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RECORDS
OF THE
English Catholics of 1715
RECORDS
OF THE
English Catboitcs of 1715
COMPILED WHOLLY FROM ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS
EDITED BY
JOHN ORLEBAR PAYNE, M.A.
LONDON: BURNS & GATES, LIMITED
NEW YORK: CATHOLIC PUBLICATION SOCIETY CO.
1889
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PREFACE.
LITTLE, perhaps, need be said by way of introduction to
this volume of Records of the English Catholics of 1715.
Apart from the great interest and importance at
taching to a collection in abstract of nearly four hundred
wills and letters of administration with which it opens,
the genealogical value of such unpublished and authentic
documents will be at once apparent, while the Index, of
course, will illustrate this in a way which nothing else
can.
Of the two dates given at the end of each will, the
first is that of execution, and the second that of probate.
Where not otherwise stated, it may be assumed that
probate was granted in the Prerogative Court of Canter
bury, Somerset House being naturally the chief source
of information. I am also under an obligation to H. F.
Burke, Esq., Somerset Herald, and to Dr. J. J. Howard,
for permission to inspect a MS., the property of Sir John
Lawson, Bart., now in course of publication, to which
occasional reference is made, and which at the present
time is deposited at the College of Arms.
The collection of wills from the Probate Court at
Lincoln is of some interest, while from the bulk of the
others it is difficult to know what to select as the more
noteworthy. Charles Eyston of East Hendred, e.g.,
gives us a pious confession of faith, and the bequest to
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his eldest son, of " Bishop Fisher's Staff," possesses a
peculiar attraction for us who are now rejoicing at the
recent beatifications. The mention, however, of relics,
works of art, church plate, valued heirlooms, &c., in
such wills as those of Elizabeth Lady Dormer, Walter
Fowler, Anne Markham, Francis Prujean, John Vaughan,
Frances Progers, Lady D unbar, and of many more, is
frequent enough. We note, too, the bequest of Cardinal
Pole's cross by John Pole, to his cousin Francis ; that of
Belle-tree House to Giles Hussey the artist, by his
father John, and " the hanging of green velvet, wrought
by the hand of Mary, Queen of Scots," named in Lord
Stafford's will.
Then we have the eccentric testators, such as
William Plowden, Thomas Hawkins, George Kingsley,
&c., notably so the first-named. Lady Gerard would
like to remain unburied as long as possible ; Mary
Porter's daughters must not go to their mother's funeral
lest it should injure their health ; and the unhappy Lord
Waldegrave despises his daughter Henrietta, the widow
of seventeen, for marrying John Beard the comedian.
The wills of such as Lord Aston, Robert Needham,
Richard Bostock, &c., are pleasing, which is certainly
more than can be said of that of Henry, Lord Stafford,
whose sole bequest to his widow, of "45 brass halfpence
to buy her a pullet for her supper," is followed by some
observations on her character, and on that of her parents,
the notorious Count and Countess de Grammont, which
it is still less pleasing to repeat.
There are, of course, many bequests for masses,
often enough couched in studiously concealed terms, as
in the case of Edmund Adys ; while the poor are not
forgotten by the Minshull family, and many more, or by
John Weston, who regards "the miserable condition of
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the poor Catholics of England as very deplorable " ; and,
lastly, the disconsolate Lady Derwentwater gives to "all
such as were servants to her dear Lord, and were
prisoners on account of the unhappy rising ... for their
great sufferings, £20 each ".
In passing, however, attention might be called to
the wills of two apostates — Francis Poole and Dr. John
Purcell. Of the latter, it is worthy of notice, that no
less than eight members of his family occur in Cosin's
" List," so that the fact of his own name thus conspicuous
by its absence from it affords an indirect proof of the
Catholicity of the whole. This, however, touches a
question on which we shall have more to say presently.
A few early Catholic Mission Registers, and other
original documents in private hands, such as the Derby
MS., the will of Dorothy Thorold, &c., have kindly been
placed at my disposal ; and my thanks are due to others
also, who have generously helped me with information
not otherwise accessible.
A different class of interest, however, unhappily at
taches to the greater number of the documents selected
from the " Forfeited Estates" Papers at the Record
Office, which make up the latter half of this volume ; for
in many cases the " information " which they afford is
supplied by those who, either wearied out by the long
course of pains and penalties under which for genera
tions they had been crushed, or — what is more un
accountable - - dazzled by the temptation of a paltry
reward, bartered the faith to which their forefathers had
so gloriously and perseveringly adhered. Indeed, it
would almost seem that that mysterious apostacy which
so darkens the eighteenth century history of the Church
in England, dates its commencement from the pro
ceedings of the Forfeited Estates Commissioners. And
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the unmitigated contempt with which the adherents of
the Old Religion regarded such obscure apostates as
Hitchmough, Thomas Fletcher, Edward Shaftoe, William
Gibson, and others, is but paralleled by the odious
clamouring with which some of these unhappy men from
time to time besieged the Commissioners for their reward.
Still more revolting, for example, is it to find a mother
offering in cold blood to sell the souls of her children
for a farm ! For we read that the widow of Mr. Richard
Butler humbly proposes to become farmer of the estate
of her uncle Richard Butler of Rawcliffe, on behalf of
her two infant sons, ''whom she offers to be educated
Protestants ".
The " Rebellion," however, of 1715 was not only
followed by a vigorous punishment of all Catholics who
directly took part in it, but it also afforded the Commis
sioners an additional pretext for seizing any Catholic
property upon which they could lay their hands, more
particularly of any who had died immediately before the
outbreak of the " Rebellion," and whose executors had the
administration of an estate that was worth the trouble of
sequestration. The lengthened statement of the apostate
Francis Brooke relative to the will of Catherine Winford,
and the almost romantic story of Sir Henry Fletcher,
have been recorded somewhat fully in these pages, not
merely because of the interest attaching to the narrative
itself, but on account of their connection with so many
names that occur in Cosin's " List ". Indeed, a more
suggestive theme for the novelist than that afforded by
the circumstances surrounding the life and death of the
good convert baronet could not well be desired. Little
appears to be known of him beyond what is told us by
Dodd, or is briefly recorded in the baronetage. As
signing by deed of gift his Hutton estate to his Catholic
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relative Thomas Fletcher in 1710, he retires to lead the
life of a recluse in a small apartment adjoining the Fran
ciscan Convent at Douay ; having first, also, temporarily
deposited with Thomas Hickin, a London goldsmith,
some rich altar plate, of which an elaborate description is
given, but which, alas ! failed to reach the destination for
which his piety had designed it. Everything he appears
to have given to God. "The English Rector at Douay,"
he says, "is to have my two large silver payles I used to
sett my bottles in ... to make two Holy Water potts."
Sir Henry, however, did not long survive ; his will is
dated loth May, 1712, and in nine days more he was
dead. Next comes the apostacy of Thomas Fletcher,
the man on whom he had lavished all his estate. On
the 1 2th September, 1716, this unhappy man informs
the Commissioners at Preston of the altar plate that
was in the custody of Hickin the banker-goldsmith in
Holborn, and in five more days it was seized, the poor
goldsmith in his fear escaping meanwhile by a back
door, leaving his wife to tell the sheriff where he could
find it. The banker's daughter we meet again in Cosin's
" List ". The plate is sold under the hammer, and even
the money that Sir Henry left to the Scotch Jesuits and
others to say masses for his soul is seized — all, in fact,
but a watch and chain bequeathed to the Bishop of Arras,
and ^400 to the poor of his diocese, whom the Commis
sioners tried hard to rob also, and — judging by their
printed report — eventually succeeded in accomplishing,
despite counsel's opinion as to the propriety of the act
which they thought it best to take, but the receipt of
which must have made them blush.
The system of bribery, moreover, which the Com
missioners worked so well, appears to have inspired some
of the " informers " with a like policy. And of this we
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have a most droll illustration. A servant of Lord
Molyneux, who had informed against his master, was
evidently anticipating a rich reward. Acccordingly, to
intensify their obligation to him, he despatches to one of
the Commissioners four bottles of brandy, with a regret
that lemons did not accompany the gift, at the same
time gently expressing a hope of increased favour \
The wounded dignity and consequent perplexity of
the Government official is in delightful contrast with
the insolent familiarity of the servant. It is to be
questioned, however, if the unopened brandy remained
long unclaimed.
But if the Commissioners had a velvet paw with
which to caress the informer, they had also another
with sharp talons in it for any on whom their wrath
descended. An aged dame of fourscore is turned out
of her home for no other reason than that she was the
mother of the Jesuit Father, Thomas Eccleston, who,
with just indignation, demands of them some explanation
of the outrage; the Ladies Radcliffe, two nuns, "in
years and very infirme" — sisters by birth as in religion —
appeal for some guarantee that their annuities may
always be paid them, " being all their subsistence" ; and
John Crook is sent to prison for being too stupid to stand
the cross-examination of the Commissioners ; while the
many anxiously-worded petitions, Richard Towneley's
urgent letter to his attorney, and the obsequious lan
guage of another attorney, Edward Ward, who " hopes
he has not incurred the displeasure of the Commissioners"
by acting on behalf of his Catholic client, all go to prove
the terror in which they were held. Suspicion even on
one occasion appears to have attached to their
Accountant-General, Chambers Slaughter himself. Al
together, then, this combination of apostacy and
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bribery, mistrust and cruelty, make up a melancholy
picture.
Still, it must be remembered that the sources from
which our information has been derived could hardly be
expected to afford matter for much satisfaction. We
have been examining the proceedings of a government
whose avowed object was — as it ever had been from
the time of Queen Elizabeth — if possible, to crush out
the very existence of the Church in England : indeed,
on one occasion, we shall find the Commissioners
dissuading the lords of the Treasury from adopting
any measures of leniency, on the ground that their
"proposal would set the Roman Catholic interest very
near in as good a condition as before the Rebellion,
whereas" they add, " if they (Catholics) are divested
of their estates, and Protestants succeed, the Roman
Catholic interest in the Northern Counties must be
entirely ruined".
There is no mistaking the meaning of language such
as this. Yet even from these " Forfeited Estates
Papers " there every now and then peeps out evidence
that the majority of Catholics rejected, as we find the
Widdringtons doing, every overture of the Government
to buy up their faith.
While, however, it was but natural that Catholics
should bitterly lament and even resent the dethrone
ment of their lawful and Catholic Sovereign, yet, at
the same time, there is ample evidence to show that,
in the retrospect, many regretted the active participation
of any of their number in the rising of 1715 ; so that
the question is forced upon us, would not the Church in
this country have been less harassed, earlier suffered to
remain at peace, and have more speedily attracted souls
within her fold, had Catholics, where no principle of faith
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was at stake, but passively acquiesced in the political
changes of the time. Lady Derwentwater, for example,
as we have seen, speaks of the " unhappy rising," and
Henry Butler of Rawcliffe characterises the " Rebellion "
as " horrid," and the action even of his own son, who
was condemned for his part in it, as that of "an
inconsiderate, rash young man ".
Among the Add. MSS. [20310, f. 173] at the British
Museum is a remarkable letter bearing on this subject
from the pen of the Rev. Dr. John Ingleton, dated " St.
Germains, December 15, 1716, and addressed to " Monsr.
Nairne, secretaire du cabinet a Monsr. le Chevalier de
S. George, a Avignon," the opening passages of which,
however, will be enough for our purpose. The writer
says : " Since my last by Mr. Kirby, I have another
from Bishop Giffard upon a very vexatious subject,
dated November ^ : he says he has lately received a
letter from Monsgr- Santini, internonce at Brussels,
brought him by the Duke of Norfolk, wherein Monsr.
Santini tells him that he (Santini) is ordered by the
Pope to publish that English Catholics may and ought to
promise fidelity and entire obedience to the present
Government, but to make no mention of the Pope's
authority. The words are : Omnibus palam facere
Catholicos Anglos fidei quidem atque Integra obedientise
professione praesentem regni formam ita agnoscere posse,
atque adeo debere, ut ab eorum consiliis nihil quisquam
metuere possit. Sacree verae Rom. Pontificum authori-
tatis nullam omnino injiciendam esse mentionem." . . .
But to revert once more to the evidence afforded
by our "Forfeited Estates Papers". William Charlton
depriving a poor fellow of his solitary horse at Rothbury,
and detaining him for three hours on his way back from
business at Alnwick, in October, 1715, reads, as rather a
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paltry item of preparation for a campaign ; or again,
what stand against regular troops could a motley,
undisciplined, and undrilled body of men be expected
to make, such as that described by William Baines as
meeting at the Mitre Hotel at Preston only a day or two
previous to the action there, some of them with a "gun,"
some with a sword or case of pistols, all of them, without
doubt, valiant to a man, and cheerfully willing to sacrifice
themselves in their rash enterprise ? And while the toast
of James III. is going round at the Mitre, we have
another auxiliary gathering of a similar character, four
teen miles away, at Stonyhurst. Sir Nicholas Sherburne
gave a supper party there on Thursday evening, loth
November, 1715, but it does not transpire that he was
actually present at it himself. After supper, a pan is bor
rowed from a mason at work on the premises and some
lead, and the guests set to work bullet-making. The poor
mason, evidently a little alarmed, does not appear to
have approved of the proceedings, and retired to bed ;
but next morning tells us he saw the party all ride off
at seven o'clock with their guns and blunderbuss, and
mounted on the coach horses of Sir Nicholas. All this
really savours more of a frolic of the happy boys that
were destined less than three-quarters of a century
afterwards to celebrate their " Blandyke " within the same
precincts rather than of the proceedings of a military
outpost. Still more would the boys have enjoyed the
excitement, when, six weeks later, a constable and
twenty men with him arrived at Stonyhurst to search the
house for a " rebel " servant of the good baronet, for
whose arrest he had a warrant. Sir Nicholas was at
home, and sent down word by his steward that entrance
was to be refused. And the boys would certainly have
cheered when the constable afterwards retired only to
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depose that "the house was very strong, having a greate
pair of iron gates to the front, and a pair of wooden
gates on the back". This was the 2;th December, 1715,
and Sir Nicholas was after all permitted to sit by his
Yule log undisturbed.
There is, however, no need for us to question any
further the wisdom or discretion of those Catholics who
took an active part in the Rebellion ; but a few final
observations relative to the title which Cosin prefixed to
his "List" may not be out of place, as some slight
doubt appears still to exist as to whether it is made up
solely of Catholics. Now it must surely at the outset
occur to anyone as highly improbable that, in the terrible
days of the penal laws, anybody besides a " Papist" would
be so misguided as to think himself called upon to take
any step whatever in response to the Act i Geo. I., cap.
55, "obliging Papists to register their names and real
estates". Indeed, the opening passages of the Act
(see Appendix II., Eng. Cath. Nonj.} are sufficiently
explicit as to what class alone it had reference. Then,
again, this Act is constantly being confused with another
(9 Geo. I., cap. 24), which "obliged Papists in Scotland and
ALL PERSONS in Great Britain refusing to take the oaths
to register," &c. Here again the language of the Act is
unmistakable, for we find that " all persons refusing to
take the oaths of allegiance had . . . before 25th March,
1724, to register their names . . . in such and the same
manner and form as PAPISTS were obliged and directed to
register their names . . . in and by an Act passed in the
first year of his Majesty s reign ". The distinction
between the two Acts is marked. Consequently, we find
at the Record Office [Court of Exchequer, Q. R. Papists'
Estates^ that, of those who registered their names under
the Act 9 Geo. I., hardly a Catholic is to be found, except
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for the most part the son or widow of one who had
previously registered under the first Act, but 'who had
died during the eight intervening years. On the other
hand, we find in the latter (the Exchequer) list numbers
of nonjurors — nonjurors, i.e., in the ordinary acceptation
of the term, ministers and their wives, such, e.g., as
Thomas Brett, the nonjuring bishop, and others. Here
we might remark in passing that the title of the volume,
English Catholic Nonjurors of ///5, was not decided
upon without much deliberation ; for \st, there was a
distinct objection to the title as given by Cosin ; indly,
the " List " being that of those who had " refused to take
the oaths to his Majesty King George," the numbers
comprising it became ipso facto " Nonjurors," as Burke
in his Dictionary of the Landed Gentry so designates
them [see Eng. Cath. Nonj., p. 33] ; $rdfy, since the
names — though hardly any of them were among the
"rebels"— are so interwoven with the events of " 1715,"
that year was mentioned on the title-page in preference
to 1716-18 — the date of the "registers," the collection
of which by the various clerks of the peace was
necessarily a work of time. It is interesting, moreover, to
record that the Act i Geo. I., c. 55, together with the
Act 3 Geo. I., c. 18, " explaining" it, were repealed by
Act 31 Geo. III., c. 32, sec. 21, though, singularly
enough, both were reprinted as recently as 1859. The
Act 9 Geo. I., c. 24, was not, however, repealed until
1867 by the Statute Law Rev. Act.
But the question returns — Why did Cosin describe his
"List" as that of "Roman Catholics, Nonjurors, and
others " ? Possibly a reason may be found in what
follows. In the Public Record Office, among the
"State Papers Domestic Anne," is a "bundle" (No. 14)
very important for our purpose : one portion of it has
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reference to " the City of Westminster," and the other to
the " County of Middlesex ". The first-named bears the
following title: "List of all Papists, Nonjurors, and
other Persons suspected to be disaffected to your
Majesty's Government, with such particular distinctions
and remarks upon them as have severally appeared
before us ... which is humbly submitted to your
Majestic ". This is signed by the Justices of the Peace
for the City of Westminster. That for the County of
Middlesex is a similar document, being a " Return of
Papists and reputed Papists," &c., and dated I3th April,
1708. The title, however, is significant, and, in all
probability, Cosin had seen this very " List," and unre
flectingly decided upon a similar title for his own a few
years later. These Lists of 1708, which are certainly in
perfect harmony with their title, possess great interest,
and are well worth our brief examination. The names
are classified under the following heads :
(A.) Those who took the oath of allegiance, but
refused the oath of supremacy, or to repeat and subscribe
the declaration against transubstantiation.
(B.) Persons summoned to appear before the Justices
of the Peace, but who did not appear.
(C.) Those who took the oaths of allegiance and
abjuration.
(D.) Those who refused the oath of abjuration.
(E.) Those who subscribed the declaration against
transubstantiation.
Of course, in these lists, we meet with several names
familiar to us in Cosin : of these, some occur under two
headings, but none of Cosin's names appear under Class
E.
Mrs. Caecilia Cornwallis, of Kensington, refused all
oaths, and is described as " keeping a Popish school " :
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Francis Bird, of St. Giles', mason, and George Beveridge,
" a dancing master," took the oath of allegiance, but gave
bail for their personal appearance.
Under Class A we have Nathaniel Pigott, of Boswell
Court : Peter Brand, of St. Andrew's, Holborn, gent. :
Bernard Tourner, of Brownlow Street : Charles, Lord
Baltimore, of Devonshire Street : and Richard Pepper of
Gray's Inn, gent. Under both A and D we have
Charles Tancred, of Russell Street, woollen draper :
Thomas Pendrel, of Bridge Street, distiller : Richard
Wright, of Russell Street, goldsmith : Ferdinando Pulton,
a hosier at Mr. Turner's, a hatter : Francis Robotham,
distiller.
Under Class B we find Sir Charles Ingleby, Basil
Fitzherbert " prope Turnstile," Henry Tasburgh : Charles
Smalbone : Richard Pendrel, in Change Court, apothecary :
Stanislaus Bowes, chirurgeon at Hammersmith : Thomas
Rouse, of St. Paul's, Covent Garden, milliner : Charles
Tempest, "of St. Giles', goldsmith, and Richard Towne-
ley, his lodger ".
George Beveridge is further described as a chandler,
living in Shorts Gardens, St. Giles' : Ric. Purcell, of King
Street, Bloomsbury, gent., and Edward Berington, of
Silver Street, printer, also refused the oaths ; while
" Benedict Conquest and John Roper, of St. Andrew's,
Holborn, gent. : Edward Webb, of Gray's Inn, and
Christopher Atwood, of Lyons Inn, all refused the said
oaths, and paid the penalty of 205. each : Henry Curzon,
of St. Andrew's, gent,, likewise refused, and paid the
penalty of 30^.".
Several others could be named here whom Cosin also
gives, but more to our purpose is it to notice in this 1 708
List the names of many returned as " Nonjuring Parsons "
— some of them eminent as Nonjuring Bishops — such as
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Archdeacon Fitzgerald, Thomas Stamp, Edward Stacey,
of Plumtree Square ; Thomas Wagstaff, of Charterhouse
Yard ; Shadrach Cook, " Mr. Seth Lamb, a nonjuring
minister living in the parish of Ealing " ; Nathaniel
Spinckes, and Henry Gandy, " of Old Street Square," &c.
These men we find in the same lists with Basil Fitz-
herbert and others familiar to us as Catholics, yet none of
them figure in Cosiris List, and we must remember that
Spinckes did not die until 1727, nor Gandy until 1733.
Finally, I would record, while on this subject, that the
late Canon Estcourt (R.I. P.) was strongly of opinion that
Cosin's "List" was exclusively comprised of Catholics.
Nor should we forget that the times of which we are
treating were unhappily, in too many cases, the com
mencement of a great falling away from faith, arising
from numberless mixed marriages, general laxity of life,
and other causes already noted. This may, therefore, in
a measure account for occasional inconsistency of lan
guage, whether in a will or in the registers themselves.
But while there is much to deplore, there is, on the
other hand, abundant matter both for consolation and
edification to be gathered from these authentic records
of our Catholic ancestors.
JOHN ORLEBAR PAYNE.
HOLLY VILLAGE, HIGHGATE,
July 14, 1888.
RECORDS OF ENGLISH CATHOLICS.
BEDFORD.
MARGARET BRAND, of Turvey, names her four sisters Chris
tian, Susan, Winifred, and Mary B., her nieces Margaret and
Petronilla, das. of her brother Peter Brand, and her aunt Mary
Waters, [ist February, 1720 — 23rd June, 1729.] The name of
Waters occurs several times in the Catholic Registers of Weston-
Underwood, co. Bucks, privately printed in 1887.
BENEDICT CONQUEST, of Irnham, co. Lincoln, son of Ben.
and Anne Conquest, names his son Benedict and da. Mary, to
whom George Markham was guardian, also his three sisters
Eliz. and Winifred Conquest and Mary Wright, with his
nephews William and Thomas Rayment. Admon. of his
estate was granted, igth April, 1762, to Mary, widow of George
Markham, the executor, who died before fully administering,
[3rd July, 1753 — I2th November, 1753.]
BERKS.
FRANCIS PERKINS, of Ufton, son of Francis and Anne P., in
his will names his four sons — Francis, who died in 1750; James,
who died in 1755 ; Charles, in 1762 ; and John, the last of his
race, who died in 1769. [6th October, 1734 — 6th May, 1736.]
John Berington was one of the executors. From an interesting
paper in Merry England for January, 1888, on " Old Berkshire
Missions," Ufton appears to afford an unhappy illustration of
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the way in which, for some mysterious cause, Catholics began
to fall away from the Faith about this period. The writer
tells us — his authority evidently being the old Catholic Mission
Register — that in the year 1750 the Ufton congregation num
bered 98, exclusive of any member of the Perkins family ; but
he adds, alas ! — " It is curious to notice how many of the
families whose names are there given still exist in the neigh
bourhood, although there is not now a single Catholic among
them ".
The will of EDWARD WOLLASCOTT, of Sutton Courtney,
was proved by his nephew Thomas Betham, 3rd October, 1718,
and besides his nephew Thomas Wollascott, the elder, he
names also his nephew Martin Wollascott, who had six chil
dren — William (the eldest), Martin and Thomas, Anne, Mary,
and Frances ; his sisters Mrs. Catherine Wollascott and Mrs.
Mary Betham, nephew John Betham, and nieces Frances
Betham and Mrs. Mary Stanford.
Woolhampton, the old residence of the Wollascotts, al
though it now boasts of its Diocesan College, seems to have
shared very much the fate of the Mission of Ufton.
CHARLES EYSTON, of East Hendred "... being by God's
grace steadfast and certain in the intregrity of that Faith which
his ancestors have received and learned from the ' wholly '
[sic] Roman Catholic Church, the head of all Churches, in
which Faith, and in obedience to the Apostolic See of Rome,
he professes to have always lived and desires to dye, and that
he may be able to accomplish this his desire by the great
goodness and mercy of God through the merits of his Lord
and Saviour Jesus Christ, and may persevere to the end in
the same Faith and obedience, earnestly begs the assistance
of the suffrages and prayers of the ever Blessed Virgin Mary
and the universal Church of Christ, triumphant and militant,
with fear and trembling beholding himself and his great un-
worthiness, yet so far confiding in the grace and mercy of God
as, to have a firm hope and expectation of the salvation of his
soul, and everlasting life through Jesus Christ ..." names
his wife Winifred-Dorothy (whose will, afterwards dated I3th
December, 1750, was proved 6th November, 1753), brother
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Robert, mother Ann, eldest son Charles, to whom he bequeaths
" Bishop Fisher's Staff," sons Basil, John, and William, and
das. Winifred, Frances, Ann, and Catherine. [26th May, 1718
— 2Oth February, 1722.]
JOHN YATE, of the p. of St. George, Bloomsbury,
names his grandfather William Blount, of St. Giles'-in-the-
Fields, whose will, dated 22nd December, 1699, was proved
6th February, 1700. This William Blount, desiring burial
by his wife and brother in St. Giles', names his brothers
Peter and Colonel John Blount ; his godson William Yate,
who had a brother and sister Thomas and Mary Yate ; his
nephew Perkins, niece Margaret Seagrave, and this his
grandson John Yate, who is probably identical with the one in
Cosin's List. John Yate names his wife Mary, son John, and
brother Thomas, and claims property under the will of Frances,
da. of Rob. Brent, whose executor he was 4th August, 1739,
she describing him as "of Southampton Street, Bloomsbury".
He was married at the date of his grandfather's will ; his wife,
— whom he "thanks and praises" for her care of him, — Edward
Webb, and Richard Clayton, of Adlington, near Standish,
co. Lane., being his executors. [25th February, 1740 — 3rd
November, 1741.]
ANNE SHERWOOD, of East Hendred, spinster, by her will of
I4th June, 1711, left land called "Mason's Close" to Edward
Sherwood, of East Hendred, naming her half-brother William
Wogan, father-in-law Will. Wogan, sen., and her half-sister
Alice Hancock, with her kinsmen Laurence Spicer and
Richard Wise ; administration of her estate being granted,
i8th September, 1744, to her nephew Edward Hancock,
passing, 2gth March, 1745, at his death to another " nephew
by the sister," William Hancock.
ROBERT EYSTON, of ditto, names his wife Elizabeth, eldest
son George Hildesley Eyston, and youngest son William.
[20th December, 1725 — 8th March, 1726.]
ROBERT BILLING, of Old Windsor, gent., in his will, dated
nth April, 1719, " in good health," and proved 8th November,
1727, names his wife Sarah and brother Thomas.
4 RECORDS OF ENGLISH CATHOLICS.
FRANCIS HYDE, of Chipping-Faringdon, desires burial near
his father at Purley, his brother John being executor of his
will. He settled on Elizabeth, his wife, i4th November, 1715,
in bar of dower, lands at Balking. Bequests to Charles Coffin,
of Buckland, and to Francis C., his son. A further admon.
was granted, I3th December, 1750, to Mary, the widow of his
brother, John Hyde. [i8th August, 1726 — 25th August,
1746.]
STONOR CROUCH, of Wallingford, names his nieces Mrs.
Eliz. Crouch, Lucy Bigg, and Dorothy Bigg, her daughter.
[i2th March, 1722 — 8th May, 1723.]
Dame ANASTATIA J. MOORE, of Fawley, names her mother
Helene Aylward ; sons Sir John, Benedict-James, Henry,
Thomas, and William ; and daughters Mary and Anastatia ;
her wardrobe and plate going to her "daughters in France
and Flanders," with " £30 to poor prisoners to be distributed
by her daughter". Some of her daughters had entered Religion.
[2gth September, 1741 — I2th August, 1742.]
EDWARD MOORING, of Chipping-Lamborne, names his
sister Mary, the wife of William Collett, and their children
Edward and Mary; his brother-in-law William Lovell, of
Brambridge, being his executor. [5th July, 1721 — 25th
August, 1721.]
MARY CHADWICK, of ditto, widow, names her sister Eliza
beth, niece Margaret Smalbone, and nephew Francis, son
of Charles Clifton. [nth January, 1723 — 27th October,
1724.]
JOHN DANCASTLE, of Binfield, names his friend Charles
Young, of Leigh Farm, in Lamborne, and Eliz., widow of his
brother Thomas D. ; admon. being granted, 6th July, 1749, to
her son John on attaining his majority. [8th January, 1740 —
ist December, 1740.]
CATHERINE WOLLASCOTT, of Sutton Courtney, dating her
will gth September, 1721, names her son Thomas, together with
William, Martin, Thomas, Mary, and Frances, the children of
dec. son Martin.
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HENRY ENGLEFIELD, of Stmning-Erley-Shinfield. Admon.
of his estate was granted, 3ist March, 1720, to his widow
Catherine.
JOHN BATSON, of Great Queen Street, in the p. of St.
Giles-in-the-Fields, left his estate to his friends and executors
Edward Shaw, living at Blackmore Park, Worcestershire,
gent., and Thomas Pickering, of Aspley, co. Notts, gent. [3rd
February, 1741 — I2th January, 1747.]
BUCKS.
ROBERT DORMER, of Peterley, appoints his nephew the
Hon. John D. and his "brother" Edward Webb, of Gray's
Inn, trustees, and names his father John Webb and nephew
Peter Webb, sister (Mary) Havers and godda. Frances, the da.
of my " cousin Charles Howse," depriving also of a legacy any
of his nephews, the sons of Charles, Lord Dormer, that enter
Religion. [2ist February, 1726 — i6th July, 1729.]
CHARLES, Lord DORMER, names his sons John, Robert,
Walter, Edmund, James, Joseph, John-Baptist, and Francis;
grandson Charles, the son of John D. ; das. Mary D. and
Frances Plowden ; the executors being his brothers Robert D.,
Francis Biddulph, and his son-in-law William Plowden. [i5th
September, 1726 — 6th November, 1728.]
ELIZABETH, Lady DORMER, widow of foregoing, by will
dated i8th December, 1749, with three codicils, the last dated
i8th July, 1750 (proved in 1752), desires if she die at Plowden
to be buried there : her " body to be put in a plain decent
coffin, covered only with black cloth, her age, date of death,
and initial letters of her name to be in brass nails, sur
mounted by 4-, and underneath R.I. P.". Among others
already noticed, she names also Ann, the wife of her son
Robert, da. Elizabeth, nephews Richard Biddulph and An
thony Wright, brother-in-law Edward Webbe, sister-in-law
Frances Dormer, granddas. Dorothy-Mary, Eliz., Frances,
Ann, and Mary Plowden ; to her da. Frances she leaves a
picture of Queen Mary, wife of James II. ; picture of the
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B.V.M. in silver filigree frame, a locket of Lord Derwent-
water's hair set in gold, and " my sedan chair, now left with
the widow Lady Jernegan in Winchester"; £20 for prayers,
3 guineas to the priest who assists her at death, £5 to poor
Roman Catholics of Idsworth congregation where she lived ;
to Rob. Dormer, her Church stuff . . . little mass book,
wooden cross, inlaid with mother-of-pearl, and a brass image
of our Saviour upon it : "a picture of our Blessed Saviour on
the Cross, now in Mr. Parker's room at Plowden " [this Mr.
Parker being evidently the chaplain was a witness to the
will] : " a gilt chalice and paten, a silver box to carry the
Blessed Sacrament in, and another silver box to carry the
Holy Oils".
ANNE WEEDON, of Bierton, co. Bucks, left her estate to
her niece Ann Howse, of Bierton, spinster ; a witness to her
will being Mary Minshull. [iQth February, 1751 — 25th Octo
ber, 1751.]
ROBERT BURNHAM, of West Wycombe. Admon. of his
estate was granted, loth May, 1732, to his widow Dorcas, who
married, secondly, Joseph Gray : on her death a further admon.
was granted, 3Oth July, 1755, to his son Richard B.
ROBERT ROOKE, of Weston-Underwood, names his brother
John and wife Elizabeth, the da. of John Fisher. His widow,
by her will, proved loth February, 1730, left her personal
estate to her son-in-law John Wright. [2oth September, 1694
— I7th November, 1718.]
URSULA PRICE, of Tusmore, spinster, does not state her
relationship to any of her numerous legatees, but names Mary,
James, Frances, Robert, and Richard, the children of James
Fermor, dec. ; the five das. of William Waters, of Ousley
Lodge, in Warwickshire ; and Dorothy and Winifred Clapcote.
[3ist August, 1724 — i4th March, 1734.]
Sir ROBERT THROCKMORTON, of Weston-Underwood. His
will, dated I3th August, 1720, was proved 2Oth June, 1721.
ELIZABETH, Lady LINDSEY, left much of her personal
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estate to her servants and dependants, her son, the Hon.
Charles Bertie, being executor. [2Oth June, 1719 — 26th Sep
tember, 1719.]
LONGUEVILLE MOSDELL, of Fulmer, names his wife Lucy,
eldest son Longueville, second son James, and grandson
Christopher M. [4th April, 1737 — 27th May, 1741.] The will
of his widow Lucy, " late of Fulmer, co. Bucks, and now (6th
January, 1749) of Uxbridge, co. Middx.," was proved nth
September, 1750.
CARDIGAN.
CATHERINE PALMER, of Willington Cross, names her da.
Catherine Chichester, and grandda. Mary C., John Smith, of
Acton-Burnall, being her executor. [27th February, 1727 —
28th July, 1730.]
CHESTER.
FRANCIS POOLE, of Poole Hall, between 1717 and i6th
November, 1725, the date of his will, evidently forsook his
Religion. He says "... estate in trust for my half-brother
Rowland, if he shall, at my decease, profess the Protestant
religion according to the doctrine of the Church of England
as now by law established, or shall, in six lunary months,
conform thereto, and qualify himself in such manner as by
the law and statutes of the realm persons professing the Roman
Catholic Religion are obliged to conform, in order to take lands
by descent or devise . . ."; or, "the estate is to pass to
James, son of Rowland P., if he conform, within six months
of his eighteenth birthday, to Protestant Religion " ; or, " to
other issue of his brother" ; or, "... to William, son of my
late uncle William Poole . . ."; but, "until they conform, the
trustees are to apply the proceeds of my estate to my daughter
Harriet " ! His wife Frances is named executrix of his will
in a codicil dated I3th March, 1740; but she, dying in her
husband's lifetime, admon. was granted, loth March, 1763, to
his son Sir Henry, and on his death to Sir Ferdinando P.,
3rd June, 1786, afterwards 4th bart.
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CORNWALL.
RICHARD ARUNDELL, of Lanherne, names George-Henry,
Earl of Lichfield, as trustee of his two daughters Frances,
wife of Sir John Giffard, and Mary Arundell, spinster, his will
bearing date 5th August, 1723 ; admon. of his estate being
granted, ist June, 1734, to a creditor, upon the non-appearance
of executors.
ANNE COUCHE, late of the p. of St. Sampson, otherwise
Golant, co. Cornwall. Admon. of her estate was granted,
22nd December, 1753, to her husband William. The will,
also, of Richard C., of Lostwithiell, gent., dated 5th November,
1739, may be that of R. C., named in Eng. Cath. Nonj., p. 23 :
he names his brother John, sister-in-law Eliz. C., nieces Ann
and Martha C., and Anne John, and his nephew John C.
CUMBERLAND. ,
THOMAS HOWARD, of Corby, desires " to be carried by his
tenants to his grave in Wetheral Church if he dye at home,"
and names his eldest son Charles, younger son Philip, da.
Catherine, brother John, and sister Eliz. Sanderson, widow.
[i7th October, 1733 — 3ist January, 1741.]
HENRY C. HOWARD, of p. of St. Clement Danes, co.
Middx., desires burial at Dorking, appoints his wife executrix
and Basil Fitzherbert overseer of his will, leaving to Henry,
his eldest son, the furniture of Gray Stock and London house.
[8th June, 1720 — ist July, 1721.] His widow, Mary Howard,
of Hammersmith, dates her will 28th March, 1721, but the
executors she had appointed — John Dancastle, of Binfield, and
Philip Howard — both dying in her lifetime, admon. of her
estate was, on 4th August, 1748, granted to her da. Frances
H., spinster : her sister Anastatia Jane, wife of Sir Richard
Moore, had been named as guardian of her daughters Mary,
Catherine, Frances, and Eliz. Howard.
ANNA MARIA RADCLIFFE, Lady DERWENTWATER, dates her
will from Brussels, 5th March, 1722, with seven codicils, the
last bearing date 3rd April, 1723, but it was not proved in
DERBY. 9
London until 2yth May, 1734, by her father, Sir John Webb.
She leaves £200 to her servant Dorothy Busby, and adds:
" All such as were servants to my dear Lord, and were
prisoners on account of the unhappy Rising, may for their
great sufferings have each £20 ". The Lawson MS. says
Lady D. died, aged thirty-three, in 1723, and was buried
in the Church of the English Nuns at Louvain.
DERBY.
The following extracts are from a MS. in the possession
of H. J. Pye, Esq. of Clifton Hall, and entitled "An Account
of Papists in Appletree Hundred," in the co. of Derby, dated
May, 1706, and whose names were "presented to ye cheife
Constable of the Hundred aforesaid ". The list is interesting,
containing, as it does, several names that we afterwards iden
tify among the English Catholic Nonjurors :
At
Marston-Montgomery. Mary, wife of John Wood, shoemaker.
Norbury and Roston. William Fitzherbert, Esq., of London.
,, Christopher Adams, of Norbury, sen.
„ John Mole, of Roston, yeoman.
„ William Cooper, „ „
Robert Bill,
„ John Oldacre, „ „
„ Thomas Cope, sen., ,, ,,
,, Ignatius Greensmith,,, „
John Bill,
Anthony Greensmith. Richard Harrison.
Laurence ,, Thomas Wood, of Norbury.
Bazill Milnhouse. John Slator.
Nicholas Harrison. William Cooper.
William Palmer, jun. Thomas Sherlock.
„ ,, sen. Thomas Smith.
Nicholas „ Gregory Milnhouse.
„ „ jun. Bazill Palmer.
Bazil
All of whom do live in Roston and are styled Pauperes.
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RECORDS OF ENGLISH CATHOLICS.
At
Snelston.
Bradley.
Duffield.
Breileford.
Sutton.
Spondon.
Longford.
>>
Ormoston.
Alkmonton.
Richard Milnhouse, yeoman . . . his
estate about £ 10, but at present in
Derby gaol.
William Cooper, I
Dorothy, his wife, )
Gilbert Whithall, living in London.
Charles Pegg, sen., of Yeardesley.
George „ „ „ yeoman.
Jos. Fretwell, of Pentershane, husb.
Thomas Harston, „ labourer.
John Lunt, sen., and his wife.
Charles Arton, husb.
Susannah „ his wife.
Jane „ his sister, spinster.
„ his daughter.
Peircy Fairebrother, pauper.
Francis Jackson, stocking-weaver.
Thomas Brandon, 1 paupers.
Ann „ his da., J
Thomas Oldacre, husb.
Ann Hood, pauper, living upon Mr.
Browne's charity.
CHARLES Low, of Oldgrave, names his wife Mary and three
das. Mary, Teresa, and Margaret. [6th September, 1709 —
9th July, 1717.]
GILBERT WHITEHALL [see CATH. BRENT] was one of the
banker-goldsmiths " plundered by Charles II. to the amount of
£248,866 35. $d. by the shutting up of the Exchequer in
January, 1672, for which he was awarded 6 per cent, interest,
amounting to £14,931 igs. ^d. per annum ". The payment of
this interest ceased after a time. [Collins, History of Banking,
p. 43 ; C. H. Price, Handbook of London Bankers.']
JOHN POLE, of Spinkhill, names his wife Ursula, nieces
Mary, Eliz., and Catherine Hodgson ; niece " formerly Mary
Lacon, but now by marriage Littlehells," and his nephew
James Morphew. One bequest is " to my cousin Francis Pole,
DEVON — DORSET. 1 1
Esq., my gold cross, commonly called Cardinal Pole's cross ".
[i5th July, 1718 — ist November, 1724.]
JOHN EYRE, of Bury's Hall, co. Norfolk, whose will was
proved by his brother James Eyre, doctor of physic, speaks of
"the vast business of his brother Henry, and of the large
extent of his transactions", [igth May, 1724 — 8th May, 1739.]
Sir WINDSOR HUNLOKE names his "now living four sons
Henry, Thomas, Robert, and James ; his five das. Catherine,
Charlotte, Ann, Mary, and Marina, by his late wife Charlotte ;
and his sisters Ann-Teresa and Marina : he left £5 a-year " to
Mrs. Catherine Whetnall, of Pontoise ". [i3th March, 1744 —
24th April, 1752.]
GERTRUDE BEVERIDGE, of the p. of St. Giles-in-the-Fields,
" spinstress," in her will, dated 2ist October, 1716, and proved
I5th March, 1725, names her brother George and nephew
George, her sister Catherine Carter and niece Catherine Carter.
DEVON.
HUGH, Lord CLIFFORD, desires burial at Ugbrooke, if he
dye in Devon, at Canington if in Somerset, at Westminster
Abbey if in or near London, or in the nearest cathedral if else
where : he left to the heir of the family, books, paintings, &c.,
and a diamond ring given him by the late Queen Catherine, his
wife Anne being executrix. [i8th October, 1726 — 24th May,
I73I-J
EDWARD CARY, of Tor Abbey. Admon. of his estate was
granted, 3ist October, 1718, to his son George.
CLEMENT TATTERSHALL, of Dartmouth, bachelor. Admon.
of his estate was granted, gth April, 1750, to his sister Mary T.,
spinster
DORSET.
JOHN HUSSEY, of Marnhull, leaves to his son Giles his
house at Bath called the " Belltree " : he names also his da.
Frances, and his brother Edward Burdet, of Thames-Ditton,
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co. Surrey. The overseers of his will were Hubert Hussey, of
Charlton-Horethorne, co. Somerset, and John Knipe, of Semley.
Of his wife Mary he says : " She has hitherto behaved so well
for the good and benefit of her family . . . and will make a
proper use of what I leave her ". [zgth May, 1736 — ist
September, 1736.]
" Beltre House was," writes Dr. Oliver in his Western
County Collections, p. 55, "for a long period the missionary
residence as well as chapel held under the Corporation of
Bath, at a ground rent of £8 per annum."
GEORGE PENNE, of Hewish, in p. of Crewkerne, co. Somer
set, names his grandson George, son of his son Edmund P. ; his
das. Anne P. and Elizabeth Bishop, and his granddas. Dorothy,
Susan, and Anne, the das. of Mr. John Mackrell. [i8th
February, 1723 — 28th August, 1724.]
REBECCA HUSSEY, of Marnhull, names her son Thomas H.
and Eliz. his wife, her cousin Mary H., of Marnhull, widow,
and her granddas. Anna Maria and Charlotte O'Hara. She
named her cousin John H. executor of her will, dated I2th July,
1751 ; but he dying in her lifetime, admon. was, 2Qth November,
1754, granted to his widow Mary.
JOHN ARUNDELL, of Brinsome, in p. of Netherbury. Admon.
of his estate was granted, I7th March, 1752, to his da. and only
child Frances, the wife of John Hanne.
MARGARET LACY, the elder, of Harmsworth, within the p. of
Old Alresford, co. Southton, spinster, by her will dated igth
July, 1740, desires burial at St. James', near Winchester,
naming her sister Jane L., nephew Henry L., of Wardour
Castle, gent., and her niece Margaret his sister, her nephew
William L. and Peggy his da. On 4th December, 1746,
admon. was granted to William, brother of Henry Lacy, the
latter, her executor, having died before he had administered.
JANE STRODE, "now of Kensington, co. Middx.," by will
dated 3Oth April, 1735, with codicil gth September, and
proved in London 2gth October, 1735, left to her cousin
George Chafin, of Ghettle, co. Dorset, her " three parts and
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a half" of the Manor of Stoke Abbotts, and to her cousin
Rachel Chafin all money and stock in her town house at
Paris, in Hotel de Ville.
HUMPHREY WELD, of Lulworth Castle, under his will of
24th July, 1721, proved 27th July, 1722, left one shilling each
to his two sons Edward and James, and his two daughters
Mary and Elizabeth, and the residue to his wife Margaret.
Alluding to his marriage with that lady, the da. of Sir
James Simeon, Dr. Oliver, in his Western County Collections,
p. 48, says: "This union, like that of his father, eventually
brought large possessions to the Weld family". The terms
of the will certainly hardly favour this conclusion ; many and
constant, however, were the devices and precautions necessary
among Catholics, and Dr. Oliver goes on to tell us of the
" smuggled education abroad " which the grandsons of this
Humphrey Weld were obliged to obtain.
Lady BARBARA WEBB, wife of Sir John Webb, of Great
Canford, in her will of 2nd June, 1738, with two codicils
dated 25th February, 1739, an<^ proved I3th June, 1740, names
her son John ; da. Winifrid, the wife of William Frankland ;
Ann, the wife of her son Thomas ; her da. Montague, and
granddas. Lady Petre, " the Miss Brownes," and Lady Henri
etta Beard.
DURHAM.
Sir JOHN SMYTHE, of Eshe Hall, in his will, witnessed by
Richard Clough and Peter Woodington, dated I4th January,
1736, with codicil of nth September, 1737, proved 6th De
cember, 1737, names his sons Edward (the eldest) and Walter,
and his da. Constantia.
ESSEX.
Sir EDWARD SOUTHCOTT, of Witham Place, names his son
Francis, and adds that if none of his sons leave issue, his
estate is to pass to Mathias, Earl of Stafford. The furniture,
&c., of Witham Place he left to his wife Jane, to be, at her
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death, the property of his da.-in-law Mary Southcott. [2ist
September, 1745 — 2nd March, 1751.]
WILLIAM COLEGRAVE, of St. Giles', co. Middx., desires " to
be buried in St. Sepulchre's Church, near his wife, and where
so many of his children and grandchildren lie " : he names
his eldest son Henry, second son William, and his three
daughters, Frances, the wife of Edward Simpson ; Mary Wal-
mesley, and Barbara Mordaunt ; also a nephew John Savery.
[gth August, 1712— 2ist October, 1721.]
MARY, the wife of Joseph Petre, youngest son of Joseph
Petre, of Fidlers, made her will 24th February, 1726, her
husband thus attesting it : " This is my dear wife's will, which
I promise to comply with ". This Mary, " a few days only
before her death, was delivered of a son, baptised John ".
She was a sister of Anne Hickin, of Wolverhampton. Her
husband married, secondly, Teresa , as appears by his will,
dated 8th October, and proved 3ist October, 1729, leaving her
enceinte.
JOHN WRIGHT, jun., of Kelvedon. His second wife, Con-
stantia, re-married, in 1756-7, Peter Holford, and died before
1764. [Lawson MS.]
WILLIAM PETRE, of Belhouse, desires to be buried "in a
plain and handsome coffin, in the chancel of Stanford-Rivers
Church, among his ancestors," and names his brother Francis,
and his sons William (the eldest), Edward (executor), and
Robert, and adds : " My youngest son Thomas, now at school,
is to have the interest of £300 only for life if he enter the
priesthood ". [iQth April, 1728 — I3th June, 1733.]
The Dowager Lady MARY PETRE. Of her husband Thomas,
Lord Petre, Dr. Oliver says (Western County Collections, p. 202) :
" King James II. highly esteemed and favoured him, as well
on account of his own merits, as for the distinguished virtues
of his persecuted brother, the Lord William. At the revolution
he was consequently subjected to much vexation, but he lived
to a good old age, dying 4th June, 1707."
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HENRIETTA, Lady WALDEGRAVE. Admon. of her estate
was granted, loth June, 1734, to her son Lord James W.
Sir THOMAS MANBY, of Southweald, writes : " I would have
no strife or contention arise after I am dead ". His marriage
settlement is dated 5th September, 1694: he names his sons
Francis, Robert, and Edward, his nephew Gary, cousin
Francis Petre, and sister Gibbons. [23rd April, 1729 —
6th September, 1729.]
THOMAS DANCASTLE, "late of Binfield, but in the p.
of St. Clement Danes, co. Middx.". His will was proved 2nd
January, 1728-9, but on the death of his brother and executor
John Dancastle, admon. of his estate was, loth October, 1766,
granted to his own son John, as Charles Young, the executor
of his brother, renounced admon., and Eliz., his widow, was
then dead.
MARY COFFIN, of Ramsden Heath, names her cousins
Martha and Bridget Coffin ; Eliz. Poston, of Bloxwich, co.
Stafford ; Charles Parker, of Flemings, and his brother Robert
Parker, of Runwell. [7th January, 1726 — 3rd July, 1728.]
JOHN WRIGHT, of Kelvedon, names his sons John, Charles,
and William ; his son and da. Strickland, and their son
Thomas. He adds : " I desire my eldest son will take care of
my brother Lawrence . . . that he be not absolutely destitute
of subsistence, and I bequeath also £ 10 to my good friend Mr.
Charles Browne, who lives with me ". This was the Jesuit
Father Charles le Maitre, a native of Artois, who served the
mission of Kelvedon Hall until his death, 7th January, 1737.
[2ist August, 1721 — 2ist July, 1732.]
EUGENIA WRIGHT, widow of foreg., names her da. Mary,
wife of Mannock Strickland, cousin Frances Chapman, nephew
Charles Bodenham, and her father Trinder ; concluding
thus : " I give £ i to my brother Lawrence Wright, viz., 55. a
quarter till the £i is paid". [3Oth August, 1732 — 2nd July,
1752.]
ANN, wife of Ralph Eure, of London, names her son
Edward, sister Mary Sheldon, nephew William Sheldon, and
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granddas. Philadelphia and Ann Stapleton, making other dis
posal of property, " if her grandda. Philadelphia become a Reli
gious". [22nd June, 1724 — 24th April, 1733.]
THOMAS ROOKWOOD, of Coldham Hall, " desires to be buried
among his ancestors in the parish church of Stanningfield,"
naming his sisters Ann and Margaret .R., his wife Dorothy-
Marina, and his da. Eliz. Gage, and her children Thomas and
John Gage. [i7th March, 1725 — 27th February, 1727.]
BARBARA DANIEL, of Great Waldingfield, co. Suffolk,
widow, left Pentlow Hall, &c., in trust to John Bromley, of
London, fishmonger, and Eliz. Gage, of Coldham Hall, the
following legatees, all of them " cousins," being named in a
codicil dated 2gth September, 1739 : Catherine Martin, of Long
Melford ; Margaret Martin ; Frances Dormer, widow ; Eliz.
Jernegan, "who now lives with me"; Thomas Jernegan, of
London, house carpenter ; Mary, widow of John Low, of Twin-
stead Hall ; Barbara Johnson ; Amy, the wife of John
Bromley, her executor; and Eliz., da. of my cousin James
and Elizabeth Kerington, of Borley Hall. [i7th May, 1734 —
nth March, 1740.]
RICHARD LANGHORNE, of East Ham, made his will when
"somewhat infirm". He held lands under the will of Henry
Holcroft, of Patcham, co. Sussex, and gave legacies to his
brother Charles and his sister Laetitia Langhorne ; his cousins
Richard L., junior, of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, gent., and
Elizabeth, wife of Roger England, tailor. [i4th October, 1719
December, 1719.]
JAMES, Lord WALDEGRAVE, whose will, dated " Paris, 2gth
January, N. S., 1738-9," was proved 2ist April, 1741, his eldest
son Lord Chewton being sole executor, names also his son John
W., Captain of H.M. Foot-guards, and his da. Henrietta, widow
of Edward, Lord Herbert. He desires burial at Navestock, and
that his son pays his loans, debts, &c., contracted during his
(testator's) embassy, and leaves money to send back his servants
to France. In a codicil dated 8th March, 1740-1, he names his
"worthless daughter, heretofore Herbert, and now Beard".
Her husband, John Beard, the comedian and singer, died at
FLINT. 17
Hampton, co. Middx., 5th February, 1791, aet. 74. Lady
Henrietta married him 8th January, 1739-40. She died 3ist
May, 1753, aged 36, and was buried at St. Pancras — an un
doubtedly chequered career !
NATHANIEL PIGOTT, of the Inner Temple, desires burial in
the parish in which he shall die, two coaches and six persons
only (to be named by his son Edward) to attend his funeral,
and his house in Holborn Row, Lincoln's Inn Fields, and that
at Whitton to be sold. His wife is to "dispose of plate as
she may think fit, if she shall recover her memory ". He
names his late son Ralph, da.-in-law Alathea Pigott and her
children ; his sons Charles (eldest), Nathaniel, George, and
Francis ; eldest da. Catherine, the wife of Edward Caryl, and
their da. Eliz. C. ; his da. Charlotte P. ; grandchildren Rebecca,
Nathaniel, and Catherine Pigott ; brother Adam P. ; brothers-
in-law Francis Canning and John Busby ; sisters-in-law
Hannah Busby and Teresa Phillips ; sisters Atton and
Bowen, and cousins Margaret Brent (who had a catalogue
of his library) and Mary Binge. [5th February, 1736, with two
codicils — nth July, 1737.]
MARY POWTRELL, of London, widow, names her brother
Francis Canning, and Francis Canning his eldest son ; brother
and sister Richard and Victoria Canning ; nephews Humphrey,
Nathaniel, Edward, and Richard Elliot ; and her nieces Anne,
Winifrid, Appolonia, Margaret, and Frances Elliot, the children
of " my brother and sister Elliot " ; nephew Betham and
" my niece Mary his wife " ; cousin Nathaniel Pigott and
Rebecca his wife, and cousin Charles Busby and his sister
Constantia B. [jist August, 1720 — 5th February, 1721.]
FLINT.
Sir PYERS MOSTYN mentions his father Sir Edward, his sons
Pyers, George, and Thomas, and das. Mary, Frances, and Anne
Mostyn; sons-in-law Thomas Culcheth and John Hornyold; also
Mary Culcheth, the mother of John C., of Gray's Inn, and his
uncle Henry Mostyn, &c. [25th April, 1720 — 7th December,
1721.]
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GLOUCESTER.
ELIZABETH CONQUEST, \
MARGARET BRENT, j- of Larkstoke. Their mother
MARY BRENT, J
Catherine Brent, in her will dated I4th October, 1706, and
proved igth July, 1724, eighteen years after her death, leaves
£100 " to her very good friend Gilbert Whitehall, of London,
goldsmith, as a grateful acknowledgment for the trouble he
had in the affairs of her family," and names her sisters Mary
Green, of Corescome [ ? ], in Ireland, and Bartlet, of
Evesham, niece Mrs. Mary Knatchball, and cousins
Edney, Nath. Pigott, and Mary and Anne Cassey.
The will of Mary Brent, spinster, of the p. of St. Andrew,
Holborn, dated nth September, 1724, when " infirm of body,"
was proved I5th October following : she names her cousins
Thomas Mitchill, Mary Knatchball, and John Green.
Her sister Margaret Brent desires to pay all the just debts
of Gilbert Whitehall, bequeaths £200 "to Mr. Richard
Challoner," and names her cousins Mary Green, Gilbert
Langley, Holdenby Langley, and James Langley. [i6th
May, 1734 — 27th November, 1736.]
Admon. of the estate of Charles Conquest, doctor of medi
cine, of St. Paul's, Covent Garden, was, 4th October, 1693,
granted to his widow Elizabeth. She survived him fifty years,
and on her death is described as of the parish of St. George,
Bloomsbury, admon. of her estate being granted, loth October,
1743, to her nephew Robert Brent Lytcot.
MARY CASSEY, of London, spinster, dating her will i7th
March, 1725, names her cousins Anne and Mary C., Eliz.
Smith, and Mary and Anthony Slauter, the residuary legatee
being Eliz. Conquest. A deposition states that she " died on
the Sunday previous " to i8th January, 1729 — the date of
probate — and had " lived for twenty years as a lodger at the
house of Mr. John Sheppard, a turner, near Long Acre in
Drury Lane ".
MARGARET GREENWOOD, of Brize-Norton, mentions her
husband John, and her " three loving and dear children Eliza-
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beth, Anne, and Frances Greenwood ". [26th December, 1730
— 3ist August, 1731.]
RICHARD BLOORE, of Hatherop, names his wife Elizabeth,
sister Mary Parker, niece Martha Parker, brother Hugh Frank-
land, uncle Thomas Brandon, Richard Brandon, son of Richard
[sic, but probably an error for Thomas] " aforesaid " by his
second wife and cousin Dorothy Grubb. [2gth August, 1718 —
I2th September, 1728.]
THOMAS EYCOTT, " late of South Cerney, co. Gloucester,
bachelor ". Admon. of his estate was granted, 27th June, 1740,
to William Eycott, " his nephew and only next of kin ". The
will of John Eycott, of Cirencester, goldsmith, dated nth May,
1737, and proved in 1751, may be that of a relative of John
Eycott noticed by Cosin. He had an estate in the parish of
Badginton, names his mother Mary then living, wife Elizabeth
(executrix), his sons Richard, Thomas, and John Eycott, and
his uncle John Shewell.
The will of Sir JOHN JERNEGAN was proved 27th June, 1737,
by his widow Margaret.
TERESA, widow of Charles Trinder, of Bourton-on-the-
Water, leaves to her sister Mrs. Mary Tuke a hair ring set
with diamonds, Mr. Bennet Rigmaiden being her sole executor.
In a deposition of two of her servants, she is described as " late
of Ligny in the Duchy of Lorraine and Barr ". [i5th July,
1736 — 8th October, 1743.]
HENRY WAKEMAN, of Ashton-Underhill, co. Gloucester,
gent., names his wife Frances (executrix), eldest son William,
and "other children," brother Benedict, wife's father Will.
Higford, and wife's brother Will. Higford. [2ist February,
1723— 4th August, 1731.]
JOHN PASTON, " late of Horton and now of Bath "...
hoping, by the merits and passion of his dear Saviour Jesus
Christ, and the intercession of His Blessed Mother the Virgin
Mary, to be made partaker of His heavenly kingdom . . .
dates his will 28th February, 1736, and desires burial at
Horton near his wife Anne ; names his eldest son William
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(who in 1726 married Mary ), second son Clement, and
third son James ; da. Frances, the wife of Richard Bishop,
and their children Mabel and Frances Bishop ; wife Catherine,
da. Mary, and grandda. Ann Paston ; nephews Robert, Charles,
and John Needham, of Hilston, co. Monmouth ; and his
brothers-in-law Henry and Richard Bostock, the latter of
whom " is to have £100 for his great care of him during his
illness". [Proved loth November, 1737.]
Dame ANNE LYTCOT, of Larkstoke, in her will dated 1725,
and proved in April, 1738, desires burial at St. Pancras if she
die in London, names her son Rob. Brent Lytcot resid.
legatee, and leaves " 500 livres tournois to executors to be
disposed of according to directions in a sealed packet ". Ad-
mon. of the estate of Dame Anne L., " late of St. Giles-in-the-
Fields, but at Paris in the kingdom of France," was granted,
nth May, 1747, to Eliz., widow of Rob. Brent Lytcot, left
unadministered by him, and a further admon. was granted,
8th April, 1779, to " Fych Burgh, formerly Coppinger, Esq.,
one of the executors of the will of Eliz. Lytcot ".
HEREFORD.
THE PENDRELLS. Admon. of the estate of John Pendrell,
late of Henfield, co. Sussex, bachelor, was granted, i8th Feb
ruary, 1755, to his brother Charles ; and admon. of the estate
of Catherine Pendrell, of Boscobel, co. Salop, spinster, was,
2gth December, 1721, granted to her brother Richard P.
EDMUND ADYS, of Lyde Arundel ..." being well . . .
and fearing he may be called out of this world of a sudden,"
dates his will 8th October, 1724, and desires "to be buried
in Pipe Churchyard near the wall," and concludes, " for fear
of sudden death, I now subscribe my name ". He names his
son Bernard, and da. Baskerville. Bequeaths "£io a-piece
to all grandchildren ... ^5 for the keeping of anni
versary to the end of the world [sic], and 55. each to poor
Catho." [sic] : will proved 7th August, 1725.
JOHN EALES, of Droitwich, co. Worcester, yeoman, leaves
to his father Thomas E., of Shobdon, co. Hereford, an annuity
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of £4, and names his uncle John of the same parish, and
brothers Thomas (eldest) and Charles, of Edgworth [sic, Edg-
ware ?], co. Middx. [i7th November, 1741 — 24th March,
1742.]
JOHN VAUGHAN, of Hunsome, directs that his body be
carried by water, and interred near the grave of his late wife
in Welsh-Bicknor Church : he names his mother-in-law
Green, and brother-in-law Thomas Green ; also John Corn
wall, and Edith his wife, and their son Thomas Cornwall,
and kinsmen Thomas, Robert, and Joseph Harper ; " Mary,
the wife of my nephew Joseph Griffin, of London, tobacconist";
my now wife Mary, my sister Teresa, my brother John and
his wife Elizabeth, with their children John, Richard, Philip,
Teresa, and Mary. He desires his executors to employ, and
thus "gratify," Rob. Needham, sen., in the execution of the
will. [ist September, 1716 — I7th June, 1721.]
THOMAS TRAUNTER, of Ross, left all his estate to Mary
his wife. [loth February, 1720 — i6th June, 1721.]
HENRY SCUDAMORE, of Pembridge Castle, names his wife
Mary (living nth February, 1692), sons John and James
Scudamore, and his grandson John Jones ; da. Winifred, the
wife of William Herbert (executor), and their children William
and Margaret Herbert ; also James, the son of his nephew
George Scudamore, of Usk. [gth April, 1736 ; codicil, i6th
February, 1737 — loth May, 1737.]
ANN PYE, "of Perthieu, in p. of Rockfield," by will
dated 7th July, 1720, when " somewhat infirm," and proved
24th April, 1722, left her estate to William Acton, of Wolver-
ton, in p. of Stoughton, co. Worcester, the witnesses being
Michael Lorymer and Edward and Mary Baskerville.
JOHN BERINGTON, jun., late of Winsley, now of Stafford,
gent., names his wife Ann, with Charles Bodenham, Thomas
Monington, Bellingham Slaughter, and Thomas Palin, guar
dians of his three children Andrews-John B., Eliz. B., and
James B. ; describes himself as " considerably indebted ".
[26th February, 1720— 8th March, 1721.]
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ELIZABETH SMALBONE, of Chipping-Lamborne, spinster,
leaves 20s. to poor Catholics of p. of Llangarron, co. Here
ford," and names her cousins Henry Scudamore, of Pembridge
Castle, and Mary Eyston, of Hay-Hatch, "a niece of my
fathers " ; her grandmother Scudamore, niece Margaret Smal-
bone, and nephew Francis Clifton. [8th August, 1725 — i7th
February, 1730.]
CHARLES BODENHAM, of Rotherwas, names his son Charles
Stonor Bodenham, and da. Catherine, his present wife Cathe
rine Huddleston (the settlement dating I2th February, 1731),
the sister of Dame Mary, wife of Sir Francis Fortescue. Had
advanced £4000 on mortgage to Edward, son of William
Charleton, on the Manor of Hesleyside, co. Northumberland.
His eldest son died unmarried, and his eldest da. Mary (by
first wife) married John Tancred, of St. Paul's, Covent Garden,
woollen draper, the settlement dating i8th August, 1760.
[gth September, 1760 — I3th October, 1762.]
" *%* In the name of God, Amen. I, JAMES GUNTER, of
Saddleboro', gent., being in perfect health . . . desire to be
decently buried with little expense in the parish in which I
shall dye." He left all his estate to his wife Hester, his will
being attested by Catherine Prichard, Hugh Pemberton, and
Charles Walker. [i6th May, 1723 — 22nd June, 1726.]
HERTFORD.
JOHN NEWPORT, Esq., of Furneux Pelham, son of J. F.
Newport, names his wife Mary and brother Thomas Heneage,
and leaves £10 each to Eliz., wife of John Smith, and Mary,
wife of John Barker, labourers, " das. of Eliz. Bawcock, whose
death I was through great distraction and disturbance of mind
. . . but without any premeditated malice most unfortunately
the cause of, and of which I heartily repent ". [gth October,
1737 — 3rd November, 1737.]
WALTER, Lord ASTON, desires burial at Standon Church,
between his wife and daughter, naming his son James, da.
Margaret, great-aunt Mrs. Sadleir, da.-in-law Lady Barbara
Aston, and grandda. Mary Aston.
By a codicil, dated nth August, 1747, in the form of a
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letter to his son James, "he leaves £100 for prayers for his
soul, viz., £50 to the two bishops in London, Mr. White and
Mr. Challence [sic], to give to the most pious and wanting of
their clergy to pray for me " ; he adds, " You may give £10 to
Mr. Wilson to pray himself, with such other good persons he
thinks proper, and to distribute what he can out of it to the
poor Catholics that come to the Chapel at Tixal, and £40 you
may advise with Mr. Horton how to dispose of for the same
purpose, and I think if the Religious Orders came in for a
share, it might do very well . . . and as I believe it will not
cost much, and that your sister Margaret will expect to have a
service for me at her house, I would have you to pay her what
is usual on that occasion, and let her know it is my desire ".
[4th July, 1746— I5th August, 1748.]
" White," says the Douay Diary, p. 85, " was an alias of
Bishop Benjamin Petre" who at the date of Lord Aston's will
was Vicar-Apostolic of the London District, Bishop Challoner
[Challence] being then also his coadjutor. Mr. Wilson was, it
may be inferred, chaplain at Tixal ; the Douay Diary, p. 87,
also names one Joseph Horton as taking the college oath, I7th
April, 1700.
HUNTINGDON.
MARGARET, widow of Ayme Gentil, of St. James', West
minster, in her will dated 3rd December, 1720, and proved
1 6th March, 1721, names her three grandsons mentioned in
her husband's will, and her three granddas. named in that of
her son John, who predeceased her; this "John Gentil, of the
p. of St. Margaret's, Westminster, gent.," names his wife
Catherine and his mother Margaret, desiring the Duchess of
Richmond to assist the latter in her office of executrix ; his
three ds. were — Frances and Margaret G., and Catherine,
the wife of John Cooke ; to his son, " well provided for by his
grandfather, he leaves his blessing and a cornelian ". [joth
October, 1719 — 6th April, 1720.]
KENT.
JAMES BLAKE, of the p. of Bromley, co. Essex, left his
effects to Rob. Ashmall, Esq., of Lincoln's Inn. [4th January,
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1727-8— I3th January, 1727-8.] This is evidently the will
of the Jesuit Father of this name, who, says Foley, Collect.
S.J., p. 64, was " chaplain at Mr. Mannock's, Bromley Hall,
Colchester ".
THOMAS HAWKINS.—" Nash, 2nd October, 1758. Whereas
the stable and offices want new building, I therefore leave after
my death all my goods and chattels to my eldest son Mr. John
Hawkins, and desire that he pay . . . any such debts as may
happen at my death, and as to the buildings I leave them to
his discretion."
" 13th September, 1763, son John Hawkins, I give you all
I have except what I order you to pay by the within
... to my son Hawkins Gower the first eight bags of hops" ;
he names also his grandson Thomas H., and adds : " 2s. a
week to Goody Matson ... for she had great care of me
when I could not move finger nor hand ... to my servant
Samuel Woodrow, my watch, silver shoe, and knee buckles
. . . and apparel . . . except swords, periwigs, and my red
cloak."
" What I owe at Michaelmas."
"To Mr. Fuller £10; to the butcher £7; to Samuel [?] igs.;
hop-poles £48, £20 paid already ; to you for hop-poles £25 ;
for rent, dung, and cesses, about £35 hop-duty." No executor
being named, admon. of his estate was granted, 24th July, 1766,
to his son John Hawkins.
CHRISTOPHER COLLINS, of Linstead, writes : " My whole
estate I leave to my daughters Anne, Lucy, and Catherine,
exclusive of all my other children ". His will was proved 23rd
November, 1726.
GEORGE KINGSLEY, Esq., of the p. of St. James,
Westminster, desires burial by his wife in the porch of that
church, leaving 25$. to the clerk to see that it be done. He
adds : " As my sons will none of them marry, and desiring my
estate to remain in name and blood of my great grandfather
William Kingsley, I bequeath my farm ... at Ormsby, co.
York, to my cousin Anthony K., druggist and citizen of London,
and to his (Anthony's) sons in order of birth, Anthony, Thomas,
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Pincke [?], Charles, and Thare ". He names also his own
sons George and Thomas (to whom, by codicil of 7th March,
1737, he left his pictures and library), and his da. Anne, the
wife of George Hastings, and his youngest da. Catherine, also
his wife's sister Mary Kersey. The codicil also names Thomas
(son of Anthony) Kingsley as executor in the room of Sir Henry
Bedingfield first named. [25th May, 1725 — I4th March, 1739.]
JOHN DARELL, of Calehill, desires burial in his vault at
Little Chart, and names his wife Olivia, sons John, James, and
Joseph, and da. Olivia. [24th May, 1739 — 8th September,
1740.]
RICHARD GOMELDON, of Summerfield Court. Admon. of
his estate was granted, 26th July, 1719, to his sister Meliora,
the wife of Thomas Stanley. His father Thomas Gomeldon,
by will dated 7th July, 1702, proved i6th May, 1704, " desires
to be privately buried in the night in the parish church of
Selling, near his father and wife ".
LANCASTER.
JOHN DARBYSHIRE, of Ashton-in-Mackerfield, yeoman,
names as his executors his wife Ann and his brother James,
bequeathing his estate at Pemberton to his son Henry, and at
Ashton to his son John ; names also his daughter Mary, [nth
November, 1742 — May, 1743.]
MARY CORNWALLIS, of St. Giles'-in-the-Fields, names her
cousin Philadelphia Thorold, and appoints Margaret, the wife
of John Yate, her executrix, though no relationship is stated.
[i3th February, 1727 — 3rd September, 1730.]
ALEXANDER STANDISH, of St. Giles'-in-the-Fields, left his
house called Roundmoor, in the p. of Standish, co. Lane.,
to his sister Margaret S., and names his two nephews Edward
and Francis Brown (brothers), and two nieces, the widow of
Laurence Brown and Mary Howard. [5th October, 1725 — 6th
August, 1726.]
The will of WILLIAM WINSTANLEY, of St. Paul's, Covent
Garden, " taylor," dated I7th September, 1733, and proved
26 RECORDS OF ENGLISH CATHOLICS.
24th January, 1735, would certainly be that of a near relative,
if not the will of W. W. named by Cosin, so many Lancashire
names being given : his wife Diana is executrix, and on her
death testator gives "£iooo to Lady Anne Petre, the da. of
the Earl of Derwent water, who was beheaded on Tower Hill " ;
£ 10 to the Rt. Hon. Lady Winifred Nisdale, with legacies also
to Rob. Scarisbrook, of Scarisbrook, Thomas Eccleston, of
Eccleston, and others.
Sir WILLIAM MOLYNEUX. His first wife died in 1713, aged
58, he being 62 years of age at the time of his death in 1717.
[Lawson MS.]
Dame CATHERINE SHERBURNE. " Memorandum that on
i6th January, 1727, Dame C. S., relict of Sir Nicholas Sher-
burne, of Stonyhurst, being sick of her sickness whereof she
died at her dwelling-house in Cork Street, in the p. of St.
James, Westminster . . . having a mind to make her will
nuncupative, or by word of mouth . . . Edward Strother,
doctor of physic, Mr. Edmund Gage, and William Scott, being
come into her chamber . . . expressed herself to them in words
following ... I give to Gilbert Talbot, of Cork Street, in the
p. of St. James, my whole personal estate, and declare him my
executor." Proved nth March, 1727-8.
JOHN CULCHETH, of Gray's Inn, by will dated 2Oth June,
I733> and proved 7th September, 1733, left his " personal
estate to his mother Mary, from whom he had received it ".
ROGER CULCHETH, of " Wottenbury " (probably intended
for Wappenbury), co. Warwick, gent., names his wife Isabel,
brothers William C., George C., of London, upholsterer, and
Thomas C., of Studley, co. Warwick, tanner; his two sisters
Middlemore, of the p. of Bromsgrove, co. Worcester,
and her children ; and Reeve, of Samborne, and her four
children ; his brother Thomas being executor, and inheriting
"all his estate at Wigan, co. Lane.". [6th December, 1701 —
2Qth July, 1725.]
JOHN GRIMBALSTON, of Coughton Court, co. Warwick, in
his will of 4th July, 1739, proved i6th February, 1742, "en
treats his dear master, Sir Robert Throckmorton, to accept
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twenty guineas," and names his wife Elizabeth and da. Mary,
his brother Amor Grimbalston, whose children were John,
William, Amor, Mary, and Ann ; his sisters Eleanor G. and
Eliz. Briggs ; sister Alice Bickliffe, whose children were John,
Thomas, and Alice B. ; his brother Leonard G., and nephew
Leonard G.
FRANCES, the wife of Nicholas Blundell, of Little Crosby,
died at Dunkirk, in Flanders, igth August, 1763, aged 78.
[Lawson MS.]
ROBERT TUITE, of Warrington, names his sons Robert (the
eldest, to whom he left his estate at Plymouth, in the Isle of
Montserrett, West Indies), Walter, and James ; his das. Mary,
Margaret, Anne, Elizabeth, and Eleanor ; and his sister Jane,
the wife of Robert Reyley, and their son Owen Reyley ; Sir
Joseph Tuite, bart., being named one of several executors.
[i3th April, 1724 — igth September, 1726.!
LEICESTER.
THOMAS BLOFIELD, of Hammersmith, gent., by will,
undated, and proved 2nd October, 1724, desires to be " buried
by his mother and sister". Duncan Catanach, of St. Martin's-
in-the-Fields, shagreen-case maker, deposes that he had known
him many years : he names his cousin Mary Velson, and
nephew and niece Charles and Ann Catanach ; also Thomas
and Charles, eldest and second sons of Charles Kinnes, of
Belgrave ; adding, " I give my clothes to ould Charles Kinds,
all but my best suit ".
CHARLES FORTESCUE, of Husband's-Bosworth. Admon.
of the estate of his widow Elizabeth F. was, 3Oth March, 1753,
granted to Maria-Alathea-Sophia Fortescue, her da. and only
child.
WILLIAM KNIGHT, of Kingerby, co. Lincoln, names his
son William as sole executor of his will ; the trustees, till he
becomes of age, being "Robert Dolman, of York, Esq.; Edward
Greathead, of Lincoln, doctor in physic ; my nephew Peter
Pennythorn, of Fornaby [?], and my wife Lucy K.". Others
named are " my sons " Richard and Edmund, da. Lucy, my
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brother Alexander and his wife, my sisters Knight, widow ;
Pennythorn, and Anne and Margaret Knight ; brother
John Knight ; nieces Christian and Elizabeth, the das. of my
brother Joseph Knight, deceased ; uncle Mr. Edmund Stilles ;
my wife's mother Mrs. Lucy Jennings, and " Mr. Edmund
Turner ". He adds : If either " my son Edmund, or the son
my wife is big of, go into Religion," his portion is to be £400
instead of £1000. [27th January, 1726; proved at Lincoln,
3ist May, 1728.] The following M.I. of his sister-in-law is
copied from a slab in front of the altar in Selby Abbey, York
shire : " Here lyeth interred the body of Mary, the wife of
Joseph Langdale, gent., who died the 23rd September, 1716.
Requiescit in pace"
Count MIGLIORUCCI, in his will dated i8th December,
1723, and proved 23rd February, 1727, describes himself as
" Peter Joseph Migliorucci, late of Florence, and now of Lon
don, merchant ". His widow Lady Mary M. (nee Nevill), by
will of 6th March, 1735, proved 3rd May, 1742, left her estate
to her son Cosmas-Henry-Joseph-Nevil Migliorucci.
FRANCIS RIGMAIDEN, Esq., late of Twickenham, widower.
Admon. of his estate was granted, ist October, 1747, to his
da. Anne, the wife of John Crawford.
ISABELLA, widow of Francis Smith, of Queniboro', was only
da. of Richard Clayton, of Keame [sic], co. Leicester : born in
1664, and dying 2Oth June, 1733, she was buried in the chancel
of Ashby-Folville Church, her husband being a son of Edmund
Smith. [Lawson MS.]
EDMUND SMITH married Amy, da. of John Sanders, of
Heningsby [?], co. Warwick. [Lawson MS.]
FRANCIS SMITH, of Queniboro', in his (unregistered) will
dated loth December, 1717, and proved I5th April, 1721,
names his brother Edward [?], wife Catherine, and her uncle
Thomas Busby, of Ashby-Folville ; apparently ob. s.p. His
sister Helena (says the Lawson MS.) was a nun at Liege,
where she died 28th October, 1722.
JOHN STEEVENS. In Saxulby Church, co. Leicester, are
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the following M.I., as given by Nichols in his history of that
county (iii., p. 404) : " Here lieth the body of John Stevens,
of Shouldby, gent., who departed this life 27th February, 1731,
aged 72. . . . Also Elizabeth, wife of John Stevens, gent. . . .
died 6th February, 1731, aged 85. ... Also Winifred, wife of
Morris Cam, and da. of John and Eliz. Stevens, died I3th
March, 1737, in the 43rd year of her age."
John Stevens occurs in Cosin's List.
LINCOLN.
ANNE MARKHAM, of Claxby, whose will is dated 22nd April,
1727, says: ... "I give the veil embroidered upon cambric
with gold and silver, which anciently belonged to the family,
and my great pair of beades, the stones spotted with gold, to
my grandson Philip, eldest son of my son Thomas Markham " :
her son Percy is executor ; she names also her grandson Thomas,
second son of her son Thomas, and her das. Pole, and
Anne and Melior Markham. [Lincoln, loth May, 1/29.]
JOHN MORLEY, of Holme, in p. of Bottesford, names his
das. Boswell, Jane, and Anne M., and his son John ;
Marmaduke M. being named trustee. [i3th May, 1731 ; proved
at Lincoln, i8th May, 1731.]
MARMADUKE MORLEY, the elder, left his estate at Messing-
ham, and his house at Twigmoor, to his son Marmaduke, and
his stock-in-trade to his son and executor James ; names also
his son George and das. Anna Maria, Jane, and Henrietta.
[2gth November, 1752 — Lincoln, i6th September, 1756.]
JOHN FITZWILLIAM, of Lincoln, in his will dated 4th Feb
ruary, 1711, and proved ist July, 1718, names his sons Charles
and William, das. Elizabeth, Anne, and Mary ; his wife Anne
being executrix. This Anne, his widow [i2th March, 1724 —
Lincoln, I4th August, 1724], desires to have " six poor Catholics
for her bearers to have a guinea each and 200 poor people
each to have 6d., each to say before taking the money, God be
merciful to her soul ".
Admon. of the estate of Frances Fitzwilliam, of Clixby, was
3<D RECORDS OF ENGLISH CATHOLICS.
granted, 28th January, 1742, to her husband Charles, before
named.
William Fitzwilliam (father of John) names his son
George, cousin Percy Markham, his da. Elizabeth, wife of
Thomas Ellerker, his sister Elizabeth, wife of Edward Monson,
dec., and their son. George M., and adds : " I give to my son
John £ 5 to distribute for charitable uses to all such persons as
do visit us, desiring him chiefly to be remembered as shall assist
me at my death ". The witnesses to his will were Thomas
Browne and John and Jane Millington. [22nd June, 1710 —
Lincoln, 4th April, 1717.]
Dame MARY SOUTHCOTT, of Blyborough. Admon. of her
estate was granted 26th August, 1719, to her das. Catherine,
wife of Francis Smith, Esq. of Aston, and Constance, wife of
Thomas Fitzherbert.
MARY PORTER, of Hampton, co. Middx., says : " I desire to
be buried in Kensington Church, near my son George, it not
being possible for me to lye by my dear husband. . . . My
daughters (Eleanor, Catherine, and Diana) may not be per
mitted to go to my funeral because it may injure their
health." She names also her sons John, James, Aubrey,
Endymion, and Richard. Her agent William Quin, of St.
James', Westminster, deposed at date of probate that he had
known her for fifteen years, she being lately in the p. of St.
George, Hanover Square. [6th May, 1734 — I5th April, 1740.]
RALPH EURE, Esq. of Kensington, co. Middx., dates his will
" in good health," and desires that his funeral expenses should
not exceed £100. He names his son Edward, son-in-law
Nicholas Stapylton, alias Errington, and four das. Philadelphia,
Mary, Ann, and Charlotte, [ist February, 1724 — 25th Novem
ber, 1726.]
GEORGE HENEAGE, of Hainton, names his wife Elizabeth
(executrix), his sons George, Thomas, Henry, John, Robert,
Windsor, and Francis, das. Elizabeth and Catherine, brother
Thomas and sister Eliz. H., brother Sir George Windsor Hun-
loke, and grandchildren Eliz. and George, the children of his
son Thomas Heneage. [4th November, 1719 ; codicils 26th
February, 1725, and 27th December, 1731 — 7th June, 1732.]
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THOMAS HENEAGE, of Cadeby, names his wife Winifred, and
his three nephews Henry, George, and Thomas, and Catherine
his niece. [3ist December, 1739 — I5th May, 1741.]
EDMUND SOUTHCOTT, alias PARKER, of Blyborough. Admon.
of his estate was granted, i/jin November, 1725, to his widow,
the Hon. Catherine S. His father's will, dated 23rd January,
1712-13, was proved in London I3th July, 1715.
JAMES HAMMERTON, of Waith, names his son James, das.
Judith Buckley and Anne Calvert, and his kinsman William
Loop. [25th November, 1719 — Lincoln, 26th December, 1719.]
GEORGE SIMPSON bequeathed his house at Louth, " in a
street or place called Fifth Shambles," to his wife. He speaks
of " all his children," but names none. A witness to his will
was Judith Buckley. [3rd November, 1731 — Lincoln, I4th
November, 1731.]
His father, " William Simpson, of Louth, taylor," and father
also of William S., by will dated 2nd January, 1695, proved at
Louth 1 2th May, 1696, left his Orby estate to his wife Elizabeth,
for her life, to pass at her death to his eldest son William. He
names also his son George, das. Anne and Jane, youngest da.
Elizabeth, the wife of Thomas Ashton, and his grandchild
Mary Wilkinson, the trustees being his " loving friends " Mr.
Dymoke Walpole and Mr. John Walpole, the latter and Mary
Walpole witnessing his will.
THOMAS SPURR, of Louth, in will dated 4th August, 1717,
and proved at Louth I4th August, 1717, by his kinsman and
resid. legatee Thomas Jenkins, names his wife Bridget, sister
Joyce S., and her da. Mary, kinsmen John S., and John,
Richard, Henry, and Charles Jenkins, the witnesses being
William and George Simpson and William Bond.
SIMON WARREN, of Dunston, farmer, names his wife Mary,
his sons William, Peter, and Joseph, and da. Jane ; Edward
Walpole being one of three guardians of his children, [nth
November, 1727—- Lincoln, 8th December, 1727.]
TROTH MASTIN, of Grimolby, Grange, co. Line., widow, by
will dated I7th August, 1722, proved at Lincoln 23rd October,
3
32 RECORDS OF ENGLISH CATHOLICS.
1723, by her son Samuel, names also his da. Catherine, her
grandda. Catherine Short, the " da. of my da. Troth," and her
cousin Edward Knipe, of Grantham.
JOHN ROBINSON, of Fulbeck, names his sister Mary Coxon,
nephew and niece William and Eliz. Coxon, and a nephew
Benjamin Jessop, in a codicil dated 3Oth December, 1725.
[26th April, 1722 — Lincoln, 22nd March, 1726.]
WILLIAM SMITH bequeathed his Bucknall estate to his da.
Mary, and his estate at Sturton-in-the-Steeple, co. Notts, to
his da. Anne ; names also his cousin Christopher Smith, the
trustees of his daughters being his brother Samuel Mastin and
Mr. Peter Medcalfe. [26th December, 1723 — Lincoln, i8th
June, 1728.]
WILLIAM THOROLD, of Little Ponton. On a slab in the
chancel of Little Ponton Church, is the following : " D.O.M.
Hie jacet corpus Gulielmi Thorold, armigeri, hujus manerii
Dm. qui pie obiit XX. die Septembris, anno Dom. MDCCXXV.
R.I.P."
The following Little Ponton entries are extracted also from
the Bishop's Register at Lincoln :
"William Thorold, of Little Ponton, Esq., was buried 2ist
September, 1725".
" Richard Thorold and Dorothy Martine were married i6th
January, 1716."
" Mr. Rob. Thorold, son of Mr. William Thorold, and Mary
his wife, was buried I4th February, 1686."
This last-named William T. might be the father of, or,
indeed, the identical " Nonjuror " of that name, as it will be
seen that his widow Dorothy, who so long survived him, might
perhaps on that account have been his second wife. His will,
being neither at Somerset House nor at Lincoln, was probably
never proved. Though apparently childless, he did not how
ever die intestate, as appears from the subjoined summary of
Close Roll, i Geo. II., Part II., 15, 16. " By indenture, dated
gth February, 1726, between Dorothy Thorold, of the p. of St.
Giles-in-the-Fields, co. Middx., widow and executrix of the last
will and testament of Will. T., late of Little Ponton, co. Line.,
dec., and George Thorold, Esq., brother and heir of the said dec.
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of the one part, and William Sutton, of the p. of St. George
the Martyr, co. Middx., gent., and Thomas Osborne, jim., of
Gray's Inn, stationer, of the other part, the two latter became
the purchasers of the Manors of Little Panton, alias Little
Ponton and Basingham, with advowson, and Manor house of
Little Ponton."
Upon the death of her husband, Dorothy appears to have
resided abroad. The following summary of her will is made
from the original, now among the Archives of the Dominican
Priory, at Haverstock Hill :
" Dorothy Compton, widow of William Thorold," dating her
will nth November, 1768, from the Convent of the English
Dominican Nuns at Brussels, where she died 2nd March,
1773, aged 82, names her sister Mary Arundell, " and poor
relations" in England, and gave bequests to " Miss Frances
Howard, of Grey-Stock," to " Sister " Mary Ann Calvert, in
the Convent of the said Nuns, as also to the younger children
of the late Francis Bishop, of Brailes, and George Bishop, his
brother, of London.
The Rev. Raymund Palmer, O.P., also writes, that
" Dorothy's younger sister Margaret Joseph Compton, da. of
Edward Compton, of Gersby (of the family of the Earl of
Northampton), by his wife Ann Merry, joined the Dominican
Nuns of Brussels, was professed 1st July, 1717, aet. 22, and
after being thrice prioress, died 2gth July, 1768 ". For a
further account of her, and of " Sister Mary Ann Calvert," see
Dr. Oliver's Western County Collections, p. 155.
THOMAS SHUTTLEWORTH, of Horbling. Mr. A. Gibbons
has kindly forwarded the following Shuttleworth entries from
the Bishop's Register at Lincoln : " Horbling. Bap., 28th
November, 1674, John, sonne of Thos. Shuttleworth, and Eliz.
his wife ".
" 1676, July 6, Richard S., son " of the same.
" 1676, July 20, Buried Richard, son of Thos. Shuttle-
worth."
" 1679, December 10, Bapt. Edmond, son of Thomas and
Eliz. S."
" 1684, Buried Edmond, son of Thomas S., Esq."
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One, Thomas Shuttleworth, buried at St. Pancras, dates
his will 5th May, 1724, from the p. of St. George the Martyr,
co. Middx. It was proved i8th May, 1724. He names his
wife Mary, da. Mary, and two infant children.
A slab in Selby Abbey Church gives the following : " Here
lies interred the body of Mrs. Anne Shuttleworth, who departed
this life, igth February, 1789, aged 78 years. R.I. P."
MARY, widow of John Walpole, of Dunston, dating her will
8th January, 1744 (proved I7th September, 1746), names John,
son of Stephen W., of Dunston ; Mary and Ann, das. of Charles
Tancred, of St. Paul's, Covent Garden, woollen draper, and her
cousin Sarah Cheseldine.
The will of her da. Mary W., of Dunston, spinster, dated
I5th October, 1729, was proved I2th July, 1742, when admon.
of her estate was granted to John Smith, executor of the will of
Edward W., dec., brother of testatrix, who survived her, but
died before he administered. She desires to be buried in the
Church of Slindon, names her sister Alathea, brother William,
of Dunston, and her " late cousin Dymock Walpole's children,
of Blankney ".
WILLIAM MASTIN, of Grantham, gent., in his will dated
- July, 1734, and proved at Lincoln, 4th November, 1734,
names his brother Robert M., sister Barbara Trelawney and
her children, br.-in-law George Short, of Grantham, maltster,
and niece Mrs. Mary Askins.
The Hon. DOROTHY THIMELBY, of St. Andrew's, Holborn,
widow. Admon. of her estate was granted, 25th February,
1721, to her da. Mary Giffard, widow.
DANIEL BROWNE, of Bulby, left his Bourne estate to Peter,
younger son of his nephew John Browne ; his nephew Peter
B., of Bulby, being executor, and his (testator's) sister Anne
being residuary legatee ; names also Mary Dorson, alias Lang-
worth, and Elizabeth, Anne, Dorothy, and John, children of
my late nephew and niece Robert and Catherine Langworth.
He adds that "John, the elder son of my nephew John Browne,
of Corby, co. Lincoln, is to have £10 upon the decease of my
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sister Anne Brown, of Bulby ". [23rd April, 1735 — 6th March,
I737-]
MARY CRANE, of Gedney, spinster. Her will, of which her
kinsman Valentine Hilder, and Margaret Knight, of St. Martin's,
in the city of Lincoln, spinster (resid. legatee), were named
executors, is dated 2Oth February, 1730. Admon. of her estate
was, however, granted, ist June, 1743, to her niece and next-
of-kin Mary, the wife of Thomas Markham, testatrix surviving
both her executors.
ANTHONY VANE, of London, bequeaths "to Mr. Jerningham,
goldsmith, the King of France, his picture," and names his
friend Mrs. Frances Longville resid. legatee. [3rd March,
1722 — 26th March, 1723.]
THOMAS BOND, of Bury St. Edmunds, by will dated " 3ist
April " [sic], 1717, proved by his son Henry Jermyn Bond, 27th
November, 1732, " desires, if he die in Bruges or in Flanders,
burial in the Church of the Great Carmes, in the vault where
Lord Dover is buried " ; names his mother Dame Mary Bond,
eldest da. Henrietta B. (dec.), and youngest da. Mrs. Judith
B. ; Sir Rob. Davers, bart., being trustee.
The will of WILLIAM MILLINGTON, of the bail of Lincoln,
baker, dated 2nd February, 1759, and proved in the same year,
is that, probably, of a son of John M. named by Cosin; he
names his wife and five children — Sarah, William, Thomas,
Mary, and Ann.
LONDON.
ELIZABETH PRUJEAN, of the p. of St. George the Martyr,
widow. Admon. of her estate was granted, I3th June, 1746,
to her son and only next-of-kin Francis. The will of this
Francis Prujean, of " Sutton Gate," in the p. of Hornchurch,
co. Essex, dated 5th April, 1774, was proved by his son
William, 2nd August, 1780, to whom he left his estate there,
and adds : " I desire burial in the vault of my ancestors at
Hornchurch, near my wife, with a crucifix on ye top, and a
cross on my breast ... my da. Elizabeth is to have the
remainder of the term of my house in Great Ormond Street
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... as also the goods in my lodging I now dwell at in Poland
Street. ... A picture at ' Sutton Gate,' of the Scourging of
our Saviour, I declare to be the property of the Hon. Mrs.
Molyneux." He names also his son John and da. Ann,
" commonly called Dame Mary Magdalen ".
Evelyn, in his diary, says (gth August, 1661) : " I went to
that famous physitian, Sir Fr. Prujean, who showed me his
laboratorie, his work-house for turning . . . also many excellent
pictures, especially the Magdalen of Caracci".
FRANCES FLATMAN, of St. Giles'-in-the-Fields, spinster, de
sires burial in that church, her will being proved in the Com
missary Court of London by her servant Susan Smith. [i5th
May, 1734 — 28th January, 1736.]
Dame CLARE GULDEFORD, of ditto, leaves £ 20 to the poor,
to be distributed by her servants Rob. Jenks and Cath. Cams,
which her aunt Sarah Guldeford is to give them. [loth July,
1738 — I4th November, 1738.]
WILLIAM LANE, of the p. of St. Swithin, in the city of
Lincoln. " I give my house, known by the name of the
Three Old Tuns, in Thames Street, near Billingsgate, to my
only da. Mary Lane and her heirs." He names also his two
nieces Eliz. Kelly and Emerentiana Twell, the latter having
two daughters Catherine and Mary. [24th February, 1728 —
4th February, 1730.] This, therefore, is not the Jesuit Father
of that name, as suggested in Eng. Cath. Nonj., p. 169.
RICHARD LEE, of Great Delce, by his wife Margaret had
no issue, but in his will dated 25th February, 1710, with a
codicil of loth October, 1719, proved i6th April, 1725, he
names his grandson Richard Lee, his sister Mary Watson, and
her son William W.
Admon. of the estate of AGNES DE LA FONTAINE, of Lowick,
widow (probably of John de la F.), was, 2gth August, 1733,
granted to her son Charles.
MIDDLESEX.
DOROTHY PANTON, of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, desires to
lie by her husband in St. Eustace's Chapel, in Westminster
MIDDLESEX. 37
Abbey, and names her son Brigadier-General Thomas Panton,
her four grandsons Thomas and Henry Panton, the Hon.
Henry and Hon. Thomas Arundell, and her grandda. Eliz.,
Countess of Castlehaven. [ist June, 1722 — 8th April, 1725.]
ELIZABETH RACKETT, of Hammersmith, widow, names her
da.-in-law Johanna, widow of Mr. Stanislaus Bowes, late of
Hammersmith, chirurgeon ; also her sister Mary Hoffman,
widow, the latter being with Thomas Stone, of St. Dunstan's-
in-the-West, gent., executors. [2Oth July, 1722 — 24th Septem
ber, 1725].
Admon. of the estate of WILLIAM PERCY was granted, 23rd
November, 1721, to John Wybarne, husband of Eliz. Percy
(afterwards Wybarne), and only child of W. P., late of St.
Andrew's, Holborn, co. Middx., widower, she then being also
dec.
MARGARET LEE, widow of Richard Lee, leaves her grand
son Richard Lee her house in Gerard Street, and her niece
Frances Butler her " striped crimson night gown ". She names
her cousin Edward Webb, of Gray's Inn, nephews Francis and
Richard Rich and William Watson, sister Mrs. Catherine
Watson, niece Mrs. Mary Watson, bequeathing to her servant
her " black and white striped satin night gown ". [22nd August,
1724; with codicil I2th February, 1725 — I2th April, 1725.]
WILLIAM WOOLFE, of St. Andrew's, Holborn, left his estate
to his widow Frances. [i6th January, 1737 — 23rd January,
I739-]
Hon. CHARLES SOMERSET, of East Street, near Red Lion
Square, names his dec. wife Frances, da. of Dorothy Hanford,
and cousin of Edward Hanford, of Woollashall ; also his uncle
Edward Hanford; leaves his boots, linen, and two best peri
wigs to his brother Henry Somerset, [ist December, 1720 —
2nd July, 1724].
MARY Rous, of St. Martin's-in-the-Fields, widow, dates her
will 27th November, 1752. One executor is Eliz. Rowbotham,
to whom she leaves £5 a year from her " rents coming from
Hendly House and lands in Lancashire and Oxford ". Her
38 RECORDS OF ENGLISH CATHOLICS.
nephew, John Rowbotham, of p. of Christ Church, Surrey,
brazier, deposed (i8th July, 1755) that he had known her from
his youth, and on the same day admon. was granted to Ann
Rowbotham, widow, and sister of Mary Rouse, widow, the
executors having renounced.
Sarah, the widow of John Rous, late of St. John Street, in
p. of St. Sepulchre, London, distiller, names her brother-in-
law John Hills, of the p. of St. Leonard, Bromley, co. Middx. ;
Anne, his wife ; and their children John Hills, jun., and
Mary-Ann Hills, her nephew and niece. [i2th November,
1741 — i6th November, 1741.]
CHARLES BLAKE, of St. George's, Hanover Square, desires
burial at the west end of the churchyard of St. Paul's, Covent
Garden, " where his wives and their children lye," names his
late son Charles B., son-in-law George Tilden, grandson George
Tilden, and grandda. Teresa Baladine, sister of G. T., nephew
Charles Blake and his wife, and niece Dorothy Blake. [7th
October, 1732 — 1st December, 1732.] Assuming this to be the
will of C. B., the " Nonjuror," he was therefore aged 95 at
the time of his death.
HENRY TASBURGH, of St. Giles', names his wife Susannah,
nephews Francis Tasburgh, of Bodney, and Basil Bartlett, his
sister Anne Bartlett, widow, &c. His house in Devonshire
Street, in the p. of St. George the Martyr, and most -of his
effects he leaves to his da. Mary Clare Tasburgh [27th
September, 1732 — loth January, 1738.], who afterwards
married Sir Thomas Gerard, bart., and dying 27th October,
1768, aet. 42, was buried at St. Pancras. [Cansick's Epitaphs
of Middlesex, p. 15.]
The will of ELIZABETH ARMSTRONG, of St. Margaret's, West
minster, widow, dated 1st May, and proved loth May, 1742, by
which she left her estate to her niece Judith, the widow of her
nephew Laurence Wierex, tallow chandler, may possibly be
that of E. A., the "Catholic Nonjuror ".
MARGARET CALVERT, Lady BALTIMORE, names her grandda.
Charlotte C., and Cecil, .youngest son of Benedict C.} her execu-
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trix being Mrs. Frances Errington. [i5th July, 1731 — 2ist
July, 1731-]
GEORGE BROWNLOW DOUGHTY, of Beenham, co. Berks.
Admon. of his estate was granted, loth April, 1744, to his son
Henry.
His widow, Frances D., of Devonshire Street, in the p. of
St. George the Martyr, in her will of 3ist May, 1763, names
her four sons (then living) Henry, George, James, and Robert,
and her three das. Frances, wife of Henry Wells ; Mary, wife
of Thomas Mannock; and Charlotte D., spinster; John Prujean
being a witness, and John Maire, of Gray's Inn, executor of
her will, proved 28th November, 1765. Further admon. was
granted, i8th April, 1776, to her da. Mary Mannock.
His father, Philip Doughty, of Marford Hall, co. Lincoln
(whose will of 3Oth March, 1710, was proved 2Oth May, 1710),
married Elizabeth, only child and heir of William Brownlow,
of Humby, co. Lincoln, a brother of Sir John Brownlow, bart.
Grace Hatcher, who by will left some estate to the Doughty
family, was da. and co-heir of William Harbord, and first wife
of Thomas Hatcher, Esq. of Careby, co. Lincoln, who died at
Bath, 6th September, 1714. [Blore's Hist, of Rutland, p. 134.]
JANE FITZWILLIAM, of the p. of St. James, in the Liberty
of Westminster, names her da. Jane, the wife of — - Dally,
and their children Jane and Mary Dally ; her two cousins
Henry Cuffaud and Richard Compton, and her friends John
Yate (who, with [Bishop] Benjamin Petre, witnessed her will)
and Margaret Yate his wife. [2nd December, 1723 — 28th
September, 1730.]
ELIZABETH GAZAIGNE, widow of John G., late of the p. of
St. Martin-in-the-Fields, co. Middx., tailor, in her will dated
25th April, 1737, when " in pretty good health," and proved
loth February, 1743, says :"...! have for life the produce of
33,000 livres from the town house in Paris in the name of
Eliz. Robinson, which goes at my death to my son John ".
She names her das. Mary Fraser and Frances Tancred, grand
son Charles Tancred, and cousins Ann and Eliz. Purcell. Her
husband John G. appears to have been the son of John G., of
Theobald's Court, Holborn, by his wife Mary G., alias Adams,
4O RECORDS OF ENGLISH CATHOLICS.
the will of this Mary G. being proved 6th February, 1718,
O.S., by her son Anthony G.
Admon. of the estate of AURELIUS JONES, of St. Anne's,
Westminster, was granted, I4th February, 1728, to his widow
Mary.
Admon. of the estate of CHARLES SMALBONE, of Lamborne,
co. Berks, was granted, i6th September, 1724, to his sister
Margaret S., spinster.
ELIZABETH MOREN, of the p. of St. Martin-in-the-Fields,
desires burial near her husband Dominic M., in the churchyard
of Covent Garden, and names her sons Dominique and Charles,
and her sister Mary Hinton, of Newbury, co. Berks, widow.
[i3th April, 1711 — ist December, 1720.]
" DENNIS MOLONY, Esq., now of Gray's Inn, and late of
Lincoln's Inn . . . desires burial in Sumerset House Chapel,
if allowed, and if not in St. Andrew's, Holborn ; " names his
nephew Daniel, a nephew in Clare's regiment, and son of his
sister Honora Macnamara ; he gives legacies " to the late
Bishop Molony's poor relations, in co. Clare ... to Mr.
Turberville, my horse, I am glad he is a good one for my
friend's sake . . . £10 each to the clergy of the Portuguese,
French, Spanish, and Sardinian Chapels, in London, that they
may severally say and perform the service and office for the
dead . . . the poor begging at the chapel door when such
service is performing to have 2 guineas divided amongst them,
and they to join in praying for my soul at the same time."
[30th November, 1726 — loth January, 1727.]
L^TITIA LANGHORN, of St. Sepulchre's, London. Admon.
of her estate was granted, 8th December, 1729, to her sister
Catherine, the wife of Rob. Burton.
ANNE, Countess of SUSSEX, desires burial early in the morn
ing, with only one coach to attend her funeral ; names her
grandson Thomas Barrett Leonard, da. Lady Barbara Skelton,
and grandda. Anne Roper, with the other children of her da.,
the wife of Henry, Lord Teynham. [i5th May, 1722 —
May, 1722.]
MONMOUTH. 41
FRANCIS BIRD, of St. Giles'. Admon. of his estate was
granted, I3th March, 1731, to his widow Hester, and a further
admon., 5th July, 1751, to his son Edward Chapman Bird, of
the estate left unadministered by the widow at that time dec.
MARY ROUGE, late of the city of Paris, spinster. Admon.
of her estate was granted, I7th December, 1719, to her brother
John R.
Sir HENRY BOND. " Translated out of French " is the will
of his mother-in-law Eliz. Benoist, living 2Oth April, 1724, in
King Street, in p. of St. James, Westminster, and " widow of
the late Hon. Simon le Noir, Esq., councellor and secretary to
the most Christian King": she names her grandson Sir Thomas
Bond, and granddas. Eliz. and Lelia Bond. Her will was
proved ist June, 1724.
MONMOUTH.
JOHN JONES, Esq., " late of Dingestow, now of the Dry
Bridge, in the p. of Monmouth," names his wife Catherine,
sons Richard (eldest) and John, and das. Teresa, Catherine,
Margaret, and Cecily: one witness is Michael Lorimer. [i4th
January, 1725 — I7th May, 1726.]
FRANCES WATKINS, now or late of Bergavenny, spinster,
names her kinsman Rob. Gunter, of Bergavenny, doctor of
physic, and his brother and sister John and Jane Gunter ;
leaves some plate to Anthony Wright, of Covent Garden, to
Michael Lorimer the younger, of Perthire, and to Mary Gunter,
of Bergavenny, widow. [23rd April, 1739 — 26th July, 1739.]
The will also of Charles Watkins, of Abergavenny, son of
Charles and Mary W., late of the Wayne, in p. of Tregare,
dated 8th July, 1737, was proved 28th January, 1738 : he left
all his estate to his executor, Edward Webb, of Gray's Inn.
JOHN VAUGHAN, " the elder," of Courtfield, by will of 23rd
September, 1750, left his personal estate to his wife Elizabeth ;
a codicil of 8th April, 1754, states that " pictures, plate, and
furniture are to continue as standards and heirlooms in the
house". Proved 8th April, 1755.
42 RECORDS OF ENGLISH CATHOLICS.
JOHN AYLEWORTH, of Trecastle, in p. of Llangoven, names
his wife Elizabeth, sister Hannah, the wife of Edward Philpot ;
his three nephews John Gosling, of Chepstow, cooper ; Roger
Cadogan, of Coytrey ; and Henry Cadogan, of Kemys-Com-
mander, co. Monmouth ; with legacies to Anne, Eliz., Winifred,
and Hannah, the four das. of John Prichard, of Skenfrith, by
Anne his wife (testator's niece) ; to Winifred, wife of Mr.
Herbert, and da. of Henry Scudamore, of Pembridge Castle,
and to his cousin John Ayleworth, of Llandanny. [8th Janu
ary, 1725— I5th April, 1726.]
MATTHEW JONES, of Skenfrith, names his late parents Rice
and Ann Jones, wife Alice, sons William (eldest), John, and
Robert ; das. Ann and Teresa, and his brother John Jones.
James Powell is named as " tenant of the Wayne," the over
seers of his will being his kinsman Robert Needham, jun., and
his cousin Thomas Belchier. [2nd November, 1719 ; codicil
I3th October, 1721 — 2nd March, 1722.]
EDWARD PROGERS was son of " William P., of Gwarindee,
councillor-at-law," by Catherine, da. of Robert Berry, Esq., of
Ludlow : he married Elizabeth, da. of Walter Williams, of
Llanfuyst, his grandfather being Charles P., colonel of King's
Guards, who married, first, a da. of Henry Baker, of Aber-
gavenny, by whom he had only one da., and secondly, Hieronyma,
da. of William Bawd, of Walgrave, co. Northampton. [Brit.
Mus., Harl. MSS. 2291, pt. ii., f. 32.]
ROBERT NEEDHAM, jun., of St. Maughan's, died 4th April,
1720 : he married, first, Lucy, da. of Scudamore, of Black-
brooke, and secondly, Anne, sister of Charles Pye, of the
" Mynde ". [Lawson MS.] On 4th July, 1753, admon. of the
estate of Rob. Needham, late of Hilston, co. Monmouth, was
granted to Robert Needham, son of dec. Ann N., widow of dec.,
herself dying before she had taken admon. : " the letters of
admon. of said dec., granted in October, 1724, to Susanna N.,
widow, grandmother and guardian of the said Robert N. and
of Charles N., and of John N., an infant, children of the said
dec., then minors, for their use and benefit, and until they or
one of them should attain twenty-one years of age, being ceased
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and expired by reason the said Rob. N. hath attained the age
aforesaid ".
Dr. Oliver, Western County Collections, pp. 62 and 189, writes
of these "minor" Needhams, that John N. afterwards married
Eliz., da. of Robert Rowe, by Prudence Chichester his wife;
while of Charles, he says : " This gifted Sieve of Douay College
and polished gentleman arrived at Tor Abbey, loth December,
1745, where until the autumn of 1788, he continued his
invaluable services to religion and to the [Gary] family.
Retiring from the charge of the flock, he afterwards resided
at the village of Tor Mohun until February, 1798, eventually
dying in London, loth September, 1802, aged 88". The Douay
Diary, p. 63, speaks of him as optima spei adolescens, born 2nd
October, 1716, and taking the College oath, nth March, 1735.
THOMAS JONES, of Hardwick, bachelor. Admon. of his
estate was granted, 8th June, 1739, to his sisters Catherine
Jones and Eliz., the wife of William Taylor.
WINIFRED JONES, " widow of George Jones, of Hardwick,
now in the p. of Holywell, co. Flint," by will of 8th August,
1734, proved igth October, 1736, left her "linen and furniture
in her room at Hardwick to her das. Catherine J. and Eliz.,
naming her brother Thomas Davies, of Trerabbott, resid.
legatee "
GEORGE SCUDAMORE, of Skenfrith. The codicil to his will
is dated 2Oth August, 1717, the will being proved 2nd March,
J723> by the two first-named of his three executors, viz., his
nephew Charles Bodenham, George Morgan, of Monmouth,
and his brother-in-law Robert Needham the elder.
This ROBERT NEEDHAM, by his will dated 2Oth February,
1720, " according to the computation of the Church of England
... all written with his own hand . . . desires burial in a
frugal and decent manner at night-time," and names his wife
Susan, son Sebastian, das. Ursula, the wife of Thomas Bel-
chier, and their da. Jane, and Susan, wife of George Pinkard,
and Robert their son ; his son John N. with Martha his wife,
and his son-in-law John Richard Langhorn ; also his grandson
Robert, the son of his deceased son Robert Needham ; he
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bequeaths his law books and MSS. of pleadings to such of the
sons of his late son Robert as shall practise the law ; these,
his grandsons, are when " eighteen years of age to choose a
profession to avoid idleness and bad company " ; finally, he
leaves three guineas to his niece Kimbarow Morgan, who nursed
him in his illness. [Proved 25th September, 1724.]
WILLIAM PROGER, Esq. of Gwerndee, co. Monmouth,
appointed his wife Catherine executrix of his will, proved 3Oth
April, 1708, and names his " two sons," of whom Edward the
eldest appears in Cosin's List, as also does his mother, who,
2nd July, 1712, married, secondly, William Thomas, of Brecon,
a brother of Hugh Thomas, herald and antiquary. [Brit. Mus.,
Harl. MSS. 2291, and Jones' Breconshire.]
FRANCES PROGER, of Llantillio-Pertholey, spinster, desires
burial in Bergavenny Churchyard, near her sister [Hieronyma]
Mostyn, whose wedding-ring she leaves to her cousin Philippa,
the wife of the Rev. Dr. Croxall ; and to the wife of William
Saunders, " a picture of our Blessed Lord, the Blessed Virgin,
and St. Joseph ". She names also her two nephews Edward
and Robert Proger, and her " cousins " [sic] William and
Elizabeth, son and da. of the said Edward Proger; cousins
Catherine Jones, of Dingestow, widow, and Mary Cown, her
friend Robert Cown, of Bergavenny, being executor. [26th
March, 1731—17^ May, 1733.]
Her sister Hieronyma married Thomas, fourth son of Sir
Pyers Mostyn of Talacre, co. Flint, by Frances, his wife. H.
M. was a da. of Charles Progers by his second wife Hieronyma
Bawd. [See EDWARD PROGERS and Harl. MSS. 2291.]
NOTTINGHAM.
PERCY MARKHAM, of Spink-hill, names his two cousins,
Cosmas Nevill, of Holt, whose son Charles was testator's
godson, and William Fitzwilliam, described as " living at
present with my nephew Conquest ". His executors were his
nephews George and Edward Markham, and there are legacies
to Lady Barlow, Vincent Eyre, of Sheffield, and Vincent Eyre,
of Dronfield-Woodhouse. [i5th August, 1751 — nth Sep
tember, 1753.]
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Sir GERVASE CLIFTON, of Clifton, bart, desires "to be
carried to his burial by his tenantry and servants," and names
his wife Anne, and sons Robert (eldest), William, Alfred, and
George, [gth December, 1724 — 3rd April, 1731.]
EDWARD, Duke of NORFOLK, desires burial at Arundel, and
names among others his brother Philip and wife Henrietta ;
kinsmen Charles Howard; Bernard-Edward and Henry-
Thomas, the two sons of Henry Howard, of Sheffield. [2ist
May, 1777 — Qth October, 1777.]
Hon. PHILIP HOWARD, of Buckenham House, co. Norfolk,
desiring to be interred in Arundel Church, Sussex, leaves his
son Thomas and da. Winifred " to the care and tuition of his
brother Edward, Duke of Norfolk," and his son Edward and
da. Anne to the like care of his wife and executrix Henrietta.
[7th June, 1745 — loth February, 1750.]
NORFOLK.
Hon. HENRY HOWARD, " of St. Andrew's, Holborn,
bachelor ". Admon. granted, I2th June, 1722, to his brother
Philip, his mother Lady Mary H. renouncing.
ELIZABETH HEVENINGHAM, " of the p. of St. James, within
the liberty of Westminster, and lately of Hatch, near Hendon,
co. Wilts," spinster, names the Countess of Castlehaven, her
cousin Weld, of Lulworth Castle, and " Mrs. Grimes ".
Her executor, George, the son of Richard and Dorothy Shelton,
refusing to administer to her estate, admon. was granted, 5th
December, 1726, to her sister Bridgit Graby, widow, to whom
also she bequeathed " the rent of her three houses in St.
Martin's Lane," and whose da. Jane Graby is to receive them
on her mother's death. [i5th July, 1725 — 5th December, 1726.]
The will of Sir FRANCIS FORTESCUE, of Sawston, co. Cam
bridge, who also held estates at West Walton and Walsoken,
co. Norfolk, dated i8th September, 1724, and of which his
widow Dame Mary was named one executrix, was proved 8th
January, 1730.
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Dame DOROTHY YALLOP. On an altar tomb in Bowthorpe
Churchyard is the following M. I. " Reliquiae Roberti Yallop,
militis, Loco, Jussu dum viveret suo, coram effoso, depositae :
obiit VII0 die mensis Maii, A° Domini MDCCV., setat 68.
Requiescat in Pace."
And in the chancel of Bowthorpe Church : " Here lyeth the
bodies of Robert, Henry, and Dorothy Yallop, children of Sir
Robert and Dorothy Y., his wife, who died in infancy,
1660-1670 ".
And on another stone.
" Here lyeth the body of Dame Dorothy, the widow of
Sir Rob. Yallop, of Bowthorpe, in the co. of Norfolk, Knt.,
to whom she bore four sons and one da. She was the eldest
da. of Clement Spelman, Esq., of the co. of Middx., and one
of the barons of the Exchequer : a lady no less adorned with
the endowments of Nature than of Virtue ; and as the former
gave her the esteem of men, so the latter qualified her for
heaven, for, if the merciful shall obtain mercy, she in whom
Compassion and Charity to the distressed shined so bright
may justly be presumed to have met with a like return from
the Father of Mercies, in hopes whereof she departed this life,
the i5th day of Jan., 1719-20, and of her age 84." [Blome-
field's Norfolk, ii. 384-5.]
Page, in his History of Suffolk (p. 468), says that the
Bowthorpe estate was conveyed to Sir Rob. Y. for his
services in the recovery of certain Yorkshire estates, the
property of the Yaxleys, also a Catholic family.
Sir FRANCIS JERNEGAN names his wife Anne, sons George,
John, Francis, Charles, Henry, and Edward, and das. Mary and
Anne, [nth June, 1730 — 24th November, 1730.]
ELIZABETH HOWARD, by will dated i2th September, 1734, and
proved ist March, 1737, by her executor James Rokeby, desires
burial at St. Pancras by her father " as privately and decently
as 18 guineas will pay," leaves a guinea ring to the Duke of
Norfolk, her uncle, and " all her effects to Elizabeth Challiner
for just and good service to her parents and herself".
JEREMY NORRIS, Esq., of the city of Norwich, in will of 3Oth
NORFOLK. 47
July, 1699, " stilo, Angliae," proved 24th January, 1700, names
his wife Teresa ; former wife Anne, the da. of William Woolmer ;
son Jeremy, and das. Anne Reilly and Mary the wife of
Thomas Seaman. He left also " £120 to poor Catholics of the
city of Norwich to be put out at interest in perpetuity ".
VERB HARCOURT, gent., of Little Walsingham, co. Norfolk,
by his will dated 5th September, 1714, and proved 22nd March,
1717, left his estate at Clay-next-the-Sea to Lucy his wife for
life, passing at her death to " such of his children and their
heirs as were living at the death of the late Lady Colstone ".
The Rev. Vere Harcourt, rector of Plumtree, co. Notts, in his
will of 30th March, 1683, proved at York, igth July, 1683,
names his eldest son Vere Harcourt (dec.), and his " grandchild
Vere, son of his eldest son Vere and Judith his wife ". This
"grandson" was probably afterwards the husband of Lucy
here named. Dame Anne Colstone died in 1705. The sugges
tion in note p. 177 of Eng. Cath. Nonj., that Lucy was the
widow of the Archdeacon of Notts, is evidently therefore
incorrect.
HENRY DEVALL, of Swaffham, grocer, gives legacies to his
wife Mary, to Charles Sherburne, now living with John Eyre, of
Berries Hall ; " to cousin Thomas Sulman, living with some
ambassador in London ; and to his (Sulman's) sister Mary
Pell, widow, with £ 10 to the poorest inhabitants of Swaffham
as does not take collection ". [26th January, 1728 — 26th
February, 1728.]
RICHARD BOSTOCK, of Bath, in co. Somerset, thus com
mences his will : " Deus propitius esto mihi peccatori : fiat
voluntas tua ". If dying within a day's journey of Bath,
desires "to be buried between eleven and twelve at night in left-
hand aisle of the Abbey Church, and that a monumental stone
against the wall bear only this inscription : . . . Richardus
Bostock, M.D., olim de Whixall in co. Salopiae obiit
Requiescat in pace : " he names his brother Nathaniel and
nephew Henry B., and three sisters Mary B., spinster,
Thickness, and Catherine Paston, widow and executrix. [29th
January, 1746 — 7th April, 1747.]
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48 RECORDS OF ENGLISH CATHOLICS.
HELENA LAURENCE, of Castleacre, co. Norfolk, in her will
of 5th October, 1741, proved gth January, 1742, names her
grandson Mat. Halcott, of Hoe, next Dereham, her son Samuel,
and da. Helen, the wife of Thomas Young, of Northwold, with
their son Thomas Patrick Young.
NORTHAMPTON.
DOROTHY, Lady DUNBAR, " desires to be buried about
eleven or twelve of the clock in the night," and leaves to her
" nephew, Cuthert Constable, the picture of Lord Dunbar and
that of the Duchess of Feria, to be kept as heirlooms in his
family " : names her sister the Countess of Middleton, niece
Lady Molyneux, and nephews John, Earl of Middleton, and his
brother Charles, the Hon. James Brudenell, and his da.
Caroline, Thomas, Earl of Westmoreland, and the Hon. Jane
Fane. [28th December, 1734 ; codicils igth August, 1738 —
proved 24th March, 1740.]
WILLIAM HOLMAN, of Warkworth, names his brother-in-law
Henry Wells, kinswoman Eliz. Dacres, spinster ; wife Mary, and
nephew Rowland Eyre, with his (Eyre's) sister and brother,
Catherine and Francis Eyre. [i7th March, 1739 — i2th
November, 1740.]
JULIA PULTON, of Desborough, names her father Robert
Garter, sons Robert (dec.) and Ferdinand, das. Mary and
Frances P., and " son-in-law Richard Wright and my da., his
wife, and their three children ". [20th December, 1717 — 2ist
February, 1723.]
NORTHUMBERLAND.
THOMAS DREW, of Dodington, made John Hussey, of
Marnhull, executor of his will, and names his sister Drew,
wife Frances, and her sister Gibbons : also " the son and da.
of my half-sister Mary Ford. [February, 1729 — ist October, 1731.]
His first-named sister Frances Drew, spinster, of " Oakebole,"
lived at Chaddesley-Corbet : her will, dated ist February, 1724,
was proved 22nd September, 1725: Giles Hussey was her god-
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son, and Martha, the wife of Bernard Adys, was present at her
death. She also bequeathed " £40 to the Lanes of Winchester,
if any of them are left ; if not, to be given there to have them
prayed for ".
NICHOLAS STAPLETON, of Carlton, co. York, nephew and
heir of Sir Miles S., names his wife Mary, sons Nicholas,
Gregory, John, and Thomas S., and his uncles George and
Charles Errington, two witnesses to his will being Christopher
Lodge and John Reynolds, [gth July, 1715 — 4th January, 1717.]
JOHN CLAVERING, of Callaly, in his will dated 25th January,
1723, witnessed by Dorothy and John Hankin and John Maire,
and proved 3Oth July, 1751, names his late father Ralph, da.
Mary, and son Ralph sole executor.
The Hon. ELIZ. WIDDRINGTON, " of St. Andrew's, Holborn,
widow, desires to be buried near her da. Mary, who lies in the
Church of St. Paul's, Covent Garden, and names her nieces
Elizabeth, Bridget, and Ann Molyneux ; " Mary, the da. of my
sister Anne Widdrington, of Cheeseburn Grange " ; son Edward
H. Widdrington, and his da. Eliz.-Margaret, and her sister
Dame Frances O'Neil. [6th June, 1730 — 26th January, 1731.]
"CATHERINE RADCLIFFE, formerly of Dillingston, co.
Northumberland, spinster," by will dated 20th April, 1729,
proved loth July, 1744, left all her estate to Sir John Webb,
of Hatherop, co. Gloucester.
GEORGE ERRINGTON, " of the p. of St. Andrew, Holborn ".
Admon. of his estate was granted, 28th June, 1725, to his da.
Frances E., spinster, his widow Everilde E. having first re
nounced : the latter, dating her will also in the same parish, 8th
July, 1726 (proved I2th September, 1727), desires burial at St.
Pancras by her husband and da., and speaks of her " cousins
Eliz. Fenwick and Frances Errington, who now live with me ".
Their da. Frances E., of St. Andrew's, Holborn, in her will
of 15th December, 1725, proved 5th April, 1726, names her
cousin John, son of Gilbert E., of , Northumberland, and
grandson of Benjamin E., late of Berwick-hill. She speaks of
her " father's law books," and desires burial at St. Pancras.
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OXON.
MICHAEL BLOUNT, of Maple-Durham, in his will dated 28th
November, 1730, and proved 22nd April, 1740, by Michael, his
son, his widow Mary renouncing execution, names his brother-
in-law George-Brounlow Doughty, cousins Sir John and Matthew
Swinburne, and sisters Teresa and Martha, leaving also "£300
among poor Roman Catholics"; either of his das. Mary or
Frances entering Religion to have £500 in lieu of £2000 other
wise their portion, and any son " becoming a professed priest of
any Religious Order " to have £500 instead of £1000.
THOMAS STONOR, of Stonor, desires burial among his an
cestors at Stonor, and names his brother John Talbot Stonor,
das. Winifred Howard, Anne, Elizabeth, and Penelope, and
sons Thomas (eldest), Charles, John, and Christopher, " any
of whom entering a Religious Order under 21 years of age
to have only £500." [i4th January, 1723 — i3th August, 1724.]
Admon. of the estate of JOHN TRINDER, of Westwell, co.
Oxon, a brother of Charles T., was granted, 3rd September,
1719, to Anne, his widow.
MARY HYDE, of Stanlake, widow, names her sons Richard
(eldest) and Charles, and her da. Anne, as also her nephew
Francis Risdon, of the p. of St. Ann, in St. Martin's-le-Grand.
Of her sons she says: " I beg of Richard for my sake to be kind
to his brother Charles ". [25th March, 1732 — 6th July, 1733.]
ROBERT KILBY, of Souldern, names his wife Ann, nephews
Gabriel and Samuel Cox, and three nieces Helena Blevin,
Eliz., wife of Rev. Walter Saunders, and Alicia Cox, spinster.
[30th June, 1746— 25th June, 1757.]
Sir FRANCIS CURZON, of Great Milton, names his wife
Winifred, brother Peter, nephew John Brinkhurst, and nieces
Lady Gaydon, Catherine Brinkhurst, and Mary Barnwell. [8th
August, 1749 — 2nd August, 1750.]
JAMES FERMOR, of Tusmore, mentions his son Henry and
uncle Richard F., and leaves "£5 only to any of his five
younger children who turn Religious". [25th August, 1721 —
December, 1722.]
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HENRY FERMOR, of Tusmore, desires burial at Somerton, co.
Oxon ; names his eldest son William and brother James ; " any
younger child turning Religious between the ages of 21 and 30
to have only £500, but any doing so after 30 years of age to have
her full share, viz., £2000 ". [8th March, 1743 — =;th March,
I747-]
CHARLES GREENWOOD, of Brize-Norton, in his will made,
" In the Name of the Holy and undivided Trinity," ist August,
1721, and proved 6th March, 1722, names his wife Ann, only
da. of Francis Canning, of Foxcote (the marriage settlement
bearing date 27th January, 1718) ; cousins Charles Bodenham,
Thomas Greenwood, of Chastleton, co. Oxon, and John Dan-
castle, of Binfield, and appoints his father-in-law and his
brother John Russell, of Little Malvern, guardians of his da.
Mary G.
RADNOR.
JAMES BASKERVILLE, of Aberedow. Admon. of his estate was
granted, gth June, 1733, to his widow Mary.
SALOP.
MARY PURCELL, of London, spinster, in her will of 4th
January, 1731, proved i8th January, 1739, by her sister
Catherine Penson, whose husband Thomas was then dead,
names her sister Winifred and nephew James, eldest son of
her brother John Purcell, doctor of physic ; alludes to a share
of a coal mine, lately the property of her dec. brother Thomas,
about which there was some dispute. The estate being left
unadministered by Catherine Penson, further admon. was
granted, gth June, 1752, to Winifred Purcell.
THOMAS PENSON, of Gray's Inn, names his wife Catherine,
sons John and Joseph, and da. Mary P., a further admon. being
granted ist December, 1740, to Joseph P., one of the surviving
resid. legatees, Cath., the widow, then being dec. intestate.
[8th June, 1736—13^ July, 1737.]
52 RECORDS OE ENGLISH CATHOLICS.
FRANCIS SMITH, of Aston, in his will dated loth April, 1700,
and proved 30th April, 1701, names his wife Audrey (a da., says
the Lawson MS., of Robert Atwood, of Bushbury, co. Stafford),
son William, and five das., Elizabeth, Juliana, Mary, Anne, and
Audrey : a further admon. was granted, igth May, 1720, to
Anne his da., the widow Audrey then being dead.
The will of ELIZABETH IRELAND (widow of Thomas I.),
dated " i6th September, 1718, O.S., in New North Street, near
Red Lyon Square, in p. of St. Andrew, Holborn," was proved
3oth December, 1718. To her son Thomas she bequeaths " all
the goods she left at Abrighton, with legacies to her da. Eliz.
(whose will, dated igth November, 1717, was proved 25th
November, 1730), her grandson Thomas Ireland, and her three
brothers, Raphe, Edward, and Thomas Clayton.
" NATHANIEL BOSTOCK, of Whixall, in p. of Preece, co.
Salop, doctor in physic," names his wife Eliz., daughters Eliz.
Lowe, Eyre, Mary, Catherine, and Alathea, with their
grandfather Stafford, and -their aunt Lenoxe : his eldest son
Richard (executor), and other sons, John, Henry, James, and
Nathaniel B. [28th December, 1714 — ist October, 1719.]
WINIFRED PURCELL, of the p. of St. George the Martyr,
Queen Square, spinster, writes : " As I am a Christian I hope
for salvation through the merits of my Saviour". "To her
niece Mrs. Maria Teresa Cotton she leaves her "green
damasked gown and unwatered tabby " ; her clothes to her
brother Edward's da., of Broseley, co. Salop, naming also
his two sons Edward and Thomas P., and her friend Mary,
widow of the late William Lacy, and Frances Lacy their da.
[2ist November, 1758 — 2ist November, 1760.]
THOMAS BERINGTON, of the p. of St. George the Martyr,
Queen Square, London, in his will of 3ist October, 1755, proved
29th December, 1755, names his three nephews, Dr. William
B., Dr. Joseph B., and Thomas Berington, of Stock, the latter
being executor ; his sister dough, four nieces,
Berington, Frances Auben ; and her two sisters, " my nieces,"
Eliz. and Ann Clough, adding : I leave " to my niece Philippa,
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now Lady Fleetwood, five guineas and my spring clock that
strikes the quarters ".
THOMAS PURCELL, of the Hay, in p. of Madeley. Admon.
of his estate was granted, I5th December, 1719, to his widow
Catherine.
RICHARD LACON, of Linley, by will of I5th January, 1750,
proved 23rd January, 1752, desires to be buried near his wife,
and names his brother Rowland (executor) and the children of
his two brothers-in-law, Thomas Green (dec.) and Samuel
Littlehales.
The will of " ALETHEA CLIFFORD, widow, of the town of
Shrewsbury," dated gth January, 1729-30, was proved 7th May,
J737j by her grandson Richard Corbett, to whom she left all
her estate.
*
" I, WILLIAM PLOWDEN, being this 3ist March, 1739,
full 70 years of age and thro' God's uncommon mercy of sound
judgment . . . though of fast declining health and sunk with
heavy sorrows, God enable me to bear 'em Christianly — - ...
did intend to be buried in Plowden Bow in Lidbury Church
with my ancient ancestors and close to my last dear wife Mary
Stonor, or in the churchyard of St. Oswald's Hospital at Wor
cester, but being bent upon complying with what I think will
best please my present wife Mary Lyttleton, and seeing her
determined to be buried by our two boys Edmund-Lyttleton P.
and Charles P., I doe depart from and wave whatever moved
me to the above intentions, and as a last proof that living I
ever wished to please her, and dying will solely study to gain her
heart. ... I order my body to be buried in Worcester Church,
near my boys . . . this to be performed in a more than com
monly private manner, no pomp, no fflutter, no hearses, no
coaches, no rings, no scarves, gloves, nor hat-bands, but instead
thereof, 8 men to carry me to the grave and to have 55. each,
and after my corps, old Tom Blackmore — above 100 — if alive,
to walk mourner and to have 2os., after him 70 men of sixty, each
(if so it may be) to attend unto my grave and to have 55. each :
my coffin to be of mahogany plank without covering of velvet
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or cloath, strong brass hasps and hinges but no pall nor es
cutcheons, a Brass plain crosse on the top of the coffin, under
which these three letters, R.I. P., with my day of death : a large
black marble to be layd over my body with ' William Plowden
dyed — aged — R.I. P.'. Cn the church wall as near the grave
as may be I will have a large white marble stone (plain mould)
with a black marble cross over it, deep cut: on this white stone
I will have these words, ' Here underlyes William Plowden
honourably and very anciently descended, born 3ist March,
1669, dyed ' : next under, I will have these words, ' Pro
fide, pro rege, mala patienter sustinui, bona instanter speravi
dum fui vix fui nunc sum Resurecturo, satis sed ut Bene sim
pie lector precare Christum Deum quia ego credidi in ejus
unam Sanctam Catholicam et Apostolicam Ecclesiam, scilicet
Romanam. R.I. P.'
" All this I order if I dye at Worcester, wherever else I dye
I will be buried in the parish church . . . and give £5 to the
poor. ... I give to my daughters Penelope Whitworth and
Frances Slaney, to each of them the two following books, viz.,
The difference between the Conversion and Reformation of England,
and that other book called Charity and Truth, beseeching them
by the Blood of Jesus to read 'em again and again without pre
judice : their dying father entreats this of them. . . . All my
manors are regularly settled and will take their course, but as
God has blessed me with a personal estate of some value, I
dispose of it ... with strict regard to justice and tenderness,
and quite free from partiality or resentment ... to my wife
£100 . . . and whatever she calls her own (her word to be
taken for it). I give her absolutely my coach or chariot, best
pair of coach horses and best harness ... as to stores, pro
visions, wines and all consumables she may take what she
pleases for her own and her family's use. I give zoli. to be
distributed as my executor and my eldest son know I would
have it disposed of if I were under no restraint and might be
queath as fully as others may. To my eldest son I bequeath
all pictures except that drawn of me in a turban, which is my
wife's given her by my sister Goring, also all medals, coins
and prints, and also half of whatever belongs to the Room
where I and my family go to say our prayers ... to my eldest
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son my leopard-skin saddle trimmed with gold 'fringe and the
pistols belonging to it ... to my faithful old servant William
Thompson £20 with the horse ... he usually rides when he
travels with me ... to Mrs. Mary Wakeman, long since
married to Mr. Van Rose, a lawyer in French Flanders, £15,
or to him if alive, if both dead look no further ... 3 guineas
to the Earl Mareschall of Scotland ... 3 guineas to the poor
of Holywell ... 2 guineas to parson Thomas Maurice for
a ring." His executor was his younger son John Trevanion
Plowden, the will being proved 22nd April, 1740.
There is a tradition in the family that William Plowden's
first wife, together with her newly-born infant, were poisoned by
the attendant doctor ; this, if a fact, together with the apparent
apostasy of his daughters, and the inferences suggested by the
foregoing quaint document, that the domestic reins were held
pretty tightly by the fair hand of the third lady, probably con
tributed largely to the memory of " sorrows " when he passed
his 7oth birthday in settling his affairs. The books that he
was so anxious for his daughters to read were Robert Man
ning's England's Conversion and Reformation compared, an 8vo
volume published at Antwerp in 1725, and that of the Rev.
Edward Hawarden (a missionary priest who died in London in
I735)j entitled Charity and Truth, or Catholics not uncharitable in
saying that none are saved out of the Catholic Communion.
WILLIAM HASSALL, of Berrington, in his will of I7th April,
1739, proved by his son and executor Thomas, 2ist October,
1740, names his da. Anne, the wife of Arthur Lowe, and their
children, William, Arthur, and Thomas Lowe, and Anne, Mary,
Frances, Appollonia, Elizabeth, and Margaret Lowe ; his da.
Appollonia, wife of William King, and their children, William,
Thomas, James, and Mary King ; da. Frances, wife of Richard
Johnson ; grandda. Anne, the da. of Peter Hassall ; da. Mary
Magdalen, the wife of John Hutten, as also the children of
Thomas Hassall.
CALEB HIGGINS, of Shiffnal, in his will dated i8th March,
1726, proved 2gth November, 1728, names his "late wife
Mary " and his da. Mary.
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HENRY, Earl of STAFFORD, desires to be buried at West
minster Abbey, and mentions his brother Francis S., and sisters
the Ladies Ursula, Mary, and Anastatia, with his nephew and
niece William and Mary, the children of his brother John
Stafford. Among the legacies are : " To my cousin the Hon.
Charles Howard, of Greystoke, my carpet wrought in silk by
our great-grandmother of blessed memory . . . [Anne] da. of
Lord Dacre, and wife of Philip, Earl of Arundel and Surrey,"
and " to cousin Lady Eliz. Haccher, a hanging of green velvet
wrought by the hand of Mary Queen of Scots ". Of his wife he
says : " I give to the worst of women, except being a wh e,
who is guilty of all ills, the da. of Mr. Grammont, a French
man, whom I have unfortunately married, 45 brass half-pence
which will buy her a pullet to her supper, a greater sum than
her father can often make, for I have known when he had
neither money nor credit for such a purchase, being the worst
of men, and his wife the worst of women in all debaucheries :
had I known their character, I had never married their
daughter, nor made myself unhappy ". [2nd Feb., 1699 — 2nd
July, 1719.]
CLAUDE-CHARLOTTE DE GRAMMONT, Lady STAFFORD, by
will, "signed in London," I3th May, 1739, anc* proved i6th
May, 1739, left all her estate to the Rt. Hon. Charles Earl of
Arran.
SOMERSET.
JOHN TAUNTON, of West Lydford, names his das. Grace
(then married), Mary, Anne, Jane, and Henrietta, and his sons
Joseph, Thomas, and John, the last-named also having a
son John. [2nd May, 1718 — I7th October, 1718.]
Dr. Oliver, in his Western County Collections, p. 69, gives the
name of Thomas Taunton as his authority for the narrative of
the death-bed scene of Lord Waldegrave as noticed in Eng.
Cath. Nonj., p. 64. Might not the words then attributed to
Lord W. admit of a hopeful interpretation and be taken as a
public confession of his faith, to which in his last moments he
returned ? " Quod si nosmetipsos dijudicaremus, non utique
judicaremur." This Thomas Taunton appears to have been a
SOMERSET. 57
nephew of Grace and Anne T., named in the will here given,
and from the latter he had " received the anecdote " in question.
Of them, Oliver says : " Anne T. died in 1783, aged 87, and her
sister Grace, the wife of Mr. Dillon, steward to Lord Walde-
grave, died in 1760, aged 82 ".
JOHN MOLINS, of Hull within Horsington. Admon. of his
estate was granted, gth May, 1743, to Mary, his widow.
FRANCIS CARNE, of Bath, names his wife Anne and his
"unfortunate son Edward," his sister Mary Guest and her
two daughters. The trustees of his estate were John Stibbs,
George Stibbs, doctor of physic, both of the city of Bath, and
John Hussey, of Marnhull. On 26th June, 1750, a further
admon. of the estate upon the death of the widow Anne was
granted to her sister Eliz. Kibbell, widow, [nth January, 1719
— 3ist October, 1721.]
THOMAS, Lord STOURTON, in his will dated igth April, 1738,
and proved 2nd May, 1744, names his brothers Botolph and
John, nephews James and William S., and his three nieces
Catherine and Eliz. S., and Langdale. Oliver says that
he was buried at Stourton, ist April, 1744, set. 77, his widow,
by whom he left no issue, being buried there igth June,
*749-
" MARGARET GREEN, of Willet, in the p. of Elworthy,
spinster, only child now living, and heir-at-law of John Green,
late of Easton, in the p. of Bishops^Morchard, co. Devon,
gent, dec., who was the eldest son and heir of Gabriel Green
(the eldest), late of Bishops-Morchard, aforesaid, gent, dec.,
who married Dorothy Easton, of Easton, spinster, only da. and
heir of John Easton, Esq," divided her estate among her
servant Edward Cann, husb., her sister Anne, the wife of John
Smith, of Frome, and her executor John Rowe, of Leighland,
with rings to her " very much respected and worthy friends,"
Rob. Rowe, Prudence his wife, and their children, [nth June,
1737 — I3th September, 1739.] If every testator took the will
of Margaret Green as a model, genealogists would certainly be
saved a vast amount of trouble and research.
58 RECORDS OF ENGLISH CATHOLICS.
GABRIEL GREEN, late of Netherbury, co. Dorset. Admon.
of his estate was granted, i6th October, 1718, to his widow
Elizabeth.
HUMPHREY STEARE, of St. Andrew's, Holborn, gent., in will
of 2Oth August, 1728, proved 2gth July, 1729, names his wife
Anne, and his " wife's da. Philippa Bourne," da. Anne, the wife
of Edward Monington, and his son Robert. His widow Anne,
" of the city of Bath," in her will of i6th November, 1744,
proved I7th June, 1745, names also her grandda. Anne
Monington, her sisters Baskerville and Gore, her
niece Ann Goldney, lately married to James Wickstead, of
Bath, and her husband's nephew Thomas Biggs, of Bridg-
water.
JOHN COTTINGTON names his brother Francis, " mother-
in-law Mrs. Catherine Cottington," his uncle Charles For-
tescue, with Eliz. his wife, and their children Francis and
Mary F. ; cousins Charles Stourton, who had a da. Mary
Langdale, and "Thomas Coleman, of London, scrivener".
[i6th October, 1724 — 3rd February, 1725.]
SAMUEL and JOHN JAMES. Dr. Oliver, in his Collections, p.
183, gives an interesting account of this family. He says: " Mr.
William James, of East Harptree, was a wealthy grazier and
possessed considerable property in the parish and at Ninton
Bluett : he had hired a drover in Salisbury Market, and sub
sequently noticing that he did not attend the parish church,
but often engaged in his devotions in the out-buildings, was led
by curiosity to examine his books. Their perusal induced him
to ask questions, and he became so edified with the example of
his faithful Catholic servant, and so satisfied with his explana
tions and instructions, that he was reconciled to the Church of
God." This William James appears to have died " about
1720," but in the subsequent notice of this family Samuel
James is not mentioned. John James, a grandson of William,
became a Franciscan.
ELIZABETH, wife of Samuel Rich, of Woodbridge, gives 23rd
June, 1708, as the date of her marriage settlement. She left
no issue, but in her will names her kinswoman Catherine
Thompson. [2nd December, 1708 — 3rd February, 1729.]
SOUTHAMPTON. 59
SOUTHAMPTON.
ELIZABETH CATTAWAY, of London, spinster, names her
sisters Mrs. Alice and Margaret C. She held three messuages
at Stoke-Charity for the life of Frances Fox, widow. [7th May,
1727— 3rd June, 1727.]
STUBBINGTON. " 1749 ; die nono Decembris obiit Joannes
Stubbington de Midhurst anno setatis suse 59 ". " 1753, die
vigesimo quarto Julii obiit Anna Stubbington." [Easebourne
Catholic Register."]
AUGUSTINE FISHER, of Kilmeston, left " Holt Coppice,"
&c., to his wife Mary for life, passing at her death to the eldest
son of his brother Charles F. [25th September, 1702 — 6th
August, 1728.]
RICHARD CLAPCOATE, of Sopley, names his son Richard,
das. Mary Allaway, Eliz. Lane, Winifred, Margaret, Dorothy
C., "and other five children," with a grandda. : gives 55. to
Joseph Gildon. [3rd January, 1723 — 3ist January, 1729.]
FRANCES, widow of Barthol. Smith, of Winchester, names
her das. Eliz., Frances, Isabella, and Anastatia, the latter to
have a gold cross that belonged to her (testatrix) brother James
Smith, also brother William Short, aunt Margaret Short, and
her godson and cousin Francis Short, of Bury St. Edmunds.
[i8th April, 1724 — 2nd October, 1729.]
JANE DESBROWE, da. of Samuel and Jane D., of the p. of
St. Bartholomew, Hyde Street, Winchester, desires burial by
her parents at St. James', and to be carried to the grave by six
poor men who are to have 2s. 6d. each ; leaves her house, &c.,
to Mary, da. of George and Eliz. Hine, of Kingslar [sic,
probably Kingsclere]. [i8th November, 1762 — 28th January,
1772.]
AMBROSE PLOWMAN, of Weeks, names his wife Elizabeth,
son Ambrose P., grandson William King, and five daughters,
Mary (eldest), Clare, Barbara, Anne, and Joanna.
February, 1724 — ist April, 1728.]
6O RECORDS OF ENGLISH CATHOLICS.
GEORGE BOLNEY, leaves his "new freehold messuage at
Winchester " to Elizabeth his wife, and names his brother
James. [5th June, 1726 — 3rd June, 1736.]
JOHN WYBARNE, " senior, late of Hawkesworth, in p. of
Pembury, otherwise called Peppingsbury, co. Kent ". Admon.
of his estate was granted, in February, 1720, to his son John
(the widow Lsetitia renouncing), upon whose death a further
admon. was granted, loth December, 1752, to Henry W., the
second son.
Lettis Wybarne describes herself as " of the city of Nor
wich, widow of John W., late of Rockwell, co. Kent," her will
dated 5th March, 1737, with a codicil 28th June, being proved
20th October, 1737. She speaks of her freehold manor of Flixton,
co. Suffolk, and names her sons John and Henry, das. Charity
and Elizabeth, and her brother George Tasburgh ; and leaves
" £50 to be distributed among the priests in the counties of
Suffolk and Norfolk".
BARTHOLOMEW SMITH, of Winchester, allows his " mother
Frances to spend £1000, any surplus of it to pass at her death
to her seven youngest children " ; names his brothers William,
James, and Thomas, sisters Anastatia, Elizabeth, Frances, and
Isabella, and his aunt Margaret Short. [8th February, 1716 —
24th February, 1720.]
REBECCA EDWARDS, of Longham, by will of I2th February,
1719, proved 28th February, 1722, left " the whole disposal of
all her lands and goods within doors and without to her servant
Mary Michel ... no other person having the least right to
anything, let her enjoy peaceably and quietly without any
disturbance all my lands ". One witness is John Kippen.
JOHN, Lord DORMER, in his will dated 4th November, 1782,
when "old and infirm," and proved loth November, 1785,
names his sons Charles (eldest), James, John, and Thomas, da.
Catherine, and grandson Charles.
RICHARD BRUNING, of Winchester. The will of his half-
brother Charles B., of Petersfield, gent., was proved 2nd June,
STAFFORD. 6l
1724 : he names his brother George B., of Froxfield, who had
a da. Eliz., his sister Anne Colstock, and niece Anne, the wife
of William de la Rose.
JOHN FINCHAM, of Chalvestone, desires burial at Roxton
Church, and names his wife Ann, " infant son " John, and his
two sisters Novills and Elizabeth Fincham. [4th May,
1712 — 20th January, 1727.]
STAFFORD.
WILLIAM, Lord STAFFORD, in his will, proved in February,
1734, names his only son William Matthias Stafford Howard,
brothers John and Paul, sisters Mrs. Mary Plowden, Xaveria,
and Louisa ; half-sister and brother Henrietta and Edward
Stafford; nephew and niece Francis and Louisa Plowden;
three das., Mary, Anastatia, and Anne ; nephew George
Jernegan, and his uncles Sir Edward and Thomas Southcott.
BASIL FITZHERBERT, of Gray's Inn, appoints his sister
Winifred, widow of Charles Eyston, executrix of his will, dated
30th December, 1727, and proved 23rd January, 1728, and
names his mother Jane and great-nephew Basil, son of his
nephew Thomas Fitzherbert.
ANNE, widow of THOMAS HICKIN, of St. Andrew's, Holborn,
goldsmith, names her three das. — Anne (who is in Cosin's
List), Mary (dec.), the wife of Joseph Petre, and , wife
of Major Morey. [20th March, 1725 — 2ist January, 1727.]
ANNE PURCELL, of the p. of St. George the Martyr, spinster.
Admon. of her estate was granted, gth November, 1751, to
Catherine, wife of John Byfield, niece by the sister of the
deceased.
"JOHN PURCELL, of the Hay, in p. of Madeley, co. Salop,
and Doctor in Physic of College of Physicians in London," in
his will dated 3rd April, 1729, proved 20th November, 1732,
writes : " My will and desire is that the penal statutes be never
taken against my mother [Catherine], or any of my brothers
and sisters except my brother-in-law Thomas Penson, to
deprive them of the annuities left them by my father's will,
62 RECORDS OF ENGLISH CATHOLICS.
but if they sue for more than such annuities, or for a receiver
on my estates, or for any distribution of my estates, my express
will is that those penal statutes be then taken against them
which hinder Roman Catholics from taking interest in lands,
and the rather because several of them have unfairly obstructed
the probate of my brother Thomas Purcell's will . . . my will
is that my brother-in-law, Thomas Penson, pay double taxes to
the utmost extent for his annuities ".
From all this it may be inferred that John Purcell had
renounced his religion in order to secure his estates ; and it is
significant, moreover, that his name does not occur among the
number of the Purcell family who "registered their names
and real estates".
MARMADUKE, Lord LANGDALE, names his son Hon. Marma-
duke L. and da. Hon. Eliz. L., da.-in-law Hon. Constantia L.,
godson Marmaduke, the son of Thomas Langdale, of Holborn
Bridge, and his two grandsons Thomas and Peter, sons of Sir
Walter Vavasour. [8th February, 1765— nth February, 1771.]
JOHN BIDDULPH, of Biddulph, names his sons Richard (eldest)
and Charles, and das. Mary (eldest), Anne, and Frances, the
trustees being his brother Francis and his uncle Sir William
Goring, bart. [i4th April, 1720— I4th July, 1720.]
FRANCIS BIDDULPH, of Gray's Inn, in his will of i4th
December, 1744, proved 13th February, 1750, names his sister
Lady Dormer and nephew Francis Dormer, leaving to his
nephew Charles Biddulph his guns, alarum clock, silver watch,
silver-hilted sword, and gold sleeve buttons, naming his nephew
Ric. B. resid. legatee.
THOMAS WHITGREAVE, of Moseley, in his will dated 8th
September, 1728, proved 6th February, 1729, by his eldest da.
Mary-Constantia, names also his da. Mary, and his sons
Charles and Francis, the witnesses to the will being John
Lomax, Eliz. Merry, and Ann Moor.
HELEN GOWER, of Colmers, co. Wigorn. Admon. of her
estate was granted, i2th August, 1718, to her son John, her
husband William first renouncing.
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Sir EDWARD SIMEON, of Britwell Priory, near Watlington,
desires burial at Aston, co. Stafford, and names Edward and
Thomas, elder and younger sons of his nephew Edward Weld,
niece Eliz. Bridgit Weld, and the following of the Heveningham
family: John H., James, son of Walter H.; Brooke H., Mrs.
Mary Remington and her sister Mrs. Mary Heveningham ;
Christopher H., senior of Twyneforth, co. Stafford, dead since
1736 ; Henry, son of Christopher H.; Edward and John, sons of
the said Henry by his first wife ; and James, Charles, and
Thomas, sons of Henry by his second wife Mary. [i5th June,
1764 — 28th January, 1769.]
MARY GIFFARD (widow of Thomas G.), " of Long Birch, co.
Stafford," desires that "housekeeping be kept at her house
at Long Birch for one whole month after her decease, to the
end that her servants may have time to dispose of and provide
for themselves," and names her cousins William Stourton, of
Cheam, co. Surrey, and Benedict Conquest, of Irnham. [i8th
December, 1749— I3th March, 1753.]
Admon. of the estate of WILLIAM FOWLER, late of St.
Thomas', co. Stafford, widower, was granted, ist December,
1729, to Thomas Grove, nephew by the sister of William F.,
for that Mary, wife of John Fowler, niece by the sister of said
dec., died without fully administering. A prior admon. is
dated March, 1716.
WALTER FOWLER, of St. Thomas', by will of 6th February,
1695-6, proved 28th May, 1697, left to his brother William " a
gold medal of Pope Clement X. given him with his own hands,"
and names his sisters Gertrude F., Dorothy Grove, and her
children Thomas, Gertrude, and Mary Grove ; sister " Catherine
F., mistress of St. Thomas, brother William's wife," his brother
Thomas, " niece Casy in France," cousin Gilbert Whitehall, and
kinsman Thomas Canning.
Lady MARY GERARD writes : " My body is to lye in the bed
wherein I dye the space of twenty-four hours after I shall
expire before it be removed, or anything taken from about it,
or the pillows removed from under my head, afterwards put
into a leaden coffin for eight days and kept open as long as
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64 RECORDS OF ENGLISH CATHOLICS.
may be without offence". Besides many of her own (the
Webb) family, she names her niece Viscountess Montague ;
"little nephews and little nieces," the Earl of Derwentwater,
Lady Ann Radcliffe, the Hon. James Philip, and Henrietta
Waldegrave; cousin Charles Ireland, and "my worthy good
nephew" Lord Langdale. [i3th June, 1729 — 2gth October,
SUFFOLK.
HENRY BEDINGFIELD, of Stoke-Ash, desires to be interred in
p. church of Denham, leaves his library to his three brothers-
in-law Thomas, William, and John Havers ; names his wife
Mary and daughters, any of whom entering a Religious Order
before 25 years of age is cut off from her portion. [i3th
August, 1730 ; codicil I4th August 1737 — 22nd February, 1739.]
Sir WILLIAM GAGE, by will dated 2nd May, 1715, and proved
23rd June, 1727, left all his estate to his wife.
THOMAS MANNOCK, of Bromley Hall, desires burial at
" Stooke Church," leaves to his wife Mary for life two estates
as per settlement, viz., Martell's Hall and Manor and Bromley
Hall : names his nephew Peter Lynch, [ist May, 1722 — 2ist
May, 1722.]
JOHN TOURNER, of Midhurst, co. Sussex, M.D., "old and
advanced in years," desires to be buried by his late wife and
children at Easebourne, and names his sons William (dec.),
John, and Thomas ; das. Mary Bryant and Eliz. Laurance ;
and grandchildren Richard and Ann Heath. [i3th June,
1744— I4th August, 1744.]
JOHN GAGE, of Harleston, left his estate to Sir William
Gage, of Hengrave, for life, to pass next to Thomas, grandson of
Sir William and one of the three sons of Thomas G., of Hengrave :
names John, son of Sir Will. G. ; kinsmen Francis G., Edward
G., of Whittlebury, co. Northton, who had a son George ; also
George and Henry, kinsmen and sons of the late Sir Edward
G., and their three sisters Penelope Sulyard, Mrs. Mary Bond,
and Mrs. Basilia Gage; Eliz., da, of Penelope Sulyard: his
SUFFOLK. 65
executrix was his kinswoman Eliz. Gage, the " da. of the late
Lady Tresham ". [i5th June, 1718— 28th March, 1723.]
DELARIVIERE GAGE, of Bury St. Edmunds, names her son
Sir William Gage, eldest dec. son Sir Thomas ; sister Mary,
late wife of Francis Tasburgh ; sister Henrietta, late wife of
Thomas Havers, of Thelton ; and nephew Richard, " now in
Portugal," son of Richard Elwes by her sister Merelina. [28th
March, 1744 — 7th November, 1746.]
HENRY JERMYN BOND, of ditto, names his wife Jane, and
two sons James and Henry. [5th November, 1733 — 26th
March, 1748.]
Sir F. MANNOCK, in his will of i7th October, 1755, names
his sons William (married to Teresa Wright), Francis, Thomas,
and George, and three das. Ethildred, Mary, and Ann. Admon.
was granted, ist December, 1758, to his son Sir William, his
widow Frances renouncing execution. Her will, dated I3th
November, 1758, was proved 30th May, 1761, all her estate
going to her son Francis Mannock.
JOHN TASBURGH, of Flixton. His will, dated ist November,
1698, was proved by his widow Frances, igth September, 1719.
In her will of 27th June, 1724, proved the following 20th July,
she says : " I desire burial at Holt about midnight, my heart to
be sent over to Bordeaux in France, and deposited in the same
chapel there where my son John lies interred (over whose body
is a white marble stone), and a black marble stone set up over it.
She names her aunt Mrs. Catherine Matthews ; sisters Dame
Margaret Conyers and Mary Migliorucci : her friend Frances,
the wife of William Woolfe, of p. of St. Geo. the Martyr,
co. Middx., is to educate and be guardian to " Margaret Frances,
da. of my da. Margaret Tasburgh, dec. Others named are her
father Henry and uncle Thomas Nevill, aunt Dame Frances
Wintour, niece Harriet Conyers, cousin Percy Markham, and
kinswoman Napier. Her daughter Margaret Tasburgh
describes herself in her will of 26th November, 1720 (proved
I2th July, 1721), as " now residing in Dublin and only surviving
da. of John T., of Flixton ".
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EDWARD SULYARD, of Haughley Park, desiring burial at
Wetherden, names his wife Eliz., sister Eliz. Dunne, brothers
Ralph, Philip, and William, and his two nephews, the sons of
last-named, Edward and Francis S. [2nd August, 1733 — 22nd
January, 1745.]
CATHERINE MARTIN, of Melford, by will of i6th February,
1724, with codicil of I3th March, 1727, proved i5th December,
1727, left her estate to her brother John Martin and to George
Yate, who, with his da. Lady Mannock, of Giffords Hall, were
joint executors.
JOHN TYLDESLEY, now of Bury St. Edmunds, co. Suffolk,
gent., names his wife Jane, two das. Frances T. and Bridget
Hanne, and grandda. Bridget Hanne. [8th February, 1734 —
ist April, 1735.]
JOHN STAFFORD, of Bury, names his da. Anne, wife of Dr.
Nathaniel Bostock, and their da. Anne, wife of Vincent Eyre;
da. Tyldesley, and grandson John Bostock. [gth April, 1712 —
3rd May, 1717.]
SUSSEX.
HONORA BROWNE, of Easebourne, widow of Stanislaus B.,
left £5 to each of her four das. that should be living at her
death, and names her sons Francis and Mark, the latter to have
her property in Spain, he being also resid. legatee and executor,
[igth September, 1721 — 30th December, 1724.]
THOMAS STUBBINGTON. " 1755, Die decimo Decembris obiit
Elizabetha Stubbington anno aetatis suae 64." [Easebourne and
Cowdray Catholic Register.]
EDMUND LEWKENOR, of Easebourne, by will of ist November,
1730, proved 27th September, 1731, left his estate to his brother
Anthony, and a guinea to Ann Fitzhenry, da. of his sister
Roberts.
JOHN HEATH. " Die tertio Novembris, 1749, obiit Anna
Heath anno aetatis suae 61."
" Die decimo nono 1756 [sic] obiit Johannes Heath anno
aetatis suas 61." [Easebourne Catholic Register.]
SUSSEX. 67
FRANCIS CROUCHER. " 1745, Die 24th Julii obiit Franciscus
Croucher, de oppido Midhurst postquam in infirmitate confessus,
sanctissimo viatico refectus, et sacri olei unctione roboratus
esset."
Also in the same year is the following entry : " Franciscus
Croucher obiit die decimo Decembris anno aetatis suae 83".
[Easebourne Catholic Register.]
RALPH CROUCHER. " Die nono Julii, 1747, obiit Rudolphus
Croucher, de Midhurst, anno aetatis suae 59 ".
" Die quinto Decembris, 1749, obiit Rudolphus Croucher, de
Midhurst, anno aetatis suae 77." [Easebourne Cath. Reg.]
Sir WILLIAM GAGE, of West Firle. His will, dated
July, 1737, with codicil of 2Oth January, 1739, was proved loth
May, 1744.
JOHN TOURNER. The Easebourne Cath. Reg. has " vigesimo
septimo Februarii, 1752, obiit Joannes Tourner, de Easebourne,
anno aetatis suae 81 ". Admon. of the estate of John Tourner of
Easebourne, widower, was granted, I4th March, 1752, to his
son John T.
ANTHONY LEWKENOR, of Wotton, by will of i8th December,
1734, proved 23rd May, 1737, left his estate to Anne Lloyd and
her heirs, and names his brother Robert Malbon, dec., and
cousin Richard Goble. This Robert Malbon, of Easebourne,
by will of 2ist August, 1733, proved igth January, 1734, left
his estate to his br.-in-law Ant. Lewkenor.
NICHOLAS TOURNER, sen., of Midhurst, names his wife Anne,
son John, and da. Martha Taylor. [4th June, 1722 ; with codicil
3rd June, 1725 — 5th March, 1729.]
ANTHONY KEMP, of Slindon. Admon. of his estate was
granted, 3Oth July, 1753, to his da. the Hon. Barbara Radcliffe,
wife of the Hon. James Bartholomew Radcliffe, commonly
called Lord Kinnaird, his widow the Hon. Jane Kemp re
nouncing.
FRANCIS ROBOTHAM, of the p. of St. Andrew, Holborn,
gent., names his wife Sarah and da. Sarah, the wife of John
68 RECORDS OF ENGLISH CATHOLICS.
Leeremans, with their son James L. [soth July, 1737 — I2th
December, 1737.]
JAMES AVELIN, of Storrington, names his wife Anne, da.
Elizabeth, the wife of John Ellis, with their sons John and
Thomas Ellis ; also his grandda. Eliz. Smith, [nth January,
1721 — I4th June, 1726.]
Sir WILLIAM GORING, of Burton, desires burial at Burton,
and names, besides his wife, Richard and Charles, eldest and
second sons of his nephew John Biddulph ; Francis, the brother
of his nephew John Biddulph ; and his " little niece Mary, eldest
da. of the said John B. and Mary B. his wife " ; also a cousin
Cotton Plowden. [22nd January ; codicil 22nd February, 1723 ;
proved I7th March, 1724.] His widow, Dame Dorothy Goring,
by will dated 2nd July, 1729, and proved 8th June, 1737, desires
"to be buried in the church of the English Sepulchrines at
Lie'ge, all her English servants to have their charges borne to
London". She names her brother William Plowden, nephew
John Trevanion Plowden, nieces Mary and Anne Plowden,
and her "little niece Mary Biddulph," her nephew Francis
Biddulph being executor.
Sir GEORGE MAXWELL, of Cowdray, left the residue of his
estate to his executor Mungo, eldest son of Robert Maxwell, of
Gelston, in the Stuartine of Kirkcudbright, by Lindsey, his
second wife. [20th July, 1715 — I4th June, 1720.]
PHILIP CARYL, of North, "being aged" at date of his will,
2ist April, 1733, proved I7th February, 1735-6, names his son
Philip, gives £100 to Lady Lucy Herbert at Bruges, and £60
to Lady Bagnal at Gravelines, the resid. legatee being Mr. Matt.
Farine, a tobacco merchant at Dunkirk.
RICHARD ROWT. On a sheet of paper that has found its
way to a curious collection of loose MSS., which, together with
a folio volume, make up the Cowdray , Easebourne, and Midhurst
Catholic Register, are the following Memoranda in the handwriting
of Mary Rowt :
"These are my family that is dead" [signed], "Mary Rowt".
" Martha Taylor dyed 22nd July, 1726."
" My great-grandfather, Nicholas Tourner, 8th May, 1731
SURREY — WARWICK. 69
[? 1736]. Ann Heath, 7th October, 1727. Francis Tourner,
i3th January, 1734. My grandmother, Margaret Harris, 2Oth
February, 1736. Ann Croucher, sister, 3Oth June, 1744. Aunt
Elizabeth Harris, 4th June, 1747. Mary Luttrell, I3th December.
My father, Richard Rowt, 8th February, 1748, anno aetatis suae
73 : my mother, Anne Rowt, I4th April, 1760 : my brother,
Richard Rowt, 6th February, 1738 : my brother, Peter Rowt,
2gth August, 1763 [? 1769] : my aunt, Martha Harris, i8th
January, 1773."
In the same handwriting also are the following : " Mr.
Tourner of Easeborne's family : Eliz. Tourner, I7th December,
1726 ; Mary Tourner, i6th October, 1741 ; Catherine T., 6th
June ; Elizabeth T., the mother, nth August, 1746 ; Nicholas
T., William, and John, I don't know the date, and the father,
John T. ; Thomas Tourner, the last that died, 23rd May, 1774 ;
Mary Browne, Mr. Mark Browne's first wife, 7th January, 1741 ;
Mr. Mark Browne dyed in February, I don't know the day,
1755 ". But the register has in another part :
" Die Septimo Februarii, 1755, obiit Marcus Browne ".
SURREY.
JOHN WESTON, of Sutton Place, by will of 22nd November,
1724, unsigned — but William Woolfe, of the p. of St. George the
Martyr, deposes to his handwriting — desires burial in the chapel
of the family at Guildford, and adds : " Whereas the miserable
condition and sufferings of the poor Catholics of England is
very deplorable, in consideration thereof I bequeath to the
poorest and most needy of them £250, to be divided amongst
500 poor, which is los. a-piece". He names his sister and
brother Woolfe, nephew John Woolfe, aunt Mary Weston,
sister Anne Weston, his da. Melior-Mary Weston being sole
heir and executrix. The will was proved I7th March, 1730-1.
WARWICK.
CATHERINE WILLOUGHBY, widow, who held an estate at
Kingsbury, was a da. of Thomas Cholmley of Bransby : she died
in 1733. [Lawson MS.]
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JOSEPH GRIFFIN, living at date of his will (ist July, 1728,
proved 12 days later) in New North Street, in the p. of St.
George the Martyr, co. Middx., leaves to his wife Mary his
furniture there, with coach and chariot : he names his sisters
Winifred and Teresa Griffin, mother-in-law Mrs. Flora Levery,
uncle John Vaughan's four younger children, and the following
cousins: " Cousin James Baskerville, son of Thomas Baskerville,
dec., who was son and heir of my aunt Baskerville, dec. ; cousins
Nicholas, James, and John, brothers of the said Thomas Basker
ville ; cousins Mary Whitaker, Anne Hinderson, Thomas
Cornwall, George Cornwall, James Cornwall, of Watling Street;
John Cornwall, of the Castle Tavern, Drury Lane ; and the son
and da. of the said John Cornwall by the first wife ; cousins
John-Vaughan Sadler and Nathaniel Pigott : there are legacies
also to Francis Prujean, of Ormond Street, and Anne P., his
wife, and to , wife of Postern Stary, and to Robert Freeman
of Henley-in-Arden.
HUMPHREY SPARRY, of Edgbaston, desires to be buried at
Edgbaston, near Anne, his wife, and names his three sisters
Magdalen Atmore, Eliz. Lea, and a sister married to William
Spurrier, who had a son Thomas ; nieces Jane Ellis and Mary
Thompson ; cousins Mary and John Sands, and Humphrey, son
of another cousin James Sands. [5th January, 1725 — I7th
March, 1725-6.]
LAURENCE PETRE, of Spernall, widower. Admon. of his
estate was granted, i8th April, 1752, to his son George.
TERESA KNOTTISFORD, of p. of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, co.
Middx., desires burial at Studley, near her husband, and names
her son Charles, three das. Catherine, Teresa, and Bridget, wife
of Laurence Petre ; sister Philadelphia Woolmer, three grand
sons Charles and John Knottisford and George Petre, and
nephew John Fortescue. [4th June, 1720 — 22nd September,
1726.]
JOHN REEVE, of Birmingham, gent., names his wife Anne,
son Thomas, and da. Anne. [7th November, 1727 — I2th
December, 1727.]
WARWICK. 71
Dame ANNE THROCKMORTON desires burial at Coughton,
"near her dear mother": leaves £35 to "Mr. Bonaventura
Giffard," and $gs. to " Mr. Benjamin Petre " : names her
cousins John, Francis, Mary, and Catherine Hyde, of Hyde
End, they being brothers and sisters : also Sir Thomas Manby
and his two sons, Edward and Robert Manby : four grand
children : Sir Robert Throckmorton, who is to have a fine
wrought book and gold enamelled cross : Anne Petre, Anne
Widdrington, and William Wollascott, who is " to have one
large silver candlestick that was generally used to light me
up and down": great-grandda. Mary Petre : three other grand
sons Thomas and Martin Wollascott and Widdrington :
a " beloved friend Charles Coffin," and servant William
Hockley, and a diamond cross, watch, chain, and £200 to her
grandda. Frances Wollascott, afterwards revoked by codicil,
she " having since entered into Religion and become a
professed nun". [i4th June, 1724; first cod. I5th February,
1725; second cod. 24th September, 1727; proved gth August,
1728.]
FRANCIS CANNING, of Foxcote, in his will of loth July, 1732,
with codicil 26th January, 1733, proved I2th March, 1733,
names his father Richard, eldest son Francis, and youngest son
Richard Canning, " da. Ann Greenwood, widow," and her
infant children Charles and Mary Greenwood ; brother Richard
C., sister Eliz. C., his " brother and sister Elliot," and
their nine children, his nephews and nieces, viz., Humphrey,
Nathaniel, Edward, Richard, Anne, Winifrid, Apollonia, Mar
garet, and Frances Elliot ; his nephew and niece Betham,
and their son (his godson) Richard Betham ; aunt Mrs.
Mary Audeley ; kinswoman Eliz. Conquest, cousins Mary,
Charles, Constantia, and Hannah Busby, and John, the son
of Hannah Busby; cousins Richard Lacon, Nathaniel Pigott,
and Rebecca Pigott, his wife, and grandda. Apollonia
Canning : notices his " law-books," divides his library
between his sons, and asks all legatees to be in harmony
with each other.
EDWARD FERRERS, of Baddesley Clinton, was married in
1712, his wife Teresa dying in 1734. [Lawson MS.]
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ELIZ. BALDWIN, of Brailes, widow, in her will dated 24th
August, 1723, and proved 5th September, 1728, names her
brother John Baughan, and her two das. Mary Baldwin and
Eliz. the wife of Thomas Travor. Possibly she was the wife of
Edward B.
FRANCIS CARINGTON, Esq., of Wootton, co. Warwick, in
his will of 3ist January, 1748, codicil igth May, 1749, proved
ist June, 1749, names his wife Mary, uncles Charles and
William Smith, sister Wright, da. Mary-Teresa, four
sisters-in-law Teresa, Martha, Eliz., and Ann Englefield ; two
brothers-in-law Sir Henry and Charles Englefield, and his
father-in-law Edward Webb, of Gray's Inn, and adds : I give
" to Mrs. Bridget Pain £5 55. to pray for me ... to the monks
at Douay £300 to say as many masses for me at our Lady's
altar as their duty will allow of, and a high mass every year
. . . £20 a year for the maintenance of a priest at Wootton,
and for the poor ".
WESTMORELAND.
Dame WINIFRED STRICKLAND desires " to be buried by her
husband at St. John's Chapel " ; names her son Thomas,
grandsons Thomas and Gerard, brother Trentham, brother
King and his wife, sisters Aston and Blood,
and cousin Griffith ; also " Sister Bonaventura of the
Third Order". She adds: "My book-case and arrears
of pension are to go to Mother Abbess, two parts for masses
for my soul, the other part to obtain the prayers of the
holy community ". From this it would seem that upon
her husband's death she entered a religious house. [28th
February, 1725 — 3Oth March, 1726.]
WILTS.
The Hon. HENRY ARUNDELL, the elder, now (igth May,
1720) residing at Wardour, left by will of that date, proved
2ist August, 1721, " to Mr. James Morgan, of Southampton
Street, in London, £100 ".
WILTS. 73
FRANCIS COTTINGTON, of Fonthill-Giffard. Admon. of his
estate was granted, igth December, 1728, to Dame Winifred
Golding, widow and guardian of Francis Cottington, son of
F. C., of West Wickham, co. Bucks, widower, until he attain
the age of 21 years.
His stepmother, " Catherine Cottington, of the city of
New Sarum, widow," appoints Mrs. Catherine Fielding " uni
versal legatee," her will, proved 7th January, 1740, being wit
nessed by Ursula and Sarah Fielding and Eliz. Stoddart.
GAYNOR CRUSE, of Wootton-Bassett, widow, by will dated
I4th January, 1717, from " the p. of St. Nicholas, in the city of
Worcester," and proved 5th December, 1718, bequeathed her
house property, in the p. of All-hallows, in city of Hereford, to
her nephew John Kelly, alias Lloyd.
CHARLES WOOLMER, of Fonthill-Giffard, names his wife
Mary (executrix), brother Francis W., and sister Mary Berkeley.
[30th May, 1716 — 23rd April, 1719.]
THOMAS KNIPE, of Semley, in will of 24th August, 1719,
proved igth December, 1720, names his nephews George,
Thomas, William, John, and Edward K., and nieces Eleanor,
Mary, Catherine, and Anne.
HENRY, Lord ARUNDELL, widower. Admon. of his estate
was granted, 23rd June, 1726, to his son Henry Lord Arundell.
GEORGE KNIPE, of Semley, names his brothers John and
Edward, four sisters Mary, Catherine (both in Paris), Eleanor,
and Bridget, wife of John Mandeville, and godson George
Mandeville. [6th September, 1734— I7th February, 1735.]
THOMAS CHAMPION, of Sutton-Mandeville. Admon. of his
estate was granted in November, 1726, to his da. Anne, the
wife of William Lewes. The will of his mother, Joan
Champion, of Odstock, widow, dated 3Oth March, 1719, was
proved 24th October, 1726. She names her son Thomas and
his present wife Anne ; her second son William C., who had
two sons William and Thomas ; her two grandsons Anthony,
the son of her third son Anthony, dec., and Henry, son of
her da. Mary, the wife of Henry Carew, of Muckleshall, in p.
74 RECORDS OF ENGLISH CATHOLICS.
of Holdenhurst ; and her grandda. Anne, " the wife of William
Lewes, of Common Garden, in Russel Street, London, book
seller ".
WORCESTER.
THOMAS GROVE, Esq., of the city of Worcester, " desires
to be buried near the place where his wife designs to be
buried " ; names his two nieces (sisters) Mary Ann and Rachel
Micham, and his da. Rebecca, wife of Richard Fitzgerald, and
alludes to "his study of law-books". There are also the
following bequests : " £ 5 to the gentleman that assists me at
the time of my death ... ^5 to my friend the Rev. Dr.
Edward Combe . . . and £50 to my friends at Mr. Worth-
ington's house, called the English House at Bornheim". [24th
June, 1730 — I4th November, 1730.]
BRIDGET HORNYOLD, of Blackmore Park, widow, names
her sons John and Anthony H., das. Frances, wife of Edward
Hanford, and their son Robert Hanford, and Bridget, wife of
Christopher Atwood ; also sister Ursula Hornyold, and brothers
Ralph H. and William Windsor. [27th March, 1721 — I3th
March, 1722.]
WILLIAM ATWOOD, "late of the city of Worcester".
Admon. of his estate was granted, 2nd May, 1732, to his three
principal creditors, his widow Sarah and da. Sarah having
first renounced.
Another William Atwood, of Powick, in co. Worcester, in
his will dated ist May, 1740, and proved i7th June, 1740,
names his das. Ursula and Mary, and his brother Thomas
Atwood, " doctor of physic ".
WILLIAM ACTON, of Little Wolverton. His will was proved
26th May, 1727 : he names his sons William (eldest), Vincent,
Perkins-Richard, and das. Barbara and Ann.
ANTHONY HORNYOLD, of Hanley Castle, names his wife
Mary Magdalen, brother John, son Anthony, and father-in-law
(executor) William Berington. [4th June, 1739 — I7th April,
1740.]
WORCESTER. 75
WILLIAM GOWER, son of W. G., of Colmers, in his will of
loth August, 1721, proved i6th March, 1726, names his mother
Helen and cousin John Coyney.
JAMES GRIFFITH, of Longford, by will left " everything to
the poor except £5 to his sister Anne," and adds: " No poor
body to go away from my funeral without a penny loaf and
drink ". [i6th January, 1734 — 7th June, 1737.]
ANNE, widow of Rowland Bartlett, of Hillend, in her will
of I2th December, 1734, proved I3th February, 1742, describes
herself as " of the city of Worcester," and besides those named
in her husband's will, names her son Basil, da.-in-law Bridget,
and godda. Anne Cassey.
JUDITH BERKELEY (widow of John B.), of the p. of St.
George, Bloomsbury, by will of 3rd December, 1746, proved
ist January, 1752, left her estate chiefly to her servant and
executrix Eliz. Pye, with " £5 to Mr. John Smith (lodging with
Mr. Harles, coachmaker in Holborn) ... or to the person who
shall succeed to serve me in the capacity he doth, if he die in
my life-time ". [This was probably the Jesuit Father of that
name who died in London, 4th August, 1754, aged 85. Foley,
Collect., 718.] She gave a legacy also to " Ann Howell, living
near Spetchley". John Maire and Will. Hodgson attested her
will.
FRANCIS WOOLMER, " of the city of Worcester, gent., aged
and infirm," at the date of his will, i6th November, 1722,
proved igth June, 1723, names his da. Brace, the wife of
Edward Hunt, and sister Mary Berkeley, of Spetchley, widow.
EDWARD SHELDON, of Beoley, names his wife Elizabeth,
eldest son William, and nine younger children — " Edward,
Ralph, Harry, Mary, Frances, Catherine, Anne, Barbara, and
Elizabeth," any da. entering Religion to have only an annuity
of £ 10 : also his brothers Ralph, William, and Henry, kins
man Thomas Overbury, and two goddas., viz., Catherine, da.
of his cousin William Sheldon, of Winchester, and Frances,
da. of Richard Bishop, of Brailes. [2nd May, 1736 — 23rd
July, 1736.]
76 RECORDS OF ENGLISH CATHOLICS.
WILLIAM MINSHULL, by will dated from Aylesbury, 3Oth
January, 1741-2, and proved 8th March, 1742-3, his wife
Mary being executrix, and one trustee also being Frances,
wife of John Temple Howse, of Bierton, left to his only son
William all his books and medals, &c., with legacies " to the
widow of Mr. Charles Howse, now of Buckingham, and to her
das. Frances and Sarah H., as also to Francis Howse, of
Aylesbury, surgeon, and to Ann Howse, of Bierton, spinster".
He was son of Richard Minshull, by Anne, da. of Francis
Finch, of Rushock, co. Worcester, his wife Mary being a da.
of Philip Box, of Caversfield, co. Bucks [Lipscomb, Hist, of
Bucks, ii. 590] ; his sister-in-law Catherine, the widow of
Richard Minshull, and da. of George Blount, by her will
proved 2Oth March, 1740, desires " burial at St. Martin's-
in-the-Fields, near Mr. Minshull and da.," and adds: "I give
to the poor at each door of the chapel in Golden Square,
one shilling, and los. to the poor of my own door in Marlboro'
Street ".
SOPHIA AUBREY, widow of Thomas A., by will dated 22nd
March, 1714, from St. Giles'-in-the-Fields, and proved igth
December, 1718, left her interest in the Shipston estate to her
two nieces Mrs. Mary Galloway and Mrs. Eliz. Galloway, with
£50 to her sister Mrs. Susannah Reynoldson.
WORCESTER CITY.
RICHARD KETTLE. His name occurs in the years 1727
and 1730, in the Worcester Catholic Register, privately printed in
1887.
JOSEPH HARPER, of p. of St. Nicholas. Several of this
name also appear in the Worcester Catholic Register, one,
Joseph H., being entered as " reconciled to the Church, 22nd
December, 1724 ".
CITY OF YORK.
DOROTHY BEDINGFIELD, of York, succeededher aunt Frances
B. as Superioress. of St. Mary's Convent, Micklegate Bar, the
EAST RIDING OF YORK. 77
" leasehold house " evidently referred to in English Catholic
Nonjurors. Dr. Hutch, in his Biography of Mrs. Ball, the
foundress of the Institute of B.V.M. in Ireland and the
Colonies, writes, p. 40 : " This lady (Dorothy) . . . was so
revered by all classes for her many virtues, that several of the
nobility attended her obsequies on 20th October, 1734 ".
The will of WILLIAM HUNGATE (undescribed) dated igth
August, 1706, and proved 6th February, 1720, is worth re
cording here for the following connections that he gives : " My
three nieces, Smalley, and Lucy and Mary Hungate ; my
brother Hammond, and his son Gervase Hammond ; my
cousins Eliz., sister of Robert Dalton, of Thurnham, lately
dead ; Eliz. Butler, and Helena and Mary Middleton ". His
executors were his nephews Dr. Hungate and William H.
(brothers).
Admon. of CHARLES, Lord FAIRFAX, bachelor, was granted,
29th November, 1715, to his mother, Lady Mary Hungate.
EAST RIDING OF YORK.
Admon. of the estate of JORDAN METHAM, late of the p. of
St. Andrew, Holborn, was, gth February, 1725, granted to his
widow Catherine.
HANNAH ELLERKER, of Doncaster, spinster, in her will of 6th
July, 1716, proved 2nd August, 1717, names her four sisters
Jane and Anne E., Sarah Short (who had a son Thomas S.),
and Eliz. Wright; her two nephews William and John E.,
nieces Eliz. Furnace and Hannah Bingley, and cousins
Catherine and Thomas E.
Hon. ELIZ. CRAYTHORNE, by will dated 28th February, 1727,
and proved 2gth November, 1739, left all her estate to her
sister the Hon. Mary Cockayne.
HENRY CUTLER, of Hayton, by will dated igth November,
1715, left his household goods, &c., to his widow Elizabeth, to
whom admon. was granted 8th April, 1730, his executors,
dying in his lifetime. He names the eldest son of Egertoa
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Cutler, clerk, his nephews Cutler Wainwright and Francis
Willy, and sisters Magdalen Rutherford and Grace Smith.
To his niece Jane Wainwright he leaves " £250, provided she
marry a man worth £500 in debtless goods ". Further on he
adds : "... if any of my sisters come to want I give them
£20 per annum . . . " or " . . . if they shall want a physician
or other necessary in sickness, they shall be provided for out
of my estate at Dodworth . . . and if any of my heirs or their
successors shall by good fortune raise their estate ... to be
worth ;£8oo per annum, then all my tythes I give to an ortho
dox minister in the Protestant religion, according to the esta
blishment of the Church in King Charles the Second's time,
to the chapel of Barnsley; if not orthodox according to this
intent, then to the minister of Silkstone if such ; if not, to the
poor of Silkstone". Hunter, in his Deanery of Doncaster (ii.
266), gives an elaborate account of the Cutler family, and
names Henry C. as second son of Sir Gervase C., and one of
seventeen children, of whom fourteen were girls. Egerton C.
named in the will was a son of Sir Thomas C., an uncle of
testator. Sir Thomas "served under the Duke of York at
sea, and was afterwards four years and a half in the French
Sir MARMADUKE CONSTABLE left his estate in trust to his
own right heirs, a codicil of i6th April, 1746, naming his
nephew Sir Carnaby Haggerston. [August, 1745 — i6th Feb
ruary, 1747.]
WEST RIDING OF YORK.
Admon. of the estate of " Sir CHARLES INGLEBY, servientis
ad legem in hospitio servientium ad legem Chancery Lane,"
was granted gth February, 1720, to his son Thomas.
Hon. BERNARD HOWARD, of the p. of St. George the
Martyr, co. Middx., in his will dated 2ist May, proved the
following June, 1745, names his four brothers Hon. Charles,
Thomas, Henry, and Philip, giving to the first - named his
book and furniture.
WEST RIDING OF YORK. 79
CHARLES TANCRED, of St. Paul's, Covent Garden, in his
will of loth May, 1725, proved 28th November, 1733, names
his son Thomas, then married, and his two das. Mary and
Ann. The will of Frances Tancred, of St. Paul's, Covent
Garden, widow of Thomas T. aforesaid, dated 26th March,
1748, was proved 2Oth March, 1753. She names her sister
Mary, wife of Thomas Fraser, apothecary, and Ann F., their
daughter ; her three das. Eliz. Tancred of Liege ; Ann, wife of
Thomas Webb ; and Henrietta, wife of Robert Kirby ; leaving
her " business of a woollen draper " to her sons-in-law, " both
of St. Paul's, Covent Garden, Esquires," in trust for her eldest
son John, second son Walter, and da. Barbara T.
DOROTHY HASTINGS, "one of the das. of Ferdinando H.,
late of the p. of St. Giles -in -the -Fields," dates her will 3ist
January, 1721, proved 6th July, 1725, the chief legatee being
her servant Ann, wife of John Barker.
MARY HORNCASTLE, of Balne, in p. of Snaith, co. York,
single woman, in her will dated 22nd August, 1754, proved
I7th December, 1754, names her brothers Joseph and John H.,
"also Mary, William, Eliz., John, and Joseph, all sons and
das. of Joseph H., of Balne". Perhaps a relative of Will. H,
[See Eng. Cath. Nonj., p. 311.]
Dame MAGDALEN GASCOIGNE, " late of the p. of St. Ann,
Westminster, widow". Admon. of her estate was granted,
22nd February, 1722, to Mary Foster, spinster, and attorney
for Henry Curwen, of Workington, co. Cumberland, brother of
said dec.
NICHOLAS STAPLETON, of Carleton, by will of 2gth June,
1742, of which he named his brother John S. and Sir Edward
Gascoigne executors, mentions his das. by Charlotte Eure, his
first wife, and appoints his present wife Winifrid guardian of
his children Thomas, Miles, Nicholas, John, Charles, Gregory,
Eliz., Winifrid, and Monica, any da. entering Religion to have
only £500. His executors dying in his lifetime, admon. of his
estate was granted, 2nd August, 1750, to his widow Winifrid,
he then also being described as " late of Carlton, but at
Hammersmith, co. Middx.". A further admon. was granted,
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3rd March, 1769, to his son Miles S., the eldest son Thomas
renouncing.
MARY STAPLETON, " late of the city of York, but at Bath,
co. Somerset, widow, and executrix of Nic. S., formerly Erring-
ton," desires burial at Carlton by her husband if dying in
England, or if beyond sea, her heart to be brought over and
buried by her husband. She names the following : My sons
John (oldest) and Thomas S., uncle Sir Myles S., "son-in-law"
Nicholas S., of Carleton, with his children Philadelphia, Mary,
Charlotte, Fanny, and " Master Stapleton " ; also Eliz., sister
of said Nicholas S. " My da. Mary, wife of Ralph Clavering,
and their children Mary, Ralph, Nicholas, Nancy, Franky,
Winifred, and Catherine Clavering ; da. Catherine - Hester
Stapleton ; " relations " Sir Basil and Lady Dixwell ; cousins
Eliz. Plumton, who had three sisters, Mary, Catherine, and
Nelly Gascoigne ; cousins Eliz. Mompesson and Mary Christ
mas; "my brother Joseph Sandys and his wife; grandmother
Lady Peyton and Aunt Lady Swan ". To her son and executor
she adds : "I am sure, my dear Jacky, you'll never forget to
pray for my poor soul. . . . Give ;£io to the Benedictines at
Brussels, and what you think proper to the good nuns at
Antwerp, Louvain, Cambray, and Gravellines." [nth May,
1734— 20th June, I735-]
NORTH RIDING OF YORK.
JOSEPH PATTISON, of Six-Hills, co. Lincoln, held an estate
at Leake, in the North Riding. " 1692. Anne Paddison was
buried February ye loth." " 1703. George, ye son of Joseph
Pattinson and Margaret, his wife, was born I4th December.'*
[Bishop's Reg. at Lincoln.]
THOMAS, Lord FAUCONBERG and Viscount HENCHKNOWLE,
desires burial at Coxwold, and names his sons Thomas and
Rowland Bellasis, das. Mary, Ann, and Penelope, brothers
John and Rowland B., the executors of his will being his wife
Bridget and Sir John Webb. [6th March, 1714 — 7th May,
1719.]
NORTH RIDING OF YORK. 8 1
JANE TOOTELL, late of the p. of St. Andrew, Holborn.
Admon. of her estate was granted, i6th July, 1718, to Henry
Trapps, guardian of her infant children Eliz. and John Tootell.
ZACHARY S. MORE, of North Loftus, whose marriage settle
ment with Anne, da. of Richard Harnage, Esq., is dated i6th
August, 1706, " desires burial at Loftus near Mr. Danby's
grave," and names his eldest son Zachary Harnage More,
second son Thomas, and da. Anne M., all minors; brother
Thomas More and sister Bridget Hoskins, giving to his sister
" Barbara More, now at Lisbon, in Portugal, £10 per annum,"
with a like sum to Mr. Tobias Battersby, brother John
Collingwood and goddas. Eliz. Hoskins and Ann Collingwood,
naming also in a codicil his nephew John Collingwood. [23rd
January, 1728 — 20th June, 1732.]
CUTHBERT CONSTABLE, of Constable-Burton, co. York, names
his wife Elizabeth, eldest son William (to whom he left his
library), and Marmaduke Tunstall, of Wycliffe, executors of
his will ; also son Marmaduke and das. Cecily and Winifred.
[i4th March, 1746— 27th May, 1747.]
WILLIAM SALVIN, of Easingwold. Born in 1662, he
married, in 1702, Anne, niece and heiress of Thomas Reynes,
of Easingwold : dying in 1726, he was buried at St. Olave's,
Marygate, York. [Lawson MS.]
GERARD SALTMARSH, " of the county of York, gent.," in
his will of 28th December, 1732, proved 5th February, 1733, by
his executor " Mr. Ralph Clayton," names his brother Edward
S., and his three nephews Philip S. and his son, and Mr. Peter
Vavasor, of Willitoft.
PHILADELPHIA THOROLD, of Southampton Street, Blooms-
bury, spinster, left by will dated 2gth May, and proved nth
December, 1735, "£5 to Mr. Benjamin Petre, who lives with Mr.
George Jernegan, and to Mr. Challoner, who lives with Mrs.
Brent ".
The collection known as the " Forfeited Estates Papers "
at the Public Record Office, from which many ex
tracts were given in Eng. CatJi. Nonj. of ///5, is
again the source of the following pages. This
further and still larger selection will be found of
great interest, throwing, as it does, so much light
upon the sufferings and adventures of English
Catholics of that period.
[Forfeited Estates MS., A. 23.] " Dame MARGARET ANDER-
TON, sworn this 15° Mail, 1718, upon her oath, saith that Sir
Laurence Anderton, her son, was, whilst he was under her
care, educated in the Romish Religion, and she doth believe
that he doth still profess the same ; that before he was one-and-
twenty years qf age he was sent or did go over to the College
at St. Omers to study and for his education, and is now (as
this deponent verily believes) in parts beyond the seas."
[Id.] FRANCIS ANDERTON, Esq., sworne this 3Oth May,
1718, saith that he was married about 10 or n years since to
the sister of Sir Henry Bedingfield, with whom he had £5000
portion, and that before that marriage part of the estate . . .
some £500 per annum, was settled as jointure . . . and that
Mr. Eyre, of Gray's Inn, drew the said settlement, and that
Mr. Edward Bedingfield, dec., was one of the trustees, and that
he, this deponent, was in possession for about two years before
the said marriage, and during the life of his elder brother
James, who was then beyond seas, and is since dead, who
conveyed the same to this deponent . . . that he hath con
stantly paid about £50 or £60 per annum to his elder brother
Sir Laurence Anderton, who is now about the age of seven or
eight and thirty years, and was educated in and doth still
profess the Romish Religion, and that when he was about the
age of 15 or 16 he, the said Sir Laurence, was sent over to the
seminary at St. Omers to study and be instructed in his
religion and for his education, and that he remained in the
same college for the purposes aforesaid for the space of seven
years or thereabouts ; and further, this deponent saith that he
hath heard the said Sir Laurence Anderton own that he was a
monk. FRANCIS ANDERTON.
[A. 24.] RICHARD COTTON, gent., Quartermaster in the
regiment of dragoons commanded by the Hon. Brigadier-
General Honywood, saith that after the rebellion was sup
pressed at Preston he, with some dragoons belonging to the
said regiment, was ordered to reside at the house of Francis
Anderton, Esq., commonly called Sir Francis Anderton, at
Lostock, to take care of the goods . . . among which
were ... a large clock like a church clock in the gate
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house or porter's lodge . . . that several of the goods
were very good, and particularly a scriptore, as rich and as
fine as ever this informant ever saw, and must have been very
valuable. [i5th December, 1716.] Ric. COTTON.
[A. 55.] Dame MARGARET ANDERTON in her will dated i7th
August, 1720, of which John Gillibrand, of Chorley, was executor
and resid. legatee, names her da. Mary Blundell, grandsons
Robert and Henry Blundell, and her granddas. Bridget,
Margaret, Mary, Anne, Frances, and Elizabeth Blundell.
MS. 29 A. gives in detail the case of Sir LAURENCE ANDER
TON v. FRANCIS ANDERTON.
[B. 62.] " CHRISTOPHER CLARKSON, of Preston, co. Lane.,
said that Edward Kitchen is uncle to his wife and is a Popish
priest ; that the said Kitchen goes by the assumed name of
Smith, and hath for several years last past received the rents of
certain lands in Higher Walton, in the p. of Walton-le-Dale,
. . . known by the name of Shutlingfields ; that the usual
residence of this said Kitchen, alias Smith, was at Bank Hall, in
p. of Broughton, where he officiated as a priest of the Church
of Rome, but sometimes came over from thence to Walton to
receive the rents of the tenants of his said estate of Shutling
fields, which rents are applied by him to the support of himself
and other popish priests." [igth November, 1716.]
[Id.] "WILLIAM GREGSON, of Barton, in p. of Preston,
saith that Mr. Edward Kitchen, alias Smith . . . officiated as
priest at Bank Hall, and he hath seen Papists in great numbers
go to and return thence upon holy days ; and the said Smith
hath shewn him the said house, and in particular, a Room above
stairs, which had forms and conveniencys in it, which induces
this informant to believe that it was the said Smith's chapel."
[i2th December, 1716.]
To the above "information" the following memorandum is
added : " Examine one, Moore, who promised to attend at the
office . . . the man is a Protestant, but his wife is a Papist,
who probably prevented his coming ; this man or his wife can
prove Kitchen a Popish priest ".
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[Id., p. 20.] JOHN HARRISON, of Bodarstone, in p. of
Blackburn, linen-weaver, saith that Henry Wilcox, of
Houghton, box-maker, was actually in the town of Preston
at the time of the late rebellion there, viz., upon Thursday,
loth November, 1715, and that this informant did then see
Henry Wilcox walking in the streets of Preston, in company
with several persons that have been since condemned and
executed on account of the rebellion, and that he, the said
Henry Wilcox, had then a cockade in his hat which was a
mark to distinguish the friends of the Pretender by. In witness
whereof, &c. [2ist November, 1716.] The mark of
JOHN + HARRISON.
[B. 62, p. ioo.] WILLIAM MOORE, Esq., " Master of the
References," and acting for the Forfeited Estates Commis
sioners, writes to them from Preston :..."! have found
Mr. Chaddock, the present [1716] Mayor of Preston, on all
occasions a very hearty and zealous man for the Government,
nor can I in this place having named the Mayor omit taking
notice of the town of Preston, which, though by reason of its
healthful situation, was usually made the winter residence of a
great many Roman Catholic gentlemen in the neighbourhood,
and was taken possession of by the rebels in the late rebellion,
and thereby unfortunately became the scene of an action wherein
so many gallant men of His Majesty's troops lost their lives.
Yet I should do it injustice if I did not say that there is not any
town in Great Britain, in proportion to the number of its in
habitants, that can truly boast of more hearty friends to His
Majesty, King George, than are to be found in Preston ! and
during the late mobs, those preludes to the late rebellion, it was
not in the power of the enemies of the Government to raise any
tumult there, which must in a good measure be attributed to
the Rev. Mr. Peploe, the parson of the town, who, during the
late reign, though placed as it were in the midst of a college of
Popish priests, — there being no less than six Popish chapels in
his parish, — had the honesty and fortitude to declare' on all
proper occasions, as well from the pulpit as in his conversation,
that nothing humanly speaking could secure our Religion and
our laws but the succession of the crown as settled in the most
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illustrious House of Hanover, and who, since His Majesty's
accession to the throne, has shown as eminent a zeal for his
royal person and Government ; for, on the approach of the
rebels to Preston, he, with the best of the townsmen, retired to
His Majesty's troops, and returned again with General Wills to
the attack of the town, for which the rebels burned his barn and
plundered his house, to his damage at least £200 — a very con
siderable loss to a clergyman of his small preferment and
numerous family ; and I must take the freedom to say that as
this worthy divine's having yet met with no public favour for
his services and sufferings (though as well qualified for prefer
ment in the Church as most of his order) must be a matter of
great pleasure to the Papists and Jacobites, so it must be no
less cause of discouragement to the friends of the Government !
I have presumed to be the freer on this subject from the
directions I received at Preston from some of the Hon.
Commissioners to lay a memorial before the Board relating
to this gentleman, and I flatter myself I shall soon have
an occasion to congratulate him on his having been recom
mended with success by the Hon. Commissioners to the
royal favour. . . .
"The Lord Molyneux has a deposition made against him
by his gardener that shows his lordship to have been as directly
concerned in the late rebellion as any man that was executed
for it. There are also other depositions relating to his lord
ship, which, tho' they do not so fully come up to the point,
yet it was the opinion of several persons well affected to His
Majesty's Government with whom I discoursed that it had
been no difficulty to have fixed another direct evidence upon
his lordship. . . .
" There are several depositions of which I have also taken
copies relating to Sir Nicholas Sherburne, a Roman Catholic
of a very great estate, and I was informed that there was also
a letter of his found upon the late Lord Derwentwater, or some
other person taken at Preston by the King's troops, in which
he wishes good success to their undertaking, or words to that
effect, and I was further informed by a gentleman in his neigh
bourhood, who came to me at the office in Preston, that he
was very well assured, had proper methods been taken and
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encouragement given, it had been no difficult matter to have
fixed sufficient evidence upon him. . . .
" The family of Thomas Clifton, of Lytham, Esq., a Roman
Catholic of a very considerable estate, seems to have been
very deeply engaged in the late rebellion. George Clifton, his
brother, is actually outlawed on account of that rebellion, and
I have the copies of several depositions taken against the eldest
son of the said Thomas Clifton, and one Mr. Mayfield, his
steward, relating to their being concerned in the rebellion, that
are very plain and direct ! This Mayfield was taken in Preston
by the King's troops on the surrender of that town, and at the
earnest solicitation of Mr. Shawe — as I was informed — was
admitted to bail ; but the man was so conscious of his guilt
that he left his bail in the lurch, and is said to be fled to
France, and yet the recognizance is not estreated ! And the
eldest son of the said Thomas Clifton has absconded ever since
the action at Preston, and is said also to be fled to France,
and yet there have been no proceedings by way of outlawry
against either of them. There are also some depositions
against the said Thomas Clifton himself, and I have been
assured by a clergyman of the Church of England in his
neighbourhood, a very zealous man for the Government, that
. . . was there but proper encouragement given there might
be a cloud of witnesses produced that would fix the matter
plainly upon him. And I must say that I found it the general
opinion of the friends of the Government in and about Preston
that the family of Clifton had been unaccountably screened
from prosecution ! And they did not stick to name the person,
which I shall avoid doing here, because in some other matters
he seems to have acted heartily for the Government. If Mr.
Townley and Mr. Tildesley were acquitted by their jury fc^
want of evidence (as I have often heard suggested) I am sure
it was not because evidence sufficient could not be had, for there
are a great many depositions against them so direct and plain
as had those persons been produced as witnesses it must have
made a jury, even of Jacobites, ashamed to have acquitted
them.
" I have also taken copies of the depositions against the
Cottons, and was there an inclination to trace that affair to
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the bottom, I have been assured the matter would not be very
difficult.
" I also took copies of some depositions taken formerly by
Sir Henry Hoghton and Thomas Molyneux, Esq., against one
Thomas Whitehead, relating to his having been engaged in the
late rebellion. This I did at the request of Mr. Greenhalgh, a
Justice of the Peace for the county, who, but a few days before
I left Preston, had committed the said Whitehead for high
treason to Lancaster gaol on other depositions lately taken by
himself, that, if there should be occasion on his prosecution
to produce other witnesses besides those who had sworn
against the said Whitehead before him, he might also make
use of those who had sworn against him before Sir Henry
Hoghton and Mr. Molyneux. This commitment of Whitehead,
which was a little before Christmas, gave a sensible concern
to the party who seemed to have gained new courage from the
Lord Townshend's dismission from being Secretary of State,
insomuch that several of the persons outlawed for high treason
on account of the late rebellion began to appear publicly in the
country ! And I was informed that the Popish priests were
everywhere spiriting up their people by assuring them that
they would see an unexpected turn in their affairs ! which pro
bably proceeded either from what was then publicly discoursed
that there would be an universal change in the ministry or from
their having some private intelligence of the intended invasion
from Sweden."
WILLIAM MOORE.
[B. 62, p. 22.] THOMAS BROWNE, of Dalton-in-Furness, co.
Lane., yeoman, saith that about two years ago he took of one,
Mrs. Mary Richardson, 26 acres of land in Dalton, for 3 years,
a* £3 Per annum, clear rent and also paying all taxes and
charges whatsoever, and particularly a rent of four nobles per
annum, to Her Grace the Duchess Dowager, of Mountague ;
that the said Mary Richardson is housekeeper to one
Taylor, a Popish priest, and though this informant has paid
his rent to the said Mary Richardson, yet the said Taylor is
looked upon to have the profits of the said premisses, and that
Mary Richardson onjy acts under him, and this informant further
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saith that he has always heard and believes that the said pre
misses are settled to Popish and superstitious uses. [2ist Nov
ember, 1716.] THOS. BROWNE.
[Id., p. 30.] JOHN SALLOM, of Clayton, in p. of Garstang,
deposes, 27th November, 1716, that Mr. Richard Shuttleworth,
of Turnover Hall, in the p. of St. Michael, near Garstang
. . . was engaged at Preston in the late rebellion, and in
attempting to make his escape from Preston was killed by the
King's troops.
[Id., p. 35.] 27th November, 1716. THOMAS FORD, jun.,
of Liverpool, co. Lane., gent., saith that James Almond, the
elder, of Speke, near Liverpool (who is proved to be a Popish
priest by the information of Richard Hitchmough, of Garston)
is possessed of a house in Union Street, Liverpool, now in the
possession of one Hawett, widow of Richard Hawett, of
Liverpool, merchant, for which house she pays £6 6s. per
annum.
[Id., p. 37.] The same THOMAS FORD also deposes, 28th
November, 1716, that the township or village of Ulveswalton,
with the land thereunto belonging (lying within Leyland and
adjoining to Extonburgh, alias Euxton, about six miles from
Preston . . . and now the reputed inheritance of William,
Lord Molyneux, of Croxteth), belongs to some Popish priests or
Jesuits, and that Lord M. is only a nominal trustee for some
Popish priests or Jesuits, or for some other superstitious use for
the township of Ulveswalton.
[Id., p. 72.] Also that the Hon. HENRY HOWARD, brother
to the Duke of Norfolk, is a Popish priest, and has a pension of
£200 per annum paid him out of the Duke's estate. [i4th
December, 1716.]
[Id., p. 73.] Also that Lowick Hall, the reputed inheritance
of THOMAS CLIFTON, Esq., of Lytham, about four miles from
Preston, belongs to some Popish priests, or is appropriated to
some other superstitious use. [i4th December, 1716.]
[Id., p. 87.] Also that an estate called Brin Hall, lying
near Ashton, co. Lane., and now the reputed residence of Sir
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WILLIAM GERARD, of Garswood, belongs to the body of English
Jesuits or to some other superstitious use : also that out of an
estate called the Hall Wood, lying in or near Melling, within
six miles from Liverpool, and now the reputed residence of
Robert Molyneux, of Mosborrow, is an annual pension of about
£20 paid to some Popish priests for saying Mass at the said
Hall on several particular days in the year. [22nd December,
1716.]
[Id., p. 17.] WILLIAM SHEPHERD, a servant of Lord
Molyneux, sending a report to William Moore of his ''discovery
of an estate granted to superstitious uses," also adds : " . . .
I have sent you a small present of brandy : I should be glad to
know it proved acceptable : I should be glad you would please
to drink my health in one bottle with your landlord William
Harrison : the rest are entirely at your service. I heartily hope
it may prove good : Sir, I hope as I have been truly free and
plain in the matter without equivocation, so I hope that falling
into so good hands as yours in whose power it lyes both to be
favourable and do justice to all, so / doubt not only of a third part
as you proposed at first" [Mr. Moore writes in the margin: "This
was a mistake, for I told him a trustee of a superstitious estate,
dicovering it before 24th November, 1716, was entitled only to
a fourth part "], "but of all the reasonable kind usage that in an
honest fair way can be hoped for, for I do assure you I have had
an endless hurry about that business, and I do not know that I
have had so much of it as I have spent on that account, so I rely
wholly upon your kindness, which will ever be acknowledged
to his power by your humble and obedient servant, whilst
William Shepherd." Mr. Moore adds in margin : " The
above letter was directed, for Mr. Moore, at Mr. William
Harrison's, saddler, in the Fryar Gate at Preston, and was
dated 25th November, 1716. At the same time the said Mr.
William Harrison, at whose house I lodged, received a letter
from the said Mr. Shepherd, dated also 25th November, 1716,
of which what follows is a copy."
" Honest William ; I have left a lease and assignment
in Liverpool to come by Gornal this week which I desire you'll
show Mr. Moore, and afterwards keep them till I see you, or
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send them to my mother's . . . pray give him my humble
service, and with the lease come 4 bottles of brandy, which I
beg you'll also give him, one of which I could wish if he please
you and he would together drink my health ... I have
not tasted the brandy, but a friend of mine promised to get
right good, and I pay for such, and should be ashamed if it
should prove otherwise. I had designed to have made a further
addition of a dozen lemons, but could meet with none. The
things come directed for you. I forgot to desire my friend to
pay the carriage, but if he hath not, pray pay it, and I'll return
it with thanks for all troubles. I doubt not but in a fair way
he'll be so kind as to show me all the favour he can, and as he
proposed at first allow me a third part. I paid not for the postage
of his letter, because I supposed him free, which, with many thanks
for all troubles, is from your friend and servant whilst
" WILLIAM SHEPHERD."
But Mr. Shepherd's obsequious and diplomatic despatch to
the government official, and the more confidential letter to his
friend the saddler, seem alike to have met with a cold recep
tion, as appears from the subjoined memoranda of Mr. Moore,
who writes : " I did not think it proper for me to return an
answer, but got Mr. Harrison to do it, the copy of whose letter
to the said William Shepherd here follows :
" Preston, I3th December, 1716.
" Sir, — I received the lease and assignment . . . Mr.
Moore thanks you for your intended present to him of four
bottles of brandy, which I could not get him to accept nor
taste a drop of it, but bid me tell you it was not out of any dis
respect, but because he was under an obligation to take
nothing; so there the brandy will remain at my house till I
receive further orders from you.
" I am, Sir,
" Your most humble servant,
" WILLIAM HARRISON."
Mr. Moore appears to have remained at Preston until
almost the end of December, 1716, leaving "the keys of the
office with Mary Harrison, the saddler's sister," and writing
with great particularity to one of the Commissioners on 22nd
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December [C. 93] : " . . . You will find in the closet of the
Commissioners' Room a few penns, some ink, both black and
redd, three rheams of writing paper, some very large imperial
paper, and some other things which I thought proper to leave
for yours and the Surveyor's use ".
Five days later he writes (apparently from Chester) [B. 62,
p. 106], 27th December, 1716 : "... I think it my duty to
acquaint the Hon. Board that I have been very well informed
that Lord Molyneux has summoned in all his tenants to fill up
their leases, which are generally for three lives, and that the
Papists in general are either doing the same throughout the
county, or else making conveyance of their estates to Pro
testant trustees, to evade the late Act for seizing two-thirds of
the estates of Popish recusants for the benefit of the public ;
and I cannot without some indignation say that I apprehend
some persons who would be thought friends to the Government
are busily concerned in these transactions. And I am humbly
of opinion that, without some proper clause of retrospection in
an act of Parliament to be passed the next sessions, the two-
thirds of the estates of Popish recusants will be of little benefit
to the public."
[C. 85.] Letter from CHAMBERS SLAUGHTER, Esq., to
George Treby, Esq., one of the Commissioners :
" Preston, 5th February, 1716-17.
"... "Tis to be wished that strict orders might be given
to the Justices, but particularly to those of this country, that
ye oaths should be again tendered to all persons without dis-
distinction, as well Protestants as Papists, being assured that
several of the former have been neglected, though equally
obnoxious as the latter. ... If anything drops from me un
becoming to suggest, please to impute it to zeal and not con
ceit, being very desirous of approving myself,
" Sir,
" Your most obed. servant,
" CHAMBERS SLAUGHTER."
[C. 91.] Sir HENRY HOGHTON, M.P. for Preston, also
writes to the "Commissioners of Enquiry" at Preston from
Penrith, 3rd September, 1716 :
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" Sir, — I am sorry I had not the opportunity of waiting on
you and the other Commissioners before I left the country. I
hope you had a good journey to Preston. . . . This evening,
Mr. Thomas Fletcher, of Hutton Hall, a good gentleman of a
good estate in this country, tells me an acquaintance of his,
one Mr. John Tiffin, can make several discoveries of real and
personal estates belonging to the rebels, as also of some estates
given to superstitious uses. Mr. Fletcher, who was formerly a
Papist, but now a Protestant, and zealous in the interest of
y6 Government, I presume also knows of some estates given to
superstitious uses. ... If you think proper to offer the oaths
to any about Preston, I could mention some who call them
selves Protestants, and yet I believe won't take the oaths if
tendered. . . .
" Your sincere friend and humble servant,
"H. HOGHTON."
[Id.] " Warton, 3rd October, 1716.
" To the Commissioners of Enquiry at Preston. Gentlemen,
— I received your obliging letter, and take it as an uncom
mon favour that you are pleased not to lay any positive
injunctions on me to make my personal appearance before
your Honours, as I am very sensible you might justly have
done. The journey would have been entirely fruitless ;
for I do hereby most sincerely profess, declare, and protest,
upon the word of a Christian, gentleman, and priest, that I
do not know of any estate . . . whatsoever, in this or in any
other part of Great Britain, or any other His Majesty's do
minions . . . applied to superstitious uses or appertaining to
any college, seminary, monastery, convent, nunnery, church,
chapel, &c., of the Romish Religion. I have often heard in
general that the English Jesuits have considerable estates and
possessions in this kingdom under borrowed names, as also
large sums in the public stocks, but as to any particular what
soever I can give no account in the world, as I am ready to
declare upon oath in the most solemn form and manner, if at
any time required. I hope, honoured Sirs, that I need not use
any further argument to engage your belief in this matter. I
think I have given more than ordinary proofs of my sincere
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zeal for the Protestant Religion and hearty affection to the
present establishment and His Majesty's Government by an
uniform series of loyal words and actions, and the whole tenor
of my conversation. I am, with all respect and submission,
Honoured Gentlemen, &c., W. AYLMER."
William Aylmer was instituted to the vicarage of Warton,
in Lancashire, on 7th May, 1714, which he appears to have
held till his death in 1734. In a volume of sermons in the British
Museum is " A Recantation Sermon against the errors of
Popery, particularly Transubstantiation, preached at St. Mar
tin's, Oxford, 2Oth September, 1713, before . . . the Bishop of
Oxford . . . the Mayor, Aldermen, &c., and Bailiffs of that
city by William Aylmer, lately Professor of Divinity in the Roman
Church. Published at the desire of his lordship. Oxford, 1713."
No wonder that the Commissioners sought out this terrible
apostate !
[C. 92.] JONATHAN MAUGHAN, to the Commissioners, dated
from Wolsingham, I7th November, 1721 : " Captain Lancelot
Ord was taken prisoner in the late rebellion at Preston, made
his escape from prison, fled beyond the seas, and there con
tinues. The tithes of Ancroft and Tweedmouth belonged to his
three younger brethren — viz., John Ord, who was executed in
the rebellion ; Mungo Ord, who died in the same rebellion ;
and Francis Ord, who was kept in prison until set free by the
Act of Indemnity, these tithes being held by lease under the
Dean and Chapter of Durham at a very small rent. Mrs.
Eliz. Ord, sister to the above-said rebels, renewed the lease
three years since."
[Id.] Letter to a Commissioner :
"Sir, — Being very uneasie at my being kept out of the
money due to me out of Shuttleworth estate for so many years,
and having more pressing occasion for money at this time, I
beg of you and the rest of ye gentlemen that I may be pd as
soon as possible, which will greatly oblige your most obed.
servant, THOMAS CLARKE.
" i8th November, 1721."
[B. 62, p. 89.] 22nd December, 1716. WILLIAM WALL, of
Preston, desires that, if possible, his name might not be made
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use of in his information (furnished through William Moore) to
the Commissioners, he being the only attorney in Preston that has
made any information for the benefit of the public. William
Moore writes himself to the Commissioners to hope they will
indulge him in this.
[Id.t p. 93.] 27th December, 1716. ". . . WILLIAM MASSEY,
Esq., of Puddington, co. Chester, died about a year ago, and by
his will left £500 to his sister, who is a professed nun at Douay,
and £5 to Thos. Brockholes, of Standish, co. Lane., who is a
Popish priest, and who also has an estate in Standish Wood
. . . which he holds as a priest of the Church of Rome, and is
to go always to Popish priests. The mother of Sir Nicholas
Sherburne, of Stonyhurst, gave an estate near Chipping, of
£60 per aunum, to Charles Panket, a Popish priest, to go at his
death in a succession for ever to Popish priests for their main
tenance and support, the said Charles Panket, now living in the
house called Chipping Lane, to which the estate so given him
as aforesaid belongs."
[C. 98.] A letter endorsed "To the Hon. the Commis
sioners for Forfeitures, these " :
" April 3, 1717.
" May it please your Honours : Upon search of Mr. Nevill
and Mr. Timbrell, &c., in relation to our affair in Oxfordshire,
I have happily succeeded, and have found where he lives, but
my friend tells me he cares not to medle, and is somewhat
shye till I can present him with some small sums of money,
and likewise divers other priests, &c., who has already dis
covered about £1400 or £1500 per annum — near £700 in Essex,
£400 or £500 per annum in Lincolnshire, £400 per annum in
Kent ; and engages to discover more in Oxfordshire and most
counteys in England ; £3500 made over to Doway by a former
Member of Parliament, but in his travells turned abott of ye
said place, and his brother will be the chiefe witness in this
affair.
" I am, your honours most obed1- most humble serv1-,
"THOMAS CARR."
[This somewhat obscure letter would almost seem to refer
to Hitchmough, who was turned out of Douay.]
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[T. 2. Miscell. Papers relating to George Talbot.']
Maryland, I2th October, 1717.
In a series of " Interrogatories proposed and offered by his
excellency JOHN HART, Esq., governor of Maryland . . . unto
Charles Carroll, Esq., of the city of Anapolis," one is as follows:
" Do you know of any lands or sums of money that are applied
to superstitious uses in the Province [Maryland] for the
maintenance of any Popish Bishops, Priests, Jesuits, or any
other Regular order of the Romish Church, or of any Semi
naries that are for the education of youth in the Romish
Persuasion ? "
" Answereth that he doth not know of any lands . . . that
are applied to superstitious uses in this Province, but believes
that some priests in this Province are possessed of some tracts
or Parcels of land taken up by themselves in their natural
capacities under the common conditions of Plantations and
pursuant thereto, or by those under whom, for valuable con
siderations, they derive, and verily believes that the yearly value
of them is so inconsiderable as hardly to afford a bare
subsistence for those who are possessed of them, much less to
make any fund for education of youth in any Popish seminaries."
" Do you know of any persons concerned in the late
rebellion who were possessed of any estate at that time in this
Province, or at any time since 24th June, 1715 ? "
" Answereth that he doth not know of any such person . . .
save what he said before of James Talbot " [son of Colonel
George Talbot, which James T. was in Newgate as prisoner,
" taken for the late rebellion "].
[C. ioo.] JAMES BLACOE, of Barton, co. Lane., taylor, upon
oath, 7th January, 1715, saith : " That on Tuesday morning, ye
8th of November last, Mr Thomas Whitehead, sonn of Mr.
Richard Whitehead, of Matside-in-Claughton, Thomas Green,
of Myerscough, who carried a gunn with five or six more in
company, came to this informant's house to search for militia
arms, and some of the company knowing this informant's
brother to be a militia souldier, demanded to have what arms
they had for the service of the Northern Rebels then coming
towards Preston, but the rest of the company this Informant
knows not ".
OF 1715. 97
[T. 33.] loth December, 1715. WILLIAM BAINES, of Preston,
husb., " saith he was in Preston when the Rebels entered the
town on Wednesday, gth November last, and continued there
until the town was surrendered to the King's troops, during
which time this Informant remembers John Leyburn, of Nateby,
Esq., came to the Mitre Inn ... on Thursday, loth
November, armed with a case of pistols and a sword by his
side ; and the said John L. had two servants, both of them well
armed with pistols and guns, and that they mounted their
horses when the King's troops came before ye town with all their
arms and accoutrements, in order to go and oppose the said troops
. . . that Albert Hodgson, of Leyton, Esq., came to lye with
Mr. Leyburn at the Mitre on Thursday night, bringing his sword
and pistols along with him to the Mitre, and he saw the said
Mr. Leyburn and Mr. Hodgson with cockades in their hats . . .
very active and busy among the said rebels . . . that he saw
John Brockholes, of Claughton, jun., arrive . . . and above 9
men with him, armed in the like manner, and come to the Mitre
to ask for quarters for himself and those men, his soldiers as he
called them . . . and that on Saturday, when the King's troops
came to towne, one of those men bid this Informant farewell,
for he was going either to kill or be killed . . . that he also saw
John Dalton, of Thurnham, Esq., come into the town well armed,
with a drawn sword in his hand, waving it about at the head of
his company ... of over 20 men, all on horseback, and well
armed, with each man a sword, musket, and case of pistols . . .
and that on Friday, nth November, he saw Edward Tildesley,
of the Lodge, Esq., come into town at the head of his company
... of near 100 men . . . that Captain Francis Leigh, brother
to Peter Leigh, of Lyme, Esq., came on Thursday, loth
November, to the Mitre, with sword and pistols in his holsters
and pistols in his breast, and 6 or 7 men with him . . .
and Richard Townley, of Townley, Esq., with a cockade in
his hat . . . with 12 or 14 men with him, all with
cockades, swords, pistols, and guns on Sunday morning,
marching amongst the said rebels to oppose the King's Forces
. . . and that on Sunday morning, whilst the action was . . .
he saw Sir Francis Anderton and John Trafford, of Croston,
gent, mount their horses . . . and ride to join the rebels in
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opposition to the King's Forces . . . and that on Thursday
morning Edward Boswicke, of Manchester, came to the Mitre
Inn aforesaid, with the said Captain Francis Leigh, and had a
cockade in his hat, a sword by his side, and a case of pistols in
his bredst, and when he, the said Mr. Boswicke, lighted and
came into the backside, he said : * Now for King James ' . . .
and this Informant further saith that Mr. James Singleton came
on ye Saturday at night to enquire for General Foster, and said
he must send some assistance to my Lord Derwentwater."
[C. loi.J CHAMBERS SLAUGHTER writes to the Commis
sioners from Preston, 23rd April, 1717.
"... I would be glad of your opinion in relation to
rewards for ... small discoveries which several poor Fellows
come to ask after, and I am not able to give an answer to, and
to refuse them any will be a great discouragement to services of that
kind. There is much discourse in the country about the
explanation and prolongation of ye Registering Act and gives
the enemies of the public a great handle in infusing into the
minds of the meaner sort a design of ye Parliament to repeal
that Act, and other suggestions upon the late change that the
Commission will be dissolved, which makes me the more
desirous of a little light, being wholly in the dark myself and
not knowing what to say in opposition."
[C. 102.] Contains — inter alia — " An Account of ye Names
of Severall Persons in Preston who are Harty and Zealous in
His Majesty's interest, Recommended to ye Hon. Commission
for Inquiry into ye Rebels' forfeited estates, to make use of them
as they shall have occation." A list of names of trades, &c., is
given under each of the following headings : " viz. —
" Gentlemen bred up to ye Law, quallifyd for clarks and able
to assist in severall kinds.
" Persons quallifyd for surveying land . . . and apprais
ing goods &c.
" Persons proper to attend ye office, to run upon messages &
arrant s about ye town.
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"Persons that are good Footmen, proper to be sent upon
Messages about ye Country if 50, 60, or 100 miles.
" Persons proper to be sent to seize or apprehend persons on
any account.
" Names of such persons at whose houses the officers, clarks,
and servants may be entertained and lodged at.
" Persons using professions & trades recommended to ye Hon.
Commissioners to make use of ym. as they have occation."
The first named on this list is Dr Thomas Whaley, physition
. . . who "lives out of town but is often in it ".
[Id.] " THOMAS PARRY, of the Cross Keys at Holywell, co.
Flint, innholder, sworn and examined this loth July, 1718, saith
that about sixteen years ago he did treat with Cap. Peter Pen
nant, of Bighton, one of the Justices of the Peace for co. Flint
. . . (and landlord of the Inn at Holywell wherein this
deponent doth now inhabit) in order to take the Inn and did
agree to take it at a rental of £11 135. . . . Deponent never
paid any rent to Mr. Winne, a Romish priest who lived in this
deponent's house. . . . That Sir Peirce Mostyn and Mr.
Roberts, of Herques, had a lease of the Inn . . . that 2
years since, Mr. Wilmott came to Deponent's house and hath
ever since boarded there for £6 per annum . . . that he
did always apprehend Mr. Wilmott to be a very poor man, and
hath heard Mr. W. say that at the time of his being taken up
in the chapel in this deponent's house, he (Wilmott) had but
155. in the whole world . . . and deponent further saith
that he is very certain that there never was any gold lace for the use
of the altar there or for any other use in the said chapel save only such
as was stitched round a red vestment [the words in italics are
erased], and that at the time when the furniture of the chapel
was seized by virtue of a warrant of this Hon. Board there
was nothing taken away from Deponent's house save only a
pair of sheets which was immediately returned to this Depon
ent's servant, and that he hath not heard that anything was
taken away from the Starr, save only the furniture of the chapel
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there, nor hath Deponent heard of any complaint of any Loss of
goods in the said town or of any misbehaviour of any of the
officers that seized the same or of the soldiers that came with
them, and that the civil and quiet deportment of the officers
and soldiers during their stay at Holywell is the frequent dis
course of the inhabitants there.
"The mark of
*
"THOMAS PARRY.
" Robert Floyd at Starr."
[Id.] PETER PENNANT, of Bighton, Esq., saith that about
the year 1704 he let the house known by the name or sign of the
Cross Keys at Holywell to Sir P. Mostyn and Mr. Roberts for a
fine of £50, under the yearly value of £5 55. for lives of
deponent and his mother, who is now living . . . Roberts being
dead.
i8th July, 1718.
[C. 44.] Depositions of PETER CHARNLEY, of Lytham,
yeoman, dated 27th December, 1715, and of Andrew Dobson, of
Bryning-cum-Kellamore, co. Lane., husb., 28th December, 1715,
relative to the part taken by the Cliftons in the rebellion.
Several of the servants of Thos. Clifton and others are
mentioned, some of whose names also occur among those who
"registered their names and real estates" — e.g., William
Walmesley, groom to Mr. Clifton ; James Sanderson, of Little
Plumpton, yeoman ; William Bennett, of Westby ; and
" Nicholas Sanderson, young Master Clifton's man ".
Andrew Dobson deposes that on Thursday, loth November^
he went to Lytham Hall, where he found twelve or more
persons who were all to go with the young Mr. Clifton, and
after dinner that day and drinking a glass of ale in the cellar it
was agreed that all the company should make themselves ready
and come to Lytham Hall at seven o'clock the next morning>
Mr. Mayfield desiring all the company to get their horses shod
that night.
[C. 43.] A letter from W. FETHERSTONHAUGH to the Hon.
the Commissioners of Enquiry, dated October 2, 1716, saying
he was told by the wife of John Sanderson that the rent of the
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house she inhabits, being the property of George Clifton, was
settled to " pious uses 5>.
[C. 116.] WILLIAM SEDGWICK, of London, merchant, maketh
oath that he never heard of any ship laden with salt or coals
that was to be consigned to him by his brother-in-law, Chambers
Slaughter, and he doth not believe that the said Chambers S. has
at any time since his first being chosen an officer under the
Hon. Com. for Enquiry either near Blyth or any other place
load any ship to this deponent.
[C. 57.] CATHERINE COLLINGWOOD, widow, sworn and
examined this the 22nd Octber, 1718, saith that she knows John
Collingwood of Eslington, in Northumberland, and that he is
a reputed Roman Catholic, and that she has seen him at Mass.
[C. 64.] The petition of CATHERINE COLLINGWOOD, one of
the das. of the late Henry Lord Viscount Montague, and relict of
George Collingwood, dec., sheweth —
That by reason of the attainder of her said late husband,
and a defect in her marriage settlement occasioned by ye
ignorance or negligence of ye lawyer concerned in drawing it,
your petitioner is deprived of her small jointure, and her three
daughters of ye moderate portion settled upon them by the said
marriage settlement ; that by reason that she and her daughters
(without any injustice in the Court) thus deprived of the slender
provision which was intended for them . . . they are reduced
to extreme necessity. That . . . your Petitioner hath applied
to His Majesty, who hath had the Royall compassion to refer
her petition to the Attorney-General, who hath ordered the
allegations of the said petition to be made good before him to
morrow, in the evening ; that her councel advises her to produce
the settlement of William Collingwood, father of the said
George Collingwood, to enable the Attorney-General to judge of
the defect in your petitioner's settlement . . . and further prays
that her councel may have a sight of the said settlement.
[Id.] 5th November, 1718. ROBERT COLLINGWOOD, upon
his oath, says that there was due to him 3 J years' arrears of his
annuity at Pentecost last. Charles Collingwood makes a
similar deposition. Both of them say that their annuities were
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always paid them tax-free, and that there will be due to them
each 4 years' arrears at St. Martin the Bishop in winter, which
is the nth day of this Instant November.
Christopher Metcalf, of the p. of St. Giles, co. Middx.,
gent., saith that he and his brother, Thomas Metcalf, have for
several years paid the said Robert and Charles Collingwood
their annuities by order of George Collingwood, their nephew,
but have paid none to them since Lady Day, 1715.
The Commissioners, however, were probably unaware that
these two claimants of unpaid annuities were Jesuit Fathers.
[D. 49. Miscell. Papers concerning the Derwentwater Family.]
" The late Col. RADCLIFFE devised his estate by will to
ye Lady Mary Radcliffe, but by private instructions part of it
to be in trust for the late Earl of Derwentwater or his heirs, and
other part for superstitious uses, ye maintenance of priests,
Popish seminaries, or monasteries. The Lady Mary R. is a
great bigot, and therefore was thought a fitt person to be
intrusted with ye disposal of Legacies left by nuncupative wills
for superstitious uses. Examine sd- Lady Mary and Mr.
Jenison, her priest, allso Mr. Jackson, late of Durham."
[D. 50. A Case for the Commissioners, &c. This is a paper
endorsed " Mr Pengelly's opinion ".]
THOMAS RADCLIFFE, Esq., being seized in fee of divers
manors, lands, &c., by his will, dated 3Oth June, 1705, gave all
his manors, real estate, &c., to his sister, the Lady Mary R.,
for her life, and from and after her death ... to James, then
Earl of Derwentwater, his heirs and assigns .for ever. The
said Thomas R. soon after died s.p., to whom the said
James, Earl of D., was nephew and heir-at-law. Lady Mary
was at the time of the devise a Roman Catholic within the
statute ii and 12 King William, by which she is rendered
incapable of taking by the will, so that the premises vested in
the said Earl of D. and his heirs, and by his being attainted of
High Treason became forfeited, and are now vested in the
commissioners and trustees. The Lady Mary R., under
pretence of the said will, has been in possession of the premises
ever since the death of the devisor, Thomas R., the Commis-
OF 1715. 103
sioners having but very lately had the discovery made to them
of this matter.
Query : " Whether Lady Mary, being a Roman Catholic, can
take by this devise for her life ?"
Reply : " I conceive that she, being a Roman Catholic, is
disabled, and incapable to take such estate for life by force of
this devise ".
Query : " If she cannot take, what will be the proper method
for the Commissioners to get into the possession of the premises
— whether by taking possession by their officers or by bringing
ejectments ?"
Reply : " This estate, having continued in the possession of
Lady Mary, and Lord Derwentwater not having the profits
thereof, I think it is most advisable to bring an ejectment,
wherein the point of law arising upon the statute n and 12 W.
III. will be determined properly before the Commissioners to
change the possession." [27th November, 1721.]
THOMAS PENGELLY.
[Id. Petition to the Commissioners of Ladies Catherine and
Eliz. Radcliffe.}
. . . " Sheweth that your Petitioners having £100 a year
a piece secured to them for their lives by their late father
Francis, Earl of Derwentwater, dec., issuing out of lands . . .
allowed to John Radcliffe as first son of James, late Earl of D.,
and therefore so long as the said John R. lives the said annui
ties are secure, but inasmuch as the next person in remainder
after the death of the said John without issue male is a for
feited person, your petitioners may not be secure, and for that
it is all their subsistence and that they are in years and very
infirme, your Petitioners pray your Honours to appoint a day
for hearing their claims that it may be secured to them in case
of the death of the said John Radcliffe."
[Id. To the same : Ralph Gowland on behalf of the Hon. Lady
Mary Radcliffe of Durham.]
"... prays that they will dispense with her personal
appearance, being in a very weak condition and unable to take
so great a journey without the utmost danger and hazard of
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her life, having been a long time confined to her chamber and
frequently to her bed by an ill state of health."
" Memorandum : if she deliver a full and just [acct. ?] by I4th
February, granted."
[Id. To the same : ANNA MARIA RADCLIFFE, widow of James,
Earl of Derwentwater, on behalf of her eldest son, John R.]
"... Sheweth that your Petitioner did some time since
put in two claims on the estate of her dec. husband, he being
but tenant for life with remainder to his ist, 2nd, and $rd
sons : that the sd- John was eldest son of the said late Earl (an
infant under age), who by reason of the attainder for high
treason of the said late Earl his father hath been kept out of
all the profits of the estate to his very great loss and detriment.
. . . Petitioner prays Comrs- to appoint a day for hearing
her claim."
[Id.] " The same to the same on behalf of her da. Anna
Maria Radcliffe . . . who apart from the portion granted by her
father hath nothing else for her necessary support and main
tenance."
This and the foreg. petition were " dismissed ".
[Id.] Petition of JAMES ROOKE, Esq., and MARY, Countess
of DERWENTWATER, his wife.
"... Sheweth that your Petitioners have long since entered
their claims for a rent charge of £1000 out of estate of the
late Earl of Derwentwater : that there are now several years in
arrear due to your Petitioners, who have nothing else to support
themselves and family withal, and as their title is independent
and paramount the late Earl or his sons, your Petitioners pray
the Comm1"5- to appoint a day for the hearing of their claim,
without which they are not able to subsist any longer."
A note adds, "as soon as possible". This last petition
would seem to have been granted, igth June, 1719. [MS.
47. D.]
[D. 59.] Decision of Commissioners in Essex House,
London, to dismiss the claim of [Bishop] " Benjamin Petre
of the p. of St. Giles-in-the-Fields, gent.," to £100 annual
payment out of the Manor of Whenby, &c., the estate of Lord
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Derwentwater, Tuesday, ist December, 1719, he not appearing
to support his claim.
[C. 104.) Inter alia, a paper endorsed Holy well, and evidently
an inventory of some of the spoil from the "Starr" or the
" Cross Keys ".
oz.
" Remonstrance, ...... 7
Plate, about, 96
103
Books about 150, vestment suites 12, albs 8, amices 10,
cushions 3, antependiums 7, sideboard cloaths 6, Pictures 6,
curtains 2, Altar-hangings."
[C. 105]. An amusing sheet from the Commissioners'
accounts is the following: —
" Laid out by Eliz. Evans for necessarys used in the Town's
hall for the Hon. His Majesty's Comrs-
" For flowers for the flower pots, 6 times, 3^. a
time, 01. 6
For cleaning the Hall and Council House 7
weeks, shee referrs and leaves to their honrs>
pleasures, 10. 6
Paid for the flower Potts, oo. 6
I2S. 6"
[C. 116.] "William Brining of Woodplumpton, co. Lane.,
yeoman, saith that Edmund Fishwick, late of Newsham, co.
Lane., was seized of an estate in Newson called Crowhoe, con
sisting of two messuages and 30 or 40 acres of land, held in
part of Sir Nicholas Sherburne of Stonyhurst and in part of
John Warren of Plumpton, and . . . that Edmund F. had told him
in his last sickness that he had given the said estate to William
Sheppard (now servant to Mr. Blundell of Ince) . . . and
another person to maintain a Popish Priest, and that he
(deponent) then desiring E. Fishwick to do something for his
poor relations, he said they could not do him so great kindness
as the Priests, and thereupon said, all that ever I have shall go
for Pious uses . . . that E. F. died about 10 years since and . . .
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that William Sheppard who is a Papist let the estate and
receives the rents.
" The mark of
+
" WILLIAM BRINING.
" Preston, September 13, 1716."
[Id.] A document endorsed " Paper of Mr. Brooke delivered
by Sir Richard Steele ".
" To the Hon. Commissioners, &c., appointed to enquire of
estates of certain traitors, &c.
" With most humble submission to your Honours :
" Those clauses which relate to estates given to superstitious
uses, I ... pray leave to lay before your Honours such methods
as may probably answer the intention of the Act of Parliament."
After giving a summary of the Act granting a fourth part of a
" superstitious estate " to any trustee " discovering " it between
24th August, 1716, and 24th November, 1716, the paper con
tinues : " Your Honours are the most knowing how few trustees
have made discoveries pursuant to the directions of the sd- Act ;
wherefore I beg leave to assure you that trusts of that nature
are so very secretly managed that, for the most part . . . none
are privy to them but the . . . persons principally concerned,
who [not] being fearful of others, will always keep them
concealed, unless some expedient be found to oblige or force
them to discover and give account of all such secret
transactions, the penalty of not appearing or not discovering the
trust in them reposed being only £40, and imprisonment till
paid. Which sd fine of £40 it may be believed they will sooner
pay than discover and loose the Fortunes they are entrusted
with, and also bring themselves under the penalty for being
accountable for mean profits, &c. As to the continuing the
clause of paying the mean profits or repealing that respective
clause, I most humbly submit, may it please your Honours :
When Roman Catholics are summoned to take the oaths to the
Government for preventing the two-thirds of their estates being
applied to the use of the public, as per Act of Parliament, if
they were to take the oath following :
" I, A. B., do solemnly . . . swear . . . that I am not now,
or ever was, entrusted with or concerned in any estate, real or
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personal, demised, bequeathed, or given by any person to the
use of ... the Church of Rome, or any funds Or allowance for
educating, feeding . . . youth in any seminary, school, or
Religious House, &c. (by the Papists often called Pious Uses) in
any part of Europe . . . and that I do not know of any such
trust, &c., reposed in any other person . . . nor of any estate
belonging to the clergy or Religious Orders of the Church of
Rome ... all which I declare to be true . . . and I have not,
never had, or do believe, or in anywise expect any forgiveness,
pardon, remission, releasement, absolution, or any other manner
or way of Indulgence from the Sea of Rome, meaning by or from
the Pope, or any Prelate, or Ecclesiastic of the Romish Church
... in case I do now here in the presence of God and of this
hon. assembly equivocate, &c. ... So help me God !
" It may reasonably be thought that if they will not save
their own estates by swearing against their consciences, they
will not take a false oath to preserve the revenues of their
Church.
"And in case any person refuse to take this oath and be
interrogated, then the Comrs- be empowered to sequester estates
and imprison such person refusing, wheresoever the estate can
be discovered, and the same disposed of for the use of the
public.
" May it please your Honours':
"The countenance I have received from some persons of
distinction hath obliged me to present to your Honours the
before mentioned method to deal with those the said Act aims
at, whose economy or Church government of the Popish clergy
in England I shall present unto you in the best manner I can.
The great body of Ecclesiastics are divided into several
branches. . . .
"The seculars or clergy are entirely governed by their
Bishops in spiritual affairs and temporal interest (viz.), the
Prelates receive all moneys and the revenues of estates left to
superstitious (by them called pious) uses, and have the immediate
government and direction of colledges, monasterys, &c. Their
numbers were commonly four, but at present I can only be
certain of three : these are Giffard (Metropolitan) and Witham
residing here ; the third is Ellis at Rome.
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" The other Orders are called Religious, and are nomi-
natively Monks, Fryers, Jesuits, Anchorites, and Carmelites :
these Religious are subject to the Bishops in spiritual but are
governed by their superiors in temporal interests, and they
have the care of all abbeys, priories, monasteries, &c., and receive
such sums of money yearly as are left to their use for their
support.
"The nature of Trusts given to the aforesaid uses is such
that the very members of the Body are unknowing from whence
their vast revenues do arise. The superiors themselves do
many times receive large yearly sums appointed for their uses,
and know not who is the Donor, so jealous and fearful they are
of being discovered, or any light given of their secrets.
" For proof of what I shall humbly offer to your Honours, if
you shall please to summons Sir Charles Ingleby, Knt., and
councel for the Jesuits ; Mr. Piggott, of the Temple, London ;
Mr. Aire ; Mr. Beddingfield ; Mr. Fitzherbert, of Gray's Inn,
councel for the others, to answer interrogatory s, 'tis highly
probable many estates given or assigned to the aforesaid uses
for thirty years past may be by them discovered. I pray that
a particular regard may. be to examine Mr. Aire touching Sir
Henry Fletcher's estate, who is become a Fryar.
" Monks. The monks, a very opulent order of Religious in
temporal interest, are governed by a Superior or Lord Abbott,
and he has the care of all their Abbeys, Priories, &c., to whom
all revenues and interest are paid, and the whole Order are
accountable to him. His office is for life.
" Fryars. The community of fryers consist of several distinct
Orders, as Franciscans, Augustines, Mendicants, &c., having
one Superior only, to whom all revenues are paid, and to whom
all monastic jurisdiction doth belong : his office is elective and
continues by one year.
" Carmelites. This Order is governed by a Superior, and
nothing differs from the former in Dignity and Power: his
office is likewise elective annually.
" Jesuits. The Jesuits are the most political and most
opulent of all the Orders. Amongst these Religious is a Pro
vincial who governs them, whose dignity and power is the
same with the last, only in some cases he is subject to the
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General of that Order, whose station they look upon to be greater
than that of a Bishop : his office is also elective and triennial.
" 'Tis evident that the whole interest of the English clergy
and Religious of the Church of Rome centres in the chiefs
before mentioned, which must consequently consist of vast
treasure to support so many and so great seminarys ir\
Forreign parts, which is obvious are founded and maintained
by the English donations. But such is the conduct of these
great Rulers that the inferior clergy do not know the circum
stances of the Body nor from whence their revenues do arise.
By which it may be conjectured that the secret is locked up in
those who have been the chosen governors and their councel,
who are only such as have been Principles themselves. There
fore, with all humble submission, I think no expedient can be
proposed to discover the treasure which rests in their hands
but by apprehending those Principles and strictly interrogating
them as your Honours shall think fit. I'm sure I may venture
to say they have vast sums in the Public Funds and Stocks
uncomatable any other way, for no other persons are concerned
for them ; sometimes the chiefs themselves receive great yearly
sums which they are directed to dispose of for certain purposes
without knowing from whence they come, or what the settle
ment was; which was evidently manifest to me when I had
made all submissive addresses to the trustees, and used my
endeavours to oblige them to grant me the right due to me : I
was not only slighted with much railing language, but ab
solutely denyed the sight of the deeds relating to my wife's
interest; then I found myself obliged to prefer a bill against
the trustees of Mrs. Catherine Winford for the money due in
right of my wife. They pretended it was a secret trust, and thai
gave them discretionary power to pay or not to pay that legacy.
At that time, being of that religion, I was so cautious of injuring
the Church that I went to the Bishops and all the Superiors of
the Religious Orders to know if they were concerned in the
trust, and to give them notice that if I could not find justice
among them, I would proceed in Chancery : they all professed
ignorance and were free that I might sue the executors, viz.,
Atwood and Purcell, which I did with success, by which I had
a perusal of the deed (whereof I have made a discovery to your
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Honours) which appoints a certain sum of money as a Perpetual
Fund for educating youth at St. Omer's. At that time the
Provincial of the Jesuits, since dead, was a near relation to my
wife, and very helpful in recovering our right. He was sur
prised when I told him the tenour of the said deed that such a
thing could be and he not know of it.
" I beg pardon for this digression, but . . . before the afore
said methods are put in practice ... it is worthy of considera
tion whether the Commisioners have power by this Act to
detain or punish them any further than by a fine of £40 : if
not, they will unquestionably pay the said fine and evade the
interrogatorys. On ye contrary, if the power is sufficient, I'm
apt to believe that a right method being taken in the interro
gations will prevent equivocation and be an expedient way to
come at the clergy's effects which is resting in their own hands,
and will discover the methods they take in managing their
treasure.
" It may be necessary that the Penalty on Trustees being
accountable for mesne profits should be repealed, upon con
dition any discovery be made upon their own oaths, but in case
a discovery be made by the testimony of any other person,
then to be continued ; for the consequence of so great a
Penalty upon the trustee may induce him to forswear himself
to preserve him and his posterity from utter ruin."
CATHERINE WINFORD, " of the p. of St. Giles Holborn, co.
Middx., spinster," in her will dated 8th December, 1698, which
was proved the nth of January following in the Prerogative Court
of Canterbury, offers her house and land at Bayton called the
Summer Pole, in the co. of Worcester, for the sum of £150, to
her cousin Thomas Winford prothonotary of Astley, in that
county, eldest son of Henry W., dec., directing her executors
(George Atwood and his son William, with Richard Purcell, of
Clement's Inn) to pay a number of small legacies with the
proceeds, while if her cousin refused the Bayton property it
was to be sold for its full value. The following are among the
legatees named : John and Henry, 2nd and youngest sons of
aforesaid Henry Winford, with their 3 sisters Eliz. W., Geeres
and Wilmote : coiisins William Winford and his brother Dr.
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Edward W., Dorothy Digby and her sister Howes, John
Digby, Anthony Hamerton, Henry Yaxley, Winifrid Atwood, of
Beverie, Anne Petre, who has a little enamelled cross set with
green stones : four uncles Richard St. George, Knevett Hastings,
Charles Hastings, and Ferdinando H., Dorothy, Eliz., and Fer-
dinando Hastings, children of the latter: Theophilus and
Charles, sons of my cousin Walter Hastings. Besides her
godda. Katherine Hammerton, who has £20, others of that
family named are Mr. Hammerton, of Dunsby, and his sons and
das. John, William, Elizabeth, and Olivia Hammerton. Two
of the witnesses to the will are Dorothy Hanford and Richard
Canning. The will concludes thus : " to the intent they shall
see my will executed . . . according to my intentions I leave
to my executors the residue of my estate ".
But Catherine Winford, on the day that she made her will,
secretly executed a lengthy and important Codicil, which from
its very nature she evidently neither expected nor intended her
executors to " prove " with the will. Indeed so many plain-
spoken Catholic bequests would have rendered publicity im
possible in those times. Her executors were therefore carrying
out her wishes to the letter in regarding this codicil as " a secret
trust " and nothing more. Unhappily, however, as we have
seen, litigation ensued in consequence, and Chancery pro
ceedings resulted in the final deposition of the original codicil
among the " Forfeited Estate Papers " in the Public Record
Office, of which the following is a summary :
[Forfeited Estates. W. 43. Will of Catherine Winford.]
"Whereas in my last will bearing date with these presents I
. . . left the . . . residue of my estate to my executors, I now
further declare that as I have given in the said will several
legacies, particularly one to my godda. Mrs. Catherine Ham
merton to whom I design a larger guift than in my will
expressed or what I am willing should be known to any but my
executors, upon whose secrecy and fidelity I confidently depend . . .
in case my godda. Catherine Hammerton become a Religious
woman, that is to say, a nun, my executors when she is pro
fessed shall give the portion which the house she fixeth in shall
require provided it do not exceed £300 ... or if she marry
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with the consent of trustees she is to have £200 . . . provided
the money come not into the hands of her father John Ham-
merton." Other bequests are : " . . . £400 to raise £20 a-year
to maintain a student at St. Omers or at some colledge of
ye [blank. MS. cut] to be educated there in order to become a
Religious man of whatsoever God shall give him a vocation to.
And my will is that my relations of the Hastings or Winfords,
if any of them will accept it have the first offer to be preferred
to this place, and next to them one of my cousin Hammerton's
sons . . . and next . . . the son of Mr. John Fraser, of Wor
cester, Thomas Fraser . . . provided that his parents have not
wherewith to pay for his being so educated, for that this is
intended for such as are poor . . . but if there shall be none
such found to put into the place there . . . then the son of any
that is a gentleman and so poor that his parents cannot pay for
him ... is to be presented." There are legacies of £10
downwards " to those of the Society of Jesus of the English
Province, to Mr. Thomas Roper, George Loup, Henry Hum-
berston, John Mannock, Leo Randle, Martin and Thomas
Russell, John Stanford, Thomas Gavan, Edward Levison, Mr.
Berriman the younger, Charles Wharton, Francis Gibson, Dr.
Kemble, James Griffith, Thomas Busby, Messrs. Floyd, Sutton,
Piercy, Brett, Fleetwood, and little Mr. Baskaville . . .
to the poorest Priests that are about London £15 : to poor lay
Catholics about Worcester £ 10 ... all these charities being
given for the benefit of the souls of my father, mother [sisters],
and my own. To the English Discalced Carmelites £20
towards a foundation of a house or convent for them, also to
the Catholic boarding school at Hammersmith £10 ... ^"5
each to the 2 children of Mr. Henry Yaxley, to be given to his
cousin Mr. Howes to apprentice them. Next, I give to my
Lord Bishop Giffard my great silver crucifix, humbly begging
his remembrance of my father and my mother. My large
picture of our Saviour upon the Cross I give to the District of
the Society of Jesus of Worcestershire, and my best suit of
Church stuff, with the chalice of sylver and all things belonging
to it, I give to that Catholic church or chappell that shall be
first set up in Worcestershire, with the obligation of praying for
the soul of my father, mother, and myself. For the rest of my
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church stuff my will is that my executors give it to some priest
that wants some for the help of the Poor. I give to Mrs.
Appolonia Yates a pair of white cornelian beads of five tenns
with a Reliquary set in gold the shape of a heart. I give to
the Monastery of Poor Clares in Dunkerk my biggest gold ring
which was my mother's wedding ring and ;£io, and of my 5
mourning rings, I will that one be put to a coral pair of beads
and given to my cousin Dorothy, da. of my uncle Ferdinando
Hastings . . . another with coral beads to cousin Dorothy
Digby, and the three others with beads to the three das. of my
cousin Conquest. . . . To my godda. Catherine Hammerton,
gold ear-rings, hair gold ring, a sylver cup with 2 ears, another
sylver cupp with a cover to it and a little box for counters . . .
to the wife of William Gibson, Esq., a gold ring that I commonly
wore upon my thumb in which is a silver ring of St. Xavier's
... I give £10 to my cousin Christiana Hastings, who is gone
into Germany . . . £10 to the English Carthusians at Newport
where Mr. Hall is now Prior, and my residuary estate is to be
employed in binding poor Catholic children apprentices." 8th
December, 1698, in presence of C. Lamport, Margaret Boucher,
and Catherine Knowles.
This codicil, of course, does not appear at Somerset House.
It is endorsed thus : "This writing was delivered by Mr. Richard
Purcell, of Clement's Inn, ye ist of Feb., 1716, and he then swore
he concielled it by order of Geo. Atwood, Esq."
MS. S. 94A describes this Francis Brooke as "of the parish of
St. Bride's, co. Middx., gent," the date of the " information * he
gave relative to the will of Catherine Winford being 30th
January, 1716. Probably he married Catherine Hammerton.
[C. 116.] Letter to the Commissioners.
" Pleas your Honours.
" Presuming that yr- Honours will shortly proceed towards
Northumberland, where I know yr- Honrs- will find much diffi
culty in discovering the Rebels' Estates, I thought it my duty
as being a true well-wisher to my country to acquaint you that
there is a gentleman in Hexham, his name Warburton, who
for four years past hath been employed in making a survey of
that county, in order to compiling a Book of the History and
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Antiquities thereof, and hath lately published a large Map of
that county which shewes the owners of every individual estate,
as advertised in the Evening Post, on Saturday, 25th August,
1716. He is singularly well effected to the Government, as my
Lord Townsend can inform you, and hath been very serviceable
thereunto during the whole course of the late Rebellion, and I
doubt not but will at your Honours' request (notwithstanding
his many solicitations to the contrary) frankly discover the
estates which the rebels enjoyed. He lately shewed me 6 large
volumes in folio MS. of his own collecting, in which there is a
particular account of every acre of land and the tenure by which
they are held, so I think it may be absolutely necessary for your
Honours to write to the said Mr. Warburton, to be assisting to
your Honours in that affair, and am,
" Your Honrs unknown friend
" and humble servant,
"T. R.
" Newcastle,
" 8th October, 1716."
This was evidently John Warburton the herald and anti
quary.
[Id.] Memorial of WILLIAM GIBSON [Steward to Lord Der-
wentwater] to the Commissioners, reminding them that in
November, 1717, he gave information to them relative to the
marriage settlement of the Earl of D. with a da. of Sir John
Webb; he concludes: "Your memorialist humbly prays that
yr- Honours will be pleased to reserve for his use such a share
as he humbly apprehends himself intituled unto by the Act of
Parl1-' having been greatly oppressed by the enemies of the
present happy Constitution on account of the said information. . ."
From a memorandum attached to the " memorial/' it may
be inferred that this miserable informer probably gained his end.
" Will further consider : I2th March, 1719."
[Id.] Northumbria. A paper endorsed " Matthew Robson's
certificate for £7 ".
"Whereas Matthew Robson, of Bellingham, in ye said
county, hath come before me this present day and taken his
corporall oath, that on Friday, the i4th October last, he was
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coming from Alnwick Sessions, where he had been about his
lawful occassions, and coming to Rothbury in his way home he
was intended to refresh himself, and before he lighted off his
horse, one Robert Talbot, one of the Rebels, came to this
deponent and told him that he must go and speak to the
gentlemen at the market place, where a great number of the
Rebels was assembled in Rothbury aforesaid ; upon which he
went with the said Talbot to the gentlemen in the market place,
where among others, Mr. William Charlton, late of Readsmouth,
in the sd- county ; one of the rebels came to this deponent in a
great passion biding God d n this deponent, and told him
he wisht to have his masters there — meaning the Justices of
the Peace — whom if he had there, he knew how to take care of
them ; telling this deponent he was one of them that was for
breaking their caball, shaking his whip at this deponent, telling
him he would let him know yl- it was not brook yet, and there
upon ordered some to take his horse from him ; upon which one
William Dod, one of ye said rebels, took the horse from this
deponent, saddled and bridled, and this deponent's sword and
buff belt, puting him under a guard during the space of three
howers, threatening to slay or shoot, and so releast him, but
kept his said horse and all the things above mentioned, which
this deponent saith was realy and bone fide worth, the time when
taken from him, the sume of £7 British money. All which he
hath averd upon oath before me, the ist September, 1716.
".. . . coram me.
" WILLIAM LORAINE."
[W. 32. Widdrington Papers. Letter to the Commissioners.}
" BLANKNEY, LINCOLNSHIRE,
" 2nd October, 1718.
" Sir,
"This is to certifie the Board y* ye Honourable Coronell
Ralph Widdrington died ye 22nd of June last, according to ye
Inscription upon his coffin, and was layd in ye vault lately be
longing to ye Family, June 28th.
" Yours in all observance,
" JOHN CONEY, Curate.
" I had not ye honour to receive yr letter till ye 2gth of Sep
tember last, otherwise you should have been informed before."
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[Id.] April 7th, 1718.
FRANCIS FOOTE saith that on Saturday, 5th April, he made
enquiry at the house of the late Lord Widdrington, for the place
of abode of Eliz. Widdrington, his sister, and of Helena Fairfax,
of London, spinster, and could not receive any satisfactory
answer. That same afternoon the said Lord Widdrington sent
him word that he knew not the place of their abode, but would
send me the Person who entered their claims to inform me,
which as yet he hath not done, nor given any further intimation
thereof; only an unknown person came this morning as from
Lord Widdrington to him and said, Helen Fairfax might be now
at Wakefield, in Yorkshire, or thereabouts, but he could not be
certain, nor did he pretend to know anything touching the
place of abode of ye above-mentioned Eliz. Widdrington.
[W. 29.] Widdrington Papers. " Observations on the
claims of RICHARD TOWNELEY and his wife MARY" (whom he
married I5th April, 1713), "one of the das. of William, late
Lord Widdrington".
"The will of his lordship bears date 26th March, 1694; he
dyed loth February, 1694-5."
Extracts from the will are as follows :
" To my da. Apollonia W. £2000, and my das. Eliz. and
Mary £1500 " for a marriage portion, and £100 yearly portion
till marriage . . . provided they live in England. . . . Such
of my sons or das. as shall depart out of this realm of England
and settle to remain beyond the seas ... to have nothing of
his or her portion . . . and any so doing before the age of 21,
that portion to be divided among the rest.
" Apollonia, under the age 21, went beyond sea and became
a nun professed in or about August, 1701."
[W. 31.] Widdrington Papers.
One of these gives an " Inventory of the Goods in Widdring
ton Castle . . . apraised I4th December, 1716 ". An item is :
" In the chappell, a pulpit, 9 forms, 5 small pictures, and 26
prints ".
" In the chappell " also at Stella were " a large grate, an
old table, 12 old stooles, a forme, and a parcell of old books ".
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" Peter Potts, Esq., of Newcastle, deposes, 2ist November,
1716, that he has in his possession 5 cases of drawers or
cabinetts that were the goods of Lord Widdrington . . . and
were delivered to deponent's servant about January last by Mr.
Lambert, his lordship's steward . . . deponent valuing them
at £25 or £30."
" William Ogle, Esq. of Cawsey Park, co. Northumberland,
deposes, 23rd November, 1716, that about I3th December,
1715, lord Widdrington's steward, Mr. Lambert, came to him
and desired to lodge 2 boxes of goods which deponent believes
did belong to ye said lord in his house : that accordinly ye boxes
were left in a closet in this deponent's house, where they still
are [and that Mr. Lambert has the key of the same]."
Lord Widdrington's steward contrasts favourably with the
steward of Lord Derwentwater : he is probably identical with
Cuthbert Lambert, named in Eng. Cath. Nonj., p. 204.
Another paper among this collection says : " Widdrington
Castle, the estate of lord Widdrington, was, on 3Oth March,
1720, sold for ^57,100 to Christian Cole, Esq., for and on
the behalf of the Government and Company of undertakers for
raising the Thames water in York Buildings " !
The sheriff of Lincoln also, in a letter to the Commissioners
dated " Lincoln, 6th October, 1716," writes :
" May it please your Honours,
" In obedience to your Honour's precept . . .
I have made enquiry after all such persons in this county as
have been concerned in the late unnatural rebellion, but don't
find any save the family of the Widdringtons, and pursuant
to your honours' commands have been at Blankney House to
secure the goods there belonging to that family, but was in
formed they were all sold except these few mentioned in the
enclosed. . . .
"THOMAS BECKE."
This " enclosed " list purports to be " a perfect Inventory
of the goods and chattells of the late lord Widdrington or Mr.
Peregrine W., his brother, taken and siezed in Blankney House,
co. Lincoln, 3rd October, 1716". The only item of any in
terest is, " in the hall, a large long table, supposed to be an
heirloom ".
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While, however, nothing seems to have escaped the greed
of the Commissioners, the following draft, evidently designed
for the royal signature, affords an interesting evidence of the
noble determination of the unhappy Widdrington family to
allow no worldly consideration to rob them of apparently the
only " heirloom " that remained — viz., the Ancient Faith :
[W. 31.] " Whereas in and by an Act of Parliament made
in the 4th year of our reigne, entitled an Act for vesting the
Forfeited Estates in Great Britain and Ireland in trustees, &c.
. . . the estate of William, late lord Widdrington, a papist,
attainted for the late unnatural rebellion, was vested in trustees
. . . and whereas by the said Act a power is reserved to us to
make such grants as we shall think fit for the support and
maintenance of the children of the said lord Widdrington
during his life out of the lands, &c. . . . which were the in
heritance of his late wife Jane, lady Widdrington, dec., and
mother of the said children, not exceeding £700 per annum.
But by the same Act it is declared that where we shall make
any such grant, disposition, or provision for the use or benefit
of any child or children of any such forfeiting person, every such
child shall be educated in the Protestant Religion, and not be of
force any longer time or term than such child shall continue to
be of the Protestant Religion and shall publicly profess and
practice the same, and in every such grant an express condition
to be inserted to that purpose, and whereas since the making
of the said Act we have not made any . . . provision for any
of the said children of the said William, late Lord Widdrington,
who have not given any satisfaction of their being educated in the
Protestant Religion, but have by one of our principal secretaries of
State signified to the Commissioners that they might proceed to sell
the said estate. . . . And whereas the Commissioners have since
June last contracted with Joseph Banks, of Revesby Abbey,
co. Lincoln, Esq., for the sale of the said estate, and sold it
to him . . . without any . . . regard in respect of our power
aforesaid. . . . Now know yee that at the humble request of
the purchaser, and to extinguish our power of making such
grants, and for the better enabling the Commissioners to com
plete the sale, wee of our especial grace . . . have released
and discharged ... all the estate of the late Lady Jane
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Widdrington, dec., of the said power for charging the same
for the support and maintenance of the children of lord Wid
drington ... to the intent that the said Joseph Banks may
quietly enjoy the said lands. . . . Given under Our Privy Scale
at our Palace at Westminster, the day of , 1719, and
in the sixth year of Our reign."
[Id.] " I, whose name is hereunto subscribed, residing at
Pontoise, Physician in ordinary to the King, doe hereby certify
that I have for these several years attended Mrs. Elizabeth
Widdrington in divers distempers, and particularly for two
months the distempers which she has been subject to at
several times are (amongst others) violent fitts of the apoplexy,
of the cholick, of vomitting, the feaver ; all which accidents do
render the said gentlewoman so feeble, that she is not in a
condition to undertake the least journey without the hazard of
her life, and consequently it's deemed that a journey to England
is not practicable in the present state of her health, which I
certify to serve the said gentlewoman as far as it's reasonable.
[Dated at Pontoise this 8th day of May, 1719.] "
" GAUBRIN."
[D. 82.] Dicconson Papers. Petition of Hugh Dicconson, gent.,
to Commissioners.
" . . . Sheweth that your Petitioner hath entered his ,
claime for a remote remainder expectant on the failure of issue
male of William and Roger Dicconson, his brothers, which
Roger hath issue a son Edward, now living ; that upon notice
that your Honours had appointed a time for the hearing of his
claim he did resolve to be present. But being at Douay, in
Flanders, was there taken so ill that he cannot undergo a
journey to London without endangering his life . . . and he
prays to be excused personal appearance."
" Edward Dicconson, gent., maketh oath that he ... being
in Flanders with his brother Hugh on I3th November last . . .
did set out for London about I4th November, at which time
deponent left his brother Hugh dangerously sick in Flanders,
and wholly unable to travel by reason of his languishing con
dition, the Phisitian saying ... it would endanger his life ta
travel." [i2th December, 171.8.]
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[Id.] "Thomas Carter, of St. Margaret's, Westminster,
deposes . . . that William Dicconson, late of Wrightington,
co. Lane., Esq., was concerned in the Lancashire Plot in 1694,
but then acquitted. In 1695, or at the time of the assatination
plot, the said William was convicted of Recusancy. Two years
afterwards, in 1697, he made the deed of settlement on Mr.
Roger of all his estate in Lincolnshire.
" Query : ' Whether that settlement is good, had William a
tytle to grant, or Roger to take, both being Papists ? '
"Edward Dicconson, the fourth son of Hugh D. (dec.), claims
... a large sume of money of Roger's Lincolnshire estate. . . .
Edward D. was indicted upon the statutes for taking orders in
the Church of Roome, and coming and staying in England con
trary to the said statute, and outlawed for the same in the years
1700 or 1701."
[G. 10.] Gibson Papers.
Memorandum dated 5th April, 1716, from the Fleet Prison,
signed by George Gibson, late of Stonecroft, co. Northumber
land, and now of London, gent., relative to a farm let on his
estate ; witnessed by Edward Swinburne.
[G. 9.] The same.
"John Armstrong, of Corbridge, co. Northumberland, aged
46, maketh oath that he has been parish clerke of Corbridge
upwards of 20 years, and for all that time and long before knew
Thomas Gibson, late of Stagshaw-Close House, and some time
of Stonecroft . . . father of George G., who was concerned in
the late rebellion (which said George . . . this deponent be
lieves dyed a prisoner in Newgate, att London), and saith that
Thomas G. departed this life about the beginning of August
last . . . and deponent was present and see him buryed in
Corbridge Parish Church, in the same burying place where one
of the wives of the said T. G. was formerly buryed.
" Jur. apud Hexham . . . ist November, 1720."
[L. 16.] Dorothy Langdale, wife of Jordan Langdale, Esq.
(son and heir apparent of Philip L., of Southcliffe, co. York,
Esq.), and widow of William Walmesley, late of Lower Hall,
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co. Lane., Esq., by her will dated nth January, 1715, and
proved 2ist May, 1718, gave legacies to her brother John
Dandy and his da. Ellen and to her sisters Jane, the wife of
James Marsden, and Margaret, wife of Dr. Hesketh.
[S. 94A.] JOHN TAAFTE, of Chester, gent., maketh oath, 25th
July, 1717, that Catherine Massey, sister to the late William
Massey, of Puddington, co. Chester . . . hath been a nun for
many years in the Convent of the Poor Clares at Bruges . . .
that he saw her about 30 years ago in her habit " shut up
within ye grates," and that she hath a legacy of £500 under Mr.
Massey's will . . . and further . . . that Thomas Brockholes,
a legatee in this will is a Popish Priest, and he has often seen
him in the reign of the late King James officiate as such in the
chapel at Whitehall, and was Mr. Massey's confessor at the
time of his death.
[Id.] EDWARD POOLE, of Newhall, co. Chester, gent.,
maketh oath that Joseph Gerrard, of Killough, co. Monmouth,
Esq., under his will of gth April, 1705, devised property to such
pious uses as John Berington, of .Winsley (a professed Papist),
and Charles Watkins, of the Wayne, co. Monmouth, should
think fit, and that Charles W. was a priest and often officiated
at Killough. [22nd October, 1717.]
[Id.] JOHN WALMISLEY, jun., of Wigan, says that the rent
of some land at Hardshaw, co. Lane., settled to superstitious
uses, is paid to Humphrey Orrell, of Parr, tanner, who is a
Papist, and only a trustee for that estate ; and further that when
the rebels surrendered at Preston, he (deponent) and Captain
Gregg, who lives near Manchester, did pursue and take Robert
Kellett, servant to Sir Francis Anderton, as he was endeavour
ing to make his escape. [3rd November, 1716.]
[Id.] RICHARD HITCHMOUGH deposes, 7th October, 1716, that
he knew Mr. Lawrence Breers, and hath frequently seen him
officiate as a priest . . . also that his sister, Catherine Breers,
is a nun in the English Monastery at Gravelines : that Mr.
Breers has an annuity of £20 out of an estate called Walton
Hall, near Liverpool, Catherine B. also having a rent charge
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of £12 from some estate which passes at her death to the same
monastery for ever.
He also deposes that Mr. Richard Hulme, who now lives
with the Hon. Richard Molyneux at Much Woolton, is a Bene
dictine Monk, whom he has often seen officiate. [7th October,
1716.]
[Id.] Ric. HITCHMOUGH adds further, ist October, 1716,
that Thomas Young of Blackread, near Wigan, is a secular
priest, where also he has an estate, on which he built a large
house and chapel, where he usually had a numerous congrega
tion of Papists . . . and that the said Thomas Young having
thereby run himself into debt, at a general meeting of the
secular clergy at Park Hall in 1708 . . . desired the assembly
to assist him with ;£ioo out of their common fund. The
assembly — at which Hitchmough himself was present — voted
him the money on condition of his depositing some deeds with
Mr. Barlow, vicar-general and president of the assembly.
[B. 58.] Correspondence relative to Hitchmough.
Letter of a Commissioner to Rev. Mr. Hitchmough.
" Sir, — In answer to yours of the I4th, I am ordered to
acquaint you that you may depend upon the favour as well as
justice of the Commissioners when the proper time shall come
to consider of your Reward for the Discoverys which you have
made, which by the Direction of the Act will be when the estates
are recovered, until which time they have no power to grant
such a certificate as you mention." [2ist May, 1716.]
The Commissrs. to the Rt. Hon. the Lord Chancellor.
" Essex Street, 6th February, 1716-17.
" My Lord, — We think ourselves in duty to the public
obliged to recommend to your notice the Rev. Mr. Hitchmough, of
Liverpoole, in the county of Lancaster, as a proper person to be
preferred ... to some benefice in your Lordship's gift. He
formerly was a priest of the Church of Rome, but has left the
Communion of that Church about five or six years, during which
time he has lived in extreme poverty and very much persecuted
by the Papists, upon some occasions even to the hazard of his
life. He is a man of a good character, and has been hearty and
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zealous in his service to the Public by giving us information in
relation to estates settled to Popish and superstitious uses. . . ."
This letter failing to awaken the Lord Chancellor to a sense
of his duty, it was followed by another to the same effect, three
years later :
" i6th March, 1719-20.
" My Lord,— We hope your Lordship will give us leave
to lay before you the case of Mr. Hitchmough of Preston, formerly
a Priest . . . but now in the Church of England : he is zealously
affected to the present government : ... he has a wife and several
young children and is extremely poor and is still rendred more
unfortunate by the continual vexation of the adverse party too
powerfull in those parts : We therefore recommend him to your
Lordship's favour. . . ."
This letter, as we know, resulted in the presentation of
Hitchmough to the living of Whenby, in Yorkshire, in
November, 1720 (see Eng. Cath. Nonj., p. 343). The Registers
of that parish, which appear to be in a tattered and imperfect
condition, throw no light upon his after career.
[B. 58.] The Commissioners to Hugh Dreisdale, Esq., Major
of Regt. of Dragoons, commanded by Sir Charles Hotham.
"... Information having been laid before us that there are
two Popish Chappels at Holywell, in the co. of Flint, in which
are a great quantity of plate and other valuables given to super
stitious uses, we have directed our Precepts to ... Richard
Hitchmough, clerk, and . . . [others] to seize and secure the
same; and we, adjudging it to be for the service of the Publick
that our officers should be supported in the execution of the
said precepts . . . desire you would detach such a number of
the soldiers under your command for the purpose ... as you
shall think proper . . . and for so doing, this shall be your
justification.
"Town Hall, Preston, 27th June, 1718."
[B. 62, p. 44.] RICHARD HITCHMOUGH, of Garston, co. Lane,
clerk, saith that Mrs. Mary Egerton, late of Hardshaw Hall,
near St. Helens, in the township of Windle and p. of
Prescott, by her will, devised to one Mrs. Mary Cottam the
estate of Hardshaw Hall, subject to a rent-charge of £20 per
annum, to be paid to Mr. John Ince, of Ince Hall, Wigan, in
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trust for the Popish secular clergy, for ever : Deponent hath
also been informed by Mr. Thomas Golden, now proprietor of
the said estate, that Humphrey Orrell, living near Parr, co.
Lane., usually received the rent-charge, and paid the same to
Mr. Ince for the aforesaid use. [srd December, 1716.]
[C. 91.] Letter from Ric. Hitchmough to Francis Foote,
Esq., one of the Commissioners :
" Preston, i3th October, 1717.
"Honoured Sir, — . . . You may perhaps remember
when I was at London, I told you I should be very glad you would
solicit my affair as to what belonged to the Commission, and I
repeat the same now, in case you think and find that the Com
mission goes forward, which I am much afraid of : for we have a
parcel of people in these parts who make it their business since the
Act of Grace to persuade the world to the contrary, and, indeed, I
must needs own they vent their assertions with such assurance,
as though they were absolutely certain it would be as they wish.
I doubt not but by this time you are able to judge how matters
will be carryed, and if you would please to favour me so far as
to impart your thoughts to me upon the receiving of this you
would much oblige, honoured Sir,
" Your most humble and obed. Servant,
" RICHARD HITCHMOUGH.
" Turn over. William Sidall, the tenant of Phiswick Hall,
who, I believe, holds the greater part of that estate, was with
me the other day, and tells me there is a very honest Pro
testant who would gladly be his partner for the whole, if the
Popish tenant may be turned off, and in case he is not, himself
must be forced to leave the farm, for he is grown so impudent
of late, and so much encouraged by Dick Jackson, that there is
no living with him : he begged of me to represent it to you, and
begs the favour of your answer."
[C. 93.] Letter from Henry Wiswall to Rev. Ric. Hitch
mough, at Preston, dated from Ormskirk, 28th June, 1718.
" Sir, — I spent the greatest part of yesterday to find out the
person I spoke of who married old Mr. S - le's maid, and
was tenant at Hall B — w — afterwards, whilst the old gentle
man lived : After I had found him I took him to an alehouse —
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under pretence of renewing our old acquaintance — and there
asked my questions as near as I durst for being suspected. I
will only tell you that he's but a lukewarm Papist, may be
easily brought to our own shape, and will absolutely answer
what will be wanted from him. . . . The will which Mr.
H ys must produce is of a priestcraft contrivance. . . .
[After expressing a hope to have the Hon. Commissioners'
approval of his proceedings, he adds] :"...! expect ... an
account this evening of some seculars, regulars, &c., but, I
doubt, rather irregulars, of whom at our next meeting we shall
talk, and till then you may depend upon my silence and watch
fulness. I write this doubly for fear of a mistake.
" Your most humble Servant,
" HENRY WISWALL."
[C. 92.] Richard Hitchmough to the Commissioners.
" Honoured Sirs, — I cannot avoid troubling your Honours
with a fatall accident which happened this morning about n
a'clock. A violent fire brok out, first in the Barn of one of my
parishoners at Pool Rice, which immediately set fire to his
dwelling house ; the man's name is Thomas Dresser, who by
the judgment of all his neighbour has lost near £200 ; he was
at church himself when the accident happened, and when he
came to his ruined habitation found that he had not a penni-
worth of goods saved besides his cattle. All his implements of
husbandry, corn, brass, pewters, and all his wearing apparel, in
a word, all he stood possessed of, were all consumed in the
violent conflagration in the space of one hour. The design of
this letter is humbly to supplicate your honours to lay this poor
sufferer's condition before our next new Lord if he may have
commiseration on him. The man has been all his life a very
industrious person and a very good liver, so humbly begging
your honours' pardon for the trouble of this, I am, Honoured
Sirs, your honours' most dutiful, most humble and most obed*.
Servant. Ric. HITCHMOUGH."
RICHARD HITCHMOUGH did not long enjoy the living of
Whenby, the " Bishop's Certificates " for the Arch-diocese of
York giving 2Oth April, 1724, as the date of the next presenta
tion to the vicarage, then vacant "per mortem naturalem
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Richardi Hitchmough ". This appears to be the only record
of his death, nor is any trace of him to be found in the probate
registry either of York or of London.
The following summary of further depositions by Ric. HITCH
MOUGH is also taken from MS. S. 94A.
R. H. "very well knows Brinhall, near Wigan, now in the
possession of one Richard Holne, son of John Holne, dec., who
formerly rented Brinhall, and that monthly the Jesuits of
this county met at Brinhall to settle their accounts . . . and
that Mr. Thomas Gerard, a Popish priest, told this deponent
that the Brinhall estate, worth about £150 a-year was given to
the . . . English Jesuits by Sir William Gerard, of Garswood,
bart, to receive the profits of it until the Roman Catholic
Religion should be re-established in England . . . and de
ponent hath been further informed that an inquisition was
taken at Warrington concerning divers lands given to super
stitious uses . . . among which was Brinhall . . . the Record
of such inquisition now being either in H.M. Court of
Exchequer at Westminster, or in the Petty Bag Office in the
Court of Chancery." [sist October, 1716.]
That Mrs. Jane Johnson, of Crosby, by will, devised £300
towards the maintenance and schooling of two youths, viz.,
Edward, son of Edward Molyneux, of Altkar, and Richard
Smith, son of Mrs. Margaret Smith, who is now the wife of
Thomas Widdowson, of Bootle . . . the money being paid to
some Popish College beyond seas to make the said youths
priests, [ist November, 1716.]
That an estate at Wolston, in p. of Warrington, worth £70
per annum, and another at Farnsworth, in p. of Prescot, worth
£ 18 per annum belongs to the Benedictines, while one called
Croftsworth, in p. of Winwick, of £30, belongs to the Jesuits.
That Mr. Wolfall, of Ormskirk, holds £200 for the secular
clergy.
That Sir William Gerard, of Garswood, settled £50 per
annum on the English nuns at Gravelines, besides . . . £30
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annually to his brother Thomas, a Jesuit . . . residing at
Garswood.
That Lord Molyneux, of Croxteth, settled £60 on his son
William and the English Jesuits, as may appear by the marriage
settlement of the said lord's eldest son with Mrs. Brudenall,
which deponent remembers to have seen while chaplain to Lord
Molyneux.
That Robert Molyneux, of Mossborough, gave £10 per
annum to superstitious uses.
That John Savage, now Earl Rivers, is a Popish secular
Priest, and receives £500 per annum from James, Earl of
Barrimore.
That Fitchborough Farm, an estate of £50 per annum, in
Bunbury, co. Chester, belongs to the secular clergy.
That £200 per annum out of Painsley, 10 miles from
Stafford, the estate formerly of Philip Draycot, and a farm
called Rishton Grange, 2 miles from Newcastle, co. Stafford,
worth £80 per annum, is settled to the Popish secular clergy at
Douay.
That Mr. Whitgreave, of Moseley, besides maintaining a
priest in his house, gives £30 per annum to like uses.
That there belongs to the Popish chapel at Wolverhampton
£ 100 per annum ; Mr. Higgins [Hickin] being temporal trustee.
That a rent charge of £100 a-year is settled and paid to a
Popish Bishop named Witham.
That a rent charge of £200 out of Medesley Manor, 10 miles
from Drayton, co. Salop, late the estate of ... Brooks, Esq.,
dec., goes to the Jesuits at St. Omers.
Finally, that £100 a-year from the estate of Lord Faucon-
berg, at Sutton, in Cheshire, goes to the College at Douay.
[igth June, 1717.]
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[Id.] " THOMAS FLETCHER, Esq. of Hutton in the forest,
co. Cumberland, deposes, I2th September, 1716, that he knows
Thomas Roydon, a priest1 who inhabits a tenement called
Lewhouse, in p. of Wetherall, co. Cumberland, at a £25
rental, held under the Duke of Portland, and that about four
years agoe, being in company with the said Roydon, he told this
deponent that the tenement was his upon trust for the support
and maintenance of two priests officiating in the northern parts,
viz., himself and one Lodge, alias Bates.
" Deponent, who is lord of the manor of Twisleton, in the
West Riding of York, saith further that about five years ago
one Columbus Ingleby, Esq., a customary tenant of that
manor, told deponent that he wished to alienate a customary
messuage, for that it was not his own, but a trust given to
superstitious uses. . . . This messuage was conveyed by deed
to Sir William Gerard, bart. . . . the affair being chiefly
transacted by one Gilpin, a priest.
" Further, that Sir Henry Fletcher, bart, after having settled
his real estates upon deponent, being his nearest relation in name
and blood, did go beyond the sea to Douay, in Flanders, and
some time before he went did show to this deponent what he
called his church plate, being both gold and silver, there being
an altar and candlesticks, all of solid silver, and pixes, chalices,
Beads, crosses, and crucifixes, all of solid gold : the covers of
mass and other Bookes in gold, and a large circle of gold set
with large diamonds, in which the consecrated Host was to be
exposed on solemn days. The said Sir Henry Fletcher like
wise showed to this deponent several other valuable pieces of
plate, all which he told deponent were for the use of a chappie
he had built at Douay . . . and to the best of -deponent's
knowledge, all the aforesaid pieces of plate might be worth
£1000 or upwards, over and above the said circle of gold set
with diamonds, which this deponent (being not skilled in
Jewells) can't set any true value upon. . . . Sir Henry F. left
all the plate at the house of one Mr. Thomas Hickin, goldsmith
in Holborn, London, where ... it remained some time after
Sir Henry went to Douay, and actually was there at the death
of the late Queen Anne. Sir Henry Fletcher dyed at Douay in
May, 1712 . . . making Henry Eyre, of Gray's Inn, and
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Percival Hornsby, of Middlescough, Cumberland, gent., his
executors . . . the said Eyre and Hickens were entrusted with
the plate and can give an account of it. ... That Sir Henry
dyed very rich and left several small sums of money to the use
of the said chapel at Douay."
[B. 58.] Letter to Sir John Eyles, bart., signed by five of the
Commrs- of Enquiry , and dated "Office at Preston, i<\th September,
1716".
" Sir, — You have enclosed a copy of part of an information
laid before us relative to a great quantity of plate, &c., given
to superstitious uses. . . . You have likewise a warrant to the
Sheriffs of London and Middlesex to seize the same, which we
pray your particular care of, and recommend to you to see it
obeyed in the best manner that may be ; and being appre
hensive that Higgins may be unwilling to obey our warrant
and to prevent the discovery as much as he can of the said
plate, &c., we have also sent you enclosed a summons for him
to attend us at Preston to be examined in relation to the same,
but we would not have this summons served without you see
an absolute necessity for it, occasioned by his stubborness. . . ."
The Commissioners certainly lost no time, only five days
elapsing between the " information " of Thomas Fletcher, given
at Preston relative to the plate, and its seizure at the bankers'
in Holborn, as recorded in Eng. Cath. Nonj., p. 343.
[F. 1 6.] Sir John Eyles to the Commissioners.
" London, i8th September, 1716.
" Gentlemen, — I instantly upon receipt of your letter yester
day went to Sir John Fryer, one of the sheriffs, and served him
with your precept, and without loss of a moment's time we
went, together with the under-sheriff, a city officer, and a con
stable, to Mr. Higgins, and with as much civility as the nature
of our errand could admit, acquainted him with our business :
at which he first seemed surprised and denyed the having such
things, at last owned he had had them, but that he had
formerly sent them away to Flanders, or delivered them to
Sir Harry's order. This not satisfying us, and threatening to
search his house (where, by the way, I believe, had your
warrant been more general, we should have found other things
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secreted), the wife, after her husband, being under apprehen
sion of some ill consequence to himself, had slipt out of the
house, produced three boxes which she said belonged to Sir
Henry Fletcher's executors, and contained all that Mr.
Higgins had of ye things mentioned in the warrant. . . .
Particulars are given in enclosed memorandum. After this
was done, I told her I expected her husband to give me
yet further satisfaction as to other things that were wanting,
or else ... I must serve him with a summons to appear
at Preston: accordingly he came to-day to the Guildhall
and told the sheriff and me he had . . . nothing more except
a tabernacle of silver belonging to ye Altar, which he brought
with him . . . but the sheriffs thinking themselves not
authorised to take possession of it ... he took it back again
. . . promising to deliver it to your order. . . . Thus stands
the case as to this seizure, which amounts to 2i2l. ooz. izdwt."
MSS. F. 6, 9, and 15 complete the story of Sir HENRY
FLETCHER, as the following summary will serve to show. An
elaborate septempartite Indenture, dated 3ist October, 1710, sets
out the settlement of his real estate, which Sir Henry Fletcher,
of Hutton in the Forest, co. Cumberland, made upon his kinsman,
Thomas Fletcher of Moresby, Esq., previous to his setting out for
Douay, one party to the indenture being Catherine, a sister of Sir
Henry, and the wife of Lionel Vane, of Long Newton, co. Durham.
[F. 15.] Sir Henry, by will dated loth May, 1712, left
several small legacies to his nephews and nieces, George,
Henry, Walter, Lionel, Elizabeth, Alice, Catherine, and Mary
Vane, and to -Margaret, Alice, Mary, and Lucy Bowes : to his
cousins, Thomas Fletcher, of Hutton, and Harry, son of John
Fletcher, as also to Marcus Fletcher, Mrs. Dorothy Herron,
Charles Grimstone, his servant ; Mr. Massey, of Puddington,
and to Thomas Hickins, the " goldsmith in Gray's Inn," his
executors and residuary legatees being his " trusty servant,"
Percival Hornsby and Henry Eyre, of Gray's Inn.
But on the same day he also executed a secret codicil, just
as Catherine Winford did, and of which the following is a
summary : —
" To the English Rector at Douay, with the obligation of
saying 800 masses for my soul, . . . . £100
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To the same, for beautifying the church, . . . £100
To the English Colledge near St. James' Church in
Douay, with the same obligation for 400 masses, . 50
To the English Benedictine Monks at Douay, for 400
masses, 50
To the Scotch Jesuits at Douay, with the same obligation
for 400 masses, 50
To the English Poor Clares in Ayre, . . . .100
To the Bishop of Arras, to be disposed of to the poor of
his diocese, ...... . 400
" I leave to the Church of the English Recollets in Douay
all my church plate, both of gold and of silver, and what are
sett with diamonds, to be putt up att our Blessed Lady's Altar :
to them alsoe I leave my church vestments : I give to the afore
said Rector my two large silver payles I used to sett my bottles
in, and which are in one of the boxes att Mr. Hickins', gold
smith, wherein is my table plate, to make, with my other church
plate, two Holy Water Potts for their church in Douay . . . also
my two ffyne pictures with silver frames, one whereof is of our
Blessed Saviour, to be putt up in their church ... I give unto the
Bishop of Arras my gold watch and chaine for himself . . . and
I ordain this present writing . . . to stand in as full force and power
as if it had been inserted in the body of my will" [loth May,
1712.]
Previously to this, however, Sir Henry F. wrote to his
solicitor, Henry Eyre, of Gray's Inn, under date 23rd August,
1711 :"...! also desire that my Little Red Box that has in it
my prayer book with the gold cover, my gold Beads, a gold
medal, 2 gold crosses, one having a diamond crown and the
other a gold crown, gold Holy Water bottle, silver relick case,
silver repeating watch, pr- of Beads of Blood Stones, with a
silver cross with silver medals : a silver cross with a silver
crown : [my gold cross with a diamond crown has a gold chain
to it], all which are in the custody of Mr. Hickins, the gold
smith, and that I desire may be sent to the English Recollets
at Douay, in Flanders, that am,
" Sir,
" Your obliged £ humble Servant,
"HENRY FLETCHER."
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On the other side of foregoing MS. is " Mr. Charles Grim-
stone's receipt ": "... Received of Thomas Hickins one gold
basin & cruetts : one gold spoone : one gold chalice and Patin,
and one Black Vestment of Velvet " [together with the plate
named in the letter] : Exam. Thomas Penson. [See Eng. Cath.
Nonj., p. 219, as also his will.]
Another paper, enumerates among the " plate seized a little
box for frankinsence, a large silver lamp, thurible, and bread
box, all which things are delivered as belonging to the Altar."
fiyth September, 1716.]
After this a couple of Jews "valued the plate" at
£831 155. 9^., the silver tabernacle weighing upwards of thirty
pounds, the silver being estimated at 55. per oz., with the ex
ception of the " Glory silver gilt with diamonds," the silver of
which, weighing 3102. ijdwt., at 45. 6d. per oz., was valued at
£49, or the whole at £56.
Percival Hornsby also deposes, i7th April "... that
the original directions of Sir Henry F. to his executors are
in the hands of Mr. Bruno Cantril, a Romish priest now at
Douay . . . that none of the legacies were paid except the
watch and chain to the Bishop of Arras . . . that there were 2
notes due from Mr Hickin, the goldsmith ... to Sir Henry F.
in the hands of Mr. Nicholas Fortescue, a Romish priest who
lately lodged next door to Mr Hickin. . . . Deponent can't
take upon him to say that Nicholas Fortescue is an Agent of
the College of Douay, but confesses that he has seen him
there."
Thomas Fletcher also further deposes, at Preston, nth
October, ±716, " that he knows George Carter, of Castlesteeds,
Thomas Wytham, of Workington, and Thomas Warwick, of
Warwick ... all to be Popish Priests of the Benedictine
Order, and believes those priests know of lands settled to
superstitious uses, particularly an annuity settled by the Lady
Mary Ratcliffe, at Whenby, in Yorkshire, and several other
lands to the same use . . . and that there now lives at Corby,
in Cumberland, one Sherburn, a reputed priest, whom deponent
has heard hath some great office or dignity in the Church of
OF 1715. 133
Rome, and that he is concerned in the Revenues of Benedictine
Colleges at Douay and Paris."
Three years later, i.e., on igth January, 1719, Thomas
Fletcher, in ironical gratitude to the memory of his cousin Sir
Henry, to whose munificence he was indebted for every inch of
the estate he then held, presented "a Memorial to the Commis
sioners," reminding them of his "depositions . . . that the
Plate had been seized and sold, and your Memorialist has received
his share, for which he returns humble and hearty thanks, and hopes
he is also entitled to his share of the money bequeathed by Sir Henry
Fletcher's codicil " /
The next design, however, of the Commissioners, was to rob
the poor of the money bequeathed them under Sir Henry's will
but before doing so they thought it best to take counsel's opinion,
and therefore submitted the following case to Sir Edward Nor-
they, on nth April, 1720. With what result will presently appear.
"Sir Henry Fletcher being possessed of considerable personal
estate in England and Flanders, and residing at Douay, makes
his will, and after several legacies devises his residuary estate
to his executors . . . but by a codicil, among other legacies,
devises £"400 to the poor in the diocese of the Bishop of Arras.
Sir Henry dyed at Douay, in 1712.
"Qy>: Whether the said £400 ... is to be construed super
stitious within the statute against superstitious uses ?
" Reply : I am of opinion the devise to the Bishop of Arras
of £400 to the poor ... is a good, Christian, charitable, and
not a superstitious use, for although the Bishop be a Papist, he
is only a trustee, and it will be the same as if the trustee were
a Protestant ; and although Arras be in a Popish country, yet
it was never thought that giving to the poor in such country
was superstition, for the poor of all persuasions are objects of
Christian charity, and even in the Stat. i E. 6, cap. 14, which
gave to the king all chantreys and destroyed all superstitious
uses being at that time, takes notice in the preamble, that what
was so given might have been given to godly uses, among which
one is for maintenance of the poor, and this charity is encouraged
by the Stat. 43 Eliz., cap. 4, and it's plain this is neither a
Popish nor a superstitious use."
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As to the costly Altar plate, the last scene of this somewhat
eventful drama is laid in an auction room, as appears by a paper
endorsed " Sale of the Altar Plate — I2th March, 1716-17," and
of which the following is an exact copy.
" Genteilemen, — You have here exposed to sale by the
Hon. the Commissioners of Inquiry ... an altar of Massey
Silver : 6 large candlesticks : a mass book with silver cover : a
silver Tabernacle : a silver book cover : a silver crucifix and
. . . church plate of 2$il. 402. i^d-wi., together with a gold
chalice weighing lib. Soz. i$dwt., and a silver glory gilt and set
with large diamonds.
" Genteilemen, — The method of this sale is by auction to the
highest bidder, and the goods are put up altogether at £800
only : no less than 20s. to be advanced on each bidding : the
money to be paid into the exchequer within 7 days after sale,
and upon certificate for the same the goods to be delivered to
the buyer."
The auction must have been a " Dutch " one, for in another
handwriting is added the following : " Mr. John Bland, of
Lombard Street, bought the same at one hundred and three
pounds biding.
" Vouched : JNO. MANSERGH."
Or more probably the purchaser gave £103 in excess of the
original £800.
Thus ends this melancholy story. It does not appear that
Sir Henry Fletcher entered Religion. No doubt, however, had
his life been spared, the priesthood was his intention. Dodd
merely says of him (iii. 452), that "he was educated a member
of the Church of England, and lived many years in that pro
fession. At last he became a Catholic, and, leaving England,
retired to Douay, where he fitted himself up a small apartment
joining to the Convent of the English Franciscans, and died
there, May 19, 1712, in the 54th year of his age, having
before built a noble church for the use of those religious
men."
Burke, in his Extinct Baronetcies, says that " Sir Henry lies
buried at Douay, in a magnificent Chapel which he built for
the Community at his own expense, and that with him the
Baronetcy expired. At his demise, his sisters, as heirs-at-law,
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prosecuted their title to the whole estate, but after much liti
gation it was agreed that Thomas Fletcher, of Moresby, should
enjoy the . . . Hutton estate for his life, and if he died without
issue, then Henry Fletcher Vane, Esq., should inherit the
whole property. Mr. Fletcher, of Moresby, did die s. p., and
the estates passed to the Vane family."
[Id,] A letter signed by all the Commissioners and addressed to
the Lords of the Treasury.
" Speaker's Chambers,
" 2ist August, 1716.
" My Lords, We are obliged again to trouble you with a com
plaint against the Fees demanded at the Exchequer, and to
beg your Lordships' immediate interposition. We lately
ordered one Salter to pay into the Exchequer £2 I2S. 6d.,
which money he had in his hands belonging to Ralph Standish,
Esq., who stands attainted of High Treason. He informs us
that the fees demanded for his paying this money amounts to
I2s. 6d. If a stop be not put to such demands, the Public
will be in a great measure deprived of the Benefit intended."
[Id.] The same to the same.
" Essex Street, 3ist January, 1716-17.
" My Lords, Your letter directed to us at Preston came not
to our hands till our coming to town. In obedience to your
Lordships' commands, we have considered the Paper intituled
Proposals humbly offered in behalf of the poor Prisoners and
others now under an attainder of High Treason, and are of
opinion therein proposed can't possibly raise so much money
for the benefit of the Publick as will be by sale of the
estates, when the Parliament shall think fit to expose them :
and we likewise are of opinion that this proposal sets the Roman
Catholic Interest very near in as good a condition as before the
Rebellion : whereas if they are divested of their estates, and Pro
testants succeed, the Roman Catholic Interest in those Northern
Counties must be intirely ruined : this project seems so intirely im-
peachable and unreasonable that we are of opinion it deserves no
further consideration.'"
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[B. gg.] Papers concerning the Breers family.
ROBERT BREERS, of Wigan, gent., in his will dated 22nd
April, 1708, names as joint executors " Elizabeth, my now
wife," Thomas Hesketh and Christopher Gradwell, and, refer
ring to an indenture dated I3th May, 1707, mentions " Roger,
my son and heir, with Bridget, his wife " : there are legacies
also to his son Thomas and his cousin Perpetua Wilkinson.
Attached to the will is a paper giving the following note : " A
true account of your children's age, as follows :
" Thomas Breers was born i6th September, i6g2.
" Bridget „ „ I5th February, i6g3«
" Mary „ ,, ist February, i6g6.
" Margery „ „ 25th December, i6g8.
" This is all with our humble service to yourself and family :
" I rest,
" Yours to command,
" JOHN SHEPHERD."
[B. 143.] Miscell. Papers relating to the Butler family. Henry
Butler to the Commissioners of, &c.
" igth July, 1717.
" May it please your Honours :
" That I, Henry Butler, Esq., late of Rawcliffe,
co. Lane., but now of Castletowne, in the Isle of Man, about 8
years since being very much indebted and desirous to discharge
the same as far as I could and to make provision for my younger
children, did convey all my estate to Richard Butler, my son, who,
being an inconsiderate, rash young man, did engage himselfe in
the late horrid rebellion, for which he was tryed and executed.
" Reserving only £60 a-year for maintenance of my wife
and self . . . and my son having forfeited the estate, which is
now in the hands of ye Government, the tenants and receiver
of Forfeited estates refuse to pay me my Annuity for want of
an order from your Honours . . . which I humbly beg your
Honours will please to grant to the said receiver to prevent
mine and my wife's being starved for want of food and raiment.
We having no other dependance or livelihood in the world
besides the said annuity, and we being both well-stricken in
years, are altogether incapable of any means to assist ourselves,
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and must inevitably perish if not relieved by your Honours.
In which deplorable condition I humbly beseech your Honours'
early order for payment of my said annuity to prevent our
destruction, and Mr. Elstob being now gone into Yorkshire, I
intreat your Honours will signify your pleasure to Mr. Whalley,
of Preston."
[Id.] " The widow of Mr. Ric. Butler, uncle and heir-male
to deceased Ric. Butler, of Rawcliffe, convict for late rebellion,
humbly proposes to become farmer of his estate in behalf of her
two infant sonns, who she offers to be educated Protestants, by Mr.
Cawthorn, of Wyersdale, and that he for their use may be the
farmer : he is well affected to his Majestic, and is very solvent
and responsable. 2ist June, 1717."
[Id.] Thomas Fletcher's information and observations on claims
on the estates of Richard Butler.
"I2th July, 1718."
He examines the grounds and pretexts upon which various
parties have laid claim to the estates, among whom are
" Henry Curwen, Esq., whose claim," he says, " is void, he
being a Popish Recusant Convict".
"Mary Butler" — another claimant — "then was and now
is a Papist. ..." He continues as follows:
" In the reign of King James II., the ancestor to the late
Earl of Derwentwater gave a rent-charge of £20 per annum
upon the lands of Castlerigg and Derwentwater for ye main
tenance of a Popish priest to reside there, but after some time,
the Papists being quite extinct in those places, the fund was
removed and paid to a priest of the Benedictine order residing
at Whenby, in Yorkshire. The priest who last resided at
Whenby was one John Potts, a Benedictine Monk.
"About the year 1709, Thomas Salkeld, of Whitehall, Thomas
Howard, of Corby, John Warwick, of Warwick, and Thomas
Fletcher, then of Moresby, co. Cumberland, Esqs., petitioned the
late Lord Derwentwater to have the sum of £20 per annum
restored to a priest residing in Cumberland, which was granted,
but the petitioners not agreeing among themselves, and some
disputes hapning between the secular and regular clergy, the
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Cumberland project failed, and the £20 was paid to the monk
att Whenby."
[From this it is evident that Thomas Fletcher, the donee of
the estate of Sir Henry Fletcher, was an apostate, and that Sir
Henry Hoghton was correct in describing him as " formerly a
Papist".]
[Id.] Thomas Fletcher to the Commissioners of Enquiry at
Preston.
" igth September, 1716.
"... If your honours will favour me so far as to send me
some assistance, I'll be master of what's in these two countys
in a fortnight's time, for the tennants will do everything as I
direct them. . . . Mr. Slaughter, or whoever is sent to me, must
take his road by Kendal, from thence to Keswick, where my
Lord Derwentwater's estates lye, and come to the Royal Oak
Inn, where he will either find me or hear of me. ... If your
Secretary writes to me at Hutton, near Penrith, in Cumberland, it
will come safe."
[Id.] Petition of Mary Butler , of Workington, co. Cumberland ',
widow of Ric. B., of Rawcliffe.
" Sheweth, that a summons was served upon her, 3rd
November, 1718, at Workington, to attend on the I3th of
same month at Essex House, London, 240 miles distant:
prays not to appear before 5th December, because of the short
ness of the notice, and by reason of the great distance she and
her witnesses live from one another and from London." The
Commissioners fixed the 8th December for her appearance
before them.
[B. 144.] I2th July, 1718. Petition of Thomas Foster, of
Barnardcastle, co. Durham, to Commissioners of, &c.
" Sheweth, that Petitioner intermarried with Catherine
Butler, who has a claim now depending . . . touching her
fortune . . . chargeable upon the estate late belonging to
Richard Butler, of Rawcliffe, who was attainted of high treason
. . . and that her fortune, with some arrears of interest
which Ric. B. was obliged to pay, is still due and owing to
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her and petitioner . . . claims to have his case heard this
day."
One, Thomas Backhouse, also presented a petition claiming
the estate of Ric. Butler.
Memorial of JAMES BUTLER, an infant, set. 14, eldest
son of Richard B., late of Scorton, co. Lane., gent., dec., who
was 2nd son of Richard B., of Rawcliffe, Esq., dec. " Sheweth,
that his grandfather, Richard B., was tenant for life, and that
Henry B. (yet living), as his eldest son, was entitled to the
remainder in fee tail of the several manors of Out-Rawcliffe :
Refers to marriage articles dated I3th December, 1683, of
Henry B. and Magdalen, da. of John Girlington, Esq. Sheweth,
that Henry B. had issue Richard, his eldest son (who attained
his majority and d. s. p. in 1716), and Nicholas, his 2nd son,
who died a minor and unmarried, and that Memorialist is not
only entitled as next heir in tail to the estates, but is also a
Protestant, the others who preceded in the limitations being
Papists: prays, therefore, -to enter his claim to the estates."
[Id.] The petition of JOHN MANDEVILLE to Comrs-
" Sheweth, that Francis Butler, late of the City of London,
gent., dec., who was in his lifetime a Papist, by his will devised
several lands, &c., to [his sister] Mary B., a Papist and Abbess
of a convent in Flanders, in prejudice to your Petitioner (who
is next male relation), on account of your petitioner being a
Protestant." Petitioner, in 1718, "made a discovery" to the
Commrs- of these premises as being " left to superstitious
uses ..." Prays them to prosecute sd- discovery . . . and
grant him his reward.
[W. 12.] WILLIAM WALMESLEY, Esq. of Lower Hall,
Samlesbury, under his will dated I5th September, 1712, and
proved by Dorothy, his widow, 3rd January, 1712-13, gave
legacies to his cousin Elizabeth, da. of Richard Walmesley, of
Preston, to his " present wife's sister " Margaret Dandy, and
her sister Jane Marsden : to his good friend and agent Mr.
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William Hayhurst, of Preston, and his sister, Anne Hodginson
[Hodgkinson ?], as also to her da. Helen Eaves.
[W. 10.] Deposition of one who states, 2Oth November,
1716, that 10 years ago he rented an estate called Longlane
Head, in Clayton, co. Lane., of Ric. Walmesley, of Preston,
whose son Thomas, outlawed for high treason, married a da. of
Colegrave, of Bloomsbury Square, London.
[W. 54.] THE WORTHINGTONS OF BLAINSCOE.
23rd October, 1716. " JANE, wife of RICHARD WORTHING-
TON, of Blainscoe, co. Lane., Esq. . . . saith that she has
been married ... n or 12 years, and found her husband
encumbered with a mortgage for £900, which was assigned -to
Jeoffrey Prescot, of Preston, and Mr. John Heskin, of Wrighting-
ton, in trust for Mr. John Gillibrand, of Chorley, and that the
mortgagees remitted to him a great part of the interest, but Mr.
Gillibrand persuaded her husband to advance -£ 150, and take
it up from him for one ,or more of the said Worthington's
children by a former wife ... to place one of them, a
daughter, in a Religious House or Nunnery at Louvain.
" £7°° °f the original mortgage was for maintaining certain
Popish priests; and though the mortgage was some seven years
since in pretence assigned to one Thomas Payne, a goldsmith
in London, yet the interest was applyed to the sd priests. . . .
£400 of the original mortgage was a gift from her husband's
uncle, one Richard Worthington, for the maintenance of a
scholar in the Popish seminary . . . and several such scholars
were maintained thereby.
[Id.] * 7th March, 1716. " Nathaniel Pearse and John
Mathews, goldsmiths in Lombard Street . . . depose that at
the request of Gerard Saltmarsh, Thomas Yaxley, John
Browne, and John Gillibrand, they, about 2nd February, 1713,
assigned a mortgage on the estate of Richard Worthington, to
Jeoffrey Prescot and Thomas Heskin, but that they never
received any money from any person on account of such assign
ment. . . . Deponents say this mortgage came into their hands
as executors to Mr. Payne, late of [Lombard Street] London,
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goldsmith, who was trustee for one Mr. Job Allibone, de
ceased."
[B. 70 and B. 74.] Two MSS., being the " Register of the
appointment of the various officers employed in the administra
tion of the Forfeited Estates," together with their yearly
salaries. Each of the seven Commissioners received £1000 a-
year, the salary of the minor officers varying from £ 300 to as
low as £40 per annum, one and all having any expenses defrayed.
The following items of expenditure are from Chambers
Slaughter's accounts :
A gratuity for his services to Thomas Fletcher,
Esq., £21 10 o
A gratuity for his services to Rev. Mr. Hitchmough, 576
iQth June, 1717 „ „ „ 5 o o
20th April, 1718, i:o Mr. Serj1- Pengelly, a retaining
fee, 10 10 o
I5th July, 1718, to Thomas Fletcher, Esq., . 27 12 6
29th July, 1718, to Mr. Hitchmough, . . .1000
22nd October, 1718, to John Cosens, for work done
per himself and his son, . . . 42 o o
i6th January, 1718-19, to the same in full for him
self and his son for abstracting the Registry, 21 o o
28th January, 1718-19, William Moore, Esq., Coun
sel's fees, 10 10 o
The entries relative to John Cosin are of interest, "the
abstracting of the Registry " being evidently the " work done,"
which in 1745, appeared as " Names of the Roman Catholics,
Nonjurors," &c. James Cosin is wrong in describing his father
as "Secretary to the Hon. Commissioners". The Secretary
was Arthur Branthwait, Esq., whose appointment dates from
24th June, 1716, " at a salary of £300 per annum ". The
name of John Cosin nowhere occurs among those of the officers
appointed ; he was in all probability merely clerk or tran
scriber to Chambers Slaughter, the Accountant General, and
indeed is so described on the title page of the original edition.
[T. 26.] THORNTON PAPERS.
The Petition of ANNE, widow of NICHOLAS THORNTON, of
Netherwitton, co. Northumb.
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" Sheweth, that she having entered her claim upon the estate,
late of John Thornton, her son, for her dower appointed to be
heard to-morrow, and having entrusted her case to Mr.
Errington, of Gray's Inn . . . who being unexpectedly
obliged to go into the country about affairs of his own,
and having in his custody several papers of hers without
which she cannot instruct her counsell, prays to have her case
adjourned."
Her son JOHN, also prays the Commissioners to " post
pone the day for hearing his claim on behalf of his wife," on
the ground that he had to go into Northumberland to gather
up his writings, which were in several places dispersed, and
which he had with great difficulty found and brought to London,
the abstract of them having still to be made.
[B. 60 and T. 26.] Lastly, MARGARET RAMSAY, of Stanton,
in the p. of Horsley, co. Northumb., deposeth, 23rd Novem
ber, 1716, that she has in her custody two beds, one of green
cloth and the other of fine lemmon-coloured camblett, an easy
chair, a sett of chairs to each bed, a black glass and table,
another very good glass, an easy chair of patchwork, several
cutts in frames, another large looking-glass cut in the frame,
and a tea-table, all which goods she believes were late the
goods of Mr. Thornton, and prays to have a fourth part for that
discovery. A couple of years later, hearing that these goods
had been sold by the Commissioners for £27 155., she
again clamours, I3th March, 1718, for her fourth part of
the spoil. Very likely she was some servant or dependant of
Mr. Thornton's.
[R. 24.] RIDDELL PAPERS.
" CHARLES TANCRED, of Covent Garden, draper, sworn this
i8th May, 1721, saith that he knew Dr. Riddell, dec., and was
one of his executors, but refused to take execution : hath heard
the will read, but hath no copy thereof : believes he died worth
£1300, and that he left a son who is since dead : does not
know where George Riddell lives, but that he is reputed a
monk, and was by the will to have the residue after some
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legacies, but whether it was to be applied to any pious uses,
deponent doth not know and hath not heard."
[Id.] "The Petition of EDWARD RIDDELL, Esq., to the
Commissrs. Sheweth, that a summons to attend them on 2nd
December next at Essex house, London, relative to a Mortgage
made by his father Thomas Riddell to Francis, ist lord
Derwentwater, was served on him a few days ago at his house,
230 miles from London, but by reason of his ill health, the
great distance from London, the unfit season for travelling,
and the short notice, he cannot possibly be present, and prays
to have his attendance postponed for six weeks."
[R. 23.] Report of William Moore relative to Dr. Thomas
Riddell, 28th April, 1720.
"The Master of References (i.e., WILL. MOORE) thinks it
his duty to lay before the Board that he hath been informed by
a person, who for some reasons desires his name may be at present
concealed (tho* he hopes hereafter to have the benefit of his discovery),
that under indenture dated 25th April, 1693, Thomas Riddell,
of Swinburne Castle, and Edward, his eldest son, conveyed
divers manors ... of considerable value to Jasper Hall and
Thomas Beadnel . . . that the marriage settlement of Edward
Riddell with Dorothy, da. of Robert Dalton, Esq., bears same
date, &c., and that the issue by this marriage was Thomas R.,
eldest son, who stands attainted of high treason. . . ." Gives
details concerning the Mortgage of £"4000 of Lord Derwent
water upon the Riddell estate, &c.
[S. in.] SWINBURNE PAPERS.
" The Petition of Dame MARY SWINBURNE on behalf of her
son Sir John S., a minor.
" Sheweth, that she hath been informed that the estate late
of Edward S., Esq., dec., is to be sold for the use of the Public,
and that certain lands called the Deanhams are included in
the sale, which lands are not his, but belong to her son and his
heirs."
[S. 1 10.] "The Petition of Sir JOHN SWINBURNE and of
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EDWARD WARD, of Morpeth, co. Northumb., gent., his solicitor
to Comrs-
" Sheweth, that your Petitioner being at the time of the late
Rebellion and for three years afterwards a minor and beyond
the seas, and being at his return from his travels abroad in
formed that your Honours had caused the estate of Old and
New Deanham, co. Northumb., to be seized and sold as the
estate of your Petitioner's uncle Edward Swinburne, and being
advised that your petitioner has a legal title to those estates,
he, acting by counsel's advice, brought ejectments for the said
premises. Petr- tried his cause at last Northumberland assizes,
but not having made his claim according to Act of Parliament
before your Honours, was non-suited. . . .
" Edward Ward, the other petitioner, hopes he has not in
curred the displeasure of the Commissioners by acting as a
solicitor on behalf of his client Sir John Swinburne, having for
many years been concerned for the said Sir John's family.
" Both pray to be excused attending on i5th November be
fore the Commissioners on account of the expense, troubles,
and charges Sir John S. has been at."
[S. 30.] SHERBURNE PAPERS.
"nth December, 1716. THOMAS RISHTON, of Green Gore,
co. Lane., gent., saith that Ric. Shirburn, late of Preston, co.
Lane., gent., outlawed for high treason, was seized of an estate
called Bayley Hall, in the hamlet of Bayley and p. of Mitton,
and that the said Ric. Shirburn made his escape from Preston
after the battle there, and, it is pretended, conveyed his estate
after his escape to one William Cromblehome, to prevent its
forfeiture . . . and that an estate called Stidd, in the town of
Button and parish of Ribchester, belongs to John, younger
brother of Ric. Sherburne . . . and prays the benefit allowed
by Act of Parliament for his discovery.
[Id.] The information of Nathan Marsh, of Preston, co. Lane.,
flax-dresser, ist January, 1715-16.
Informant saith that, on Thursday evening, loth November
last, he being at the house of one, John Wareing, at Bayley, in
said co., John Wareing, together with William Scott, came
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home to John Wareing's house and lighted off their horses,
and when they came into ye house, J. W. said to this purpose,
" Damn yee, who is he that says against King James ; if I
knew that there was, I would sacrifice ym- . . . Deponent
further saith that he was present at a place called Dutton Lee,
co. Lane., about Michaelmas last, when the said John Wareing
drunke the Pretender's health, by the name and title of King
James the third of England and eighth of Scotland, and . . .
on Friday evening, nth November last, he heard that a great
company of the rebels from Preston were gone to Stonyhurst,
y6 seate of Sir Nicholas Sherburne, to fetch him into ye Rebells
at Preston, and otherwise to bring away his horses and arms,
and the next morning . . . this Informant being nigh a house
called Tinckler-feild House, near Stonyhurst, saw 17 or 18
persons on horseback, with each a gunn, and . . . that John
Wareing told him the said company had brought away eight
guns with them from Sir Nic. Sherburne's, and a sackend full
of pistols. Informant saw 7 or 8 guns and a blunderbuss
which these persons had (who were said to have been at Stony
hurst), and four coach horses or mares which they ridd upon,
and which belonged to Sir Nic. Sherburne.
JOHN MASON, of the p. of St. Sepulchre, City of London,
mason, saith : " That, he being employed in Sir Nic. Sherburne's
of Stonyhurst business for many years . . . happened to be at
Stonyhurst on Thursday evening, loth November, when
William Scott and John Wareing came thither, Scott being
armed with a gunn and a bayonet fixed on the end of it, who,
seeing informant in the kitchen, went away, and he saw them
no more that night. Next morning Scott came to this informant,
held a hanger over him, and asked him who he was for, to which
Informant answered he was for the King and the Church, and,
in a little time afterwards, went away . . . and about 7 or 8
o'clock that evening came again and runn at the gates, where
upon, informant went to Mr. Kempe, Sir Nic. Sherburne's
steward, and acquainted him of it, who ordered informant to
open the gates, which he did, and Mr. Kempe having dis
coursed with him a little, he went away. A quarter of an hour
afterwards, one Mr. John Talbot and two other gentlemen with
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him . . . came to the gates and rung . . . and Mr. Kempie
ordered them to be let in, and brought them to the foot of the
dining-room stairs, where they went up. ... In a quarter of
an hour afterwards, William Scott and 20 other persons, all
armed with swords and guns, came to ye gates and rung ...
and Mr. Kempe went with informant to ye gates and ordered
them to be opened, whereupon William Scott ledd them all up
into the hall, where they laid bye their arms, and Scott called
for meat and drinke for them. After supper was over, Scott
came to informant to borrow a lead pann and some lead, which
this informant refused to let him have ; he went to Mr. Kempe,
who came shortly afterwards and ordered informant to let him
have both the pann and some lead, which he did, the lead
weighing about 20 Ib. What use Scott made of the pann and
lead, informant knows not, but believes it was to make bullets.
A little time afterwards, informant went to bedd, and about 7
o'clock next morning saw Mr. John Talbot and the two gentle
men that came with him with William Scott and the others, all
mounted on horseback and armed, going away, and that they
took with them four of Sir Nic. Sherburne's coach horses,
which were delivered them by his servants."
Jurat, apud, Liverpool, no date, but probably September,
1716, the date of another deposition on the same sheet.
[Id.] The information of Thomas Watson, constable, of
Aighton, Bayley, and Chaidgley, and James Eastham, of the
said town, taylor, taken on oath before Sir Henry Hoghton, gth
January^ 1715-16. Thomas Watson saith that he having a
warrant from Sir Henry Hoghton and Thomas Molyneux,
Esq., dated 2ist December last, to apprehend and seize John
Wareing and William Scott, who was formerly a servant to Sir
Nic. Sherburne . . . and having reason to suspect that William
Scott was then at Stonyhurst ... he had got near 20 men of
his township to search for ye said rebels, and on Tuesday, 27th
December last, Informant with his company went about 8
o'clock in the evening to the Stonyhurst to search for Scott, but
was refused entrance into the house by Mr. George Kempe,
steward to Sir Nic. Sherburne. Informant told Mr. Kempe he
had a warrant to search the house, on which Mr. Kempe went
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away into the house and staid about a quarter of an hour (as
this informant apprehends to acquaint his master), and at his
return again refused him entrance. Informant further saith
that the house is very strong, having a greate paire of iron gates
to the front, and a paire of wooden gates on the back of ...
[MS. defective] . . . iron gates. James Eastham says he was
charged by the constable to go with him to his assistance, and
that he went with him to the Stonyhurst, and that Mr. Kempe
refused him entrance when he demanded it in the King's
name.
[Id.] gth January, 1715-16. Robert Barrett, of Aighton,
Bayley, and Chaidgley, taylor, saith that on Thursday, I7th
November, one Richard Sheppard, alias Gudgeon, a post-boy
for Sir Nic. Sherburne, came to informant's master's house, and
informant asked Sheppard how many Bullets was cast at ye
Stonyhurst ... for he said he had heard there was a bushell
cast there for the service of the rebells. . . . Whereupon Shep
pard told informant there was not so many, for Mr. Mason
would but give them one pann full of lead to make into Bullets
. . . and that there was above 30 of ye Rebells at Stonyhurst,
the Friday at night before the action at Preston.
[C. 88.] The petition of William Halliwell, gent., to the Com
missioners.
" Sheweth, that your petitioner hath, together with Christo
pher Graddell, entered their claims for the lands called Roun-
head, in co. Lane., which is included in their trust deed, your
Petit1"- having been a considerable time in town with one of the
witnesses at the great charge of the trust estate, and cannot
stay much longer without great prejudice and inconveniency.
Prays for a day to be appointed for the hearing of his claim."
[C. 89.] Petition of Edward Shaftoe to the Commissioners.
" Sheweth that your Petitioner hath maide itt his outmost
indeavours to serve the Government in giving yr- Honers
severell informations : the last given is a mortgadge belonging
to my Lord Derwentwater, upon the manner or Lordshipe of
Swinburne Casstell, in ye co. of Northumby, by which I have
gained the displeassure and mallice of all my ffriends and
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Relations, who hath no pity or compashtion on my deplorable
sircumstances, compells me to addres your Honers for som
releafe, for being here attending your Honeres determanation
neare six yeares, I am reduced to great want now in my olde
Adge, being in August next 75 yeares. I humbly beseech your
Honers to consider my deplorable case and assist me in some
messure y1- I may have.som Releafe."
This Edward Shaftoe, who seems to have incurred the
indignation and contempt of his Catholic relatives, which he
justly merited, was probably one of the Shaftoes, of Bavington,
although MS. S. 21 describes him as, "of ye parish of St.
Catherine, near ye Tower, London". MS. S. 20 pictures him
as clamorous for his " reward " as the^rs^ " informer " relative
to the estate of John Shaftoe, of Bavington, which however the
Commissioners denied, and a little later (S. 21) he offers to
rent of the Commissioners the mansion house and lands of
William Shaftoe, in Little Bavington, provided he can have
immediate possession " before the house and gardens run away
further to ruin ". The same MS. also gives 24th June, 1695, as
the date of the marriage settlement of William Shaftoe with
Eliz. Riddell. He was the son of John Shaftoe, of Little
Bavington, by Frances, his wife, Edward and John being also
named as the younger sons of the said John Shaftoe. One son,
John, was the issue of the marriage.
[F. 33.] "Further House " given to superstitious uses.
" WILLIAM Moss, of Skirmersdale, in par. of Ormskirk, co.
Lane., yeoman, saith that William Moss, of the same, dec.,
was about 40 years ago seized of a house and seven acres, called
' Further House,' in Skirmersdale, and devised it to his wife,
and for Henry Orrel to sell the same. It was sold, accordingly,
to Richard Moss, brother of the said William, who was a
Papist.
" Richard, in his lifetime made a feoffment in 1703-4 to
Alexander Blundell and James Hunter, a Papist of Melling-
cum-Conscough, to the use of Richard, John, and James
Aspinwall, all bred up in the Popish Religion. John is now in
some Popish seminary abroad, and Richard, the eldest son, was,
OF 1715. 149
in ye Rebellion, taken at Preston, sent prisoner to Chester, and
escaped out of the Castle. [i7th October, 1716.]"
[E. 4.] ECCLESTON PAPERS.
The petition of THOMAS ECCLESTON, of Eccleston, co. Lane.,
Esq. [to Comrs<], sheweth, " that the Manor of Eccleston and
other your Petr>s- estate, did, on the death of his father, Henry
Eccleston, Esq., descend to your petitioner, his eldest son and
heir by right of blood, and in course of hereditary descent,
according to the established laws of this kingdome.
" That your Petr> entered thereon on his father's death, and
subject to the jointure of Eleanor E., his mother, has quietly
enjoyed the same, without any interruption, for 53 years.
" That about January last, your Honours were pleased,
without any previous summons given or any cause known to
your Petitioner, to direct . . . the Sheriff of Lancaster to take
possession of your petitioner's estate, who, in an armed and
violent manner, turned your Petr>s- mother, who is about four
score years old, out of Eccleston Hall, where she had peaceably
dwelt above 60 years.
" That your Petr-» knowing no cause of seizure, he being no
ways concerned in the late rebellion, nor his estate anywise
given to superstitious uses, ordered search to be made in his
Majesty's Court of Exchequer to see if any record there could
warrant these proceedings, and, on search, an inquisition was
there found, taken above 20 years since by the management of
one Baker, wherein your Petitioner's and above 20 other gentle
men's estates were found given to superstitious uses.
" That your Petr- . . . applyed to his Majesty's Court of Ex
chequer to have leave to traverse the said Inquisition, which
was granted . . . and the Court declared its sense of the hard
ship of your Petitioner's case and ordered your Petitioner
should retain the possession of his estate.
"That your Honour's officers, notwithstanding this order,
keep possession of your Petitioner's estate and receive the
profits thereof, whereby his aged mother is reduced to want,
being without any fault turned out of her habitation, and
reduced to the utmost extremity, a Protestant school deprived
of 40 marks a-year settled on it for teaching poor Protestant
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children, his house falling to ruin and other great damages, and
your Petitioner forced to carry on a cause in the exchequer and
to maintain himself on credit without any reliefe from his
estate.
" Your Petr- therefore most humbly prays that your
Honours will take the hardship of his case into your con
sideration, and that your Honours will be pleased to appoint
a day that he may be heard by his counsell in order to be
relieved in the premises :
"And your Petr- shall, &c.,
" DAN. DANDY, Attorney for the Petr-"
A note in another handwriting adds : " Not pd- for. Let
Mr. E. attend."
[Id.] WILLIAM LANCASTER, of Eccleston Hall, deposeth —
3ist October, 1716 — "that for the last two or three years he has
been employed by Mrs. Eccleston to collect the rents belonging
to Eccleston Hall, and that the tenour of his receipts for the
same usually ran sometimes in the name and for the use of
Mr. Thomas Eccleston, and at other times for rent due to
Eccleston. That he pays the rents to the said Mrs. Eccleston,
mother of Thomas E., who now lives there, but never took any
receipt of her for the same : that the leases of the estate are
signed T. E., but does not know where Thos. E. lives, but saw
him at the hall about 2 years ago : that he staid there about
three days, but knows not from whence he came or whither
he went : that he never saw him before or since : has heard
that the said Thomas E. has been at Rome."
[Id.} The Com™- to the Rt. Hon. Robert Walpole.
A certificate shewing " that upon enquiry they found that
THOMAS ECCLESTON of Eccleston, co. Lane., was seized in fee
of an estate at Eccleston to the yearly value of £352, and that
being so seized, he about loth October, 1700, became a Jesuit, and
was by such profession and the constitution of the order of
Jesuits rendered incapable of holding any messuages, &c. . . .
to his own use, but to ... the use and benefit of the Religious
House, College, or Society of Jesuits to which he belonged.
OF 1715. 15*1:
By reason whereof we have found that the said messuages^.
&c., have been given by operation of law to Popish or super
stitious uses. And we hereby certify that Ric. Hitchmough,
late of Preston, co. Lane., but now of Whenby, co. York, clerk,
was the discoverer thereof. [20 July. 1723.]"
[H . 37.] Estate of A Ibert Hodgson.
Thomas Fletcher in his " observations on the claims made
on the estate of Albert Hodgson," says of Job Alibond (one of
the claimants), that he was Procurator-general to the Secular
College of English Priests at Douay, and that Thomas Roydon,
a priest, received interest of money for the use of the college,
and further, that Nevil Ridley, Esq., is a common trustee for
most superstitious uses in England.
[I. 13.] RICHARD JENKINSON, of Wyersdale, co* Lane.,
yeoman, under his will, dated I5th September, 1696, and
proved 6th March, 1700, left to his son Thomas Jenkinson "all
his estate at Boulton, which came to him by his father ". He
names also his wife Alice ; his other sons John, Richard, and
Christopher Jenkinson ; his four das. Mary, Jane, and Eliz. J.,
and Alice Rickmon, and his uncle John J.
[I. 1 6.] Will of Jane Johnson, extract, e Registro Episcopal!
Cestrice, dated i6th March, 1702.
" I, JANE JOHNSON, of the Moorside, within Crosby Magna,
co. Lane., widow . . . desire burial in the parish church of
Sephton. . . . Names the following relatives :. ' My brother
Edward Molyneux, sister Margaret Molyneux, 4 nephews,
Edward Molyneux, of Formby, with Dorothy his wife, Richard
Molyneux, of Alt Grange, Lawrence Breers, and Roger Breers :
5 nieces, Catherine and Eliz. Breers, Anne Golden, Anne, wife
of Gilbert Norris, of Liverpool, and Margaret Smith : cousin
Bridget Mercer, of West Derby ; also Mr. Robert Breers, of
Walton Hall, and William, Mary, and Margaret,, the children of
Lionel Gore, formerly of Ince Blundell." She. concludes ., . .
" I make my two trusty friends, Mr. John Golden, of Winwick,
and William Tarlton, of Crosby Magna, my executors, hoping
they will see my will justly performed To them also I leave,
the residue of my estate, to he disposed of as I shall leaye orders by &
I $2 RECORDS OF ENGLISH CATHOLICS
schedule annexed to this my will" The witnesses were Richard
Whittle and Margt. Smith.
[I. 17.] ALEXANDER HESKETH, of Aughton, Esq., deposeth
that Edward, son of Edward Molyneux, of Formby, was con
veyed by the executors of Mrs. Jane Johnson away from his
father in order to be bred a priest beyond sea, but was happily
as yet prevented therein by warrant, under the hand and seal
of deponent, who is a Justice of the Peace for the co. of Lan
caster, and further, that the said Edward Molyneux is a grand
son to deponent. . . . [ist November, 1716.]
[Id.] Chambers Slaughter writes from Preston to the
Comrs- I5th January, 1716.
"... I have been discoursing, Mr. Hitchmough, about the
explanation of goods and money in the hands of the executors
of Mrs. Jane Johnson. They went so long since as in the year
1702 to prove the will, but because of a schedule discovered
they were cited to make oath of ye particulars therein con
tained, which they refused, so only administered whereby they
received all. A procter of the Court sent this [enclosed]
inventory [of furniture, &c.] to one Hayward, by whose means
Mr. Hitchmough got it, and assures me further that he has
undeniable evidence that the amount of the interest of this
schedule is applyed to ye maintenance of ye Popish secular
clergy, and remains in these trustees' hands. I enclose you the
original that you may make the proper use of it. ... The
Justices are very active in convicting the Recusants : the Mayor
shewed me last night a list of above 600, Mr. Clifton being the
first. Sir Nicholas Sherburne might be easily convicted by one
Kempe's evidence who was his steward, very strong evidence
being now found against this Kempe that would make him hang
or meritt. . . . But nobody will prosecute at their own charges, there
fore, if the Government does not use some method in that respect,
all prosecutions, though the facts be never so plain, must drop.
[K. 4.] Papers concerning NICHOLAS KENNETT, of Coxhoe,
co. Durham. . . . Mr. Day's information about an estate in
cos. York and Durham, given to superstitious uses.
OF 1715. 153
" Rachelfe, an estate worth £800 or £900 per annum, within
9 or 10 miles of York, in Bulmer Hundred, is said to belong to
two sisters as co-heiresses, both Roman Catholics, but what
their name is none of the tenants can tell, nor where they live.
A steward from London comes once or twice a-year to receive ye
rents. . . . Tis thought ye two sisters are professed Nunns in
some Religious House beyond sea.
" Eliz. Kennett, da. to ye late Cuthbert Kennett, and sole
heiress of ye said Cuthbert, has an estate at Cocksell[Coxhoe?],
in ye bishopric of Durham, of £800 per annum. She has been
in a Religious house this 18 years beyond sea. The estate is
managed by her uncle Nicholas Kennett. She is not out
lawed.
" Mary, widow of Nicholas Kennett, of Coxhoe, petitions the
Commissioners on behalf of herself and other claimants on the
Coxhoe estate, and prays for a delay in the time for hearing
their claim.
[K. i and 2.] KELLET PAPERS.
" 8th November, 1716.
" CHARLES MORETON, of Bolton, co. Lane., deposes that
Robert Kellet married Mary Osbaldeston. Rob. K., outlawed
for late rebellion and since dead, is said to have left a lease
hold estate in Cuerdale, and is brother-in-law to Edward
Osbaldeston. Eliz. Kellet, widow, lives with Edward Osbal
deston, and is mother to Rob. K., the forfeiting person."
[L. 41.] Papers relating to the estate of John Leyburne.
Mr. FOOTE, one of the Commissioners, suggests the exami
nation of the marriage settlement of John Leyburne with
Lucy, da. of Thomas Dalston, of Hornby Hall, co. Westmore
land. Thomas Fletcher also writes from Carlisle, I5th Septem
ber, 1718, to Mr. Treby, another of the Commissioners:
" Inclosed I send you some papers relating to some dis
coveries I have made. ... I went into Yorkshire and there
found out two famous Popish schools, endowed with lands to
ye value of £200 per annum and upwards: one goes by the
name of Osmotherley and lyes in the North Riding, the other
is called Egden [Egton] and lies by the sea-shore, near Whitby.
154 RECORDS OF ENGLISH CATHOLICS
I could not gett into y* particular of those affairs att that time,
so deferred my journey till now. I had also . . . information
given me of some lands in Furnesse, in Lancashire, which I
was going to see, but was unhappily prevented by a Trick putt
upon me by Mr. Curwen and the Papists, the truth of which I
shall plainly lye before you. Mr. Curwen is in great fear of
being obliged to appear before your Honours this winter in
London about ye claims he has entered before you, and he has
applyed himself to several great men to get him excused, and
he has said to severall (as I shall prove) that if I was to appear
again before yr- Honours and went on with yr- business, he was
ruined, and all the rest of the Papists likewise. Upon this,
knowing me to owe several sums of money, and not having as
yet settled my affairs, nor gott my money out of Chancery, Mr.
Curwen himself prevailed with one of my creditors to sue me,
and snapt me just as I was going upon your business, as I
hinted before. The person who sues me has other security,
and was very well satisfied, but was prevailed upon as I told
you before. Mr. Relfe was the person concerned against me,
and he and Mr. Curwen actually promised 50 guineas' reward
[to the one] who took me prisoner, so that upon the whole I
am now made a sacrifice to ye Rage of a party. I would not
have you, Sir . . . believe that I would wrong any person from
their just debts, but I would willingly have time to breathe and
settle my concerns. ... I beg the favour you would send to
me requiring my attendance before you, and also such precept
to the Sheriffe of this county as you shall think proper."
Reminding the Commissioners of their power to do so, he
adds : " If I am honoured so far ... I flatter myself the public
will reap advantage by it ... and the rest of my life shall be
devoted to show myself grateful for so great a favour. ... I
humbly ask pardon for this great presumption, which I had not
been guilty of but for ye necessity of my affairs at this juncture."'
[Thomas Fletcher probably alludes to the suit of the
sisters of Sir Henry Fletcher for the recovery of the Hutton
estates.]
Three days later he still more urgently begs " to be sent for
to appear before the Commissioners on account of ye misfortune
L now lye under, purely occasioned by y* spight and malice the
OF 1715. 155
Papists have taken against me ". He encloses a copy of the
will of "Thomas Dalston, a Papist, who dyed about August,
1716," whose da. Lucy (wrongly named Dorothy by Fletcher)
married John, the son of George Leyburne". Fletcher also
adds that " when [John] Leyburne was discharged out of the
Marshalsea by the Act of Indempnity, he came forthwith to
Hornby and resided there, and acted as owner of the place, but
was advised to leave it and reside at some other place for [fear
of] giving umbrage to the Commissioners ".
[Id.} JOHN LEYBURNE and his wife LUCY petition the
Commissioners on behalf of her claim to Nateby Hall for life
that their claim may be heard at Preston, "they being so
reduced in their circumstances that they are not in any
capacity either to attend themselves or be at the charge of
bringing witnesses to any place more remote ".
[C. 142.] " The most humble petition of JOHN CROOKE,
of Broughton, co. Lane., husb., now a prisoner in Preston . . .
on yr- Honours' committment : sheweth,
"That when yr- Petitioner was under examination before
yr- Honours on Wednesday, 2nd July, 1718, touching super
stitious uses, hee was under some surprise, being a person of
meane capacity and understanding in such cases, and not
apprehending the questions then asked him, and is now under
a great concern for his confinement, and the expense and in
convenience that may attend him and his poor wife and 6
children therein : prays to be re-examined".
This petition was evidently granted, for on I7th July, 1718,
he deposed that he "had heard George Crook, a reputed
Romish priest, say prayers after the Romish way".
This George Crook [the priest], of Broughton in Amounder-
ness, co. Lane., gent, in his will, dated 7th December, 1705,
names his kinsman John Crooke, and his cousins James Catterall,
Alice Parkinson, and her son and da. John and Eliz. Parkinson.
[M. 14.] MOLYNEUX PAPERS.
2ist July, 1718.
THOMAS GOLDEN, of Hardshaw Hall, saith that " he is sole
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executor of his father John Golden, who was one of the
executors of Mrs. Jane Johnson, who left £ 300 for the educa
tion of two boys, who were sent to school, and that one of them,
Edward Smith, is a ship carpenter at Liverpoole, the other
was Edward, son of Edward Molyneux".
To this paper are attached three receipts given to the
executors of Mrs. Johnson by Edward Molyneux and Margaret
Wodson [Widdowson] " for the scooling, use, and education "
of their respective sons Edward Molyneux and Richard Smith.
[S. 2.] HENRY WISWALL to Chambers Slaughter, Esq.
" Ormskirk, igth July, 1717.
" Sir, — Ere this reaches hope you have had a kind welcome
with your lady and- family, and a pleasant journey to 'em by
reason of such brave settled weather as't has been ever since
you left us. Yesterday Mr. Tyrer was pulling down an old house
in the lordship of Scarisbrick, a tenement the late estate of Mr.
Scarisbrick, and in the wall was found £40 in brave old money.
It's kept as secret as possible, yet a person that saw it came
and told me. I take it to be Treasure Trove, and if it does not
fall under the cognizance of your Commissioners, it must belong
to the King, so pray advise about it. . . ."
This letter called forth a very speedy reply, which see Eng.
Cath. Nonj., p. 364.
[T. 55.] TOWNELEY PAPERS.
Letter from RICHARD TOWNELEY, dated Rochdale, i2th
February, 1716, to Mr. Ric. Starky, at his Chambers in Fur-
nival's Inn, Holborn :
" Sir, — Yours recd, and must begyoul not fail going as soon
as you receive this to the Commissioners and acquaint them
that Thomas Hilton come this day alonge with an atorney and
two bailiffs and tooke forcible possession. I desire they will
give me orders per the first what I shall do, for the threaten
to sell the small goods I have procured for the poor children,
and throw them out of doors within a few days. Dr- Sr-, I beg
youl not fail me in this by the very first, and youl for ever
oblige your humble servant,
" RICHARD TOWNELEY."
OF 1715. 157
[Id.} Ric. TOWNELEY in his petition to the Commissioners
says that his " wife, the Hon. Mary T., did not have her sum
mons to appear before them on ist May until i6th April : that
she is now at York, and is not in a condition to undertake so
long a journey without prejudice to her health and danger of
her life. . . ."
This petition was received igth April, 1718, but the hearing
of the claim was only postponed for twelve days.
[T. 32.] Letter from JOHN AYNSLEY, of Hexham, to Mr.
Charles Sanderson. [3ist December, 1716.]
"... I am sure what you have said for me is true, I always
hated the Popish Principles and all the adherents of the Pre
tender. I have dayly prayed for a defeat of all their devices
against our holy religion and constitution, and was always
thoroughly convinced if that party succeeded I and my family
and all true Protestants were utterly ruined and undone. And
as you give me reason to believe, I stand cleare with these
gentlemen from being deemed an enemy to my king and
country. ..."
This Mr. Aynsley was solicitor to Mr. Thornton, of Nether-
witton, whom he names in this letter as " my very good
client ".
[G. 22.] " WILLIAM BRING [Brining], of the par. of Wood-
plumpton, co. Lane., labourer, saith that within that parish
there is a Popishe chappell with a small piece of land belonging
to it, called Kendal's chappel. The owner of it calls himself at
this time John Kendal, but his true name is John Baines, which
this informant well knows, ye said Baines (now Kendal) being
born and bred up to ye state of a man within the parish afore
said. He further saith that the said Baines is hid, being a
Popish priest as he believes, and doubts not to prove, himself and
son having at different times heard him preach, and says one
Anne Gregson lives at a little house in ye end of y* said
chappel.
" Further, that Baines, alias Kendal, did about 3 years ago
purchase of William Haddock, Esq., in the name of James
Gregson, brother of the said Anne, an outhousing with six acres
of land or thereabouts in Gotham, within Preston parish, and
1 58 RECORDS OF ENGLISH CATHOLICS.
that John Gregson their father now dwells in the premises,
James Gregson being now outlawed for high treason.
". . . Further . . . that within the parish of Woodplumpton,
or the next adjoining parish, is another Popish chapel called
Crowhoe, which is a very goodly house endowed with about 20
acres of land as he guesses. The priest who did lately officiate
therein is called John Swarbrick, now hid likewise, and that
one Mrs. Craichley now or very lately dwelled therein. [3rd
September, 1716.] "
INDEX.
NOTE. — References to the same name do not necessarily indicate the
same person. The word ."family " has been sometimes
employed for the sake of brevity, and merely implies that
several persons bearing the same surname occur on the given
page.
ACTON family, 74
,, William, 21, 74
Adams, Christopher, g
„ Mary, 39
Adys, Bernard, 20, 49
,, Edmund, iv, 20
,, Martha, 49
Allaway, Mary, 59
Allibone, Job, 141, 151
Almond, James, 89
Anderton, Francis, 83, 84
„ James, 83
„ Lady Margaret, 83, 84
„ Mary, 84
,, Sir Francis, 83, 97, 121
,, Sir Laurence, 83, 84
Armstrong, Elizabeth, 38
„ John, 120
Arran, Charles, Lord, 56
Arras, Bishop of, vii, 131-133
Arton family, 10
Arundel, Anne, Lady, 56
„ Philip, Lord, 56
Arundell, Frances, 8, 12
Henry, Lord, 73
,, Hon. Henry, 37, 72
,, Hon. Thomas, 37
,, John, 12
Mary, 8, 33
„ Richard, 8
Ashmall, Robert, 23
Ashton, Elizabeth, 31
,, Thomas, 31
Askins, Mary, 34
Aspinwall, James, 148
„ John, 148
„ Richard, 148
Aston, (Trentham), 72
„ family, 22
,, Margaret, 23
,, Walter, Lord, iv, 22, 23
Atmore, Magdalen, 70
Atton, Mrs. (Pigott), 17
Atwood, Audrey, 52
,, Bridget, 74
,, Christopher, xv, 74
„ George, 109, no, 113
„ Mary, 74
,, Robert, 52
,, Sarah, 74
,, Thomas, 74
,, Ursula, 74
,, William, 74, no
,, Winifrid, in
Auben, Frances, 52
Aubrey, Sophia, 76
,, Thomas, 76
Audeley, Mary, 71
Avelin, Anne, 68
„ Elizabeth, 68
„ James, 68
Ayleworth, Elizabeth, 42
„ Hannah, 42
„ John, 42
Aylmer, William, 94
Aylward, Anastatia J., 4, 8
II
i6o
RECORDS OF ENGLISH CATHOLICS.
Aylward, Helene, 4
Aynsley, John, 157
BACKHOUSE, Thomas, 139
Bagnal, Lady, 68
Baines, John, 157
„ William, xi, 97
Baker, , 42, 149
„ Henry, 42
Baladine, Teresa, 38
Baldwin, Edward, 72
„ Elizabeth, 72
„ Mary, 72
Baltimore, see Calvert
Banks, Joseph, 118, 119
Barker, Ann, 79
„ John, 22, 79
„ Mary, 22
Barlow, Lady, 44
,, Mr., 122
Barnwell, Mary, 50
Barrett, Robert, 147
Barrimore, James, Lord, 127
Bartlett, Anne, 38, 75
Basil, 38, 75
Bridget, 75
„ Mrs., 18
„ Rowland, 75
Baskerville, , 58
„ Edward, 21
,, family, 70
„ James, 51, 70
„ Mary, 21,51
„ Mrs. (Adys), 20
„ ' Mr., 112
Bates, - — , 128
Batson, John, 5
Battersby, Tobias, 81
Baughan, Elizabeth, 72
,, John, 72
Bawcock, Elizabeth, 22
„ Mary, 22
Bawd, Hieronyma, 42, 44
„ William, 42
Beadnell, Thomas, 143
Beard, Henrietta, Lady, iv, 13, 16, 17
,, John, iv, 16
Becke, Thomas, 117
Bedingfield, Dorothy, 76, 77
Bedingfield, Edward, 83
,, Frances, 76
,, Henry, 64
,, Mary, 64
Mr., 108
,, Sir Henry, 25, 83
Belchier, Jane, 43
,, Thomas, 42, 43
„ Ursula, 43
Bellasis family, 80
Bennett, William, 100
Benoist, Elizabeth, 41
Berington, Edward, xv
,, family, 21, 52
„ John, i, 21, 121
,, Thomas, 52
„ William, 52, 74
Berkeley, John, 75
Judith, 75
Mary, 73, 75
Berriman, Mr., 112
Berry, Catherine, 42
„ Robert, 42
Bertie, Hon. Charles, 7
Betham, , 17
„ Frances, 2
„ John, 2
„ Mary, 2, 17, 71
,, Richard, 71
,, Thomas, 2
Beveridge, Catherine, n
George, xv, u
,, Gertrude, n
BicklifTe, Alice, 27
,, family, 27
Biddulph, Eliz. (Lady Dormer), 5
,, family, 62, 68
„ Francis, 5, 62, 68
„ John, 62, 68
„ Richard, 5, 62, 68
Bigg, Dorothy, 4
,, Lucy, 4
Biggs, Thomas, 58
Bill, John, 9
„ Robert, 9
Billing family, 3
„ Robert, 3
Binge, Mary, 17
Bingley, Hannah, 77
INDEX.
161
Bird family, 41
„ Francis, xv, 41
Bishop, Elizabeth, 12
,, family, 20
„ Frances, 20, 75
„ Francis, 33
„ George, 33
„ Richard, 20, 75
Blackmore, Thomas, 53
Blacoe, James, 96
Blake, Charles, 38
family, 38
„ James, 23
Bland, John, 134
Blevin, Helena, 50
Blofield, Thomas, 27
Blood, (Trentham), 72
Bloore, Elizabeth, 19
„ Richard, 19
Blount, Catherine, 76
„ family, 3, 50
George, 76
„ Michael, 50
„ William, 3
Blundell, Alexander, 148
„ family, 84
,, Frances, 27, 84
„ Mary, 48
„ Mr., 105
„ Nicholas, 27
Bodenham, Catherine, 22
„ Charles, 15, 21, 22, 43, 51
,, family, 22
„ Mary, 22
Bolney, Elizabeth, 60
„ George, 60
„ James, 60
Bond family, 35, 41, 65
„ Henry Jermyn, 35, 65
„ Mary, 35, 64
,, Sir Henry, 41
,, Thomas, 35
„ William, 3 1
Bostock, Anne, 52, 66
„ Catherine, 47, 52
„ Elizabeth, 52
,, family, 52
„ Henry, 20, 47, 52
John, 52, 66
Bostock, Mary, 47, 52
„ Nathaniel, 47, 52, 66
„ Richard, iv, 20, 47
Boswell, Mrs. (Morley), 29
Boswicke, Edward, 98
Boucher, Margaret, 113
Bourne, Philippa, 58
Bowen, Mrs. (Pigott), 17
Bowes, Alice, 130
„ Johanna, 37
„ Lucy, 130
„ Margaret, 130
„ Mary, 130
„ Stanislaus, xv, 37
Box, Mary, 76
„ Philip, 76
Brand, Christian, i
„ Margaret, i
„ Mary, i
„ Peter, xv, i
,. Petronilla, i
„ Susan, i
„ Winifred, i
Brandon family, 10
„ Richard, 19
,, Thomas, 10, '19
Brand-Trevor (Dacre), Anne, 56
Branthwait, Arthur, 141
Breers, Bridget, 136
,, Catherine, 121, 151
„ family, 136, 151
,, Laurence, 121, 151
', Robert, 136, 151
Brent, Catherine, 10, 18
„ Elizabeth, 18
,, Frances, 3
„ Margaret, 17, 18, 81
„ Mary, 18
„ Robert, 3
Brett, Mr., 112
„ Thomas, xiii
Briggs, Elizabeth, 27
Brinkhurst, Catherine, 50
„ John, 50
Brining, William, 105, 106, 157
Brockholes, John, 97
„ Thomas, 95, 121
Bromley, Amy, 16
„ John, 16
162
RECORDS OF ENGLISH CATHOLICS.
Brooke, Francis, vi, 106, 113
Brooks, Esq., 127
Brown, Edward, 25
„ Francis, 25
,, Laurence, 25
Browne, Anne, 35
„ Daniel, 34
„ family, 34, 66, 69
,, Honora, 66
„ John, 34, 140
,, Mr., 10
Mark, 66, 69
„ "Misses," 13
„ Rev. Charles, 15
„ Thomas, 30, 88, 89
Brownlow, Elizabeth, 39
„ Sir John, 39
William, 39
Brudenell, Caroline, 48
,, Hon. James, 48
,, Mrs., 127
Bruning, Anne, 61
,, family, 60, 61
„ Richard, 60
Bryant, Mary, 64
Buckley, Judith, 31
Burdet, Edward, u
Burgh, Fych, 20
Burnham, Dorcas, 6
,, Richard, 6
„ Robert, 6
Burton, Catherine, 40
,, Robert, 40
Busby, Charles, 17, 71
,, Constantia, 17, 71
,, Dorothy, 9
,, Hannah, 17, 71
,, John, 17, 71
„ Mary, 71
,, Thomas, 28, 112
Butler, Catherine, 138
„ Elizabeth, 77
,, Frances, 37
„ Francis, 139
,, Henry, x, 136, 139
„ James, 139
,, Nicholas, 139
„ Magdalen, 139
„ Mary, 137, 138, 139
Butler, Richard, vi, 136-139
Byfield, Catherine, 61
„ John, 6 1
CADOGAN, Henry, 42
„ Roger, 42
Calvert, Anne, 31
,, Charles (Lord Baltimore), xv
,, family, 38
,, Margaret (Lady Baltimore),
38
„ Mary Ann, 33
Cam, Morris, 29
,, Winifred, 29
Cann, Edward, 57
Canning, Ann, 51, 71
,, Appollonia, 7!
„ family, 17, 71
,, Francis, 17, 51, 71
„ Richard, 17, 71, HI
,, Thomas, 63
Cantril, Bruno, 132
Carew, Henry, 73
„ Mary, 73
Carington, Constantia, 14
„ Francis, 72
» Mary, 72
„ Mary-Teresa, 72
Came family, 57
,, Francis, 57
„ Mary, 57
Cams, Catherine, 36
Carr, Thomas, 95
Carroll, Charles, 96
Carter, Catherine, n
„ George, 132
„ Thomas, 120
Cary, Edward, 1 1
„ family, 43
„ George, n, 15
Caryl, Catherine, 17
,, Edward, 17
Elizabeth, 17
„ Philip, 68
Cassey, Anne, 18, 75
,, Mary, 18
Casy, , 63
Castlehaven, Eliz., Lady, 37, 45
Catanach family, 27
INDEX.
I63
Catherine, Queen, n
Cattaway, Alice, 59
„ Elizabeth, 59
„ Margaret, 59
Catterall, James, 155
Cawthorn, Mr., 137
Chaddock, Mr., 85
Chadwick, Mary, 4
Chafin, George, 12
„ Rachel, 13
Challence, Mr. (alias of Bp. Challoner),
23
Challiner, Elizabeth, 46
Challoner, Bp. Richard, 18, 23, 81
Champion, Anne, 73
„ family, 73
Joan, 73
„ Mary, 73
,, Thomas, 73
Chapman, Frances, 15
Charles II., 10, 78
Charleton, Edward, 22
„ William, x, 22, 115
Charnley, Peter, 100
Cheseldine, Sarah, 34
Chevalier de S. George, x
Chewton, Lord, 16
Chichester, Catharine, 7
Mary, 7
,, Prudence, 43
Cholmley, Catherine, 69
„ Thomas, 69
Christmas, Mary, 80
Clapcoate, Dorothy, 6, 59
,, Elizabeth, 59
„ family, 59
„ Mary, 59
,, Richard, 59
,, Winifred, 6, 59
Clarke, Thomas, 94
Clarkson, Christopher, 84
Clavering family, 80
„ John, 49
„' Mary, 49, 80
Ralph, 49, 80
Clayton, Elizabeth, 52
„ family, 52
Isabella, 28
„ Ralph, 52, 81
Clayton, Richard, 3, 28
Clement X. , Pope, 63
Clifford, Alethea, 53
,, Anne, Lady, n
„ Hugh, Lord, u
Clifton, Charles, 4
„ family, 45, 87, 100
,, Francis, 4, 22
„ George, 45, 87, 101
,-, " Master," 100
„ Sir Gervase, 45
„ Thomas, 87, 89, 100, 152
Clough, Ann, 52
„ Elizabeth, 52
„ Richard, 13
Cockayne, Hon. Eliz., 77
„ Hon. Mary, 77
Coffin, Bridget, 15
„ Charles, 4, 71
„ Francis, 4
,, Martha, 15
„ Mary, 15
Cole, Christian, 117
Colegrave, , 140
,, Barbara, 14
„ family, 14
„ Frances, 14
„ Mary, 14
„ William, 14
Coleman, Thomas, 58
Collett family, 4
„ Mary, 4
Collingwood, Anne, 81
„ Catherine, 101
„ Charles, 101, 102
„ George, 101, 102
„ John, 81
„ Robert, 101, 102
,, William, 101
Collins, Christopher, 24
„ family, 24
Colstock, Anne, 61
Colstone, Dame Anne, 47
Combe, Dr. Edward, Rev., 74
Compton, Anne, 33
Dorothy, 33
„ Edward, 33
„ Margaret, 33
Richard, 39
1 64
RECORDS OF ENGLISH CATHOLICS.
Coney, John, 115
Conquest, Benedict, xv, i, 63
„ Charles, 18
„ Elizabeth, i, 18, 71
„ family, i, 44, 113
„ Mary, i
Constable, Cuthbert [see Tunstall]
Constable, Sir Marmaduke, 78
Conyers, Dame Margaret, 65
„ Harriet, 65
Cook, Shadrach, xvi
Cooke, Catherine, 23
,, John, 23
Cooper, Dorothy, 10
,, William, 9, 10
Cope, Thomas, 9
Coppinger, Esq., 20
Corbett, Richard, 53
Cornwall family, 21, 70
„ John, 21, 70
Cornwallis, Caecilia, xiv
„ Mary, 25
Cosin, John, xii-xvi, 3, 19, 26, 29, 35,
141
„ James, 141
Cot tarn, Mary, 123
Cottington, Catherine, 58, 73
„ Francis, 58, 73
„ John, 58
Cotton family, 87
,, Maria Teresa, 52
„ Richard, 83, 84
Couche, Anne, 8
„ family, 8
„ Richard, 8
Cown, Mary, 44
„ Robert, 44
Cox, Alicia, 50
,, Gabriel, 50
„ Samuel, 50
Coxon, Elizabeth, 32
„ Mary, 32
„ William, 32
Coyney, John, 75
Craichley, Mrs., 158
Crane, Mary, 35
Crawford, Anne, 28
„ John, 28
Craythorne, Hon. Elizabeth, 77
Cromblehome, William, 144
Crook, George, 155
„ John, viii, 155
Crouch, Elizabeth, 4
,, Stonor, 4
Croucher, Ann, 69
,, Francis, 67
„ Ralph, 67
Croxall, Philippa, 44
„ Rev. Dr., 44
Cruse, Gaynor, 73
Cuffaud, Henry, 39
Culcheth family, 26
„ John, 17, 26
„ Mary, 17, 26
„ Roger, 26
„ Thomas, 17, 26
Curwen, Henry, 79, 137, 154
„ Magdalen, 79
Curzon, Henry, xv
„ Peter, 50
,, Sir Francis, 50
,, Winifred, 50
Cutler family, 77, 78
„ Grace, 78
„ Henry, 77, 78
„ Magdalen, 78
„ Sir Thomas, 78
DACRE, Lord, 56
Dacres, Elizabeth, 48
Dally, Jane, 39
„ Mary, 39
Dalston, Dorothy, 155
Lucy, 153, 155
Thomas, 153, 155
Dalton, Dorothy, 143
„ Elizabeth, 77
„ John, 97
Robert, 77, 143
Danby, Mr., 81
Dancastle family, 4, 15
„ John, 4, 8, 15, 51
,, Thomas, 4, 15
Dandy, Daniel, 150
„ Dorothy, 120, 139
„ Ellen, 121
„ Jane, 121, 139
„ John, 121
INDEX.
165
Dandy, Margaret, 121, 139
Daniel, Barbara, 16
Darbyshire family, 25
,, John, 25
Darell family, 25
„ John, 25
Davers, Sir Robert, 35
Davies, Thomas, 43
„ Winifred, 43
Day, Mr,, 152
De Grammont, Count, iv, 56
,, Countess, iv, 56
„ Claude-Charlotte, 56
De la Fontaine, Agnes, 36
„ family, 36
De la Rose, Anne, 61
,, William, 61
Derwentwater, Anna-Maria, Lady, v,
x, 8, 9, 26, 104
family, 64, 102, 104, 117
„ Francis, Lord, 103, 137,
143
James, Lord, 6, 86, 98,
102, 103, 104, 114, 138,
147
,, Mary, Lady, 104
Desbrowe, Jane, 59
„ Samuel, 59
D'Ewes, Mary, 65
,, Henrietta, 65
,, Merelina, 65
Devall, Henry, 47
„ Mary, 47
Dicconson, Edward, 119, 120
„ Hugh, 1 19, 120
„ Roger, 119, 120
„ William, 119, 120
Digby, Dorothy, in, 113
,, John, ill
Dillon, Grace, 57
„ Mr., 57
Dixwell, Lady, 80
,, Sir Basil, 80
Dobson, Andrew, 100
Dod, William, 115
Dolman, Robert, 27
Dormer, Charles, Lord, 5
,, Eliz,, Lady, iv, 5, 62
,, family, 5, 60, 62
Dormer, Frances, 5, 16
„ John, 5, 60
„ Mary, 5
„ Robert, 5, 6
Dorson, Mary, 34
Doughty, Elizabeth, 39
„ family, 39
„ Frances, 39
,, George Brownlow, 39, 50
Mary, 39
„ Philip, 39
Dover, Lord, 35
Draycot, Philip, 127
Dreisdale, Hugh, 123
Dresser, Thomas, 125
Drew, Frances, 48
,, Thomas, 48
Dunbar, Dorothy, Lady, iv, 48
„ Lord, 48
Dunne, Elizabeth, 66
EALES family, 20, 21
„ John, 20
Eastham, James, 146, 147
Easton, Dorothy, 57
„ John, 57
Eaves, Helen, 140
Eccleston. Eleanor, 149, 150
„ Henry, 149
,, Thomas, viii, 26, 149, 150
Edney, , 18
Edwards, Rebecca, 60
Egerton, Mary, 123
Elizabeth, Queen, ix
Ellerker, Elizabeth, 30, 77
family, 77
„ Hannah, 77
„ Sarah, 77
,, Thomas, 30, 77
Elliott family, 17, 71
„ Humphrey, 17, 71
Ellis, Bp., 107
,, Elizabeth, 68
,, family, 68
„ Jane, 70
„ John, 68
Elstob, Mr., 137
Elwes, Merelina, 65
„ Richard, 65
i66
RECORDS OF ENGLISH CATHOLICS.
England, Elizabeth, 16
Roger, 1 6
Englefield, Catherine, 5
„ family, 72
„ Henry, 5, 72
Errington, Charles, 49
family, 49
Frances, 39, 49
George, 49
,, Mr., 142
,, Nicholas, 30, 80
Estcourt, Canon, Rev., xvi
Eure, Ann, 15, 30
„ Edward, 15, 30
„ Charlotte, 30, 79
„ family, 30
„ Ralph, 15, 30
Evans, Elizabeth, 105
Eycott family, 19
„ John, 19
,, Thomas, 19
Eyles, Sir John, 129
Eyre, Anne, 52, 66
„ family, 48
„ Henry, n, 83, 108, 128, 129,
130, 131
„ James, n
,, John, ii, 47
„ Vincent, 44, 66
Eyston, Charles, Hi, 2, 3, 61
„ family, 3
„ Mary, 22
„ Robert, 3
„ Winifred, 2, 3, 61
FAIRBROTHER, Percy, 10
Fairfax, Charles, Lord, 77
,, Helena, 116
Mary, 77
Fane, Hon. Jane, 48
Farine, Matthew, 68
Fauconberg, Thomas, Lord, 80, 127
Fenwick, Elizabeth, 49
Feria, Duchess of, 48
Fermor family, 6, 50
„ Henry, 50, 51
„ James, 6, 50, 51
Ferrers, Edward, 71
Ferrers, Teresa, 71
Fetherstonhaugh, W., 100
Fielding, Catherine, 73
„ Sarah, 73
„ Ursula, 73
Finch, Anne, 76
„ Francis, 76
Fincham family, 61
,, John, 61
Fisher, Augustine, 59
„ Bishop, iv, 3
„ Elizabeth, 6
„ family, 59
„ John, 6
Fishwick, Edmund, 105
Fitzgerald, Archdeacon, xvi
„ Rebecca, 74
„ Richard, 74
Fitzhenry, Ann, 66
Fitzherbert, Basil, xv, xvi, 8, 61, 108
„ Constance, 30
„ Jane, 61
„ Thomas, 30, 61
,, William, 9
„ Winifrid, 61
Fitzwilliam, Anne, 29
„ Elizabeth, 29
„ family, 29, 30
„ Frances, 29
Jane, 39
,, John, 29
„ William, 29, 44
Flatman, Frances, 36
Fleetwood, Mr., 112
,, Philippa, Lady, 53
Fletcher, Catherine, 130
„ Harry, 130
„ John, 130
,, Marcus, 130
„ Sir Henry, vi, vii, 108, 128-
134, 138, 154
„ Thomas, vi., vii.. 93, 128-
135, !37> 138, 141. iS^iSS
Floyd, Mr., 112
„ Robert, 100
Foote, Francis, 116, 124, 153
Ford, Mary, 48
,, Thomas, 89
Fortescue, Charles, 27, 58
„ Dame Mary, 22, 45
INDEX.
I67
Fortescue family, 27, 58
,, John, 70
„ Nicholas, 132
„ Sir Francis, 22, 45
Foster, Catherine, 138
„ General, 98
„ Mary, 79
„ Thomas, 138
Fowler, Dorothy, 63
„ family, 63
„ Walter, iv, 63
„ William, 63
Fox, Frances, 59
Frankland, Hugh, 19
„ William, 13
,, Winifrid, ij
Fraser, Ann, 79
„ John, 112
„ Mary, 39, 79
„ Thomas, 79, 112
Freeman, Robert, 70
Fretwell, Joseph, 10
Fryer, Sir John, 129
Fuller. Mr., 24
Furnace, Elizabeth, 77
GAGE, Delariviere, 65
,, Edmund, 26
„ Elizabeth, 16, 65
„ family, 16, 64, 65
„ John, 16, 64
„ Penelope, 64
„ Sir William, 64, 65, 67
„ Thomas, 16, 64
Galloway, Elizabeth, 76
„ Mary, 76
Gandy, Henry, xvi
Garter, Julia, 48
„ Robert, 48
Gascoigne, Catherine, 80
,, Dame Magdalen, 79
„ Elizabeth, 80
Mary, 80
Nelly, 80
,, Sir Edward, 79
Gaubrin, M., 119
Gavan, Thomas, 112
Gay don, Lady, 50
Gazaigne, Elizabeth, 39
Gazaigne, Frances, 39
family, 39, 40
„ Mary, 39, 40
Geeres, Mrs. (Winford), no
Gentil, Ayme, 23
„ Catherine, 23
„ family, 23
„ John, 23
„ Margaret, 23
Gerard, Lady Mary, iv, 63
„ Lady Mary-Clare, 38
,, Sir Thomas, 38
„ Sir William, 90, 126, 128
„ Thomas, 126, 127
Gerrard, Joseph, 121
Gibbons, Mrs., 15, 48
Gibson, Francis, 112
„ George, 120
„ Thomas, 120
„ William, vi, 113, 114
Giffard, Bonaventura, x, 71, 107, 112
„ Frances, 8
„ Mary, 34, 63
„ Sir John, 8
„ Thomas, 63
Gildon, Joseph, 59
Gillibrand, John 84, 140
Gilpin, , 128
Girlington, John, 139
„ Magdalen, 139
Goble, Richard, 67
Golden, Anne, 151
„ John, 151, 156
„ Thomas, 124, 155
Golding, Dame Winifred, 73
Goldney, Ann, 58
Gomeldon, Meliora, 25
„ Richard, 25
,, Thomas, 25
Gore family, 151
,, Lionel, 151
„ Mrs., 58
Goring, Lady Dorothy, 54, 68
Sir William, 62, 68
Gosling, John, 42
Gower, Hawkins, 24
„ Helen, 62, 75
„ John, 62
„ William, 62, 75
12
1 68
RECORDS OF ENGLISH CATHOLICS.
Gowland, Ralph, 103
Graby, Bridgit, 45
„ Jane, 45
Gradwell, Christopher, 136, 147
Gray, Dorcas, 6
,, Joseph, 6
Greathead, Edward, 27
Green, Anne, 57
,, Dorothy, 57
„ Elizabeth, 58
„ Gabriel, 57, 58
„ John, 1 8, 57
„ Margaret, 57
,, Mary, 18
,, Mrs., 21
„ Thomas, 21, 53, 96
Greenhalgh, Mr., 88
Greensmith, Anthony, 9
,, Ignatius, 9
,, Laurence, 9
Greenwood, Ann, 19, 51, 71
,, Charles, 51, 71
family, 18, 19
,, Margaret, 18
Mary, 51, 71
,, Thomas, 51
Gregg, Captain, 121
Gregson, Anne, 157
James, 157, 158
„ John, 158
William, 84
Griffin, Joseph, 21, 70
„ Mary, 21, 70
„ Teresa, 70
,, Winifred, 70
Griffith, , 72
„ Anne, 75
,, James, 75, 112
Grimbalston, Alice, 27
,, Elizabeth, 27
„ family, 27
„ John, 26
Grimes, Mrs. , 45
Grimstone, Charles, 130, 132
Grove, Dorothy, 63
„ family 63,
„ Rebecca, 74
,, Thomas, 63, 74
Grubb, Dorothy, 19
Gudgeon, Richard, 147
Guest, Mary, 57
Guldeford, Dame Clare, 36
Sarah, 36
Gunter family, 41
,, Hester, 22
„ James, 22
„ Robert, 41
HACCHER, Eliz., Lady, 56
Haddock, William, 157
Haggerston, Sir Carnaby, 78
Halcott, Matthew, 48
Hall, Jasper, 143
„ Mr., 113
Halliwell, William, 147
Hammerton, Anne, 31
,, Anthony, in
,, Catherine, HI, 113
,, family, in
James, 31
„ John, in, H2
Judith, 31
Hammond, , 77
,, Gervase, 77
Hancock, Alice, 3
,, Edward, 3
,, William, 3
Hanford, Dorothy, 37, in
Edward, 37, 74
Frances, 37, 74
,, Robert, 74
Hankin, Dorothy, 49
,, John, 49
Hanne, Bridget, 66
,, Frances, 12
,, John, 12
Harbord, Grace, 39
,, William, 39
Harcourt, Judith, 47
Lucy, 47
„ Vere, 47
Harles, Mr., 75
Harnage, Anne, 81
„ Richard, 81
Harper, Joseph, 21, 76
„ Robert, 21
,, Thomas, 21
Harris, Elizabeth, 69
INDEX.
169
Harris, Margaret, 69
„ Martha, 69
Harrison, John, 85
Mary, 91
,, Nicholas, 9
,, Richard, g
William, 90, 91
Harston, Thomas, 10
Hart, John, 96
Hassall, Anne, 55
„ Appollonia, 55
,, family, 55
„ Frances, 55
,, Mary-Magdalen, 55
„ William, 55
Hastings, Anne, 25
,, Christiana, 1 13
„ Dorothy, 79, 111, 113
,, family, in
,, Ferdinando, 79, in, 113
,, George, 25
Hatcher, Grace, 39
Thomas, 39
Havers, John, 64
,, Henrietta, 65
„ Mary, 5, 64
,, Thomas, 64, 65
,. William, 64
Hawarden, Edward, 55
Hawett, Mrs., 89
„ Richard, 89
Hawkins, John, 24
,, Thomas, iv, 24
Hayhurst, William, 140
Hayward, , 152
Heath, Ann, 64, 66, 69
„ John, 66
,, Richard, 64
Henchknowle, Lord, 80
Heneage family, 30, 31
„ George, 30, 31
„ Thomas, 22, 30, 31
Herbert, Lord Edward, 16
,, family, 21, 42
,, Lady Henrietta, 16
,, Lady Lucy, 68
,, William, 21
,, Winifred, 21, 42
Herron, Dorothy, 130
Hesketh, Alexander, 152
„ Dr., 121
„ Margaret, 121
„ Thomas, 136
Heskin, John, 140
,, Thomas, 140
Heveningham, Bridgit, 45
„ Elizabeth, 45
„ family, 45, 63
Hickin, Anne, vii, 14, 61
„ Mary, 14, 61
„ Thomas, vii, 61, 127-132
Higford, Frances, 19
„ William, 19
Higgins, Caleb, 55
Mary, 55
Hilder, Valentine, 35
Hills family, 38
„ John, 38
Hilton, Thomas, 156
Hinderson, Anne, 70
Hine, Elizabeth, 59
„ George, 59
„ Mary, 59
Hinton, Mary, 40
Hitchmough, Richard, vi, 89, 121-126,
141, 151, 152
Hockley, William, 71
Hodgkinson, Anne, 140
Hodgson, Albert, 97, 151
,, Catherine, 10
„ Elizabeth, 10
„ Mary, 10
,, William, 75
Hoffman, Mary, 37
Hoghton, Sir Henry, 88, 92, 93, 138,
146
Holcroft, Henry, 16
Holford, Constantia, 14
„ Peter, 14
Holman, Mary, 48
„ William, 48
Holne, John, 126
„ Richard, 126
Honywood, General, 83
Hood, Ann, 10
Horncastle, family, 79
Hornsby, Percival, 129, 130, 132
Hornyold, Anthony, 74
RECORDS OF ENGLISH CATHOLICS.
Hornyold, Bridget, 74
family, 74
Frances, 74
John, 17, 74
Ralph, 74
Horton, Joseph, 23
Hoskins, Bridget, 81
„ Elizabeth, 81
Hotham, Sir Charles, 123
Howard, Bernard, 45, 78
Charles, 8, 45, 56, 78
„ Elizabeth, 8, 46
„ family, 8, 45
„ Frances, 8, 33
Henry, 8, 45, 78, 89
„ Henry-Charles, 8
Mary, 8, 25
„ Philip, 8, 45, 78
Thomas, 8, 45, 78, 137
„ Winifred, 45, 50
Howes, Mr., 112
„ Mrs. (Digby), in
Howell, Ann, 75
Howse, Ann, 6
Charles, 5, 76
„ family, 76
„ Frances, 5, 76
„ John Temple, 76
Huddleston, Catherine, 22
„ Mary, 22
Hulme, Richard, 122
Humberston, Henry, 112
Hungate family, 77
Lady Mary, 77
„ William, 77
Hunloke family, n
„ Sir Windsor, n, 30
Hunt, Brace, 75
„ Edward, 75
Hunter, James, 148
Hussey family, u, 12
„ Giles, iv, 11,48
„ John, iv, n, 12, 48, 57
„ Rebecca, 12
Hutten, John, 55
,, Mary-Magdalen, 55
Hyde family, 4, 50, 71
„ Francis, 4, 71
„ Mary, 4, 50, 71
INCH, John, 123, 124
Ingleby, Columbus, 128
„ Sir Charles, xv, 78, 108
„ Thomas, 78
Ingleton, Dr. John, x
Ireland, Charles, 64
„ Elizabeth, 52
,, Thomas, 52
JACKSON, Dick, 124
,, Francis, 10
„ Mr., 102
James II., King, 5, 14, 121, 137
„ III., King, xi, 98, 145
„ John, 58
,, Samuel, 58
„ William, 58
Jenison, Mr., 102
Jenkins family, 31
„ Thomas, 31
Jenkinson, Alice, 151
family, 151
„ Richard, 151
Jenks, Robert, 36
Jennings, Lucy, 28
„ Mary, 28
Jernegan, Elizabeth, 16
„ family, 46
„ George, 46, 61, 81
„ Lady, 6
„ Lady Margaret, 19
„ Sir Francis, 46
,, Sir John, 19
„ Thomas, 16
Jerningham, Mr., 35
Jessop, Benjamin, 32
John, Anne, 8
Johnson, Barbara, 16
Frances, 55
„ Jane, 126, 151, 152, 156
„ Richard, 55
Jones, Aurelius, 40
„ Catherine, 41, 43, 44
„ Elizabeth, 43
„ family, 41, 42
„ George, 43
„ John, 21, 41, 42
„ Mary, 40
,, Matthew, 42
INDEX.
171
Jones, Thomas, 43
„ Winifred, 43
KELLETT, Elizabeth, 153
Mary, 153
,, Robert, 121, 153
Kelly, Elizabeth, 36
„ John, 73
Kemble, Dr., 112
Kemp, Anthony, 67
,, Hon. Barbara, 67
,, Hon. Jane, 67
Kempe, George, 145-147. J5
Kendal, John, 157
Kennett, Cuthbert, 153
,, Elizabeth, 153
„ Mary, 153
,, Nicholas, 152, 153
Kerington, Elizabeth, 16
James, 16
Kersey, Mary, 25
Kettle, Richard, 76
Kibbel, Elizabeth, 57
Kilby, Ann, 50
,, Robert, 50
King, , 72
„ Appollonia, 55
„ family, 55
„ William, 55, 59
Kingsley, Anne, 25
„ family, 24, 25
„ George, iv, 24
Kinnaird, Lord, 67
Kinnes, Charles, 27
,, Thomas, 27
Kippen, John, 60
Kirby, Henrietta, 79
,, Mr., x
,, Robert, 79
Kitchen, Edward, 84
Knatchball, Mary, 18
Knight family, 27, 28
,, Lucy, 27
,, Margaret 28, 35
,, William, 27
Knipe, Bridget, 73
, , Edward, 32, 73
„ family, 73
,, George, 73
Knipe, John, 12, 73
„ Thomas, 73
Knottisford, Bridget, 70
,, family, 70
,, Teresa, 70
Knowles, Catherine, 113
LACON, Mary, 10
,, Richard, 53, 71
,, Rowland, 53
Lacy family, 12, 52
,, Margaret, 12
Lamb, Seth, xvi
Lambert, Cuthbert, 117
Lamport, C., 113
Lancaster, William, 150
Lane, Elizabeth, 59
,, family, 36, 49
„ Mary, 36
„ William, 36
Langdale, Dorothy, 120
„ family, 57, 62
,, Jordan, 120
„ Joseph, 28
,, Marmaduke, Lord,- 62, 64
Mary, 28, 58
,, Philip, 120
Langhorne, Catherine, 40
„ Charles, 16
,, Laetitia, 16, 40
„ Richard, 16, 43
Langley, Gilbert, 18
„ Holdenby, 18
,, James, 18
Langworth family, 34
„ Mary, 34
„ Robert, 34
Laurance, Elizabeth, 64
Laurence, Helena, 48
,, Samuel, 48
Lea, Elizabeth, 70
Lee, Margaret, 36, 37
„ Richard, 36, 37
Leeremans, James, 68
John, 68
,, Sarah, 67
Leigh, Francis, 97, 98
„ Peter, 97
Le Maitre, Rev. C., 15
172
RECORDS OF ENGLISH CATHOLICS.
Le Noir, Elizabeth, 41
,, Simon, 41
Lenoxe, "Aunt," 52
Leonard, Thomas Barrett, 40
Levery, Flora, 70
Levison, Edward, 112
Lewes, Anne, 73, 74
,, William, 73, 74
Lewkenor, Anthony, 66, 67
,, Edmund, 66
Leyburne, George, 155
„ John, 97, 153, 155
„ Lucy. 153, 155
Lichfield, George, Earl of, 8
Lindsey, Lady Elizabeth, 6
„ , 68
Littlehales, Mary, 10
„ Samuel, 53
Lloyd, Anne, 67
„ John, 73
Lodge, Christopher, 49
i, , "8
Lomax, John, 62
Longville, Frances, 35
Loup, George, 112
,, William, 31
Loraine, William, 115
Lorimer, Michael, 21, 41
Lovell, William, 4
Lowe, Anne, 55
„ Arthur, 55
,, Charles, 10
,, Elizabeth, 52
,, family, 10, 55
,, John, 16
„ Mary, 10, 16, 55
Lunt, John, 10
Luttrell, Mary, 69
Lynch, Peter, 64
Lytcot, Dame Anne, 20
,, Elizabeth, 20
,, Robert Brent, 18, 20
Lyttleton, Mary, 53
MACKRELL family, 12
,, John, 12
Macnamara, Honora, 40
Maire, John, 39, 49, 75
Malbon, Robert, 67
Manby family, 15, 71
„ Sir Thomas, 15, 71
Mandeville, Bridget, 73
„ George, 73
„ John, 73, 139
Manning, Robert, 55
Mannock family, 65
„ John, 112
Lady, 66
Mary, 39, 64, 65
Mr., 24
„ Sir Francis, 65
„ Teresa, 65
„ Thomas, 39, 64, 65
Mansergh, John, 134
Markham, Anne, iv, 29
„ Edward, 44
„ family, 29
„ George, i, 44
„ Mary, i, 35
„ Percy. 29, 30, 44, 65
„ Thomas, 29, 35
,, Ursula (Pole), 29
Marsden, Jane, 121, 139
,, James, 121
Marsh, Nathan, 144
Martin, Catherine, 16, 66
Dorothy, 32
„ John, 66
,, Margaret, 16
Mary, Queen, 5
Mary, Queen of Scots, iv, 56
Massey, Catherine, 121
„ William, 95, 121, 130
Mason, John, 145, 147
Mastin, Catherine, 32
„ Robert, 34
„ Samuel, 32
„ Troth, 31, 32
,, William, 34
Matson, "Goody," 24
Matthews, Catherine, 65
„ John, 140
Maughan, Jonathan, 94
Maurice, Thomas, 55
Maxwell, Mungo, 68
„ Robert, 68
„ Sir George, 68
Mayfield, John, 87, 100
INDEX.
173
Mercer, Bridget, 151
Merry, Ann, 33
,, Elizabeth, 62
Metcalfe, Christopher, 102
„ Peter, 32
,, Thomas, 102
Metham, Catherine, 77
,, Jordan, 77
Micham, Mary Ann, 74
Rachel, 74
Michel, Mary, 60
Middlemore, Mrs. (Culcheth), 26
Middleton, Charles, 48
,, Helena, 77
,, Lord John, 48
Lady, 48
Mary, 77
Migliorucci, Count, 28
,, family, 28
„ Mary, 28, 65
Millington family, 35
„ Jane, 30
„ John, 30, 35
,, William, 35
Milnhouse, Basil, 9
„ Gregory, 9
,, Richard, 10
Minshull, Anne, 76
„ Catherine, iv,«76
Mary, 6, 76
„ Richard, 76
William, 76
Mitchill, Thomas, 18
Mole, John, 9
Molins, John, 57
„ Mary, 57
Molony, Bishop, 40
,, Daniel, 40
,, Dennis, 40
,, Honora, 40
Molyneux, Ann, 49
Bridget, 49
„ Edward, 126, 151, 152, 156
,, Elizabeth, 49
,, family, 127, 151
,, Hon. Richard, 122
„ Hon. Mrs., 36
„ Jane, 151
„ Lady, 48
Molyneux, Robert, 90, 127
„ Thomas, 88, 146
„ William, 127
„ Sir William, viii, 26, 86, 89,
90,92
Mompesson, Elizabeth, 80
Monington, Anne, 58
Edward, 58
,, Thomas, 21
Monson, Edward, 30
,, Elizabeth, 30
,, George, 30
Montague, Barbara, Lady, 13
,, Dowager Duchess of, 88
,, Henry, Lord, 101
,, Viscountess, 64
Moore, Ann, 62
,, Dame Anastatia Jane, 4, 8
„ family, 4
,, Sir Richard, 8
,, William, 4, 85, 88, 90, 91, 95,
I4I> J43
„ ,84
Mooring, Edward, 4
„ Mary, 4
Mordaunt, Barbara, 14
More, Anne, 81
„ Bridget, 81
,, family, 81
,, ZacharyS.,8i
Moren, Elizabeth, 40
„ family, 40
Moreton, Charles, 153
Morey, Major, 61
,, Mrs. (Hickin), 61
Morgan, George, 43
„ James, 72
,, Kimbarow, 44
Morley family, 29
,, John, 29
„ Marmaduke, 29
Morphew, James, 10
Mosdell family, 7
„ Longueville, 7
Moss, Richard, 148
,, William, 148
Mostyn family, 17
,, Frances, 17, 44
,, Hieronyma, 44
RECORDS OF ENGLISH CATHOLICS.
Mostyn, Sir Pyers, 17, 44, 99, 100
,, Thomas, 17, 44
NAIRNE, M., x
Napier, , 65
Needham, Anne, 42
,, Charles, 20, 42, 43
,, Elizabeth, 43
„ family, 42, 43
,, John, 20, 42, 43
,, Lucy, 42
,, Robert, iv, 20, 21, 42, 43,
44
„ Susan, 42, 43
Ursula, 43
Nevill, Charles, 44
„ Cosmas, 44
,, Frances, 65
,, Henry, 65
„ Lady Mary, 28
„ Mr., 95
,, Thomas, 65
Newport, John, 22
Mary, 22
Nisdale, Winifred. Lady, 26
Norfolk, Edward, Duke of, 45
,, Thomas, Duke of, x, 89
Norris, Anne, 47, 151
,, Gilbert, 151
,, Jeremy, 46, 47
„ Mary, 47
„ Teresa, 47
Northampton, Earl of, 33
Northey, Sir Edward, 133
Novills, Mrs. (Fincham), 61
OGLE, William, 117
O'Hara, Anna-Maria, 12
,, Charlotte, 12
Oldacre, John, g
,, Thomas, 10
O'Neil, Dame Frances, 49
Ord family, 94
,, Lancelot, 94
Orrell, Henry, 148
,, Humphrey, 121, 124
Osbaldeston, Edward, 153
,, Mary, 153
Osborne, Thomas, 33
Overbury, Thomas, 75
PAIN, Bridget, 72
Palin, Thomas, 21
Palmer, Catherine, 7
,, family, 9
Panket, Charles, 95
Panton, Dorothy, 36
family, 37
Parker, Charles, 15
,, Edmund, 31
„ Mary, 19
,, Martha, 19
„ Mr., 6
„ Robert, 15
Parkinson, Alice, 155
,, Elizabeth, 155
,, John, 155
Parry, Thomas, 99, 100
Paston, Catherine, 20, 47
,, family, 19, 20
,. Frances, 20
,, John, 19
Pattison family, 80
,, Joseph, 80
Payne, Thomas, 140
Pearse, Nathaniel, 140
Pegg, Charles, 10
,, George, 10
Pell, Mary, 47
Pemberton, Hugh, 22
Penderel family, 20
„ John, 20
„ Richard, xv, 20
,, Thomas, xv
Pengelly, Thomas, 102, 103, 141
Pennant, Peter, 99, 100
Penne, Elizabeth, 12
,, family, 12
,, George, 12
Pennythorn, Mrs. (Knight), 28
„ Peter, 27
Penson, Catherine, 51
„ family, 51
,, Thomas, 51, 61, 62, 132
Peploe, Samuel, 85
Pepper, Richard, xv
Percy, Elizabeth, 37
„ William, 37
Perkins family, i, 2
,, Francis, i
INDEX.
175
Perkins, , 3
Petre, Anne, 71, in
„ Anne, Lady, 13, 26
,, Benjamin, Bp., 23, 39, 71, 8i,
104
„ Bridget, 70
„ family, 14
„ Francis, 14, 15
„ George, 70
,, Joseph, 14, 61
„ Lady Mary, 14
,, Laurence, 70
„ Mary, 14, 61, 71
,, William, 14
Peyton, Lady, 80
Phillips, Teresa, 17
Philpot, Edward, 42
,, Hannah, 42
Pickering, Thomas, 5
Piercy, Mr., 112
Pigott, Catherine, 17
„ family, 17
,, Nathaniel, xv, 17, 18, 70, 71,
108
,, Rebecca, 17, 71
Pinkard, George, 43
Robert, 43
Susan, 43
Plowden, Cotton, 68
„ Dorothy, 68
„ family, 5, 53, 61, 68
,, Frances, 5, 54, 61
,, John Trevanion, 55, 68
„ Mary, 5, 53, 61, 68
Penelope, 54
William, iv, 5, 53, 54, 55, 68
Plowman, Ambrose, 59
,, family, 59
Plumton, Elizabeth, 80
Pole, Cardinal, iv, n
,, family, 10
,, Francis, iv, 10
„ John, iv, 10
,, Ursula, 10, 29
Ppole, Edward, 121
,, family, 7
„ Francis, v, 7
Porter family, 30
„ Mary, iv, 30
Portland, Duke of, 128
Poston, Elizabeth, 15
Potts, John, 137
,, Peter, 117
Powell, James, 42
Powtrell, Mary, 17
Prescott, Geoffrey, 140
Price, Ursula, 6
Prichard, Catherine, 22
„ family, 42
„ John, 42
Progers, Catherine, 42, 44
„ Edward, 42, 44
„ Elizabeth, 42, 44
„ family, 42, 44
„ Frances, iv, 44
„ Hieronyma, 42, 44
,, William, 44
Prujean, Elizabeth, 35
„ family, 35, 36, 70
„ Francis, iv, 35, 70
„ John, 39
Pulton family, 48
,, Ferdinand, xv, 48
„ Julia, 48
Purcell, Ann, 39, 61
,, Catherine, 53, 61
,, Dr. John, v, 51, 61, 62
,, Elizabeth, 39
„ family, 51, 52
„ Mary, 51
„ Richard, xv, 109, no, 113
,, Thomas, 51, 52, 53, 62
,, Winifred, 51, 52
Pye, Anne, 21, 42
,, Charles, 42
„ Elizabeth, 75
QUIN, William, 30
RACKETT, Elizabeth, 37
Radcliffe, Anna Maria, Lady, 8, 104
,, Ann, Lady, 64
, , Catherine, Lady, viii, 49, 103
,, Colonel, 102
,, Elizabeth, Lady, viii, 103
,, Hon, Barbara, 67
,, Hon. James Bartholomew,
67
176
RECORDS OF ENGLISH CATHOLICS.
Radcliffe, John, 103, 104
,, Mary, Lady, 102, 103, 132
,, Thomas, 102
Ramsay, Margaret, 142
Randle, Leo, 112
Rayment, Thomas, I
„ William, I
Reeve family, 70
„ John, 70
„ Mrs. (Culcheth), 26
Reilly, Anne, 47
Relfe, Mr., 154
Remington, Mary, 63
Reyley, Jane, 27
„ Owen, 27
„ Robert, 27
Reynes, Anne, 81
,, Thomas, Si
Reynolds, John, 49
Reynoldson, Susannah, 76
Rich, Elizabeth, 58
„ Francis, 37
,, Richard, 37
,, Samuel, 58
Richardson, Mary, 88
Richmond, Duchess of, 23
Rickmon, Alice, 151
Riddell, Dorothy, 143
„ Dr., 142
„ Edward, 143
„ Elizabeth, 148
„ George, 142
„ Thomas, 143
Ridley, Nevil, 151
Rigmaiden, Anne, 28
,, Bennet, 19
,, Francis, 28
Risdon, Francis, 50
Rishton, Thomas, 144
Rivers, John, Lord, 127
Roberts, Anne, 66
,, Mr., 66, 99, 100
,, Mrs. (Lewkenor), 66
Robinson, John, 32
Mary, 32
Robotham, see Rowbotham
Robson, Matthew, 114
Rokeby, James, 46
Rooke, Elizabeth, 6
Rooke, James, 104
,, John, 6
,, Lady Mary, 104
,, Robert, 6
Rookwood, Elizabeth, 16
,, family, 16
,, Thomas, 16
Roper, Anne, 40
„ John, xv
,, Thomas, 112
Rouge, John, 41
„ Mary, 41
Rous, John, 38
„ Mary, 37, 38
„ Sarah, 38
,, Thomas, xv
Rowbotham, Ann, 38
„ Elizabeth, 37
,, Francis, xv, 67
John, 38
,, Sarah, 67
Rowe, Elizabeth, 43
„ John, 57
,, Prudence, 43, 57
„ Robert, 43, 57
Rowt, Ann, 69
,, family, 68, 69
,, Mary, 68
„ Richard, 68, 69
Roydon, Thomas, 128, 151
Russell, John, 5 1
,, Martin, 112
„ Thomas, 112
Rutherford, Magdalen, 78
SADLEIR, Mrs., 22
Sadler, John-Vaughan, 70
Salkeld, Thomas, 137
Sallom, John, 89
Salter, , 135
Saltmarsh family, 81
„ Gerard, 81, 140
Salvin, Anne, 81
,, William, 81
Sanders, Amy, 28
„ John, 28
Sanderson, Charles, 157
,, Elizabeth, 8
,, James, 100
INDEX.
177
Sanderson, John, 100
,, Nicholas, 100
Sands family, 70
Sandys, Joseph, 80
„ Mary, 80
Santini, Mgr., x
Saunders, Elizabeth, 50
Walter, 50
„ William, 44
Savage, John, 127
Savery, John, 14
Scarisbrick, Mr., 156
Scarisbrook, Robert, 26
Scott, William, 26, 144, 145, 146
Scudamore family, 21, 22
,, George, 21, 43
„ Henry, 21, 22, 42
Lucy, 42
,, Winifred, 21, 42
Seagrave, Margaret, 3
Seaman, Mary, 47
„ Thomas, 47
Sedgwick, William, 101
Shaftoe, Edward, vi, 147, 148
,, Elizabeth, 148
,, family, 148
,, William, 148
Shaw, Edward, 5
„ Mr., 87
Sheldon, Edward, 75
„ family, 75
Mary, 15, 75
„ William, 15, 75
Shelton family, 45
Shepherd, William, 90, 91
John, 18, 136
Sheppard, Richard, 147
,, William, 105, 106
Sherburne, Catherine, Dame, 26
„ Charles, 47
„ John, 144
,, Richard, 144
,, Sir Nicholas, xi, xii, 26,
86, 95, 105, 145-147, 152
,, , 132
Sherlock, Thomas, 9
Sherwood, Anne, 3
„ Edward, 3
Shewell, John, 19
Short, Catherine, 32
„ Francis, 59
„ George, 34
„ Margaret, 59, 60
„ Sarah, 77
„ Thomas, 77
„ William, 59
Shuttleworth family, 33, 34
„ Richard, 33, 89
„ Thomas, 33, 34
Sidall, William, 124
Simeon, Margaret, 13
„ Sir Edward, 63
„ Sir James, 13
Simpson, Edward, 14
„ Elizabeth, 31
„ family, 31
„ Frances, 14
„ George, 31
„ William, 31
Singleton, James, 98
Skelton, Barbara, Lady, 40
Slaney, Frances, 54
Slator, John, 9
Slaughter, Bellingham, 21
„ Chambers, viii, 92, 98, 101,
138, 141, 152, 156
Slauter, Anthony, 18
„ Mary, 18
Smalbone, Charles, xv, 40
„ Elizabeth, 4, 22
„ Margaret, 4, 22, 40
„ Mary, 4
Smalley, , 77
Smith, Amy, 28
„ Anne, 32, 52, 57
,, Audrey, 52
,, Bartholomew, 59, 60
„ Catherine, 28, 30
„ Charles, 72
,. Christopher, 32
,, Edmund, 28
,, Edward, 28, 84, 156
„ Elizabeth, 18, 22, 52, 59, 60,
68
„ family, 28, 52, 59, 60
„ Frances, 59, 60
,, Francis, 28, 30, 52
„ Grace, 78
RECORDS OF ENGLISH CATHOLICS.
Smith, Helena, 28
„ Isabella, 28, 59, 60
„ John, 7, 22, 34, 57, 75
,, Margaret, 126, 151, 152
„ Mary, 32, 52
„ Richard, 126, 156
„ Susan, 36
„ Thomas, 9, 60
,, William, 32, 52, 60, 72
Smythe family, 13
„ Sir John, 13
Somerset, Charles, 37
„ Frances, 37
Henry, 37
Southcott, Catherine, 30, 31
„ Constance, 30
„ Dame Mary, 30
„ Edmund, 31
family, 13, 14
„ Sir Edward, 13, 61
„ Thomas, 61
Sparry, Anne, 70
,, Elizabeth, 70
,, Humphrey, 70
,, Magdalen, 70
Spelman, Clement, 46
„ Dorothy, 46
Spicer, Laurence, 3
Spinckes, Nathaniel, xvi
Spurr family, 31
„ Thomas, 31
Spurrier, Thomas, 70
„ William, 70
Stacey, Edward, xvi
Stafford, Anne, 61, 66
,, Claude-Charlotte, Lady, 56
„ family, 56, 61
„ Henry, Lord, iv, 56
„ John, 52, 56, 61, 66
„ Mary, 56, 61
,, Matthias, Lord, 13, 61
,, William, Lord, 61
Stamp, Thomas, xvi
Standish, Alexander, 25
,, Margaret, 25
Ralph, 135
Stanford, John, 112
„ Mary, 2
Stanley, Meliora, 25
Stanley, Thomas, 25
Stapleton, Ann, 16
„ Charlotte, 79, 80
„ family, 30, 49, 79, 80
„ Mary, 49, 80
,, Nicholas, 30, 49, 79, 80
,, Philadelphia, 16, 80
,, Sir Miles, 49, 80
Starky, Richard, 156
Stary, Postern, 70
Steare, Anne, 58
,, Humphrey, 58
,, Robert, 58
Steele, Sir Richard, 106
Steevens family, 29
John, 28
,, Winifred, 29
St. George, Richard, in
Stibbs, George, 57
,, John, 57
Stilles, Edmund, 28
Stoddart, Elizabeth, 73
Stone, Thomas, 37
Stonor family, 50
„ Mary, 53
., Thomas, 50
,, Winifred, 50
Stourton, Charles, 58
„ family, 57
Mary, 58
,, Thomas, Lord, 57
„ William, 57, 63
Strickland, Dame Winifred, 72
„ family, 72
,, Mannock, 15
Mary, 15
,, Thomas, 15, 72
Strode, Jane, 12
Strother, Edward, 26
Stubbington, Anne, 59
„ Elizabeth, 66
„ John, 59
,, Thomas, 66
Sulman, Mary, 47
,, Thomas, 47
Sulyard, Edward, 66
Elizabeth, 64, 66
,, family, 66
Penelope, 64
INDEX.
179
Sussex, Anne, Lady, 40
Sutton, Mr., 112
,, William, 33
Swan, Lady, 80
Swarbrick, John, 158
Swinburne, Edward, 120, 143, 144
,, Lady Mary, 143
,, Matthew, 50
Sir John, 50, 143, 144
TAAFTE, John, 121
Talbot, George, 96
,, Gilbert, 26
,, James, 96
,, John, 145, .146
,, Robert, 115
Tancred, Anne, 34, 79
„ Charles, xv, 34, 39, 79, 142
,, Elizabeth, 79
family, 79
„ Frances, 39, 79
,, Henrietta, 79
John, 22, 79
Mary, 22, 34, 79
,, Thomas, 79
Tarlton, William, 151
Tasburgh, Anne, 38
,, Frances, 65
,, Francis, 38, 65
„ George, 60
,, Henry, xv, 38
„ John, 65
,, Lettis, 60
,, Margaret, 65
,, Mary, 65
Mary Clare, 38
,, Susannah, 38
Tattershall, Clement, u
,, Mary, u
Taunton family, 56, 57
Grace, 56, 57
„ John, 56
Thomas, 56
Taylor, Elizabeth, 43
,, Martha, 67, 68
,, Mr., 88
„ William, 43
Tempest, Charles, xv
Teynham, Henry, Lord, 40
Thickness, Mrs. (Bostock), 47
Thimelby, Dorothy, 34
Mary, 34
Thomas, Catherine, 44
,, Hugh, 44
„ William, 44
Thompson, Catherine, 58
Mary, 70
„ William, 55
Thornton, Anne, 141
,, John, 142, 157
„ Nicholas, 141, 142
Thorold, Dorothy, v, 32, 33
,, George, 32
,, Mary, 32
,, Philadelphia, 25, 81
,, Richard, 32
,, Robert, 32
,, William, 32, 33
Throckmorton, Dame Anne, 71
,, Sir Robert, 6, 26, 71
Tiffin, John, 93
Tilden, George, 38
,, Teresa, 38
Timbrell, Mr., 95
Tootell, Elizabeth, 8r
„ Jane, 81
,, John, 81
Tourner, Anne, 67
,, Bernard, xv
„ Elizabeth, 64, 69
,, family, 64, 69
,, John, 64, 67, 69
„ Martha, 67
Mary, 64, 69
,, Nicholas, 67, 68, 69
T.owneley, Hon. Mary, 116, 157
,, Richard, viii, xv, 87, 97,
116, 156, 157
Townshend, Lord, 88, 114
Trafford, John, 97
Trapps, Henry, 81
Traunter, Mary, 21
,, Thomas, 21
Travor, Elizabeth, 72
,, Thomas, 72
Treby, George, 92, 153
Trelawney, Barbara, 34
Trentham, Winifred, 72
i8o
RECORDS OF ENGLISH CATHOLICS.
Tresham, Lady, 65
Trinder, Anne, 50
„ Charles, 15, 19, 50
„ Eugenia, 15
„ John, 50
„ Teresa, 19
Tuite family, 27
„ Jane, 27
„ Robert, 27
Tuke, Mary, 19
„ Teresa, 19
Tunstall, Cuthbert, 48, 81
„ family, 81
Turberville, Mr., 40
Turner, Edmund, 28
„ Mr., xv
Twell, Catherine, 36
,, Emerentiana, 36
„ Mary, 36
Tyldesley, Bridget, 66
„ Edward, 87, 97
family, 66
„ John, 66
Tyrer, Mr., 156
VANE, Anthony, 35
„ Catherine, 130
„ family, 130, 135
„ Henry-Fletcher, 135
„ Lionel, 130
Van Rose, Mary, 55
Mr., 55
Vaughan, Elizabeth, 21, 41
„ family, 21
„ John, iv, 21, 41, 70
Vavasour, Peter, 62, 81
,, Thomas, 62
„ Sir Walter, 62
Velson, Mary, 27
WAGSTAFF, Thomas, xvi
Wainwright, Cutler, 78
Jane, 78
Wakeman, Benedict, 19
,, Frances, 19
„ Henry, 19
„ Mary, 55
,, William, 19
Waldegrave, Henrietta, Lady, iv, 15,
16,64
,, Hon. James, 64
,, James, Lord, iv, 15, 16,
56»57
,, John, 16
Philip, 64
Walker, Charles, 22
Wall, William, 94
Walmesley, Anne, 140
,, Dorothy, 120, 139
,, Elizabeth, 139
John, 121
Mary, 14
Richard, 139, 140
,, Thomas, 140
„ William, 100, 120, 139
Walpole, Dymock, 31, 34
„ Edward, 31, 34
family, 34
John, 31, 34
Mary, 31, 34
„ Robert, 150
Warburton, John, 1 13, 1 14
Ward, Edward, viii, 144
Wareing, John, 144, 145, 146
Warren family, 31
„ John, 105
,, Simon, 31
Warwick, John, 137
,, Thomas, 132
Waters, Mary, i
„ William, 6
Watkins, Charles, 41, 121
,, Frances, 41
„ Mary, 41
Watson, Catherine, 37
Mary, 36, 37
,, Thomas, 146
„ William, 36, 37
Webb, Anna Maria, 8, 9
„ Anne, 13, 79
„ Barbara, Lady, 13
„ Edward, xv, 3, 5, 37, 41, 72
„ family, 5, 13, 64
„ Sir John, 9, 13, 49, 80, 114
,, Thomas, 13, 79
„ Winifred, 13
Weedon, Anne, 6
INDEX.
181
Weld, Edward, 13, 63
„ family, 13, 45,63
„ Humphrey, 13
„ Margaret, 13
Wells, Frances, 39
„ Henry, 39, 48
Westmoreland, Thomas, Earl of, 48
Weston family, 69
,, John, iv, 69
„ Mary, 69
Whaley, Dr. Thomas, 99
Whalley, Mr., 137
Wharton, Charles, 112
Whetnall, Catherine, u
Whitaker, Mary, 70
White, Mr., 23
Whitehall, Gilbert, 10, 18, 63
Whitehead, Richard, 96
„ Thomas, 88, 96
Whitgreave family, 62
,, Thomas, 62, 127
Whittle, Richard, 152
Whitworth, Penelope, 54
Wickstead, Anne, 58
„ James, 58
Widdowson, Margaret, 126, 156
,, Thomas, 126
Widdrington, Ann, 49, 71
,, Appollonia, 116
family, ix, 49, 71, 115,
118
,, Hon. Elizabeth, 49, 116,
119
,, Lady Jane, 118
,, Mary, 49, 116
,, Peregrine, 117
,, Ralph, 115
,, William, Lord, 116, 117,
118, 119
Wierex, Judith, 38
,, Laurence, 38
Wilcox, Henry, 85
Wilkinson, Mary, 31
„ Perpetua, 136
Williams, Elizabeth, 42
„ Walter, 42
Willoughby, Catherine, 69
Wills, General, 86
Willy, Francis, 78
Wilmott, Mr., 99
,, Mrs. (Winford), no
Wilson, Mr., 23
Windsor, William, 74
Winford, Catherine, vi, 109, no, in,
"3, 130
„ family, no, in
Winne, Mr., 99
Winstanley, Diana, 26
„ William, 25, 26
Wintour, Dame Frances, 65
Wise, Richard, 3
Wiswall, Henry, 124, 125, 156
Witham, Bp., 107, 127
Wogan, William, 3
Wolfall, Mr., 126
Wollascott, Catherine, 2, 4
,, Edward, 2
„ family, 2, 4, 71
,, Mary, 2, 4
,, William, 2, 4, 71
Wood, John, 9
„ Mary, 9
„ Thomas, 9
Woodington, Peter, 13
Woodrow, Samuel, 24
Woolfe, Frances, 37, 65, 69
John, 69
„ William, 37, 65, 69
Woolmer, Anne, 47
„ Brace, 75
Charles, 73
Francis, 73, 75
Mary, 73, 75
,, Philadelphia, 70
,, William, 47
Worthington, Jane, 140
„ Mr., 74
,, Richard, 140
Wright, Anthony, 5, 41
,, Constantia (Carington), 14, 72
„ Elizabeth, 77
„ Eugenia, 15
„ family, 15
,, John, 6, 14, 15
,, Laurence, 15
Mary, i, 15
,, Richard, xv, 48
„ Teresa, 65
182
RECORDS OF ENGLISH CATHOLICS.
Wybarne, Charity, 60
„ Elizabeth, 37, 60
„ Henry, 60
John, 37, 60
,, Lettis, 60
Wytham, Thomas, 132
XAVIER, St., 113
YALLOP, Dame Dorothy, 46
„ family, 46
Sir Robert, 46
Yate, Appollonia, 113
,, family, 3
,, George, 66
„ John, 3, 25, 39
„ Margaret, 25, 39
Yaxley family, 46
„ Henry, in, 112
,, Thomas, 140
York, Duke of, 78
Young, Charles, 4, 15
„ Helen, 48
Thomas, 48, 122
Payne, John Oriebar
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