, she antici
pated the time," a sick Lancastrian, &c.
1773. Oct 3rd. Geraldus Fitzgerald, mercator vagus, setat 15,
ad primam communionem admissus.
The baptismal register opens on 8 May 1757, with that of

OLD ENGLISH CATHOLIC MISSIONS. 93
William, son of John and Susan Smith, the godparents being
"Gulielmus, Baro de Stourton, et Catharina dna de Stourton,
vidua Caroli Baronis de Stourton."
Later on comes the entry, " 1760, 17 June, Thomas Greswold,
sacerdos capellanus In Sacello Publico Portugaliae Londini (tem
pore persecutionis apud Cheame) rogatus per me Gul. Heatley,
baptizavit &c.," and Father Bradshaw registers the infant baptism
of Elizabeth Stacey on 11 July, 1763, "in Domicula in Planitiem
propi .(Epsum, vulgo die .^psum Heath."
1764. Jan. 24, Baptizatus est apud Cheame per Dnm Bennet,
unum ex capellanis ex Sacello Privilegiato Regis Portugalise,
Londini, &c.
The following note is then added: "N.B. Ad evitanda Htigiosa
jurgia, qua ssepe evenerant cum Dno Doctore King, ministro
Parochialis Ecclesiae de Cheam, Dominus Bennet, ut supra roga
tus, descendit et munere hoc charitativo functus est Ita tes
tatur B. B."
Other priests signing the baptismal register from 22 April,
1770, are the Revs. H. Elliott, R. Harris, O.S.B., John Brewer,
O.S.B., John Joseph PI. Naylor, 0;S.B., Benedictus Short, O.P.,
and John Greenway.
'A. D. 1779. Apud Ryegate oppidum .... 4 Junii baptizata
est Anna Scott, filia Adami et Marise Scott, conjugum Catholi
corum ; nullo occurente viro Catholico, infantem una matrina
suscepit Catherina Henesy, quse ibidem conjugata degit, sed viro
heterodoxo. PatrinI officium spoponderat suscipere, D^^- Ed
wardus Menzies, qui servit noblissimse familise Duels Norfolk-
iensis, apud Dorking. Licet absens, eodem die edoctus quod
prsefata infans baptizata fuerat, liberrime promisit Sacerdoti qui
ministraverat quod ver6 fungeretur officium patrini idem D"«-
Edwardus Menzies. Ita presentes testantur. N.B. Absens fuit
pater infantis." D. J. J. PI. Naylor
Maria Scott
Cath. Henesy.

94 OLD ENGLISH CATHOLIC MISSIONS.
1782. 30 Mar. Baptiz^- Josephus Gulielmus filius Gul. &
Maria Dearlove . . . matrina autem generosa Domina Brigitta
Southcote de Wooburn Farm.
The Venerable Bishop Challoner is twice mentioned as giving
Confirmation at Cheam, viz. on Sunday, Oct 28, 1759, and on
the Feast of Pentecost May 10, 1761.
From the marriage register the following entries are selected.
1763. Octob™- 20°. Londini, conjuncti sunt In matrimonio
Dnus Strafford Greenway et Dna. Lucia Plunket,
licentia (ut vocant) ad hoc prius obtenta, presentibus
Dno Jacobo Greenway et Dna EHzabetha Plunket
sorore sponsse ; et eodem die consensum suum reno-
vaverunt in parochiali ecclesia S*i. Martini in campis,
coram ministro ejusdem ecclesiae. Per Me, B. B.
1766. Februarii 8*° apud villam Cheam inferiorem circa
horam octavam pomeridianam Stephanus Cummings, acatholi
cus, et Maria Hughs, catholica, licentia prius obtenta, et mihi
ostensa, in matrimonio conjuncti sunt, testibus — Bryant et
Maria Wilson, per me. B. B.
N. B. Hie matrimonialis contractus (ut mihi dixerunt et fore
promiserunt) repetendus erat hoc ipso die circa horam unde-
cimam coram ministro Parochiae de Rigate qui pridie illos
jusserat hac bora adesse. Quod ego feci, rogatus per epistolam
domini Mollineux, Sacerdotis, feci.
1767. Augusti 30.° In matrimonio conjuncti sunt apud villam
Cheam inferiorem, Georgius Bryant, catholicus ex parochia de
Geyton [probably Gatton] in com Surrey et Sarah Plowman
acatholica, de parochia Woodmanstone in eodem com., bannis
prius publicatis in utraque parochia : testibus Gulielmo et MariS,
Bryant, parentibus sponsi, et Richardo Bryant, fratre ejusdem :
per me, B. B,
Eodemque die renovatus est contractus in parochiali ecclesia
de Woodmanstone coram parcho ejusdem ecclesiae. N.B.

OLD ENGLISH CATHOLIC MISSIONS. 95
Ante promisit sponsa quam in matrimonio sit conjuncta coram
prsefatis testibus, proles omnes, sive filios, sive filias ex
hoc connubio procreatas, in fide catholica sponsi fore educandas:
teste me, B. Bradshaw. LIBER MORTUORUM.
Like other parts of the register, this also is in an Imperfect
state. The following are extracts.
Anno Dni 1755, die 26*°. Julii, Maria Duxon, aetatis circiter
74 annorum in communione S** matris ecclesiae, animam Deo
reddidit, confessa, uncta et Sanctissimo Viatico refecta per me
Gulielmum Heatley — pastorem &c.
1762. Primo die Aprilis mortuus est Joannes Baker in villa
Cheam Super, et Sepultus est in Csemeterio parochialis ecclesia3
de ^Epsum. Paucis diebus ante obitum, munitus sacramentis
ecclesise. N. B. Johannes Baker non Sepultus est apud .^psum, ut
Supra dicitur, (cujus loci tamen Parochialis erat) sed apud
Cheam, ubi mortuus est, ad majores, ut puto, expensus evitandos
et propter jurgia inter parochias ; nee campana funebris post
ipsius mortem, more solito, in utro loco pulsabatur.
1762. Junii 5° apud .^Epsum, mortuus est Patritius Plunket,
ritibus ecclesiae munitus, et ibidem sepultus.
1763. Feb. no. Mortuus est Thomas Andrews, infans, heri
baptizatus, [entered in baptismal register as son of Thomas and
Sarah Andrews] cui sepultura secundum ritus protestantis
ecclesise denegata est, quia a quo baptisma receperit, ministro
parochiali de Cheam non innotescebat : jacet tamen sepultus in
csemeterio prsedicto.
1763. Mar. 3. Mortua est EHzabetha Richardson, In domo
filiae suse Elizabethse Stacey, prope iEpsum ritibus eccl. et ultima
absolutione prsemunita : sepulta autem apud Ewell. [The
marriage of William Stacey and Elizabeth Richardson at Epsom
is entered as on Sep. 19, 1762.J

g6 OLD ENGLISH CATHOLIC MISSIONS.
1763. Sep. 5. Mortuus est Timotheus Clifford, Hibernus in
horreo Dili Martyr apud Tolworth Court et sepultus est in
csemeterio ecclesiae parochialis de Long Ditton, in com. Surrej'.
Sep. 'g. Mortua est Alicia Clifford, uxor praedicti Timothei
Clifford in eodem Horreo, sepulta est in eodem csemeterio, riti
bus ecclesise munita.
1765. Novembris 6.*°. Mortua est Maria Andrews, infans:
2.3a. hujus baptizata, banc sepelire recusavit Dr. King hujus
parochise minister, eo quod ignotum fuit illi nomen baptizantis.
Scripsit ad matrem, mortem esse paenam Romani Sacerdotis
quemcumque baptizantis vel convertentis : Sepulta tamen jacet In
csemeterio Cheam.
On the back of a letter lying inside the register is the follow
ing entry :
" Anno Dni, 1767, 22 die Octobris, Thomas Crockford senior
inventus est mortuus fune suspensus de arbore et a Qusestore
(homicidii) cum suis Inquisitoribus, lunaticus judicatus. Sepultus
est 26*°. hujus in caemetrio ecclesise parochialis de Cheam.
1776. Die 28*e. Mensis Mali, omnibus St® ecclesise Sacra
mentis antea munitus, apud Cheam inferiorem vita functus est
Geraldus Fitzgerald, annos natus circiter 18, et in csemeterio
parochiali sepultus.
1779. Die mensis Martii 30°- rite munita obiit Maria Dawney,
in domo pauperum operariS, apud Epsom puella fuit decem
circiter annorum.
Anno Domini, 1780. Die Aprilis 2. Obiit munitus in quantum
inopinatus morbi crisis permisit, Gulielmus Bryant sexaginta
circiter annorum apud Cheam inferiorem, sen verius orientalem :
ejusdemque exuviae sepultae sunt in cemeterio circumabiente
synagogam tartaream, quse nunc est in Cheam occidentali, et die
Aprilis sexto.
From the last page that remains of the register, the half of
which is torn off, only the following fragmentary story can be
gathered.

OLD ENGLISH CATHOLIC MISSIONS. g7
"Anno DOi, 1788, die 28 ... . junctus est D^- Joannes
K[ing?] .... ultimus erat: die supradict .... in currum
ascenderat cum o , . . . teretur, senserat n se debilitatum . . .
en, exclamat, spiritus me deficit : En . . . tur, et ad focum
sedens per spatlum decern . . his dictis, morior, dilecta conjux,
orate pro me qui adestis, effa .... inclinato capite in humerum
sinistrum. Ann .... ginta sex compleverat : die 6°- Novem
bris sepul . . . magna cum solemnitate et pompa in Csam.
Paroch . . a R, D. Peach: praevia ver6 prsecedenti sepultura
privata . . donatus est juxta ritus omnes Ecclae. CathoHcse, per
me. Joa. Greenway.
R. I. P.
The following fragment of a letter may from its date be taken
as very probably addressed to the Rev. Bernard Bradshaw,
O.S.B. Unfortunately, however, Weldon in his " chronology "
mentions two Fathers of this name, one as professed 23 Mar.
1723, and another on 31 Aug. 1760, and to the former of these
therefore the letter In question may have been addressed. June ist„ 1765.
Hon^- Dr. Sir, — It was a great satisfaction to me to see your
dear hand, to be informed by it that you continue able to per
form the laborious functions of your ministry, notwithstanding
the infirmities of age which creep on insensibly. This, praise
God, is my case as yet, and my health is better than can be
expected for my years, tho' of course I expect to drop soon.
Pray God I may be found prepared. As In vour last letter you
ordered no remittance to be made ....
It is interesting to add that a transcript of this Cheam register
has recently been made by the Rev. Raymund Palmer, O.P. and
deposited in the British Museum.

98 OLD ENGLISH CATHOLIC MISSIONS.
IIL
Extracts from the register of the Catholic Mission of St. George,
Worcester.
From the first little volume of this register which dates from
1685, a few leaves unhappily appear to be missing from the
beginning, so that it is difficult to say at what date the register
originally commenced. It is entitled, " The Book or Register of
the Baptisms of the Roman Catholics at and near the city of
Worcester, kept at the chapel of the said city," It contains also
however, some few notices of deaths and marriages, anniversaries,
confirmation lists &c., besides a long list of " reconciliations to
the Church." The first two entries are as follows :
" Thomas Smith's son was baptized ye 9 of May, 1685, and
received in Baptism ye name of Francis : his godfather was Mr.
Francis Hall, senior : his godmother Mrs. Dorothy Hall, widow '
ye child died soone after baptisme."
" The same man had another sonne baptized ye 28 of June,
1 686, and received in baptisme ye name of Thomas : his god
father was Mr. John Williams of ye Pryory of Monmounth : his
godmother, Mrs. Mary Hall, senior."
[This "Mr. John Williams" was probably father of Bishop Thomas
Dominic Williams, O.P., Vicar Apostolic of the Northern District, and bom
in 1668.]
Mrs. Parsons was reconciled to ye church of Rome ye 1685
ye of [sic] and departed this life soone after, having received all
ye rites of ye Church, and was buried at Ruardine.
Ann Wadkins departed this life ye 6 of June, 1685, having re
ceived all ye rites of the Church : she died verie piously.
1686. John Gabriell was reconciled ye 6 of March, and having
received all ye rites of ye Church died ye next morning, but re
mained a week before he was buried because Parson Py had ex
communicated him for being a Catholic, but at last he was
buried at Monmouth.

OLD ENGLISH CATHOLIC MISSIONS. gg
The following, however, are the names of those entered in the
first volume of the register as " reconciled to the Church" with the
dates, &c., of their conversion.
1686-7, Feb. 16. Mr. March, at Bicknor.
1687 April 8, Mr, B., at Whitelieve.
March 22. J. D., at Chepstow Grange.
July 4. Elizabeth Edmonds, at Wollostons Grange.
July 10. Jone Ruge, at Ruardine.
August 30. Ann Wall, at Whiteleeve.
December 25. Elizabeth Nicholds, at Wolloston Grange.
1688. January 26. Magdalen Nicholas, „ „ „
September 30. Mrs. Nicholas, „ „
1695. June 13. Mary Veckly.
1697. Aug. 19. Mrs. Edgar, being Sunday within ye octave of
ye Assumption of our B. Lady, at Bury-St-Edmunds.
1693. June 10. Mr. Parker, and died within 2 days in Drury
Lane, having received all ye rights of ye Church.
1697-8. Feb. 6. John Graves.
„ 19. John Foster.
1698. April 23. Mr. William Wright, at Writtle Park.
1699. „ „ Mr. Fitzgerald.
„ 26. Margaret Hughs, alias Brown.
May 3. Roger Davis.
July 2. Mr. Edmond Fitzgerald, senior.
„ 3. Elizabeth Brown.
1702. January 15. Thomas Bruse.
„ 28. John Lesley.
February 8. James Butcher.
J George Jenkins.
June 6. > Philip Andrews.
; William Giles.
1710. April 8. Being then Easter Eve, Thomas Flutter.
July 16. Thomas Whisque.
1712. Jan. 26. Mary Lockier.

ICO OLD ENGLISH CATHOLIC MISSIONS.

Feb. I.

Hannah Floock.

From this date, baptisms only are entered, but at the further

end of the book the following list occurs of those " reconciled to

the Church."

1721.

June 5.

Mary Abel.

July 19.

Eliz. Hopecot [?]

August I
;. Eliz. Hunt
Nov. I.
Ann Griffiths.
1721.
Nov. 16.
Mary Tailor.
1721-2
. Jan. 4.
Margaret Lyes.
„ 20
. Eliz. Corbin.
1722.
Sep. 29.
Ann Smith.
1723.
July 24.
Mary Skydmore.
Dec. 22.
Mary Jones.
1723-4
.. Feb. 5.
Ann Gardner.
Mar. 9.
Joys Shovller.
1724.
April 5.
Mary Andrews.
Dec. 22.
Joseph Harper.
1724-S
. Jan. 2.
Brigit Sherwin.
Some
pages here seem torn out.
1726.
April 3.
Eliz. Moody.
October
1 1 til- Margaret Morgan.
1726-7
- Jan. 5.
Margaret Stanley.
Mar. 23.
Susanna Treigham.
1727.
Nov. 30.
Catherine Buckley.
Jan. 17.
Sarah Steward. [?]
1727-8
. Feb. 4.
Benjamin Dickson.
>. 2;
5. John Edins.
1729-30. Jan. 30. Mary Forbes.
Mar. 27. Elizabeth Ho wen,
1 73 1. Dec. 19. James Duthine.
1732-3. Feb. 17. Sarah Pendril.
Mar. 10. Ann Wall.
1733-4. Feb. 18. Mary Duthine.
OLD ENGLISH CATHOLIC MISSIONS. lOI
1

1734. May, 22.

Sarah Holder.

Dec. 27.

Eliz. Sanders.

1735. Oct II.

Mary Hooper.

1736. July 19.

Sarah Hooper.

Oct I.

William Willis.

Dec 5.

Mary Williams.

1736-7. Jan. 2.

Apollonia Walford.

1737- July. 10.

Moses Pettifar.

Dec 18.

Ann Basil.

1737-8. Jan. 18.

Sarah Malburn.

1738. May 4.

Dorothy Sheppard.

Aug. 9.

Richard Allen.

1739. Feb. 10.

Susanna Baugh.

July 8.

Richard Yates.

Aug. 12.

Thomas Barnitt

1741. Mar. 23.

Sarah Connes. [?]

Aug. 3.

Susanna Cloud.

1741-2. Mar. 2.

John Prichard.

« 19.

Ann Prichard.

1742. June 9.

Mary Green.

Dec. 22.

Ann Pendrel.

« 23.

Benjamin Welwyn

1743. July 18.

Elizabeth Vernon

i7i\i\. April 25.

William Easton.

June 16.

Charles Heburn

„ 22.

Elizabeth Lock.

1745. June 17.

John Pen.

1746. Oct 13.

John Jones.

Dec. 22.

Ann Millyt

This closes the list of conversions, and subjoined are a few

further extracts from the register.

1686. Dec II

Baptised at Lydney at his father's house.

George, son of Sir Charles Winter : godfather, Mr. Igna

tius Thorpe : godmother. Madam Isabella Guillims.

102 OLD ENGLISH CATHOLIC MISSIONS.
Charies, another son of Sir Charles W. was also baptised at
Lidney, 28, Feb. 1688.
1707. Winefrid How, was born ye 31 of March, and baptized
ye same day. Her godfather was Mr. Richard Pendrel,
her godmother Mrs. Mary Giffard : She was baptized at
Boscobel.
1707. Jan. 6. Born and baptised, Mary Eldershaw : god
parents, Thomas Pendrel, Esq., and Mrs. Catherine How,
senior.
1709. Winefrid How, born y 18 Jan., between 8 and 9 o'clock
In ye morning, and baptized presently afterwards. . . .
godmother. Madam Giffard of Black Ladies.
1746, June 29. Baptized John, son of William Pendrel.
1747. Dec 7. Charles Ed. Pendrill.
1761. June 26. William, son of WiHiam and Ann Acton
of Woolverton : sponsors. Dr. Atwood, Mrs. Bartlett
1768. Mar. 27. Catherine, da. of Thomas and Mary Rayment ;
sponsors. The Rt Hon. Lady Arundell of Wardour
Castle, Henry Fermor, Esq., James Bowyer, Ann
Hawkes.
1769. Feb. 16. Baptized, Edward, son of William and Mary
Fairfax.
1771. Oct 18. Bap.^. Henry Luke Fermor, son of Henry and
Catherine Fermor.
The names also of Addis, Bartlett, Bowyer, Berkeley &c.,
occur occasionally in the register. Throughout the first volume
which dates from 1685 to 1778, only two priests' names appear,
those namely of the Rev. C. Hanne, S. J., and of the " Rev. Mr.
Buttler, 6. S. B. chaplain in 1767, to Mr. J. B., (John Berkeley)
Forgate Street, Worcester." The latter is entered upon the first
leaf of the register, owing perhaps to an accidental omission.
Book II. covers the period from 1778, to 1837. From the
year 1778, the name of the officiating priest appears at the end
of each register. In their order the names are as follows.

OLD ENGLISH CATHOLIC MISSIONS. 103
Thomas Sanders, Joseph Williams, James Beeston, John Morris,
Andrew Robinson, and Joseph Tristram, S. J. with occasionally
some few others.
The names also of 5 1 persons are given as " confirmed by
Bishop Talbot on Whitsunday, 14 May, 1780," and of 61 others
confirmed by Bishop Charles Berington, 2^^- Nov. 1788. An
obituary list closes the volume, but at the other end of it are the
following few memoranda relative to the endowment of the
mission. "The late Doctor Thomas Attwood,died the 29*- of Sep, 1765,
R.I.P. He left ;^200 in Robert Berkeley Esq. of Spetchley's
hands for the use and support of a second Priest. The late Mrs.
Attwood, the Doctor's widow, died the i8*ii- of January, 1770,
R.LP. Mrs. Ann Hill, died the 12 of January, 1788. R.I.P.
Elizabeth Hill, died March the third, 1799. R.I.P.
N.B. The above two sisters gave a ;^ioo in their life time to
the Chappel, and desired an anniversary to be kept for ever on
the above days for the repose of their souls, which was aceepted
and agreed to.
Stephen Smith, Esq. left :£'200, who died ¦y^^ July, 1777.
N.B. 2iido- The ;^ioo left by the sisters' Ann and Elizabeth
Hill was applied to the redemption of the Land tax of the
priests' house at Worcester.
Agatha Berington, ;£'200, Thomas Bowyer, ;^300, to pay a
Mortgage of house the ^£^500 above.
May i7tii- 1801. H. Maire Esq. married Miss Cath. Fermor.
N.B. The following ace*- is all that could be elicited from the
Rev. An. Robinson, October i»*- 1822, viz.
10. The ;£"200 left by Dr. Attwood was placed out at 4 J per
cent on the Handford Estate, by the late Rob. Berkeley, Esq.
The Interest of the above is received by Dr. Milner, V.A. of ye.
Mid. District

I04 OLD ENGLISH CATHOLIC MISSIONS.
2°- The ;£'200 left by St Smith, Esq. was placed out on turn
pike gates at 5 per cent.
Oct 4. 1822. The following additional information was ob
tained : ;£'300 left by Thos. Bowyer was laid out in the enclosure
of Evelench farm at S per cent
;^200 by Agatha Berington, now in the New, 4 per cents.''

Allusion was made on p. xiii. to the publication of " a Catholic
Almanac for the year 1687 " as the apparently earliest one of its
class. This, however, is erroneous, as Dodd attributes a " Cath.
Almanac for 1661, 1662, 1663, &c.," to Thomas Blount [Church
Hist. iii. 261.] No copy of any of these is in the British Museum,
though, of course, it is impossible to say what a careful search
among other libraries or private collections might produce. But
if it be a question as to what is actually the earliest post-reforma
tion Catholic Calendar, that compiled by Fr. Parsons, S.J., in
1604, and embodied in his "Three Conversions of England" may
in some sense be reckoned the earliest.
Fr. Amherst, S.J., has, however, most kindly called attention
to a little unpaged volume of 20 leaves in the library of St Mary's
Hall, Stonyhurst, the title page of which [" Kalendarium Catho-
licum for the Year 1686. Tristitia vestra vertetur in gaudium.
Alleluia. Printed in the Year 1686."] is touchingly suggestive of
a then existing hope that the Catholic Religion would speedily
be restored. The second leaf of this rare little volume gives as
the " Holy-Days of Obligation," all Sundays, Jan. ist and 6th,
Feb. 2nd and 24th, March 19th and 2 Sth, May ist and 3rd, June
24th and 29th, July 2Sth and 26th, August loth, iSth, and 24th,
Sep. 8th, 27th, and 29th, Oct 28th, Nov. ist and 30th, Dec. 21st
25th, 26th, 27th, 28th, and 31st, " and one of the Principal Patrons
of City, Province, or Kingdom." Next are noticed the " Move
able Holy-Days," Ember, Fasting, and Abstinence days, the two
latter presenting a catalogue that would terribly scandalise our

OLD ENGLISH CATHOLIC MISSIONS. 105
modern softness, fasting days being — in addition to those we now
have, except the Wednesdays in Advent, which were not yet fast
days — " the Even of the Nativity, Purification, and Annuntiation
of our B. Lady ... of all the 12 Apostles except St. John,
Evang., St Philip, and St James . . . of the Nativity of St John
the Baptist and of St Lawrence, all Fridays, except within the
12 days of Christmas, and from Easter Day to the Assention, and
Assention Eve;" the Abstinence days in addition to our own
being " all Saturdays, Munday and Tuesday next before Assen
tion, and on St Mark's Day if it fall not in Easter week."
Next are given " the time of Marriage, the Golden Number,
the Epact, Dominical Letter and first Sunday of Advent," ac
cording both to the Old and New Style. The Calendar for the
year fills six leaves, the time of sunrise and sunset being given
weekly, and the changes of the moon noted at the top of each
page. Rather more than four leaves are devoted to an exposi
tion of " the principal Feasts and Holy-Days in the whole year,"
which are also " expounded " in almost identical language in the
Almanac for .1687. The latter, however, notices many more days
than that of 1686, this section occupying ten leaves. It might be
stated in passing that the " Catholic Almanac for 1687 " was re
printed in Lord Somers' " Collection of Scarce Tracts." The
concluding eight leaves of the 1686 Calendar are made up of
I. " A catalogue of the Lords, Knights, and Gentlemen of the
Catholic Religion that were slain in the late warr in defence of
their King and Country. PSAL. iii,
" In memoria ceterna erunt Justi, ab auditlone mala non time-
bunt" Then are given the names — with occasional detail — of
noblemen, "knights, colonels, lieut-colonels, serjeant-majors,
captains, inferior officers, and gent voluntiers " who fell or were
murdered.

I06 OLD ENGLISH CATHOLIC MISSIONS.
John xv. 13.
" Greater love than this no man hath, then that one lay down
his life for his friends."
2. " The names of such Catholics whose estates both real and
personal were sold in persuance of an Act made by the Rump,
July 16, 165 1, for their pretended delinquency, that is, for adher
ing to their King ;" as also of those Catholics whose estates were
sold under the Rump-Acts of 4 Aug., 1652, and 18 Nov. 1652.
3. " Memorable Observations." Of these there are 34, all in
chronological order, drawn up on lines which the subjoined
extracts will illustrate.
The first is :
" Since the removal of St Peter's chair from
Antioch to Rome, (An. 43) where he remained
24 years, and afterwards was crucified with his ^ 1647.
heels upwards under Nero, then Emperor."

Another is :
" Since Oliver the late prodigious Tyrant and
Regicide was hurried into another world in a
most outragious Tempest and whirlwind, 3 Sep.,
1658.

Years.

0028.

The last " Observation " being :
" Since Alderman Cornish, Rich., Neltrop, and '\
J. Ayleff, Esq's. ; were executed for the horrid K 0001.
Phanatical Conspiracy." 1
Finally, it is perhaps hardly necessary to observe that the
" CathoHc Calendar for 1686" suggests no suspicion of a priest's
existence, much less does it dare hint as to where Mass could be
heard.

( 107 )

INDEX OF PERSONS.

Note. — References to the same name do not necessarily mdicate the same perscm.

Abel, Marj', loo.
Acton, Ann, 102.
„ William, 102.
Adamson, Margaret, 38.
Addis, family, 102.
Addison, George, 56.
Agar, Mary, 44.
Alaine, Mr., 9.
Albott, James, 19.
„ Richard, xvii., g, 18.
Allam, WiU., 51.
Allen, Ann, 83.
„ Eliz., 29.
„ George, 83.
„ Mary, 83.
„ Richara, loi.
Allerton, D., 50.
Alleway, John, 8.
AUwood, Jos., 86.
Anderson, Hannah, 68.
„ Jane, 10.
„ John, 18.
„ Margaret, lo.
„ Thomas, 10.
Anderton, James, 3.
Andrews, Margaret, 82.
„ Mary, xx., 96, 100.
„ Philip, 99.
„ Sarah, 95.
„ Thomas, 82, 95.
Appleton, Edward, 68.
„ Thomas, 49, 50.
Archer, Michael, 82.
Armstrong, Ann, 78.
Arrowsmith, Margaret, 82.
Arundell, Lady, 102.
Aston, Mr., 55.
Athey, Elizabeth, ll.
„ John, II.

Atkinson, Eliz., 30, 45.
Mrs., 54.
„ Sarah, 14.
Atterbury, Anne, 85.
Atwood, Dr., 102, 103.
„ Mrs., 103.
Aukland, Elizabeth, 33.
Baggs, Maria, 2.
Baines, Bishop, iii.
Baker, Eliz., 86.
„ John, 95.
Balentine, Ale.'i., 16.
„ Ann, 16.
„ Mary- Ann, 16.
Ball, John, 25.
„ Mrs., 80.
Ballance, Mary, 61.
Barker, Ann, 42.
„ Antony, 79.
„ Christopher, 29.
„ John, 42.
„ Sarah, 45.
„ Valentine, 42.
Barnes, John, 43.
„ Mary, 43.
Barningham, Christopher, 64.
„ John, 64.
„ Sarah, 64.
Barnitt, Thomas, loi.
Barron, Anna, 14.
Barrow, Richard, 75.
Bartlett (family), 102.
„ Hannah, 2.
,, Mrs., 102.
Basil, Anne, loi.
Bates, Mrs., 40.
Batten, Elizabeth, 83.
Baugh, Susan, loi.

io8

INDEX.

Beal, Thomas, 69.
Beaumont, John, 10, 18, 72.
Bedingfield, Anne, 75.
„ Dorothy, 81.
., (family), 79.
,, Frances, 80, 81.
Beesly, Mr., 54.
Beeston, J., 24, 103.
Bell, John, 6.
Bennett, John. 37.
,. Mr., 49, 93.
„ Susan, 86.
Benoit, Fr., 18.
Benson, George, 45.
Mr., 50.
Bentley, Anne, 82.
Berington, Agatha, 103, 104.
„ Bp. Charles, 103.
Berkeley (family), 102.
„ John, 102.
„ Robert, 103.
Beshford, Mary, 91,
Besley, family, 89.
Best, George, 71.
Beury, — , 26, 74.
Bewick, Ann, 7.
„ Thomas, 7.
Biddle, Winifrid, 86.
Bidenham, Mr., 49.
Billington, Mary, 82.
„ Thos., 79.
Bird, Anne, 41.
„ James, 40.
„ Robert, 41.
Birdsall, William, 3, 18.
Black, Ralph, 19.
„ Susan, 19.
„ William. 19.
Blackburn, Catherine, 35.
Mary, 35.
Blakey, Cecily, 50.
„ Gul. O. S. B., xix., XX., i
Blo', John, 8.
Blount, Thomas, 104.
BlundeU (family), 79, 81.
Blyde, Benjamin, 17.
Bolas, Mr., 49.
Bolt, Anne, 84.
Bolton, Mr., 49.
„ R., 28.
Boone, Ed., S.J., r8, 28, 31, 34.
„ John, 24.
Boucher, Elizabeth, 87.
„ John, 82.

Boucher, Mary, 82.
„ Richard, 82, 87,
Boury, J. F., 74.
Bowyer (family), 102.
„ Jfames, 102.
„ Thomas, 103, 104.
Boyd, Mary, 3.
Bradley, John, 39.
„ , Patricius, 60.
Bradshaw, J., 78.
„ Mr., xxi., 49,92,93,95,97.
Brand, Margaret, 87.
Brandling, Anne, 56, 57, 58, 59.
Ralph, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59.
Branson, Anne, 32.
„ ¦ Mary, 32.
„ WiUiam, 32.
Brayley, Mary, 90.
Brent, Hen., 17.
„ Thomas, 26.
Brewer, John, xxi., 93.
Brewster, F. W., 9.
Briant, family, 89, 94.
„ Will., xxi., 89, 94, 96.
Briggs, Bishop, iii., iv., ix., I, 27, 67.
Brooke, Charles, 24.
,, L. , 2.
Brown, Anne, 11.
,, Edward, 12.
,, Elizabeth, 99.
,, Henry, 34.
„ John, 8.
„ Lady, 31.
,, Margaret, 99.
„ Mr., 55.
,, Nicholas, 11.
,, R., xxiv., 52.
,, Stephen, 61.
,, Thomas, 16, 78.
Brownbill, Thomas, 72.
Bruce, Robert, 54, 55, 60.
Brudenal, Fra., 17.
Bruning, Antony, 16.
Bruse, Thomas, 99.
Buckley, Catherine, 100.
Buckeley, Anna, 41.
„ Robert, 41.
Bullock, W., 54.
Burgis, Mr., 55.
Burke, Anna, 81.
Butcher, James, 99.
„ Susan, 86.
Butler, John, 18.
,, Elizabeth, 47.

INDEX.

109

Buttler, Mr., xxv., 103.
Cade, Jonathan, 43.
„ Margaret, 43.
Caffieri, M., 56.
Cale, Elizabeth, 85.
Caley, Edward, 65.
,, (family), 41.
„ Mary, 65.
Camoys, Lord, 21.
Carnaby, Margaret, 4.
Cames, Joanna, 81.
Carrick, Anne, 14.
„ John, 13, 14.
„ Margaret, 13, 14.
„ Richard, 6.
Cash, James, 9.
„ Jane, 9.
Cattin, Mrs., 38.
ChaUoner, Bishop, 94.
Chamberlain, James, 1 7.
,, John, 80.
Champney, Elizabeth, 73.
„ Mary, 9.
Chapman, Mary, 68.
„ Margaret, 82.
,, Thomas, 85.
Chappellar, Mr., 31.
Charles, Frances, 82.
„ Martha, 87.
,, Rebecca, 83.
„ William, 82.
„ -. 85.
Chatelais, P., 62.
Chew, J., 51.
„ W., 23, 39.
Cholmeley (tamily), 79.
„ Francis, 24.
Clapam, Anne, 50.
Clarke, John, 87.
„ Mary, 87.
Clarkson, Ed., 38, 42.
Mr., 55.
Clavering, Catherine, 10.
„ Nicholas, 4.
Clifford, Alice, 96.
„ Apollonia, Lady, 47.
„ Hugh, Lord, 46, 54.
„ Thomas, 88.
„ Timothy, 96.
Clinton, A., 2.
Cloud, Susan, loi.
Clough, — , 16.
Coates, Jane, 64,

Coates, Mrs., 33, 38.
Cobb, Elizabeth, 2.
Cock, Thomas, 7, 12.
Cockshot, Thomas, 23.
Coghlan, William, 3.
Cole, Frances, 82.
Colwin, Betty, 16,
Comberbach, Anne, 21.
„ C. P. A., 21, 22.
Commaleach (family), 50.
Conaty, John, 77, 78.
Conner, Hugh, 16.
„ Jane, 16.
„ Margaret, 16.
Connes, Sarah, loi.
Constable, W., 31.
Cook, Ehzabeth, 31, 33, 34.
„ James, 32, 68.
Corbeck, Eleanor, 29.
Corbin, Elizabeth, 100.
Corby, Mr., 56.
Corless, G. A., 3, 10, 19, 27.
Courtley, Mrs., 30.
„ Jane, 33.
Crane, Edward, 18, 63.
Cranston, Margaret, 68.
Crathorne, — , 24.
Crockford (family), 90, 91.
„ Thomas, 90, 96.
Croskell, W., 70, 79, 81.
Cross, Bernard, 18.
Cummings, Mary, 94.
,, Stephen, 94.
Cunningham, William, 22.
Curr, Joseph, 3, 7.
Dale (family), 26.
,, Robert, 42.
Danby (family), 26.
Daniell, John, 3.
„ W., 38.
Darby, Mr., 55.
Darbyshire, Mr., 54.
Darrell, James, 18.
Davidson, Mary, 69.
Davies (family), 83.
,, Roland, 62.
Davis, Roger, 99.
Davison, Anne, ic.
,, Christopher, 10.
Dawney, Maria, 96.
Dawson, Eh'zabeth, 82, 85.
„ Philip, 82, 85,
„ WiUiam, 84.

IIO

INDEX.

Dean (family), 38.
Dearlove, Joseph W., 94.
„ Mary, 94,
„ WiUiam, 92, 94.
De Boisgelin, Abp. of Aix., 70, 71.
Dehenne, L., 62, 80.
Delalonde, Mr., 36.
Dent, Joseph, 7.
„ Mary, 68.
Devienne, C, 36.
Dicconson, Mary, 41.
Dickenson, Isabel, 14.
Dickson, Benjamin, 100.
Dilworth, Thomas, 27.
Dod, Anne, 15.
„ John, 14.
Dods, Thomas, 14.
Dolman (family), 37, 79.
Donniville, A., 20.
Dormer (family), 64.
Doughty, B., 54.
„ (family), 79.
Douglas, John, Bp., 79.
Douthwaite (family), 41.
Dowdall, J., I.
Dowding, James, 24.
„ John, 37.
Dowson, Mr., 55.
Doyle, William, 17, 18.
Draycot, Frances, 46.
Dubuisson, Peter, 20.
Dugdale, Joseph, 7, 23, 27,
Dunn, Jane, 33.
„ John, 35.
„ — , xvii., 4.
Dupont, J. J., 64.
Duthine, James, 100.
„ Mary, 100.
Duxon, Mary, 95.
„ Mr., 55.
Early, Maria, 90.
„ Matthew, 90.
Easton, William, loi.
Eaton, Anne, 84, 85.
„ Dorothy, 87.
„ Mr., 55.
„ William, 84
Ecop, Mr., 55.
Edgar, Mrs., 99.
Edins, John, 100.
Edmonds, Elizabeth, 99.
Edmundson, James, 24.
„ E. N., 24.

Edward, vi. ; xi., 37.
Edwards, Mary, 57.
Edwins, Rebecca, 83.
„ Thomas, 83.
Eeds, George, 82.
„ Mary, 82.
Egan, James, 9.
Eldershaw, Mary, 102.
Elliot, Dr., 55.
,, George, 13.
„ Hen., xxi., 93.
„ Robert, 39.
Ellis, Michael, 50.
Elwell, Fred, 8.
Errington (family), 62, 64,
„ Isabella, 32.
» Jane, 32.
„ Mary, 14, 83.
„ Michael, 32, 34.
„ Mrs., 65.
„ John, 83.
,, Thomas, 32.
Evans, Jane, 65.
„ John, 65.
Evetts, Anne, 8r.
,, John, 82.
,, Sarah, 82.
Eyre, (family), 72, 79, 81.
,, Vincent Joseph, 7.
„ Thomas, 6, 7.
Fairclough, John, 72.
Fairfax, Edward, 102.
„ Mary, 102.
,, William, 102.
Falconberg, Lord, 55.
Falkner,  , 17.
Farmor, Mrs., 50.
„ Sophia, 65.
Fawcett, WiUiam, 14.
Featherstone, J., 69.
Feldwick, Anne, 91.
,, Thomas, 90.
Fendley, Anne, 65.
,, Elizabeth, 65.
,, Richard, 65.
Ferby, Thomas, 26, 27.
Fermor, Catherine, 102, 103.
„ Henry, 102.
„ Henry L., 102.
,, James, 82.
„ Mary, 82.
„  , 18.
Fisher, J. C, 38.

INDEX.

Ill

Fisher, Mr., 49.
Fishwick, John, 10.
Fitzgerald, Anna, 92.
,, Edmond, 99.
„ Garrett, 92.
„ Gerald, 92, 96.
„ Mr., 99.
Fleet, J., 14.
Fleming, J., 21.
Fletcher, Molly, 29.
,, William, 5.
Flint, John, 82.
„ Susan, 83.
Floock, Hannah, 100.
Flutter, Thomas, 99.
Forbes, Mary, 100.
Forcer, John, 4.
Forge, Sarah, 61.
Forshaw, John, 16.
Fortescue, Nicholas, 87.
Foster, Anne, 82.
,, Edward, 82.
„ John, gg.
Foucher, Pet. F., 69, 70, 71.
Fountaine, J. B., 75.
Frazie, Eliz., 84.
„ Francis, 84.
Friday, Clement, 87.
„ Eleanor, 87.
Frizzel, Anne, 10.
Fromond, Barthol, xx.
Gabriel, John, viii. 98.
Gage, Ambrose, 57, 59, 60, 61.
„ Mr., 74.
Galloway, Edward, 17.
Gardner, Anne, 100.
Garnett, Mary, 4.
Gascoigne, Sir Edward, 54, 56, 57,
58, 79-
„ (family), 79.
Gautier, M., 10.
Geeflec,  , 18.
Gerard, Lady, 66.
Gibs, Thomas, 85.
Gibson, Anne, 15.
„ Bishop, 15, 45, 50, 70.
„ Elizabeth, 24.
„ (family), 15,79.
,, WiUiam, 10, 15.
Giffard, Barbara, 83.
„ Mary, 102.
,, Mdm., 102.
„ Peter. 83.

Gilbert, Nicholas, 77, 78.
Gildart, George, 21.
Giles, William, 99.
Gill, Elizabeth, 24.
Gillett, Thomas, 6.
GiUibrand, W., 17.
Gillow, John, 79.
,, Thos., 10, 20.
Gilloway, Thomas, 85, 87.
Gilly, Mary, 3.
Glassbrook, Roger, 5, 7
Godwin, Margaret, 84.
,, Robert, 84.
,, Simon, 84.
Goode, family, 83.
,, Magdalen, 86.
Goodes, family, 83.
Goodman, Mary, 87.
Goods, Frances, 86.
Goodwin, Catherine, 82.
,, Elizabeth, 82.
Gordon, Robert, 68.
Gosling, Anne, 44.
Goudes, Catherine, 82.
„ Charles, 82.
,, Eleanor, 84.
„ Simon, 82, 83.
Gough, Mrs., 82.
Graham, Mary, 3.
,, WiUiam, II.
Grant, Jane, 3.
Graves, John, 99.
Gree, Anna, 89.
,, Valentine, 89.
Green, Johanna, 19.
„ Mr., 54, 55, 56.
,, Mary, loi.
,, Thomas, 19.
Greenhalgh, Henry, 27, 37.
Greenway, James, 94.
„ John, 93, 97.
„ Lucy, 94.
„ Strafford, g4.
Gregson, Mr., 49.
„ Will., O.S.B., xix.
Greswold, Thomas, 93. -
Grey, John, 30.
Griffin, Anne, 85.
., Mary, 85.
Griffith, A., 56.
Griffiths,  , xiii.
,, Anne, 100.
„ Bishop, iii., v.
Guillims, Isabella, 10 1.

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INDEX.

Gurnall, T., 38.
Hackett, Martha, 73.
Haggerston, Edward, 15.
•Hall, Christopher, 2g.
„ Dorothy, g8.
,, Francis, g8.
„ Mary, gS.
Hands, Mary, 86.
Hankin, — , 4.
Hanne, C, xxv., 102.
Hansbie, Jos., xx., 54, 58, 60.
„ Morgan, 55.
Hanson, Francis, 86.
„ Mary, 83.
,, Thomas, 83.
Hardwick, Lord, vii.
Harker, Jane, 32.
„ Joseph, 32.
Harper, Hannah, 68.
,, Joseph, 100.
Harrington, Mary, 3.
Harris, R., xxi., g3.
Harrison,  , 26.
„ Edward, 35.
„ Mary, 90.
„ Mary Rome, go.
„ Nicholas, go.
„ William, 56.
Hartley, George, go.
,, Elizabeth, go.
Harwood, Frances, 86.
Hatton, Anthony, 55, 57, 59, 60.
Haughton,  , 12.
Hawkes, Anne, 102.
Hawkins, Thomas, 18.
Haydock, G. L., i, 78.
Heath, Anna, gi.
„ John, gi.
Heatley, Anne, 71.
„ James, 24.
„ William, xx., xxi., 49, 8g,
93-
Heburn, Charles, loi.
Henesy, Catherine, g3.
Henry VL, 21.
Hemmin, Richard, 84.
HeptonstaU, (family), 38.
Heveningham, family, 63.
Heymers, Martha, 13.
Hicks, Frances, 61.
,, Timothy, 61.
Hield, M. E., 61.
Hight, Maria, 82.

Hildrith, Helena, 14.
Hill, Anne, 103.
„ Dorothy, 31.
„ Elizabeth, 103.
,, Jerry, 31, 33-
„ Mary, 82.
„ Rachael, 31, 32.
„ Thomas, 31, 33.
Hilton, Elizabeth, 81.
Himsworth, Robert, 19.
Hinks, Samuel, 82.
„ Sarah, 82.
Hixton, Robert, II.
Hoarwood, Frances, 82.
„ Tobias, 82.
Hobs, Dolly, 84.
„ Lydia, 85.
„ Mary, 84, 86.
„ ' WiUiam, 84.
Hodgkinson, C., 2g.
Hodgson, J., 71.
„ Maiy, 24.
„ S., 38.
„ T., 40, 41.
Hogarth, Rob., 40.
„ Thomas, 3.
„ William, 3, 62.
Holden, James, 73, 75.
Holder, Sarah, loi.
Holdforth, James, xxiii.
Holland, Mr., 54.
Holme, Francis, 32.
,, John, XV.
Holmes, Elizabeth, 44, 45,
M. A., 68.
Hooper, Mary, loi.
„ Sarah, loi.
Hopecot, Elizabeth, 100.
Horbury, Thomas, 56.
Horn, Rachael, 85.
Hornby, W., 2g.
Hoskins, Raphael, 26.
Houghton,  , 92.
Houssoulier, Fr., 18.
How, Catherine, 102.
„ Mr., 55.
,, Winifrid, 102.
Howard, Charles, 39, 41,
>, E., 75.
., Francis, 10, 32.
„ John, 17.
„ Joseph, II.
„ Winifrid, 46.
Howe (family), 38.

INDEX.

"3

Howen, Elizabeth, loo,
Hoyle, Elizabeth, 6i.
,, John, 6i.
Hughes, Margaret, 99.
„ Mary, 94.
„ William, 84.
Hull, Mr., xvi.
,, William, 7.
Humble, Miss, xxii.
Hunloke, Charlotte Lady, 83.
„ Sir W., 83.
Hunt, Elizabeth, 100.
Hurst, John, 77,
Hutton, "WiUiam, 52.
Ibbotson, W., 75.
Ingleby, J. S., 51.
Inglis, F., 8.
Ingram, Mrs., 29.
Ireland, Charles, 56.
Irving, Henry, 27.
Jackson, Edward, 39.
„ — , Esq., 50.
„ Martha, 39.
„ Thomas, 24, 39, 86.
Jacobs, John, 57.
Jacques, Frances, 82.
„ William, 82.
Jefferson, Elizabeth, 34.
„ Mary, 43.
Mrs., 34.
„ Thomas, 43.
Jenison, J., 2.
Jenkins, George, gg,
Johnson, Catherine, 44.
„ family, 43.
„ George, 13.
„ Jane, 44.
„ Mary, 13, 43, 45, 60.
„ Martin, 45.
„ Robert, g, 26, 27, 43, 44,
45, 62, 65, 66, 67, 6g.
„ Sarah, 45.
„ Thomas, 40.
„ WiUiam, 61.
Jones, John, 6, 10 1.
,, Mary, 100.
Joy, M., 15
Joyce, Dorothy, 86.
Kay, Mr., 49.
,, Thomas, 24.
Kearney, William, 3.

Kearton, Joseph, 64.
„ Margaret, 64.
„ Mary, 64.
Keasley, G., 68.
Kendal, — , 4.
Kerbonel, — , 27.
Kerby, Thomas, 27.
Kighley, John, 24.
King, Jac. Dr., xx., gi, g3.
Kingman, James, 45.
Kirkby, James, 35.
„ Mary, 35.
Kirkley (family), 26.
Kirkton, Mr., 31.
Kitchen, Anne, 64.
Kitchener, Mary, 85, 86.
,, Richard, 85.
Knatchbull, Robert, 26.
Knight, Anne, 50.
,, Elizabeth, 50.
,, James, 72.
„ Mary, 50.
„ Mr., 50, 54.
„ WiUiam, 5, 50.
Lacon, Mr., 4g, 50.
Laite, Anne, 81.
„ Michael, 81, 84.
Langdale (famUy), 41 — 47, 68, 79.
,, Jordan, 41, 55.
,, Marmaduke, 18, 41, 43,46,
Laughton, Elizabeth, 84, 86.
Laurenson, John, 27.
Lawson (family), 79.
„ Sir John, 65.
„ Lady, 65, 66, 67.
„ Thomas, 18, 35, 64, 65, 66.
„ William, 26.
Lea, Thomas, 75.
Leadbitter, John, 8, 14, 15.
Leckonby, Thomas, 17.
Le Crornier, Lewis, 3.
Lee, John, 92.
Le Febvre, C, xxiii., xxiv., 52, 61.
Legh, Francis, 58, 59.
„ Helen, 58, 59.
„ John, 58, 59.
Legrand, Jac, 51.
Le Roux, Louis, 25.
Lesley, John, 99.
Leslie, James, 9, 72.
Le Tailleur, F. M., 8.
Le Tellier, — , 8.
Lewis, Anne, 67.

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INDEX.

Lewis, James, i6, 26.
Leyburn, James, 53.
Lingard, Hannah, 72.
„ John, 6,
„ Joseph, 72.
,, Martin, 72.
,, Mis., xi.
Linn, John, 14.
Lissabe, Anne, 78.
„ Dominic, 78.
„ Mary, 78.
Lock, Elizabeth, loi.
Lockier, Mary, gg.
Loftus, Jane, 64.
,, Robert, 64.
Lonsdale, John, 79.
„ Mary, 79.
„ Richard, 79.
Lovett, Mr., 54.
Luntley, Mr., 50.
Lyes, Margaret, 100.
Macartney, A., 27, 80.
Macdonald, James, 92.
Magee (family), 5.
Maginnis, Mary, 16.
Maini, Joseph/ 27.
Maire, Bishop, 45.
,, Catherine, 103.
„ Henry, 103.
„ Mrs., 66.
Malburn, Sarah, loi.
MaUem, Mary, 33.
„ Thomas, 33.
Malony, John B., xi.
Mannock, Sir Francis, 55.
Mans, Mr., 47.
March, Mr., 99.
Marlton, Mr., 55.
Marsh, Thomas, 41, 42, 44.
Martin, Mary, 64.
,, Michael, 64.
Matson, Dorothy, 44.
MaxweU, Clementina, 35.
„ family, 72, 79.
Mawbey, Frances, 82.
M'Arthur, Elizabeth, 32
„ John, 34.
„ William, 32.
M'Evoy, J. A., 5.
M'Kaye, Peter, 23.
M 'Mannes, Anne, 16.
Melling, James, 38.
,, Margaret, 38.

Melling, Richard, 38.
Menzies, Edward, 93.
Mercer, William, 17.
Metcalfe (family), 64, 79.
„ Jane, 34.
MeyneU (family), 26, 39.
,, Thomas, 35.
Middlehurst, John, 24.
Middleton (family), 64, 72, 79.
Midford, John, ig.
Milburn, John, 32.
MiUar, Mary, 31.
Miller, Edward, 84.
„ J. L., 8.
MiUington, Ehzabeth, 45.
Millyt, Anne, loi.
Milner, Bishop, 103.
Mitchell, S., 51.
Molloy, — , g2,
Molyneux, Joseph, 17.
„ Lady Mary, 53.
Mr., 50, 53, 94.
„ Robert, 53.
„ Gul. Lord, 52, 53.
Moody, Elizabeth, 100.
Moor, — , 7g.
Moore, John, 15.
More, Margaret, 28.
„ Mr., 55, 56.
Morgan, Margaret, 100.
„ Maria, 89.
,, Stephen, 86.
Morris, I., 103. .
„ J. G., 76, 77.
„ Peter, 17.
Mortuaire, J. B., 21.
Mostyn (family), 81.
Mould, Ehzabeth, 86.
,, Francis, 85.
Mountain, Elizabeth, 75.
Mously, — , 17.
Moutardier, E. B., 2.
Mudd, Nelly, 31, 33, 34.
Muncaster, Elizabeth, 30.
Muris, Margaret, 16.
Murray, Maigaret, 3.
Natteras, Barbara, 29.
„ Mary, 29.
Naylor, J., xxi., 10, 92, 93.
Nelson, James, 63, 64.
„ John, 30.
Netherwood, WiUiam, 24, 25.
NeviUe, Mary, 14.

INDEX.

IIS

Newman, Elizabeth, 91.
Newsam (family), 26.
Newsham, Anne, xii.
,, Henry, xxiv., i, 52.
,. Jac, 81.
,, Matthew, 37.
Nicliolas, Magdalen, gg.
„ Mrs., 99.
Nicholds, Elizabeth, 99.
Nitchil, Thomas, 83.
Norfolk, Duke of, 92, 93.
Nottingham (family), 38.
Nun, Ambrose, 63.
Oakley, Frank, 28, 29, 64.
OrreU, Joseph, ig.
„ William, 61.
Osbum, Anne, 85.
„ Edward, 84.
„ Elizabeth, 82, 85.
,, Giles, 85.
„ John, 84.
„ Mary, 84, 85.
Oxley, H. L., xxiii., xxiv., 52.
Owen, Mary, 89.
Panting, John, 17.
Parker, Mr., 99.
„ Robert, 24.
„ Thomas, 15, 18.
Parmiter, Mary, 2.
Parrott, Elizabeth, 82.
„ George, 82, 85.
Parsons, John, 18.
„ Mrs., 98.
Paston, Dorothy, 81.
„ Mrs., 74-
Peach, Anne, 82.
„ R. D., 97.
,, Samuel, 82.
Peacock, James, 63.
„ Samuel, 63.
„ WiUiam, 63.
Peard, Daniel, 91.
Pease, Betty; 35.
„ Dorothy, 34.
„ James, 34.
„ John, 29, 31, 34.
„ Mary, 35.
,, Thomas, 35.
Pemberton, James, 19.
Pen, John, loi.
Penderel, Anne, 82, loi.
„ Charles Edward, 102.

Penderel, John, 102.
„ Richard, 102.
„ Sarah, 100.
„ Thomas, 102.
„ WiUiam, 102.
Penswick, Dr., xxiii.
Perkins, Sarah, 68.
Perrot, M., 64.
Pert, John, 63.
„ Mary, 63.
Petre, Bishop, 45.
Pettifar, Moses, loi.
Phillips, Dominic, 13.
Piass (?) Mrs., 74.
Pierson, Elizabeth, 66.
,. Mrs., 66.
Pile, Henry, S.J., 26.
Pinchback, Francis, 30.
Pindar, Margarqt, 45.
„ Richard, 45.
Pinder, Joseph, 73.
Plasse, Canon, xxv.
Piatt, Daniel, 17.
„ James, 67.
Plowden (family), 62, 79.
„ Charles, 2, 66, 67.
Plowman, Sarah, 94.
Plumpton (family), 50.
Plunket, Elizabeth, 94.
„ Lucy, 94.
,, Patricius, 95.
Poisnel, John, 26.
Poole, Mary, 81.
„ Matthew, 81.
Porter, Esq., 54.
„ Hon. Mrs., 55.
„ John, 54.
„ Joseph, 55.
Postlethwaite, Ann, xii.
„ James, xii.
,, Richard, xii.
Potier, Peter, 39.
Potter, M. A., 69.
Potts, Anna, 14.
„ John, 13.
„ Lucas, ig.
Pratt, Anne, 7.
Preston, Elizabeth, 85.
„ Frances, 24.
Prichard, Anne, loi.
„ John, loi.
Pudsey, Margaret, 4.
Pugh, Edward, 24, 75.
Punshon, Margaret, 6.

ii6

INDEX.

Punshon, William, 6.
Purden, Mary, 8i.
Py, Mr., 98.
Ramsdale, Elizabeth, 44.
„ James, 44.
Raper, Elizabeth, 65.
„ James, 65.
Ratcliffe, Thomas, 38.
Rayment, Benedict, 79.
,, Catherine, 102.
„ Mary, 102.
,, Thomas, 102.
Ready, Anna, 85.
„ WiUiam, 85.
Redhead, Elizabeth, 1 1.
Redman, Margaret M., 78.
Reed, — , 92.
Reeve, J. J., 2.
„ S. J., 75-
„ Mary, 82.
Render, Joseph, 7, 69.
Rennison, WiUiam, 64.
Reyly, — , 42.
Reynoldson, Anne, 44.
„ Michael, 40.
Richardson, Anne, 45.
„ Elizabech, 95.
John, 45.
— . 92-
Riddell, Edward, 12.
„ Molly, 33.
„ Ralph, 14, 33.
Ridesdale (family), 26.
Ridsdale, Mary, 38.
„ WiUiam, 38.
Rigby, J., 38, 68.
Rimmer, Richard, 72.
Robinson, Andrew, 103.
Anne, 79.
„ Antony, 7g.
„ Charles, 28.
„ Dorothy, 7g.
„ Jane, 79.
„ John, xxiii., xxiv., 19, 22.
,, Mary, xxiii.
Robson, George, 19.
Rogers, Mr., 54.
Rook, Elizabeth, 82, 87.
„ Mrs., 84.
„ Robert, 87.
Rooker, Thomas, 24.
Roper, Mary, 61.
„ Joshua, 61.

Roper, Sarah, 61.
Rose, Christopher, 6, 7.
Roulhac, Joshua, 68.
Rowntree (family), 26.
Rowson, Elizabeth, 45.
Roydon, Mr., 54.
Royson, Susan, 56.
Ruddey, Elizabeth, 84.
„ Mary, 83.
„ William, 84.
Ruge, Jone, gg.
Ruyter, Bap., 18.
Ryland, George, 82, 84,
Rymer, Mr., 54.
Sadler, Samuel, 8g.
Salvin, — , 4.
Sanders, Elizabeth, loi.
„ John, 31.
,, MsBson, 61.
„ Thomas, 103
Saul, Charles, 68.
„ Joseph Silvester, 74.
Sawle, Anne, 45.
Sayles, Samuel, 71.
Scarisbrick, Edward, 17.
Scott (family), 26, g3.
„ John, S.J., 4.
„ Mark, 31, 34.
Scroop, Anne C, 29, 31, 64.
„ C. E. F., 31.
„ (family), 28, 33, 35, 36.
„ Frances, 29, 32, 5-^, 66.
„ Henry, 29.
„ Simon, 28, 29, 31, 32, 35, 64.
Scudamore,  , 17.
Seddon, J., i.
Selby, Charles, 49.
Shann, Christopher, 24.
„ William, 24.
Shaw, John, 26.
>,  , 39-
Sharp, James, 13.
Sharpies, James, xvii., 71.
Sheldon, (family), 57, 79.
,, Ralph, 32.
„ WiUiam, 29, 32, 64.
Sheppard, Dorothy, loi.
Sheridan, James, 24.
Sherwin, Brigit, 100.
Short, Benedict, O.P., xxi., 93.
Shott, Joseph, 2.
Shovller, Joyce, 100.
Siddal, Mary, 42, 43, 44.

INDEX.

117

Siddal, Mr., 2g.
Sidgwick, Joseph, 7.
Simmons, Mary, 13.
Singleton, John, 45.
Sinnott, Placidus, 24.
Skelton, Mary, 53.
»  , 53-
Skydmore, Mary, loa
Slater, T., 6, 68.
Slie [?], WiUiam, 28.
Slinger, James, 35.
Smdlpage, Margaret, 43.
Smith, Anne, 100.
„ Bishop, XV., 6g, 7a
,, Catherine, go.
„ Elizabeth, 90.
„ Francis, 98.
„ Henry, 90.
„ John, 6g, 71, go, g3.
„ M. E., 12.
„ Mary, go, 92.
„ Robert, 3.
„ Stephen, 103, 104.
„ Susan, go, g3.
„ Thomas, 4, g8.
„ William, 8, 82, go, g3.
Smjrthe, Constantia, 41, 46, 47.
„ Sir Edward, 47.
„ Sh- John, 41, 46, 47.
„ Lady Mary, 47.
Sotherland, Elizabeth, 3.
Southcote, Brigit, g4.
„ Edward, 17.
Speaky, Elizabeth, 24.
Spink, David, 75.
Spurr, Mary-Anne, 77.
„ Mary, 77.
„ Jane, 77.
„ Richard, 77.
Stabler, Frank, 28.
„ Margaret, 28.
,, WUliam, 28.
Stacey, Elizabeth, g5.
„ WiUiam, g5.
Standish, Henrietta, 30.
,, Ralph, 30.
„ Mrs. S., 66.
Stanford, John, 84, 86.
Stanley, Elizabeth, 24.
„ Henry, 18.
„ Margaret, 100.
Stapleton, (family), 64, 67.
„ Mr., 66.
„ Mrs., 65, 66.

Staveley, Edward, 31.
Steare, Mr., 49, 50.
Steel, Maria, 68.
Stephens, John, 56.
Steward, Sarah, 100.
Stewart, Charles, 78.
„ Elizabeth, 78.
„ John, 78.
Stiles, Sarah, 82.
Stoaks, John, 42.
Storey, (family), 26.
„ Arthur, 4.
„ Thomas, 3, 7, 27, 49.
Stourton, Charles, Lord, xxii., 93.
,, Catherine, 43.
„ Catherine (Lady), 93.
„ Hon. Charles, 11.
„ Hon. C. Philip, 45.
,, Henry, 11.
„ Lucy, II.
„ Lady, 46.
Mary, 46..
„ Dowager Lady, 39.
„ (family), 69, 79.
,, William, Lord, 44, 46, 93.
„ Winifred, 46.
Stout, Thomas, ig, 20.
Stretton, Elizabeth, 83.
Strickland, Barbara, 32.
„ (family), 26, 32.
„ Henrietta, 30.
„ Joseph, 21.
„ Margaret, 29.
„ Robert, 35.
,, William, 2g.
Stuart, James, 17.
Sturde)', Frances, 86.
,, James, 86.
„ Mary, 86.
Sturdy, (family), 33, 35, 69.
„ Jane, 33, 35.
„ Maurice, 88.
Robert, 33, 35.
„ William, 32, 35.
Sutton, Henry, 51.
Swainson, John, 24.
Swinburne, (family), 3g, 62, 64.
Tailor, Mary, 100.
Taker, Elizabeth, 30.
„ Jane, 30.
Talbot, Bishop, 103.
„ Hon. James, xxi.
„ Richard, 4, 68.

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INDEX.

Tasburgh, Michael, 25.
Tate, John, 14.
,, Robert, 38.
Taylor, Anne, 51.
'„ J., 4, 12, 27.
Tempest, C. R., 24.
„ (family), 79.
„ J. P., xxiu.
Mrs., 2g.
Teynham, Lord, 15.
Thacker, Anne, 74.
Thackeray, Elizabeth, 30.
„ Mary, 25.
Thebault, F. P., 62.
Thompson, John, 56.
Thomson, Dorothy, 30.
„ Mary, 42.
„ Mr., 42, 54.
„ Richard, 45.
Thornburgh, Mary, 7g.
MoUy, 33.
Thornton, Mr., 50.
Thorpe, A. D., 17.
„ Ignatius, loi.
Throckrnorton, Barbara, 83.
„ Sir Charles, xviii.
,, Charlotte, 83.
„ family, 88. '
„ George, 86.
„ Margaret, 82.
„ Mary, 82.
„ Teresa, 84.
„ William, 82.
Thrush, George, 73, 75.
„ Martha, 72,.
Thwaites, (family), 26.
Tidyman, Michael, 2.
Tilbury, Thomas, 8.
Todd, NeUy, 3g.
„ Richard, 3g.
Toms, Ehzabeth, 83, 84.
Topham, Elizabeth, 32, 34.
„ James, 2g, 30, 32.
„ Jane, 30.
„ John, 31.
„ Lucy, 29, 30, 32.
Mary, 31.
„ MoUy, 32.
„ WiUiam, 29, 30, 31, 32.
Tourner, Nicholas, 17.
Trappes, (family), 64.
Mr., 50.
„ Mrs., 35.
„ Michael, 24.

Trappes, W., 47.
Treigham, Susan, 100.
Tristram, Joseph, S. J., 2, 103.
Tuite, Mr., 57, 60.
Tunstal, Esq., 54.
Turner, Brigit, 61.
„ John, 41, 44.
,, Mary, 61.
„ Samuel, 90.
„ William, 91.
Turpin, family, 38.
Turville, Francis, 55.
Tyldsley, Madame, 55.
Tyevey, faniily, 65.
Tyrer, Richard, 3, 34.
Underbill, Albert, xxi., xxiv., 51,
59, 61. _
Vavasour, family, 46, 47.
Veckley, Mary, gg.
Vernon, Elizabeth, loi.
Veronica, Sr., 57.
Verry, Catherine, g2.
Waddington, Helena, 81.
Wade, Mr., xxii.
Wadkins, g8.
Wakeman, Joseph, 82.
„ Mary, 82.
Walford, AppoUonia, loi.
Walker, Helena, 81.
Wall, Anne, gg, 100.
„ John, xxiv.
Walmesley, Elizabeth, 24.
,, Mr., XV.
„ H., xxiv., 52.
Walsh, Edward, 4.
,, Thomas, Bp., iii.
Wappeller, W., S.J., 28, 29, ^i.
Waram, — , 4.
Warburton, Mr., 49.
Wareing, Mr., 49, 51.
Waters, family, 83.
Waterton, Anne, 75.
,, Catherine, 74.
,, Charles, 75.
,, Christopher, 75.
„ (family), 79.
,. Isabella, 75.
,, Thomas, 75.
„ WiUiam, 8, 75.
Watford, Elizabeth, 83, 84.
Watkins, Ferdinand, xxi.

INDEX.

119

Watkinson, Mr., 49.
Watson, John, 13.
„ Sarah, 4.
„ WiUiam, 8.
Webb, James, xi.
Weld (family), 79.
Weldon, Thomas, 18.
Wells, Sarah, 91.
Welwyn, Benjamin, loi.
West, Elizabeth, 83, 84.
„ John, 84, 87.
„ Mary, 82, 83.
„ Paul, 83, 84.
„ Thomas, 17.
Westby, Mr., 55.
Weston, John, 72.
,, Thomas, 23.
Westle, Alice, 3.
,, Elizabeth, 3.
Wheeler, James, 6z.
W^hisque, Thomas, 99.
Whitaker, J. F., I.
White, Anne, 83.
„ Barbara, 32.
„ family, go.
„ Mary, 83, go.
„ Matthew, 83.
„ Nicholas, 32.
„ Thomas, 68, go.
Whitely, Dorothy, 61.
Whitgreave, N., 82.
Widdrington, Elizabeth, 46.
,, William Lord, 46.
Wild, Thomas, 68.
Wilkinson, Mr., 49.
,, Thomas, 22.
WiUcocks, Anne, 85.
Mary, 84.
WiUiams, Bishop, 56, 59, 98.
,, John, 98.
,, Joseph, 103.
,, Mary, loi.
Mr., 55.
,, Sarah, 61.
Willis, William, loi.

Wilson, Margaret, 13.
„ Mary, 94.
„ Robert, 21.
Wilthew, Anne, 13.
„ John, 14.
Winn, Mary, 29.
Winship, John, 6.
Winter, Anna M., 78.
„ Charles, 102.
„ Sir Charles, loi, 102,
„ George, 101.
„ John, 78.
„ Margaret, 78.
Wise, Sarah, 82.
Wiseman, Cardinal, v.
Witham (family), 62, 79.
,j Miss, 31.
Wood, WiUiam, 91,
Woodcock, Mr., 78.
Woodman, Dorothy, 34.
Woodrofe, Samuel, 15.
Woods, Ambrose, xxiii.
Worswick. James, 20.
Worthington, John, 17.
Thomas, 52, 53, 56, 57,
58, 59, 60.
Wrennal, James, 62.
Wright (banker), 57.
,, Ehzabeih, 82, 87.
„ John, 82.
„ Mary, 65.
,, Thomas, 65.
,, William, 99.
Yates, John, 4.
,, Richard, loi.
Youle, Jonathan, 40.
Young, Catherine, 68.
,, Elizabeth, 26.
„ (family), 9.
,, John, 26, 68.
,, Margaret, 26.
,, Thomas, 68.
Younghusband, Samuel, 49.

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INDEX OF PLACES.

Aberford, 22, 49.
Acton-Burnall, 41, 46, 47.
Aiskew, 23.
Aislaby, 43.
Akendale, 63.
Alcester, 83.
Allerton, 23.
Alnwick, 10, 32, 49. _
Alwinton, 10, 11.
Ampleforth, 23.
Ancroft, 2.
Angram, 49.
Aston, 55.
Bamborough, 15.
Bardney, 54.
Barton, 71.
Bath, 46.
BeUingham, 11.
Beobridge, 55.
Berwick-on-Tweed, v., 12.
Bicknor, gg.
Biddleston, 10.
Bilton, 44.
Bishop-Thornton, 17.
Bishop-Wearmouth, 3.
Blackburn, ix., xiv., 9.
Blackladies, 102.
Bonham, 17.
Borrowbridge, 30,
Borwick, 54.
Boscobel, io2,
Bradford, 23.
Bramham, 38,
Brampton, 78.
Brandsby, 23, 49,
Brewood, xvii.
Brindle, 71.
Brough, 26.
Broughton, 24,
Burghwallis, 20, 25.
Burton-Constable, 30, 31, 33, 40.

Bury-St. -Edmunds, 99.
Bushblaides, 6.
Bywell, 12.
Cannington, 54.
Canterbury, v.
Capheaton, 13, 14.
Carlton, 86.
Catterick, 26.
Cheam, xx., 88.
Cheeseburn-Grange, 12.
Chepstow, gg.
Chillington, 83.
Clapham, 51.
Cliffe, 41, 42, 55, 62, 68.
Clints HaU, xii., 62.
Coldham, 63.
Corrinton, 90.
Coughton, xviii., 84, 85.
Cowley HiU, 17, 18.
Coxwold, 43.
Craike, 37.
Crathorne, iv., 27.
Croxdale, 4.
Croxteth, 52, 53.
Danby-on-Yure, 18, 28.
Danby-Wisk, 63.
Darlington, 3, 7, 62, 65.
Dibden, g2.
Dodding-Grove, 69.
Doncaster, 37.
Dorchester, xviii.
Dorking, g3.
Draycot, 46.
Durham, 3, 31, 55, 61.
Earle, 4g.
Easingwold, 37, 4g, 55,
Egton-Bridge, 27-
Ellingham, 15.
Ellington 29.

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Epsom, 92, 93, 95, 96.
Esh-Laude, 4.
Everingham, 37, 44, 49.
Ewell, 90, 95.
Felling, 56.
Felton, 19.
Ferry-Bridge, 44.
Fifeshire, 16.
Fingel, 30.
Fleet Prison, vii., viii.
Flutterton, 19.
Follifoot, 49, 50.
Garforth, 6r.
Gatton, 94.
Gilling, 45, 49.
Gonnerset, 64.
Goosnargh, 42.
Gunnerside, 31.
Haggerston, 2.
Halifax, 38, 56.
Hampton, 55.
Handford, 103.
Harbottle, 11.
Hardwck House, 6.
Harmby, 30.
Hartlepool, 5.
Haslewood, 38, 46, 54.
Henley, 54.
Hereford, 18.
Hesleyside, 49.
Hexham, 54, 62.
High Wrissall, 39.
Holbeck, 61.
Holme, viii., 41, 49.
Hooton, 56.
Houghton, 60.
Houghton-le-Spring, 5.
Huddersfield, 47.
HuU, 40, 69, 70.
Hutton-Hang, 34.
Hutton-House, 6.
Ingoe, 14.
Irnham, 17.
Ivelet, 64.
Keighley, 48.
Kendal, 22, 54.
Kensington, 55.
Kerconell, 35.
Kilvington, 63.

Kingerby, 54.
Knaresboro', 48.
Knightsbridge, 16.
Lanchester, 6.
Lartington, 50.
Lawford, 84, 85, 86.
Lawkland, 49, 51.
Laxton, 45.
Leamington, 22.
Leeds, xxi., 51, 61.
Leicester, 55.
Lemington, 10.
Leybui.-n, 28, 29, 31.
Linstead, 15.
Linton, 62, 80.
Liverpool, 26, 49.
London, i, xi., 17, 36, 46, 47, 54, 55,
58, 60, 74, 89, 92, 93, gg.
Long Ditton, 96.
Lulworth, ix., i, 7g.
Lydney, loi, 102.
Lymington, 8.
Manfif.ld, 62.
Market-Rasen, 9, 54.
Marske, 62.
Marton, 39.
Matfen, 13.
Mayfair, vii., viii.
Melmerby, 31, 33, 34.
Methley, 61.
Middlenam, 2g-35.
Middleton, 4g, 52-58.
Mill-Hill, 54.
Minstreacres, 12.
Monk-Haselden, 6.
Monmouth, 08.
Moor Hall, 18.
Morden, 90.
Morpeth, 56,
Morton, 84.
Muker, 64.
Ness, 54,
Newborough, 5;.
Newcastle, 13, 35, 49.
Newham, 15.
Newton, 56.
Nidd, 35.
Northampton, 85.
Nottingham, 20.
Olney, xix., 85, 86.

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INDEX.

Osgodby, 9.
Osmotherley, 23.
Ouversley, 84.
Ovington, 79.
Painley, 24.
Painsley, 46.
Partington, 54, 57.
Penrith, i.
Pilewell House, 8.
Pixton, 6.
Plumpton, 49, 50.
Pocklington, 69, 70.
Pontefract, 72.
Pontop, 6.
Potterton, 56.
Preston, 18.
Preston-Goballs, 92.
Reigate, 93, 94.
Richmond (Surrey), 47.
„ (Yorks), 30, 31, 32, 54, 62,
63. ^
Ripon, 67.
Rodney HaU, 26.
Rook Cliffe, 8.
Rothbury, 19.
Roundhay, 51.
Ruardine, 98, 99.
Ryton, 12.
Samlesbury, xv., xx,
Sancton, 68.
Scorton, 27.
Sculcoates, 69.
Sefton, 49.
Selby, xxi,, xxii., 64, 71.
Sheephouse, 25.
Sheffield, 71.
Shields, 20.
Sherburn, 56.
Sizergh, 17, 29.
Spennithorne, 34.
Spetchley, 103.
Spofforth, 72.
Sproatley, 39, 40.
Staffordshire, xvii., 91.
Stamfordham, 12.
Stella, 7,12.
Stockeld Park, 72.
Stockton, 7, 27.
Stoke, 87.

Stonor, 21.
Sutton, 92.
Swine, 40.
Tanshelf, 72.
Thornton- Steward, 28-36.
Thorpe- Arch, 47.
Thorrock, 36.
Thropton, 19.
Tiverton, 91.
Tolworth, 96.
Tooting, 89.
Townley, 24.
Tuggle, 49.
Turner's Hill, 91.
Turvey, 84-87.
Twickenham, 47.
Tynemouth, 20.
Ulshaw Bridge, 29, 36.
Ushaw, 5.
Wakefield, 52, 76.
Wappenbury, 22.
Wardour Castle, 102.
Ware, 8.
Warrington, 53.
Warwick Bridge, 49.
Wells, 17.
Wensley, 28.
Weston-Underwocd, xviii., 81.
Whitby, 77.
Whitelieve, 99.
Widdrington, 46.
Wigan, 18.
Willitoft, 43.
Winford, 83.
Witton East, 28-34.
„ West, 28.
Wolverton, 102.
Wooburn Farm, 17, 94.
Woodmanstone, 94.
Woolstone, gg,
Worcester, xxiv., 16, 17, 18, 98.
Wrightington, 41.
Writtle, gg.
Wycliffe, 54, 55, 78.
Yarm, 2g, 3g.
Yeldon, 10.
York, 36, 45, 70, 79, 80.

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