Records Volume 56: Miscellanea

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Miscellanea

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CONTENTS

I.

RECUSANCY PAPERS OF THE MEYNELL FAMILY

Edited by DOM HUGH AVELING, O.S.B. OF AMPLEFORTH

p. ix

II

PAPERS FROM LAMBETH PALACE LIBRARY

Edited by CARSON I. A. RITCHIE , M.A. , Ph.D. P. 113

III

REGISTER OF MARNHULL

Edited by CANON R. E. SCANTLEBURY

p. 165

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Permission to print copyright material has been kindly granted by the following:

The MarquessofSalisbury .

Hugo Dunn-Meynell, Esq

C. K. C. Andrew, Esq., County Archivist ofthe North Riding of Yorkshire .

TheRev. Canon J. S. Purvis , D.D., Archivist of the Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, York.

The Librarian, Lambeth Palace Library.

THE RECUSANCY PAPERS OF THE MEYNELL FAMILYOF NORTH KILVINGTON, NORTH RIDING OF YORKS. 1596-1676

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THE great majority of the papers reproduced here are drawn from the Meynell family archives which areapart from two bound volumes of documents separated from the rest in the nineteenth century and now in AmpleforthAbbey Librarydeposited in the North Riding County Archives at Northallerton.¹ They seem to be of particular importance and more than local interest, firstly because they present so complete a picture of the impact ofrecusant fines on a gentry family, secondly because the Meynells were the leaders ofrecusant society in a locality unusually fullofCatholics , and thirdly because they give a precious and vivid picture of the personalityof Thomas Meynell

THE MEYNELL FAMILY

The families ofgentry of the 16th and 17th centuries formed clans with many complex ramifications and interconnections. Families were large, remarriages frequent, landed property arrangements extremely complex and the keeping of records often casual. Itis not surprising therefore to find that it is impossible to construct a completely fulland certain pedigree ofthe Meynells However, the maindetails were carefullyrecordedbyThomasMeynell (1564-1653) and registered at Visitations in 1575, 1584, 1612 and 1665.2 The following sketch, covering the persons who occur in the papers, seems to be accurate.

ROBERT MEYNELL of Hawnby, Hilton and Normanby , was undoubtedlya direct descendant in the male line of the Meynells of Hilton who had held the manor of Hilton since at least the early

1 In the transcripts and these notes Meynell Papers the Meynell MSS . deposited at the County Record Office, Northallerton ; andMeynell MSS . = the other Meynell MSS, at Ampleforth . I have used the numbers for the Meynell Papers as given by Michael Jones, who cataloguedthem in 1824 Surtees Soc 146/11-2 (1575) ; J. Foster, Visits of Yorks 1584/5 & 1612 : Clay, Dugdale's Visit of Yorks 1665-6 : J. Burke, Commoners of Great Britain (1836) i/401ff. using material culled from the Meynell MSS . There are alsoearlypedigrees of the family in Brit. Mus Harl. MS. 1171 f. 56; Add MS. 6046 ; Wombell MSS . (Newburgh Priory, Yorks) Pedigree Book

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13th centuryand who were a cadet branch of the baronial Meynell family of Whorlton which died out in the male line in the 14th century. He was the first of the family to acquire property in North Kilvington c 1522 and died in 1528. He had issue:

1. Robert Meynell, who inherited Hawnby, Hilton and Normanby and was the progenitor of the senior branch of the family. He became a Sergeant at Law in 1547, married Mary, daughter of Thomas Pudsey of Bolton by Bowland and Barforth, and died in 1563. He was a tough and acquisitive Tudor official In August 1561 theBishop of Durham reported to Cecil that Robert, a Councillor of the North, "has ruled this country alone above twenty years with the evil report of all men" He refused the oath for J.P.'s and the Oath of Supremacy "saying thatnone of his calling had taken it " The recusancy of his descendantsat Hawnbyseems to have followed a normal patternintermittent noncommunicating and recusancy by various members of the family in the Elizabethan period, firmer recusancy of all save the head ofthe family in thefirst decades of the 17th century(when the family producedCharlesMeynell, a Jesuit). In 1624, theyfell into financial difficulties and sold most of their estate Thereafter their Catholicism was marginal and so lasted until atleast 1663. In the 1670s the family ended in an heiress who married aMeynell ofThornaby.¹

2. Henry Meynell of North Kilvington Hall, since he inherited from his father lands there and a lease fromthe canons of Egglesstone of the manor ; and afterthe dissolution ofthe monasteries he and his younger brother Anthony bought the manor in 1544 from the original grantees. Thus the seat of the very strongly Catholic Meynells of Kilvington was monastic land Henry died unmarried in 1558 "in the North Side of Kilvington Hall."

3. Anthony Meynell ofNorthKilvington, progenitor ofthatbranch of the family. After his brother Henry's death he fought a law-suit in the Court of Requests with his eldest brother, the Sergeant, over Henry's lands and onlysecuredthe North Kilvington part of them on appeal" He also acquired mysteriously an estate in East Gales, Sinderby, Ainderbyand Scruton whichhad belongedto a Richard Meynell of Heslington. ThisRichard , son of William Meynell, though unmentioned in the family pedigree and papers, was probablya cousin of Anthony's. Richard had committed suicidein York Castlein 1544 aftermurdering his wife. It is conceivable that Sergeant Robert and Anthony recovered

1 VCH , North Riding (passim) ; Yks Archaeol Soc Record Series lvi/59; Cal of State Papers, Foreign 1561-2 p 225 ; North Riding Record Soc , Quarter Sessions (cited hereafter as NRQS) passim ; Borthwick Institute, York, Archiep. Visit Books (passim) ; J. C. Jeaffreson, Middlesex County Records, iii/200 ; Foley, Records S.J., xi/723-4 .

2 Meynell Papers 11-15 3 ibid . 17-19 .

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Richard's lands fromthe Crown and divided them betweenthemselves , although Richard left heirs.1 Anthony also bought the manor of Pickhill for £950 in 1559. He married four times : (i) Elizabeth Egglesfield ; (ii) Elizabeth Green of Lanmoth; (iii) Joan Rokeby of Mortham ; (iv) Katherine Nawton ofEddlethorpe He died in 1576 and his will contains no Catholic expressions . Heleft issue: i. ROGER MEYNELL, by Elizabeth Green; the heir (see below).

ii. RICHARD MEYNELL, by Joan Rokeby According to hisnephewThomashewasan invaluable memberofthefamily. He had Pickhill settled on him in 1576 by his father, and used his resources to help his unfortunate brother Roger pay his debts . It is possiblethat he himself was involved in the 1569 rebellion, but if he was he escaped punishment. He was at Kilvington until about 1591 and then at Pickhill Hewas a recusant in 1580, and conformed in 1583-4 by going to church but not by communicating. In 1589-91 he was accounted a strong recusant This was still true in 1602-6 when his estate was siezed to pay his fines But the siezurewasstayed and in 1607 hewasreckonedconformable Hedied in 1612, aCatholic according to his nephew, and his estate reverted back to the family.2

iii ROBERT MEYNELL, by Katherine Nawton. He was in troublefor non-communicating 1580-4 at Siggeston, but thereafter there is no sign that either he or his descendantswere Catholics. He married Margaret, daughter and heiress of Christopher Nodding of Stank near Thirsk His son , Lawrence Meynell, bought the manor of Thornaby in 1617 and his descendantslivedthere until the early 18th century.³

ROGER MEYNELL of North Kilvington ( 1536-1591) was probably educated at a Universityand Lincoln's Inn. He was reputed to be a servant of the Earl of Leicester. In 1569 he seems to have offered to serve in the Queen's garrison at Barnard Castle, but soon afterwards joined the rebel Earls at Riponaccordingto oneaccount because he was caught by the rebels in his father-in-law's house at Stanwick and forced to join them When the risingcollapsedhe wassaid to have fled into Scotland, but was captured and attainted for conspiracy of treason His life was saved by a relative, Lord Scrope. The whole of Allertonshire was heavilyimplicated in the

1 Yks.Archaeol Soc Record Series, xli/27-9 ; 1/222 .

2 Meynell Papers 39 (General Pardonto Richard Meynell ofNorthKilvington gent, April 5 , 1570) ; Sharp, Memorials of the Rebellion of 1569 , 127-8 ; Borthwick Institute, York, York High Commission Bk 1580-5 f 67 , 97v.; 1585-91 f 227 , 249, 267, 273, 324 ; 1596-9, f 60 ; 1599-1603 f 246, 248 ; CRS 53/285 ; PRO E. 377/11-16

Yk. High Comm Bk 1580-5, f. 113 v., 215 v., 261 .

* Sharp, op cit 28-9 ,42, 224 ff

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rising and it is possible that his father and brother Richard took some part in it. Although Rogerno doubt at a pricesecureda pardon andrestoration in blood, his personaleffectshad to be bought back from the sheriff, and his small personal estate (three farms in Kilvington) bought from the men to whom it had been granted by the Crown . Thomas Meynell, his son, was long afterwards several times troubled for these transactions by Royal Commissioners searching for hidden debts to the Crown.¹ In 1576 Anthony Meynell, before he died, had settled his estates in trust to Roger's use for life. But certain lands in Sinderby, Scruton and Northallerton seem to have been sold by this timeno doubt to pay Roger'sdebts On theother hand, Rogernow began tobuylands, with the help of his brother Richard In 1582-4 he acquired a holding in Thornton le Street and in 1584 bought the manor ofEast Daltonin KirkbyRavensworth.³ His son Thomaslater complained that Roger had burdened the estate with heavy debts and long, disadvantageous leases granted to tenants This may well be accurate. In 1573 he borrowed £300 of the Mayor and corporation of York, in return leasing to them for 21 years lands in Thirskata rent of £2 a year These lands were already let to tenants forover £52 a year, and thus the City made £50 a year in interest on its £300a neat evasion of the usury laws Roger might recover the lease at any time by the repayment of the capitalwhichhe did a year later. Wecan compare with this the case of another family nearbywhichhad lost the manor of Sowerby by attainderafterthe 1569 rising theLascelles of Brakenbrough Sowerbyseemstohave been leased by the Crown to the same sort of financialundertakers with whom Roger had dealt to recover his Kilvington farmsHull merchants and London lawyers No doubt the Lascelles secureda sub-lease ofSowerby until 1600, when the lessees bought the manor of the Crown for £423 and a £14 rent, and consented to sell it tothe Lascellesfor£1026 Inorder to raisethe moneythe familyborrowed and, once they had the manor, recovered their capital by granting 2000-year leases to the tenants for entry fines totalling £1,573, and very small rents.5 In 1587 , on the marriage of his heir, Thomas , Roger put Kilvington, Scruton and Thornton into a trust. was more carefullyset up than the previous family trust of 1576 , which had been challenged in 1580 by theEarl of Leicester on the grounds that no licence for it had been obtained. Roger had then paid a fine to the Earl, to whom, no doubt, such fines had been This

1 PRO E. 137/133/1North Riding offenders in the late rebellion, finestotal of223 fined in Allertonshire, of whom 74 in Northallerton ; Thornton le Street, Thomas Talbot 40s.; N. Kilvington, Anthony Nesam £3-6-8; Hawnby, WilfredMennell 20s. Meynell Papers 37-8, 40

2 ibid . 44 , 47

3 ibid passim

4 YorkCity Library, York House Book 1572-4 , f 80 v 5 Meynell Papers, Schedule of Deeds i/259 ff.

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granted by the Queen In 1587 Roger took care to buy a Letters Patent licence and levy a fine.¹

Hemarried Margery, daughter ofAnthony CatterickofStanwick. In 1580heand hiswifewerechargedwithnon-communicating by the High Commission, and they promptly certified their conformity. In 1586 he was charged with harbouring his recusant sister-in-law, Mrs. Dorothy Scroope , but not with recusancy himself. In 1590 his wifewasanon-communicant but promptlycertified herconformity. There were again no charges against Rogerhimself.2

Yet there is evidence that the district was then considered a vigorous Catholic centre and the Meynell family stronglyCatholic. There exists an anonymous verse "Trew Presentment of such Recusantes and of somefaultes as are too apparant within Allerton shier exhibited uppon the 16 of may to my Lorde ofyorke his grace . " This waswritten in about 1590and laments the strength ofrecusancy in thearea .. "Nogentleman that there borne was/ eyther trewe or yet good ... " Kilvington is "a parish small yet beares a swingein popysh Trumperye " The vicar (actuallyof Thornton le Street,in whichparish Kilvington lay) served his church only once a month . "The gentleman that rules the roste ys Roger mennell " He and his brother Richard, their womenfolk, servants and tenants are all "Popish devoute . " But the author nevertheless seems to imply that Roger, unlike Richard , was a Church-papist.3 The author also maintainsthat Cardinal Allen evangelised the district during his visit to England 1562-4a fact which is quite likely, since at least three families closely related to him had propertythere , the Conyers of Hutton Bonvile, the Grimstons and Hawksworths. Again, there is some reason to thinkthat Edmund Campion visited Allertonshire in January 1581.4

Roger'swidow, afterhisdeath in 1591, wasfined forherrecusancy from 1592 to at least 1606.5 Theyhad issue :

1. Thomas Meynell, the heir (see below).

2. George Meynell, who lived at Pickhill and then at Dalton, which seems to have been made over entirely to him. In 1602 he married at Skelton Elizabeth , daughter of Robert Trotter of Skelton Castle . His career as a recusant was wavering. He was first in troublefor recusancy in 1600 and figured in the Recusant Rolls in 1602-6 but siezure of two-thirds of his estate was stayed and he formally conformed in 1606.6 He was again convicted in 1633thoughhis children, according to his brother, werebeing called after saints during the intervening yearsbut swore in

1 Meynell Papers, 49, 74 Yk High Comm Bk. 1580-5, f. 14 v , 27 v., 53 v , 80 ; 1585-91 , f. 48 v , 54, 276 v., 295 v.

3 Biographical Studies, 1953, 2/ii/135 ff.

4 VCH , N. Riding ; Simpson, Life of Campion

5. PRO E., 377/1-5

6 ibid.; Cty. Rec Office, Northallerton, Recusants Indicted 1630ff.

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public that he went to church and was no recusant . In his old age, in 1652, he again formally conformed by taking the Oath of Abjuration when threatened with sequestration as a papist.1 His wife (whose family at Skelton, though non-communicants in 1604, do not seem thereafter to have been recusants) was a recusant from 1614 and most of his children were convicted of recusancy as they reached the legal age, from 1616. His descendantsformed a stoutly Catholic cadet branch ofthe family at Dalton, and endedin the male linein 1749.3

3. Mary, married to Oswald Metcalfe of HornbyCastle Sheand her husband were non-communicants there in 1590.3

4. Elizabeth, married to George Holtby of Skackleton Grange, Hovingham, a relative of the famous Yorkshire missioner, Fr. Richard Holtby S.J. She was steadily convicted of recusancy from at least the 1580s to 1614. In 1592 she was briefly imprisoned in Yorkfor her obstinacy "refusing the church ortojoin in praiers and sayingealsothat she wold praye to thevirgyn Mary & wold not any way be broughte from her erroneous opinion. "

5. Margaret, married to SampsonTrollope ofEden Dean , Durham . She also was a recusant.5

6. Jane, married to Thomas Nandike of Edston . They were recusants . THOMAS MEYNELL of Kilvington (1564?-1653) will be dealt with at lengthbelow. Hewas an unwavering recusant through most ofhis adultlife. In spite of recusancyfining and the loss ofDalton to his brother's familyor, no doubt, because of these inducementshe improved his estate He bought land in Kearbyand the manor of Sowerby (in 1612 for £650). He repaired mills and bridges on the estate, built a barn and seems to have made enclosuresforwhich hewas censured bytheNorth Ridingbenchin 1606 as a depopulator ofNorth Kilvington " He married in 1587 Winifred, daughter of Thomas Pudsey of Barforth, a distantcousin. Shewas themother of all his children

After her death in 1604 he married Mary, widow of James Thwaites of Long Marston Both his wives were determined recusants. He had issue :

1. Anthony Meynell, his heir (see below).

2. Richard Meynell of Little Broughton, Cleveland , who married Elizabeth , daughter of John Talbot of Thornton le Street. He was presented as a recusant in 1626 and 1635 but seems to have

1 ibid.; Meynell MSS ., Papers of George Meynell. NRQS passim; Clay's Dugdale's Visitation

3 Borthwick Institute, R. VI|A|II,f. 7 v. NRQS passim ; York Archiepisc Visitation Books passim ; Yk High Comm Bk 1591-5, f 54 v.

5 Other Meynell papers 22 (xiv) infra NRQS & Yk Visit Bks passim. " NROS passim ; he was convicted of recusancy 1592, 1606, 1611 , 1613 , 1614 , 1616, 1628, 1641. Meynell Papers passim; Grainger, Vale of Mowbray.

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evadedfining and sequestration He died in 1663. His onlyson , John Meynell of Broughton, was a recusant 1674-90 when he died suddenly. In 1678a significant datehehad conveyedhis estate in trust to Rogerand John TalbotofThornton , his Protestant uncles The uncles took the estate after his death But in 1698 John Meynell's manservant confessed before the North Riding Justices that he had murdered his master , but refused to plead and died under peineforte et dure The MeynellsofKilvington then went to lawwiththe Talbots and recoveredtheBroughton estatefrom them.1

3.Mary, married in 1613 to George PooleofSpinkhill, Derbyshire. They were both strong Catholics

4. Anne, married to Thomas Grange of East Harlesey Her husband seems to have been only a Church-papist, but she wasa recusant after his death, 1632-41.2

ANTHONY MEYNELL of North Kilvington (1591-1669), married his step-mother's daughter, MaryThwaites They werebothconvicted as recusantsfromat least 1628.3 Theyhad issue :

1. Thomas Meynell, the heir (see below).

2. John Meynell, at Douai 1637-42, died unmarried.

3. Hugh Meynell, died unmarried.

4. William Meynell, at Douai 1637-46, ordained priest therein 1645 , was on the Yorkshire mission from 1646, latterly at Cliffe.4

5. Anthony Meynell, died unmarried

6. James Meynell, alive and unmarried in 1665 .

7. Winifred, married firstly to Thomas Killingbeck of Allerton Grange, Leeds, and then, after his death in 1654 , to Thomas Barlow of Barlow, Lancs

8. Clare, married to Richard Forster of Stokesley c 1658. He succeeded his father as 2nd baronet in 1665. They were Catholics

9. Collet, unmarried in 1665 .

10.Mary, married to MajorJohn Danbyof Leake, a Catholic

THOMAS MEYNELL of North Kilvington (1615-c . 1648), educated at Douai 1631-2 . He married Gerard, daughter ofWilliam Irelandof Nostellin 1637. They were bothconvicted of recusancyfrom 1638

1 NRQS; Meynell Papersthe papersofhis murder case .

The Poles compounded for their recusancyin 1632CRS 53/352 , 390 ; GrangesNROS & Yk Visit Bks.; CRS 53/311 ; it is possiblethat D. William Gregory Grange OSB (b. 1579 in Yorks, Valladolid 1600 after receptionintothe ChurchbyFr. Thos Palliser; 1603 BenedictineatCompostella; 1607-19 on mission in south) & D. George Gregory Grange OSB (b. Yorks 1598 ; Douai 1619 ; Benedictine 1624 ; to Northern Province and died at North Kilvingtonin 1673) belonged to this family. (Allanson, MS. Biographies of Benedictines, Ampleforth .)

3

NRQS passim ; Yk. Visitation Books

CRS II (passim).

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After Thomas' death his widow married Edward Saltmarsh of Thorganby and Saltmarsh, East Riding Saltmarsh had been a captain in the Parliamentary army and belonged to a family with recusant origins He was a widower without children and settled in Kilvington. He was first presentedas a recusant in 1671. Gerard had five children by him, of whom two became priests. Her three children byThomas Meynell were the ancestorsofthelaterMeynell family of Kilvington who were always Catholics and who only sold the estaterecently.¹

THE MEYNELL ESTATE

This laymostlyin Allertonshire , a small enclavearound Northallerton on the extreme northern edge of the North Riding of Yorkshire, abutting on countyDurham . Allertonshire , withits 11 townships, was a peculiar jurisdiction belonging to the Bishops of Durham. But it would be unwise to conclude from this fact that Catholics could congregate there with especial immunity Although the Bishop of Durham had a bailiff there and a court with special jurisdiction, the North RidingJusticesexercisedwhat seemstohave been an unhampered control over the peculiar and Northallerton itself was occasionally chosen for Quarter Sessions Nor was the Bishop of Durham a considerable landlord in the area. Catholics in the great Liberty of Ripon undoubtedly profitedboth from the fact that it had its own Justices, free of the West Riding bench, and that theArchbishop ofYorkwaslandlord ofmost oftheLiberty. Ecclesiastical landlords in the late 16th and 17th centuries seem usuallyto have left their tenants very free, withlong leases at high entry fines and very small rents As far as ecclesiasticaljurisdiction went, Allertonshire was subject to an official chosen by the Bishop of Durham, but approved by the Archbishop of York It wasfree of visitation by the Archbishop's Archdeacon of Cleveland but not free of Archiepiscopal visitations. People in the peculiar seem to have registered and proved their wills both before the Bishop's bailiffand in York, and they were subject to the ordinary Archiepiscopal courts at York. Allertonshire , together with the adjacent north Yorkshire deanery of Cleveland, Liberty of Ripon and Archdeaconry of Richmond, formed the strongest centre of Yorkshirerecusancy all through penal times, but neitherCleveland nor Allertonshire enjoyed the relative governmental and tenurial isolation whichRichmondshire and Ripon had. In the twoformer areas the strength of recusancyseems to have dependedentirelyon other forces . In Cleveland there was geographical isolationin the moorland areas . InAllertonshire , whichwas traversedbythemain

1 Clay, Dugdale's Visitation ; Borthwick Institute, R. VI|C|X (1671) ; CRS 10 & 11 passim ; it is possible that Thomas was the Capt Thomas Meynell, a royalist , killed at Pontefract, listed in Castlemain, Catholic Apology

2 NRQS; VCH , N. Riding.

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North Road,andwhich was largelythe hinterlandof a markettown, Northallerton, there was much less physical isolation. Here, even more than in Cleveland and Richmondshire and Ripon, the strength of recusancy depended solely on the constancy of many gentry families and the supplyofmissioners.

In Allertonshire the Meynells held:

1. the manor of North Kilvington in the parish of Thorntonle Street, with other detached lands there.

2. a third of the manor of Thorntonle Street, partly bought in 1582-3, partly inherited by Thomas Meynell, The rest of the manor belongedto the Talbot family.

3. a tenement in Northallerton, mentioned by Thomas Meynell c. 1620 as still his, though reduced in size by sales by his father. It seemsto have been sold by the 1650s

In Richmondshire they held:

4. half of the manor of Pickhill with Rokesby and Ness , the remnant of a larger purchasethere in 1558 .

5. tenements in Scruton, Ainderby Quernhow and Sinderby , remnants of larger earlier holdings

In Birdforth Wapentake of the North Riding:

6. the manor of Sowerby, Thirsk, bought in 1612 for £550 from William Thwaites of Marston, who had bought it ofthe Lascelles family in 1604 for £850

7. one burgage tenement in Thirsk (formerlybelonging to Mount Grace Priory), the remnant of larger properties there, mostlysold by RogerMeynell

8.two oxgangsof land in Cold Kirbybought byThomas Meynell.

In County Durham :

9. a small annuity out of the manor of Holmside, inherited by Thomas. He sold to hisbrotherGeorge ofDaltonlandsin Denton whichhehad bought from his aunt, DorothyScroope

Allofthis wasvalued bythecareful commissionersoftheCommonwealthas worth £500 a year, whichplaced the Meynells in the class ofmiddling gentry. It has been calculated that in 1642 over half thearmorialgentryofthe countyhad incomes of under £250a year. It is also interesting to notice that the Meynells, unlike a good many other middlingCatholic gentry, drew no income from ecclesiastical sourcestithes, farms of rectories, advowsons.¹

THE RECUSANCY OF THOMAS AND ANTHONY MEYNELL

Thomas Meynellthe elder was regarded by his contemporariesand his descendantsas the ideal type of the steadfast Catholic and as a towerof strength to his Catholic neighbours When his grandson ,

1 Yet in the 1650s the Meynell property in Thornton le Street was charged with "the salary" (or part of it) of the vicar of Thornton J. T. Cliffe, The Yorkshire Gentry on the Eve of the Civil War (London Univ Ph.D. thesis, 1960).

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another Thomas Meynell, entered the English College at Douaiin September 1631, the College Diary noted : Ipsius avus pro fide Catholica quindecies est incarceratus, pater semel, quatuor millelibrarum Sterlingarum pro eadem causa Regi solverunt ... ביי

InJanuary1654 a Catholic neighbour, Thomas JacksonofKnayton, wrote to his wife: as for Mr. Anthony Meynell in regard of the great respect Idoe him, and the obligacion I have to that family, and the gratitude for thatgoodwhichweeand a great manymoe havereceivedfrom them ... it is gods goodnesse to that housefor thegreat goodthey have done ...

In December 1670 Thomas' priest grandson, William Meynell,wrote to his nephew, Roger Meynell at Kilvington, from his mission at Cliffe : my little godson to whome I send my harty blessing, wishing that he may live to the agge and goodness of his great great grandfather, and then I believe that he will be bothwearyofthis world and fittfor heaven ... "2

Thomas Meynell was said to be "8 years old and more" in 1575. Wedo notknowwherehe waseducated He was clearly proficient at Latin and knew the ordinaryschool classical authors His own efforts at legal documents and his transcriptions of others seem to show , from their corrections, that hehad had a goodgrammar school education but had not much acquaintance with the Universities or Inns ofCourt . Nodoubthewaseducated, like his uncle Robert, at the grammar school of Northallerton, along with Richard Holtby, the future Jesuit and his relation.3 It seems that his father and uncles had been to Cambridgeand the Inns of Court, andthat hisson Anthonywould begin to send his sons to Douai, but the education of Thomas, his brothers and his son, was limited to local resources. This fact is in marked contrast to the connections withDouaiand Rome of some of their near neighbours and contemporaries the Conyers , Grimstons and Lascelles.4

Hewas born into a family witha strong sense ofits gentilityas being of"good worth" and unmixed with "plebean" blood . The maintenance of their station and estate was a sacred charge laid upon the wholefamily jointlya charge menacedat everyturn by tempestuoustimes of civil strife, by the threat offailing to produce male heirs, the threat of producing too many (who might marry and carryportions ofthe estateaway from the main line), the threat ofhaving too manydaughters whose marriage portions could cripple an estate, of having too long-lived dowagerswhosewidows' dowers

1 CRS 10/297

2 Other Meynell MSS (infra) 24 (i); Meynell MSS ii/50

3 Venn, Register of Caius College, Cambridge (on Holtby)

4 Knox , Douai Diaries, passim

could long cripple an heir. There was the threat of sheer improvidenceand extravagance piling up debts and forcing on the sale of lands There was the threat of quarrelsome neighbours and relations and the ruinous expenses of litigation. The dangers arising from financial charges for recusancy or over-frequent taxation stood on this background of many other natural hazards. The recent history ofthe Meynell family alone provided abundant matter for reflection, with family quarrels and litigation, a murder and suicide in the family, an attainder, and two or three younger sons establishing estates oftheirown, partly at thefamily'sexpense. Outside the family, amongst friends and relations, there were all too frequent examples of improvidence or ill-fortune and decline. Thus it has been calculated that, of the 859 armorial gentry families in Yorkshire between 1603 and 1642 , nearly a quarterfell into serious financial difficulties, 85 went practically bankrupt and another 48 (including the Meynells of Hawnby) had to sell a considerablepart of their lands in order to survive. The Meynells' Catholic friends and relations, theLascelles of Brakenbrough werein the class ofthe bankrupts.1 This is the real backgroundwith its constantlyrising pricesof Thomas Meynell's Book of Evidences itself, his gratitude to his motherfor bringing five great armorial coats to the family escutcheon, his gratitudefor his male relations , younger sons , who stoutly embracedanunmarried life to keep intact the family property, his praiseto God:

As it pleased God in all ages to upholde our name, ffamilie and Armorye so he alwayes furnished wth meanes to maintaine our Gentry

... 2

The Book of Evidences cannot have been untypical in its day- even as a literary form Secular cartularies, recording titles to estates , exist fromthe Middle Ages throughto the 18th centuryfor larger estates . But Thomas Meynell's book was not compiled for this purpose--although he kept the deeds of his lands A few diaries and autobiographies of Yorkshire gentry of the period survive such as Sir Henry Slingsby's Diary, Sir John Savile of Methley's biography, Reresby's Memoirs. Thomas Meynell's book hardly falls in that class . It was clearly a typical product of the contemporary interest in genealogy and medieval descents No doubt the heralds whom Thomas Meynell met so oftenin 1576 , 1584/5and 1612 (Mr. St. George)-sharedthis interest and fostered it, but they were not its sources . The great northern genealogists of Thomas' dayRoger Dodsworth, Richard Gascoigne, John Hopkinson of Loftus and Christopher Towneleymust also have served as encouragers Dodsworthhimself visited North Kilvington in the afternoon of August 12th 1638 and copied Thomas Meynell's medieval charters, on his way from Newburgh Priory to

1 Cliffe , op. cit

2 Book of Evidences , infra

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Durham . Gascoigne'sMaterials for a History ofthe Gascoigns, in its shapeand materialresembles Thomas Meynell's Book. Towneley's collections included several versions of Evidences of the Plumpton Family and A Declaration how God hath preserved the ffamilye, kindred andposteritieof Ethalston (now called Elstone) in a competent though variable estatefor a longe time as the same hath bene collected from sundry parcells of Antient Evidence by William Elstone"1 Here we are at last on familiar ground. But the interest of the Meynells went back behind Dodsworthwho came when most of Thomas' work had been writtenand behind Mr. St. George, who was responsible for a systematic transcription of the old Meynell charters both at Northallerton church and in the possession of Thomas' uncle Robert It wasrooted in a spontaneousfamily pride oftheNorthRidinggentryalready alivewhenuncleRobertwasaboy at school in Northallertonin the 1540s . Thomaswasalsoborn into a verycomplexnet of relationships and family alliances, accentuatedby thehabitofyouthful marriagesand frequent remarriages Thus, as he remarks, two of his sisters married twice, his grandfather four times, he himselftwice His first wife had half brothers ; his second wife was a widow with a large family of Thwaites children His eldest grandson's widow married again and brought up two families of children Children when first married seem often to have lived at home Thus the family circle at Kilvington was always large. The sense of kinship and alliance with a restricted ring of gentry families created by multiple intermarriages was strong. The ring was restricted very largely to Yorkshire. Long after the débacle of 1569 Thomas treasured his relationship with the northern peersthePercies, Cliffords, Nevilles, Whartons, Eures. His hierarchical sense comes out oddly in the strange (and probablynot seriously intended) deed of April 20th 1619 sealed by him in the orchard at Kilvington, ostensibly in the presence ofWilliam, Lord Eure, Philip, LordWharton , Sir John Mallory and Sir Thomas Dawney knights, John Gascoigneof Barnbowand Thomas Pudseyof Barforthesquires . The family alliances had an increasingly Catholic core, but still stretched out to cover many Church-Papists and Protestants who were "dear friends . " Thomas was especially friendly with relations who were strong Catholics, like William Middleton of Stockeld (who shared his imprisonment in York Castle), the Lascelles of Brakenbrough, Gascoignes of Barnbow , Pudseys of Barforth. Sir Henry Bellasis "myneighboureand ffreinde" and "my belovedCozen , "SirConyers Darcy were at best Church-Papists "My respected and much

1 ed. L. Fox , English Historical Scholarship in the 16th & 17th Centuries , passim ; Leeds Central Library, Gascoigne MSS.; Hist MSS. Commission , IVth Report, 408ff. (Towneleycollections); Yorks. Archaeol . Soc Journal, vol 53 pp 5 ff, Denholm-Young & Craster, Roger Dodsworth & His Circle. 2 Other Meynell MSS. (infra) 13 (iv).

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esteemed goodneighbour Sr. Thomasdawney ofSissey"andRichard Wandesford ofPickhill, "my deareand approved goodfriend, " were apparently Protestants But the bonds of relationship or neighbourhood also included York officials and persecutorsof Catholics Sir Edward Stanhope (Vice-President to the 2nd Lord Burghley at Yorkand the man who sent Thomas Meynell to Hull Blockhouses) was his distant relation. Lords Sheffield and Scrope, both Presidents oftheNorth, were his relations. The Cecil family of Hatfield were Thomas' neighbours The 1st Lord Burghley himselfowned South Kilvington during the last years of his life and it continued in hisfamily until about 1615-20. Thus Thomas and his fatherrented amill in South Kilvington from the Cecils and Thomas later had a lease oflands at Thornborough in that manor. Thomas was also bred in a district filled with Catholic gentry. Allertonshire had 11 townships containing 36 manors or quasimanors . Oftheselatter 13 belongedto great or absentee landlords, though no great landowner in any way dominated the area . One manor was sold to its many tenants earlyin the 16th century, and several others were split into smaller properties. In Thomas Meynell's time there were some 17 resident families who at least claimed gentry, and of these no less than 13 were, invaryingdegrees , Catholic . Also the adjacent areas on all sides were strongly affected by CatholicismRipon, Cleveland, Birdforth, Richmondshire, Durham Between 1561 and 1569 Dr. William Carter , deprived ofhis canonry of Durham for refusal to accept theElizabethan settlement of religion, was confined under bond to Thirsk and ten miles around it The York authorities complained of his activitiesandinfluence By 1571 hehad left England for Louvain.2 Kilvington lay well within his small circuit. As we have seen , Dr. William Allen was reputed to have stayed at Little Smeaton near Kilvington during his return to England in 1562-4 , and to have confirmed manyintheFaith in Allertonshire.3 Numbers of active Marian priests ranged through Richmondshire and Allertonshire . One of them, Thomas Mudde, was arrested at Boroughbridge in 1579 in the company of Thomas Wright alias John Dobson, a missioner ordained abroad before the opening ofthe English College at Douai. Another, Thomas Accrige, was around Kirkby Ravensworth with Robert Firbank. Another named Pickering worked round Bouroughbridge until the late 1590s Roger Meynell of

1 ThomasMeynell lists nearly 100 Yorkshire gentry families to which he was relatedbutonly9 residentin other counties VCH , N. Riding ; NRQS; Yk. Archiep. Visit Books, passim CarterCal. State Papers, Dom. Add 1547-65 p. 521 ff.; Knox, Douai Diaries, 5 ; P. Tyler, The Ecclesiastical Commission & Catholicism in the North (York, 1960). see Note 17 , supra.

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Hawnbywasreceiving vagrantpopish priests in 1571/2.1 Thomas Meynell certainly used the services of two othersGeorge Raynes and Hugh Ile Both had been ordained by Bishop Tunstall of Durhamearlyin Elizabeth's reign before the Bishop's deprivation . It is possiblethat Rayneshad gone abroad to Mechlin and becomea Carmelite friar, returning to the Yorkshire mission He married Thomas to his first wife at Barforth in October 1587, was takenin Nottinghamshire in 1593 and died a prisoner in York Castle.2 Hugh Ilehad apparentlybecome theresident missioner ofAllertonshireby 1590,whenhewas esconsed bythe Conyersfamily ofHutton Bonvile in a property of theirs at Lowsie Hill, with the use ofthe medieval chapel of Hutton In 1593 he was baptising at Thirsk . In 1605 he married Thomas Meynell to his second wife at Lowsie Hill. Although Hughwas caught and imprisoned at York in 1609 , the Quarter Sessions presentments for Hutton Bonvile of 1611 reported him as still living there with Isabel his housekeeper By then he was at least 75 years of age. Yet it seems very likelythat one or two other Marian priests in Yorkshire survived him.³

It is also likely that Edmund Campion stayed in Allertonshire in January 1581 and that his residences withAsculph Cleasby,withthe Grimstons (at Little Smeaton?) and with the Harringtons at Mount St. John, near Thirsk were arranged by one of the first seminary priests in the area, Thomas Meynell's close relative Richard Holtby. A few years later Holtby wentabroad to become a Jesuit and returned in 1590. Thenceforward, with the assistance ofJohn Mush, a missioner appointed superior of the secular priests in the north by Cardinal Allen, he established an organised network of mission centres. These radiated out from a series of carefully located "strong-points" which seem to have been at Thorneley in Durham (Holtby'sown headquarters), Grosmont PrioryinCleveland , Upsall Castle on the edge of Allertonshire , Nidd in Ripon Liberty, Winsley Wood in Netherdale, Osgodby and Bubwith Ferry in the East Ridingand Twigmore in Lincolnshire Upsall Castlelayinthe parish of South Kilvington, within a very short distance of North

1 Morris, Troubles of our Cath Forefathers, 3/233 ff (Mudde & Wright ; Borthwick , R. VI A/15 & PRO SP 15/32 (Pickering) ; Borthwick , R. VII/G/1599 (Firbank ) ; Yk High Comm . Bk 1571-2 ff 25, 26, 40 (RogerMeynell) ; Yks Arch Journal 38/185 ff (Accrige) Foley 3/750 ff.; Morris, op cit 3/462 ; Surtees Soc 161/114 ; Shepherd, English Carmelites , 63.

3 Surtees Soc 161/114 ; Borthwick, Yk Chancery Court Bk , 1606-10 ff 80 ff; High Comm Bk 1607-12, ff 89 ff.; 1591-5 f. 122v. (a priestcalled Sir Hugh baptising at Thirsk) ; NRQSiii/74, HuttonBonvile, Sir Hughthe old Priest & Isabel heis servant, recusants . Ile and Raynes formed, with two others, Sir Henry Stapper and Sir FrancisSmith, the surviving relicof Yorkshire Marian priests Both of the others had possible connections with AllertonshireSmithconducteda marriage at LittleSmeaton c 1605 (High Comm Bk. 1607-12 f. 64) and Stappera marriage at Barforthc. 1607. (York Chancery Court Bk 1613-8 f. 76 v.)

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Kilvington. It was acquired by Sir HenryConstablein 1578. As Thomas Meynell says, there was an old alliance betweenhisfamily and theConstables After 1590 Upsall became a resting and hiding place for seminary priests. By 1593 we hear of at least six priests who stayed there, including John Mush himself The Castle was raided by pursuivants while he was concealed in its cellars. By 1596 it was too well known to the York authorities to be a safe refuge for priests any longer.¹ In 1592 Thomas' neighbour, John Talbot of Thornton le Street was maintaining a Catholic schoolmaster, and in 1600 a member of the Talbot family was martyred after being arrested while escorting a priest fromAllertonshireinto countyDurham . After 1600 we have a less clear pictureofmission organisation There are a good many references to priests visiting theKilvington area But it seems clearthat almost allofthem were still peripatetic , ranging over the whole county and beyond In 1620-6 John Hutton, a Benedictine, who was perhapsmainly based on Grosmont, ministered to the Meynells at Hawnbyand must have covered Allertonshire . Richard Huddleston, a renowned missioner who beganasa secularpriest and later became a Benedictine, must have visited Kilvington often enoughto become Thomas Meynell's "dearfriend. " But the great rangeof Huddleston's missionworkin Yorkshire and Lancashire makes it most unlikelythat heeverstayed longatKilvington.2 In 1636 a secularpriest,ThomasNicholson, was staying at Kilvington. He recurs as connectedwiththe Meynel iu 1652-3 and in the 1670s, but washardlyresident with them permanently. Another secular priest, George Catherick of Stanwick , a relative, witnesseda Meynell deed in 1645 and was with themagain in 1660. In 1642 John Lockwood of Sowerby, a secular priest was martyredafter his arrest in Thorntonle Street, and withhim was martyredEdmund Catherick, a priest caught notfar away at ThorntonWatlass . Inthe 1650s Nicholas Postgate, though based mainlyat Egton in Cleveland, baptisedat Kilvington.3 In 1651 a priest called John Mannering was arrestedat Maltonand said that hehad served

1 H.Aveling, CatholicRecusancy in the West Riding 1558-1790 (1963);Thomas Bell, a secularpriest who helped Mushand Holtbytoestablishthesemissions wasa nativeofThirsk(and originallyAnglican curatethere) (Borthwick , R. VII/G . 916)

2 Yk High Comm Bk 1585-91 f 294 ; Challoner, Memoirs ofMissionary Priests; H. Bowler, The Recusancy of Ven. John Talbot in Biographical Studies 2/i/4 ff.; PRO. 31/9/14: 180 and CRS 33/198ff. (Hutton) ; for Richard Parkinson als Huddleston see CRS 33/238 ; 10/72 ff.; D.Richard Hudleston, A Short & Plain Way to the Faith& Church (editedby D.John Huddleston O.S.B., his nephew , London, 1688) Biographical Studies 1/iii/ 168 ff A. Kenny, John Huddleston OSB. Fr. Richard Huddleston came on the missionfrom Douai in Feb. 1608 ; was a Benedictineby Nov. 1613 and died at Stockeld Park, Yorks in 1655.

3 NRQS 1636 Kilvington, Thos . Nicholson gent recusant, with Meynells; Leeds Diocesan Archives, Hogarth MSS references to Nicholson& Catherick. at Kilvington; Other Meynell Papers (infra) 19 ; Challonerop cit.; CRS 27/268 (Postgate).

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as priest-tutor to the Meynells at Kilvington We should perhaps be near the truth if we imagined that Nicholson, Mannering and George Catherick, by a steadylengthening oftheirstays at Kilvington gradually introduced a permanent chaplaincy between 1636 and 1670. If this is true, it would bring Kilvington exactly into line witha similardevelopment traceable all over the countyatthesame period.¹

What light do the Meynell papers cast on the spiritualityof Thomas Meynell and his household? The setting ofit was theold manorhouseon what was practically a moated site in aforkatthe junction of two becks In 1777 Thomas' descendants removed from the house to their new and larger property, the Friarage at Yarm, and Kilvington Hall wasdemolished. Alargefarmhousewas at once built by them near the old site, and built to contain a large but concealedground-floor chapel and priest's lodgings. The old site waspartlycoveredwithnew farmbuildings Tojudgefromthe obvious traces of medieval occupation of the site and from the Inventory made of the house at Thomas' death, it was a rambling group of buildings, medieval and sixteenth centurywith additions by Thomas himself Downstairs were the Hall, the great Parlour and two other smaller parlours The latter were used as bedchambers . On the first floor were the great Chamber and eight other smaller bedchambers Above were the garrets Behind the house was an elaborate series of domestic offices and farm buildings All this should help to clear our heads of romanticideas aboutthe 17th century Catholic gentry. The Meynells were well up in the scale of Yorkshire gentry in terms of wealth Yet, despite their education and gentility, their manor house was simply a large farmhouse and they lived close to the soil, farming their own demesne.2

The familycircle in the house normally consisted of 10-12 ofthe family and perhaps 7-8 servants and hinds It is certain thatafter the 1630s all the servants were Catholics. Beside the house there wasa hamlet ofsome half-dozen cottages Bythe 1650s, 30 tenants were recusantspractically the whole population of the hamlet. In 1671 there were 55 recusants in Kilvington Elsewhere in the parish ofThorntonle Street all the other four houses ofgentry were Catholicthe Talbots, Gatenbys, Brakenbroughs and Mrs. Dorothy Scroope's household But in 1641 Thornton parish, excluding Kilvington, had only 25 recusants, which meant that recusancy there was confined almost entirely to the families and

1 Surtees Soc 40/44-5

Meynell Papers, ScheduleofTitle Deeds I contains, loose, bills forthedemolishing the manor house and digging foundations for the new house , MarchJuly 1777. In 1824 Jones reported that 200 Catholicsattended thechapel The establishmentof a church at Thirskgradually made the chapelredundant Mass was last said there some years ago and the chapelfittingsare now dismantled

servantsofthegentry. This was equally trueofthe restofAllertonshire In 1641, again excluding Kilvington, there were 12 Catholic gentry families and a total ofjust over 100 recusants.¹

There appears to have been no medieval chapel at Kilvington. Before the Reformation manorial chapels , chantry chapels and chapelsofease werenumerous in Yorkshire A goodmanyofthese were demolishedorruined by the 1560sfor example the chapelof ease at Thornton le Beans mentioned by Thomas Meynell. The legal ownership of the rest seems to have been in some doubt and a series of commissions for pious uses after 1560 investigated the situation and reclaimed numbers of chapelseven manorial onesfor use as Anglican chapels of ease . It is possible that Catholic gentry used a few of these chapels for Catholic worship briefly during theearlyElizabethan period ofconfusion Thus the anonymous author of the Allertonshire Presentments suggested that the Conyersfamilywere using theold chapelat Hutton BonvileforMass as late as 1590. But in 1605 the Conyers ' priestwas clearly using a room in his houseat Hutton as a chapel.2 Catholic worship moved into private houses where it fitted easily and naturally into the ancient customary liturgical or semi-liturgical round offamily prayers The medieval prayer-books of the gentry also fitted in easily withthe circumstancesof Catholic family life The forms ofprayer provided by Offices of our Lady, Primers and later Manuals of Prayers provided fragments of the Divine Office (the Office ofour Lady, Office of the Dead, Litanies, versicles, responsories and prayers from the commemorations of saints and for the chief feasts) which, with the Rosary, would form the staple of family prayers, going on daily, whether a priest were available or not The prayers in Thomas Meynell's Book of Evidences are clearlyall drawn from this traditional liturgical store offamily prayers. He had a strong devotion to our Ladyshared by all his familyto All Saints, to the virgin martyrs and (probably) to the Holy Name of Jesus . It is a pitythat he nowhere mentions the remarkable pilgrimage place in Allertonshirethe shrine of our Lady of Mount Grace at the ruined Lady chapel there, just by East Harlesey where his relations, the Granges, lived In 1614 a party of some 30 Catholic pilgrims drawn fromAllertonshire was caught by pursuivants whilepraying at the shrine . Just before Thomas died Lady Walmesley had presented the English Franciscans with a housein Osmotherley so thatthey could be guardians of the shrine It is also possiblethat the horseracing course, at Hambleton nearbymuch frequented by the Meynells and other Catholic gentryprovided a cover for Catholics to assemble by the shrine Thomas' small property at Cold Kirbywasadjacent to this famous racecoursetheNewmarket

1 NRQSpassim.

2 Aveling op cit on Catholic use of old chapels in Yorkshire ; Biog Studies 2/ii/135 ff.; NRQSiii/74 (1605)

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of those days.1 The Book of Evidences, in its references to the ruined chapel at Thornton le Beans and the staking ceremony at Whitby, witnesses to Thomas' feeling for the medieval Catholic holy places of the districta feeling shared by Allertonshire Catholics Thus in 1613-4 there were prosecutions of groups of people from Thornton le Beans and Dishforth for praying at the ruins of old standing crosses.2

Thomas' lifetimesawtherevivalofEnglish religiousordersabroad and the establishment of close domestic bonds between English convents and gentryrecusant families. The Meynells sharedin this movement, but rather more slowly than we might have expected One of Thomas' step-daughters, Elizabeth Thwaites, as he says, "consecrated her virginitie to pure divinitie " After living some 8 or 9 years in the family circle at Kilvington she was professed in 1615 as Sister Colette Clareof the English Poor Clares at Gravelines. But although her Meynell nephews visited her there from their school at Douai, and Anthony Meynell named two of his daughters Clare and Colette, no other girls of the family entered religion in Thomas' lifetime.3 Similarly, although he must have known his relative, Fr. Richard Holtby, S.J., and although severalBenedictines worked in Allertonshire and even at Kilvington in his time (Fr. Richard Huddleston, Fr. John Hutton and Fr. Hungate) and Benedictines were recruited from the district, the Meynells as yet had no closerconnectionswith men's religious Orders.4

In 1608 Thomas confessed to the York High Commissionersthat he had been a recusant all his life and "indicted 16 years" --thatis, since about 1592. In 1627 he wrotethat his estatehad been under siezure for recusancy for the last 42 years. He was just aboutof legal age to qualify for conviction as a recusant when the Statuteof 1581 imposedrecusancy convictions and the fining system Butat that time his parents were, to all outward appearances , ChurchPapists He married hisfirst wife, Winifred Pudsey,at herhome of Barforthin Richmondshire latein 1587 by Catholic rites It isvery likelythat he spent these earlyyears at Barforthjust as his father had lived at his wife's home at Stanwick before he came into the Kilvington estate There seems to beno survivingtrace ofpresentments or convictions ofhimor his wife before 1592. His fatherdied

1 Notes & Queries NS XII Dec. 7 1861 ; Yk High Comm . Bk 1612-25 f 31 v., 38 ff (arrests of some 30 Catholic pilgrims caught praying atMount Grace chapel, 1614) Compare ibid f 10 v 17 people of Thornton le Beans & Dishforth penanced forprayingforthe dead at crosses in 1612 ; Franciscan Archives, Forest Gate E.7 ., Register I.A. & 2 acceptanceof the Osmotherley house formallyin 1665. Fairfax-Blakebrough Northern Turf History I. (Hambleton).

2 ibid. The chapelhas nowvanished

3 CRS 14.

Thus the Lockwoods of Sowerby, Lascelles , Conyers of Hutton Bonvile , Catherickswereallstrongly represented at Douaifrom the 1570s Even the Meynellsof Hawnby produceda Jesuit

in 1591. Thomas, hiswife andhismother wereconvicted in 1592and theirfinesrecorded in the 1st RecusantRollof 1592/3 . InFebruary 1593/4 he sued out a special Livery from Lord Burghley, President oftheCourtofWards and Liveries. This was the quicker but more expensive of two ways by which an heir holding lands in knight service or socage ofthe Crown could secure his inheritance A very formal valuation of the estate found it worth £19 a year. Hepaid, infineand fees , apparentlynearly £40. The Court ofWards always required heirs to take the Oathof Supremacy. But it is very hard to believethatThomas actuallydid this . He does not mention it in a later brief account of the transaction That in itself is slight evidence. But we know that precisely a week after he had completed his business with Burghleyhe was up before the York High Commission for recusancy and was confined in the Commission's pursuivant'shouse for some weeks and then released on bond to reappearwith hiswife on ten days' notice.¹ Also ifhe hadtaken the Oath of Supremacy we should have expected that so formal an act of conformity would have been noticed in the Recusant Rollswhereas , as we shall see , there seems to have been no break in his liability to pay recusancy fines It is quite possible that, for an extra fee, the clerks of the Court of Wards were willing to overlook thetakingofthe Oath It was customary thenat anyratein the case ofsmall estatesto overlook the formaldoing of homagebythe heir. In his account of this Thomas incidentally reveals that his father had also in his day, sued out a speciallivery.²

In April 1596 the barons of the Exchequer ordered the siezureof two-thirds of Thomas' estate and all his goods for non-payment of fines Bythat timethe united fines of himself, hiswifeand mother cannot have fallen far short of £3,400. A local body of Exchequer Commissioners made an Inquisition on the estate before siezure. TheyacceptedThomas' pleasthat the great majority ofhisproperty was swallowed up in his mother's jointure, annuities to relations or obligations to pay his father's debts Some lands were apparently nowownedby hisuncle Richard Meynell who had paid off mortgages on them. Hence the Commissionersfound Thomas worth only £5 ayear. In any case, it is pretty clear that the basis oftheir valuation of the estate was the formal one used by the Wards Commissioners in 1593 and by them taken directly from the standard Inquest Post Mortem valuation(of£19) whichwas apparentlya very ancient valuationwith no pretensions to represent a real economic value. Therefore two-thirds ofthis £5 worth ofland in Kilvington was siezed and leased by the Crown to Richard Theakston, a North Riding Justice and M.P. at a rent to the Crown of £3-6-8.3 The

1 J. Hurstfield , The Queen's Wards, passim; Meynell Papers 93, 150 ; Yk. High Comm. Bk 1591-5 f 165 Hurstfield , op cit.; Meynell Papers150 3 PRO E. 377/4 .

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followingyearThomas' mother's estate was valuedseemingly on a farmore realistic basisas worth £66-13-4a year and two-thirdsof thiswassiezed . Meanwhile the bailiff forAllertonshire ofthe Bishop of Durham had protested to the authorities that the inquisitionon Thomas' property had been rigged with Theakston's connivance In March 1597 a 2nd Inquisition found the estate worth £300 a yearso clearlydisallowing almost all Thomas' reprises (charges on the estate)-and ordered the siezure of £200 worth of it He appealed against this and secured a 3rd Inquisition, whichlowered the valuation to £200. By further pleas to the Barons he got the siezures ofhis own and hismother's estates stayeduntil 1603 when a 4th Inquisitionrated himworth £15 ayear and thus landsworth£10 ayear at Kilvington were siezed and let to a Crown farmer , Richard Groom.¹

To what extent was this a triumph of legal evasion? We can only becertain that the leases, jointures and conveyancesmentioned byThomasdid exist ; that his course wasmadehardbythe existence of several Elizabethan Statutes against fraudulentconveyancesby recusants to avoid recusancy dues ; that there hung over his head now and for many years after this a Statute (29 Eliz c 3) which threatened all heirs of the propertyof men attaintedas his father had beenfor rebellion in 1569 ; and that Thomas was then really at his wits' end to find money. Apart from his father's debts , he had to facetheexpenses of the protracted appealsto theExchequer (on top of the cost of the special Livery) He must have hadto redeem all his own goods, his wife's and his mother's from confiscation by buyingthem back. He had to pay fees for his appearances before the High Commission and Quarter Sessions, considerations to others to stand surety for his bonds to the High Commissioners , fees for his licenses to travelover five milesabout his appealbusiness , gaol fees while in the pursuivant's custody. In February 1599 he paid £15 as a recusant's contributionfor light horserequired forthe Irish war In May 1598 he borrowed £300 from Richard Scottof Yorkon the security of all his livestock at Kilvington17 horses , 20 oxen, 47 beast and 30 sheep All of this stock he must recently have had tobuy back from the sheriff's officers It is likely thathe borrowed more from Scott soon after this. By 1604 he had paid backat least £100 to Scott.3 Added to all this, of course , wasthe loss of £10 a year by siezure of land, and the vague threat of his enormous debt for past unpaid recusancy fines In 1602 siezures ofthepropertyoftwoofhisannuitants, George Meynell and Leonard Brakenbury, were stayed in the Exchequer. In 1605-6 Richard

1 ibid.4-12. Thereare Jacobean Exchequerquittances to the farmer ofthe siezed part oftheMeynell estatein Yorks Archaeol Soc Library, Leeds, MS MD 278/4 & Scrope MSS , Danby Hall, Yorks.; Hatfield House , Cecil Papers 39/110

2 Cartwright Chapters in Yorks History, Catholic Recusancy. 3 Meynell Papers 99.

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Meynell was threatened with siezure of two-thirds of the Pickhill and Ness estate, now in his possession and valued at £30ayearinall. This siezure was also stayed, apparently permanently . George Meynell evadedfurtherattempts at siezure byconforming. Brakenbury was subjected to seizure definitelyby 1607, in spiteofefforts to show that his Inquisition was made on land not his Thus the various parts of the whole Meynell estate held by others mostly escaped siezure

In 1604 and 1611 Thomas had, each time, to lend the King£20 as a forced loan.1 Meanwhile, throughout this period offinancial anxiety, he had other preoccupations. As he says in the Book of Evidences, he spent most of the period of the 2nd Lord Burghley's Presidency of the North (August 1599 to 1603)-preciselythe time ofhis acutestfinancialtroubles and repeatedappeals tothebaronsof the Exchequerin goal for his faith He later said that William Middleton of Stockeld was his companion "in York Castleand other prisons. " Middleton was in York Castle in December 1599 butnot Meynell, so either Meynell had been in the Castlefor some timewith Middleton betweenAugust and November 1599 and had then been sent to the Hull Blockhouses , or Meynell only arrived in the Castle earlyin 1600. He wrote his poem to his wifefromHull in November 1600 and was released thence on bond in December. Therecords ofthe Council of the North have not survived and the succession of Council bonds and licences to travel for this period clearlydo not enable us to catalogue exactly the number of periods he spent in gaol. But at least it is certain that he was repeatedly released and then reconfined by Burghley. To add to his troubles and expenses , in July 1600 he was fined by the High Commissionfor non-appearancebeforeit It may well be that during his imprisonment with his"Inward and dearefriend,"William Middleton, he receivedsome instruction on legal methods for evading fines. He much admired Middleton's ability to undergo siezure for recusancy and yet to leave as good an estate as he had originally inheritedand provide handsomely for his younger children It is perhaps more than a coincidence that, in the list of depopulating enclosing landlords citedbythe North Riding Justicesin July 1607, William Middleton (for enclosing Maunby) and Thomas Meynell (North Kilvington) should both occur.³

Thomas wasstill being troubled by theCouncil oftheNorth when his first wifedied in 1603. He was left withfoursmall children,and in 1605 married Mary Thwaites, takingin her own six children and, pretty certainly, shouldering at least some of the responsibility for the Thwaites estate. This was also under siezure for recusancy,

1 PRO E. 377/5 ff.; the ForcedLoanPrivy Seals (printed forms) areMeynell Papers 107-8.

2 Yk High Comm Bk 1599-1603 ff 84 v. , 94 v (amount not specified) 3 NRQS1/79 .

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thoughthe siezed part was only valued at £10 a year.¹ Litigation could be another source of expense. In about 1600 Thomas was plaintiff in a Star Chamber case against several Thirsk men for assault and obstructing his common rights there.2 In 1606 he was apparentlysued in London by a servant of the notorious Richard Heaton ofWetherby This was probablya consequence of a recent Star Chamber suit against Heaton in which Thomas' brother , George Meynell, had figured as a witness for the prosecution. Heaton was a professional informerwho specialised for over thirty years inmaking money out of Yorkshire recusants In this case he wasaccused ofrunninga corruptbusiness, as an agent ofthe Bishop of Bristol (then a York official), in the siezed goods of recusants. In themidst of his London case Thomas Meynell and his wife were summoned to the York High Commission in January 1607. His excuse ofabsence in London wasbrushed aside and he wasfined £50 for non-appearance. During the following eight months he ignored as many further summonses and incurred a second fine, of £100. Finally he appeared in court in October There were two charges against him . Thefirst washis obstinate recusancy,forwhichhe was enjoined to confer with an Anglican divine and certify it The Archbishop also offered to lend him "one ofDr. Mortons bookes to reade, " whichThomas tactfully acceptedwiththanks, promising to read and return it The second charge was his Catholic marriage withhissecond wife This case was remitted to the York Chancery Court, where he gained an astonishing triumph. He was allowed to produce in court the letters of Orders of the Marian priest who performed the ceremony, and the court acknowledged the priest a lawful minister and themarriage valid As Thomasrightlywrote in his Book ,this wasthe first caseat anyrate in York diocesewhere Catholics had escaped the usual penalties for clandestine marriage. Hitherto they had either been forced to remarry in an Anglican church or had sought safety in flight Thomas' example was noted and several other Catholics succeeded in the same course. But there was no future in it, since Marian Catholic priests were a rapidly dying raceby that time.³

However, this triumph had to be bought at a cost. The case

1 PRO E. 377/26-9

PRO Star Chamber 7/4/23, Thomas Meynell v. Augustine Bell, John Skottoson & Thos Tholthroppe ofThirsk

3 Yk. High Comm Bk 1607-12 f 5 v Jan. 20th 1606/7 , wherea servant of ThomasMeynell was reported to havesaidthat his masterwasin London in December1606 "to appeare at West' at the sute of one Owson servt of one Heaton. " PRO Star Chamber8/11/12 , 43 James I, Attorney -Generalv Richard Heaton of Wetherby The evidence of Heaton's depradationson recusants' property was provided by some 20 recusants, including Clare Lockwood of Sowerby, George Meynell ibid 8/24/1, 1618, Attorney- General v Thomas Pudsey of HackforthPudsey was a lawyer, and was here charged with a long series of ingenious legal evasions oftherecusancy laws and acting as legaladviser to Yorkshire Catholics George Meynell of

INTRODUCTION xxxi drew attentionto the priest, who wasarrestedthoughsoon released. Also the notary recording Thomas' first appearancein the case on 6thOctober 1607 noted in the margin"He tooke theOthe ofAllegeance " The High Commission books record 7 other Yorkshire gentry as having taken theOath, 5 of them in 1607-8 . In nearlyall these cases the recusant continued thereafter to be presentedand convicted for recusancy Perhaps Thomas Meynellin common with other Catholics ofthat timeheld that thetaking of the Oath did not meanapostasy. Therewascertainlyno break in the continuity of his appearances inthe Recusant Rolls in 1607-8 or afterthat. So likewise, late in 1606, Anthony Meynell of Hawnbyand 4 other North Riding recusant gentry took the Oath before the Justices . Althoughthe record of this in theSessions Book is headed "Submitting and Conforming, " most of them (but not Anthony Meynell) were reconvicted of recusancy in January 1607, afterwhichseveral seem to have lapsedinto conformity. Thus the takingofthe Oath could be an immediate preliminary to full apostasy, or the act of awavering recusant who alternated betweenrecusancyand Churchpapistry or even the act of a consistent recusant.1

În 1608-9 Thomas seems to have fought off a dangerous threat. Sir Stephen Proctor of Fountains Hall, a Justice of both the West and North Ridings, was one of severalnotorious and litigiousbusybodies who then concentrated a stream of attacksusually by informations and StarChambersuitson Catholics. He now began to collect evidence to show that Thomas' estate in Thornton le Street washis own, although passing under another's name. Proctor must have failed, since Thomas' settlement with the barons ofthe Exchequer remained unaltered and no cognisance was taken of the Thornton lands.2 In 1609 Thomas must have been the chief mover in winninganother remarkable legal triumph An affidavit was laid before the barons of the Exchequer accusing two pursuivants,Marrand Braithwaite, offraud and violencein Kilvington, by maltreating Mrs. Dorothy Scroope and siezing some of Thomas' livestock Local Catholics regarded these pursuivantswho were lieutenants of Richard Heatonas dangerousnuisances responsible

Ness was mentioned as a friend of his and trustee The Meynell marriage casesee Other Meynell MSS 9 (infra) ; Yk. High Comm Bk 1607-12 ff. 5 v., 19, 29 v. , 43, 70, 89 v., 139v.; Yk Chancery Court Bk 1606-10 f. 80 ff.; Borthwick Institute, R. VII|H . 383 , 394 1 Yk.High Comm Bk 1607-12, ff 89 v , 139 v. , 227, 260 v., 274 , 277. However there is evidencewhich may imply that the High Commissionnotary waswrong in his categoricalstatement that Thomastook the Oath Brit Mus , Lansdowne MS. 153 ff 52-3 contains Thomas' name in a list of 15 Yorkshire gentrywho, in 1623, were required to attend the PrivyCouncilto have the Oath of Allegiance proferred to them This record says no more about Thomas, but makes it clear that the others mostly evadedthe Oath bya money"composition. " NRQSi/50

Other Meynell MSS (infra) 10-11 On Proctor see Howard. Sir John Yorke of Nidderdale, passim

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for manyassaultson them and even ofmurder. It seems thatthe barons allowed the case to proceed, and evidence to be collected against other agents of Heaton, and that Marr and Braithwaite were convicted of murder.1

There is no evidence that Meynell ever certifiedthat he had conferred witha minister and it is likely that he escaped notice because the York High Commissionwas disorganised anddid little business duringthe year or two after he wasreported to have sent no certificate. He was next in trouble with this court in 1615. The Commissionershad summoned him again and put him on a bond to appear on ten days' warning When summoned he remained completelycontumacious and his bond was declaredforfeited There is no evidence that he ever paid up No doubt he had discovered whattheCommission'srecordsand the Recusant Rolls showto have been a fact that the Commission was now speedily declining in efficiency and that steady contumacy or even bribes to the notaries could lead tothelapsing of a case, thecompounding ofa large fineor forfeited bond for a very small ready cash payment, or even the cancellation ofthe bond. He seemsto havestayedunnoticed bythe court until 1624 when the whole Kilvington family was caught up into their last, longest and most severe boutwiththeHighCommission. This beganwith a raid on Kilvington Hall by Roger Blanchard, the Commissioners ' pursuivant , accompanied by the local constablesof Allertonshire The ostensible reason for the raid was to find seminary priests, but when none were found, Blanchard proceededto arrest Thomas and his wife, his son Anthony and his wife and Anthony's sister, Jane Grange As was the custom , they were offered release, on condition they at once took bonds with sureties for their appearancein court Trustingin familiar tactics and a hopethattheCommissionwould not persevere , the family did not appearin court In fact theywerenow to face troublefromthe Commissionerswhich lasted for over eight years. Thomas and his wife forfeited a bond because oftheir contumacy The bond was , most likely, of£50 each, and was very possibly much later compounded for at a lowrate. Anthonydid putin one appearance,only to be gaoled briefly for his refusal to confer withdivines Later he was contumacious and his excuses, sent by servants, called "frivolous" Heforfeited a bond of£50 and wasfinedanother £100 His wifealsoforfeitedher bond of £50 Mrs. Grangeput in one appearance , was imprisoned for refusal to confer, and forfeited her bond Itis quitelikely that theywere expectedto conferwith Dr. Bramhall, rector of South Kilvington Bramhall, who was later to achieve fame under Straffordin Ireland, must have been well known to the

1 The documentsofthis case are in Meynell MSS . vol i and are printed in CRS 53

2 Yk . High Comm. Bk. 1607-12 ff 213 ff.

3 ibid 1612-25 ff 79 v , 90 v., 160 v., 170 v., 324, 375, 382 v , 386

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Kilvington family. In 1622 Bramhallacted as surveyor atarepair of Spittle Bridge in whichThomas Meynell was an interested party Bramhallwasprobablyplanted in this beneficein 1616 to bringthe influence ofhis learning to bear on the local Catholic gentry. In 1623 a secular priest and a Benedictine, prisoners in York Castle, were brought to Northallertonfor a public disputationwith him. He was much engaged in conferring with recusants.¹

The caseswent on. In 1633Anthonyappearedincourtbutrefused the ex officio oath to answer questions about an informationmade against him . He was gaoled until he agreed to take it Six months later, after several hearings, the case was finally dismissed But meanwhile Thomas Deighton of Knayton had brought a case against the Meynells in the Council of the North in 1633. He was one of the sureties for Anthony's bonds and also for those of his mother and sister He claimed that since the bonds were forfeited he was liable to pay the Exchequer £200 and demanded that the Meynells be held liable The defence seems overwhelming. Itwas established that the Meynell's lawyer had procured from the barons oftheExchequer an order staying all proceedingson the bonds. In any case, in 1627 and 1629 the Meynells had compounded for their recusancy and secured a royal protection from all proceedingsfor their recusancy.2 The case, however, has a general interest Recusantswere veryfrequentlyput on bond withsureties, and their bonds often forfeitedand certified to the Exchequer. Wemightbe tempted to conclude fromthis that forfeit bondswith the recusants' liabilities to their sureties added must have formed a very great charge on them . At least this chargecould be annulled bya succesful plea to the Exchequer or vastly reduced by a composition payment Wedo not yet knowhowoften these means ofevasionwere practised.³

Inthemidstofthese HighCommissionproceedings, in 1627 , there was formed the first effective Northern Commissionfor CompoundingwithRecusantsunder SirJohn Savile. Savile seems to havehad no power to compel recusants who were already subject to seizure to compound withhim. But he offered to thosewho didby royal Prerogativethat they might lease the siezed lands themselves and thattheywould be protected fromall other financialproceedingsfor their recusancy. No doubt Thomas Meynell was impelled to compound by the fact that he was fined £200 by the North Riding Justices in 1626 for keeping four Catholic servants, and the expectation that this fine would soon be repeated At this period the

1 Other Meynell MSS. (infra) 16, and refs in last note On Bramhall see DNB and his Collected Works

2 Yk. High Comm Bk 1626-31 ff 4, 7Bv., 8 v , 24 ; 1631-4 ff 239 v., 241 , 260 v , 293

3 Cliffe,op. cit.; PROE. 101/533/28-1616/3, accountsoffinesandforfeited bonds from the York High Commission; only 2 or 3 are here noted as compoundedfor.

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Bench seem to have been making a drive against recusant servants and numbers of North Riding gentry were repeatedly fined for keeping them . Also, as we have seen, Thomas and Anthony and theirwives werenow liable topaysome £300 forforfeited bonds, and perhaps much more to indemnifytheir sureties A bill for £500 or more hung over their heads. They could hope to secure fromSavile a renewal ofthe small siezureand rent to whichthey had been subjected since 1603. By this time Dalton, Ness and Pickhill had been conveyedto George Meynell, and the tenement in ThirsktoAnthony who was not yet a convicted recusant George had conformed in 1606 and was still unconvicted But Savile's Inquisition on the estate brushed aside the conveyances of Ness and Pickhill, and found Thomas as owner of Kilvington, Pickhill, Ness, Sowerby and the third of Thornton le Street Thomas' plea that Sowerby was virtually worth nothingto him in rent was accepted. As we have seen , theoriginalowners of Sowerby, the Lascelles family, had only succeeded in buyingthe manor back fromthe Crown (towhichithad fallen by attainderafter the 1569 rising) in 1603. Theyhad raised the purchasemoney by granting2000 year leases to the tenants at very small rents, in return for high entry fines The Lascelleshad sold the manor to the Thwaites family in 1604 and they sold it to Thomas Meynell in 1612 , apparentlyfor £700 Savile's Inquisition, doubtless making allowancesforreprisesout of the estate, found Kilvington worth £10 a year, Thornton £6-8-4 and Pickhill-Ness £69-9-5. Two-thirds were siezed and leased back to Thomas ata rentof £35 a year Everythingconsidered, thiswas merciful, since an economic rent (at the Inquisition valuation) wouldhave been over £54 Anthony, though still not a convicted recusant , was subjected to Inquisition and siezure of the Thirsk tenement at a rentfromhim of £5 a yearwhichwasveryheavy.¹

In 1629 Savile's political star waned and he was replaced by Wentworthwith a new NorthernCompounding Commission This had power to compel recusantsto make new compositions. Wentworth did not bother to have a new Inquisition andprobably to save time and Exchequer feesallowed Thomas and Anthony to join in one lease at a rentof£100 a year. It seemsclearthatmostof Thomas' reprises were now disallowed In 1646 the efficient Parliamentary Commissioners were to value the whole Meynell estate at about £500 a year gross rentaland £420when repriseswere deducted. Thus Wentworth'srentfell very far short of a truetwothirds Indeed, it was not meant to be that, but a composition Yetit was heavy. The immunities from proceedingsfor recusancy granted by the lease were considerable but, in practice, not quite complete. In the Deighton case Thomas eventually decided to petition Wentworth to decide the case and dismiss it. In fact

1 CRS 53/291 ff.; Other Meynell MSS (infra) 14-5 NRQSi/95, iii/276

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Wentworthreplied that the force of the immunities was not retroactive HeofferedtoletMeynell compoundwiththeCommissioners for the forfeited bonds and liabilities to Deighton Thomas was not in a strong position, because the stay of proceedingson the forfeitures whichhe had obtained fromthe Exchequer was based on the immunities granted by the lease It is very likely that he compoundedas Wentworthdirected, and that he probablyonlyhad to pay a few pounds.¹ The dismissal of Anthony's case by the High Commissionin 1633 was probablydue to the immunities. In 1637 the Archiepiscopal visitors took cognisance of a charge that Thomas had spoken derogatory words against the late vicar of Thornton le Street. But they do not seem to have proceededwith the case . Meanwhile George Meynell evaded all Wentworth's efforts to get him convicted as a recusant It is also possiblethat Thomas attempted some sort of suit in 1641-2 to challenge the inclusion of Anthony and his Thirsk lands in the compositionon the grounds that he was not a convicted recusant at the time the 1627 Inquisition was made, on which the 1629 lease was based . Certainlyhe does not seem to have paid his rent for 1641 and the first half of 1642, and there is evidence that even Wentworth's Commissionerswere uneasy about the legality of his practice of compounding without a new Inquisitionor compounding withthose not yet convicted formally of recusancy . "

In September 1631 the Meynells claimed that they had so far paid £4,000 for their recusancy in Thomas' time. We can trace payments by Thomas of some £520 in fines or rents lostby seizure . To this weshould add sums paid in fees, gaol expenses, legalexpenses for prosecuting Heaton's men, the cost of buying back siezed property, and probably compositionspaid for earlier forfeited bonds Even if these are estimated generouslyand we make allowancesfor calculations ofthe real economicvalue of rents lost 1603-27, we can hardly escape the conclusion that the Meynells were speaking rhetorically. Itis truethat there were still other charges whichfell on them in these years Between 1603 and 1642 20 subsidies were levied by the Government, and from 1625 recusants paid extra -theoreticallydouble, but actuallyless than thatand, inany case , on a very formal and small assessment . It is likely that the estate was assessed at £3-4 a year, and a subsidy was normally4s in thef. In addition to this Thomas had paid £40 in two forced loans to JamesI. In 1630-2 hepaid £25 for distraintofknighthood. Thus ordinary taxation was hardly a grievous burden.³ As his Book and the North Riding Bridge Books show , county rates for repairofbridges and highways could be often small and local repairs unloadedon tothecounty.

1 Other Meynell MSS (infra) 14-6 Borthwick Institute, R. VI A/24 .

3 Cliffe,op cit.; Yorks Archaeol Soc Record Series lxi/103 .

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From 1631 to 1640 it is clear that Thomas paid his composition rents regularlyin all £1,000 His Book and papers show him spending about £1,000 in buying lands or leases between 1612 and 1640. There are clear hints that agricultural improvements and enclosures madeall of this possible In the yearswhen neighbouring Catholic gentry families were going down to bankruptcy (the Lascellessoldout toSirArthur Ingram, and the MeynellsofHawnby enmeshed in debts, sold out Hilton, Hawnbyand Normanby totheir creditors)theMeynells kepttheir heads wellabovewaterfinancially by great efforts.i

TheMeynellsplayed nopartin the CivilWars GeorgeMeynell was once accused of Royalist delinquency in 1651 but the charge had to be dropped Thomas' estate was sequestered for his recusancy only, from 1644. Anthony was not bothered, since the whole estate now passed under his father's name Foradministrative reasons the sequestrators split the estate into two sections The Allertonshire parts (Kilvington, Thornton, Sowerby, Thirsk) were efficiently surveyed and valued as worth £412 a year The Richmondshire parts (Ness, Pickhill, Ainderby, Sinderby, Scruton) were valued at £75-80 a yeara total value of about £500. Two-thirds of the Allertonshire part (worth£366 a year when reprises were deducted; two-thirds of this worth £244 ; now let at a rent of £220 the Commissionerspaying taxes) were let to Michael Chipping. In fact he seems to have farmed the whole Allertonshire estate, paying a third of the income from it to Thomas Meynell The ostensible reasonforthis arrangement was the fact that Chipping wassurety for Thomas' arrears of recusancy composition rents and for his payment of a sum equal to two-thirds of the value of his goods The Richmondshire landswere let to a different farmer, who farmed them all, paid a rent of £42 to the State and paid Thomas£21 ayear. Thus Thomas' income, paid in cash by the two farmers , was about £140 ayear. Hewas hardly the man to sit down meekly under this. In 1647 hepetitioned the CountyCommittee that Chipping mightbe allowed to lease the entire estate. This was refused , but Chipping's lease was adjusted, the rent reduced to £200 and the payment of taxes made his liability Thomasthen petitioned again He asked boldly that he should be allowed to occupy the whole Richmondshire estate himself, acting as State farmer of the siezed two-thirds Itis clear thathe trusted Chipping and had arrivedat an agreement with him , but that he found the Richmondshire farmer wasteful .

1 According to Jones' Schedule of Title Deeds (Meynell MSS .) the coachhouse ofthe old house atKilvingtonsurvived thedemolition of 1777 until 1886; it had a keystoneinscribed "T. 1612 M." VCH N. Riding, passim ; Cliffe, op cit. Thomas Meynell was a witnessofthe mortgageof Normanby and Hawnby by Charles Meynell of Hawnby to James Morley, one ofthe Six ClerksofChanceryin 1629, to covera loanof £3,542 at 8 per cent (Schedule cit ii/363)

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Surprisingly, the Committee granted his request However, there were conditions. The total rent was to be raised from £63 to £80, Thomas was to be liable for all taxes and a recalcitrant tenant farmer, Lawrence Browne, wasto be undisturbed.

The years 1647 and 1648, leading to the 2nd Civil War, had their own difficulties. Thomas' farming operations were hampered by tenants who appealed over his head to the County Committee constantly In 1648 billetting of troops and military levies and requisitions became extraordinarilyheavyno doubt because ofthe proximity of the North Road. The Sowerby tenants, since 1603 very free because of their long leases and slight controlby thelord, had established a common fund to meet these militarylevies, and they demandedthat Thomas should contribute If he refusedthey wouldlevy what theywanted from the lord's demesne . It appears that Chipping must by now have allowed Thomas the use ofthis. Thomas appealed to the County Committee, who, surprisingly , backed him up. But this small victory only embittered relations with the Sowerby tenants and the rest of the estate was much subject to requisitioning and billetting. Kilvington itself was assessed to maintain6 soldiersconstantly or money in "assistance" attherateof3s 6d a weekfor each man21s a week Thiswasin addition to ordinary taxation In March 1648 Chipping seems to have died and the Committee granted a new lease of the entire estate to Hugh Meynell, Thomas' grandsonnot then a convicted recusant. This was a convenient way of keeping the law and giving Thomas the right to farm the whole The rent was now £250 a year, plus taxesand outcharges, and thewoodswereexcluded from the lease , to be let to chapmen by the Committee for the State's benefit. A condition of the lease was also that no pasture on thesiezed parts was to beploughed upfor arable. This arrangement lasted until February1649 when theCommittee gave a new lease toWilliam Nelsonanother man ofstrawto cover farming by Thomas. The rent was fixed at £634-5-0, inclusive of Thomas'third, taxesandoutcharges This apparentlymeant thatthe rental to the State of the siezed parts was to be about£420 a year. Thiswasa verysubstantial increase indeed, andwecan onlyconclude that theCommittee now relinquished the woods (doubtlesslong cut) and allowed enclosure . It is interesting that the estate had been valued in 1644-7 as worth about £500 a year, and in 1649 as worth about £650 . It was evident that thenew rentput a severe strainon Thomas' resources . Thewidow of his grandsonand eventual heir, Thomas Meynell, had married again to Captain Edward Saltmarsh, a retired officer of the ParliamentaryArmy. He had taken over a part of theestate worth £160 a year as herjointure. Infact the Saltmarshes contributed some £60 a year to the family budget. By July 1650 old Thomas had fallen heavily into arrears with his rent payments to the Committee and the bailiffs were put into Kilvington. The dilemma was put to the Committee, with the

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suggestion that Saltmarsh's holding should be excluded from the sequestrationon account of his warservice. Doubtless Saltmarsh also had claims on the Government for back pay. The Committee objected that it had no authority tomake suchan arrangement, and that Mrs. Saltmarsh wasa convicted recusant The casewas taken to Haberdasher's Hall in London to the central Committee for Sequestrations, which decided in favour of Saltmarsh in January 1651. The result wasa new lease signed inApril 1652 , makingover thefarmofthesiezed lands toAnthonyMeynell (bynow aconvicted recusant) for seven years at a rent of £353 a year. He was topay taxes and outcharges, but the Committee would allow him rebates on therentfor this Woods wereagain excluded fromthe lease and there was to be a £5 increase of rent for every acre of grass brought under the plough The powerof the tenant to raisehis own tenants' rents was also restricted It is not easyto determine how favourable this new arrangement was It seems to have been based on a valuation of the whole estate asworth £640-650 a year From this Saltmarsh's £160 had to be deducted andthe State rent of£353. The Meynells were therefore left with an income calculated as £130 a year, out of which, ofcourse ,they had to pay their own taxes and outchargesperhaps £25 a year. It was true that they could cut wood and enclose on their own lands (unsiezed ) and that the Saltmarsheswere provided for and, doubtless, still providing £60 a year for the family But Anthony Meynell wasnow obliged to farm the siezed partson hard terms and anyfailurethere would have to be met out ofthe family's third. Moreover the Exchequer seems to have been pressingsince 1650 forthe payment ofpast rents under theWentworthcomposition of 1629that is to say for the unpaid rents of 1641-4 (before the first sequestration) not to speak of unpaid arrears of sequestration rent for 1649-50 The composition rent arrears would amountto £400 alone. Hence Thomas tried to plead in the Exchequer Court that, under the terms of a ParliamentaryOrdinance of 1649 , he should bedischargedfrom all arrears The outcome ofthe case has not survived. But it is significant that it was at this time that Anthonybeganto borrow heavilyin all some £2,000.

Thomas Meynell had nowbeen blind for some years. No doubt he felt fully justified in writing that helived "in the ruins of time. " Hedied in July 1653 and wasburied in Thornton le Street church.¹

There now began a most remarkable legal campaign whichwould have delighted him. Its aim was nothing less than to get the sequestration lifted fromthe estate. In January1654 therewas an assembly of Catholic gentry and peers in London Cromwell was

1 SeeNote 32supraforthe possibility that Thomas' eldest grandson , Thomas, was killed fightingas a royalist. Ifthiswere true, itis odd that nochargeof delinquency seems ever to have brought against the family at Kilvington. The documentsconcerningMeynell sequestrationsare printed infra.

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being established as Protector and Catholics had some hopes of definite toleration. The Catholic peers, Lords Brudenell, Arundel and Montague, were the spokesmen . Present in London then were three of Anthony Meynell's friends from Allertonshirehis son-inlaw, the royalistMajor John Danbyof Leake, the Meynells' Catholic conveyancer, Thomas Jackson of Knayton and their steward , John Wild It seems that while in London Jackson thought of an ingenious scheme to solve Anthony Meynell's problems and had it vetted and approved by Gilbert Crouch, a London lawyer, then much concernedin legal schemes to save royalist Catholic gentry's estates. The plan was to execute a trust deed conveying away the bulk of the Meynell estate to trustees This, in normal times, would have been a natural move, considering Anthony'sdebts and theneed to provide security for his large family. But, primafacie, suchadeedwould nowbe illegal or ineffective because the estatewas sequestered .

But Jackson proposed to establish at law that Anthony could not automatically inherit his father's sequestration Once it was established that Thomas' death had ended the sequestration, itwas only a matter of time before Anthony would be personally subject to sequestration for his own recusancy But before this new sequestration fell on him, the deed of trust would be executed. Thus the Inquisition for his sequestration would have to find him not the owner of the estatewhichwould henceforward be free of sequestration Thus a trust deed was made in January 1654 and on January23rd operations were begun at Westminster witha plea to the barons of the Exchequer. There the Attorney-General of the Protectorate , Edward Prideaux, simply accepted the force of Jackson's argument This was:

(1) that Anthony Meynell could never have been lawfully sequestered or fined for recusancy. He had had no part in his father's sequestration from 1644 to 1653. It is true that he had had a separate recusancy composition imposed on him between 1627 and 1642. But that wasillegal, because it wasbased on one single Inquisition into his estate made in 1627, which was itself invalid because his first conviction for recusancy was not until 1628. The fault here wasSavile's (for compounding withsomeone whowas no recusant atlaw) and Wentworth's(forbasingthenew composition of 1629 for Anthony on the old Inquisition of 1627 without bothering to have a new onemade). (2) that Thomas Meynell's sequestration could not possibly pass on automaticallywith the estate to his son because the fatherwas only a life-tenant of an entailed estatethat is to say theentailof 1587 invalidated the compositions and sequestrations of later years

The Exchequer therefore declaredthe siezure raised and quittance was given for all arrears of rents On 28th February the trustees petitioned the London Commissioners for the Management of

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Sequestered Estates to secure their assent. The case lasted until judgment was given on 14th July 1654. Sergeant Maynard and Mr. Martin were counsel for the petitioners, with Mr. GilbertCrouch advising behind the scenes Mr. Reading and Mr. Brereton were counselfor the State. It appears from the papers preserved by the Meynells that the lawyers offered no serious resistance and the administrators (except, apparently, in York, though even thereMr. Reed, clerk to the York Commissioners , was helpful to the trustees) had little to say It was actually Mr. Reading (counsel for the State) who askedfor legalopinions fromSirOrlando Bridgeman and the Master of the Rolls (both of whom were strongly in Anthony's favour) and Reading's report does no more than quote Bridgeman extensively . The professional lawyers seem to have lacked sympathy with the bureaucrats. The bureaucrats themselves were anxious to avoid all appearance of arbitrary rule and desired to reform the dilatory and archaic methods of the Common Law. Delaywastheonlydangerfearedbythe trustees. Theymetthisby petitioning for haste because the fate of Anthony'sfamilyofsmall children was at issue

Finally, it is interesting to note that no one seems tohavereferred to thoseclauses in Wentworth'sCompounding Commissions whichcoveredmistakes by the Commissioners Even Wentworth'sown colleagues onhis Commissionhad beenapprehensive about his habit of ignoring fine points oflegality. Perhapsthe Protectorate officials dismissed Wentworth's Commissions as acts of Prerogative.¹

On 1st September 1654 the York Commissionersobeyed orders from London. Anthonywassequestered as apapist simplyforthose parts of the estate which lay outside the trustthe manor house at Kilvington and its adjacent grounds The rest of the estate was released from sequestration entirely. In November 1654 the trustees secured , by petition, the cancellation of the leases of 1652 and the bonds made for payment of rents

As a postscript, the papers contain a document of 1676 which seems to be a trust used by a later generation of Meynells to evade another effort to impose siezurefor recusancy on the estate.

In 1717 the gross rental of the lands which had formed Thomas Meynells' estatewas £904 and in 1763 it was£994.2

Wecan draw some tentativeconclusionsfrom this account ofthe Meynell's battle with a succession of governments On the one hand they displayed a remarkably continuous and, on the whole quite successful , effort to evade recusancy fining by everypossible legal weapon. On the other hand they did not escape without trouble or damage. They had a good luck, pertinacity, boldness and good friends which manyof their Catholic neighbours lacked.

1 Gilbert Crouch'snameoccurs innumerabletimes in the sequestrationpapers of northern Catholic families as theiragent. He came second onlyto John Rushworth (the lawyer and historian) in this type ofbusiness

2 Loose paper in Jones' Schedule cit. i/158.

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Meynell MSS . (CountyRecord Office , Northallerton)1

Gentlemen (either for feare oftheCivill Warres wch then did Rage or for the love and devotion wch theydid beare to godlyand Religious men) did leaveand ly uptheir evidences in the monasteryes, holding them there to be in the safest custodie , because as they Reasonably thought, none wold dare or be so ungratious, as to Commit directsacriledge.

BUT when tymeinlarged vilonieto Commit all profane and sinister actes , no thinge was spared how holy soeverit was. All wasturnedup sidedowne, and the bodyesofSaintes and other heroicall persons being wrapped in lead wereturnedout thereof, and the lead sould to plummers, bookes and pictures were burned, Evidences not Regarded: all was subiect to violence and Rapine

IT fortunednot wthout gods providence (all honour tohis name) that three great Chists full of Evidenceswere brought from Bylande Abbey at the suppression thereof unto the Church ofNorth allerton , and there theyremained locked for some tyme but afterward(some suitesin law arisinge among some gentlemen of good worth here in the Country , some of them audaciously (thinking to find some evidencesfor their helpe) broke open the Chists and were their own Carvers . At that tyme myuncle Robert Meynell beingthen a boyatthe scoole, and now aboute the age of 70 yeares, got the Clarke of the towne to search in the Chists, and take away all evidences wch hefownd to belongto the Meynells: sincewch tyme, he hathkeptand preservedthem and at thisinstant hath them in his possession . Out of wch evidences (at the motion of Mr. Richard Saintgeorge. NorroyKing ofArmes who waslately hearein his Visitation and at my desire , my uncle got Sr Stephen Lowcocke now Curat at Allerton, to Collect and gather a discent from thefore sayd Hughe Meynell even downe toour selves neithergod be thanked did any one evidencewantfor the directpr(oof?) ofevery one of our auncesters , from timeto

1This is a foolscap-size paperbook, withat leastits first page missing. Itis written in various hands, amongstwhich ThomasMeynell's own bold and distinctivewriting standsout . It was apparently writtenbetweenc 1613 and 1631

This wastheYorkshire Visitationof 1612. (Foster Visit of Yorks 1584/5 & 1612).

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tyme still plaine(ly?) and Lyneallydeclaringe, who wasthe father, and wch was his sonne/

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TIME will produce wth the grace of god an orderlypedegree out of the Court of honour the way is layd, and the evidences will attest the truth I dare boldly, say nofamily of England can more exactly fetch and derive them selves , even from the Conquest I hope well my uncle will lend us the evidences for the approbation hereof .

SOME captious Companion either base bred Enimie of antiquity or both: smelling yet of dunghill, or rather a bastard him self, may inquire. how it chanceth , that our name is written sometimesMeynell and sometimes Mennell I answere , it is so written in the old evidences yet selfesame and one Armory prooveth it to be the selfe same and one nameand Imyselfe in the Kings writs am written some times Meynell sometimesMennell : yet am I but one, and theselfe same Thomas Meynell and as I take it, Rather Meynell then Mennell is properlyEnglish of Menelauswch is ourname in latine .

WHORLTON is sometimes written Worlton, sometimes Warlton , yet were he not a peevishpatch that sholddoubt whether it were one selfe same Castleor noe havingbeene for manyCenturiesthe habitationoftheMeynellsand builded I thinke by them , for our Armes are yet in stone above the gates although tyme have made a mutation both of the howse and the lands, into a noble ffamilie of the Scotish Nation , Sic transit gloriamundi.¹

HUGHE MEYNELL (on whose soule and all myne Ancesters I praye god have mercye) lived in the ffirste yeare of kinge John and in Anno dni 1203. and had Issue.

ROBERT MEYNELL who lived in the fourth yeare of kinge Henrythethirdin Anno dni 1219. and had Issue

STEPHEN MEYNELL who lived in the ffifteenth yeare of kinge Henry the third Anno dni 1230, and had Issue

JOHN MEYNELL who lived in the ffourteene yeare of kinge Edward the first in the yeare 1303. and had Issue .

By the way let me tell you in the afore sayd yeare ofk. Edward I do by Evidence finde how that one Sr Nicholas Meynell ... (torn) ... Whorlton then Lived. and also at thesame time one Sr John Meynell was owner ofMiddleton who doubtlessedid like ... (torn) . . . of a younger brother out of the howse of Whorlton but the Revenew of both these ffamilies have gone away wth daughters

NICHOLASMEYNELL, who lived in the thirteenthyeare of Edward the thirdin Anno dni 1338. and had Issue

1 For the medieval Meynells see J.S. Clay, Yorkshire Charters. to Edward Bruce, Lord Kinloss

Clay Extinct Peerages of the North ; Wharton wasgrantedin 1603 bytheCrown (VCH, N. Ridingii/313)

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ROBERTMEYNELL who livedin the thirtye ffirsteyeare ofkinge Edwardthe therd Anno dni 1360. and had Issue/

JOHN MEYNELL who lived in the second yeare of king Richardthe second in anno dni 1379, and had Issue

ROBERT MEYNELL who lived in the second yeare of kinge Henry theffourth anno dni 1401. and had Issue

THOMAS MEYNELL who lived in the fifte yeare ofking

Henrythe fifteAnno dni 1417. and had Issue

ROBERTMEYNELL who lived in the ffift yeare ofking Henry the sixt . Anno dni 1426. this Robert as I thinke Married a Nevill from Snape one ofmy Lo : Latimersdaughters and begot ofhir

JOHN MEYNELLwho lived in the tenth yeare of king Henrythesixt. Anno dni 1431. and married the daughter ofone Percyea knightand begotofhir

ROBERT MEYNELL who lived in the seventh yeare of kinge Henry the seaventh. Anno dni 1491. and marriedthe daughter ofSr. John Lancaster ofSockbridgeand begotofhir

ROBERT MEYNELL, HENRY MEYNELL and ANTHONY MEYNELL wch three brothers lived in the sixteenth yeare of king Henry the Eightein Anno dni 1525 The afore sayd Anthonye was my Grandfather (Charitie begineth at a man his selfe). Iwillfirst (god willing) prosecute myownepedegree, and then declarethe Eldest brothers for henrythe second brotherwasallwayesfrugalland Chaste , diedunmarried and ... (torn) ... his Patrimonyto theaforesaid Anthonye./

But Robert Meynell the eldest brother much greeved hereat and suits did arise: but yetwere civillyendedby the way of Arbiterment, even by the Itenerant Justices themselves. yet my Grandfathers estatewasImpairedthereby , for his brotherwasverypowerfull , and mightie, he wasoneofthe Councell at Yorke, and Chancellour ofDurhama longetyme, seriant at lawe, a purchacer, and a great getter. he bought inhis tymeHawnby , Normanby, Heslerton, Bawke, andmany other lands : as much as wold nowyeild 2000 pownds by theyeare. but his sonne shortly after, sould a great deale ofit. Weare bownd to pray for HenryMeynell forever, as onethat in gods providence did much helpsand advancethis howseofNorth Kilvington.

ANTHONY MEYNELL lived in the sixteenth yeare of king Henry the Eight Anno dni 1525. he married the daughter ofWillm. Greene of LanmouthEsqr. and begot of hir my father Roger Meynell

WHICH ROGER MEYNELL lived in the thirtiethyeare ofQueene ElizabethAnno dni 1568 ... he married thedaugther and one of the heires of Anthony Cathericke of Stanwigs. Esqr wch Cathericke maried one ofthe daughters and heires

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of Rowland Tempest of Homsette Esquier, who cameofone of the daughters and heirs of Umfrevill Erle of Anguishe and Baron of Prode and Riddisdale shee was mymother, and although devise of lawe did Crosse both hir and hir motheroftheirbirthrights, yet it could not Robbe them oftheir Armorye. I had byhirsome landsin Thorntonin theStreete and other good prefermente : but wch I more esteeme ,Ihad also by hir ffyve worthieCote Armors and as manyCrestes . viz twoo by Cathericke, twoo by Tempest, one byUmfrevill. in tyme perhaps I may informe my selfe of moe, forUmfreville sure had moe then one. my father also begot of hir George Meynell, Marie Meynell, Elizabeth Meynell, and Margret Meynell

THOMAS MEYNELL did marie Wenefred Pudsey daughter to Thomas Pudsey of Boltonand BarfordEsqr/and had by hir the yeare of our Lord 1588. ElizabethMeynell. the ffifteenth day of October who died happily very yonge. Also in Anno dni 1589.the nineteenth day of September. Marie Meynell who was maried in the yeare of our Lord. 1613. the 25of August being St Lodovick his day otherwise called St Lewes day beinge Wednesday to GeorgePoole of Wakebridge and Spinkhill in the Countie of DerbyEsqyuier. a Gentleman of hir owne Religion and yeares/who bgotofhir Peter Poole who was borne this presentyeare. 1614. upon St Leo his day being Tewsday the 28 of June. alsoin theyearof our Lord 1591. the eight day of May Katherine Meynell who likewise died very yonge. Also in the yeare 1592. AnthonyMeynell the 30. dayofMay, beinge St Felixhis day. Also theyeare 1593. Richard Meynell the 16 dayofSeptember beinge the day of SSt Cornelius and Cyprian. Also Annodni 1594. Margret Meynell the 9 dayof ffebruarie who likewise died very yonge Also Anno dni 1595 Wenefred Meynell the 10 day of March who likewise died veryyonge. Also Annodni 1597. the 15 ofMayThomas Meynell who likewisedied veryyonge Also Annodni 1598 upon thevigillof Sts. Symon and Jude Anne Meynell Also Anno dni 1599 . RogerMeynell the ffourteenthof Januarie who likewise died veryyonge. AlsoinAnno dni 1601. upon StMarie Magdalens daye Helene Meynell who likewise died very yonge. Also Anno dni 1602. the eight of December Ursula Meynell who likewise dyed very yonge

ANTHONY MEYNELL my sonne and heire apparent (whom I pray allmightie god of his Merciefull goodnesse to blesse and propagate) did in the yeare of our Lord. 1613. the sixteenth day of September being the day of SSts Cornelius and Cyprian and Thursday take to wife Mary Thwaites the ffourth daughter of JamesThwates ofMarston intheCountie of the Cytye of Yorke Esquier, and begot of hir Thomas ,

Meynell who was borne this present yeare. 1614. upon the eight of July being ffridaye whome I beseech almightye Jesus to blesse .

JHONMEYNELL thesecond sonne ofAnthonye andMarye wasborne upon TewisdayethefowerthofJulye 1615. Swete Jesus blisse him

HUGO MEYNELL the third sonn of Anthony and Mary was borne upon Thursday betwixt five & six a clockein ye Morninge beingethe secund ofJanuary. anglicanocomputatu in the yeare ofour Lord. 1616. and the xiiijo yeare ofking James . I pray sweteJhesus blesse him.

WILLIAM MEYNELL the fowarthe sonne of Anthony and Marye was borne in the farewell of St. Gregorye (owr glorious Inglishe Apostle) his daye; or the beginningeofthe 13 of Marche being ffriday anno domini 1617. anglicano computatu . I pray swete Jesus blisse him .

ANTHONY MEYNELL the fifte sonne of Anthony and Marye was borne upon St Anthony of Padua his daye beynge the 13 day of June upon a Sunday in the morninge anno domini 1619. Regis Jacobi 17. I pray swete Jesus blissehim. Md (god be thanked and owrblissid Lady) God Almightie haithe blissid my Sonne, and inriched me with ffive sonnes wthin the compas of ffive yeares. Thomas Meynell. Ao. domini 1620. mentis Octobris die 20. JamesMeynellthe sixte sone ofAnthony and Marywas borne upon a ffriday ,I pray God blesse him and our blessed Lady/

NOWI retourne tomyGrandfather AnthonyMeynell,who first did marriethe daughter of Mr Eglesfeild : but had no Issue by hir. that lived He did thirdly [sic] marrie the daughter of Thomas Rookesbye of Morton and Rookesby Esquier (who was then a widdowe and mother to Roger Tockets of Tockets Esquier, who was father to George, and Georgeto Roger Tockets who both now live) and begot ofhir my uncle Richard Meynell, who was an honest, wise and valiente gentleman he followed the example of his uncle Henry aforesayd: he died unmarried, and did not onely much advance this howse of Northkilvington, but also did principally raise my brother George Meynell his howse of Dalton Ryall, wee may truly say the Chastitie of twoo worthiegentlemendid in gods providence verymuch Increase our estates : so that we are bownde in all honestie, and Conscience, faithfully to pray for their soules . They both died Chatholikes : and I praymyposteritie to prayfor them . Hee ffourthly married thedaughter of Mr. Nawton of Hildislayeand begott ofhir Robert Meynell.

ROBERTE MEYNELL nowe livethe he married the daughter and heire of Mr. Christopher Noddye oftheStanke ,

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and had by hir the inheritance ofthesame. He begottofhir Lawrence Meynell, ffraunces Meynell, Robert Meynell and three daughters

LAURENCE MEYNELL maried one of the daughters of Mr ffraunces Lascells of Northallerton and begott of hir John Meynell, and other Children

GEORGE MEYNELL of west dalton alsdaltonRiall inthe wapentacke of Gilling West in Richmondshire did marie Elizabethe Trotter seconde daughter of Mr Robert Trotter of Skelton CastleinClevelande, and begott ofhir RogerMeynell, AnthonieMeynell, Elizabethe, and Dorothie Meynell. Havinge prosecuted my grandfather his pettigree downe to this presentyeare 1614. Imeane to reverte to hiseldestbrother yow mustunderstande that the afforesayd George Meynell was my owne, and onelye brother.

ROBERTMEYNELL: maried the daughter of Pudseyof Barfourthe Esquier (understande nowe good reader/my f.4v. Cozens of Hawneby and we are in equall degree ofkynred by ffather and mother Charles and Anthonieare ffourtheand ffourthe bothe wayes) And begott of her Roger Meynell, and ffoure moe sonnes who all dyed wthout yssue, and divers daughters, ofwchone of them was maried to the afforesayd Roger Tocketts of Tocketts Esquier, an other to Nynian GirlingtonofGirlingtonEsquier an other to Nicholas Girlington of Hackfourthe Esquier an other toffulthropeofIlebecke. Esquier whoe lost all his landes in the rysinge in thenorthe, by followinge his Neighboure Thomas the Earle of Northumberlande, another to Mr ffoxe layteof Thorpe ; all wchffyve did leave yssue male wch nowe inherite their ffathers lands and are my kynsmen.

ROGER MEYNELL maried the daughter of Sr Christofer Danbie knighte (whose mother was my Lord Lattimers daughter) and begott ofher Edmunde Meynell RogerMeynell William. Meynell and twoe daughters of wch one ofthem was maried to Mr Willm. Tankrede the eldest brother of Sr Henrie Tankrede of Arden knighte, who had yssuebyher Willm. and Charles Tankrede the other wasmaried to one Mr Eltofts.

EDMUNDE MEYNELL maried the daughter of Mr Ralfe Tankrede ofArden and Syster totheafforesaidSr Henrie,and begott of her CharlesMeynell and some other daughters.

CHARLES MEYNELL married the eldest daughter of Thomas Scudamor ofOverton Esquier a gentilman discended ffrom a righte worshipfullffamiliein Wales

ROGER MEYNELL brother to Edmunde maried a plebean wife and begott of her (blank) Meynell.

The afforesayd Edmunde Meynell did secondlie marie Elizabethe the daughter of Mr Willm. Bowes laite of

Ellerbecke and begott of her Robert Meynell and divers other children. Here I will inserte (wth the grace of God) my ownesweete wife her Epitaphe/

Hoc tumulosita, sit, sponsi fidissima Coniux

Nobilis in vita, morteque nobilior familiae clare partu, fuit Illa Propago

Clara fuit vivens Clarior hec moriens

haec mitis clemens , prudens, pia sique Pudica

Illius est nullo, laus peritura die Supplicibus votis, tendens ad fidem palmas

Articulo mortis, talia voce Refert

Me miseram clamat / soboles divina tonantis:

Quid tulit ut maculas abluat ipse meas: Perque crucem, lethumque oro tantos per Amores

Tute velis miserae, Jam meminissemei

Ipsa licet noxas fateor, fecisse prophanas

me, tamen in Christo, sit mea sola salus

Jam nunc expirans hortor vos voce suprema hostia pro mendis, grata sit acta meis.

Mensis Januarii.29.1603 obiit Wenefreda Menelea uxor

Thomae Menolai Armigeri Cuius animae omnipotens misereator deus. Annorumfuit 33. Reliquit cum marito duos filios, et duas filias. domina fuit Kilvingtonaeundecem Annos et ultra nupta fuit 17. annos et ultra. duodecem habuit liberos, filios quatuor, filias octo. progenie paterna ex Pudsey et Ewry. Stirpe materna ex Scrope et Clifford, harum familiarum vero optimis.

Grace , honour, fame, gave ayre unto hir breath

Rest, glorie, Joye, were sequells of hir death

My sister Marye was married to Mr Oswold Metcalfe of Hornby Castle in Richmondshire who begot of hir twoo daughters. Marie and Elizabeth .

Marye is married toMrThomas Claxton of the waterhowse in the Countyof Durham who hath by hir a sonne called John/

Elizabeth is married to Willm Covill of Arathorne in Richmondshire, who hath by hir a sonne named John

My sister Elizabethwas married to Mr George Holtby. of Scakelden, who begot ofhirMarmaduke, Lancelote, Janeand Izabell

Jane is married to Mr Thomas Narandike of Edstone who hath by hir George, and other children .

My sister Margret is married to Mr Sampson Trouloppe uncle to John Trolloppe of Thorneley (that now is) Esquire and hathbyhir a daughter calledffrances.

ROGER MEYNELL ffather to the aforesayd Edmond

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and Roger Meynell, did secondly marrie a Slingsbye, Aunte to SrHenry SlingsbyeofScrivinknight : that now is. The happie and exquisite end of my most lovingewife, maketh me very Confidente (almightie god assistingemewth his holly grace: and our blessed ladie ffavouringe me wthhir blessed prairs) to meete hir againe in heaven: and there eternally to praise and glorifie our Creator after wch I resolved to love hirs for hir Cause : and towchinge my selfe todo, as Isholdffindefitingefor myselfe and so wthpatience, disgestedthe greatestCrosse: thattemporallycoldhavecomed. HAVINGE condoled twoo yeares , and beinge about the age of ffourtie one, I married Marie the widdowe of James Thwaites ofMarston Esqre, whome I found so answerableto myother wifein virtue, huswifrye, and almost allConditions that I have great Cause to thank Allmightie god for his providence and great Clemencie towards me unworthie wretch She had by her (torn) . . husband one sonne called Willm. and ffive daughters, ffraunces, Jane, Elizabeth Marie and UrsulaThwaites. WILLM. THWAITES married Helen one of the daughters of Phillippe Lord Wharton that now is Edward Lord Wotton. (who is at this day one of his Maties privieCounsell)/ married an other, andSr Richard Musgravebaronette athird. The aforesaydWillm. begot of his wife John who is my godson, George, Philippe, and James. ffrances is maried to Mr Christopher Thompson ofEshallin the West Ridinge of Yorkshire who begot of hir. Henry Thompson and divers other children

Jane is married to Mr Charles Atkinson of Cattall in the fore sayd West Ridinge, who begot of hir Henry anddivers other children.

Elizabeth is a virtuous maide, and that consecrated hir virginitie. to pure divinitie.

Marie is married as is afore sayd.

Ursula is yet unmarried

Myfirst wife had brothers, Willm. Pudsey of Bolton and Barford, who liveth now, his eldest sonne is called Ambrose , whose mother was a Rookesby of Morton: and Ambrose Pudsey [sic] who nowliveth. and ThomasPudseywho is now theowner ofHackford: and hatha daughter called Phillippe, whose mother was a Thacher of the Priesthawes in Sussex. the aforesayd Ambrose the elder hath a daughter called Elizabeth , whose mother was a Place of Dinsdell. she also had a sister called Margrette who was married to MrRobert Trotter of Skelton Castle and he begot of hir Henry Trotter who now liveth, and married Katherine Wytham sister to John Wytham of Cliffe Esqr. that now is, and begott ofhir George Trotter and other children.

Also aforesayd [sic] Robert begot Katherine , Elizabeth , Marie, and Margraite. Katherine is married to Mr Nicholas Coniers ofBoltby, who hath by hir Robert & otherchildren. Elizabeth is marriedto my brother George as is afore sayd/ Marie is married to Mr Thomas Smelt of Aynderbyin the myres who hath by hir divers children

My second wife had one full brother Mr Gaile of Akeham grange who married the daughter of Bryan Stapleton of Carlton Esquier and begot ofhir Mr ffrauncis Gaile thatnow is, who married . Mr duttons daughter (she wasCosen german tomyfirstwife) and begotofhir Robert Gaile , Mathew Gaile , and other children .

Mywifehad alsoe twoo halfe brothers (Mr John Inglebyof Hutton Rudby married hir mother when she was a widdow) Thomas Ingleby and John Ingleby.

Thomas married the daughter ofSr Raiphe Lawson knight, and begot ofhirJohn, Willm., ffrancis, Anne, Katherine , and another daughter. She had also two halfe sisters , theonewas married to Mr Raiphe Creswell of Nunkillinge, whobegot of hir George, John, Margarite, and mo children. George hath married the sister of Sr Thomas Metham of Metham knight. And Margarite is married to Mr John Constable of Kerby Knole that now is

The other sister is married to John Gascoigne of Barnbowe Esqr. who begot of hir Thomas, John, Michaell, ffrancis, Helen, Marie, Anne, Katherine , Christiana, and Margarite. I WILL now (god willinge) set downe suchnamesas I am the nearestallied unto, and do most affect, especially sich as

Ihave hadno occasiontonominate before My grandmother Meynells mother or grandmother I am sure, was a Crathorne of Crathorne. Mygrandfather Kathericke his motherwasa Saltmarsh of Saltmarsh My grandmother Katherickehir mother, was a Radcliffe of dilstone. My ffirst wife hir mother, was daughter to the Lord John Scrope of Bolton: who begot hir of Katherine daughter to Henrythe Earleof Cumberland, whose motherwas Margarite, and daughter to Henry Percy, fifte Earle of Northumberland My wiffe hir fathers mother was the theLord Ewre his daughter, wch Lord Ewrewasgreat grandfather to that Right Noble and worthie gentleman Sr William Eure ofMalton, who now liveth : and is sonnetotheLord Raiphnow President of Wales.

HENRY CLIFFORD second Earle of Cumberland, Lord Clifford Bromflete and Vescy, hereditarie high sheriffe of Westmerland, who died 1569. the twelfteof Q . Elizabeth,was full brotherto the foresayd Katherine , married to the Lord Scrope This Henry married Eleanor (second daughter and coheire of Charles Brandon duke of Suffolke, by his wife Marie Qeene offfrance, yonger sister to Henrytheeight) and

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begot ofhir Margarite, who was married to HenryStanley, ffourth Earle of Derby, who byhir had Issuefferdinando the ffift Earle, and Willm Stanley the sixt Earle wch now liveth. His honoure and my children are third and ffourth in bloud. My second wifehirmother was daughter toWill.Clapeham of Beamsley esqr. who begot hir of one of the daughters of SrWillm. Middletonof Stockelde knight wchSr Willm. was father to John and John to Willm. (who dyed in Aprill this present yeare) he wasa worthyeand most memorablegentleman, my Compagnion in Yorke Castleand otherprisons,for theConfession ofour Catholike faith. He was myInwardand deare friend, and dyed at the age of 63. although twoo pts. ofhis lands were seized about Recusancie yet he alwaisekept agood house , and left his eldest sonne in as goodestate ashis fatherleftehim. Moreover he gaveuntohis second sonneofa secondwife at least 500 li per Annum of good Inheritance. his eldest sonne is peter who married the daughter of Mr David Ingleby who begot hir of the lady Anne daughter to thelastEarleofWestmerland. His second sonne hisnameis Willm. his mother was a Towneley of Towneleye. The aforesayd Sr Willm. Middleton had a daughter married to Caverley ofCaverley EsqrAnother to WentworthofBretton Esqr. Another to Vavasour of Weston Esqr. The Wentworths of Woodhowse Emsall and Woleyare all my wifehir kinsmen.

MYWIFE hirAunts of the ffather side were marriedone ofthem to SrWillm MalleryofStudleyknight who begot of hir Sr John Mallerythat now is. Cosen Germainetomywife , and divers daughters, one of them was married to mydeare naighbour and deare ffriend Sr Thomas Lassellsknight who begot ofhir thatworthieand Catholike gentleman MrWillm f. 7v . Lassells who died upon St Cuthberd his day in Septembr. 1613. and lefte behinde him a hopefull younge gentleman of more then ordinarie worth andexpectation. MrWillm Lassells that nowis the heire apparent of Brackenbarghe &c. And Thomas, John, Edwarde, Richarde, Ralphe, andonedaughter called Dorothie. Their mother was Elizabethe sister to ffrauncs Tunstall of Skargill Esquier. And one other to Sr Hewghe Bethell Knighte whoe begott on her one onely daughter called Grisselte, she is maried to Sr Willm Wraye Barronett in the Countie of Lyncolne. And one otherto Sr Roberte Dolman of (blank) knight And one other toEdwarde Coplaye of Batlaye Esquier. And one other to (blank) Oglethorpe of Oglethorpe Esquier. And one other to Ledger of Ganton Esquier. The other Awnte was married ffirst to Rokesbie ofSkiars Esquier. Secondlieto Sr Thomas ffayrfax of denton knighte, whoe begott of hir Sr Thomas ffayrefax that nowe lyvethe

whoe is ffather unto Sir ffardinandowho maried one ofmy LordShefeildehis daughterswch Lorde is noweourPresident. Also hee begott of her twoe daughters, Ursula is now wyfeto myneighboureandffreinde SirHenrie Bellassis ofNewbroughe Barronett, whoe begott of her ,Sir Thomas Bellassis knighte, and twoe daughters, the elder ofthem is maried tomybeloved Cozen. Sr Coniers Darcie of Hornebie Castle in Richmondshier knightewhoe begott of her, ConyersDarcy anddivers other children Marie is maried to Lytster of Thorneton Esquier Sir Thomas Bellassis maried Barbara one of the daughters ofSir Henrie Cholmeley off Roxbie knightewhiche Cholmeley wasuncle to Winefride myffirste wyfe of an halfe bloude ,ffor his mother wasthe afforesayd Katheran daughter to Henrie the Earle of Cumberlande My sonneAnthonie, and the afforesaydeLadie Barbara are thirde and secondein bloude/Sir Thomas Bellassis and Marie my sonne his wife are third and third in bloud

The other of Sr Thomas ffairefax the elder his daughters named Cristian was married to John Aske esqr Sr Willm Constable of fflambrough Baronettmarried the daughter of Sir Thomasffairefaxthe yonger. She is sister to Sr Ffardinando

There was ever an ancient league of friendshippe betwixte the Constables of Burton Constable and mine Auncesters The Cause is now greater then before for Sr JohnConstable graundfather to Sr Henry that now is maried one of the daughters ofthe aforesayd Lord John Scrope Sr Henrie that now is and my children are third and third inbloud.

The marriages of whose sisters I meane to Recite being as nearea kinne to my Children as he.

Katherine is a right worthie and truly vertuous Ladie marriedtoSr Thomas ffairefaxof Gillinge knight hehathby hir both sonnes and daughters, his eldest daughter is alreadie married to Mr Thomas Laton sonne to Charles Laton of Sexoesqr.

Dorathiewasmarried to Roger Lawson sonne and heire of Sr Raiph Lawson of Broughe knighte (who died at London this presentyeare. 1614. and had by hiswife maniechildren .

The third is married to Sr EdwardStanoppe knight.

The fourth sister is wife unto Thomas Blakestone sonne and heire apparent of Sr Willm Blakestone of Blakeston a Catholike knight hehathby hirdivers children.

The darcyes I honour and love they came of a meynell and got by us both welth and honoure

My respected andmuch estemedgood neibour Sr Thomas dawney ofSissey knight his graundmother was Lord Darcy

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the Methams ofMetham wchMethams arenowin neareAllie by the Pudseyes.

My neighbour Christofer Wandesford of Kirtlington esqr. is our kinsman bythe Pudseysand also by the Hansbyeshis mother was a Hansby. hir sisters were married to Sr John Yorke, Sr Willm Hildiard, and Michaell Wharton Esqr. Richard Wandesford of Pickall Esqr. is my kinsman by the Placeswho ismydeareand approved goodfriend.

My grandfather had a sister who was mother to Roger Radcliffe of Mowgrave Esqr who was father to ffrancis who wasfather to Roger who is nowa poore gentleman destitute of all meanes to live Their lands were lost by reason of pretended Concealment, as many thinke for wante of managinge, and are now in the possession of my Lord Sheffielde. Katherine Radcliffe now of Ugthorpe was daughter tothefirst saydRoger.Charles Radclyffe ofTunstall in the County of Durham mine honest Cosen was sonne to Christofer Radcliffe who was brotherto the firstsayd Roger. My mother had twoo sisters, Grace and Dorothie. Grace was married to Robert Lambertof Owton in the countie of Durham esqr. he had by hir twoo daughters Margery and Helen. Margerie was married to Mr Richard Nelson who begot ofhir a daughter calledAnne she is married toMrLuke ffennicke of Shipley Helen is married to Mr Anthonie Metcalfe of Awdbrough who hath by hir George and manie other children one of his daughters is alreadie married to young Saire the hopefull heire of some pte of the lands of John saire of Worsall a Catholike Esquier

Sr ffrauncisBointonmarried my neare Cosen by theTempests begot of hir Mathew and Dorathie/

My Ant DorothieLaitlie and formarlie named ys married into ffrancis Scrope of Danbye and Spenithorne Esqr. but hath no issue. She is my Godmother and good Aunte. Sr Thomas Strickland brotherof the halfe bloud (for they had both one mother) to the aforesayd Ladie Boyntonwas likewisemykinsman, his daughter is married to Sr Willm Webbe knightie

Sr Willm Gaskoygne of Sedberry his wife and I are third and third in consanguinitie he begot of hir twoo daughters the elder was married to Sr John Hedworthof Harratonin the countie of Durham knighte The yonger Issabell is married to the heire apparent of Sr Marmaduke Wyvell baronett, whosegrandchild now heis.

Mr Thomas Laton of West Laton is my kinsman by the Greenes .

Sr Nicholas Tempest of Stelley intheCountie of Durham is my Cosen he hath divers children and one of his daughters is married to Sr BarthramBulmerknight.

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The dolmons, Longleys and Sothabyes, are my long ago kinsmen

AS IT pleased god in all ages to whose blessed name all honour and glory ever be and I poorewretchhumblybeseech his blessed mother to thanke his maiestie in my behalfe) to upholde our name, ffamilie and Armorye: so he alwayss furnished wth meanes to maintaine our Gentry. I hope I shall afterwards Record in this booke some Evidences the Coppies whereof I shall truly Insert. wch will declare myne Auncestours to havehad manylandswchnowwewant. And god almightie since the time of K. Henrye theSeaventh hath bestowedmuch upon us wch beforewehad not.

Inthe eight yeareofK. Edward thesecond, myAuncestour Nicholas Meynell was one of the high Sheriffes of Yorkshire (the use was then to have twoo at one time) as appeareth by Record in the Pype office in thexchecker .

It is probable one of them was high sheriffe in the tenth yeare of K. Richard the second, another of them inthefifft yeare of K. Henry the fifte.

Mygreat grandfather Robert, did give untomygrandfather Anthony, the demeysnes of North Kilvington. My uncle Henry and my grandfather (they were brothers) purchased the rest [sic]

SOME land in Thornton in le Street I had by my mother , MargeryMeynell, who was the heire thereof The thirdpte. of Thornton had belonged a long tyme to that worshipfull ffamilie ofthe Tempestsof Homsed, my mother had butthe sixt pte thereof, my father and I purchased twoo ptes moe , wchwas halfe thereof The reason of so manydevisionswas daughters.

ThelittleI havein Scruton andNorthAllerton,was mygreat grandfathers. My house in Allerton (once much greater then now it is) hath beene a very longe time called Meynells Hall, it is sayd when the Scots did burne North Allerton , a great pte of the East Side thereofwas Reedified by Meynell, and Salvin, who had good Retribution given them by the Kinge and Bishoppeof Durham .

PICKALLCUM ROKESBYwas purchasedby my grandfather ofSr Thomas Nevell of Holt knight. my grandfather did give it to myuncle Richard. my uncle lefte it to me , wch good uncle did give unto my sonne Anthonytwoohowses in Thirske, and a little land in Ainderby Whirnhowe , and Sinderbye he also gave unto Richard my yonger sonne a parcell ofland called Wetwood neareunto Leedes : upon wch he had builte a howse , and left a great quantitieofverygood wood growing asyettherupon.1

1 The acquisition of the Weetwood, Leeds, West Riding estate by Richard Meynell is noted in a 1597 Presentment of West Riding Recusants(CRS

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KEARBY viz . twoo oxganges therein I purchasedmyselfe/ SOWERBYI myselfe did purchase, and ifmy posteritie do finde either worships, profitts, pleasures or Commodities therby let them prayfor marynowemy wife, thanke hir and thinkewell of hir for ifI had never married hir I had never compassed it.

I my selfe Repaired the Milne there for it was in great Ruines And added an other de novo more then ever was before

WHEN Rowland Tempest of Homsed Esqr. who was ffather to my grandmother Cathericke estated and Intailed his lands upon his yonger brotherSr ThomasTempestknight, it had gone and the memory thereof in time awayfrom his daughters, but it pleased Almightie god afterwards to move the harte of the afore sayd Sr Thomas to be carefull and provident for his Neeces. he married them to Cathericke of Stanwiggs in the Countie of Yorke. Brackenburry ofSellaby in the Countie of Durham and Hutton of Hutton John in (blank) three Esquiers. he returned them backe againe for their preferment certain lands in Thornton le Street, Shipley denton and New Castleupon Tyne But wch ismost memorable, he gave them out ofthe Lordship of Homseda Rentof ten pwnd per annum to them and their heirs for ever Sr Thomas died wthout Issue male and had but one daughter whowasmarried toSr Raiphe Bulmer ofWilton knight. The lands did goe to his yonger brotherwhowas fathertoRobert Robertto Michaell, Michaell did forfeite them in the Rising of the Earles Northumberland and Westmerlande. Q. Elizabethdid give them to Sr Henry Gates knight and Sr Henry did leave them to his sonne Edward Edward did sell them unto one Jackman Jackman did sell them to the Ladie Hawkins. my ladie did sell them to Sr TymothieWhitingham knightwho is now possessedof Homsed Nowe note the rente is still in the lineall bloud and I my selfe I thanke f. 10v. almightie god and our blessed Ladie, have five pownd a yeare thereof to me and mine heirs for ever whereof I had five nobles by my mother my Aunte Scrope did give me five nobles and I purchsed five nobles of my 53/285) "Ric : Menil hath purchasedye forth pt of a great wood called Weterwodde ... worth 400 li at ye least And that builded therein a litil housewhearein searchis for papists, there hath always bene found a fair woman who calls him Uncle ' Amongst the MeynellMSS. is an odd loose deed of Dec. 1618, in which Richard Meynell and Anthony Meynell convey theWeetwoodestate to John Metcalfe of Leeds gent. It is not clear from this and the statement here in the Book of Evidences, whether the Meynells sold the estatein 1618 or put it in trust It is never mentioned in official inquests intotheirlandslater The marriage of Anthony Meynell's daughter Winifred to ThomasKillingbeck ofAllertonGrange, Leeds may possibly have been a result of the Meynell connectionwith Leeds .

Aunt Lambert I have nothinge in Shipley now but one poore house . I have in Denton ffourty nine acres of lande lyinge betweene the Church and Walworth.

MY dearlybelovedfatherRoger Meynell, a gentlemanvery kindeto his friendes, and of a bowntifull and liberalldisposition bynature, died a Catholik(as all hisauncestoursformerly I thanke almightie god had done) The seaventh of October Anno dni 1592. being about the age of 59 or 60 yeares. HIS lovinge wifemyworthiemother, who brought bothlands and worshipps to this howse : fromwhome I derived and had (as I formerly sayd) five worthie Cote armours : especially Umfravill, Tempest, and Catherick, for whose soule therefore all my posteritie is strictly bound to pray, died a Catholike Anno dni 1597, upon the sixt of October, being St Markehis eve. She lived five yeares after my father, and was about the age of 65. yeares.

IN the yeare ofour Lord. 1612. that honest and valiante gentleman my uncle Richard Meynell, who ever dearlyloved his foresayd brother, Roger : and shewed himselfe mindfull, liberall, and kinde to his children : died upon blessed Corpus Christiday, being that year S. Barnabie his day: the eleaventh of June. he was about the age of 75. yeares. and dyed a Catholike . And heare followetha true Coppieof his lastwill and testament.

IN THE NAME OF GOD AMEN. I Richard Meynell of Dalton in the Countie of Yorke gent, beinge sicke in bodie , but ofperfect Remembrance (all honoure be to god) do make f. 11. this my last will and testament ; in manner and fforme followinge : ffirstI give andbequeathmy soule intothehands ofAllmightie god my Maker and Redeemer, and mybodie to be buried in the parish Church of Thornton in the Streete. Item I giveto the Poore ffoutie pounds to be disposed onby executor. Item I give to the Church of Thornton foutie shillings : And to Sowth Kilvington Church fourtieshillings : And to theChurch of Kyrbysuper Montem fourtieshillings : to bee bestowed upon the poore ofeveryparish wthin theise parishes [sic]. Item I give to Marie Meynell one hundreth pownds : Item I give to Agnes Meynell hir sister one other hundrethpowndsto betaken forthofthe stockeofmyGoods or debts as they shall growe dewe and arise. whereof there is owinge unto me tenne pownds per annum granted unto me by a deede of Annuitie made by Sr JohnConstable knighte deceased, and readie in Courtie to be shewed , and neverpayd since the death ofthe foresayd Sr John Constable. but manie promisses and letters readie to be shewed. and divers yetlivingewho hadAnnuities granted at the same time by the sayd Sr John Constable, who wold manie times say, that he thoughte that Sr Henry Constable his Eldestsonne

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had been sleane, if the sayd Richard Meynell and others had not bene , who was first for savinge of the sayd Sr Henry Constable layd upon the grownde himselfe. Item there is owinge unto me by Willm Norton of Sawley three score pownds, as appeareth by his bonde Item there is owinge likewise unto me by Richard Wheatleyof Darlington, and one Garnettof Blackwellother three score pownds as appeareth by theire bonde. Item there is owinge unto me three score powndsby Henrie Oswaldeof Darnton, as appeareth by his bonde Item John Kendrowe of Borrowby is owinge unto me sixtene pownds, as appeareth by his bonde Item Cuthbert Anderson of the Gailes is owinge unto me ffoure pownds as appeareth by his bill Item Willm Blackitt of the Gayles is owinge unto me Twentie shillings. Item the shoomaker of Adle doth owe me ffourtie shillings. Item Mr f.

11v . Metcalfe and Lodge of Leedes as appeareth by their bonde. [sic] Item the Kinge as appeareth by a privie seale doth owe me twentie powndes. Item Mrs. Warkoppe of Topcliffe doth owe me ffyve pownds Item Roger Meynell of dalton doth owe me ten pownds Item Lancelot Brand dothowe me ten pownds. Item Christofer Busby dothowemexxviijs. Item I give to Richard Meynell all my lands not formerly estated or given Item I give to Isabell Holtby Ten pownds Item my will and minde is that Willm Whitlingeand Thomas Whitlingeshall have their twoo Tenementsduringe theirlives wthoutpaying anyRente Item mywill is that Peter Hertlei shall have ffourty shillings by the yeare during his life, or xx li. at his pleasure payd at one entyre payment. Item I give to Anthony Meynell Eight oxen wth waine and geare theruntobelonginge And to his brother Richard Meynell other eight Oxen or stotts, wthwaine and plowes and other Implements therunto belonginge, and either of them one hundrethweathers and to Marie Meynell and AgnesMeynell hir sister either of them one hundreth weathers or Ewes. And my will is that Christofer Jeffrason shalbeexecutor of this my last will and Testament to whome I giveall theRest of my goods, my debts, funerall expences and legacies discharged. witnesses whereof .

Will Bassett. Thomas Chippinge. Bartholomew Pennyman

Robert Brandesby. Richard Crakell. When Thomas Lorde Burleighnowe Earle of Exceter was President here in the Northe , he shewed him selfe forward in prosecution of the Lawes established against us poore Catholicks, but against nonemore then my selfe . I hadbene committed before by Henry the Earle of Huntingdon: but Iwasaprisoner almost almy Lorde Burleighe hisPresidencie He committed me to his Pursuivants howse But SrEdward

Stanoppe knight solde me awaye to the North-blockhouse neare Kingston upon Hull where we weare miserablie restreined for we might not privatlie conferre wth anyman : neythercowld we git leave for owr wives to come untous at wch tymeIwrit as folowethe/ nos cum prole pia benedicat virgo maria. amen .

1. Whom Godhaithe yoyned, Let no man part, So saithe my Lord, my sweete, myLove: Yet peevishe men of froward harte, Menfrom theirwives nowefarremove: God give them grace to mende theirfalte , That lovelie Lovers so assalte

2.No cawsemy Hartecowld maike me staye, from thy swetepraesens anywhit: nor woulde I sure admitte delaye, forto increasemywelthe orwitte : But muche I woulde contende to see , Thy lovelie selfe beloved of me

3.Yf Hercules had sworne mydeathe , Yf fearce Achilles in my waye, Yf Hector vowed to stop my breathe , And ayax stronge would me assaye : I woulde not feare them fortheir strengthe, But hope to passe by them at lengthe.

4.Yf lustie lads of Laiter aige had vowed to stay me from my deare , Orlando mad in furious raige, Or brave Renaldo did appeare, Theycowld not al my coraigedante, not prowde ferrawe, nor Agrimante

5.I wassometimesof frontins backe , when Lovelie yowthes did me attende : I thowghtmy self nothinge to lacke , I cowld not wyshemy staite to mende: Thow sweete faire wyfe did me welplease, Thy hartewth mine combined in ease./

6. Howe haps yt nowe that thowe andI Are severedfrom owrswetedelite, ytysbut a while, usforto trye, wth patience we shal conquerspite: Mylovelie las thye hart ys onfiar, Asswaige that heate Ĭ the desier.

7. Sitheyowe and I ar of one mynde, And never was of otherLore , Sithe so he the most of bothowr kind, So was owr kinredevermore: Let us in owr afflictions yoye : And cownt restrainte but as a Toye.

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8. Let brablinge yailors brave yt owte , Let sturdie Locks kepe al close in: Let fetters jingle rownde aboute , we caire not for at this a pinne: Owr Jesus swete wil us rewarde, His servants wel dothe re regarde.

9. Yfwth swete Jesus we woulddwell , Then must we learne for him tody: Confesse , and then we please him well, None can be saved that do deny : My lovelie Lord of Love the well, Of al trewe Lovers beares the Bell

10. Owr faithfull Love can not decrease . So longe as we in him persiste: That lovinge Lord of Love and peace In wantinge him the marke ys miste : Who love him best, no deathe can parte, Trewe Love from trewe swete lovingHarte./

11.All thatLive linkedwthsacred knotte, And pleasantlie do spend their dayes, In full contente of Luckie Lotte, Wth honest sports and pleasingePlayes: Shall sure in Heaven for evermore MyLord ofLoveJesus adore.

12.Some heateof yowthe, some raging Lust most men dofancies fond compell, wth cunninge Wordes some others muste Affirme that theire Love dothe excell : Thowe Lady sweteto me dost owe A choise trewe kind of love I knowe.

13. penelope a Lady rare Prayed her Ulisses come, not write: He churlishlie contemned her caire , And did not minde her best delite: And therfor sure shall he have blaime, As longe as some do knowe his naime.

14.I would faine come, but am restrained , wth Links ofgreater Love then thine: Thowe seewewould, yet thowe artchained , wthknotsofmuchmore love then mine: Let us this Lord this LoveI say for mery metinge daylye pray.

15. Some frozen ar wth Northeran Bars, And can not git home to theireLande : Some others be detained in Wars, And may not come home owt hande: When Ice ar thowed, when wars do ceace , O swetest calme, o sagred Peace .

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16. When Aeolus haithe blowne his blast, And winter haithe dispersed his snowes : Then fair Aurora she comes fast, Then fragrant, fine, sweteflowars growes When tyme so bad haithe had his flinge, Then better newes abrode wil ringe.

17. Thy love he comes, thy Hart is glad, Ó gladsomeHarteo swetestLookes: Nowe mery al, none may be sad , This winde haithe blowne away alsmookes

I see the runne, imbrace thy choise , thissightdothmaike thy harte reioyse.

18.Well, let us go thanke Jesus swete , That doth us selie sowles defend: That grants us thus wth pleasuremete, That stil wil blisse us to owre ende: Let us him prayse in al owre dayes, And praye him to directe owrwayes.

19. I write not Love for to procure, Nor yetto flatterthemy owne: Love dothe abounde in the I amsure , ThyfaithfullLove to me ys knowne I write that thowe maist others tell, And knowe thy selfe that I amwell

20. Yf that swete Love I showld dilate, And maike my TheameexcedingeLonge : Thowe stil woulde feede thewththatbaite , Pure love ys full ofPassions stronge

A worke of wortheI do intende, To wch (god Willinge) nowe Ile bende . finis. November 16. 1600 .

The Copieofa Ire written to Marye nowemywyfe the22of October 1605. My swete Mrs I conceiveda Loveby report wchI fownd upon the sight ofyowe, so much toquickenand stirre: that I can not but deliver yt to yowe my dearest choyse. yt comethe (I doute not) upon the Almightie his motion, to his honor, owr comforts, and the contente ofowr wyse friends . I live happie in my hopes, much desiringeto reape the wyshed fruites of my honest desiers. Repell me not Ladye, be not bashefull, Rewarde my Love Holde me for honest, assure me faithfull: myhart ys noweinyowr possession Wyse men use to do by reason, what fooles ar forced todo by tyme, be notto nice (swete gart) maike notmy wit to combatte wth my affections I promise and protest Love for Love, faith for faithe, wyshinge no earthlie thinge more , then to be interteined yowr servant. yowe see I am breife, and to be plaine, whatI am , or can ys in yourpower bothe nowe and for ever to commaunde I humblie thanke

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yowe foryowrgood intertainmente , meaningeshortliebygod his blissid grace to see yowe. I send yowe a Ringe inclosed. Thus hartelyecommendinge me to the Best and greatest I leave yowe .

Kilvington yowrs absolute and onelie owne./

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14v . Notwithstandinge the Tempestuous stormes of the tyme, yet I humblie thanke AlmightieGod, and owr blessed Ladye, I wasmaried to Wenefrede at Barforthe by Sr GeorgeRaine a vertuous Catholicke Preist : who died happelie afterwars [sic] in Yorkcastle and secondlieIwas maried to Maryin a poore howse in the Lordshippe of HuttonbonvilebySr Hugo Ile, likewise a vertuous Catholicke Queene Mary Preist, who died in the same Lordshippe, when xpofer Coniersa Catholicke esquier was the owner therof.

Iwascalled beforethe highe commissionersaboutmy second marriage, wher I confessed the maner therof: and bicawse (sens the cessationofthe holy mas in Ingland) yt was the first wch was allowed Legallie to be proved : I thought good to write downe a Copie therof verbatimin this booke . The probacion formallie under Seale ys amongst my evidences

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OMNIBUS CHRISTI FIDELIBUS ad quos hec presens scripta sive presentes hae litterae Testimoniales pervenerint, seu quos infra scripta tangunt, aut tangere poterunt quomodolibet in futuram MATHEUS DODSWORTHE in Legibus bacca laureus surrogatus sive deputatus venerabilis viri Johannis Benet militis legum doctoris vicarii in spiritualibus generalis et officialis principalis Reverendissimi in Christo patris dni TOBIE providentia divina Eboracensis Archiepiscopi Anglie Primatus et Metropolitanus legitime fulcitus SALUTEM in dno . Ad universitatis vestrae notitiam deducimus et deduci volumus perpresentes, Quoddie Sabbati penultimo viz. die JanuariiAnno dni iuxta ecclie Anglicanae computacionem millesimo sexcentessimo septimo loco concionis infra Ecclesiam Cathedralem et Metropolitanem Beatri Petri Ebor' inter horas nonam et undecimam ante meridiem eiusdem diei . Nos Mattheus dodsworth in legibus Baccalaureus surrogatus antedictus iudicialiter pro Tribunali publico in presentia Egidii ffenay notarii publici / Acta nostra scribentis, sedentes ac in quadam Causa .. (torn)... quodam negotio quod Coram nobis tunc et ibidem pro probacione solemnizacionis matrimonii inter Thomam Meynell armigerum et Mariam Thwaitsals Meynell vertebatur et pendebat indecis' rite et legitime procedentes: sententiam in causa sive negotio predicto tulimus, legimus

et promulgavimus in scriptis. Cuius quidem sententiae nostrae diffinitive verus tenor sequitur et est talis. IN

DEI NOMINE AMEN: auditis visis intellectis , ac plenarie discussis per nos Mattheum Dodsworthe in legibis baccalaurensem surrogatum sive deputatum venerabilis viri Johannis Benetmilitis legumdoctoris vicariiin spiritualibus generalis, et officialis principalis Reverendissimi in xpo patris et dicti dni Tobie divina providentia Ebor' Archiepiscopi Primatus et Metropolitanus legitime fulciti meritis et circumstantiis cuiusdam causae sive negotii , quae coram nobis in loco concionis infra ecclesiam Cathedralem Metropoliticam Beatri Petri Ebor' vertebatur vertiturque et adhuc pendet indeciss ' pro prbacione solemnizacionis matrimonii inter Thomam Meynell ar' et Mariam Thwaits als Meynell ex parte et per partem dictorum Thomae et Mariae officiumnostrum promover' contra omnes et singulas personas aliquid dicentes et dicere valen' et volent' aut interesse habent' seu pretendent' in probacione solemnizacionis matrimonii predicti legitime in hac parte citatas, rite et legitime procedent' omnibus et singulis personis in iure in hac parte citandis citatis, publice trinavice preconizatis etnullomodo comparentibus, ad petitionem partis promoventis eorum contumacias accusantis pronunciavimus eos contumaceset in penam contumaciarum suarum huiusmodi decrevimus procedend' in hac causa sive hoc negotio secundum Iuris exigentiam (eorum contumaciis non obstantibus) factaque allegatione apud acta huius Curiae per partem dictorum Thomae Meynell ar' et Mariae Thwaits als Meynell eademque in poenam contumaciarum dictorum citatorum admissa , testibusque ex eorum parte productis receptis iuratis examinatis eorumque dictis et depositionibus publicatis, observatisque omnibus et singulis de iure in hac parte observandis, Terminoque ad audiendam sententiam nostram definitivam in dicta causa sive negotio predicto ferend' dictorum promoventium per nos iudicialiter assignat.' Rursusque omnibus et singulis personis supradictis ad audiend' sententiae nostrae diffinitive in huiusmodi causasivenegotio ferend' prolacionem in termino assignato legitime citatis, Ipseque (?) termino ad sententiam (illegible) simpliciter advenient' et parte dictorum promoventium per Edwardum Richardson notarium publicum eorum procuratorem legitime in hac parte constitutum coram nobis loco consionis infra Ecclesiam Cathedralem predictam iudicialiter pro tribunali publice sedentibus comparent' dictisque citatis publice et trina vice preconizatis et nullo modo comparentibus, dictoque Edwardo Richardson eorum contumacias accusantibus,

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Nos ad eius petitionem denuo pronunciavimus eos contumaces et in penam contumarciarum suarum huiusmodi , ac ad eorum ulteriorem petitionem sententiam per nos ferri, et inscitia fieri debita cum instancia postulant Invocata spiritussancti gratia, maturaque deliberacioneperhabitade et cum consilio Jurisperitorumcum quibus in hac parte communicavimus ad sententiae nostrae diffinitivae prolacionem in hac causa sive in huiusmodi negotio ferendo in poenam contumaciarum dictorum citatorum preconizatorum et nullo modo comparentium, sic duximus procedend' et procedimus in hunc qui sequitur modum : IN DEI NOMINE AMEN quia per acta inactitataallegata deducta proposita exhibitanarrata confessata et probata in causa sive negotio memorat' comperimus luculenter et invenimus parte dictorum ThomaeMeynell ar' et Mariae Thwaits als Meynell intentionem suam in dicta allegacione sua deducta et proposita sufficienter fundasse et probasse, nihilque effectuale in huiusmodi causa sivenegotio allegatum et probatum fuisse et esse quod intentionem dictae partis promoventis in hac parte elideret seu quomodolibet enarvaret IDCIRCO nos, Mattheus Dodsworthe in Legibus Baccalaureusiudex antedictus matrimoniumverum purum et legitimuminter prefatos Thomam Meynell ar' et Mariam Thwaits als Meynell habitum ac interventu et ministerio Hugonis Ile clerici prebiteriper Reverendumin xpo patrem Cuthbertum nuper Episcopum Dunelmi rite et legitime ordinati mense Januarii Anno dni Millesmimo sexcentessimo quinto, Annoque regni dni nostri Jacobi Regis Anglie &c. tertio apud Lowsie Hill infra Capellaniam de Hutton parochie de Birkebie in Comitatu et infra dioces' Ebor' solemnizatum et celebratum fuissepronunciamus eosdem Thomam Meynellar' et Mariam Thwaitsals Meynell in tempore predicto et per totum tempus citramaritumet uxorem seu legitimos coniuges legitimoque matrimoniocopulatos fuisse et esse . etiam pronunciamus proque viribus et valore matrimonii predicti (sic ut premittitur) inter eos habiti solemnizati et celebrati decernimus et declaramus per hanc nostram sententiam diffinitivam sive hoc nostrum finaledecretum quam sive quod ferimus et promulgamus in his scriptis. Quae omnia et singula vera fuisse et esse attestamus per presentes . In quorum omnium et singulorum fidem atque testimonium Sigillum officii vicariatus in spiritualibus generalis Archepiscopatus Ebor' presentibus apposuimus/ datis apud Ebor' sexto die ffebruarii Anno dni iuxta ecclesiae Anglicanae computacionem Millesimo sexcentessimo septimo. Mattheus Dodsworthe

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Concordat summa predictacum originali Exr per me

Egidius fenay notarius publicus

In theyeare ofour Lord 1615. about the 20thdayofAprill John Trollopof Thorneley intheCountyPaalatyne ofdurham Esqr. did marry and take to wyffe my nece Isabell Holtby one of the doughters of Geo. Holtby of Scakleden in the CountyofYorke& Eliz. my syster hiswyfe: Which Eliz' dyed the xvjth day of July next after about wch day fower years before the aforesaid Geo . Holtbyher husband dyed viz : in anno dom 1611./

George Poole of Wakebridge in the Cowntie of Darby esquier, had a Sonne borne of my dawghter Marye the24 daye of September 1615. a goodlie childe. his name was. Germane who dyed the 1 dayof October nextafter.

Edmund Meynell of Hawnbye esquier died there the25of October 1615.

In the yeereofour Lord 1615 Mr Thomas Grange ofEast Harlesey beinge then aboute the aige of xxj yeres, did marie Anne my seconde daughter, whoe was then aboute xvij yeres of aige, upon theffirst of november beingeWednesdayeand the greatefeaste ofAll Saints. All wch Saints I most humbly besiche to praie to almightie god fortheirprosperousesuccesse and good prosperitie

Upon the thirde daie of the said November my brother George Meynell of dalton Riall had a daughter borne named Wenefrede after the sainte of that daie. Ourblessed Ladie and St Wenefrede obtayne for her grace and good forten./ f. 16v.

Anno 28 Edw. Imi

INQUISITIOdefeodis militum quae fuerunt Nicholaide Meynell die quo obiit in Comitatu Ebor' . Juratores dicunt quod Willmus de Boketon tenuit de prefato Nichaolao die quo obijt quatuorCaracutasterrae cum pertinen' in Boketon de feodo Archiepiscopatus Cantuar' per servicium militare unde viginti quatuor Caracuta terrae faciunt foedum unius militis. Item Johannes Meynell tenuit de eodem Nicholao sexCaracutasterrae cum pertin' in Ringeton de eodem feodo. Item Hugo de Meynell tenuit de eodem Nicholao sex Caracutas terrae cum pertin' in Hilton et septembovatas terrae cum pertin' in Hoton de eodem feodo. Eodem anno viz 28 Edwardiprimi FEODA MILITUM quae fuerunt Nicholai de Meynell die quo obijt in Comitatu Ebor' . Juratores dicunt quod Johannes de Meynell de Ringeton tenuit de predictoNicho die quo obijt quatuor Caracutas terrae in Ringeton duas Caracutas terrae in Hoton , et quatuor bovatas terrae in

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Pottehou per servicium dimidii feodi et vicessimaequartae partis unius feodi militis et valent per annum viginti sex marcis Item Hugo de Meynell de Hilton tenuit de predicto Nicho die quo obijt sexCaracturas terrae in Hilton etquatuor bovatas terrae in Hoton per servicium dimidii feodi et vicessimaequartae partis unius feodi militis et valentviginti sex marcis

Anno decimo sexto Edwardi tertii

JURATORESdicunt quod Nichus de Meynell tenuit die quo obijt Maneriuma de Whorelton , Hoton iuxta Rudbie, Semer, Middleton et Aldeweke cum pertin' simul cum hamlettis de Carleton, Pothow, Tranholme, eisdem maneriis pertinentibus in ComitatuEbor' de Archiepiscopo Cantuariensi per homagium, et per scutagium et per servicium serviendi ipsum Archiepiscopum die consecrationis suae de Coupa qua idem Archiepiscopus bibere debet eodem die , et capiendo ab eodem Archiepiscopo feoda quae ad officium illud pertinent &c.

Anno quadragesimo secundo Edwardi tercii

JURATORESdicuntquod Elizabetha quaefuit uxorPetri de Malo Lacu tenuit die quo obijt conjunctimcum Johanne Darcy defuncto nuper viro suo Castrum de Quarleton et villas de Quarleton et Swainby cum membris et pertin' suis , et villas de Hoton iuxta Rudbie, Grenehowe , Semer, Eston, Boynton ... (torn) . . Aldewerkein Comitatu Ebor' de hereditate sua ut filia . . . (torn) . . . heredis Nicholai de Meynell Christo defuncti patris, cuius heres ipsa fuit. Et dicunt quod predicta Castraet Quarleton et villadeQuarleton etSwainby , cum membris et pertin' suis simul cum aliisvillis supradictis tenen' . (torn) ... deArchipo Cantuariensi per servicium militare : Item dicunt quod est apud Hoton iuxta Rudbie unam capitale messuagium in manus tenentium ad voluntatemet reddit per Annumx ... (torn) ... Itemdicunt quod non sunt ibidem aliquae terrae in dominico&c.

Animadverte (bonelector) quod Castrum nunc nominatum Whorletonantiquitate (ut Camdenus ait) iam fere consumptum, quod fuit nostra antiqua sedes , et de quo emanavimus , saepenumeroin veteris scriptis appellaturQuarleton, quandoque Whorleton, saepe Querleton et aliquando per aliquod aliud nomen reperitur Nomenque nostrum quod latino sermone est Menelaus, quam saepissime scribitur Mennell, Menyll saepe , saepius Meynell quod est verissimaetymologia

Anno decimo tercio Henrici quarti.

JURATORESdicunt quod JohannesDarcyChivaler nulla tenuit terras seu tenementa &c eo quod PhilippusDarcypater eiusdem Johannis per quandam Chartam suam Juratorinus

ostensam cuius dat' est apud Knaythe decimo quarto die Januarii anno regni Richardi nuper Regis Anglie quarto decimo quarto die Januarii anno regni Richardinuper Regis Anglie quarto decimo, Concessit cuidam Roberto de Wiclife clerico adhuc superstiti ac quibusdam Johanni de Lincoln clerico, Johanni de Markham, Johanni Woderofe et Hugoni Mitforde maneria sua de Whorelton, Semer, Greenehowe , Eston, Hoton, Middilton et boyntoncum singulis suispertin' habend' sibi et heredibus suis imposterum virtute cuius feoffamenti predicti Robertus de Wicliffe, Johannes de Lincolne, Johannes de Markeham, Johannes Woderofe et Hugo Mitforde seisiti fuerunt de maneriis predictis cum pertinentiis et Seisinam illam continuaverunt quousque predicti Johannes de Lincolne et Johannes Woderofe moriebantur, et post mortem predictorumJohannesde Lincolne et Johannes Woderofe ac predicti Philippi darcy, predicti Robertus de Wicliffe, Johanes de Markeham et Hugo Mitforde predict maneria de Whorletoncum pertin' Elizabethae uxori predicti Philippi per dotem ... (torn) ... de maneriis suis predictis assignaverunt et de residua ... (torn) ... maneriorum cum pertin' pacifice seisiti fuerunttota vita predictorum Johannis Markeham et Hugonis et hucusque predictus Robertus de Wicliffe seisitus existit, et quod predictus

Johannesdarcyfilius eius est heres eius propinquioretetatis quatuordecem annorum .

Qui dicunt &c. quod sunt 97 villae in wapentagio delangbergh viz Marsk cum Uplethome, et Redcar, Lethome cum east Cottom, Wilton cum West Cottom, Tocotts, Lasinbie. Laikinbie, Eston, Normanbie, Ormesbie, Marton, Tolesby, Newton, Midlesbroug, Acclam, Aresom cum Leventhorpe, Stanesby, Hemlington , Stainton cum Thorneton, Maltby, Thormonby , Berwicke, Engilbyloring, Yarom, Wirksell, Staynderelinge, Kirklevington, Castlelevington, Crathorne cum ffoxton, Rungton , Engilby, juxtaArnecliffe,ffacebycum Sexhow, Carleton, Parva Buskeby, Magna Buskeby, Dromonby, Kirkby, parva Broghton, magna Broghton, Grenehow , Badersby, Aton, Newton, Pinchinthorpe , Esby, Kildaile, Hoton, Gisburne, Upsall, Morton, Nunthorpe, Tunstall, Semer, Tanton cum Newby, Stopley, Scotherskell cum Thoralby, Gowton, Hilton, Whorleton cum Traneholme , Pothow, Hoton iuxta, Rudby, Midleton, Kilton, cum Thorpe, Greivrig, Danby, Westerdaile, Liverton cum Walpilliow, Scalinge, Lofthowse, Esington , Boleby, Seton, Rowesby, Hinderwell, Newton, Berneby alias Bernby, Lith, Egton, Rudby, Picton, Westingby . Et quae villae sunt geldabileset quae non, dicunt quod omnes villae superius nominatae sunt geldabiles, exceptas Westerdaile quae est de libertatetempl ... (torn) ... de Middlesbroug et Newham quaeest deliberate

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AbbatisdeWhitby, et exceptisRudbyquaenon estgeldabilis, quamvis per Rotulum per ipsos prelibatum testificatum sit ipsam esse geldabilem, postea per inquisitionem diligentius et strictiusfactam reperiunt ipsam non ese geldabilem, quiaest dos ecclesiae de Rudbyetsi status earum mutaturet per quos &c. Dicunt quod Thormonby mutatur per libertatem Abbatis et conventus de Bilandia, quam habent . . . (torn) . . . dni

f. 18. Regis Henrici ... (torn) ... /dni Regis nunc de quadamparte villae predictae prout continetur in Chartis suis a tempore Henrici Regis predicti Dicunt quod status villarum de Skelton et Marske mutatur cum pertinentiis in hoc quodubi dare consueverunt communia amerciamenta cum venerintad praef ... (torn) ... contra dicunt , quod villae sunt Walteri de fauconb ... (torn) . per quem status mutatur de toto tempore suo ... (torn) . sex annorum dicunt etiam quod status villarum de Kilton Brotton, Lythom, Moresom et dandby ... (torn) . . . cum pertinentiis mutatur per Marmaducum de Throp ... (torn) ... senioremdefunctum , qui eas tenuitin hoc, quod ubi dare consueverunt communeamerciamentum dare contradicunt , scilicet a tempore decem annorum dicunt etiam quod status villarum de Ormsby, Newton, Elredby, Myrkelby, Barnbye alias Barnby, Lythe, Egton, Westingby, Sletholme, cum pertinentiis mutatur per Petrum de malo lacu, quod in eisdem villis ballivi domini Regisfacere consueverunt finem et destrictum , et debita domini regis levare : sed per predictum Petrum impediuntur . dicuntetiam , quod status villarum de Whorlton, Semer, Hilton, Midleton, Eston, Grenehowe, Hoton, Pottowe, Gowton , Rungton, Carleton, et duarum caracuturam in Newbye, et sex bovatarum in Skoterskelfe et Thoraldbye, et unius caracutae in Cranholme, quae sunt de tenore ecclesiae Cantuariensis, quas Nicolaus Meynell tenet, mutatur per Stephanum Meynell patrem dicti Nicolai , in hoc, quod ubi dare consueverunt commune amerciamentum, eas dare defendit a tempore viginti annorum, dicunt etiam quod status villaede Tunstall, et3 caracutarum terrae inmagna Aton, et quatuorcaracutarum terrae in magna Broughton quae . . . (torn). . . domini Nicholaide Meynell, mutatur per eundem Nicolaum quia f. 18v . ubi consueverunt dare commune amerciamentum dare eas defendit. etiam dominus Nicholaus de Meynell non permittet ballivos domini Regis tenere wapentagium infra Libertatem EcclesiaeCantuariensis. De ffeodis quae tenentur de dno Rege in Capite. Dicunt quod dns Walterus de ffawconberg tenet de dno rege in capite quinque feodos militum, una cum Castro de Skelton cum pertinentibus , unde Willms, de Colville tenet dimidium feodi in Engilby iuxta Arnecliffe, unde duodecem Caracutaeterrae faciunt ffeodum unius militis et reddit ballivo dni

regis de fine communi et wapentagio vs. xd Johannes de Maltby tenet unumffeodum in Maltby et Mynington , unde decem Caracutae terrae faciunt ffeodum unius militis et reddit ballivo dni regis de fine communi et wapentagio vjs Prior de Gisburne, Willms de humet et alii liberi tenentesin Lofthowse tenent dimidium ffeodi in eadem de dicto dno Waltero, unde sexdecem Caracutae terrae faciunt ffeodum unius militis, et dictus Willmshumet reddit ballivodni regis define communi et wapentagio ijs iiijd. Prior de Gisburne iijs pro fine. Stephanus go ... (torn) . . . et Lucia uxor eius tenent dimidiumfeodi in Engilby-horing de dictodomino Waltero; unde 12 Caracutaeterrae faciunt unum feodum et reddit ballivo domin Regis pro fine 8 Sol Robartus Busebet tenet dimidium feodi in Rokby de dicto domino Waltero, unde decem Caraca terrae faciunt unum feodum unius militis, et reddit ballivo dni regis pro fine 4 Sol Magistro Wills de Pothowe tenet quartam partem unius feodi in Hilton de dictodnoWaltero, unde 12 Caracutaeterrae faciunt feodum et redditballivo dni regis pro fine 3s Md. Walterus fawconberg reddere teneturdomino Regi portione sua terrarum et Tenemen domini P. de B ... (torn) . . . pro fine communi et wapentagio 10s. Haeres Marmaduci de Thwenge qui est in custodia domini Regis tenet octo feodos militum , f. 19. et dimidium feodis: et A. . . (torn) . . . Domino Regi in capite, et villam . . . (torn)/Yaromsicut liberumburgagium , et reddere tenetur ballivo dni Regis pro portione sua Terrarum et Tenemen ... (torn) ... P. de Bruyspro fine communi et wapen. 10s. unde . . . (torn) . . . Perci de Kildale tenet3 feodos militum de dicto . . (torn) . . tate in Kildale, Crawthorne, Barwicke et Thormanby unum feodum unde 12 Carac terrae faciunt feodum unius militis in Ormesby, Lasingby et Normanby; unum feodum militis in Upsell, Nunthorpe et Aresom et reddit ballivo dni Regis pro fine 6s Itm. Wilhelmus de Boynton tenet 3 partes unius feodi de dicta hereditate in Acclam, Leventhorpe, Thornton , Marton , Tolesby et Rowclife unde 10 Carac. faciunt feodum unius militis et reddit Ballivo dni Regis pro fine 3s Itm. Nicholaus deMeynell tenet quartam partem unius feodi dedicta hereditate in Tanton unde 12 Caruca faciunt feodum et reddit ballivo dni Regis pro fine 2s.Itm. Henricus filius Conaetenet dimidium feodi de dicta hereditate in Liverton, unde 10 Carac terrae faciunt feodum militis et reddit Balli dni Regis pro fine 8s. Itm Wills de Roselles tenet 3 partes unius feodi in Aselby, Newton sub ownsbergh et Thornton unde 10 Cara . faciuntfeodum militis et reddit ball dni Regispro finevs.xd. Galfridus de Picton tenet quartam partem unius feodi de dicta hereditate in Picton, unde 12 Carac. faciuntfeodum et reddit ball dni regis pro fine 3s Itm idem Galfridus tenet

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12 Bovatas Terrae in campo de Yarom. Itm Adam de Seton tenet iiij Cara terrae de dicta . (torn) .. . et dim. Car. in Skeltondefeodo de fawconberg unde 10 Cara faciuntfeodum militis, et reddit ball dni Regis de fine 5s. Itm. Johannesde Tocots tenet unam Cara terrae de dicta Heri in Tocots, unde 10 Car. terrae faciunt feodum et 1 Cara. ter. in Ma .. (torn) ... defeodo defawconberg, unde 12 Car terrae faciunt feodum et reddit / ballivo dni Regis pro fine2s . Item Radulf. 19v. phus de Nevill tenet in Stainsby, Hemlintonet Tolebyde dicta hereditate unde 14 et dimidium Cara. terrae faciunt feodum et etiam in Pinchinthorpe , Tocots et Rokbye et reddit Ball dni Regis pro fine 8s et Walterus Stanesby reddit Ball dni Regis pro quadam parte feodi predicti pro fine 3s. et Adam de Tocots reddit Bal. dni Regisproquadam parte illius predicti definevjs Itm. Hugo de Hoton ,Adamde Normanbye et Rogerus Best tenent unum feodum de dicta hereditate in Hoton, Pinchinthorpe et Normanby unde 12 Carac terrae faciunt feodum militis et Hugo de Hoton pro sua parte reddit Bal dni Regis de fine ijs. et Adam de Normanbye pro sua parte 6s Itm. heres Stephani Kellettenet duas bovatas Terrae de hered in Yaromunde 12 Cara.terrae faciunt feodum militis et reddit bal. dni regis pro fine 12d. Itm. Adam de Stanesby tenet duas bovatas Terrae dedicta Hered. in Yarom unde 12 Caracutae Terrae faciunt feodum militis et reddit Bal dni Regis pro fine 12d. Item Adam Arundall tenet 3 Carac terrae in Newton sub Ownsberghde dicta hereditate here my Copiefailed me, being aged, worne , and the rest of yt lost and torne. It pleasetheme to remember, and recordethe most memorablestorme that ever happened in my tyme, in theyeare of our Lord 1614 (Anglicano computatu ) upon the daye ofthe holie martirs St ffabianand St Sebastian viz. the Twentie of Januarie. It did begynne to Snowewchsnowe did generallie cover all great Brytanie It did growe and increasedaieby daie untill the sonne came into Equinoctiall lyne, viz. the twelfteofMarche a daye dedicated to St Gregorie thegreate, A most holie ... (torn) ... and our gloriouseEnglishe apostle. This snowe was soe deepe and greate, that no man could travell without greate difficultie, or dangerof his life. Verie many ... (torn) ... women and children weremost lamentablye perished, although they were verie neare their owne f. 20. habitacions And here att Thornebroughe a stronge younge wife, goynge to her kyen wch was not ffoure tymes twelve score from her husbandehis howse) had bene breathlesseand perished, but that she waspresentliehelped and releyved wth divers of her neighboures whoe helped her home agayne. Itdid soebesett ,besiegeand betakeall hedges, thatnoebuilde was lefte for cattell Men mighte walke and ryde uponthe

topps of Quicksett hedges ffoales, Calves and innumerable lambes (for it was in the begynninge of the lambeinge tyme) were perished. upon the dissolucion the flounds weremarvelouse greate, and did muche harme to bridges, mylnes, and some other howses. Then beganne a droughte, which contynued all Sommer and proved not good for corne , but haye was soe exceadinge skante that never in my tyme I knewesoemyserableawynter Soe greatewasthemortalitie ofhorses and Chattell Andwchwaspitifull, hayewas soulde (even in these parts) for xd a stone andstrawe forxxd. a threave . InMarche (Anglicano computatu ) 1615 theweather grewe soe seasonablye , showers soe sweete, warmthe soe graciouse, that nowe, (almightie god be thanked , and I besiche him to contynewe it) we maye hould our selves in a terrestriall Paradice And this remembrance I writte the seconde of Maye. 1616 .

INQUISITIO indentata capta apud Castrum Ebor' in comitatu Ebor' 16 die Augusti anno Reginae Elizabethae quinto coram Wilhelmo Hamond armig' eschetore dictae Reginae de diem clawsit extremum post mortem Robarti Meynell servientis ad legem defuncti, eidem eschetoridirect' et hanc Inquis' annex' per sacr' Sethe Holmes, Xperi Locwood &c qui dicunt super sacramentum suum quod predictus Robartus Meynell in dicto brevi nominatus die quo obijt fuit seisitus in dominico suo ut de feodo deet in manerio de Normanbye in Com' predict' Ac de et in 12 mes' 6 cotag' 100 ac' terrae 70 acris prati 100 ac' pastur' 30 acr' bosci 200 ac' more cum pertinentiisin Normanbypredict'in Comitatu predict' Ac etiam de et in advocatione, Nominatione, et libera dispositione ecclesiae Parochialis de f. 20v .Normanbye predict' in com' predict' Ac de et in 3 Mes'et novem bovatis terr' cum pertin' in Marton iuxta Normanbye predict' in Com' predict' Ac de et in quinque Mes' cum pertinentiis , et 10 solidis Redditus in Kirkby over caralias Kirkby Misperton in Com' predict' Ac de et in 3 sol' Redd' in Butterwick in Com' predict' Ac etiam de et in tertia parte 13 Tenementorum in Myton super Swayle in Com' predict' . Ac de et in manerio sivegrangia de Balke in Com' predict' . ac de et in 100 Acris terrae 100 Ac' prati 140 Ac' Pasturae 160 Acris more cum pertinentiis in Balkepredict' in Com' predict' Ac de et in uno capitali mess' in Southcowton cum pertinentiis in com' predict' . Ac deetinduabus partibus de Atleycowton cum pertin' in Com' predict' in quinque partibus dividendis Ac de et in uno Tenemento cum pertin' de Atley cowton pred' in Com' predict' vocato Cowfalde. Ac de et in uno Tenemento cum pertinentiis in Newbye in Cleveland in Com' predict' Ac de et in uno

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tenemento cum pertin' in Scruton in Com' predict' Ac etiam deetinmanerio de Hawnebye in Com' predict' acdeet in 3 Mess' 8 Cotagiis centum acris terrae 160Acris prati 200 Acris Pasturae 30 acris bosci 1000 acris more et brueret6 solidis et octo denariis Redditus in Hawneby predict'inCom' predict' cum pertinentiis Ac de et in uno Messuagiouno Columbario una clausura et una acra terrae cum pertin' in Thirske in dicto Comitatu Ac etiam deet in uno Tenemento cum pertinentiis in Sinderbye in Com' pred' ac de et in manerio de Hilton in Clevelandin Com' pred'ac de etin 12 Mess' 8 Cotag' 200 Acris terrae 200 Acris prati 300 Acris pasturae 40 ac' bosci cum pertinent' in Hilton pred' in Com' pred' . Ac de et in uno Tenemento et duabus bovatis terrae cum pertinent' in Huton in Com' pred' . Et ulteriusdicunt Juratores predict' super sacr' suum quod pred' manerium de Normanbye et pred' Mes' terr' et tenement' et caetera praemissa cum pertin' in Normanby Marton Kirkbyovercar aliasKirkbyMisperton pred' tenenturdedicta domina Regina nunc in capite per centesimam partem unius feodi militis, et valentper annum in omnibus exitibus ultra Reprisas viginti Libr. et quod pred' pars 13 Tenemen ac caetera premisas cum pertinentiis in Myton super Swayle tenentur de dicta f. 21. domina Regina ut de manerio suo de Pontifracto in dicto comitatu Ebor' per fidelitatem in Libero socagio, et non in capite, et valent per annum in omnibus exitibus ultra Repris' tres Libr et quod predictum Manerium sive grangia de Balke pred' teneturde dicta domina Regina nunc in capite per 20 partem unius feodi militis et valent per annum in omnibus &c quinque Lib. et quod pred. mes. et caetera praemissacum pertin. in Sowth Cowton tenenturde Richardo Stapiltonmilite et JohanneDigbye in Socagioutde manerio suo de Bedall et valent per annum &c septem Lib. et quod pred Tenem et caetera praemissa cum pertin in Alleycowton pred. tenenturde dicta domina Regina utde castro suo de Richemond per servitiam 20 partis unius feodi militis et valent per annum &c quinque Lib et quodpred. Terrae et Tenementa in Scruton pred. tenentur de Thoma Markinfeildearmigero per servitiumJurat. predictis penitus ignotum et valentper annum &c vs. et quod pred Terr. et Ten in Newbyin Cleveland pred tenenturde Wilhelmo domino Ewre ut de manerio suo de Stokesley per servitia Jurat. predictis penitus ignota, et valent per annum &c. vjs. viijd et quod pred. Terr. et Ten et caetera praemissacum pertin' in Thriske pred tenentur de Comite darbiae per servitium Jurat predict' penitus ignotum et valent per annum &c xiijs ivd et quod pred maner/ium de Hawnbye pred et caetera praemissa&c. in Hawnbytenenturde dicto Comite de Darbiain Socagiout de manerio suo de Thriskeet

valent per ann &c. 21 li et quod pred. Ten in Sindarby pred tenenturde dicta domina Regina ut de suo castro de Richemond per servitium20 partes unius feodi militis etvalentper ann.& c. xiiijs ivd et quod pred manerium de Hilton in Cleveland pred et pred Mess Ten et terr et caeterapraemiss cum pertinen in Hilton tenenturde Comite Levenoxe in Socagiout de castro suo de Whorltonet valentper annum &c. 26 li 13s 4d. et quod pred. Terr et Ten. in Huton pred. f. 21v tenentur de Darcy ut de manerio suo de Huton pred. in socagio et valent per ann &c xs et ulterius dicuntJuratores pred quod predictus Robartus Meynell armigerus obiit vij die Junii ultimo praeterito et quod RogerusMeynell estfilius et haeres eius propinquior et est aetatis 24 annorum et amplius et quoe predict Robartus Meynell in dicto brevi nominatus non fuit [sic] neque tenuit aliqua alia Terr. sive Tenemen. de dicta domina Regina nec de aliquibus aliis die obitus sui. In cuius rei testimonium tam praefatus eschetor quam Juratores predicti huic Inquisitioni indentatae sigilla sua alternat apposuerunt. Datum die et anno supradict.

Anno dni 1615. mense Decembris dilectus mihi proximus

Johannes Talbott ffilius et heres Richardi Talbott de Woodend generosi misit mihi pro munere (ut pignus amoris sui) Hymnum subsequentem

Ad magnificentissimam ac beatissimamVirginem Deique matrem

Mariam Patronam suam clementissimam Hymnus.

Sacra supremi genetrix monarchae

lucis aeternaedominique templam, ponta caelorum soliumque salutis, foederis arca. Palma virtutum, speculumpudoris

Stella quaemarumquemaris, Propago pacis, inventrixque veniaeque pulchra mater amoris

Nataqua nati, patris es parensque

Calce quaelunampremisatque sola sole vestiris, redimita stellis temporavirgo virgo quaeinfernicaput atque castra

virgo serpentis teris Imperatrix virgo virtutum meritis triumphans

Eva secunda .

Quaeprophetarum celebrata voce, Ventris optato venerandafructu

Virgo caelisti thalamo beata virgo parensque

Virgo post partum, prius atque partu, Materad natum dominumquenostras defer instanteslachrymasprecesque usque precamur.

Esse temonstra pietate matrem , nostra tu nobis ades advocata impetus omnes inhibemaligni tela draconis

Advoco supplex peto te patronam

Supplicissupplexage remclientis rebus adversis fer opemqueprae sens Esto precanti

Corpus et mentistibi mesalute acta, commendo , patriam parentes fac sinu vivammoriar tuoque

Auspice Christo

Sitnomen dni. benedictum ./

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HAEC INDENTURA facta inter Dominum Wilhelmum Mennell filium Robartide Mennell ex parte una et Hugonem deMennell ex parte altera, salutem in domino sempiternam Noveritis me quod ego Wilhelmus de Mennell relaxavi et omnino in perpetuum quietem clamavi Hugoni de Mennell fratri meo totum Manerium meum de Hilton, Snotterton, Histonus, Huton iuxta Gisburne et Batirsbi cum omnibus pertinentiis in villis et in territor . . . (torn) manerium de Hilton ab Hingilbie campus usque Brusedal . . . (torn) . . . angulatim Levin, et ab Levin usque ad Campum de Semer angulatim Brusedall . (etc., dated 1260).

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ANNO dom. 1616. xiiij yeare of King James and the xix daye of October was borne Gervase Poole third sonn of George & Mary. I praygod almightie bless him. Yt pleased AlmightieGod to take into hiseverlastingemercie, my dearlybeloved daughter Marye, the mother ofthe aforesaid Gervaceupon the Annunciation of owr blessid Ladyanno domini 1617. Her endewas happie, full of hope, andcomforte: therfor nolumus contristari sicut caeteri qui spem non habent . I hope we shall joyfullie mete in Heaven and I mayesay, Scio me genuisse mortalem. She was buried at criche amongst the reliques of the worthie Pooles . Shewas purelie named after owr blissed Ladye, who (I dout not) conducted her sowle untoglorye here folowethe an epitaphe written by her worshipfullfriende Jhon Talbotte. Shewas not 28 yeares of aige.

Upon thedeathe of Mrs Marie Poolethe beloved wyfe ofMr GeorgePoole of Wakebridge Esq an Epitaphicall Epigramme

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Deserte the trophees of her fame dotheraise , Love showeingeeyes bedewe her herse wth teares; Trew worthe remembred is wth livinge praise, What love conceyvethein the eyes appears: inteares a last farewell to love his owne , in praise, respecte of worthe and love is showne ffortunes best guifts loves blessings she possesst, shee had theworthe that parentagecould give her: Natures perfection was in her exprest : the trophees of her vertues still survive her fortune, Love, honour, nature, vertew raise the wings offame to spreadabroad her praise./ Vertuewth honour in her byrthedid spread, the branche bewrayesthe roote from whenceit springs. best fortunes in her choyce the waydid leede: the choyce is best that Love and vertew bringe: Her happ was seated in a happie throne who borne is ever to be happy ... none . Allearthliehopes rest on the wheeloffate ,

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what fortune gives, by fortune is denied , her vertues were so forwardin thestate , the fates untimely her deserts envyed : the fairest morninge soone is overcast : the flowers that earlie spread are soonestpast

As soone the fates did natures tribute clame , her onelie hopes are in the craddle sleepinge: but that shees dead theres nothinge els to blame, her sonne is blessed in the fathers kepinge : In yeares that wanted growthin gracesupplyed, shee had to die, to live again shee dyed.

The seaven daies sett to sorrow have theyr date, tearesdebt is payed to the rightsofdeath: praises survive her in despite of fate and give new byrthe unto her dyeinge breath

Eye showers have bedewed her murningherse

Her praises last in everlasting verse .

Md I entered first to the Bothom close 1617. wch close ys in the Lordshippe ofThornbarghe and maketh at the fence (?) upon Spittlebecke from Kilvington

Wenefrede Grange the first begotten of Thomas and Anne was borne the 28 daye of Maye 1617. I pray god almightie blissse her

In the year 1616 RobartWilson oneofmy Tenants died. He wasaboveoneHundred yeares ofAige. None in this Parishe hitherto in mytime haithe lived so longe./

. 23v . Anno domini 1617. Mensis Junii die 15 festo Sanctissimae

Trinitatis my brother George Meynell of Dalton rial had a daughter bornenamed Margarite . I pray godblisseher, and owr blissed Lady.

Annodomini 1618. Mensis Maij die 31. festo Sanctissimae

Trinitatis et die Stae Petronillae Marye Grange the second daughter of Thomas and Anne was borne. blissed Trinitie save her good virgin Mary and St Petronillapray for her.

WenefredeGrange beforewritten died in the beginningeof June. 1618.

Md. I entered to dale Skuller close in the Lordshippe of Thornburghe 1618. wch close makethe at the fence from Kilvington upon Spittle becke save onlie three Royds and fowaryards in the easte side thereof : wch Kilvington makethe

Also I entered thento TankardSkullerclose wch joynethe upon the other by Easte and makethe at the fence upon Spittlebecke Md. there ys a Little prise wthin yt by the Becke sydechys my inheritance and belongethe to Northkilvington.

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myunckle RobartMeynell the youngest sonne ofAnthony Meynell did dy upon the feast day of the Convertion of blessed St Paule viz : the 25 of Januarie. Anno domini 1618 Anglicano computatu beynge then about the Aige of 72 yeares. And his eldest Sonne Lawrence Meynell dyed upon blessed St MaryMagdalen her daye the same yeare before Anno domini 1619. mensis Junii die 8. my brotherGeorge Meynell had a Sonne borne, his name is Henry. he was borne upon a Tewisday Jesus blissehim./ Anno domini 1619. anglicano computatu mensis februarii decimo die, William Grange the first begotten sonne of Thomas and Anne wasborne upon a Thursdaye in themorninge.I prayAlmightieGod to blissehim & owr blissedLadye. Anno domini 1619, mensis Octobris. die secundo . I purchased, payed for, and entred into one oxgangefronte wtha garthe adjacent, and al the whole common rightsbelonginge unto one whole oxgange, of one Thomas Binkes . The Tenant nameysWilliam Coke. yt cost25 li

Anno domini 1619 , Anglicano computatu , mensis februarii, 26 die my dearly beloved brother in lawe : and trewlietried friende, Thomas Pudsaye of Hacforthe esquire did in happie sorte departe from this transitorieLyfe and worlde (wththe grace of almightie God and owr blissed Ladye) into better joyes and tranquillitie. I prayGod havemercie ofhis Sowle . He left behind him one onlie dawghter and Heire named Philippe. I prayGodtoblisseHer He was ofyeares aboute fiftie and three.

Annodomini 1620, mense Junii, I did purchaseofAnthony Williamson two acres of lande lyinge in the wett lands in Thirske weste feilde, for the which I gave him in money 18 li 10s

Also aboute the same time I bought of Paule Herrington the inheritance of thre beaste gats in Sowerby oxe close which coste me (for I was att the charge of inrouleing the deede) 21 li. 2s .

Someofthesetwo laste purchases39 li. 12s./ f. 24v.Anno domini 1620 , Regis Jacobi 18, die sancti Leonardi, mensis Novembris sextoElizabethPudseywiddow ofThomas Pudsey of Barfortheesquire, mother to Winifride myderely beloved wife formerly and happely deceased, and grandmother to my Children, did departe most happely, and graciusly from this transitory life into moste hopefull eternitye She was daughter to John Lorde Scrope of Bowlton,whowasfathertoHenry, Henryto Thomas,Thomas to Emanuell, who is nowthe Lord Presidenteand Leuetenant of the northe parts Her mother was daughter to Henry Earle of Cumberland She was borne of the day of St Simon and St Jude, she was married very yonge and had

many Children, her husbande lefte her in her prime youthe, she kepte her widdowhoode, preferred her Children, was excedeingeliberall to Chatholikes and poore prisoners. She was veryprudente, veryiuste, very stoate, and veryhoneste. She lived fullout 83 yeares She deyed out of debteand lefte herexecutors reasonableritches. She payed toQueene Elizabethe, and Kinge James, greate somes ofmoney for her Chatholike Conscience, she was yearely preaded by knaves Yet God allmighty did allwaies blisse and protect her. Her lifewas gracious her ende is glories.

Ao dni 1621. my deere freind Mr. Richard Huddlestone a religeous gent did first informe me of St Meynell in hec verba Julij 22. In territorio Arvernensi sancti Menelei Abbatis. Martyrologio Romano. De eodem item hac die Usuardus et alij recentiores.

Alsoe the said Mr. Huddlestone Stirps tua sunt, sanctus Meneleus , rex Menelaus te decorat virtus, illius, huis honor. Meinell beholde, thy God proclamestothe menall you are, see that all mine you be. Md 1621. We wonn hitherto to Kilvington fromGaterley the Gould bell from Hambleton theSilverbell. from Bagby more a Silver cupp for ever Viscount Dunbar, wth a horse from Upsall did winn from Hambleton the gould bell from the fforest ofGautres two bells from Studfawde a Silvercupp forever. another from Harrowof the Haye. notehowthat eight prises came within one myle. And more over thesame yeare my cosin Charles Meynell did winn for ever the Cupps of Thriske and Knarsbroughe and a great wager of the Howards byover runinge ofa horsecaledCollingwood. allsoe mycosinWillm. Greene did winn Rainton Cupp for within five myles in one yeare twelve achievements./ f. 25. Md this yeare 1621 my lease of the Bottom close & dales skuller close did beginne upon blessed St Martin hisday to continue (wththe graceof God and our blessed Lady) for one & twentye yeares. yt endeth att Martinmasse 1642. I did paye for itt in a fyne fortyepounds therent is eightyshillings per ann' . I did render upp uncertaine yeares so upon the life of my Lord Burghleigh.

I did then allsoe take a lease of Tankards Bottom closes & Tankards Skuller close for one & twentye yeares in the afforesaid sorte I did paye for itt thirtye two pounds, the rente is seaven shillings per ann' my sonne Richarddid allsoe then takea lease of Trottersfearme.

Md this yeare 1621 my Cosin Leonard Braconbury& Idid purchase of Mr John Witham & Mr Marmaduke Tunstall (who married Mr Wickliffe his heres) a third parte ofthethird parte of Thorneton in the Strete We did paye for itt six

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hundreththirty five pounds ytt dothnowmayntaine fortye one pounds per ann' .

Annodomini 1622. Mense Aprilis : I got with mucha doe Spittle brige reaedified att the Conteryes charge Sr Henry Bellas did wrongfully oppose , and did contend to have charged the parishes of Thornton in the streete and South Kilvingtonwith thecosttherof The some ofmoneygathered wasfive pounds The survayers was John Bramhallperson of Kilvington, and Thomas Rowthe of the same toune.

Anno domini 1622. Mense Octobris was borne Ann Graunge the fowrth child of Thomas and Anne who dyed happilyinAprilafter.

Anno domini 1623. Mense Aprilis ther was seaven horses whichdid rune at Richemond fora Bowle worth 12 li , anda salte worth six, the first horse to have the best, the second, the next. Sr William Gascoigne did win the first. I myselfe did win the second with a nagge called ffrontino of coler white.

Myson Richard the same weeke did win the best cup att Thirske witha whitenaggefullbrotherto the other. Md ao dni 1624. my sonn Richardand I did winnbothe the coppsatt Thirsk upon Wednesday in Easter weeke

Md ao dni 1622. my cosin John Talbott and I didfinish the milne att Thorneton about martinmas being his and myne indifferently itt did coste us a hundrethe pounds.

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26. A note from the fryares of Yarme Domina Ena quondam uxor Domi Henrici filii Hugonis coram magno altari in medio gradu . /Hugo filius eiusdem ad caput eius in inferiori gradu . /Thomas filius eiusdem iuxta eum versus Aquilonem . /Robertus de Hilton in eodem gradu versus Austrum; and all these were of the . . . (torn) . . . of the Hiltons . /Domina Maria quondam uxordominiNicholai de Meynell in capello beat' Catherinae . /Hugo de Meynell iuxta Mariam quondam dominam de Hilton in caemiterio . /Alicia quondam uxor eiusdem Hugonis iuxta eum . /Robertus de Meynell iuxta dictam Aliciam . /Johannes de Meynell iuxta dictum Robertum/Sybilla quedam iuxta dictum Johannem/ Nicholaus de Hilton et dominus de Hilton in caemeterio/ Cecilia uxor eius iuxta eum/Johannes de Hilton et dom . de Hilton jacet in capello beat' Catherinae/Isabella uxor eius iuxta eum . And all these gentlemen ly in the fryarageof Yarme/Lord John Meynell of Mydleton one ofthefoundersof our place at Yarme./ (1 other medieval Meynelldeed .)

f. 26v (note on a medieval Vessy tenureat Sowerby ) Anno domini 1624. mensis Octobris die 30 et die Sabati

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Gregory Graunge the second sonn and fifte childof Thomas and Annwasborne God blesse himand our blessed Lady. Anno domini 1626. die St.Anne mense Julij AnnGraungethe sixt childe of Thomas and Ann was borne God blesse her and our blessed Lady. Anno domini 1628. mensis decembrisdie 23 et die Sti Clementis etiamque Ste ffaelicitatis et die dominica. Thomas Graunge the seaventhchilde of Thomasand Anne was borne. I praye God to blesse him & our blessed Lady. (medieval Meynell deeds from c . 1300 to 1470.)

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Indentata capt' apud Castrum Ebor' in Com' Ebor' decimo quinto die Novembris anno Regine Elizabethe dei gratia Anglie ffrancie et Hibernie Regine fidei defensoris&c xviijo, CoramRoberto Bradford Escaetor' dicte Reginein Com' pred' virtute Brevis eiusdem dneRegine de diem clausit extremam ad inquirendum post mortem Anthonii Meynell armig' eidem Escaetori direct' et huic Inquisitioni annex' per sacramenta Sethei Hellme arm' , Milonis Burton, Johis Dawson, Willmi Sydall, Briani Rawcliffe, Richi Nawton gen' , Roberti Hudles, Robti Byrdsall, Georgii Smythe, Willmi Medley, Henrici Hobson et Willmi Foston yeomen/Qui dicunt supersacramenta sua quoddictus Anthonius Meynell die ante obitum suum fuit seisitus in dominico suo ut de feodo de et in ... (the manor of North Kilvington ; 6 messuages, 7 cottages, 3 gardens, 30 acres of arable, 100 acres of meadow , 50 acres ofpasture in N. Kilvington, Northallerton& Thirskallof which Anthony, by deed ofApril 12 14 Elizabeth,conveyed intrusttoAnthonyCatterickofStanwick & Roger Tocketts ofTocketts esquires , Robert Bowes of Chilton, Durham esq and Richard Meynell, one ofAnthony'ssons,tothesole useof Anthonyfor his life, and afterhis death to the useofhisson and heir Roger Meynell and his heirsall in accordance withtheActof Uses (of Feb. 18 HenryVIII) Anthonywasalso siezed of halfofthe manor ofPickhalland Rokesby and of 20 messuages, 10 gardens , 40 acres of arable, 40 acres meadow, 200 acres pasture in Pickhall By a deed ofJune 24 18 Elizabeth he conveyedthis toChristopher Ward and (torn) Manfield yeomen in trust for Anthony'suse for life and then to the use ofRichardMeynell and his heirs, but to pass to Roger Meynell and his heirs if Richard had no heirs. If Roger's heirs failed the whole inheritance was to pass to Robert Meynell and his heirs. North Kilvington manor was held of the Queen in capite for the serviceof one twentiethof a knight'sfee and was worth annually£11-10-0. The lands in Northallerton were held ofthe Bishop of Durham in socage, and those in

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Thirsk of the Earl of Derbyin socage of his manor there. The Pickhall estate was held of the Queen of her manor of Richmond in socage.)

.Et ulteriusJuratores predictidicuntquod dictus Rogerus Meynell est filius et haeres dicti Anthonii Meynell et fuit aetatis tempore mortis predicti Anthonii patris sui quadragintaAnnorum et amplius. Md.Annodomini 1626. the hindeshouse in the ... (torn) ... feilde beside paddocke bothome woode was repaired (torn) ... and finyshed, inwchnowdwellethe one Rychard Palliser

Thesame yearethere was builded in the fog feild a new hindeshouse for Thomas Palliser. Also the said yere Idid build a new bridge over Reid Becke standinge upon the lowegarthe and friggisholme.

ThevthyeareoffHenrythe second nextafterthe Conquest offEngland byWillm Duke of Normandie, ye LordofUgglebarbie then called Willm de Bruce, withye Lord off Sneton called Raulph de Pearsie with a hunttsman & frehoulder called Allotson, did in the monthof October the 16th dayoff the same moneth, appoint to meete, And hunte the wilde Boare in a certaine wood or desert called Eskedaileside . the wood or place did belong to the Abbott, off the Monasterieof Whitbiewhothen was called Sedmanne Abbott of the same. Then the aforesaid Gentlemen did meete with their hounds and Boarestavesin this place afore named and there founda Greate wilde Boare, and the hounds did runne him very well neare & aboute the chappell & Hermitage of Eskedale where there was a monnke of Whitbie who was an Hermit and did keepe the Hermitage there, and he hearing thehounds runne cameout of his Hermitage & the Boarebeing deadrunne and sore pursued, tooke in at the chappell doore and therelaid him downe and presently died and the Hermit shout the hounds off the chappell and kept himselfe within att his meditations and prayers, the hounds standing in a baywithout. TheGentlemen in the thickeof the wood put behinde there ( ... ?) and followeing theCrie ofthe houndscametothe Hermitage and found the hounds round about the Chappell Then came the Gentlemen to the doore ofthe Chappell and called on the Hermitewho did open the doore and goeforth and within lay the Boare deadeforthewhichthe gentlemen being in a ffurie because their hounds were put from their game they did runne at the Hermite in a great Raige with their Bowestaves& did very sore and Greivously wound and beate the sd Hermitewhereof he died : then the Gentlemen greivingand knowingthathe [sic] was in perillofdeath , took Sanctuarie at Skarbrough but at that time the Abbott being in greatfavour with the King did remove them out of the

Sanctuarie ... (torn) They becamein dainger ofthelawe and could not be priviledged : but like to receavethe severitie of thelawewhichwasdeath for death ; but the hermitbeing ... (torn) ... being very sicke and at pointe of death sentfor the Abbot, and desired him to send for the gentlemen whohad wounded him to death. and theAbbot so doing thegentlemen cameand the Hermitebeing sore sicke sd I am sure todieof these wounds . Answered theAbbotthey shall alldieforyour cause; but the Hermiteanswered not so, for I willfrelyfor- give them my death, if they be content to be Inioynedthis penance for the safeguarde of their soules. Ye gentlemen being then present bad him inioyne what he wouldfor he saved their lives. Then sd the Hermite you and yours shall houlde your Landes upon the Abbot of Whitbie and his successors in this manner vidc that upon the Assention eve youor some foryoushall come to the wood offthestayheade which is in Eskedaleside the same day at the sunne rising and thereshallthe officer oftheAbbot blowe hishorne tothe intent that you may knowehowe to findhimand shalldeliver untoyouWillm de Bruise xv stakes xv Strotstoures xvyeaderstobecutbyyouor thosethatcome foryouwitha knifeof a pennie price and you Ralphe de Pearche shalltake xxiof each sorte to be cut in the same manner , And you Allotson shall take nine of the sorte to be cut as aforesaid and to be taken on your backes and carried to the Towne ofWhitbie and to be there before nine of the Clockethe same daybefore mentioned, and att the houreof nine ofthe clockeifitbeafull sea,to cease that service, and as long as it is a lowe waterat nine of the Clocke of ye same hower every ofyou shallsett your stakes att the brinke of the water ech stake a yearde from an other& so yedder itwthyour yeddersand so stayit on either side with yr strut slowers that they may stande thre tides without removeing bythe force ofthe water, echof youshall make them in severall places at yt houre and so to continue this service every yeare except it be a full sea atyt yeare which when it shall come to passe this service shall cease and you shall doe this servicein remembrancethatnoy did slay me and yt you maythe better call to God for mercie repent yrselves and doegoodworkes, the officers ofEskdaileside shall blowe out on you, out on you, out on you for yr heinouscrime, ifyou or your successors doe Refuse todoethis service so long as it shall not bea full sea attyt houreaforesd you and yoursshall forfit all your lands to theAbbot orhis successors . Thus I doe intreatetheAbbotthat youmayhave yourlives, lands and Goods for his service , and youtopromise byyour parts in heaven yt it shall be done by you andyour successors as it is aforesd.Andthe Abbot sd IGrauntall that you have saideand will confirme it bythe faithof an honest

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man ; then the hermit saide my soule longeth for the Lord and I asfrelieforgive these gent my death as Christ forgave thetheefeon the crosse and in the presence offtheAbbot and the Rest he saidein manus tuas domine commendospiritum meum. Redemisti me domine deus veritatis ... (torn) ... and so yeelded up the ghost the viijth day off december upon whose soule God have mercy. Amen

f. 38. This service hath continued ever since the saide henrie the second ... (torn) ... unto this present yeare off our lord god 1627 /and and was alwayes ... (torn) . . . water at thatday and houre made by the successors of Willm de Bruce and Allotson .//

Md .Annodomini 1627 / mense decembristhe Bridge betwene Garrice Lands and Skuller Closes viz betwene the Lordships ofNorthkilvington and Thornbaurgh, betwenetheLordships of ThomasMeynell Esq and SirAurtherIngram(noweoneof the Counsell ofYorke) knight, Betwene the Wapon tackes of Allertonshire and Birdforth was erected by the sd Meynell nowe having a lease of the forest skuller closes for divers yeares.

Md Anno domini 1628. it was ordered in the Session of the peace that the Bridge Betwene Borrobie and Knaton should be Builded ofStoneatttheCharges oftheCountrie and so it was . it cost 20 li. and was alwayes before a Bridge of wood

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Md Annodomini 1628. I did sell untomy BrotherGeorge Meynell those lands wch I had in denton in the CountiePallatine of Durham wch I purchased of my Aunt Mrsdorothie Scroopethe wch Icouldnever lettformor then8 li per annum for 130 li videlicetxvj yeares purchaseand more freed from all future demands denyed from me for ever . I pray God Blesse him and all his for I am truly pd herefore Annodomini 1627. John Smithof Thorntonin lez Beans .. (torn) .. ofa Prodigall Behaviour Removedhis Habitacion from this Towne unto North Allerton He did take from ... . (torn) .. . demolishedChapell at Thorntonin lez Beanes the usuall . (torn) ... ont stone of the sd Chappell, and had for manyyeares sacriligiously profained it, even to the very use of serving Hogs therein Removing his other household Stuffe he putt the sd ffont stoone in a cart and did carry it with facilitie unto the limits of the Lordshipp, videlicettthe verydivision betweneThornton in lez Beanes and theHospital. the Horsesses did then stand, and could drawe theCart no further. He addedmoe Horses , it would not be, headded yettmore strength, they could notdrawe it:Then perceiving, it was not god his will that it should goe any further , he threwe it downe in the Hie way, the very streete in milestat

(?) betwene Thirske and Northallerton, it layd ther in the troubleof passengers, And two single men did removeitout oftheHieway into the Gutter of the Hedgewhereitdid liea Spectacleto all passengers untill the 4 day of November 1629 , upon wch dayI did goe my selfe withoxen and a sleddupon the wch mymen did lie it and so I carried it untotheforesd demolishedChappell where I did leaveit as nearethe originall place as Icould guesse it and there noweitis .

Anno domini 1630 mensis Aprilis die27

yt pleasedAlmightiegod to take into his most holymercy my most loveing and obedient daughter named Ann wife to Thomas Grainge of Harlsey Gent who left behinde her 4 Children, vid. Mary, Willm, Gregory, Ann I pray God to blesse them. Shewas about the yeares of 32 , longsicke ina Consumption and made a most Happie, fortunate, Hopefull and comfortable end All Honor alwayesbetogod almightie hismost Holyname, and I prayour Blessed ladyto assisther with her Clemencieand mercy. Nunquam periisselegitur qui Mariam coluit, at coluitilla deo gratias

f. 39. Anno domini 1631. mensis Martii die 30 Regno Regis Caroli septimo.

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MyAunt dorothie Scroope wife to ffrancis Scroope ofdanby yure and Spennithorne Esqre who was heire ... (torn) ... to the lordScroopeof Boltonwch Lord waslately created Earle of Sunderland and died the last yeare being the last ofthat Noble ffamiliedidmake averyHappie End, most comfortable tous her ffriendsand Hopefull of salvation wch Jesus graunt to her and us all she was in yeares about 84. shebestowed her principalllove upon my BrotherGeorge Meynell ofWest dalton she builtthe house of Calfe Howe and there shedied , and according to her desireIdid send her bodyto beInterred attthe Church of St John Babtist neareStanwickes wchwas her ffathers house videlicet Anthony Cathericke who was uncle toAnthonie that nowelivethwhoseAge is nowecurrant 70 yeares. Md the fforesaid Earle did not leave his landto theScroopes. ... a Coeliextirpavit, quaelactavit dominum

... estem quam plantavit primus parens Hominum ella nunc dignetur , sideraCompessere. bella plebem credunt dirae mortisulcere

... osa stella maris a peste succurrenobis

... nos nam filius nihill negans te Honorat

.. nos Jesu pro quibus virgo Mater te Oratt Ora pro nobis sancta dei genetrix, ut digni efficiamur promissionibusChristi

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Deusmisericordiae, deus pietatis, deus Indulgentiae, qui misertus es super afflictionem populi tui et dixisti Angelo percutienti populum tuum, sufficit nunc, contine manum tuam, ob Amore illius Stella Gloriosae, cuius uberapretiosa contra venen' delictorum nostrorum quam dulcitersuscisti, presta Auxilium gratiae tuae, utt ab omne peste et improvisa morte liberemur, et a totius perditionis incursu Salvemur, per te JesuChriste Salvator Mundi, Rex Gloriae, qui cum patreet Spiritu Sanctovivis et Regnas per infinita seculorum secula. Amen .

Jesu CoronaVirginum quemmater illacorripit

quaesola virgo parturitt

Hecvota clemens accipe

Qui pascis interlilia

Septus choreis virginum

Sponsus decorans gloria

Sponsisque Reddens praemia.

Quocunquepergisvirgines

Sequunteratque laudibus

Post te canentes cursitant

Himnos perdulcespersonant.

oratio Mea . Te deprecamurlargious

Nostris adauge sensibus

Nescireprorsusomnia

Corruptionis vulnera .

Laus, honour, virtus, gloria

Deo patri et filio

Sanctosimul paraclito

In seculorum secula Amen. Prudentesvirgines Aptate vestras lampades : ecce, sponsus venit, eccite obviam ei: Adducentur Regi virgines posteum: proxime eius afferentur tibi

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danobis quesumusdomine deus noster, sanctarum virginum et marterum , Agathae, Margaretae, dorotheae,ApolloniaeCeciliae, Katherinae,Priscae , foelicitatis , Bibianae,Barbarae, Luciae, Agnetis, Anastasiae, Emerentinae, Rufinae, Semondaz, Beatricis, Euphemiae, Luciae, Modicae, Praxe-, dis, Petronillae, Simphorosae, Christinae, Suzannae , dareae, Thecli, Hellenae, Charessentiae , Ste Mariae Magdalenae

Annae, Clarae, Marthae, Prudentiae, perpetuae, felicitatis, Stae Wenefridae, Catherinae, Scolasticae, Mymphae, Marthae, Tyrecae, dareae , Ursulae et sociarum Palmas , incessabili devotione venerari, ut quas digna mente non possumus celebrare, humilibus saltem frequentemus obsequiis, per Dominum nostrum Jesum Christum filium tuum qui tecum vivit et Regnat in virtute Spiritus Sancti Deus. per omnia Seculorum secula . Amen.

Fragments of another paper book survive. It is written in the same hands as the main notebook, but the paper has a different watermark. The majority of the entries on these fragments are résumés of medieval Meynell and Darcydeeds , but there is also an attempt at a pedigree-

Dominus Walterus de Manill had issew Robertus

Dominus Robertus de Manill had issew Willm, Stephen & Hew

Dominus Willms deManill had no issew .

Dominus Stephanus de Manill had issew John & Simon de Menill de Rungton

Dominus Johannes de Meynell had issew Nicholas. Dominus Nicholas de Meynell had issew Nicholas, Kinge Edward 2 : age 28 yeres 1300. he died as appeares by the inquisicions

Dominus Nicholaus de Meynell had Nicholas the Sonnof Lucy Thwenge concubina eius daughter ofSir Marmaduke Thwenge of Kilton Castle ; KingeEdward: 2; the 12 yeare; 1319 . this Nicholas sonn of Lucy Thwenge was Created lord Meynell de novo duringe 16th yeare of K. edward the 3. 1342 and had issew Elizabethsole daughter & heire firste married to Peter de malo lacu no issew. secondly to John Darcy Chivaler and had issew Phillip dying kinge Edward 3 the 42 yeare 1368 . Dominus Philippus Darcyof Meynell ...

Dominus Wills de Meynell filius Robertide Meynell did give Hewede Menell his brotherye mannor of Hilton iuxta Rudby, test' ... (torn) . . . Menell, Galfrid' de Rossell, Jo: de Hoton, Will de Pickton, Will de Manfeild, Will, de Malteby et multis aliis dat. apud Warlton in die veneris (torn). . . . ao dni milesimo ducentesimo tertio King John fourthe yeare Dominus Wills. de Meynell filius Roberti de Meynell did give & Release to HughMennell his brother the mannor of Hilton, Snotterton , Histon Huton iuxta Gisburne & batarsby, test. Tho yarom ... (torn) ... Sellhowe, Nich de Crathorne, Jo : de Scoterley, Robt de Hil . (torn) .. . multis aliis, Datum apud Hilton die Sabbathi in curia . . (torn) . . in festo Sti Cudbarti, Anno domini millisimo ducentesimo saxagesimo ; king henry 3; 46 yeare, 1260 .

Hewe de Mennel had issew by Ales daughter of doms Arnald de Percy de Kildaile Robert, John, King John 4 year, 1203 ; King Henry3 ;46 yeare 1260

Robert de Mannell esq. John de Menillesq. had issew bySibillade ... (torn) ... Cuthbart, Nicholas & Willm King Edward I the 31 yeare; 1303

Nicholas Mennell de Hilton esq. had issew by Cicely dawghter of Thomas Sawcockeof South sawcockeesq.

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John & Robert ; king Edward2 ; the 12 yeare ; 1319 ; King Edward 3 ; the 35 yeare, 1361 .

John Meynell de Hilton esq & Isabell Neville, King Richard 2 the 11 yeare, 1388 had no issew .

Robert Meynell de Hilton esq had issew by Agnes daughter ofRobertThirnamof Thirnamon the woulds, Thomas ; King Richard 2, the 17 yeare, 1394 ; Henry5, the 5 yeare 1417, 1427 ... 1433 ... 1443 .

Thomas Meynell esq had issew by Joane daughterof Richard denam John Meynell, Kinge Henry6, 14 yeare, 1436 , died 26yeareof K. He : 6 1448, his sonn Johnfallinge ward to James Straingwaies miles & Elizabeth his wife & John Conniers mil & Margery his wife in the Right of the saide Elizabeth& Margery as houldingof ther mannor ofWharltonthe mannor of Hilton in Cleveland cum pertinentiis

John Meynell esq had issew by Richard Hansard his daughter of Wallworth esq Robert, thomas, William, Nicholas & Anthony King Henry the 7, 7 yeare 1492.

Robert Meynell esq had issew by Sr John Lancaster his daughter of Sockbridge in Westmorland Robert, Henry & Anthony: Ki : hen:8:the 16 yeare, 1536 .

Anthony Meynell of North kilvington esq by (torn) Greenes daughter of Lanmoth esq had Roger, by Rouksbydau of Rouksby esq. Richard, by Newtons dau : of Hildesley esq Robert Queen Elizabeth 18 yeare 1576he died.

Roger Meynell esq by Margery dau ofAnthonyCatherick of Stanwick esq had Thomas & George Queene

Elizabeth the 34 yeare:1592 hedied

Thomas Meynell esq. had by Wenefrid dau : ofthomas Pudsey of Bolton in bolland & Barforth esq. Anthony and Richard.

Anthony Meynell esq haith by Mary daughter of Ja: ThwaitsofMarston esq. Thomas, John, Hewe& William . (torn)

Richard Meynell ... (blank) . . . had by Isabelldau : of John Talbot of Thornton in le strete esq ... (torn) ..

John borne ... (stained)

OTHER MEYNELL MSS

1. The 1569 Rebellion (Meynell Papers 1/38)

a. Thinventory of the goods and chattalls of Roger Mennell of Stanwicke prised by Robert Armyn, Christopher Haill, Richard Benks and Willm Bengrowe Imp. 3 bearinge maresand two foles ........ liijs.iiijd.

b.

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Itm. one grey trottinge nagge

Itm. three coltes & 2 fillies

Itm. Rye in the barne by est 5 quarters

Itm. ots in the same barne by estm 4 qurs..xvjs

xiijs.iiijd liijs.iiijd ..iij li.vjs.viijd

Itm halfe a lode of haye in the same barne .. (torn)

Itm. woll in a parler there by est 24 Stone ..(torn)

Thomas Gargrave knight Sheriffof the countye ofYorketoall persons gretinge/Where Cuthbert Mennell of Thorppe in the Countye of Yorke gent. and Roger Mennell of Hawnbye in the saide Countye esquier stand bounde Joyntlie& severallyeunto me the said Sherifffor the true payment of a certenSommeof money for all the goods and Chattells of Roger Mennellof Stawnwicke in Richmondshier and Thomas Chippinge of Knayton yeoman Rebells specified in two severall Inventories hereunto annexed and nowe seazed to the use of the quenes Matye Knowe ye therfore me the said Sheriff by these presentes to have commytted to thands custodyeand possession ofthe said Cuthbert Mennell all& everye the goods & chattells of the said Roger Mennell and Thomas Chippinge specified in the aforesaid Inventories giving unto the said Cuthbertby these presentsfull power& aucthoritie to occupieand enioyethe same gods and Chatells at his libertie will & pleasure/ this 25 daye offfebruarie in the xijth yere of the Reigne of ourSoveraigne Ladie Elizabeth

per me Thoms. Gargrave.

C. (General Pardons under the Great Seal, to Richard Mennell of Kilvington gent. for rebellion, April 5th 1570, and to Roger Mennell gent ofStanwick who had been indicted at York before the Earl of Sussex and other Commissionerson March 20th 1570/1 for rebellion at Ripon on November 16th 1569granted December22nd 13 Elizabeth Both Pardons cite at lengthin English the rebel Earls' proclamation.)

2. OriginalWillof Anthony Meynell. 1576. (MeynellPapers 1/44)

In the name of GodAmen the . . . (cut out) ... the yeare ofowre Lord god 1576, I Anthonie Mennell of Lettell Kelventon in the paryshe of thornton in lee streit beingehoole of mynde and ofgood and perfytt membrye maykinge this my laste will & testament in maner and forme ffolywinge , ffirste I doo gyve and bequeathe my sowle untoalmyghtygod to be sayveyd bythe merretts and deathe ofmy Saveyowre Jhesus Christe, and my bodie to be buryed in the queare of the paryshe churche of thornton in lee Streit. I geveto the vicare there for forgotten tythes iijs.iiijd. I geve to Katheren mennell my wyffe after my deathe the thyrde of my howsse orels onehowsse inthetowne as mysone RogerMennell and sheecan agree upon. I will that Katheren my wyffe shall have xij kye gayts and ij weares gayts in every Somer pasture and that shee shall have as muchegrownde as will fynde theym and wynter theym Reasonable .

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Itm . I will that my sone Roger Mennell shall fynd hir heldinge enowgheand to laye it at hir dowre orels that shee may goo to his sayd eldinge wheire that yt leyethe and theire to tayke hir Reasonably and Iwill that my sone Roger mennell shall fynd hir gayts for ij ffatte beasts everyyeare so longe as shee levythe Itm. I will that my sone Roger mennell eyther let hir have a plowghe tylthe orels thathe will dellyver unto hir oneChawlder of weat oneChawlder of Berlye, two chawlder of hootts, and halfe a chawlder ofRye duringe hir lyffe, and that boythe my sones be good unto hir, and that they shall see that no man doo hir wronge, even as well as yf that shee had borne theym, as they will have my blyssinge boithe qwycke and deade, ffor shee never did deserve no other at theire handes. Item I geve unto my Sone Roger Mennell childeringe,to every one of theym beinge leavinge at this daie twenty pownds a peace as they shall be mariagable eyther in monie orels in penye worthes . Item I will that Rychard mennell my sone shall have his Chamber wheire he lyethe wthall the furneturetheire in, and Igeve untohym one Sylver peace and one Salte parcell gilte, one dowsonof Sylver spownes wth Rowne ends all of one sorte. Item I geveunto mySone ... (cut out) . . . nnell thirtye powndesin monie in thefull satisfaction of his childes portionwhiche as he owghte to clayme or have [sic] of all my goods by order of lawe. Item I geveunto my sayd Sone Rychard Mennell all my landeshereditaments tenements with thappurtenaunces set lyinge and beinge in pecolle& Rooksbie within the Countie of Yorke and to his heyres mayles and forwant of suche Issewe to Roger Mennell my sone & to his heyes mayles and for want of suche Issewe to the Right heyres of me the said Anthonie mennell Item I will that my Sone Robert Mennell shall have hisChamberthat helyethe in wth all the ffurneturetherein and that he shall have one standing Cuppedowble giltewth a cover, one lettell cooppedowble gyltewtha cover and mygretestesaltedowble gilte wth one cover and that he shall have xij of my best sylver spownes wth Saynt George on thendes in full satisfaction of his Childes portion Item I will that my executores shall paie unto Marye egelsfeildx li in monie whichI doo owe untohir, and Igeve unto thesayd Marie egelsfeildone Cowe Item I will that mySone Roger mennell dooe paie unto Willm Braydleyxs. by yeare duringe his lyffe. Item I will that my Sone Roger mennell do geve unto Thomas Jacksonmyservaunt xxs byyearedurynge his lyffe Item I geveunto Katheren mennell my wyffe & unto Roger mysonemy brasse vesselland woode vessell and all the Iron speatts wthin the ketchen and also I geve unto Katheren my said wyffe all theprovi- sion of Beaffe & Baken for the maynteaning ofhir howsse wthin the said kitchen or theire unto belonginge the sayme Item I geve Roger mennell my Sone all my arkes wthin the garnars AndIgeve untomy said sone Rogermennell allmy Sealingein thest parler, and I gevehym three longe taybles in the hawle howsse wth the ffirmes oneRowndetayble; onecupped; ij Chayres ; wth allthehanginges

ofReedand greaneSaye in thehalle

AnthonyMennell

Item I geve untoevery one of myServauntesnowedoingmeserviceat this presentdaie oneeweand hir Lamme, Willm Braydley& Thomas Jackson except whichI have grantydeytherof theymoneyearleyanewytye duringe theyr lyffes. Item I doo constitute& maike my sone Robert mennell my lawfull & soolle executore, my cosings Robert Ratcliffe and Thomas layton supervisorsand geve to ech oftheym one old angelofgolde. RogerTalbott/ John Maunsell/John Brakenbury/John talbot/antonye webster 3. The Inquisition of April 1596 . a. (Cecil Papers 39/110, Hatfield House)

To the Right Reverend Father in God my verie good Lord and m . the Bishopp ofDurham.

Myservice most humblyremembred to your Lordshipwhere as it pleased your Lordshipupon a goodopinion conceivedofme thoughe undeservedto appointme your officer in Allertonshier not only,for your owen rentes & services but also to gyveyour Lopp. to understand from tyme to tyme how hir Majestie ys delt with ther, accordingly I thought yt my bounden dutyto advertise your Lopp. that upon Thursdaie laste beinge the eight ofthis monthe hir MajestiesCommissionwas sattuppon at Northallertonforthe finding of the valewe of the landes goods & chattells of Xofer Conyers of Huton Bonvile & Thomas Mennell of Kilvington in the Countye of Yorke esquires& by vertue of a prescepte to mee directed by Stephen Hill under sheriffof that countye, I did impannell a goodeandsufficient Jurie of xxiiij persons & did mayke returne thereof in the presence of the Commissionersto the handes of one Wytham being the sherifs deputie ther& as I am informed , servante to one Mr Thackeston aboute Sir John Foskewe Chancellor of the Exchequer and a dealer for the said Thackeston in suche causes forrecusantesease & profitt& a coppie ofwhichwarrant and pannell I sende your Lopp. herein closed But since the Commissionersvizt. Mr William Mauleverer , MrTalbott Bowes & Mr John Constable of Dromonbywere sett the saide Xofer Conyers came into the court with a schedule conteyning the names of a number of persons sett for his purpose & delivered the same to the handes of the saide Mr John Constable who maryed the sister of the said Xofer Conyers, which done the Commissioners perused the same & delivered the notetothe said Wytham whoe required mee to call those Jurers exhibited bythe said Xofer Conyers himselfe, whom he hadd soe labored thatttheywereall present forthwith readilie to serve his terme uppon my call

Amonge whom were manie of the said Conyers & Mennell frends and namelie Lancelottuncle to Xofer Conyers& George Holtbye who marryedMennells syster & is a nere kynsman to Holtbyethe seminarie preist Sir William Mallorie is uncle to

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the said Xofer Conyerswhoe was one of the Commissionersbut didd nott sitt. This saide Jurye thus pact togeather was gathered out ofRychmondshier and other farr dystantplaces. Fewe are nowe inhabitants within your Lopp liberties The verdict within less then an hour space was geven that Xofer Conyers hadd landes called Hewton Bonvill to the yearlie valewe of 6 li 13s. 4d and Thomas Mennell had landes in Northkilvington to the yearlie valewe ofv li whereasintruthe the yearlie valewe of Hewton Bonvill & Kilvington is each of them above cc markes. Thus I have certified your Lopp. of this greate .. . whereby the lawe is abyted and the Quenes Matie deceyved . . . in soe much as all here doe speakeverie broadlye of the matter. I shall waite uppon your Lopp. shortlye my beinge about the other secrett busines that your Lopp. charged me with& soe I most humblie take my leave at Allerton this tenthofAprill 1596 .

Your Lopps. servant to Command/George Graunt. This Christopher Conyers maried one of Cardinall Allens sisters & hath issue by her, as I heare. T. Duresme. b. (Meynell MSS 1/1. Three rough draughts of a defence ofthe InquisitionofApril 1596, in Thomas Meynell's handwriting.) Jhesus Maria

Anno Domini 1596. Regni Reginae nostrae Elizabethae 38 Mense Aprilis. The lands ofThomasMeynell Recusant2 parts, of them was granted to Richard Theakeston Esquier ; and Inquired upon at Allerton by a jury of fiftene men , most of them gentlemen, the rest good yeomen, al of them most Loyal subiects. which Inquisition was taken the same day before Willm. Mauleverer, Jhon Constable& Cuthbert Bowes esquiers, commissionersfor that purpose Who devided the lands and seazed 2 parts for herMatie.Which2 parts have been enioyedby Theakestonhis assignes ever sens. But yfthe dealingeofthese verie worshipfull both commissioners& jurymay not satisfie ; forthe sure approbation of theye doinges; & wel to prove that other Informers rather pursue malice than matter these few lines folowynge testifie

Imprimis an Anuitie to George Meynell ofxxxli. Itm. an An. to Robert Meynell of x li. /Itm. an An. to Leonard Brakenburie of xiij li vjs.viijd./A lease for lxxx yeares to An Tunstall of certeyn gowndes worth per annum x li. /a fre rent to her Matie. of xxxiijs.iiijd./Itm themoytieofthelands was extended upon a recognisance by one Thomas Wright in Meynell his fathers tyme; redeemedby his uncle, who Inioyetheyt to his owneuse Noteyt ysto be deposed the lands are ultra worthe v li p ann to the Quene and to the recusant

Yfyt be vehemently urged whether yt be worthe anymoreor not. then tostayytys al toyowrknowledge ; as much as yow

dare by othe affirme yt; and yet yow knowe yt most sufficientlye

Yf any yl man or men depose a greater valewe then this cxxxv li. then to alledge and show Skelton his lease besides the rent worthe xxxiij li. & Godier his lease. Yt may be alledged(yfnedefull) for trewe ytys. the cleare v li ysowteof the rents reserved

But caise some false man both to the Queene (God saveher grace) and to the recusant showldeaffirmeMeynell his lands to bewortheccc li per annum ; first the moytyysgonebeytasyt be wil. then a c and 3 li besides . for 47 li Godier his lease remanet. yt ys to be hoped none wil favoure suchea myghtie intrewthe.

TERRANT EXEMPLA.

one Anewty of x li given by Anthony Meynell to Robert Meynell for lyfe bearinge date the tenth of September in the xiijth year of her Maties raigne. one Anewty of xxxli. given by RogerMeynell to George Meynell for lyfe bearingedate xjth of Mayvicessimonono of her Matie. one Anewtyofxxx li. given byRogerMeynell to ThomasWright and Eliz. his wyfefortheir lyves bearing date iij of May 32 of her Matie. Raigne one Anewtyofxiij li vjs viijd given by Roger Meynell to Leonard Brakenburyfor lyfe dated 15 december33 of her Matie. onefre Rent of xxxiijs.iiijd p. ann to her Matie.

1 one old office. 2. a fine 3.a letteroracquittance 4. G.Mey: his anuitie. 5. Ro : Mey: his an. 6. L. Braken : his An 7. Tunstal her lease 8. Wryght his Indenture . 9. Skelton his lease . 10. Godier his lease. 11. an olde note ofmy owne 12. Valew . Put CC li. Imprimis the recognisance for many yeares who beyngein possession thereof, solde his ryght therein toRychard Meynell who at this day inioyethe the same by vertue of the said sayle.

Licences to travel 1596-7 .

a. (Meynell MS. 1/3).

Primo die Aprilis anno Regni domine nostre Regine Eliz tricessimo octavo 1596 .

WhereasThomas Meynell of northKilvington inyeCountyof Yorke gent standeth Convicted upon the Statute of Recusancie and hath made his aboad within fyve myles of Kilvington aforesaid, accordingeto theStatutein yt behalfe , Understandinge yt divers suytes have byn prosecuted against the said Thomas Meynell for debtes and other Causes of his late Father Roger Meynell deceased, And yt yt doth greatly importethe said Thomas to travell forth of the said Circuyteoffyve myles aswell for the Compounding of the said suites and for taking advice therein as also for yt a Commissionis awarded forth of the Exchequer for ye findinge and Batinge of the said Thomas

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Meynell his landes to her Maties use wherein especiallyeyet behovethe ye said Thomas Meynell to travell ; We whose names are hereunder subscrybeddoeaccordingetothaucthoretie to us given by the said Statute gyve ly cence to the said Thomastotravell forth of the saidCircuyte offyvemyles inand aboutehisoccasions from the thirdedayeofAprillnextensewinge the date hereof for & dureinge the space of six (twelve erased) monthes next ensewinge the said thirde day of Aprill In witnes whereof we have hereunto sett our handes thedaye and yeare abovewrytten. / Willm Mauleverer. TalbotBowes . Memorandum that I, Matthew Archbishop of Yorke doe by vertue hereof so muchas lawfully I maygeve leave & lycence unto the said Thomas Mennell to passe & goe out ofthe said compasse offyvemyles from his dwelling placefor& aboute the said suites & busines , accordinge to the Statute& the tenorof these presents.

Matts Ebor (seal)

b. (ibid. 1/4 . A similarlicence, May 1st 1597, for 6 months from May 8th, granted by Sir William Fairfax of Gilling, William Mauleverer and Archbishop Hutton )

5. The Inquisition of April 1597 . ibid. 1/5 . (Bond given by Anthony Goodier ofNorth Kilvington August 20th 1597 in £200 to John Wormall, to secure£200 rent to be levied by the sheriff of Yorkshire from Thomas Meynell's estate as a recusant.)

The condition ofthis obligationis that ... AnthonyGoodyear ... do ... pay the summe of cc li ... in her Maties Court ofReceipt of Exchequer at Westminster the Quindecem of St Michaell Tharchaungell ... 1 ... unto our soveraignethe Quenes Matie . . . accordinge totheforme & effecteofher highneswrytte directed to the Sheriffof theCountye ofYorke ... out of her highnesCourt of Exchequer for the leavyingofthe same ofthe lands& tenementsofThomasMeynell Esqr. Recusant to her Maties use or otherwise then & there to maike satisfaction orobteine suchorder in her highnes CourtofExchequer As byreason thereof the said Sheriff& John Wormallshalbe hereafteracquittedofthe same

6. Further Licences to travel, 1598 .

a.

b. (ibid. 1/6 . April 17th 1598 , travel licence to Thomas Meynell for 6 months from April 20th, by Sir Henry Bellasis , Sir Timothy Whittingham & Archbishop Hutton.) (ibid 1/7 . August 9th 1598, similar licencebyR. Brackenbury, Nicholas Girlington and Archbishop Hutton.)

7. The Inquisition of1599 .

ibid 1/8 . (Exchequer order, time of James I, July 4th ,buttop and date mutilated.)

Whereas by an Inquisition taken at the Castle of Yorke ... the thirde daye of Septemberin thexlijth yeare of the raigne of the late Quene Elizabeth before Henry TankardEsqr & other Commissioners it is found & certified into this Court that Thomas Meynell a Recusant convicted was the xjth daye of August in the saidxlijth yearepossessed atNorthkilvington ... as ofhisown proper goodes .. ofxxij oxen price xx li , of xij kine price xij li , ofxij calves price xiiijs. ofonegraye nagge price xxs ofone horseprice xls. ofone mare price xxxs as by the said Inquisitionmore fullyappeares , forasmuch as Sir John Jackson knt this daye informed the Courtthat longe before the takeing of the said Inquisition that is to say the viijth daye of Aprill in the xxxviijth yere of the said Quenes raigne certain landes and tenements of the said Thomas Meynell were by Inquisition found for hisrecusancieat the yearlie valeweofv li and thetwopartes thereof thereupon leased and the rentduelie paidever since. And that the goods found by the said Inquisition were such as increased and renewed upon the thirde parte of the said lands allottedto the Recusantfor the maintenaunce of himselfe, hiswife& familye ... and therfore the favour & reliefe of this Court was humbliepraied in this cawse . Whereupon it is ordered bytheCourt that all processe upon the said Inquisition towching the goodes ... shall be stayed untill the nexte terme. And in the meanetyme the Courte will advyse towchinge the seazure of Recusants goods renewing on their thirde partes /per Cur'

8. Further Licences to Travel etc. 1599-1606

a ibid 1/9 . (September20th 1599, licence to Thomas Meynell to travel for 6 months, by Thomas Lascelles , Charles Layton & Archbishop Hutton )

b C. ibid 1/10 . (June 3rd 1600, similar licence for 4 months , by William Mauleverer, John Constable and Archbishop Hutton.) ibid. 1/11 . December 19th 1600, licencefrom the Council ofthe North.)

Whereas Thomas Mennell of North Kilvington gent beinge convicted of recusanciehathmaydhis abodewithin fyve myles according totheStatute ... untill appearingebeforeher Maties honorable Councell at the Citty of Yorke, he was by them committed for Recusancieand since then hath bene restrayned in the north Blockhouse att Kingstone upon Hull untill nowe that it hath pleased thert. honble the Lo : Burghleytoenlarge him unto the xxijth of March next ensueinge the date hereof. Wenoweknowingthat he hathoccasionto travell without that circuyte for the composition aswell of debtes as of suites soe authorise him to travell ... for the tyme aforesaide ... dated at Yorkethe xixth daye of December43 Eliz. Matt Ebor: Wyllm. Hildyard. Henry Frankland d ibid 1/13. (Recognisance of Thomas Meynell& 2 sureties for reappearancebefore the Council oftheNorth.)

e f

g.

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Yorke 25thofJune 1601. Taken beforeCharles HalesEsqr one ofthe Quenes Counsellin the North partes.

Thomas Mennell of Kilvington Esqr. cc li

HenryPullein of the CittyofYorkegent. cli.

John Loskey of the citty ofYorke gent cli

TheCondition of this recognisanceis that whereasthe above bounden Thomas Mennell nowe remayninge prisoner in the Castle of Yorke for recusancie is by the Lo : President and others of her Maties Counsell in the North licensed to departe from thence and to be at libertie for a certayne tyme. If therefore the said Thomas Mennell be and personally appere beforethe said Lo: President & Counsellofthe northe upon the xxiiijth daye ofAugust nexte after the date hereofand uppon his appearance doe nott departe withoute lycence of the said Lo President and Counsell and in the meane tyem doe not conferre with any Seminary Jesuit popishe preist or anie other person or persons evill affected in religion towchinge matters of religion or the state Thatthen this recognisancebevoyd ... ibid 1/14 . (June 28th 1601, licence to Thomas Meynell to travel from June 29thto August23rd, as "lately released from prison, " granted by Edward Yorke, Thomas Lascelles , Sir Henry Bellasis & Archbishop Hutton ) ibid 1/15 . (August 30th 1601, similar licence to October 1st , by same Justices.) ibid. 1/16 . (September29th 1601, copy of a letter, in Thomas Meynell's hand )

GoodMrThornburghe / these arto require yowe to besogood as move my Lord President that ower neighbor Mr Tho: Meynell may have as much favor for his libertie as other Recusants have for as we hold Recusancie a thinge verie odious& wishe his reformation , so for his moral Condition heis truelie (for ower opinion) a man honest, harmlesse , sociable& indede pooreand ofweakeestate. and thus hartilycommending us to yower wor: to the almyghtie we betaike yowe September 29 1601

Your verie lovinge freinds

h. ibid 1/17 . (December28th 1601, licenceto ThomasMeynell to travel for 3 months. He has been "the greater parte of these laste two yeares in Prison in Yorke Castle and the North Blockhowse at Hull, my Lo: President haveing nowe enlarged him for a tyme " By W. Bellasis, Henry Frankland& Archbishop Hutton. Apart from the [original] signatures, the rest is in Thomas Meynell's handwriting.)

i.

j.

ibid. 1/18. (March 27th 1601/2 , similar licence, April 1st to June 30th, by William Mauleverer, Richard Vaughan and Archbishop Hutton )

ibid. 1/19 . (December 18th 1602, recognisance of Thomas Meynell in £200, sureties Henry Pullein in £100 and James

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Mudd of York in £100 before John Ferne , Master in Chancery and Secretary of the Council of the North, that Meynellappear before the Council on February23rd 1602/3 or anyearlier date on 6 days warninggiven at North Kilvington.)

ibid. 1/20 . (November 3rd 1603, similarrecognisance toappear before the Council wheneversummonedon 10 days warning.) and if the said Thomas Meynell doe not at anie tymeor tymes hereafter procure or perswadeanie of his Maties subiects to subscribeor sett their handes to anie petitionnoteor instrument to be preferred to the Kinges Matie for anie Libertie of Conscience or revocation of any penall statutes maide against Recusants

ibid. 1/21 . (January 5th 1605/6, recognisance of Thomas Meynell in £100 to appear beforethe York High Commissioners forecclesiasticalcauses "in theConsistoriewithin themetropoliticall churche of Yorke" on February4th next between the hours of 9 and 11 a.m.)

m . ibid 1/22 . (July 17th 1606, originalwrit of Supersedeas from the Councilof the North to the sheriffof Yorkshire cancelling their earlier warrant for the arrest of Thomas Meynell and his wife for not appearing to answer a bill of complaint lodged beforethe Council against themby Charles Atkinson. Meynell hadjust put in a belated appearanceby proxy.)

n. ibid. 1/12. (undated travel licence to Thomas Meynell for 6 months, from Henry Bellasis, Conyers Darcy, William Mauleverer and Charles Layton with Tobias, Archbishop of York. Oddly enough it is signed and sealed but the spaces for dates are left totally blank Since the business reasons mentioned concern the portions of Meynell's (second) wife's daughters, it must be dated after 1605 when he marriedagain, and probably in 1607.)

9. The Marriage Case 1607-8 .

a. b. Meynell Papers 117. (October 8th 1607 , bond from Thomas Meynell to the King in £100 to appear before Mr Dodsworth , a Commissioner of the Consistory Court at York , on Friday. October 16th, to bring his wife and show cause how they were married )

Borthwick Institute, York R. VIIJH. 383, 394. Cause papers of the case) i. decimo sexto Octobris 1607 / Simon Crakell de Paddocke Holme parochie de Thornton in lee Street in Com' Ebor laborer etatis sue lx annorum seu circitertestis .. . primo de noticiapartium examinatus dicit quod novit dictum Thomam Mennell per xx annosetdictam Mariam Thwaits als Mennell per duos annos seu circiter novit ... dicit That a litle beforeShrove tidelast past was xij moneth and as he remembreth inthemoneth ofJanuaryas

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is articulate he this examinate accompanied the articulate ThomasMennell to a house or place called the Lowsie hill within the parish or chapellry of Huton super Wiske within thedioces ofYorke, at wch tyme& place ... Thomas Mennell and Marie Thwaits als Mennell being free from all former contracts and espousalls ofmarriage weremarried together by one Hugh Iley Clerke an old man, said to be a preisthaving taken upon himthatfunctionofpreisthood in thetymeofthe late Queen Mary, notwithstandingat the same tyme as the maner is nowused in the church of England, the said Hugh IleyClerkedid in the saidplace three severall tymes askeand publish the bannes of matrimony between the said parties before he did proceedto the solemnization therof, wchdoon , they the said Thomas and Marie being free from all former Contracts as affore weeremarried together as man andwiefby the said HughIley according tothe maner form and orderof the booke ofCommon praier appointed and sett furthin this realme of England(added in themargin wch he wellknoweth to be true for that he hath been present at divers other marriages and hath hard the words of matrimony in the booke ofcommon praier used at marriages, wchatthattyme by the said ministerwere then pronounced and by the said parties after him repeated and spoken the said minister did pronounce the said parties to beman and wief) And afterthe solemnization they the said Thomas & Marie have lived togetheras nowetheydooas man andwiefatNorthkilvington wher they have lived ever since their said mariage, in wch said place as also within the parish of South Kilvington and Thorntonwher this examinat dwelleth they the said Thomas and Marie are generally breuted and taken to be as man and wief .. This examinat saiththat their was presentatthesaid mariage this examinat, John Crakell his cotest' , the said Hugh Iley Clerke and the said Thomas Mennell and Marie Thwaits als Mennell Et aliter nescit deponere dicitquod predeposita per eumsunt vera non est doctus instructusaut salariatus nec consanguin' aut affin' alteri partiumnec curat de victoria dummodo habeatur iusticia Signum Simonis Crakell

Johannes Crakell de Northkilvington parochie de Thornton in lee Street in Com Ebor yeom' etatis sue xxiiij annorum seu circ' (very similar evidence; the son of the last, and servant to Meynell.)

ii. Allegatio in negotio pro probacione matrimonii Tho: Mennell arm . /Jan. 15 1607 Dictus Rich in supplementum probacionis Allegacionis super probacionem matrimonii apud acta fact' et ad omne tam iuris quam facti effectum exinde quovismodo sequi valen' exhibuit tria separata

instrumenta inparchiamento scripto unacum copiis eorundem partium viz : litteras subdiaconatus Hugonis Ile sic incipien' Cuthbertus permissione divina dunelmen Episcopus &c et sic terminan' Anno domini suprascriptis secundo litteras diaconatus eiusdem Hugonis Ile similiter incipien' et terminan'; tertiolitteras sacriprebyteratus eiusdem HugonisIle ...

iii. (Copies of Hugh Iles' lettersofordersDecember 17th 1558 in the chapel of the manor of Bishop Auckland by Bishop Tunstall of Durham, Hugh Ileacolyte to thesubdiaconate, to the title of £4 fromthe lands ofWilliam Smith of Esh, co Durham gent

February18th 1558/9to diaconate ; same place, Bishop and title

March 11th 1558/9 to priesthood ; same place, Bishop and title )

10. Other Recusancy Papers 1607-8 .

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MeynellMSS. 1/23 (July7th 1607, Exchequer Courtorder.) Whereas by Inquisition . . . takenat the Castell of Yorke the 1st day ofAprill in thexliijthyere of the lateQuenes Maties raigne It is found . . . amongst other thinges thatone Leonard Brakenburye being a recusant convicted was seyzed for terme of his lyffe of . . . one annuall rent of 20 markes issewing forth of the mannor of Northkilvington . . . Now upon the motion of Sir John Jackson Knt informeing this Court that Sir Rychard Gargrave late sheryf of the said Countye hath distreyned divers goods and chattells lyeingin theparish ofThorntonleStreete supposed to be thelandesof the said Leonard Brakenburye And hath thereupon received vii li. And whereas an Affidavit hath byne made in this Courte this present daye that thesaid Leonard Brakenburye never att anie tyme heretofore had nor att this tymehathany lands tenements rents anewetyes or other profitts issewing forth of the said mannor . . .it is therefore decreed thatthe said dystresse and monye soe taken on anie part of the said Leonard Brakenburyland lying in Thorntonbeingeno part of Northkilvington shalbe forthwith repayed and restored by Sir Rychard Gargrave and that the said lands & tenements in Thornton le Steete shall not hereafter be charged upon the said anewety issewing out of Northkilvington

ii. Meynell Papers Schedule of Title Deeds

(An analysisof the deeds by Michael Jones, 1824. Hesays that Leonard Brakenbury , originally of Langton, Durham , inherited from his grandmother, Ann Neville of Hedlam , Durham 'her third oflandsin Thornton le Street. ' Brakenburywas acousin oftheMeynells In 1588-9 heconveyedto

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Thomas Meynell all his estate in Thornton. In 1590presumably in return for thisMeynell granted him an annuity out of North Kilvington of £13-6-8 . In 1604 the arrangement was that Brakenbury and his wife had life use of the Thorntonestate (on which he had just built a house) to continue to his wife for 10 years after his death, all at a rent to Thomas Meynell of 2d a year. It would appearthat Thomas Meynell concealed the conveyanceto him ofThornton, so that the authorities were led to believethat it still belonged to Brakenbury Shortly after this in fact the Thorntonestatewas siezed for Brakenbury's recusancyand rented .)

iii. Meynell MSS 1/24 (October 16th 1607 , licence to Thomas Meynell to travel for 4 months, on oath by him thathehad legitimatebusiness to raise money to pay his debts and find portions for his Thwaites step-daughters Granted by Sir John Mallory, Richard Vaughan, Robert Hungate and Christopher Aske.)

iv . Northallerton County Record Office, Quarter Sessions Books. July 8th 1607. . . the townes undernamed are inclosed and pitifully depopulated ... Northkilvington by Mr Meynell ..

v. MeynellMSS. 1/25 (September 15th 1607, letter ofthe York High Commissionersto Thomas Meynell.)

Whereas by vertue of his Maties Commission for causes eccles in the province of Yorke, a fine of a hundred poundes hath bene see & imposed uppon yow for your manifest contempt & disobediencein not appearinge before certain of us ... as yowwereinioined . .. These are in his Maties name towill& command yowpersonallie to apperebeforethree or one of us ... at the Consistorieinthe metropoliticallchurche ofYorke upon the sixte daye of October betweenthe houres ofix and xj in the forenoon ... to shew cause why thesaid fyne should not be presentedandcertified into theCourte and Receipt of his Maties Exchequer .. And further we charge yow to bring in or procure Mary your pretended wife and Leonard Brakenburie a popishe Recusant knowne to be maintayned and releeved in your house .. upon paineof forfeiturebyyowof one hundred markes ... Tobias Eboracen : Jo : Bristol : Wm. Goodwin. vi. ibid. 1/26(May10th 1608, licence to ThomasMeynell recusant totravel to London andWestminster on "some businesverie muchconcerning his private estate" for 6 months ; granted by Robert, Earl of Salisbury, T. Suffolk, E. Worcester , H. Northampton, E. Wotton.) vii. Meynell Papers 119. (February 1st 1608/9 , deposition of James Rowntree of Knayton before the barons of the Exchequer that Henry Gamble levied £20 of the goodsand chattells of Richard Meynell of Ness Esq. by a writ of Fifa and paidit tothe undersheriff of Yorkshire )

11. Further trouble with Informers, 1609 . Meynell MSS . 2/11 (March 20th 1608/9 , letter to Thomas Meynell from John Hauforth of Thirsk.)

Sir /I heerebydivers persons thatyouar verye much displeased withmee and thatI have offended you in soe hie a nature,thatnot aniesatisfaxione can beable to weigheagainst soegreat a wronge, as you suppose orrathersffirme that I havedoneyou. Itisfarbeyond my power and be it far beyonde my minde and thought once to dreameupon anie suchmatteras I heere that in generall termes you charge me to have intended against you And although it mayebe thoughtPryde in me towryteofthesthinges unto youatthefirst , in Respectthatyourestimation & worthe doath in soe manie c degrees exceedmee& withall that I have soe small acquaintance withyou, as that I never spoake twentyewordes to you in allmyRemembraunce, yet being driven forwardwithye great spur of Innocencye, knowinge myselfe to stand cleere foranie ackte of thoughtwhatever not onely against you but against all others of yowr profession, as MrRichard Talbott and some others suchlike can witnesse...Iwas toldeof late by a neighbor of myne that you blame mee for givinge evydenceagainsteyou to a Jurye for your landes in Thorntonin le Streete , or yt I had doneyou some hurteorwrong therein. Indeede Sir Stephen Proctor my verie worthyefrendewas in handewithmee about sucha matterand wroate a verieearnestletterto meconsidering the same and dyd affirme in his letter that your landes in Thorntonand Mr Richard Talbottsfarme in Woodelfeilds (notwithstanding his lease not beinge in his owne name) shoulde boathe be presented and founde ; but I wolde have you thinke that I skorne such office and ever dyd yett upon his letter I mett him in Yorke not Intendynge yow anie hurte but to doe Mr Talbott somme good ifI could prevayle soe farre with Sir Stephen, and meetinge with Christopher Bower,your servante, Igavehimwarninge orat leastea tayste thereofthat he myght use some meanes to prevent it, and although Iwasverie unwilling to denyeSir Stephens Requestswhich was to give evydence therein, yet beinge a matter of that nature Idyd absolutelie refuse it, and soe nothing was then done , but Sir Stephen beforethe next Courte daye used such meanes that he gott one of your owne tenands to sett downe everie particuler close in writtinge and the names thereof and thoccupiers and the yerely valewes as he himselfe tolde me afterwards, which was presented tothe JuryebySirStephenand oathmayde thereof byone dwellinge in Threskeat this presente And foryour bettersaytisfaxione hereinI proteste youbythe fayth I beareunto God I neverspokeinmy life anie worde in evydenceeyther against you or anie otherofyour Ranke inaniesuchmatters as is abovesaid ... Syryfyou thinkethat Idoethisoute ofanie feere whateveryoushalwrongemeanddeceyve yourselfe ...I marvellmuche that eyther yourunckle oryoubeinge gentlemen ofReputatione will once questioneupon sucha base tytle

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as to clame those Closes by a dede from Tho : Burton to Walter Knaresbrough ...

12. Licences to Travel, 1609-11 .

i. ibid. 1/27 . (November 26th 1609 licenceto Thomas Meynell to travel to London & Westminster on business for 6 months, by Salisburyand the Council at Whitehall)

ii. ibid 1/28 . (September 5th 1610, similar licence, to seal an important lease for land at Farlington, with certificate of Meynell's oath that this is true, taken before Sir Henry Tankard at Arden Hall Confirmation by Tobias Mathew , Archbishop ofYork at Bishopthorpe, September 10th.)

iii. ibid. 1/29 . (March 27th 1610/11, similar licence, again for Farlington, by Timothy Whittingham, Thomas Davile, WalterBethell,ConyersDarcyand Archbishop Mathew.)

13. Odd Documents, 1612-9 .

i. Meynell Papers 121. A copy ofthe Inquisition PostMortem of Richard Mennell of Dalton, August 29th 1612. On the back, in Thomas Meynell's handOffficium Post Mortem Rychardi Meneli qui multum Familiam de North Kilvington probitate Morum et Castitate Vitae locupletavit 1612.'

ii ibid. 1/178; 2/101 . Various schedules of deeds with notes in Thomas Meynell's handJhesus Maria

ego Thomas Meynell cognita et certa quae inspexi scribo . blesse ; when you are cursed / beseeche, when you are blasphemed Rewarde reproaches , with patience / and hatred withelove.

Divinum auxilium maneat semper cum Menelais de Kilvington: illosque cum prole pia benedicat virgo Maria. et fidelium animae per misericordiam dei requiescant in pace. Amen. february 1601 .

iii. Northallerton County Record Office; Hill-Walker MS.413. March 26th 1618. Čopy or draft award ofArbitrators on the duties oftheparishioners of Nether Siltonto repairthefabric of Leake church. Thearbitratorschosen by Thomas Danby Esq of Leake, the churchwardens and inhabitantsof Leake and Knayton were William Mauleverer of Arncliffe Esq. , Thomas Meynell of North Kilvington Esq., Francis Kaye of Northallerton clerk, Christopher Hall of Harborne, Durham gent.

iv. Meynell Papers 134. (Deed of April 20th 1619. It is hard to think that this was meant seriously The sealed copy bears onlyThomas Meynell's signature and seal Thestyle of the deed is all his own .)

Sciant presentesetfuturinunquam mihi in mentem venisse

aut facta progenitorum mutare , aut iuridicis deceptus (decipi) aut cum lege fundamentali Patriae meae pugnare, sed ambo predicta in quantumpossumet confirmare et honorare. Sat satis doctus sum, nec ulterius id ego discam: quod quicquid iuridici astucia sua contra comunemLegum Angliae inveniunt aut moliuntur, stat aliquando pro tempore parvo : sed statim aut misere confunditur, aut possit confundi , et nullius voluntas tam miserefrangitur, quam eiusqui usus est innovatione. Pateant universis per presentes meThomam Menelaum (Anglice Meynell) filium Rogeri qui fuit filius Anthonii qui fuit primogenitum et filius [sic] RobartiMeynell de Hilton et North Kilvington armigeri pro naturali amoreet affectione quam ego gero versus filium meum Anthonium Meynell dedisse concessisse et hac presenti carta mea confirmasse statimpost discessum meum praefato primogenito et dilecto filio meo AnthonioMenelaopatri dilectorum meorum nepotum Thomae, Jhoannis, Hugonis, Wilhelmi et Anthonii Meynell omne et totum meum his clamen' et demaundam quod habeoet quovis modo habere poteroinNorthKilvington, Thornton in le Strete cum calfhowe, Pickall, Rokesby cum Nesses , Sowarby, Thriske, Anderby Whirnhowe, Sindarby , NorthAlerton, Scruton, Kearbyquae praedicta sunt in comitatu Eborum. Ac etiam omne et totum ius quod habeo in Homesett et Shiplay in comitatuPalatino dunelmi. Habendum et tenendum omnia et singula praemissaterras et tenementa, maneria, domos , aedificia, Boscos, subboscos, molendina , piscaria, venationes, aucupationes, warda, releva, curias quascunque, privilegia et immunitates omnes, sibi et heredibus suis imperpetuum libere, honorifice, pacifice et alacriter in cuius rei testimonium sigillummeum apposui 20dieAprilis anno domini 1619. Regni illustrissimi Regis nostri Jacobi 17. his Testibus praenobilibus Wilhelmo Eurye, et Philippo Wharton dominis baronibus. Johanni Malory et Thoma Dawney militibus. Johanni Gascoigne et Thoma Pudsay armigeris georgio menelao dilecto fratre meo et Leonardo Brakenburye generosis Wilhelmo Penniman et Wilhelmo Wyse servis meis cum multis aliis

Signatum Sigillatum et deliberatum in presentia testium supra dictorum et possessio et sezina et executio Huius cartaesecundumvim formam et effectum HuiusIndenturae captaeinuna parcella terrae in NorthKilvington vocataley orchard et deliberat' Leonardo Brakenbury uno testium supra dictorum.

14. Documents of the 1627 Composition i. Meynell MSS 1/30 (iv) (Supersedeas from Savile's Commisioners in favour of Thomas Meynell, August 18th 1627.)

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Whereas Thomas Mennell of North Kilvington ... Esq. being a Convicted Recusantdid personallieappearebeforehis Mats Commissioners aucthorised to compounde for the forfeitures of the lands & goods of Recusants Convicted within the same and other counties, at the Citie of Yorke xvii day of August instant, and haith made composition for an annuall rent to be paid to his Matiefor his lands inNorth Kilvington with thappurtanances &c. . . and hath also compounded for such arrerages as were due to his Matiefor the same, and therefore by his Mats instructions is nofurther to be disquieted or troubledfor such arrerages ... by anymore Commissionsor other proces to be awardedagainsthimoutof his Maties Exchequer, soe longe as he shall duly pay ... the rent ... Therefore his Maties said Commissioners ... doherebyrequireyou nofurther to inquire of the said lands , nor of any of his goods, nor to trouble him or his goods for any arrerages touching the same . . . but to take notice of the Composition aforesaid and of his Maties graceand favourein that behalfe . At Yorke this xviiith day of August 1627 .

To the Sheriffe of the Countie of Yorke and to his Maties Commissioners of inquiry of lands & goods of Recusants Convicted in that Countie & toall other hisMaties Officers whom the premisses may concerne .. Intrat' cum vic' 27 die Sept' 1627 /W: Hampe Subvic' ii. ibid. 1/30 (i). (SimilarSupersedeas toAnthonyMeynell gent 'being a Convicted Recusant' for lands in N. Kilvington & Thornton, York August 19th 1627.)

iii ibid. 1/30(iii) (Bondby ThomasMeynell to Sir John Savile of Haighill, topayhim£17-10-0, a half-year's rent onSeptember 29th next; made August 17th 1627. It is endorsed in Thomas Meynell's hand.)

Memorand. After thexpiration of two leases for my Recusancie videlicet / off 40 two yeares this is the first payment Towards a thirde lease. Sancte Michaell ora pro me 1627.

iv. ibid. 1/51 (i) (Certified copy of Anthony Meynell's Inquisition, August 18th 1627made from Exchequer records in 1653. Commissionersat York Castle were Sir Arthur Ingram, Sir Thomas Savile, Sir Thomas Bland and Sir Richard Dawney knights and William Dalton arm by the oath ofa jury of 3 gentlemen and 12 yeomen.)

Qui dicunt ... quod Anthonius Meynell filius et heres apparens Thome Meynell de Northkilvington . . Arm existens Recusans Convict . . . tempore Convictionis sue seis fuit ... de uno messagio . . . in Thirske . . . modo in tenura vel occupatione uxoris Horneby . . . Clari valoris ultra Repris xs Ac quod dictus Anthonius . .. seisit est de Remanen de feodo talliat post Decess dictiThome

Meynell patris sui de et in Manerio de Northkilvington quod modo nullius est valoris dictoAnthoniosed post Decessum dicti Thome patris sui erit Clari val ann. ultra Repris. x li. Ac quod dictus Anthonius seisit. est . . . de Remanen. post Decessumdicti Thome . . . in quadraginta acr terr. quinquaginta acr prati et viginti acr. pastur . inThornton in le Street modo in tenure ... dicti Thome quae moso nullius est valoris sed post Decessum dicti Thome ... erunt Clari valoris ultra Repris vj li xiijs.iiijd. Et quod predictus Anthonius modo possessionat est de bonis suis propriis de uno equo pretii xls

v . ibid. 1/30 (Receipt August 21st 1627 of 40s. composition from Anthony Meynell for his goods. On the back a note to Thomas Meynell that-

you are to pay notwithstandingyour bond payable at Haigh hill to pay at Mr Gilbyes house in Yorke for your selfe 17 li 10s and for Mr Anthonye Mennell the sametime 50s Ro : Burton)

vi. ibid. 1/30 (iv) (Similar receiptsSeptember29th 1627 AnthonyMeynell 50s / September29th Thomas Meynell 17 li 10s . March 29th 1628 AnthonyMeynell 50s . /October 1st 1628 same ./April 1st 1629 same )

vii ibid 1/30 . (Letter from Sir John Savile, endorsedTo my lovingfreindMr ThomasMennell at Kilvington.)

Sir/ It hath pleased his Matie to assigne theise Rents reservedupon Compositions (whicharenow to bepaidatour Lady Day) for the furnishing and providingof this Convoy which is appointed for this yeare. If they shall faile to be paied I knowe it will breede a greate Inconveniencye, and givehis Matiemuch discontent, for he hathgiven mespeciall Command, that if any man doth make default of paiement

Ishould rase his nameout oftheComposition. Ifthosethat areapoynted to receiveit be disappoynted, I knowehow much they will importune & Clamor on his MatieAndtherefore lett me intreat you that it may be paied at the day, or before. No man needes make anydoubte or Scruple of eitherhazard or preiudice. And that take my Creditt in pawne [sic] for I have sent this bearer purposely, sufficiently authorised to receive it, and to give dischardge; but if you be not now provided of paiment, let order be taken that it maybepaied at widdow Wilbes house in Wakefield, upon our Ladie day next. And so not doubting but that you will take good Consideration hereof, I committ you to God and remayne

Your verie loving freind/John Savile

I praie you acquaint your Neighbours and freinds whom it concernes with the contents of this letter

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15. Documents of the 1629 Composition i. ibid. 1/51 . (A lawyer's note, madein 1653.)

Yorkshire / Thomas Meynell of Northkilvington Esq. and AnthonyMeynell his sonne and thetennants ... of theirlands 100 li yearely, according to a Composition made with the Commissioners . . . the xiiijth day of September 1629 ; fora lease oftwothird parts of the manor of Northkilvington ... and of lands in Thornton in le Street, the moyetie of the mannor of Pickall . . . found by Inquisition at 8 li 17s 9d per Annum. And the mannor of Sowerby and a Mill there ... not found byInquisition To hold for theterm of 41 yeares, payingethereforeyearely ... 100 li whichpremisses were heretofore CompoundedwithSir John Savile and other Commissionersunder theyearlyrentof35 li

The mannor of Northkilvington was found 25 April Ao. 40 Eliz at 200 li per ann A Melius upon these lands Memorandum thatthesaidViscount WentworthandCommissioners Compounded with Thomas Meynell for all arreragesof the premisses &c forthe sumeof4 li to be paid presently. ii. ibid. 1/30 . (Bonds and receipts for Thomas Meynell's payments oftheComposition rents 1629-42. The set is complete -except for Pentecost and Martinmas 1641. The lastpayment was on May 11th 1642. This was actually a backpayment ofthe rent due at Martinmas 1640, and was paidfor the King's use to a messenger, John Stanforth The King wasthen atYork, and on May 12th summonedtheYorkshire gentryto attendhim in arms.)

16. The Dighton_Case , 1633-4 . i. Meynell Papers 2/137 (ii). (Petition of Dighton to the Council of the North, June 11th 1633.)

To the Kings moste Excellent Matieand his Right honorable Counsell established in theNorthpts. Compleyning sheweth untoyourhighnesand said Counsell your dayly orator Thomas Deyghton of Knayton in your Mats Countie of Yorke yeoman that wheras one Anthony Mennell of North Kilvington . . . gentleman Mary hiswife MaryGraing wifeof Thomas Grainge of Horsley sister ofthe said Anthony . . . and Mary Mennell mother of the said Anthony .. ... wer all arreasted aboute eighte yeares since by one Roger Blanchard gentleman then & yett Pursuivant attending his Mats highCommissionCourt fortheNorthparts for there recusancy and the said Anthony ... Mary his wife, Maryhis sister & Mary... his mother being soe arreastedand beinge about to be carried to the Castle of Yorkeunles they could procure securitie for there severall appearances attthe next high commissionCourt ... whereupponthesaidAnthony .. repaired untoyour said oratorat Knaiton . . .& then &

there did earnestly move & intreate your said orator to become bound withhim as suertie for all these said& severall appearances . & did not onelie affirmeupon him & faithfullie promise your said orator that they would all appeare att the day limitted . . . but also that in the interim he the said Anthony ... would furthwith enter and giveunto your orator good & sufficyente securitie for yourorators indempnitie ... & that he would free & dischargeyour said orator touchingthesaid bonds ... (So Dighton was boundat Yorkin December 1625 in 4 bonds in £50 each; but they didnot appear in court nor give Dighton security The bonds areforfeit and Dighton liable topayup.) yett the said Anthony ... doth nowe most unconscionablie deny . . . to give ... unto your oratoranysecuritie for his Indempnitie ... and for thatyour oratorrelyeing uppon the honest and good dealing ofthesaid Anthony ... entered the said bonds without takeing any Counter bond or anyotherpresent Securitie .. andforthat the said promiseswere made in private.. . and for thatyour orator cannott by any ordinarye Course att the Common lawe force or Compell the said Anthony ... to give . . . any Counter securitie . . . (he asks a signet summons to force Anthony to court)

ii. ibid. (iii). (Demurrer and answer of Anthony Meynell defendant, before the Council of the North, July 2nd 1634.)

The said defendant saith that the said bill is verie uncertaine and insufficient in lawe to be answered unto by the defendant for divers imperfections therein apparant and especially for that it is to be releived against this defendant upon a supposed promise alledged to bemade bythisdefendant aboute eight yeares a goe ... (which is againsttheStatute limiting times for actions of the sort Anthony admits that he , Dighton and RalphBrand by were bound in £100 at Anthony's request for his & his wife's appearance ; that he and Dighton were bound in £50 for Anthony's mother's appearance ; that Dighton was bound in £50 for Mrs Grange's appearance. Anthony's wife and his mother's bonds wereforfeited justbefore Anthony himself and Mrs Grange appeared in court, whereat Mrs Grange's bond was cancelled ) on the 13thdaye of February 1627 forasmuch as this defendant there had made his appearancebefore Sir John Savile kt & others his maties Commissioners for compounding with recusants . . . the twentiethdaye ofAugust in the said yeare& did then&there compound ... it was thereupon ordered .. . thatallfurther proces and proceedings against this defendant and the said Thomas Meynell . . . and all their severall suerties whereof the complainant was one touchinge and concerning the said twobonds ... shouldbefrom henceforwardabsolutely stayed and foreborne .. . and since the makingofthe said order hee

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hath made a new composition with . . Thomas lord Vicount Wentworth . it appeareth soe as the Complainant is sufficiently discharged of the said bond as he thinketh

fii. ibid. (iv). (Dighton's Replication which denies flatly that Anthonyand Mrs. Grangeappearedat the HighCommission orthat her bond was cancelled and that Anthony has made any compositions )

iv. ibid. (vi). (Witnesses ' depositions for the Complainant, Dighton)

(John Dighton of Knayton yeoman says he took a readymadeformfor a Counter bond toAnthony but thelattersaid that he and his father, Thomas Meynell, would promise later to takea counter bond in £400, but expectedtheHigh Commission would cancel all the bonds anyway.)

William Talbott ofKnatonin the countyofYorke gent ofthe aig oflix yeares orthereaboutes. Tothe first hesaithhedoth knowthe complainant and defendant & did or dothknoweall the others persons in this Interrogationnamed . . . To the 2. int. he saiththat on a St Thomas daynext beforeXpemas about eight or ixen yeares agoe RogerBlanchard cametothis examt. , being one of the chiefe Constables of the Libertiesof Allertonshireand charged him to goe withhim to assisthim about his Mats service and this examte went with him and then heshewed his warrantthat hewas to make search in the defendants fathers howse for Seminary Priestes as he pretended, & they enterd the said howse where the said Mr Blanchard by vertue of another warrant from hisMatshigh Commissionersfor causes ecclesiasticall within the province of Yorkedid arreast the said defendant Mary his wife Mary his mother and one Mrs Graing his sister and the defendant and the rest being soe arreasted the defendant sent to this deponent to entreate him to move the complainant to become Bound as suertie for him the defendant Marie his wifeMary his mother forthere appearances beforehis MatssaidCommrs and he promised that as soone as his the defendants father came home he would procure his said father togeather with him the defendant to give the complt a Counter Bondfor saveingthecompltharmelesofthe saidengagements ... Roger Blanshard ofthe CittieofYorkegent ofthe aige ofxlvj yeares or thereaboutes. (Heknewthedefendants butnotthe complainant) ... hearreasted them on warrant from the Archbishop and Commrs for recusancy and this deponent did stande upon that the said severall persons should enter severall Bondswithsuerties ... and oneDighton took four bonds, one for the defendant and his wife, one for his mother, one for his sisterand thefowerth for the appearanceof one Mres Pudsey . .. To the 5. Int.

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hesaiththatthe said Marythe mother and Marythedefendants wifefailed to appeareat the said daye for affidavitwas madethatthe mother because of her aige and thedefendants wife because she was greate with child, could not appeare and hesaiththat the saiddefendant andJaneGraingappeared and were comittedto this Exts custodie and the said Mres Pudsey by reason of her infancy was dischardged as he remembreth and he verelythinketh that the Bonds wch were taken for the defendants wife and Mary his mother were certified into his Mats Courte of Exchequer for hefindethby acts oftheCourte beforethe said Commrsthat upon affidavit thesaid Bondswererespited and a further daye assigned for them to come and then again making default the said two Bondsweredecreed forfeited and to be certefyed ... and upon the releasementof the said defendant andJane Graing outof this examts custodie theywereordred to enter new bondsfor there further appearance and the said Bond entred for the said JaneGraing wasdelivered and because thebond wherein the plainant was bound for the appearance of the said defendant and Mary his wife could not be delivered because [sic] she failed of her appearance , as appeares by theactsof the Courte

v . Meynell MSS. 1/32 . (February 13th 1627/8 , Exchequer Court order staying proceedings on the forfeited Meynell bonds ; now produced in court for the defence in 1634.)

In Libro Ordinationum sive decret. videlicet inter ordinationes sive decret de termino Sti Hillarii Anno tertio Regis nunc Caroli in Scaccarioremanen . ac in custod . Rememeratoris Regis ibidem existen continetur in quadam Ordinatione inter al. ut sequitur / Mercurii xiiio die Februarii 1627 . Ebor. WhereasThomasMeynell ofKilvington in theCounty of Yorkeesquier together with Christopher Bower als Jefferson ofthesame place yeoman& Thomas Hardye ofKylvington aforesaid yeoman as his suertyes did heertofore become bound tooursoveraignelordkinge Jamesin the sommeofone hundred pounds by obligation dated the tenth of July 1624 And whereas Anthony Meynell of Kilvington aforesaidgent sonne of the sayd Thomas together with Ralph Brandsby of Thirske inthesaid County gent & ThomasDightonofKnayton ... husbandman as his suerties became bound to his majestye that nowe is in twoe severall obligations by one of them in the sommeof one hundred pounds and bythe other in the sommeoffifty pounds beinge both ofthemdated the xxjth daye of December 1625. And whereas the sayd Anthony together with William Awmonde as his suertie became likewise bound to hismajestye by one otherobligation dated the viijth of February 1626 in the somme of fifty

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pounds which said severall obligations were soe entred into for the apparaunceof the said Thomas and Anthony& theire wives beforehismajestiesCommissionersforcausesecclesiasticall within the province of Yorke to aunswereto certayne articles which are alleadgedto bee toucheingetheire recusancye. And for that the said Anthony made default of apparence accordinge to the Conditions of the sayd Obligations twoe severallFynes eache ofthemof one hundred poundsthe one ofthem the xxith of Marche and the other thexviijth of Aprill 1626 were by the sayd Commrs imposed uppon the sayd Anthony whichsayd obligations of the saydThomas & AnthonyMeynell & their saydsuertiesand the saidFynes ... have by the Commrs been certified into this Courte as forfeyted. Nowe forasmuche as the Courte hath heertofore taken dueConsideration howehismajestye mightjustlyeand withmost advantage bee aunsweredthe rentes of suchlandes aswere or should bee seised for recusancyedid finde itwould bee preiudiciall to his highnesto awardeproces uppon bondes & Fynesagainst anyrecusantsin casewheretheirlandeswere seised and twoe partes of their rentes thereof aunswered to his majestye and did order thereuppon in michaelmas terme in the seaventhyeareof the raigneof our latesoveraigne kinge James that all proces should from henceforward staye against all convicted Recusants uppon bondes or Fynes certified into this Courte in case where twoe partes oftheire lands wereor should bee seised into his majestieshands& the rents thereof aunswered to his highnes which order was afterwards confirmed by the Courte in Easter terme in the eight yeare of the raigne of our sayd late soveraigne kinge James Andforasmuch as the abovenamedThomasMennyll the xvth daye of August last past did appeareatt the Citty of Yorke before the right honorable Sir John Savile knight & others of his majestyes Commrs assigned by his highnes Commission under the great seale of England ... for compoundinge with Recusants convicted and to bee convicted accordinge to the tenor of the sayd Commissionand ofhis majestyes Instructions therewith & did then & there compounde and agree to paye to his majestye theyeerely rente of thirty fyve pounds for his lands founde and certefyed by Inquisition and is to have a lease for forty one yeares oftwoe parts of his lands belongeingeto his majestye and did afterwards paye his halfe yeares rente at michaelmaslast ... as by a certificatethereof under the hands of John Richardson Clarke tothe Commrs aforesaydappeereth. Andforasmuch astheaforenamed AnthonyMenyllsonne of the saydThomas did likewise make his appearancebefore the said Commrs at yorke . . . on the xxth daye of the sayd month of August & did then & there Compounde and agree to paye to his

majestye the yeerely rentof five poundsfor his lands founde and certefyed by Inquisition andis to have a leaseofthetwoe partes of the sayd landes ... for forty one yeeresAnd did afterwardes paye his half yeeres rente at michaelmaslast ... It is therefore now ordered that all further proces & proceedings agaynst the sayd Thomas Menyll and Anthony Mennylland all their saydseverall suerties toucheinge ... the bondes & Fynes aforesaid bee from hencefoorth absolutely stayed& foreborne to bee prosecutedofwhichthe sheriffesof the Countye of Yorke for the tymebeinge are hereby totake notice ifany proces bee awardedto them toucheing thesame . And this present order shalbee a sufficient warranteinthat behalfe

Fanshawe.

Ebor primoJanuarii 1634/AnthonyMennell Esq. Defendant against Thomas Dighton Complt. This writing wasshowed to Thomas Jacksongent when he was examined on thedefts behalfe . H. Crisling. vi. ibid. 1/33 . (Supersedeas granted to Thomas Meynell and ThomasDolman bytheNorthernCommissionersforCompounding with Recusants, September 16th 1634. This was presumably an additional coversince Meynell and Dolman must have obtained a Supersedeas each when compounding some years before this)

WherashisMatiebyhis highnesCommissionunder thegreat seale of England hath given power, and aucthoritieto us & other Commissioners in the same Commission named , to Compound with all recusants convicted, or hereafter to bee convicted, and allsuchpersons notbeing RecusantsConvicted whose wives are Recusants convicted or hereafter shalbee convicted within the Countie of Yorke and other counties specified in the said Commission, for all debts, charges ,forfeitures, arrerages and penaltyes whatsoever, which are or shalbeedueor accrewingeunto his Matiefor and byreasonof their recusancie, and after Composition by them, or anie other person or persons, for and in theire or anie of their behalfewith us made ...It is hisMaties graciouspleasureand intention,that the persons, lands& goods ofeveriesuchpartie shalbee freed and dischargedof and from all levyes, Trobles , suites orother molestations, for and by reason of anieoftheir Recusancie, or the recusancieof anie other personfor whom they or anie of them hath or heerafter shall Compoundwith us ... And wheras wee are credibly informed by Thomas Meynell of Northkilvington esq. and Thomas Dolman of Baddsworth esq Recusants Convicted, & whichhave Compounded and by diverse others that you or some ofyou by pretext or vertue of some writts, processe or other Charges issueing out of his Maties Court of Exchequer have of late

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levyed uppon, and molested, and doe still Continue to levey uppon and molest divers persons whoe havecompoundedwith us for matters concerning recusancie only, which is contrarie to his Maties Gratious intentionin that behalfe& tending to thegreat prejudice and hinderanceof our proceedingsinthat service, These are therefore by vertue of his Maties Commission towill& require ye that hencefortheye forbearetoLevie uppon, distreine, or otherwise molest or troble the bodyes, lands or goods of all and everie such person and persons as have alreadieCompounded, or heerafter shall Compoundwith us ... Everie such person shewingeor causingto be shewed untoyou a Supersedeas under the hand of Charles Radclyffe esq Clarke of his Maties said Commission, expressingethe Composition made with us . . . And wee do further hereby will & require you that if you have alreadie Levied or distreined anie of the goods or Chattells, or receaved anie Summe or Summes of monie of anie suchperson ... forthe cause aforesaid onely That then uppon Sight likewise ofthe Supersedeas , declaringe his or theire Composition withus ,ye doepresentlye restore or repaire the same to thatpartiefrom whom they were taken or receaved, or otherwise to appear beforeus ... forthwith att theMannor of St Mariesnearethe Wallsof the Cittie of Yorke to answerthe premiss, thatthereuppon wee may take suchfurther Course hereinas to Justice shall appertaine Hereof faile ye not as ye tender his Maties service, and will answerthe Contrarie at your perill. Given at the Mannor at Yorke the xvjth daie of September 1634 . /Signed per Edw : Osborne vice pr :/Wm: Ellis / Tho: Tyldesley John Melton / Kts.

To the Sheriffof the Countie of Yorke for the tyme beinge and to his under sheriff& all other officers & Ministers under him

This is a true Coppie of the warrant under the hands & seales of the said Commrs and delivered to mee by Mr Salomon Wyvell undersheriff of the Countie of Yorke Fran Watts.

vii ibid. 1/34 . (October-November 1634 , copy of petition to Viscount Wentworth, with his answer from Dublin Castle.)

To the right honorable Thomas Lord viscount WentworthLord Deputie of Ireland, Lord President ofhis Mats right honorable Councell in the North parts established, and one of his Mats most honorable privie Councell. The humble petition of Anthony Meynell of Northkilvington in the County of Yorke esq / Humblysheweth

That the petitioner together with one Thomas Dighton as his suertie becamebound for appearance before his Mats high Commission Court at York about the first yeare of his Mats raigne, which bond became forffeited by reason of

the Petitioner not appearing afterwhichTho : Meynell esqr. the Petitioners father did make composition with your honour for himself, your petitionerbeing his sonne & heire & their wives for their severall Recusancies , and your Petitioners father, himself and their saide wives are by acquittance from your honour discharged for themselves& their said wives from all arerages fines forfeitures & penalties incurred by them or anie of them for their severall Recusancies. And your Petitioner for the safety of the said Dighton did beforethe said composition withyour honour compound withmyLord Savile for his lands& goods & all arrerages and procured an order of thexchequer to the high sheriffofthe Countyof Yorkefor the tyme being ... for stay of allsuch finesand arrerages for aniebondsentred into by the Petitioner& his suerties , wherein the said Thomas Dightonis especially named, whereby the Petitioner(as he conceaveth) hath sufficientlybylawdischargedthe said ThomasDighton& he hath never beenquestioned or troubled for the same . None thelessethe saidThomasDighton bythe sollicitation procurement and prosecution of John Dighton his brother hathnot only servedhis Mats letters from the Court holden beforehis Mats said Councell at Yorke against your Petitioner& there by his bill pretendeth your Petitioner promised him counter securitytoucheing the said bond, & hathnot performed with him. To which bill the Petitioner answeredFirst that the pretended Promise was above nine years before And none the lesse thoughby law he might have lawfully demurred & given himanestopage , Yet for dischargeof hisown creditt,if further answerwere requisite he fully answered,first thathe never made anie such promise, & likewise That (as he conceaveth) the said Dighton was fully dischargedby Laweby your Petitioners acquittance & fromall dainger bytheOrder ofthe saidCourt ofExchequer toucheing the saidengagement in the said Bonds, and was never troubled toucheing the same.

ButsoeitisMostworthy LordThat the said John Dighton brotherofthesaid Thomas, making use of his brothers name , doth not onely in his brothers name prosecutethe said suite against your Petitioner , but likewise (as he greatly feareth) opposing himself against your Lordships aucthority in this particuler suite, although he knew of the said acquittance fromyour Lordship& the Order of the Exchequer, doth out of some private spleene prosecutean Infor in the said Court for a Riott, against Thomas Meynell your Petitioners sonne & heire a Youth about 19 yeares old for following his hownds withone servant alone through the yard of the said Dighton havingnoe more inheritance in the Towne of Knaitonwhere he lyveth

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Now the Petitioner humbly desireth that your honour wilbee pleased to take the premisses into your heroicall consideration, & to doe herein as your honour shall thinke fitt & to signifie your honors pleasure herein to his Mats Counsellat Yorke Andhe shall pray &c (Dorso) Dublin Castle this third of November 1634

It appeareth unto us that Thomas Meynell of Kilvington Esq. And Anthony Meynell his sonne the Petitioner (by Leonard Brakenbury ) did Compound for them & their wives for their Recusancies in September 1629 : to pay for the same to his Maty per annum one hundrethpoundes, having formerly Compounded with the Lord Savile for 40 li per annum . And albeit by that Composition their Arrearages were alledged to be remitted, yet there was paid in further dischardge thereof the some of fower pounds, for which we gave an acquittance under our hand But this was onelyin dischardge of those arreares Chardged upon them in the Schedules by Inquisition for 20 li a month, or two parts of their lands forfeited before that time by reason of their Recusancies , and these and none other were the arrearesfor whichtheymadeComposition. Forthis bond in the petition mentioned was and is a debt due unto his Maty, and none of thosearrearesthen Compoundedfor, neitherwasthesameat that tymein charge for anie thing then appearing, nor once spoken of to the Commissionersat the making of the sayd Composition, nor at anie tyme since until this instant,for as we are clearly of opinion, that there is none other meanes for the petitioner to avoyde the payment thereof but by Compounding the same withhis Mats Commissioners , untowhom he is to apply himself. For other differences between the petitioner and the within named John Dighton, wee must referr them to the Vycepresident and Councell at Yorke , from whom he will receave that Justice with respect, which the merittand equity of his Cause doth deserve Wentworth.

viii. MeynellPapers 138. (Papers of the separate Council ofthe North case , October 1634 , Thomas Dightonv. Thomas Meynelljunior, William Wise, BryanCawton& others , for assault and affray in maliciously entering Dighton's garden at Knayton with hounds and wounding him ; £40 damages sought. In January 1635 the defendants pleaded accident , that they were only chasing a hare and that Dighton used violence on their hounds On February 23rd 1634/5 Dighton got an execution for £43 against Anthony Meynell for this trespass )

ix. ibid. 137 (vii). (January 14th 1634/5, in the main caseof Dighton v.AnthonyMeynelldepositionsofwitnessesforthe defence . Thomas Jackson of Knayton gent deposed that

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hegottheExchequer order andmadethe compositionsforthe Meynells. He warned the Dightons of these several times. William Talbot of Knayton gent , who was a chiefconstable for Allertonshire in 1625 , deposed that he was atthe search ofthehouse , and wasbegged byAnthonyMeynelltomovethe complainantwho waspresent as a deputy ofthe constableto go surety.)

ibid. 142. (January 26th 1637, deed of Entail of Thomas Meynell's estatesto the use of Thomas and Anthony for life and then to Thomas junior with remainder to Anthony's heirs The trustees are ElizabethIrelandofSnydalewidow , Thomas Waterton of Walton Esq., Thomas Stringer of Greasebrough; Edward Smith of Esh, Durham Esq., LawrenceSayer of Worsall Esq , George Meynell ofDalton gent , Thomas Nandike of Dalby, Yorks gentall Catholics ,except perhaps Stringer).

ibid 150. (1608-38 molestation ofThomasMeynell bysuccessive bodiesof Commissionersseeking concealed Crown lands and rentsquestioning Thomas' right to own the lands originallyconfiscated for his father's attainderin 1570.) Anno domini 1608. Mense Octobris. I was called (torn) ... by Commissioners for Rents concealed they charged Northkilvington of two shillings vjd.p.annum & demaunded Arrearages ... (torn) ... restricted in a grant maid in the 22 yeare of Elizabeth of 3 farms in Kilvington supposed to be forfeited by my father hisAttainder toone John Garnham . TheCommrstooke knowledgeofmyfather his Pardon & howmy grandfather lived almost vij yeares after& also did taike knowledge of my father his speciall Liverieand ofmy own speciall Liverieand I paydhomage and howI declared ... (torn) ... so I hopewith thegrace ofGod& owre blessed Ladytheir Certificate Recordedwith discharge. (September 27th 1632, similar experience with more Commissionersat Northallerton) Memorand : Annodni 1637 Mensis Septemb: die 21 et die sacro Sti Mathei. These former excriptes was shewed at North Alverton by me Francis Lionis to the Rt Worll. his Mats Commissioners Tho: Kechford & John Tychborne who then & there dismissedme with honesty, Courtesy & facillity francis Lyonis Md Anno domini 1638 et mensis Octobris die primo. These writeings was shewed to the Right Worll Mr John Titchburne esq., who courteously writ downe directions Howe and where the originall may be discharged& soto prevent future trouble

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19. 20. Michaell Chipping gent and Head Constablewas then & there present at Stoakesley

Robert Bell

ibid. 152. (January20th 1645/6, grant of a £20 rent charge or annuity to William Meynelljust ordained priest at Douaiby Thomas & Anthony Meynell The witnesses were-

George Cathericke SS

Gervaise Poole Richd Palliser )

William Grainge / Willm Ebrall / 1632-8, Letters concerning the education of Anthony Meynell's sons at Douai.

i. Meynell MSS. 2/46. (Letter from HenryPygott,DouaiMay 18th 1632 on the progress in his studies of Anthony's eldest son, Thomas Meynell )

To ye worll his verie loveinge and much respectedcousin Mr AnthonyMerkeneildethese. Most worthy

And much respectedcousin , I havereceivedyours without daite by MrGoodricke upon ye 15th of June ; much ioyed to heareofyourgood health, and ofye wellfaire ofall withyou; acknowledge my selfe ever to remain greatly ableiged in all friendlie respecteunto myworthy cousins yourparents,your worthyselfeand myworthy cousin yourwife. Youcommende my cousin your sonne untomy caire wch. (bygodsgrace) shall never faile to performe what soe ever friendlie office lyeinge in my power ; and beleeve mee, worthy cousin , his conversation is such (praysed bee god) as is contentfullunto all and unto mee most comfortable, consydering ye great comforte yourworthieselfemaydaylie reape from soe well a deserving sonne , as ensueing tymes will much better manifest then myfarretoo insufficient wordes. My cousin yoursonne is by his superiors appointed to defende his wholeLogick, wch. taske(Itrust in god) hee will performeto his ownegreate creditt and friends comforte ; for I can well perceivegod & nature have soe enabled him as noe thinge is awantinge if volubilitie of speech doe not wante, wheereof I maike no doubte for yt exercise will supplie ye same accord . unto ye oulde proverbe usus promptos facit The 4 li yousent unto me for your sonnes owne use I have receaved of ye sayed bearer and haith delivered ye same unto your sonns owne handsasIhoppehe willsignifie I intreate youto remember my dearest affection and respecte unto your moste worthy father and mother unto whome (I confesse) I ought to have writt, but in truthe my many occasions will not permitt : wheerfore I crave hee will accepte ofmygoodwillandpardon

my omissioncontrarie to my desyreand oblegation: I allsoe intreateyou to remember my syncere love & affection unto mycousinyour brotherMr. Richarde, beingegladdeto heare yt his oulde white horse is become a younge graye and ye seconde at Barnabie Thus wishinge itt weere in my power to requite your many inrequitable kindnesses , desyreous to deserve yourworthy love and affection as shall well witnesse mywillinge endevours when & wheerein soe ever they may availyou rememberingmy hartielove & respecteuntoyour worthy good selfeand myworthy cousinyour wife ; withmy dayly prayers for you her, yours and all withyou IRest May ye 18th 1632. Your ever loveing cousin/HenryPygott ii. ibid. 2/44. (Letter from John Meynell alias Markenfield, Anthony Meynell's second son, to his father from Ostend en route to Douai, September 17th 1637.)

To the worthie his most honored father Mr. Anthonie Markenfield Esquire these present.

Jesus Maria

Good father /my dutie together withmybrotherremembred toyou and our deare mother I was gladd I hadd the opportunitieto let you understand the mannor of ourwhole sea voyage which in seaven days was finished by the good helpeof almightie god arriveinge saflie at Ostende , and singular protection of our blessed ladie for upon her daeaboutone oftheClocke in the afternoon we landed and to morrow god willing weeintende to goe to Newport whereI hearemyAunt is with the other Nuns fearinge to be too contiguous to the cruellfierceness of the raging frenshmen: there mybrother & I hoopeto gett our blessinges off her. I hopeweshall passe to our Jorneys ende without any great difficultie. Wehave beene sore tossed & tumbled withthewavesandstormesofthe sea , yet was my brothernever sicke, the gentleman remembred hiskinde love untoyou doingewhatfor us thatlies inhis power but alas one of his little dogs is dead a good losse unto him and never was able to managehis dogs after he cameto hunt in Tinmoutheast feildes he was soe extremelie sicke. we are now verie well heer thankes bee to god thus remembring ourduties tomybrotherThomas and my sister and kindlove to the restofmy brothers and sistersmy continuallprayers shall bee for you desiringe our blessinge. I rest

Dated at Ostende the 17 of September novo stilo.

yours to command / John Markenfield

Postscriptum I pray you tell my Cosen my obedience not omitted that the maister of the Shipe took 5d . for the portage of the fish I was glad to customeit heereand am like to bee att more Charges withwagonning it but ifIgoe by Dunkirk Iwill leave it withMr. Kinsman and heshall pay me.

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iii ibid 2/19. (Letter from William Meynell alias Ireland, Anthony'sfourth son, to his father, on arrival at theEnglish College, Douai, October 4th 1637.)

To his loving and dear father Mr Anthony Ierland these present

Jesus Maria

Dear Father /I hopewantof years may pleadea faireexcuse for want of complements, and my weaknesse in learning becume my intercessor to crave pardon for my unlearned lines I was allwayes content to conforme my selfe to the bounds of a domesticke behaviour. but least I might to tediuslyrane at randome and delude your expectation ; Ile leave thistoyour kind censuer, and certifie you ofmy arrival to the place appointted ; I was forced a while to comitt my selfe a littell longer then was nessessarie to the impatience of the Ocean, being hindred by sume adversewinds, but atlenth heaven favouring my purposes together with the winds: I saflie arrived at Ostend,and there refreshedmyselfeafterI had been tossed then affter a nights lodginge Iwentdowne to Dunkirke, where hearing that my passage was liklieto be hindredwith some straglinge soldiers ; I lodged therethat nightand thenextmorningepreparedformyiourney towards Gravling, whereI see myAunt, whoewasnoe lessegladetose me , then Iwas to see her and she being nowin lovewithher ownekindeoflife, desires nothingmore then once to se sume of my sisters with her ffrom there we went to wattenwhere we remained a night: the next day the frenshmen tookea forte betwixt Gravlinge and Watten that noe more could passe that way. Within 3 dayes oure ourney was happelie concluded. The greattest comfort I cane now have willbeto hearesum times of my friendes welfare, hopeing thatyouwil not forget my dutie to my Mother and my grandfather and grandmother withmy love to my brothers and sistersandthe rest of my good frinds I rest

Dattedthe4 of your dutiful sonne / William Ierlande October 1637

Mr raphe lasels hath his love and service remembered to hisgodmother and the rest of his frindsat Kilvinton.

iv. ibid. 2/45 . (Letter from John Meynell alias Markenfield, English College, Douai, to his father, Anthony Meynell, October 5th 1637.)

To his worthie and honoredfatherMrAnthonie Merkenfield thesepresent. Jesus Maria

Good father my dutie and humble obedience first of all remembred unto you, as in parte of the same I will signifie unto you that wee are now comed through with difficultie unto the place of our ayme: and by reason of the enimies

which are within a dayes march thinges are soe deare, that ourolde maister had writt unto your partes beforewe came , that none shoulde come, yet he saide he wolde have sent us backeagainebut that hee lovesthe house well. he takes none now under f. 28, he would have noneto come att thatratewe mightpayother f 24 or twentie fiveI prayyoulettmyCosen dealewithhimabout itt. I hoope we shall keepe in mindefor what we came learninge and virtue, of which appliinge our endeavoursweecannot well faile And I hoopeweeshallbee soe diligent as to gaine the time here, whichwe lost before; soeas you shall I trust in Almigtie[sic] god receave comfort by us, and wee good edificatione ; by which wee shall bee taught aswell to doe our dutie to our supreme parente god allmightye, as to you our naturall parent. I writt before if you have receaved the letter, having taken hold of a false Rumor, how my Aunt was comed to Newport, landingupon thursdayour ladies eve in England, upon ffriday wepassed through Newport, to Dunkirke ; on Saterday we went to Gravelinge doinge our duties tomyAuntethere and havinge noemeanes togoe away that day, the ladie Abbess invited us to dinner. on Munday weewent downe the river to Watton , the same daythat wee came thither the ffrench tooke a fforte and stopped the passage, soe that weemight havegonebacke Againe about ifweehad not comedin tempore. upon Thuresday att night to Aer many are robbed and have thier Close taken from them yett thankes bee to god wee escaped A student of the Irish Colledge whoe could speake Englishe conducted us alonge, savinge us some charges thinkinge otherwise we should bee cutt shorte Upon ffriday weearrived saflie amongst our freindes some especiallie are verie kinde unto us. Wee sholde bee greatlie comforted to heare fromyou when any opportunitiewill serve in the meanetime commending you to the protection of allmightie godwithmy dailie prayers for you and my deare mother desiring your good blessinges I rest dated thefifth of October 1637 yours in allobedience /Jhon Merkenfeild

v. ibid. 2/47 . (Letter from John Markenfield alias Meynell to his father, Anthony Meynell, Douai College, February 12th 1637/8 .)

Tomy verie lovinge fatherMrAnthonyMarkenfield

Jesus Maria

Most lovinge fatherIwithmy brotherweere extraordinarie glad att the receite ofyour letters, whereby weeunderstoode that both you and all the rest of our freinds are in good health ; of which wee sometimes by other events have intelligence, as by a neighbour of yours who writ hither to his sonne and amongst the rest friendlie inserted how you weere

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all well when he came uppe to London ; beinge their as he writt aboute your business . I have beene sometimessins I camehithera little sicklie, byreason ('as I thinke) ofanother Climate opposite at first to the dispositions ofmy bodie but now I am (thankes bee to god) in perfect health ; nethersea nor lande movethmy brother, onlie his eyes are somwhat tender and mine more weakeby soe dailie and much use such asweecannot avoide Weewere thisdaybeinge thursdayat theburiall ofone ofmy Cosens who I hoope (byreasonofhis vertuous disposition while he lived) is gone to heavenafterhis grandfather and grandmother : you knowperhapshisdeath beforeanyofhis freinds : his sensesweertaken away a little before he died. My brother is in grammar and for his excellencie in that Schoole hathgotten the first premiums, I was thoughttohave studied a yeare more therfore described to the Sintaxian Classe. Thus least I sholde omitt any occasionofdischarginge as much as lies in my power a sonne his office , I thoughte to lett you understande our present estate: thus iointlie with my brother remembringe our boundenduties toyouand our dearemother grandfather and grandmother with a most lovinge respect to my brother Thomas and my sister kindlie commendingeour selfes to all my other brothers sisters and freinds : desireinge your blessings I rest Feb. 12th yours in all dutie / John Markenfielde

ibid 2/7 . (Undated copy of a letter in Thomas Meynell's hand, to the Countess of Derby.)

Greate and most worthie Ladye, Roger de Mowbray Ancestor toyowrowneNoble Lord, did give tomypredicessor, certaine Lands adiacent upon yowr Parke of Dowland in the Lordshipp of Thrisk and also hedgbote hogbote, mast for swine and common of pasture in haverishetime which dede wasconfirmed byk . Rd thefirst. The Land I have , theother things Ihadtiloflate time. Nowethe wood is destroyed, and the grownd not Long sithens leased : and I want the fowar last saydprofits My humble suiteys (desirousto have some dependanciestill of the illustrious howse of Darbye) yt will please yowr heroicall honor to grant mesome retribution,but as my cawse in honour and equitie shall be fownd todeserve and Ishalbebownd topraydailie foryowrhonorsprosperitie

Parliamentary Sequestrations, 1645-1653 .

i. ibid. 1/47 (i). (A copy of the details of a Parliamentary survey and lease of Thomas Meynell's estate, March 1645/6 .)

19 Marti 1645

The yearly Rent of Mr Meynells land in allertonshire is 340 li

The yearlyRent of Mr Meynells land in Sowerbyand Birdforth is 64 li

TheyearlyRent ofMr Meynell land in Thirske is 8 li /inall 412 li out whereofwe allow out ofallertonshire to Egleston Abbeyyearely 1 li 13s 4d . /to Mr George Meynell yearly 30 li

And out of Birdforth to the kingyearly 14 li . 1s 6d To the king out of Thirske 2s. Od / in all 45 li 17s. 2d. remaining yearly 366 li 2s. 11d. out whereof Mr Meynell is to havefor his Third pteyearly 122 li Os 11d. Remayneth then to the Publicke 244 li. 1s . 10d. wee arecontent tolettthisfortheyearlyRent of220li and wewill payall Cesses . ii. ibid. 1/36 . (Petitionof ThomasMeynell totheNorth Riding Standing Committee, April 1647.)

Tothe honorable the standingeComittee for the Northridd. oftheCountye ofYorke.

The humble petition of Thomas Meynell of North kilvington esq. Humblysheweththatwhereas yourpetitioners Lands and goods were sequestratedfor his Recusacye And whereas Mr Michael Chippinge of Knaton became suerty for your petitioner for his Inventoryed goods, and arrears of Rents whichhe hathaccordingly fully payed to the use ofthestate as by acquittances appears : That the said Mr Chippingefor his indemnitye byyour petitioners Consent did farme allyour petitioners Lands within the wappentacke of Burdforth & Allerton for the last year at 220 li. per annum out ofwhich rent he wasto have allowed the pensiondew to theViccarof Thornton in theStreete and also all Assessments Billitts& all other extraordinaryCharges occacioned by this warre.

Thatyourpetitioners other Lands Lyinge in Hallikeldvizt. in Nesse & Pickall were lettenlast year at 63 li rentwithout any Defalcion for Assessments or other Charges save onely a third part of the said Rentto be payed by thefarmes thereof to your Petitioner accordinge to ordinance ofParliament .

Your petitioners humble suite is that you will admitt the said MrChippinge Tenant to all your petitioners Lands inall the said Rydinge at a reasonableRate.

And your petitioneras most bounden shall dayly pray&c 17 Aprill 1647 By the Committee of Sequestration for the Northridd of the Countie of Yorke.

Upon consideration ofthe desireof MrMichael Chipping to be tenant to Mr Thomas Mennells estate in Northkilvington Thirske Sowerby andAinserby Thornton in the streetefor his year It is ordered that he shalbe admittedtenant thereunto for one whole year fromLadydaylast under the cleareyearely

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rentoftwohundred poundstobepaid cleareinto theCommon wealth at Mich: and Ladyday after by even and equall portionsover and above Mr Mennells third free rents assessments and all out charges whatsoever and he is to givegood securityfor thisrent. Clement Reed.

iii. ibid. 1/37 . (May 1647 , further petition to theCommittee by Thomas Meynell )

humblysheweththat whereas allyourpetitioners Lands in Nesse and Pickall were Farmed thelast year for theClear Rent of42 li over & aboveyour petitioners Third& allother Charges &c Your petitioners humble suite is that he may have the mansion house orchard and garden & Third part of the premisses setforthinseveralty accordingeto ordinanceof Parliament . And that he may be tenant of the other two partes at a reasonable rent for the maintenance of himselfe and great family, And he will give good securityfor the Rent

...Your petitionerhath three cottagesin AynderbySynderby and Scrooton whereof he humbly prayethto be Tenantalso.

8 May 1647 By the Committee of sequestrators for the Northridd of the Countie of Yorke.

Upon the desireof Mr Thomas Mennell to be tenanttothe two sequestered parts ofMr Mennellsat Pickall and Nesse and three cottagesinAinderbySinderby & Scruton for thisyeare It is ordered that he shalbe admitted tenant thereunto for onewhole yearefrom Ladydaylast according tothecourseof husbandry undertherentoffowerscorepoundsto bepaidcleare unto theCommonwealth at Mich: nowe & Ladydayafterby even & equall portions over & above all assesments fifts thirds& outcharges whatsoever& he is to give goodsecuritie for the rent & by consent Lawrence Browne is to have his farme for this yeare provided that the said thre cottages be not of greater value than threpounds.

iv. ibid. 1/31 . (An undated memorandum on the manor of Sowerby, in Thomas Meynell's hand It clearly belongs to 1647.

Sir)Tho. Lascelsquondam Lord of Sowerby did lease away fortwo thousand yeares to the gregarian inhabitantsthereof reserving only the Inheritance Royalties and A verie small rentfor sogreat anextint. Tho : Meynell is now lordthereof and being in the ruins of time, the now inhabitantsvulgar Plebians presumed to assess the true Landlordfor this little reservedfreRentas though he had bene oneofthem Coridons. they are Rich & Subtill and thoughmost of the Committee thought it was not Reasonablefor that Noble & learned gent Sir Thomas Harrison affirmed it to beAgainst Lawe& Reason yet Sir Paule Neale and MrNorton got it made good. Itif would please this honorable Committee to consider ofitI

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will dayly pray for them . The lords Rent at Sowerby was never assessed or questioned untill these late newe times for there is paid out ofit 14 li odd moniesyearlyto theKing.

The Bushhoppes Tenants were never so unkindeor foolish to assess there Lords Rent. The very Business was lately Arguedat the Honorable Board of Committee in the caseof my Lord Fairfax touchinge Sheriffe Hutton rentdewto the Bpp & nowe to the state when it was denyed thatthe said rent being about 10 li per annum should not contributein any propertion to defence or [sic] v. ibid . 2/16 . (June 21st 1647 , letter of the Sowerby tenants to ThomasMeynell, their lord )

Sir /Wee presumeyou are not ignorant what proportionof souldiers is allotted to the Towne of Sowerby and in what manner the Towne (forthe more Ease& lesser Charge) hath agreed with them. Wee desyre to know your resolution, whether you will Choose to pay a voluntarie Contribution towards themaintenance ofthesaid souldiers& befreed from Quarter, as all men els in the Towne, or yt have lands& rents in ithavewillingly & neighbourly Chosen to doe ,Oryow will Quartersoe manie as Comes to your proportionbothfor the tyme paste & for to come Yf yow resolve upon the Former (as yow did when Captaine Scudamore had his Quarters amongst us) these men which wee have now sent , nor anie els in the behalfe of this Towne shall trouble yow, otherwyse they must stay and Quarter withyow till further Order Wch wee leave to your Consideration and Rest Sowerby this 21thofJune 1647Yourassuredlovinge frends Richard Wright Raiphe HuthwaiteWillm Somer vi. ibid. 1/42 . (June 1647, petition by Michael Chipping to the North Riding Committee for Sequestrations, concerning Sowerby.)

... humblysheweth that whereas your petitionerisfarmer tothe state ... ofafreeor fee tarmeRent for the Recusancyeof Thomas Meynell Esq dew untohim as Lord oftheMannor of Sowerby That thesame renthathnever hertofore benelyable toany assessments, Costs orotherCharges ymposedupon the said Tenure norContributaryto the same within the memory of man neyther have this Board thought fitt that Rents of that nature should contributeto assessments and Billitts, as your petitioner is Informed, the Lord of the said Mannor paying to the kinge a great free Rentout of the same Now forasmuch as theInhabitantsofthe saidTenuredoeearnestlye presse your petitionerto Contribute or free himselfby order of this Board knowinge well that this Board have declared thatthey have noe power to give Order in businesses ofthat nature & therefore Threaten to Compell your petitioner thereunto by the power of the Souldiers which would tend

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aswell to the damage of the Commonwealth as of your petitioner. It is most humblye desired that in Charity, for avoyding the inconveniencyesthat may ensew , that you will please to Deliver your sence and opinion touchinge the premisses , and what the processe & proceedinges of this Board hath bene in Rents of this nature, to which your petitionerisConfident that the parties will submitt&resorted hither to that purpose.

26 Junii 1647 By the Comittee of sequestrations for the Northridd : Com : Ebor:

Forsuch Rents as are mentioned in this petition, thisComitteedidnever chargethem at all, withanybillettinges and doe declare there opinions accordingly.

Clem : Reed .

vii ibid 2/17 . (1647, billetting order for North Kilvington.)

Endorsed For Ensigne Jackson att Allerton these. Ensigne / MatthewRawwantingquarters, there is quarters att North Kilvington for 6 souldiers : yow may send him theather and agree withthem for the other five, att 3s. 6d. aweeke: and receaveit ofthem : as assistantquarters : this is all for the present& soe I remaine ...

7 ber 1647 Your Lovingfreind/ Tho : Davile

viii ibid 1/38 . (October 8th 1647, receipt by the sub-sheriffof Yorkshire , John Humfry, of £100 from the tenants of the sequestrated estate of Thomas Meynell, composition rent for two parts of his estate for the year 1646.)

ix. ibid 1/39. (March 14th 1647/8, lease order of the whole estate to Hugh Meynell )

By the Commissionersof sequestrationsfor theCountyof Yorke & Citty & County of Yorke & towne & County of Kingston upon Hull.

Whereas by Act of parliament the 25 Jan. last & by perticuler instructions , In pursuance thereof fromthe Committee at Goldsmiths Hall, wee are auctorised to let papists & Delinquents lands & estates Knowe all men by thesepresents that accordingly weedoe demisefor a yearefromthe25Mar: instant unto Mr. Hughe Mennell of Kilvington, theestate of MrTho : Mennell at Kilvington, Thirsk, Sowerby, Ainderby, Screwton, Nesse, Pickall, Allerton& Knaytonto ploughenoe freshgrounde nor cut anywood, under the yearlyRentof250 pounds over & above all thirds & assessments & otheroutcharges whatsoever , & the rent to be paid at Mich: next& the25Mar: nextunto MrRymere who isappointed Treasuror generall, & he is togivegood security for the Rent, & payup his arrearesif any be due within 14 dales or else this lease to bevoyd Witness our hands& seales the 14 Mar: 1647

John Geldart Tho: Dickinson Jo: Odingsell Ra:Rymere.

x.

ibid 1/40 . (March 1648 , petition by Thomas Meynell )

To the honorable the Standing Committee for the NorthridingoftheCountie ofYorke. Thehumble petitionofTho: Meynell of Northkilvington in the Countye . . . Humbly sheweth that your petitioner being admitted Tenant to his land at Nesse & Pickallfor this last yearewas topaytherefore Cleare to the state 80 li besides all Cessments Billitts out Charges & his own third parte.

One Lawrence Browne who had intruded intomore then a fourth part of that land and had Inioyedit a year and more not paying one penny Rent to your petitioner towards his maintenance was admitted Tenant to that Grownd lastyear byConsentofthe Board & hathnot paid one penny Rentyet forthesame so that by Counsaile yourpetitionerwas advised to distreine his goods, his tearme being now endedand hath them in fould Readie to starve.

Your petitioners Humble suite is that your Honors wilbe pleased to give order that some present Course maybehad in it

That he may pay proportionablyfor that grownd as other tennants doe for the like, whereby your petitionermay be Inabled to performe his Ingaigment ..

Mar 31 1648 By the Comm: of Sequestrationsfor the North Ryd :

... Upon consideration of the Cause of Lawrence Browne About his rent the last year at Nesse & Pickallit is ordered thathe shud payAfter the proportion of a Fift partofthe landletten there unto Mr Meynell, and he is to payMr Meynell his third part oftheFiftfor his Recusancie and then the goods areto be Restored.

xi. ibid. 2/13 . (Letter to Thomas Meynell on Cold Kirby, March 1647/8 .)

Sir /I receivedyourletterfromJohn King&Wm Lumley, where you desirethey maywithmy leave still continue tenants toyourland in Cold Kirby. I am verywellpleased they be soe . Ifyou please to lett it soe, that I may havetithes in kind. If you please to stocke and occupy it yourselfe ,Iam willing yow pay after the former agreement. If for the present yowcannot soe fitly stocke it, soe yowe lett itthatI may receive tithes in kind, & afterwards take it into your ownepossession I desire then our former agreementstillstand betwixt us. Ifyow please to lettit mee afterthesamerate yowlettitthem, to avoid all Controversies,Idesireto beyour tenant. my desire is to havemydue in freindlysortwithout your damadge yow were consenting to observe some of these my proposition at my last being with yow, nor doe I apprenend howyow can dislike themnow. soe takes leave /Siryour very loving freinds / Tho : Caley T. Wayte Stillington20. Mar. 47.

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I pray present my best respects & service to Mr Mennell your sonn. xii ibid 2/14 . (Another letter on the same subject, no date.)

Sir / The matterof tythes ofyourlands in Cold Kirbieisnot

yet determined your tenants there seame very desirous it were fully concluded, yett are very loath to pay tithes in kind, whichI persuade myselfe yow will advise them to, in regard the Composition rent for tythes was onely to bepaid when yow kept it inyourown occupation yourtenants may not expect that freedome; If they might a great inconvenience (as well as losse) would fall to my fatherin lawe . SirI intend Godwillingto be atKirbie Munday after StPetersday & perhapsmy father in lawe ; I should be glad to meet one from yow, perhaps we may compose it. I imagine yow remember his propositions to yow which yow did conceive were reasonable with my best respects to your sonn Mr Anthony I take leave & rest

Sr your most humble servt /T : Wayte xiii. ibid. 2/15 . (March 27th 1647 , Thomas Meynell to an unnamed neighbourpresumably a Catholic )

Jesus Maria

WorthySir/yourhonestand industriouse Servant MrEdward Etonwasveryearnestto havehad ofmethat stufewhich men doelaborforbothby Sea and Land CourteouseSir I much desirethatyou&I maybe as dearin charity, love & affection asmylandsand yourlease areinproximity Iwellhopethat your selfe or Mr Sterky (to whome in humility I heartely commendme) will conceiveof suchreason as Edward Eton is not able to reach unto. At this instantI am in theruinsof time and very indigent, yet will I ever referr my selfeto be orderedbywiseand civill neighborsnot doubtinge butyouor MrSterkie and I shall loveinglyfinishe a greatermatter. He leaves to write that will constantly remaine your frend to serveyou

Tho : Mennell

Kilvington March the 27 1647

xiv ibid. 2/28 . (Margaret Trollop, his sister, to ThomasMeynell, March 1646.)

Most lovinge Brother, I receaved fortieshillingesfromyou, bythebearer att St Luksemaswhen hee was last withyou ,I intreateyou to send mee fortie shillinges or three pound, if you canspareit Ishall presse as littleas I can , butwhenmy great necessites urges, desiringeto heare ofyourwelfare, with ourservaiceto you, and all yours, daily praiinge for you all, I committ you to the protection of Sweete Jesus , andreste

Your most lovinge and faithfull sister Hardwick28thMarch 1646 Margaret Trollopp

xv. ibid 1/43 . (Petitionto the North RidingCommittee,December 1648.)

The humble petition of The Executors of Michael Chipping Sheweth

That the said Michael Chipping farmed the last yeare the estate of Mr Mennell at Kilvington, Pickhill, Sowerby , Nesse & elsewhere in Allertonshire & Burdforth& hallikeld, that the estate hath everywhere bene heavily chargedwith assessments and raiseingof horse & foote armes provisions to the Armie at Barnard Castle Knasbrough & Rippon, and billetting espetially Pickhill & Nesse, whichlie in Westwode and hath bene sore oppressed, Soe as your petitioners whoe are chargeablewithrent arenot ableto pay the same without some considerable abatement, the two horses charged from them being worth 18 li withtheire bridles & sadles .

Thattheyhave alsoe bene at ten poundes costwith carriadges It is therefore humblypraied that you will considerthe premisses and give order that they mayhave some considerable abatement in therentfor the said horses & otherextraordinarie charges & they shall both pay & pray&c

By the Committee for Sequestrations for the Northridd: Com Ebor: 15th December1648

Upon consideration of the great charge of the petitioner in billettings and assessments at Pighill and Nesse It is ordered that the receiver shall allowe them a fift part of the rent reservedupon these twoplaces over & abovethe fowerth part allowed at the farmeing and alsoe twelve poundsfor twoparts of the two horses charged for the service of the parliament. Clem : Reed. xvi. ibid. 1/41. (Order of the North Riding Committee for Sequestrations, Feb. 23rd 1648/9).

It is ordered that Willm. Nelson shalbe admittedtenant untotheestateofMrThomasMennell at Kilvington Thornton in the streete Pickall Nesse Anderby Sinderby Scrutton Sowerby and Thirske under the cleare yearelyrent of Six hundred thirtie & fower pounds fuve shillings to be paid at Mich: next&Ladydayafterby even & equall portions outof whichathird shalbeallowed by the treasuror forthis rideing and all assessments by Parliament and billettings and such anuetiesand out rents as shalbe made appeareto this board . And if the rentbe not paid within twentiedays aftertherent dayshisgoods areto be distrained and his lease to bevoidand he is to give securitie for the rent with two good suerties of visibleestates. Clem : Reed . xvii. ibid. 1/44 (Petition to the Committee , Marcy1649)

The humble petitionof the Executors of Mich: Chippinge Sheweth That Mich: Chippinge was tenantto this Comittee

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of Mr Meynells estate in the Northridd: and was to pay a great rente, which he hath duely paid That Lawrence Browne was farmer to a great part thereof the lastyearand hathpaid little or noe rent The farme he hathwasformerly 4: li rent a yeare. It is prayed that you would settdowne what rent he shall pay for the last yeare And they shall pray&c.

2nd Martii 1648. By the Comittee for Sequestration for the Northridd : Com: Ebor: Let Lawrence Browne see this Petition& he with some for the petitioners are requested to appeare here this day senight and upon hearinge both parties the rent shall be made certaine. Clem : Reed Cler : xviii ibid. 2/18. (Undated letter from Edward Gray to Thomas Meynell )

Sir / I have diverse tymes written to yow touchinge the moniesremaininge in your handes upon the rent Chardgebut have nott received that satisfactorie answeare that I would wish or desyre, once more therfore lett me intreateyow, in regard yt is alotted to satisfie good& Conscionableingagements, that yow will take course to satisfie the xviii li. due att my Aunts death, and for what ys due since, in regard I perceaveyow ly under thegenerall pressure we willresolveof some Moderate course, and yfyow or one for yow could give me a meetinge in some Convenient place, wemighttakesuch course as the present necessities of both sydes doeth mainly require. I shall desyreto hearefromyowwith asmuchspeed asyow cann , that some finall Issuemay beput tothisbusines. In the meane tymeshall rest, Sir, your assured freind& Servant /Edward Graye. xix. ibid. 2/19 . (The same to the same, April 1649.)

To my Worthie and much esteemed freind Thomas Mennell Esq. att Kilvington in Yorkshyre these.

Sir/I have diversetymes written toyowabout themonyes remaining inyour handes out ofwhichsome are tobesatisfied that cannot wellwantyt. now Sir as I am very unwillingto presse yowtooseverelyin these tymes ofstraitnes, apprehending your Condition to be otherwyse then I desyre, soe I doe desyre yow to meete me in a way of Indifferencie thatsomewhat satisfactorie may be done, to stopp a more seveare Course which cannott be avoydedyfsome reasonablesatisfaction benottthoughtof. I praye yowtherfore Sir value your owne ease & Chardge so much as thinke of some proportion indifferent and reasonable that may stopp any present indeavour preiudiciallto yow, and as I have ever bene one that doeth acknowledgethat I ought yow a greate deale of respecte, soe I shall nott be willinge to favor a course of extreems in this busines but give my selfe assurance thatyow will be Consonant to a Conscionable indifferent course

Whereof Iwillmake nodoubt, soe desyring to heare fromyow as speedyly as yow cann, with my service to yow rests, Sir Your assured freind& humble Servant /EdwardGraye 6th Aprill 1649

xx. MeynellPapers156. (A series of papers concerningarecalcitrant tenant at Scrutona case apparently running from 1646-9 )

(a) Februarii18th 1645 / By the Standing Committeeforthe north Rydeing in the Countie of Yorke.

Let MrMennell see the petitionand forbear to prosecut the petitioner , in regard he is a convicted recusantor els appeare before us heare and shew good cause to the contrarie and it is required the petitioner shall account for his rent to the sequestrators.

(b) Anno domini 1647 mensis Aprilis / Stephen Kitchin & Robert Kitchin of Scruton did send one draught with Richard Etherington and Henry Simson who entred into the land of Thomas Meynell Esqre. wch dothlyein the foresaid Towneshippeof Scruton and did plewe and till without anie lawfull Authoritie and the foresaid Simsondid Reapethe Cornein the SucceedingeHarvest videlicet 1647 to the great losse and dammage of the Aforesaid Meynell Christopher Hawe of Scruton is behinde for 4 or 5 yeares for his Rent dewe to theStaite and nowethe Some is 4 or 5 pounds

(c) first July 1648 / By the Committee ofSequestration for the north Rydd : .. . upon complaint by Christopher Hawe that Mr Mennells Agent hath offered to put him out of possession of his house and farme at Scruton with force & violencecontrarie tothelaweespeciallyhisestate being under Sequestration It is therefore ordered that the said Christopher Hawe shall nott be Interrupted in his possession untill good cause be shewed unto this Committee.

(d) xvi Junii 1649 / To the right noble ye Comrs appointed for ye keeping of ye great Seale of England Complayning shewethuntoyr honors yr pooreorrator Christopher Hawe of little ffencott in Com Ebor yeoman That whereas yr said Orr' haveing beene for manie years together a tennant unto one Tho: Mennell of Kilventonin Com. predict' & did about xj yeares since purchase& buy ye right of one cottage scituate in Com . Ebor and paid viij li for affyne& wasatt xli in Charges wchsaid Cottagewas worth per annum ij li. to holdyesd cottage .. fromye dayof ye date of ye sd lease for .. yeTearme of40 years or yr Orrators naturall lifewhereupon yr Orrator into ye sd cottage entred and quietly

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enioyed ye same for many yeares together untill about vj yeares now past your orr' being a very poore & lame man his cottage was chargedwith taxes soe much ytyr orr' was inforced to addresse himselfe unto ye sd Mr Mennell being knowen to bee a Recusanthis landwasall sequestered whereof this cottage was part whereupon yr orr'did forbeare to payhim anie more rent in regard hee could notquietlyenioyeyesame butyrorr'did tenderhim his rent& would havepaid ifhe would havesufferedhim ... to have quietly enioyed ye same from all trobles & ye said Mr Mennell seeking to undoe your orr' did about4 yearespast grant a new lease of ye said cottage untoone Robert Saker for an other valluable consideration & to settlehiminye possession thereof did give order untoone Pallaser& Webster his servantsforceably to breakeopen ye doore of yr orrators dwelling house whoe did breake open ye same & carryed away meanie of yr sd orrators goodes & his said lease and converted the same totheir own use to ye vallue of xx li or thereabouts without rendering any account ... & by such doings outed yr said orr' of his quiet possession . . . whereupon yr orr' became an humble suitor unto ye hoble ye standing committee pro Com Ebor whoebyseverallordersbyym made did order yt yr said orr' should quietly enioye ye said cottage ... And thereupon ye said Saker desisted from interrupting yr said orr' in ye premiss But soe yt ysyt yesaid mennell havingindirectly gotten yr said orrators lease into his handes & being a Recusant liveth ob(scurely?), combyneth with ye said Pallaser& Webster his servts & setteth ym on to troble yr orr' in his possession whoe byallye meanes ye can doemolest yr orr'yt hecannot make anie profittofye said cottage by meanes whereofyrorr' is deprived ofhiswhole livelyhood ...

xxi. MeynellMSS. 1/45. September the 11th 1649 / Recd then of Mr Mennellof Kilvington the sumeoftwenty pounds& one hundred pounds pyd to Capt.Atty& Capt. Best & eight pounds allowed upon theCommitteesorder, & twelve poundswhichis to bepaydby Lawrence Browne makes up his full halfe yearesrents dueat LadyDaylast for his Lands at Kilvington & elsewhereinthe Northridd : I say recd for the use of the publique the sume 20 li Ra

xxii ibid 1/47 . 1649 Rymere. (Rough accounts for the estate for 1649.)

The whole halfe yeare Rent is The Third is pd by Willm Nelson pd by Mr Saltmarsh 318 li 106 85 20

40 li still owing on 1649

Kilvin& Thornton Piccall yeare. 19 10-0 8-17-10

Sinderby

Sowerby 10-0 1-2-4

Thirske 13 -6

Kearby 9-2

MrsTrollop

person wage

Mr Geo : Meynell 15- 0-0 6- 0-4 418 0

Sowerby, Kilvingtone

Charles Dunninge

Byshopp rent

Kearbytithe and Kilvingtonetithe

there will remain about 73 two parts of thatis

00

-4 17 -8 10-0 0-0 49318 li our whole estate is in thehalfe yeare Wehave paide 85 11 My sisters part 40 Browns part 15 two pts of our sessts & out rents 49 the third wththese other 4 somes doeamount 295 there will remain behind 23 23 li owing on a yeare. xxiii ibid. 1/46. (July 1650, petition to initiate the Saltmarsh case

the worshipfullthe Comittee for sequestrationsforthe Countye of Yorke &c

The humble petition of William Nelson of Sowerby Sheweth That in the year 1649 he farmed thewhole estate ofMr Mennell of Kilvington& was to payagreat rentforthe same ThatMrEdward Saltmarsh intheright of hiswifehath for her Joyntureby herfirst husband soe muchLandas atthe

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rackisworth about 160 li per annum, whereforethere isxxx li. arrears to the Commonwealth at Mich: Last & about 40 li cleareat LadyDay last That Mr Holmes yourAgent whoeisnow sentforth to drive for thosearreareswillnotdrive upon that part which is the Joynture but upon the other tenants to Mr Mennellsestatewhoehave paid there rents into your petitioner& forwhome your petitionerhathpaidtothe Receiver And those who farme the said Joynturehave not paid yourpetitionerthosearreares soe as heis not abletopay them . It is humblypraied that yow would be pleasedeither to dischardgethe said arreares because Capt. Saltmarshhath benea faithfull servant to the parliament & not sequestrable, or else that they may be levied where they are due , & not upon suchofthe tenants as have truely paid according tothe Comitteesorder & he shall pray &c

12 July 1650 By the Comittee for sequestrationsforthe Countyof Yorke &c For that this Comittee hathnoepower to dischardgetheJoyntureof Mrs Saltmarsh in regard itwas sequestrated before her marriage with Captain Saltmarsh & she continues still a papist & Recusant It is ordered that Mr Holmes shall distreyne of such tenants as are inarrearto thepetitionerfor such arreares as are due to the Commonwealth provided the petitioner orMrMennell gavethetenants noe order to pay there rents to other hands. Clem: Reed Cler : xxiv. ibid 2/40. (Letter from Marmaduke Jackson , October ? 1650)

Endorsedto mymuch hond. and approvedfrend Anthony Meynell Esq at Kilvington

Sir/I am sorrythat I had not the opportunityto waiteof you before thes tyme, but you must Impute it to my very urgent occasions in my Masters absence my request is that youwould send GilbertWood Mary Palliser & Michael Bower to be hereat three tomorrow morning by the first cockforwee must execute the writt of Inquiry against Mrs Saltmarsh tomorrow & soe they must goe with me to Yorketo givether Evidences. Thesethree are they whichsubscribed thenote whichwee tooke for giveing their testimony. Thiswithmy servicepresentedhopeingthat you will not faile to have them there bythat tymethat weemay havethe moretymeatyorke I humbly subscribemy selfe your most humble servant / Marmaduke Jackson

Thursday morning 31th October

Before I goefor London Iwill waite of you at Kilvington. xxv. ibid. 1/93. (Order of the London Commissionersfor Compounding, January 1650/1 .)

By the Commissionersfor Compounding 21thJan : 1650

Upon motion made by Colonel Humphres in the case of

Capt Edw: Saltmarsh, that hemay gain & enjoythebenefit of his wifes Joynture, & the arrears thereof , & upon hearing ofour former order dated the 16 October last 1650 ,& ye Certificate of the Commissioners for Sequestrations in Yorkshire ofthe 16 Nov: last In answerthereunto & reading of ye certificate of Mr Fowles, It is resolved & seconded that the Joynturedated the 20th Jan : 1636 be allowed of, And that the said Capt : Saltmarsh hereby is allowed all Arreares of the said Joynturewhich have incurred sincethe 24th December 1649 any former order to the contrarynotwithstanding Rich. Moore Wm. Molins. Sam : Moyer Edw : Winslow

This is a true coppy examined byClem: ReedCler : xxvi. ibid. 1/48. (April 7th 1652 , leases of the whole estate to Anthony Meynell himself, at a total rental of £353-6-8 for 7 yeares There are three separate leasesof Kilvington & Thorntonfor 190 li.; for Sowerby for 50 li.; and for Ness , Pickall, Ainderbyand Sinderby for 113 li 6s. 8d. They are in English and in identical form and only the first is given here . The forms are printed.)

THIS INDENTURE made the seaventh day of Aprill in the year of our Lord God one thousand six hundred fifty& two according to the computation ofthe Church of England, BETWEEN John Geldart and Thomas Dickinson of the CittyofYork,Aldermen,CollonelMathew Alured ofWalkington in the Countie of York, Thomas Bourchier and Ralph Rymere ofthe said Citie esquires , CommissionersforSequestrationsin the said Countie of Yorke, and Citie and Countyof theCitieofYork,and theTownand County of Kingston upon Hull ofthe one Partie, and Anthony Mennell of Kilvington. ... gent on the other Partie ; WHEREASthe said Commissioners ... have (according to Instructions to them given by the Commissioners for compounding with Papists & Delinquents, appointed byseverallActs of this presentParliament) Surveyed the Lands and Tenements hereafter mentioned ; and certified the said Survey to the Commissioners for Compounding, who have given the said Commissionersfor Sequestrations directions for contracting for the said Lands & Tenements: NOW THIS INDENTURE witnesseth ,that the said Commissioners for Sequestrations demised, and by these presentsdo Demise, Sett and tofarm LETT untothesaidAnthony ... thosetwo sequestered parts ofMrThomas Mennellat Kilvington andat Thornton with all the Appurtenances . . . (except and always excepted & reserved out of this present Demise, all Courts Leet and Baron, and all Woods, Underwoods, Timber-Trees , HedgeRows , Hedges and Topping ofTrees, other than fornecessary

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Reparitions and for usuall &necessary Fire-boot, Plough-boot and Main-boot, to be let outbysuchas the saidCommissioners shall hereafter authorize with free ingresse, egresse and regresse to and for the said Lestors, ortheir Assignes, toenter at times fitting & convenient, and to Fell and carryaway the said Woods and Trees soe excepted) TO HAVE & TO HOLD ... for& duringthe terme ofseaven yeares . .. fromthe25th of March last past .. YEELDING and paying ... yearly 190 li to the treasurer ... of receipt ofpublique monies ... to be paid yearlythe 29thofSeptember& the 25thofMarch ... over & above all ordinaryCharges to Constables , Church or Poor ; and also yeelding and paying yearlyfor everyacreof meadoworpastureground... whichhathnotbene ploughedby thespaceoftwenty years last past, and shall be ploughed by thesaidAnthony ... at any time ... 5 li per annum increase of rent Provided always . . that if it happen the said yearlyRent or increase of Rent ... to be behindeorunpaid by the space of thirty days next after the said days ofpayment ... it may be lawfull for the said Commissioners ... to repossess the said premisses . AND the said Anthony ... doth covenant . . to pay the same . And further that the said Anthony ... shall not oppresse anywell-affected Tenant there ... nor raise their Rents, unless the Rentthereof benow raised by theCommissioners , and then but proportionablyto that ... (he is also liablefor allrepairs and is touse husbandry as is the custom of his Country). Nevertheless . . . that the Tenant shall be saved harmlesse and protected against Judgments, Extents and other Incumbrance upon . . the estate, and that he shall have allowance half yeerely upon Accompt bythe Receivor, by way of Defalcation inhis Rents of two parts of Judgments, Extentsand other Incumbrances or MonthlyAssessments ... and of two parts ofallsuchother Rents, Annuities and Rent Charges as are .. . allowed by orderfrom theCommissionersforCompounding ... Memorand. That it is not intended hereby, that if the Estateshall be Compounded for, or Bought, that the Lease shall be voyd thereupon ; but the Compounder or Buyer is to satisfie himselfe with the Rent reserved to the Commonwealth, and the Tenant to enjoye his terme paying the Rent and performing theCovenantsherein, unlesse it shall be dischargedbyorder.

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North Kilvington : 18 July 1653/ Inventory of the goods& chattelsofThomasMennellofNorthKilvingtonEsq.deceased Imprinis his purse and apparrell xs. Item in the Hall twoe long tables 2 formes & 2 seats xiijs.iiijd

Item in the great parlor table 4 forms 4 stools 4 chairs 2 lining cupboardslittle table ix li.iijs.iiijd

Item iron Range ijs.vjd

Item in his owne chamber standing bed with furniture ij li.xs.

Item one trukle bed & litle cupboard, I pannell chest , I chaire xvjs .viijd.

Item one iron Range ijs

Item in a little Chamber next his chamber standing bed 1 feather bed 2 blankets 1 covering xiijs.iiijd.

Item 1 little cupboard 1 chair 1 stoole& a cushion iijs.iiijd

Item in the Maids Chamber one greate press, 1 bedstead vjs.viijd

Item in the great chamber one feather bed & boulster two tables 2 chaire frames & stooles 1 li

Item in the Buttery Chamber one standing bed 1 little cupboard xiijs.iiijd

Item in the little chamber 1 standing bed, 1 linning cupboard xiijs.iiijd.

Item in ye Nursery 1 little cupboard 1 little table 3 chairs XS

Item in ye lower Garret 2 beds with featherbeds& other cloathes i li.xiijs.iiijd

Item 1 little table 1 stooleiijs.iiijd

Item in the higher Garret 1 little bed withthe furniture 1 little table 1 little cupboard i li.

Item in thelittle parlornextthe great parlorone stand bed with a feather bed 1 pair of blanckets 1 boulster & a pillow i li.vjs.viijd.

Item 1 little table ... 3 ... iijs.iiijd

Item in thekitchen 1 paire ofiron Rackes 2 kettles 2 brass potts 1 little kettle & fower pannes ili.vjs.viijd.

Item 2 paire ... 1 fire shovell ijs.vjd

Item 2 dripping pannes 4 spittes 2 frying panns vjs.viijd

Item in the Lardor cleaver pieces of pewter 1 little 2 tables xiijs.iiijd ...

Item in ye Lower Lardor 1 cupboard 1 beefe tubb & salte tubb xs.

Item in ye chamber over ye Kitchin 1 boulting arke , 1 brakeinge table 1 bailing ... (?), 1 great chest 1 old table 4 shelves iijs.iiijd

Item in the inner milke house 2 dozen of bowles 3 cheese fatts 2 skeeles 1 doz milkehowseshelves 1 little table2 stands xs.

Item in the outer milke howse 2 cheese presses 1 cheese trough 1 churne iijs.iiijd.

Item in a litle parlornext the outermilk howse 1 stand bed a litle table viijs.

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Item in the Bakehowse1 old table 2 kneading tubbs i li

Item in the low parlor 1 stand bed 1 truckle bed with 2 feather beds & other cloathesi li.vjs.viijd.

Item 1 little table & 1 chaire js.viijd

Item in the Buttry 3 basons 1 Ewer 6 candlesticks 2 flaggonsoneBalte, hand bason xijs

Item 3 doz oftrenchers 1 old arke 1 table 6hogsheads 2 ..., 1 funnnell viijs

Item in Mr Richards chamber one little bed with an old feather bed 1 little table & a chaire vjs.viijd

Item in Mr James chamber one bed withfurneture 1 little counter xiijs.iiijd.

Item in ye Brewhouse2 leadsMaskefast(?) 1 littlefatt& a Cooler i li.vjs.viijd

Item Corne in the Lath or Barne ij li

Item Coles iij li.vjs.viijd.

Item in the Garner 2 arkes iijs.iiijd

Item one cooling Waine(?) ij li 1 other Waine with 2 c ... & a cart i li.vjs.viijd

Item foure Yokes, 4 Teames 1 plough with irons & a draught sledd xiijs.iiijd.

Item 1 pr.ofoxe harrows 1 pr of horse harrows vjs.viijd

Item 13 acres of hardcorne xxvj li 6 acres of barleyix li. 6 acres ofoatsvj li.

Item x Kine and 1 Bull xxij li nine young beastes xiij li 4Stirks& 7Calves iiij li.xiijs.iiijd 6 oxenxx li 3oldgray horses iij li.vjs.viiijd

Item 1 Mare & 1 fole iiij li 1 bay Mare, 1 lame Mare ,anda Stagg (?) iij li.xiijs.iiijd

Item 30 sheepe vij li.xs. 14 Lambesij li

Item sealeinge about the howse vj li.xiijs.iiijd

Item linnen i li.vjs.viijd

Somme totall of this Inventory clxxij li.xs.xd.

24. 1653-4 The Lifting of the Sequestration . i. Meynell MSS 2/29 (Thomas Jackson of Knayton, from London to his wife c Jan. 1654)

Endorsed To his very lovinge wife ElizabethJackson att Knaton, To be left att the post Maisters house att Northallerton, all postpayed 3d

My Dear hart | This nyght the three Lords viz: myLord Brudnell my Lord Montague and my Lord Arundell, whoe attended for the Result of our generall petitionmett togive an account what answer they Received at whichmeetinge I was present amongst many others, but wee have received very small Comforts, but they seeme now to be willingeto Recall the Act, and leave us as wee were to continue our Rents as wee did and not to compound at all and this we

intend to doe if the strictness of the Act bee not qualified. As for MrAnthonyMeynell in regard ofthe great respectI doe him, and the obligation I have to that family, and the gratitudeforthat goodwhich wee and agreat many moehave received from them I have Rubbed upp my ould experyence and skill and have found out awayandanInventionhoweto clearehis Land from Sequestrationwithout anyComposition makinge and to save his money. I have acquainted Major Danby and John Wylde therewith , and wee three have consulted with MrCrouchabout it and acquainted him therewith whoe approveth thereof and is veryconfident thatitwill bee doone. This is morethan I can doe formyselfe butitisgods goodness to that house for the great good they have doone , wee are now goeing to Councell about it, you mayshow Mr Meynell thus mutchofmy letter but in regard it is yet butin consult and in the Embriodesire him to take noenotice ofit but onely to himself in particularuntill he receiveitatlonge fromMajor Danbyafterwee have had the adviseofCouncell therein for I am ... .(bottom ofthe letteris cut off.)

ii. ibid. 2/29 (i) (Major John Danby to Anthony Meynell, London, January2nd 1653/4.)

Endorsed for AnthonyMeynell Esqr att Northkilvington present. Recomended unto the postmaister of Northallerton to be sent with caire and speed. Yorkshire nottpaid Hond Sir / Upon Thursday at night last I wasat my Lord Montagues wheare divers moare weare exspectinge for an answere unto the petition, aboute eight of the clocke his lordshipp came home from Whitehall whear he had beene attendinge all daythe answerewas that Sr AnthonyAshley Cowper should draw up an order unto the Commissionersof Haberdashershall that wee should suffer buy a lapseoftyme whichorder was sent yesterday unto the said Commissioners and to command them, that they should not compoundwith anyCatholikestillfurtherorder Manyar ofopinion thatthe two pts. of all Catholike estates will be settled in the Exchequer as an instant Revenew unto the Lord Protector, other some saythat theywill devidethe two parts into three , and the Catho: shall compound for the 2 parts at 3 years valewe and the third part to be setled in the Exchequer but there is nothinge knowne of certaine how theywilldisposeof yow, I am confident that thair will be a long attendance beforethair can be any dispatch ofbusinesse soe thatIintend to set forwardfor home upon munday come a sennett for I doenot conceivewhat service I can doe yowmore then John Wild for he is verie cairefull, and Mr Crouch will advice him what is best to be donebesides he hathTom : Jackson to assist hym. Sr be confident that I would sett all occasions

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asyde ifthat my stay would doe yow anie service. I hopp this will come unto your handes upon Tuisday next. I desire yow returne an Answere of this that night toAllerton if yow would have me doe anie thinge for yow before my comming away the ij letters yow mention in yourlastI have received concerninge ye bonds, I can returne yow noe satisfactorie Answer, but in my next, yow shall have theutmost ofmy indevours for your satisfaction. As concerning the AdministrationI will referr yow unto John Wildsletter. This is allbut thatIam

Yourmost obedient sonn inlaw

John Danby

iii. ibid 2/22 (ii) (The same to the same , London , January4th 1653/4)

EndorsedThis for AnthonyMeynell Esqr present.

Sir/it is the oppinyon ofMr Crouche and Mr Jacksonthat itwillbe necessarie thatJohnWild come home, as inrelasionto your businesse , soe that upon munday we intend to sett forward, on Saterday next we will exspecte horses , at the helmet in Conystreet, god grant us a good iorney, how farre we have proseeded I shall referr yow unto Tom Jacksons letter, who willgive yowan exacterelasion ; Sirfor newes,all theexspactasionnow is, a peace or warr withthe Hollander , yeisterday thair came 4 imbassadors more from severall provinsesofholland, and it is the gennerall oppinyon thatwe will conclud a peace if itt be possible, upon wedensdaynexte thelord protector dines in thecittie, thair is suchpreparation for his intertainment, as never was for any kinge within memorie ofman, thair is a pece of plateof the weightof400 ounce, which the lord maior and ye Cittie geves unto his highnesse,with6000 peacesofgould init ; itsthoughtthathe will goe in greater state, then ever the last kingdid. buttis noe part of my Creed, on thursdaylast a verie strangething hapened, which was tow tides within an hower oneofthe other the like was never knowne but upon ye 28th day of January, 2 days beforethe kinge was beheaded, whichwasin the yeare 1648 /Sir prayCommunicateunto my lordlondoars what heareI present untoyow withmy humble serviceunto hym this is all savinge the tender of my dutie and daly prayers for the health of yow andmy Deare mother, I take leave & subscribemy self/ sir your most obedient sonn in law John Danby

iv. ibid. 2/23 (i) (John Wilde to Anthony Meynell,? January 1654.)

Endorsed for the rightWorll Anthonye Meynell ofNorthkilvington Esqr. these

Jesus : Maria :

WorthieSir/Icannot give youAny Account of my Businness more then that upon Conference with Mr Morley, the Gent his freind not being in towne nor haveing spokenwith him since my beinge here last ; he was pleased to send hisman to him this morning with the propositions I left here last weekeInclosen in a letterfromMr Morley so thatI am forced to staythis dayin towne expecting his Answere ; Idelivered the letter toMrReedwiththe order gave him 5s and desired his favor, his promisesfaire but Inioyned me to waiteupon theCommitteesthis fore noonetoexpect theirAnswere. The Lord Maior Accompanied withall thesheriffesand officersof this Cittie did yesterday with great Solemnitie proclaime Generall Cromwell Lord protector of England and allofthe Bells rung for Joy: The post brings newes thattherare 13of the CounsaileChosen already and 7 more must be addedand itmust be called a privie Counsaile: I send you Inclosedthe news of this post in print Committyou to Swete Jesus and Remaine this FridayMorning 1653 your Servant toCommand

John Wilde

v. ibid 2/23 (ii) (The same to the same, London, January4th 1653/4 .)

EndorsedThese for Anthony Meynell of Northkilvington Esqr present. Jesus Maria Ja: 4:53 London

Worthie Sir /We have here little Newes or none only4 more Embassies from Holland arrived yesterday & the Report goes tends to peace ; we have had more Counsaile in our Busines & still we are put in hopes to avoyde the Sequestration but ther are some things to be done att home forwhichcause I must presentlye come down & beforced to retorne againe . We intend god willing for home upon Mundaynext and if it be possibleto come homeupon Saturday night soe I desire yow to send a horse to Yorkefor me upon Friday night as Mr Danby directeth. I pray Jesus Bless us perfect us and directus in all our actions

YourServant to Command/John Wilde vi. ibid 2/23 (iii) (The same to the same, undated but later)

Worshl. Sir for our principall Businesse which I doubt wilbe longe defered I refer you to Mr Danbys letter. I am very sory you had soe muchtroublein Yorke aftermycomming away but I hopethere will be noe dainger. Your deed from Mr Thwaites of Sowerby was left with Mr Danbyfor avoiding the Charge of the particulars of these rents of Sowerbywhich I acquainted you withall ; for theAdministration I hope you have receivedMr Danbys letter with a Citation inclosed and directions for Execution & Returns. I

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writ in my last that I gaged Mr Danbywould be at home to direct but busines falls out contraryso I think it weregood yourepairedeytherto Farland Stobbard oryoung Wearsdaile That if neyther of them send up theirmen then young Wearsdaile you may procure to goe about it, because it must be returned upon oathafterwhichI hopethat the busines wilbe soone effected. It will be necessaryto put in a Sedall of debtes with theInventory soe that youmay please to sende a note ofthem up bythe nextwhatyouhave done. thuswith my service remembred I take leave and remaine

YourServant to Command/John Wilde

vii. ibid. 2/22 (iii) (Major John Danby to Anthony Meynell, London, January14th 1653/4 )

Sir/ In my last I did promiseyou an accounteofthereference untothepetition, by this post, which I cannot performe, for the last nightIwent untomyLord Montaguebeingeconfident that his Lordship had received an answereof the said petition, having attended allyeisterday forit, but hislordship tould me that whereas he & others exspected a possitive answer they weare put of untill tomorrow, whearupon my lord Montague tould the Counsell that the tymelimited by the Act was allmost exspired, and to relapse the tyme was daingerouse , his Highnesse bid hym notfeare,for thairshould comeno inconveniencie; it is confidentlybeleived that the Answer will befavourable in sume particulars, soe soone as it is knowne be assured thatyou shall have it, with the next conveniencie . Ihave sent youinclosed a letterwith processes and instructions , from Mr Baker, whichI referr you to Sir ifI finde when as I toke with John Wilde that mystayhere will be of service unto you then am I att your service. this is all at present but that Iwill studdyhow to serveyou and my deare mother. I take leaveand subscribemy selfeto be Siryourdutifull sonn in law/ JohnDanby viii. ibid. 1/51 (ii) (Copy of Anthony Meynell's case before the Exchequer Court, January 23rd 1654. The text ofthe 1627 Inquisition, here omitted, appearsas 14 (iv) above )

Hitherto Common business of the Hillary Tearme in the yeare of our Lord one Thousand six hundred Fifty Three Yorkshire Be it remembered that amongst the bundleof Inquisitions taken for Recusants Estates in the Countye of Yorke remaining upon the filein the second Remembrancers office in the Exchequer there is one Inquisitiontakenatthe Castleof Yorke . . . the 18th day of August in the 3rdyear of the late kinge Charles before Sir Arthur Ingram knight and others by vertue of a Commission to them directed the Tenure of which Inquisition ... followethin these words ... Which Inquisition by the Barons here being seene and understooditwas agreed bythe said Barons that twopartsof

the premises ... should remain in the handsofthesaid late kinge untill &c. It is also found in the great rollofthepublique Exchequer fortheyear of our Lord 1653forRecusantsas followeth: viz : Yorkshire (amongstother things) ... Thomas Meynell of Northkilvington & Anthony Meynell his sonne& the Tenants& Occupiersoftheir Landsone C li. yearly according to a Composition madewith the Commissioners ofthe late kinge Charles for Recusants in the northern parts the 24th day of September. .. 1629 : for the lease oftwothird parts ofthe mannor of Northkilvington . . and of lands in Thornton in the streete, the moytieof the mannor ofPickall found byInquisitionat 81 li 17s. 9d. by the year Andof the mannor of Sowerby and a mill there ... not foundby Inquisition, tohold for theTearme of41 yeares ifthepremisses shall soelongeremainein thehandesofthe said latekinge his heirs & successors ... paying therefore yearlyto the said latekingehisheirs& successorsthe aforesaid100li atmartinmas & Pentecost by equall portions, which premisses were heretofore Compoundedfor with John Savile knt and other Commissioners under the yearlyRent of 35 li Thatistosay for this present year And 1100 li. for Arreares as itis there Continued. And now upon the 24th day of Januarye this tearme CamehereAnthonyMeynell Tenant ofthe premisses in the said Inquisition before mentioned and swareth oyer of the said Inquisitionand allso of the said great Roll ofthe year 1653 for Recusants, and the same are read unto him whichbeing read and by him understood, the said Anthony Meynell Complaineth that heis verymuch vexedand molested in his goods and lands by Colour of the said Chargeand that unjustly for that the said Inquisition is alltogether insuffycyent in law to Charge the Two Third parts of the yearly valew of the lands in the said Inquisition mentioned for the Recusancye of the said Anthony Meynell And that thesaid great Roll is alltogether insufficyent in law to Charge him withthepayment ofthe said summeof 100 li. Accordinge to the Composition in the great Roll mentioned to bemadeby thesaidThomas Meynell his Fatherfor himself &for him the said Anthony upon the 14th of September ... 1629 To which heneedethnot nor by the Lawof the Land ishebound to Answer , For Plea notwithstanding in Discharge of the Two third parts of the said Lands in the said Inquisition mentioned taken ... the 18th dayofAugust inthe3rdyear of the said late Kinge Charles And in discharge of the said Composition made by the said Thomas Meynell ... the24th dayof September ... 1629 ... The said Anthony ... saith that thesaidCompositionwasgroundeduponthe said Inquisition taken ... the 18th dayof August in the 3rd year of kinge Charles Andthat at the timeofthe taking ofthesaid

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Inquisition he , the saidAnthony, was not Recusant Convict norafter untill the 16thdayofJanuaryin the fowerthyear of thelate kinge Charles nor was hee at the timeofthetakingeof the said Inquisition subject to any the penaltyes inflicted upon Recusantsby the Laws . . . for Recusancy So as the said Commissionershad noe power by that Commission to enquire ofhis EstateAndthat he, the said Anthony, madenoe Composition with the said Commissionersof the northerne parts nor is he in any way bounde by the said Composition grounded upon the said Inquisition All which the said Anthony ... is ready to prove as this Court shall direct And prayeth Judgment that the handsofOliverLordProtector of the Commonwealth ... may be removed from the possession ofthe twothird parts of the said Lands ... Andthathemay beDischargedfromthe payment of 100 li a year accordingto the said Composition and of the arrears incurred upon the said Inquisition & Composition And that all Sheriffs that stand chargedtherewithor anypart thereof in theirAccounts may be thereof discharged.

And Edmund Predeaux Esq Attorney generall for his highness Oliver Lord Protector being present here in Court thesame day& beingaskedbytheBaronsifwould saye anythinge for his highness in the premisses And havinge seenethe same Plea and the said Inquisition .. . and great Roll ... and for that upon search made it cannot be found that the said Anthony ... was Convicted of Recusancye untillthe16thdayof Januaryin thefowerth year ofthelate kinge ... which was afterthe taking of the said Inquisition soe as thesaidCommissioners hadnoepowerby that Commission to enquire of his Estate Doth not Deny but confesseth the said Plea to be trew ... and saiththat he willnotfurther prosecutefor his Highness

...

Judgment entered &c And the premisses being seene by the Barons and mature deliberation beinge had . .. It is considered . . . that the hands of Oliver Lord Protector . . shall beremoved from the possession of the two thirdpartsof thesaid Lands mentionedin thesaidInquisitionAndthatthe said Anthony ... shall be dischargedfrom the payment ofthe said summeof 100 li. a year ... and ofthe Arrearagesincurred upon the said Inquisition& Composition ... ix. ibid. 1/50 . (Parchment Exchequer quittances, in accordance withthe aboveorderof £295-4-8arrearsduefromAnthony Meynell and £2254 arrears due from Thomas & Anthony Meynell It is admitted that, up to 1642, they had paidoff £1154 of the £2254)

x. ibid. 1/51 . (Another official copy of the 1627 Inquisition into Anthony Meynell's estate, produced in Court in 1653 . But it has official Exchequer endorsements which seem to

reveal an earlier effort by the Meynells in 1650 to void siezureofAnthony'sestate.)

Endorsed A Coppie of the Inquisition on seisure whichis avoyded by Plea

170.Car: 1642

adhuc Coram de Termino Scte Trinitatis anno dni 1650 adhuc Record. per placitum Tho : et Anthonii Menell . Trinitie Terme 1650 270.Junii : pleaded an act of Parliament 25th Januarii 1649: for the better ordering & management of the estates of papists & delinquents under sequestration that those under sequestration should be discharged of all for: arrears fynes & Compositions.

xi. ibid. 1/52 . (Official copies, used in the 1653 trials, of the 1627 Inquisitionextracted from "the boke of Seisures of Convicted Recusants in the custody of Thomas Fowles at HaberdashersHall, London"-and the Composition of 1629 , from"thebokeof CompositionsofConvicted Recusants"also at HaberdashersHall )

xii. ibid. 1/54 . (February 28th 1653/4, the openingofAnthony's case before the London Commissionersfor Sequestrations.)

Upon reading the petition of Richard Trotter of East Harlesey in the County of York Esq., Anthony Byerley of Midridge Grangein the County of Durham Esq., and Willm Smeaton of Hewthwaite in the said Countyof Yorkegent Trustees on behalfe of the Creditors, Children & Grand Children of Anthony Meynell . . . it is ordered that it be referred to Mr Reading ... to report the case to us ...

Io.March 53/To the hobletheCommrs . for managingethe Estates under Sequestration The humble petitionofRichard Trotter ... Anthony Byerley . . . and William Smeaton . Trustees ... Sheweth that the said Anthony Meynell by Indenture dated the 6th of January last did demisegrant bargaine and sell unto yourpetitioners All thosetheMannors and LordshippsofNorthKilvington, Thornton ... & Sowerby ... & theMoyetye oftheMannor ofPickallPakseycum Nesse withseveralother messuages in Thirske and elsewhere ... to holde for fortie yeares from the date thereof (if thesaid Anthony soe longe live) in trust for the payment of the Debts percionsand payments mentioned in the said deed ... That your petitioners havetaken upon them the saidTrustand are ready & willing to perform the same . . . but are interrupted therein by a Sequestration layed on two third partsthereof for the Recusancye of Thomas Meynell father of the said Anthonywho dyed in July last. Now for that yourpetitioners wittnesses are in towne to prove the said deed and the Deathof the said Thomas . . They humbly desirethatthe same may be referred to your Councell to make a speedy

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Report therein, soe that the premisses ... may be discharged from Sequestration for the Reliefe of Creditors and Orphans

xiii. ibid 1/55 . (February 28th & March 1st 1653/4 , certificates that the returns of the various Yorkshire Committees to London and the "booksofContracts of the estatesof Papists and Delinquents" of the York Commissioners contain no reference to sequestration of Anthony Meynell )

xiv ibid 1/56 (Deposition of Robert Pearson of North Kilvington, yeoman aged 24 , March 2nd 1653/4 sworn before the Commissionersknows parties and was witnesstothattrust.) Thomas Meynell . is dead and died upon the 13th day of July last past which he knoweth the better to depose for that he helped to Carrie him to his grave and did see him buried . . . the said Anthony Meynell hath sixteene Children and grand Children and that he did see most ofthemalive verylatelye.

xv. ibid. 1/57 .

Thomas Jackson of Knaton in the Countyof Yorkegent aged 64 years or thereabouts maketh oath that he the Deponent did see Sir HenryCroke Clarke of the Pype subscribe his nameto each ofthese two Quietus est now shewen ... and that neyther ... hath beene in any wayaltered . . . the8th day of March 1653 .

xvi ibid 1/58 .

John Wylde of Northkilvington ... yeoman aged 49 years or thereabouts makes oaththat Thomas Meynell ... is dead and died upon the xiijth day of Julye last past which he knoweththe better to depose for that this Deponent was presentand closed his eyes at the tyme of his death and allso helped to lay him in his grave . . . and that the Debtes and Annuityes mentioned in the Shedule . . . are realand Trew Debts and Annuityes which he can the better Depose for thathehathbeene a servant tothesaidThomasandAnthony Meynell by the space of 28 years now last past and was privy to thefirstContractinge ofthe respectiveDebts therein mentioned and hath known the Annuityes. payed and continewed for divers years and verely believeth in his conscience that they are yet of force and unredeemed . . . he further saith that the said Anthony Meynell hath sixteene Children & Grand Children .. . and he is verely perswaded in his conscience that none of these sixteene have had any portions hithertopayedthem whichhe can the betterspeake unto for that he hath beene a long tyme Agent for the said Thomas & Anthony in the managementof their Estates and that a great pt of their Receipts and disbursements have gone through this Deponentshands .. 8thdayofMarch1653

xvii ibid 1/58A . (Certificate by Wild of payment by Anthonyof his father'sfarm rents to the Sequestrators.)

October 27th 1653 / Recd of Mr. Ant: Meynell ye Summe of 70 li 12s. 7d. in full of his rent due at Michmas : Lastfor Thomas Meynell Esq his Sequestered Estate at Thornton in lee Street& North Kilvington I saye recd for the use of the publique.

Deducted p.2/3 Sessts . 11-5-6 Ra: Rymere p . p'sons sallary p.2/3 fre rent 2-18-5 1-7-3

Acqt fro Geo. Meynel 8-16-3 recd 70-12-7

95-00-00

Recd, more in Consideration of Assessts for free rents & parsons sallary 8s 2d October 28th Anno 1653/ Recd from John Wyld of Anth: Meynell Esq ye Sum of fifty pounds ten shill : and foure pence in full of his rent dueat Michmas : last for Tho : Meynell Esq his Sequestered Estate at Pickall Nesse Aynderby& Synderby I sayrecdp ; use ofyepublique.

Defalked p 2/3Assts Ra : Rymere recd 6 3 0 50 10 4

56 13 4 summ

xviii ibid 1/58B. (March 9th 1653/4 reference of the Trustees' petition to the York Commissionersfrom London for comment and documentation). xix. ibid. 1/59 . (The answerof the Yorkshire Commissioners .) Gent./ In pursuanceofyourOrder ofthe 9th March instant upon the petition of Richard Trotter . . . Anthony Nyerley ... and Willm Smeaton . . . wee have made a searchofthe books of the late North Ridinge Committee and oure owne but doe not fynde the said Anthony Meynell Sequestered eyther for Recusancyeor Delinquency but that the Estate . . nowe Claimed by the Trustees hath beene hitherto sequestered and that since 1644 for the Recusancye of Thomas Meynell Esq deceased . . for Recusancye onely during his life and being on auld man and blinde longe before his death That Estate was farmed by Anthony Meynell hissonneand heire whoe was + hithertosequestered for Recusancyebecause the Estatewas always takennotice of as his fathers the said Anthony not Clayminge all or any part ofthe Estate, upon the Deathof his father (there being noe order for discharginge of it) wee continewed it under sequestration, And the sayd Anthony payed in the Rents dew at Michmas : after But whether he bee Convicted or noe legallyin the Sessions wee knowe not but weeconceive

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heeis, beingeabout Sixtyeyears ould and alwayes Reputed a papist but wee Conceiveneyther ofthem to bee delinquents and thus Rest

Your most humble servants/ Tho: Bourchier Ra: Rymere Yorke 240. March 1653 A true Coppie28th March 54 J : Baylye

I received inclosed in Mr. Reeds letter Dated the 22th of Aprill 1654 another coppie out of the original verbatimwith thissaveonelytheadditionofthe word / not | at themarke + above. And the CommissionersCertificate under the said Coppie in these words Followinge

This is a trew Coppie of the Originall how ever if the word not in that we sent be mistaken as wee are informed by Mr Jackson yet it ought to bein. Tho. Bourchier Ra : Rymere (dorso) A coppie ofMr Reeds letter indorsed thus

For Mr Thomas Jackson at the Gloabe in Stanhopestreet at Mr Joyners house a Joyner there. London these Sir I confesse the word / not in the certificatefor Mr. Trotter& others about MrMeynells Estate is a materyall word and was clearly mistaken as appears by the originallremainge with my Maisters And I have therefore Coppied it over againe And the Commissioners have Certified under it that it is now trew, and the leaving out was a mistake which Certificate I send you here inclosed and Remaine / Your Ready frend to serve you / Clement Reed. Yorke 22 Aprill 1654.

xx. ibid. 1/59A. (March 7th 1653, certificateof the LondonCommissioners' clerk as to papers of the case, supplied to Mr. Crouch.)

xxi ibid 1/60. (April 11th 1654, affidavit of John Pickersgillof Masham High Maines, Yorksgent, aged 27, an agentemployedbyAlderman Leonard Thompson ofYorkand hisbrotherthat Anthony Meynell really did borrow upwards of £1000 from the Alderman , in return for a rent charge of £220 a year for 8 years out of the Meynell estate. Pickersgill counted out and delivered £1000 to Meynell's servant.)

xxii. ibid. 1/61 . (April 27th 1654, certificateof Sir Henry Croke, Clerk of the Pipe, at the request of the trusteesthat the facts adducedby them are true.)

xxiii ibid. 1/62 . Endorsed Sir Orlando Bridgmans opynyon

In the case ofMrAnthony Meynell as it appearsuponthe report ofMr Reading I conceive: First that the Inquisition and seizure for his recusancy before hee was convicted are voyd in themselves and being discharged by plea in the exchequer are now as if they had never beene

2ly. When the land was sequestered for his fathers recusancy the cause of sequestration and so de jure the sequestration itselfe ceaseth by his death, although de facto the sequestration will not bee taken off without order from the Commissioners for Compounding, as in like case where the King had a possession regularly, without an Amoveas manum the party had not possession restored to him. But this case is much stronger then the ordinary Case of a Recusant sequestred, for the father whoseestate was sequestred was but tenant for life and so the estate which was sequestredis by his death determined.

3. The sequestrations for the recusancy of Thomas the father can not hinder or disable Anthony from selling or Conveying his estate either duringthe life ofafter thedeath of Thomas, forby this sequestration the State, as I conceive , gaynes not an estate but a title to the perception of the profitts as in the case of a seiser for Contempt on the lands of a fugitive by the Statute (blank) Eliz or the like. And admitt it were an estate yet it was onlythe estateofThomas which determines by his Death, and Anthonys estate remaynes in statu quo (to convey or dispose it) not altered or turnedto a right by the sequestration of his father.

4. I conceive that Anthony having made an estate bona fide after Conviction & before a seisure the same stands good (i) because by the statutes for recusancy till seisure the King had no interest at all in the land, the Stat. of29 Eliz not giving a seisure until default of payment of 20 li per mensem and neither it nor 3 Jacob charging the land but by siesure by proces out of the Exchequer, and the stat. of 3 Jacob not giving a seisure untill election and refusall of the 20 li per mensem, And neither oftheStatutes expresse from what time the seisure shall relate and without speciall relativewords the Acts shall goe noefarther then to the time ofthe seisure or at least thetime of theprocessfor seisure . (ii) for that I conceive there can be no seisureat this day for the penalty of 20 li per mensem is takenaway by ye Act 27 Sept. 1650 And although a recusantconvicted is within the ordinances for sequestration yet the sequestrations reach only the lands they had at the timeofthe sequestration and (iii) as there can be no seisure so I conceive no powre to sequester Anthony remaining at this day in the Commrs . for Compounding, for the ordinance 10 Febr. 1653 gives them power only in case of delinquents then sequestredor shall be adjudged deliquents upon cases then depending and estates then under sequestration for recusancy which last words must as I conceive bee understood with relation only to the persons for whose recusancy they were under sequestration, but if theyhave powre to sequesterhim

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for recusancy yet not the estate bona fide made unless he bee actually sequestred 28 Apr 1654 Orl Bridgeman

xxiv ibid 1/63 . (May 11th 1654 order that Report byReading on Meynell case be presented to the London Commissioners 'this day seavenight'because it is alleadged that diverse Children and manyof them Infants are therein touched. ')

xxv. ibid 1/64 . (June 1st 1654, further order by theCommissioners , afterhearing the Report, thearguments of SergeantMaynard &MrMartin for the Trusteesand Messrs . Reading& Brereton for the Commonwealth, that Brereton consult theMasterof the Rolls for his opinion on the case)

xxvi ibid 1/75 .

Endorsedopynyon of the Mr. of the Rolls Uppon all Questions arising in this Case , I finde the last Quereto include them all Here therefore I am of opinion uppon due consideration ofthis Case, That the lease madeby Anthony ought to be allowed and the Sequestration discharged

For uppon the whole case thus putt, there was noeground att all for the seizure of Anthonys Estate neyther can this seizureanyway disablehimto dispose ofit, for in thepractice & observation in all my time, the Court alwayes proceeded on this ground : If there were a Record whereby the King is Justly Intituled to make a seizure, beforethe proces issue to make the seizure, in such case, until the first Record were discharged, the lawe of the Exchequer was that the partie whose Lands wereseized could notdispose ofhis Land, albeit in our yeare books there are printed opinions to the contrary.

Butt if a seizure were made of the Lands of any partie, before there weare a former Record to warrant itt, in such case there wilbe no disability in the party to Convey his Estate, for then the State should be a wronge doer , which the Lawe admitts not of, but if there had beene a former Record to warrant the same before the seizure , then the practice of the Court hath bene otherwise notwithstanding the former opinions. But in this case there was not a former Record and soe no disablement in Anthony Meynell.

xxvii ibid. 1/71 . (Another legal opinionapparentlyMrReed's).

The quaeres are

1. whether the seisure of Anthonyes Estate beinge made beforehis Conviction doe disable Anthony to make the deed.

2. whether the Conviction after doe make good the seisure before the disable him

3. whether Thomas the father after Convictions of father & sonne Contractinge for a lease for 41 years for himselfe

and his sonne this lease shall disable the sonne to make the deed

4. whether upon the whole matter the lease made by Anthony ought to be allowed and the Sequestration discharged

Answers to the three quaeres

1. Answer noe for these reasons i By the Statute of 3to Jacobi All Estates Leases and Conveyances made before the seisurebona fide are madegood ii This seisuremade before Conviction is voydin itself and needed not have been discharged by plea for by the Statutes of Recusancy the Kinge havinge noe tytle but seisure and the Statute of 29 Eliz giveth noe seisure till default of 20 li p mensem and by Conviction and not before the 20 li p mensembecomes dewe and noe writt or proces can be awarded for seisuretill there be a failure of payment of 20 li p mensem and that very failer must be expressed in the writt in these words (unde nondum est solut neque satisfact ) but there could be no failer before it becamedew by a Conviction : But here was noe Conviction, & soe noe forfeitureof 20 li p. mensem , & so no failer, & so noe proces and therefore could be noe seisure . And so the deed good notwithstandingthis erroneous seisure .

To the second quere whether the Conviction after doe make good the seisure before& so disable him: : Answer noe subsequent Act can make that good which was voyd in it selfe, neyther could there be seisure or any proces for seisure upon that subsequent Conviction till a failer of payment of 20 li p mensem whichcould not bebeforeit was dewsothat could not disable him

To the third quere whether the father Contractinge for lease for him & his sonne could disable the sonne to make this deed . Answer The fathers voluntary Contractcould not bynde the sonne he not concurring as it is Evident, for it appears both by the Inquisition and by the Report that thesonnehad noe Estate to compound for, his fatherhaving the whole Estate for life, so the sonne could not Contracta rent of 100 li p ann for nothinge Besides therewas noe seisure for the same whereupon to ground eyther Contract or Lease . And so this deed made before seisure is good & not disabled by thefathersAct. xxviii ibid 1/73 . EndorsedThe case touchyng Ugthorp. Mr Ser: Hut: openion.

Mr. Justice Huttons opinion touching Arrarages of 20 li a month after the death of the Recusant discharged by the Statute of29 Eliz

The Case A. being tenant in fee simple of his lands is

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Indyted & Convicted of Recusancyfor vj months recusancy. His lands are seyzed and leased at xxx li per annum and liveth x or xij years & dyeth: therent duringthe lyfe ofA. being duly answered The Question / Whetherthe lands be freed by the deathof A. or the xxxli. per annum runn on & Contynew. The lease being for xxj years si eadem premissa tam diu in manibus nostris remanebunt seu remanere contigerent, ratione recusancie dicti A.

Ithinke as in this case thelands are dyschargedby death of A. for that by the xxx li. per annum payd for x or xij yeares (the some) forwhichthelands were seyzed is satisfied . And after Seyzurenoe penaltyofxx li a monthisforfeyted but the land seyzed after the some payd for whichyt was seyzed shalbe sayd a satisfaccione for the statute and soe noe penalty of xx li a month Concurring after seyzure, & thesomepaydbyyearely rents for whichyt was seyzed

By death of A. I hould that the lands are freed & the lease voyd. But yf A. had dyed before the cxx li payed, for which the Land was seyzed, I thinke the lease should havestood good tillthat some had byne payd & noelonger.

Iamof opinion that bythe death of the partye convicted , and after payment or satisfaction of all the arreragesofxx li monthlye before such seisure dew or paiable, the seisure is to bedischarged, and thatthelands arenottobecontinewed any longer in the kinges hands or in his farmer , for noe Twentie pounds a month doe incur after the Twopartes be seized : and thisis bytheclausein theStatuteof29Eliz. ca. 6 Richard Hutton 1615

Upon Sir Guy Palmes his plea for the lands of Sir Raph Babthropp which was begun in Michis : tearme 1634 but not confessed till about Easter tearme followinge therethis clause was fully consulted by the Barrons, & upon there conclusionsMr. Atturney confessed the plea whichwas that the debt upon the Indictment being satisfied eyther by money payed upon the lease or otherwise noe arrearagesof xx li per mensem after seisure was to be required by the meaning of the statute of 29 Eliz cap. 6. and although the statute of Tertio Jacob seame to imply otherwise yet that wasonely mentin casewheretheKing refusedxx li. permensem & tooke2 partes as of more value then xxli p. mensem . this MrStewarde urged & it was soconceived . xxix ibid 1/76 (No less than 5 copies of Mr Reading's Reporton the case each of 13 large folios in smallwriting. We give below only the parts of the report which contain new material. Reading's own opinion on the case repeats Sir Orlando Bridgeman's slavishlyalmost verbatim.)

I fynde that by Indenture date the sixth day of Januarye 1653 made betweenethe said Anthony Meynell

ofthe one part and the said Richard Trotter ... Anthony Byerley ... & William Smeaton . . . on thotherpart The said Anthony . . . for making provision for payment of his debts and for the present maintenance of his Children and grand Children and for the Trusts therein expressed and 5s . payed did Demise Bargaine and Selle unto the petitioners ... all thosethe Mannors ... of North Kilvington Thornton .. . and Sowerby . . . all the Lands . . . in Kearby ... alsoe those two water Corne mills called Sowerby Mills with all the Soaken Toll and Mulctureto them severally belonging. ... And also all that Moyty of the Mannor of Pickall, Rookeby and Nesse . . . and also all other his Mannors and Tenements in the said County . And alsoone Annuity . . . of 10 li yssueingeoutof ... Holmesett in ye County Palatine of Durham (except the Mannor house of North Kilvington . .. and all outhouses and gardens thereto belonginge, and also one Close called the horse Close, one other Close of Meadow called Naythropp, one Close called the Calfe Close, one Close called the Garthes and Greens, one close of meadowcalled Little Garris lands and one close of arable called Mylne Scarth.) Habendum to the petitioners . . . for 40 years if the said Anthony Meynell shall soe long live, upon Trust, and to the intent ... that the petrs. . . . shall with the Rent yssues & profitts . .. pay ... all the debts Rent Charges & summes of money ... as shalbe truely oweing by the said Anthony ... and allsoe all other debts ... upon loans ofmoney to bee made to him . . . at any timewithin three years next ensueing. . And upon this further Trust that the Petrs. should allow out of the rents. . the summe of 20 li yearly for the present maintenance & education of Anthony Meynell Grandchild and heire apparent of the said Anthony ... & also 80 li. yearely for themaintenance & education of the children & Grandchildren of the said Anthony ... the Grantor. And upon further Trust that the said Petrs. out of the Rents or by Sale ... shall leavie or raise 300 li for the portion of Frances Meynell youngest daughter of the said Anthony ... untowhich Indenture is annexeda Schedulecontaining the debts rent Charges sommes of money owinge .. To William Lumley by 2 bonds 96 li. /To Charles Dunnynge 60 li. /To George Meynell a Rent Charge of 16 li.p.annum redemable upon payment of 200 li. /To Leonard Tompson a Rent Charge of 220 li.p.Ann for Eight years then next comingeamounting to 1760 li. /To the said GeorgeMeynell an Annuity of 30 li.p.Ann for his life. /To Mrs Margaret Trollop a rent Charge of 8 li.14s.p.Ann. redemable upon Payment of 87 li. /A Fee

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farme rent of 14 li.2s.4d.p.Ann out of Sowerby ; a fee farm Rentof Ili. 14s . 8d. out of North Kilvington fee farm Rent of 3 li.6s.8d for Kilvington Mill; a fee farm rent of 18s.10d.p.Ann / A Stypend of 8 li.14s.8d. to the Viccar of Thorneton . /The said 20 li. per Ann.for the maintenance of Anthony Meynell the grandchild It is certified by Mr. Dallison that he dothnotfindany Charge or information of Delinquency Recusancy or otherwise against the said Anthony Meynell But hee finds that by order of the Commrs. the 11th of June 1652 theCommrs ofYorkshire wererequired to call beforethem Roger and AnthonyMeynell sonnes of George Meynell and to tender them the oath ofabiuration. . .

The deed of Intaile upon the marriage ofTho: Meynell is dated 11o Octobr : Anno 290. Eliz. (1587) the fyne is de Termino Scti Hillarii vizt 23tio Januar. anno 300 . Eliz. (1588) The Intale upon the marriage of Thomas Meynell sonne of Anthony & heire of Anthony is dated 26to Januar. anno 120. Caroli (1637) ibid. 1/65-6. (Copies ofthe final Judgment oftheCommissioners )

By the Commrs. for mannageing the estates under sequestrn &c 14 July 1654 .

Upon reading the report of Mr. Reading made in the case and upon the petition of Richard Trotter, Anthony Byerley & Willm Smeaton .. & upon hearing Mr Seriant Maynard & Mr Martin of Councell on behalfe of the petrs. And Mr Reading & Mr Brereton for the Commonwealth And upon consideration had of the whole case . . wee are satisfied that the said lease made to the petrs by AnthonyMeynell isgood, and ought to be allowed, and doe hereupon allow thereof accordingly. And doe order that the sequn. laid on for the Recusancie of .. Thomas Meynell be discharged and the arreares allowed, from the time of the first petitionwhereof the nowe Commrs for sequns. in the said County of Yorke are to take notice & dischargethe said Lands & premises. . from sequn. And pay unto the said petrs . . . all Arreares thereof incurred since their said first petition, whichwas the 28th offebr last ..

xxxi. ibid. 1/67. (September 1st 1654, order by YorkshireCommittee to raise the sequestrationbut it is to continue on thelands reservedtoAnthony Meynell forlife.)

xxxii ibid. 1/68. (Another version of the same, detailingthe lands concerned)

xxxiii. ibid 1/69 (i) (November 7th 1654, petition of the Trustees asking for the lease to be given them and the bondsforpayment of sequestration rents to be cancelled. Order from the Yorkshire Committee assentingto this)

25. The Case of GeorgeMeynellofDalton.

i. CountyRecord Office, Northallerton, Recusants Indicted 1630. (George Meynell's conforming in 1606 and lapse into recusancy by 1633doubtfully)

Quarter Sessions, Thirsk, October 2nd 1633 .. Juratores pro dno rege super sacramentum suum presentant quod cum inter memorand Scaccarii de Term Scti Michis. anno regni dni nostri Jacobi dei gratia &c. quarto Ex parte Remembraunc. Thesaur .remanen. (inter alia) continetur uti sequitur viz: Tobias providen. divina Ebor Archiep Anglie Primas et Metropolit universis et singulis adquos presentes littere nostre pervenerint seu quos infrascripta tangunt .. salutem .. Noveritis quod 17 die mensis Octobr. anno dni 1606 .. Georgius Mennell nuper de Nesse in Northridd : .. gen' notus fuit esse papal Recusan. et divinum servitium audiend usitat et allocat infra hoc regnum Anglie coram nobis in edibus nostris apud Bishopthorpe..etprecibus public. iuxta formam libri precum commun ibidem . personaliter interfuit, easdemquesobrie decenter et reverenter audivit ; necnon agnitionem et professionem per statuta huius regni Anglie in hac parte edit et prescript publice et clara voce legitet pronunciavit: ac consentain eadem omnia et singula se observaturum et debitam obedientiam eisdem prestitutum professus et pollicitus fuit. Predictus tamen Georgius Mennell premissorum non ignarus nec conformitate sua curans aut estimans a primo die Julii anno regni dni nostri Caroli dei gratia &c. regis fidei defensor nono : etatis sexdecem annorum et ultra existensnon accessit (anglicedid nott repaire) ad Ecclesiam suamparoch ... infraspatium trium mensiumintegrorum but hath forborne the same . . et relapsus fuit contra formamistatut 25 Eliz in hac casu edit. Ad general. sess. apud Helmesley .. 14 Jan ... 1633.. sed nec .. predictus Georgius Mennell comparavit . . unde convictusest ii. MeynellMSS. GD/1 .

By the Comrs of Sequns. for the Countye of Yorke&c 90. March 1651 .

These are to certify whome it doth or may concerneThat Mr George Mennell of Dalton in this County hath this day taken the oath of Abjuration of Popery appointed by the ordinance of parliament of the 19th of August 1643 witness ourhands

iii ibid. 2

Ra Rymere Tho: Bourchier

Friday 11 th of June 1652. By the Comrsforthe advance of Monie etc.

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In the case ofGeorge Mennell of Daltonin theCountye of Yorke coming this day to be heard in Course before us concerning a charge of Delinquency & Recusancyexhibited against him , and returned by the Commrs for Sequns. in the said Countye & on motionthis day ofMr Martyn ofCouncell for the said George Mennell praying that he may be dischargedofthe said Chargeaccording to thelateact ofparliament for Generall Pardon and upon reading the said Charge It is resolved and ordered That the said George..be& is hereby discharged from the said Charge against him as to Delinquency And the seisure upon his estate (if any be) be & is hereby taken off& Discharged And all Bonds&securities entred into thereupon to be Delivered & cancelled . . Provided that the Estate of the said George . . did not stand actually Sequestered the 1st of December 1651 And also provided that this order doth not discharge the said George of any offence of Treason or Delinquency committed byhim against the parliament or the Keepers of the Liberties of England since the 30th of January 1648 And it is further orderedthatthesaid George .. takingthe oath ofAbjuration before us or before the Commrs for Sequns for the Countye of Yorke That thereupon he be & is Discharged from the other part ofthe said Chargeagainst him which is toucheing Recusancy And the said Commrs are to call before them Roger & Anthony Mennell sonnes of the said George.. & totender them thesaid oath ofAbjuration ibid 3

240. Febr. 1652 The Commrsfor Compoundinge&c . Upon reading the Report of Mr Brereton in the case of George Meynell of Daltonin the County of Yorkegentupon his petition desireing allowance of a rent charge of 30 li per Annumoutofcertain landsinthe Countye ofYorksequestered for the Recusancy of Thomas Meynell Esq of North Kilvington and upon the hearing of Councell for the petrit is resolved That wee are satisfied in the title of the petrto the said Rent Chargeand orderthat the Commrs for Sequns in the said Countye .. Doe allow and pay unto the petr.. twothird pts of the said Rent Charge& Arreares ofthe said two pts from the tyme of the petition (being the 25th of March 1652) Deducting a proportionable part of the Taxes the petr first taking the oath of Abjuration if he hath not already taken ye same before them, and the other third part is to bepaid out of the third pt ofthe lands enioyed by the Recusant

Mr. Brereton's Report. According to your Order of the 25th of March 1652 I have examined the petition of George Meynell . .gent and find That Roger Meynell of North Kilvington .. Esq by deed

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Polle dated the 10th of March 1588 in consideration of the naturall love & affection he owes his sonne grants unto his younger sonne George Meynell the petr a Rent of 30 li p . Ann. for tearme of his life out of all those his lands in North Kilvington NorthallertonScruton and Thornton intheStreet Tohave& to hold fromthe decease of the said RogerMeynell

And John Wild maketh oath that he haveing bin servant to the said Thomas Meynell about 27 years & for 24 years thereofhath bin imployed to pay & receive monies forhim, he knows that dureing that tyme untill the year 1650 both before & since the sequestration George Meynell the petr his Masters brotherhad constantly payed him 30 li p Ann & that his said old Master (since he was blind) hath often in this deponents hearing called Anthony Meynell his sonne & asked if his brother George Meynell's said Annuitye was paid, to which sometymes the said sonne answered noe , and then the old man replied that it shall be paid, for he hath as muchright to that as I have to my land, And he believesthe said deed is the deed whereby ye said Annuitye wassettled ..

And Anthony Palliser deposeth that he hath bin servt unto the said Thomas Meynell for 25 years and doth know that ye petre George Meynell hath hath constantly during that tyme untill about 1650 which was at least 5 years after ye Sequn one Annuity of 30 li paid him . .& that he hath often heard his old Master say that it was due unto him & thatit should be paid himdureing his life. v. ibid. 4. (April 10th 1653, discharge of the Charge of Delinquency against George Meynell by the York Commissioners on the order of June 11th last of the Commissionersfor the Advance of Money His estate is discharged. There is no reasongiven forthe long delay, nor mention ofthecharge of recusancy).

ibid 2/30 (George Meynell, Dalton, June4th 1657 toAnthony (Meynell )

Endorsed To his muche honored nephew Anthony Meynell Esqre these wythemy love present.

Honord nephewe/ Accordynge to your desyer I have sent you2 rynletsof Sacketheye Contayne 10 gall at 4s. 10d . the gall 48s 4d./ rynlets 2s. The Caryge hether 2s 6d./ in all 52s. 10d. Sr I receaved by Mr Wyll Tunstallfowertene powndes dewe to me formy anewetye this pentycost 1657 / for whychthes lynes shall be a dyscharge /soe withlove& dewe respects to youre selfe my lovinge nece & all yoursI reste ever / Yours in love & servyce/ Geo : Meynell. vii ibid 2/31 . (The same to the same, Dalton November 28th 1659.)

Honord. Nephew /I have sent thisbearerfor the sackwebb

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I desired you to buy for mee. I would intreat you to pay your selfe your disbursementsfor it fromout ofthe 15 li which was due to mee this last Martinmasse for kine Annuitye .. Your affectionate unkle / Geo : Meynell

26. Another Bout with the Exchequer, 1676-7 . ibid 1/49. EndorsedCopy. Supersedeas pro David Fowlis milite et Bart & Edwardo Trotter Arm. Trin 76 CAROLUS SECUNDUS &c. vicecomiti Ebor salutem , Cum per Summonitiones nostras de Pipa alias tibi praecipimus quod sicut teipsum et omnia tua diliges haberes coram Baronibus de Scaccario nostro apud Westmon' tam in Crastino Clausi Pasche ultimae preteritae quam in Crastino Michis proximi futuri Exitus Manerii de North Kilvington & Thorntonin le Streete in Comitatu nostro predicto existentis clari annualis valoris in omnibus exit. ultra repris. Octoginta librarum unde due partes virtute Commissionis nostre sub sigillo Scaccariinostri quibusdam Commissionariis nostris in es parte directe ut terrae et tenementa Rogeri Meynell Arm . Recusant convict. per inquisitionem captam apud Thirske in le North Ridinge Com . Ebor predict xxxjo. die Augusti anno regni nostri xxvijo. pro Recusantia predicti ipsius Rogeri .. in manus nostras seisita fuerint, Nunc autem certis de causis Barones de Scaccarionostro .. moventibus tibifirmiter iungendopraecipimus quod omnium et singulorum levationem pro Exit. Manerii predicti(exceptistantummodo scit Manerii predicti de Northkilvington Ac domo edific structur. horr stabul. pomar. gardin toft Croft et curtilag adinde spectan et cum eisdem occupat Necnon Clausur et fund in Northkilvington predict . ac infra precinct et territorio inde vocat et cognit per nomina de Calves Close Garthes Garris land Hall Inge et horse Close ac Clausur et fund in Thornton in le Street ac infra campos et territorium inde vocat. et cognit. per nomina de Sower Butts Sheepe Close Frigis Holme Leases in tres partes diversis Fogfeild & Cowper Close cum omnibus viis Easiamentis & pertin adinde spectan parcell Manerii predicti in possessione predicti Rogeri Meynell proprio modo vel nuper existen.) omnino supersedeas et si eosdem exitus seu aliquem partem aut partes indelevaveris unde nobis nondum est responsum (exceptis praeexceptis) hinc restitutionem inde facias .. David Fowlis et Ingleby Mannor .. militi et Baronetto & Edwardo Trotter de Skelton Castle .. Arm. Tenentibus in possessione tot ill Maner . pred .. in inquisitione predicta mentionat ... TesteWillielmo Mountagu apud Westmon' xiiijo. die Junii Anno regni nostrixxviijo

PAPERS FROM LAMBETH PALACE LIBRARY

(1) LEYBURN PAPERS

INTRODUCTION

THERE can be no better way of introducing the LeyburnLetters than by quoting the account given of them in Tod's Catalogue of the Manuscripts in Lambeth Palace Library. The reader will be able to see at a glance how important the collection is , howitcame tobeacquired byLambeth , and why, in spiteofits extreme interest , it has remained unpublished and indeedunknown tothe presentday. A short note in manuscript 932/52 presumably in the handwriting of Archbishop Tenison, will serve as a preface to Tod's remarks. "Sent to me these papers found in the Ceiling of an House in Queen's Street St. Giles's belonging to Mr. Richard Chiswell, when the workmen went about to repayrit. " Tod describedtheletters as follows : "932/53 Italian letter of compliment to Mr. John Leyborne, Bishop of Adramite, at London, dated Lisbon, 23 Sept., 1695

932/54/55 Decreta congregationis de propaganda fide habitae Die6 Oct. 1695

932/56 Italian letter to Mr. Leyborne containinglicence for John Perkins and Anne Perkins to marry notwithstandingtheyare in the thirddegree ofconsanguinity Dated at Rome, 19 June 1694.

932/57 A letter to the Bishop of Leyborne from Jo: Shirburne relatingto a difference about Mr. William Short. Dated Feb.3-13 , 1693-4.

932/58/60 A method of secretwriting

932/59/61/66 . Letter to the Bishop of Adramitefrom the Dean and Capitulars of the Consult at London , concerning the necessity of a Capitular Government, and standing ordinary Episcopal jurisdiction, andother affairs ofthePapists in this kingdom Nov.26 1693

932/62 Letter from J. Shirburne, directed to Messrs . Leyborne and Gifford, about the concerns of Mr. Thomas Short, wherein he says "he had a Consultation of the ablest lawyers in England (I remember Polixfen's and Pemberton's names) whether the Brother being profest had a right to inheritwhatwas left him byhis Father's Will? And they all concluded affirmatively and cited an express

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law of England, whichrendered Religious as capable to possess as Seculars

April 11 , 1695 .

932/63 A letter of Compliment in French Dec. 6.

932/64 A true State oftheaffair ofMr. William Short.

932/65 A vow of Chastity made by the daughter of Sir Patrick Bellew at Drogheda Sept. 27, 1693."

In other words, here is the correspondence file of an English Vicar Apostolic at the end of the seventeenth century, apparently just as itwasdiscovered, together withhis code tables forcomposing secret correspondence

Cataloguers have their own ways of keeping correspondence secret, and Tod was no exception to the rule ; he mis-spelled Leyburn's name, misapplied it, and anglicised the title of his see in partibus as "Adramite." Disguisedin this way the catalogue entry might have continued to pass unnoticed for another hundred and forty-five years had not the present writer stumbled on it while lookingfor examples of cipher correspondence . The letters, which date from 16th November 1693 to 11 November 1695 (perhaps to 6th December 1695) throw some light on a man who is one ofthe disputedfigures in Catholic history.

Leyburn, the son of an old Westmorland family, had been President of Douay before relinquishing his office to go to Rome in 1675 as Cardinal Howard's secretary In Rome he was consecrated Bishopric of Adrumetum on 9 September 1685 and appointed VicarApostolic of England He had been a Capitularand for some time Secretary of the Chapter in England. He had been put at oddswiththeChapter bythe circumstance that before his consecration in Rome hehad been required to take an oathnot to recognise theChapter. By 1695 Leyburnhad livedin England for ten years, and the greater part of two of them had been spent in the Tower, following his arrest in 1688. It has been said that by 1695 the dangerwasover, as far as Leyburnwas concerned, and that hewas unlikely to be interfered with by the government. The fact that hetook the troubleto concealhis correspondence however suggests that he expected to be arrested from minute to minute

Mr. Richard Chiswell, the Vicar Apostolic's unwitting landlord , may have been the same person as Richard Chiswell the elder, who carried on thebusiness ofa theological bookseller at theSign ofthe "Rose and Crown , " in St. Paul's churchyard Bookseller Chiswell did not live in Queen Street himself, as his parish church was not

1 Even Leyburn's age in 1695 is controversial, was he seventy-nine, or sixtyseven ? (See George Leyburne's survey of the leading clergy in theDouai Diary, C.R.S. Vols 10 , 11. ) M. V. Hay, The Jesuits& the Popish Plot , Dom Basil Hemphill , The Early Vicars Apostolic, andRuthClark, Strangers and Sojourners at Port Royal, together with Kirk's notices on Kempe and Giffard, provide a stimulating introduction to Leyburn controversy

St. Giles but St. Botolph's without Aldersgate, so perhapshe may have let out the whole of the Queen Street house There is somethingamusingin Leyburn's living on hisproperty, as hewas publisher to the Archbishop of Canterbury The Queen Street houses were about seventy years old, when new they had been described by Howe as: "The new fair buildings called Queen Street" ; the street led into Drury Lane and theneighbourhoodwasan aristocratic one. Lord Herbertof Cherbury had died in his house in Queen Street. The Lord Privy Seal lived there nine years beforeLeyburn, while earlier still the Lord Chancellor had a house there. Nell Gwyn had lived in the street, and this constituted another tie with Archbishop Tenison, who had pronouncedher funeral oration The Vicars-Apostolic rarely stayed long in one place; Bonaventure Giffard described his difficulties in this respect: "Where to get a lodging in London, such as I may admit people to with security, and transact business , I cannot tell I do all I can , and suffer a great deal , havingno certainabode, but forced sometimesto change lodgingsfourtimes ina week, and once lodged atfourdifferentplaces in four days' time. One poor garret is palace, cathedral, table of audience , dining room, bed chamber, and often kitchen too." There is a strong presumption that Leyburnhid the letters, not in the ceiling of his room (where the hiding place would be difficult to reach , and almost impossible to dissimulate) but under a loose floorboard . Theywouldthen rest on thelathes nailed to the beams which supported the ceiling ofthe room below Workmen , smashing up the plaster of the ceiling, preparatory to re-plastering it would, probably bring down part of the lathing, and with it the packet. Did Leyburn hear the plaster being broken in the room below him and thus obtain warningof his danger ? This may have been one of the reasons why he was able to escape ; another was that he was near to Drury Lane and the Strand, both of them Catholic neighbourhoods We know that Leyburn had been living in DruryLane before he moved to Queen Street, and he may have gone back to his old lodging It is not difficult to picture him hurrying down the stairs of the tall baroque mansion and vanishing into a December dusk, perhaps to reappear "At Peter Tisens in Drury Lane. "

Meanwhile the workmen sent their packet to thelandlordwhono doubt dutifully forwarded it immediately to his patron. As a member of the Privy Council, Tenison would expect to handle correspondence that was supposed to pertain to plots; as an Archbishop he had always shown a marked animositytothe Catholics, and he had a large collection of Catholic correspondence , as well as other Catholic miscellanea, includinga whole set of service books in mint condition whichhad been destined for the Cathedral at Quebec and which probablyformed part of the propertyof St. Vallier, the unfortunate Bishop, who had been captured in 1697 and handed over to Tenison. The Archbishop does not seem to

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have made any use of the correspondencehe collectedsomething would have been heard about it if he had, perhaps he was too busy, perhaps he hoped to obtain letters whichwouldbe more damaging as propaganda through the letter searcher at the General Letter Office, H. Spence But by merely retaining the letters he had dealt Leyburn a grievous blow The cipher tables were probably the key to correspondencewhich the Vicar Apostolic was sending out; we know Leyburn was using his cipher because he tried out a sample message on one of them : "My father's bil, bc dgknopq vwx The Decreeof the Sacred Congregation was useful to have byhim,whilethe letterreferring to the opposition ofthe Benedictines might do harmif known to the wrong quarters. The very suddenness of Leyburn's loss has made the collection doubly attractive in that it is nearly complete Besides having been given page numbers in volume 932, the papers have other, small numbers written in inkat the top of the sheet Thus 932/53is unnumbered, 56is 3, 60is 6, 61 is 7, and 64 is 8, while 62 is 9, 63, 10, 57 , 11, 65, 13, and 66, 14. The correspondence of these numbers suggest that the Leyburnletters werenumbered when theywere first examined , that the small numbers represent the original order, as they were found in Leyburn'spacket, and that onlya few aremissing. The way in which Leyburn acquired the letters before he lost them throws some light on the activitiesof the hierarchy ofthe day. Somecame throughthe government post, as their post marks show . A man called H.Spence read Catholic correspondence , retained some of it, and sent the rest on after he had copied it, and occasionally shown it to the Archbishop of Canterbury. But Spence couldnot readall the correspondence , as the post was too bigfor one man to tackle (a fact which strongly suggests that there were many more Catholics inEngland at this timethansome authorities wouldadmit). Sometimes Spence was ill, sometimeshis helpers failed him, for one reason or another letters got through unopened Of course if all letters had been intercepted, and not re-posted afterwards, no one would have used the post at all As it was the English hierarchy knew their correspondencewas tampered with. Father Shirburne writing from Paris to Leyburn, noted, in his letterof 13th February, 1694: "The frequent miscarriage of letters by the pcst obligeth me to make use of this occasion , " this occasion no doubt cosisted of sending a personal messenger. Perrot's letter of 6th December was sent byjust sucha messenger, who waited for the answer . The diplomatic bag was another method of sending letters; part of No. 60 was intended to be sent by diplomaticcourier So far as can be ascertained the letters areauthenticthewatermarkon the letter of compliment sent from Lisbon, for example, shows that the paper was made in Madridat a date near to the time it was sent The various papers in the post bag require little in the way of comment No. 932/59 has been omitted as it has been recently printed in Dom Basil Hemphill's The Vicars Apostolic, p. 165 ,

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under thetitle "An Addressto thethree Lords Bishops." Although these two documents are very much the same in substance, the texts are by no means identical. In the first paragraph the Leyburn version has "please to take, " instead of "take," "Bin" for "been , " "Your most serious consideration," for "Ye serious consideration " The phrase "Chapters in eachrespective diocese , " has been reversed in Hemphill's text, and there is the significant changeof"Maintained in itsdignity, " for "Maintained in itsrights," in paragraph two In the same paragraph the Leyburnversion has "Nominations ofour successive Bishops, etc. sede vacante , "instead of "Nominations and due share in the election of the successive Bishops etc." Leyburn concludes, "And we shall as in duty bound prayfor the long life and happinessofyourLordship "

The next document to be omitted, whichcontains the "Reasons" put forward for capitular as against vicarial government, has also been printed by Hemphill, p 166. The Leyburn version has "first reason , " and not simply "1." , "continuances, " instead of "continuance , " "to" and not "by, " "its genius, " in the second reason Reason Three has the notable omission of "secular" in thephrase "secularclergy," while in ReasonSix "in other countrys" takes the place of Hemphill's "in some other lands " Reason Seven has "inundationoffurther evils," instead of "inundation of evils , " in the printed version. The most significant difference is "peace and unity" in the Leyburn version instead of the much less likely "peace and verity" in Hemphill This last phrase suggests stronglythat our versionis nearerto the original

The letters open with a recommendation to Leyburn of Roger Brockholes, and it is probably from someone whom Brockholes knew in Lisbon Even such an apparently ephemeral letter as this can be ofvalue, as it dates the beginning of Brockholes' mission in England, a mission cut short when in 1700 this "laborious and zealous missionary" died in York The "Decree of the Sacred Congregationfor the Propagation Of The Faith," dated 6th October 1695 , is of interest for the historyofthe relations betweentheVicar Apostolic and the EnglishChapter. It and its fellow documents , Nos. 932/63 and 932/66 obviously demand consideration by the future historianof this episode of Church history. The letter from Dean John Perrot, asking Leyburn for an interview, probablyhad to do with the concerns of Vicar Apostolic and Chapter. The contents of 932/63mayseem puzzling atfirst. It is undated and unsigned, but is apparentlya draft letter written by Leyburn himselfandintended to be sentthroughthe diplomaticbag, viaScarlatis, to some correspondent unknown Scarlatis, mentioned in the letter as the "Abbe Scarlatte envioye de l'Electeur de Baviere en cet court , " was the Baron Johann Baptista Scarlatis who was Ambassador at St. James from the Court of Bavaria. Leyburn's French caused his first attempt at the letter to break down . A translation has been added "The cipher tables are particularly

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interesting because it is veryunusual forcipher used byanopponent tobecaptured and because it would appearunusual for the Catholic hierarchy to use cipher correspondence at all at this time. was frequently employedthus the code name for the London district was "Wortlie, " and Rome was "Hilton." Themeaningsof jargon codes of this sort could often be guessed by government spiesmost of the code names of correspondentswere guessed at one time or another Cipher was more sure, because the cipher could be transposed from time to time. That used by Leyburn was a substitution keyword cipher based very closely on that attributed tothe Renaissance scholar Baptistadella Porta No. 60 is almost a direct transcriptionof Porta's original table, the chief difference lying inthewayinwhichthe second halfofthe alphabets is set out Whereas in Porta's original cipher the alphabet was transcribed in order, with the necessary transposition, in Leyburn's table the second half of the alphabet is alternated. The capital lettersin the left hand column formed thekeyword whichhad been previously decidedupon, letters ofwhichin succession indicated the alphabets selected Each pair of capitals together controlled the alphabet ranged in two lines on their right. Thus in No. 60 the alphabets controlled by the code word "Exaude nos domine" are set out. To cipher the message : "My father's bil , " find the capital letter "E" in the left hand column and look along to the right until the small letter "m" is found. Write down the ciphered letter "b . " Now cipher "y" which becomes "x" and continue in this way until the small letter "m" is found Write down the ciphered letter "b . " Now cipher "y" which becomes "x , " and continue in this way till the whole message is enciphered. Before Leyburn enciphered this message he presumably rearranged the cipher table. This cipher was readily available in print, Porta's book NaturalMagickhad appearedin English in 1658, and Blaisede Vigenere, who plagiarised largely from him, had published his Traité des chiffres , ' in 1670 . Besides laying bare the correspondenceof bishops and ambassadors,thefallingplaster in Mr. Chiswell's house revealedsomething of the lives of quite humble Catholics A faculty from Rome dispensed Francis or John Perkins to marry Anne Perkins ; oneof Sir Patrick Bellew's six daughters took an oath of chastity, and Father Joseph Shirburncorrespondedrather acridlywith Leyburn on the affairs ofSt. Edmund's monastery in Paris. Mention ofthis historic foundation brings to the end this short account of the papers, and it will, it is hoped serve as a point of departure forthe other recusant letters at Lambeth , for about St. Edmunds, as on most other aspects ofCatholic lifeofthetime,theyhavemuch tosay.

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No. 53

ABSTRACT (Italian)

Now that Roger Breckheles¹ now ceases to be Reader in the first chair of Theology in this College of St. Peter and St. Paul, the writer wishes to bear witness to his most noble Lordship Leyburne the gifts of knowledge, parts, and goodness that adorn his person so that it might be beheld with that partialitythat becomes it, and which render him not less worthy of the continuance of his Lordship's favours than deserving of his most generous affection And let this also certify to his Most Reverend Lordship that on all the occasions that he may suit himself to his pleasure he keeps a most readywish to serve him and thereupon waits for the favour of his commandsto give an opportunityto be worthy ofhis favour , and kisses his hand politely ... Lisbon 23 September 1695 .

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Decreta SacraeCongregationis ... de Propagandafidehabitadie 6 Octobris 1695 .

Relatis in CongregationeEminentorum dominorum Cardinalium de Propaganda fide super rebus Anglie specialiter a Sanctissimo domino nostro PapaInnocentio XII deputatoruminstantiis sanctitati suaefactisa vicariisApostolicis Angliae in eorum libellissupplicibus tenoris sequentis videlicet .

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Cum ex vi, seu occasione Privilegiorum ordini sancti Benedicti Congregationis Anglicanae a sede Apostolica concessorum necnon praetextu jurisdictionis que ante schisma eidem ordini in Anglia competebat, praetendant Monachi dicti ordinis se tanquam Vicarios Capitulares, seu ipsum Capitulum, sede vacante haberein plerisque Regni Dioecesibusjurisdictionemordinariam , et hancnon cessareex quo sancta sedes eidem regno concesserit Vicarios Apostolicos ad illas Ecclesias regendas : Cumque exinde, uti experientia docuit , hoc ipso saeculo oriri possint Contentiones et Controversiae hos inter et illos, regimini illorum fidelium et propogationi fidei summopere noxiae, praejudiciales et scandalosas ; Idcirco supplicatur , ea qua par est humilitate Sanctitati vestrae quatenus declarare digneturcessare omnem talem Praefatorum Monachorum Jurisdictionem qualiscuncque sit, eo ipso quod Sancta Sedes Apostolica

1 Roger Brockholes was the son of Thomas Brockholes of Claughton in Lancashire He went to Douay at an early age, and on the completion of his third year of divinity studies, moved to Lisbon, to finish his studies at the English College there. He was admitted on 15th June 1683 , and taught classics , philosophy and finally divinity. He was made a member ofthe Chapterandthen Archdeaconin October1698 .

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concesserit Vicarios Apostolicos in Regno Angliae, eisque solitas facultates generaliter regendi Ecclesias sibi commissas tribuerit: uti in partibus Catholicis cessat omnis jurisdictio Capituli, et VicariorumCapitulariumsede vacante, statim atque sedes Apostolica Vicarium Apostolicum delegat ad Ecclesiam vacantem interim gubernandam. Quem favorem etc. Quem Deusetc.

Beatissime Pater.

Ea qua par est humilitate sancti tati vestrae exponitur plurima quotidie fidei Catholicae praejudicia in Anglia exoriri ex eo quod Regulares ibidem praetendant se vigore suorum privilegiorumab omni Jurisdictione VicariorumApostolica authoritateeidem Regno concessorum Exemptos esse , et cum ab alia parte Vicarii Apostolici

Praefati regere non possint ecclesias sibi commissas nisi Regulares Praedicti eissubiiciantur, saltem quoad ea qua missiones , et curam Animarum concernunt, quapropter Sanctitati vestrae humiliter

Supplicatur, ut Bullas, seu Brevia Apostolica alias ab hac sancta sede occasione similium controversarium in regno Sinarum Indiis, et alibi Exortarum emanata extendere dignetur Simili Bulla seu Brevi ad omnia Regna, et Insulas DominioSerenissimiRegismagnae Britanniae Subiectas Quem favorem etc. Quam Deus etc.

Sacra Congregatio re mature perpensa, et auditoetiam P. Claudio

Estiaenoth Procuratore Monachorum Congregationis Anglicanae ordinis Sancti Benedicti decrevit , ut infra, Quo ad Primum. Per deputationem vicariorum Apostolicorum factam in RegnoAngliaea sanctaememoriae Innocentio xi cessasse , et cessare quamcuncquejurisdictionemCapitulorum ,seu Vicariorum Capitularium,tam Saecularium quam Regularium omnium Ecclesiarum Eiusdem Regni, et signanter eamqueMonachisCongregationis Anglicanae ordinis Sancti Benedicti vigore Bullae Sanctissimae memoriae Urbani VIII que incipit PLANTATA , seu quarumlibet aliarumliterarum Apostolicarum, autalias quomodolibet competere posset, durante tamen deputatione eorundem, seu aliorum similium Vicariorumab Apostolica sede quandocumque deputatorum et non alias. Quoad secundum vero censuit : Regulares Quoscuncque , etiam Societatis Jesu, et Congregationis Anglicanae praefate, tam circa approbationem ad Confessiones audiendas, quam circa concernentia curam Animarum et Sacramentorum administractionem aliaque munia Parochialia , esse subjectos Vicariis Apostolicis in quorum districtibus eos respective commorari contigerit Non obstantibus quo ad praemissaquibuscumque Regularium Ordinum Privilegiis , et praesertim antedicta Bulla sanctissimae memoriae Urbani VIII, illis alias in suo robore permansuris necnon firmis remanentibus quoad reliqua omnibus et signulis Privilegiis, Praeeminentiis , Praerogativis , aliisque Juribus dictis Monachis Congregationis Anglicanae quomodolibet competentibus Datum Romaedieetanno quibussupra.

Que quidem Decreta Eadem die Sanctissimo Domino nostro per me Secretarium infra scriptumintegre relata, Sanctitas sua benigne laudavit, etapprobavit; mandavitque ab omnibus ad quos pertinet inviolabiliter observari.

P. CAR de Alteriis Praef.

Loco sigilli sit subscrib et inferius Cott. Tabious Secretarius concordat cum originali die 11 Nov. anno 1695 L. Betham ...

SUMMARY OF NO 54

Those Cardinals specially deputed by Innocent XII to discuss Englishaffairshaveconsideredthe complaint oftheVicars Apostolic of England that the Benedictines claim to have authority as a Chapter, notwithstandingthe appointment ofthe Vicars, andclaim exemption from their jurisdiction. Having duly considered the question and heard the proctor of the English Benedictine Order , they have decreed that from the time of the deputation of the Vicars any Capitular jurisdiction was of no effect, and that the Regular Clergy are to be subject to the Vicars in certain respects, saving their privileges.

No. 56

ABSTRACT . Faculty (in Italian) dated Rome 19th July, 1694 for John Perkins to marry Anne Perkins, notwithstandingthe impedimentofthethirddegree ofconsanguinity andthe furtherimpediment ofspiritual affinity.

No. 62

Aux Messeigneurs Messeigneurs Leyburne et Gifford

My Lords, It is a long tyme that wee have had difficulty about the concerne ofMr. Thomas Short contraryto my intention In 1688 I madea transaction with Madam Short, and if those whom shee imployed had not hindred theSettlement of her sonne there would have been noe dispute. Mr. James Nelson (who gave mee power to treat) soone after was succeeaded by Mr. Francis Fenwicke, who was more knowing in affairs then I, and tooke this businesse to himselfe. In the meane tyme Mr. Short's Brother dyed and hee , being very

1 Francis Frenwick, O.S.B., 1645-1694, was born in London and entered St. Edmunds in Paris on 1st November 1654. He became Prior of St. Edmunds , and Abbot President of the College ofSt. Gregory at Rome.

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desirous to settle amongst us did soe Soone after hee desired to goe amongst the French monks to which Mr. Fenwick consented , and procured an authentickcoppy of the father's will, upon which hehad a consultation of the ablest lawyers in England (I remember Polifixen's and Pemberton's names) whither the Brother being profest had right toinherit whatwas left him byhisfather's will, and they all concluded affirmatively, and cited an expresse law ofEng- land which rendered Religious as capable to possesse as seculars

In June 1693Mr. Llwellinconferredwiththemother and shee offered him a 1000 li. pound in ready money and a uitall pension of a 100 li a yeare upon condition that her sonne wouldquit all his pretensions and signe such a deed as shee would mak bee drawne.

In September 1693 we had an assembly at our house whereat Mr. Betham2 and Mr. Corker³ were present, the former and all our people referred the whole businesse to Mr. Corker, and thoughMr. Betham sayd that hee had not power from the mother to conclude, heewas confident that if shee were present Shee would approve of what Mr.Corker should thinke reasonable And Mr.Corker having considered all the circumstances sayd that hee thought in honour and conscience the mother should give what she herselfeofferred to Mr. Llwillin (to wit a 1000 li. at present and a uitall pension of a 100 li a yeare) and soe all disputes should bee terminated. This is the real truth of the business whichwee wholly approoved and ratifyed byall who have interest in the businesse, especially by, My Lords,

Your Lordships most obedient Servant BR JOSEPH SHIRBURNE4

1 Sir Henry Pollexfen, 1632 ?-1691, was the Attorney General and Chief Justice of Common Pleas John Betham, D.D., was born in Warwickshire, wherehis fatherhad a large estate. He was ordained priest at Douay, and in 1667 went to Paris to study at the University He took his M.A. in 1671 , and from Paris went first to Douay and then to England, which he left once more during the Titus Oates plot In 1685 he was recalled to London by James II, who made him one of his preachers in ordinaryand in 1688 he followed James to St. Germains He became preceptor to Prince James Edward, and died in Paris on 28thApril 1709. (See No. 64.)

3 James Maurus Corker, o.S.B. , was born in 1636 and professed in 1656 atthe English BenedictineAbbey at Lambspring. During the Oates plot he was denounced by Oates, tried, condemned to death, and reprieved While in Newgate he was made President General of the English Benedictines. He wasreleased in 1685 and became successively Cathedral Priorof Canterbury and ResidentAmbassadorof the Elector of Cologne . He returned to Lambspring following William III's landing, but came back to England, where he died on 22nd December1715. (See No. 64.) C.R.S. Vols 47, 48 JosephShirburne, o.s.B., was chosen Presidentofthe English Congregation of Benedictinesafter the death of Father Stapylton, and continued to be re-elected to that office until his death He built a newBenedictinechurch anddormitoryatParis, increased the churchplate and succeeded in getting getting his benefice anexed to his town house . He diedinParis on 9th April 1697. (See No. 64.)

No. 63

My Lord, Please to doe me the favour tolett me knowby the bearer when itwill beopportune for meand Mr.Ward¹to wayte uponyour Lordship and most R. colleagues , and att what place; in which you will oblidge ,

MyLord , Your Lordshipps most humble Servant.

Jo PEROTT .

Friday morning, December6th

Monseigneur bien che le Sieur George nostre agent vous aura desia tesmoignede nostra partl'obligationque mes deux Collegues & moy vous avons pour.

Bien che signore Georgio nostre agent vous aura tesmoigne les reconoissances de mes deux collegues et moy pour les graces que vous luyavezfait ou plutost a nous en sa personneen leprotegant et nous favorisant et secondantles suplications que nous avonseste obligez de fair a S. Ste etc. et a la sainte Congregation . . . neanmoins l'Abbe Scarlatte envioye de l' Electeur de Baviere en cet cour ayant eu la bonte de m'offrir l'opportunite de reiterer les mesmes reconnaisces par cette lettre qu' il met en son packet, je n'ay pas voulou manqué a mon devoir qui m'oblige à vous remercier tres humblement de toutes vos bontez et vous supplier de les continuer car quoy che nous soyons resolu nous porter avec toute la moderation qui nous sera possibles dans l'exercise du pouvoir que nous est donne par le decret de la dite Congregacion . neantmoins suiet d' apprehender que cela ne se peutfair sans quelque difficulte & contradiction de la part de quelques uns & particulierement les P.P. Benedictins quidemeurent fort attacheza leur pretendus privileges Mais estant appuiez parl'authorite du dit decret, & favorisez par la continuation de vostre protection nous esperions de surmonter toutes ces difficultez en sorte que puisions rendre bon cont a Dieu, a sa saint et a la S. Congregationde nostre conduitqui est l'uniqueambitionde mes confreres et particulierement de ....

1 The Ward mentioned here is probably, John, son of Thomas Ward, who studied in Valladolid beforereturning to England in 1658 or 59. He was made Archdeacon of Hampshire in 1683. Like John Perrot (who is too well known to require biographical identification here) he was a memberof the Chapter. He wrote England's Conversion, and died in London on 9th March 1723. Baron Johann Baptista Scarlatis had his credentials madeout on 8thApril 1689 .

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No. 64

The true state of the affaire of Mr. WILLIAMSHORT

In the month of May 1688 his Mother told Mr. Joseph Shirburne that her son William had thoughts of beinge a monke. Shee proposed conditions which were judged raisonable and thereupon awriting wasdrawn, seal'd and signed byye Mother& Mr. Joseph Shirburne in the presence ofDoctour Betham, one of the witnesses

In this writing was agreedand stipulated that themothershould give her son duringhis life thirty pound a year, and three hundred pound at his profession upon condition that when the son came to age he should signe a writing to renounce to what hisfather had lefthim byhis lastwill.

In June 1688 Mr. William Short came to Paris, tookthehabit, and havingfinish'dhisnoviship had all things preparedforhisprofession, which was to be made the 25th of July 1689. Some days before thesaid tymemyLadyStricklandsent himwordthat she had order to see him and examine him before his profession, whereupon he went toSt. Germans, and both my Lady and Sir Thomas , ¹ finding theyouth resolved, were veryearnest and perswadedhim (by order of the mother as was reported) to differ his profession, which he condescended unto Soone after he fell dangerously sick and in the mean tyme his only brotherdyed. When he was recovered of his sickness , he desired to goe to the convent of La Celle in Brie, wherehestayd some months.

Professionsare nulle amongst the monks without the leave ofthe President, some others took the habit with Mr. William Short, who made their professions att the ordinary tyme having leave of the President, who gave att the same tyme, as is writ in the Counsell book of the house, leave to professe Br. Short when the Priour thought convenient

Upon this leaveFather, Fr. Fenwick, Priour, profess'dhim atthe earnestrequestofthe Brother . Some timeafterhe came toParis , and upon suspicion he had that some English gentleman, who came to see him , would take him away by force, he petition'd Father, Fr. Fenwicke, by writing in the presence of severall English gentlemen whosignedwith him thepetition to let him goeto Fleury²amongst themonks ofSt.Maur.

How long hestay'd there and at the Colledgeof Pontleroyis not certainly knowne to Mr. JosephShirburne, who meddled not at all with the concerns of the house during the time that Father, Fr.

Sir Thomas Strickland, Knight banneret of Sizergh , in Westmorland, married Winifred, the co-heiress of Sir Christopher Trentham. They followed James II to St. Germainsafter 1688 . 2 Fleury Saint Benoit was one of the most celebratedmonasteries in Europe Pont le Voy, also a Benedictinemonastery, reached its greatestimportance about this time

Fenwicke was Priour, as he had done formerly by the expresse entreaty of other Priours The laws of the Congregation forbid Presidents to meddle with the affaires of houses unlesse they be entreated and impowr'd, as Mr. Joseph Shirburne was by Mr. JamesNelson, Priourfrom 1685 to 1689

After his return from Pontleroyhe continued at Paris untill7ber 1693, than he desir'd leave of the President to go with Father Corker to live at Lambspring.1 The President being willing to comply with his request, sent him to St. Germans to acquaint DoctourBetham with his design, and know how he approved ofitt. TheDoctourlik'dit very well, spokeofitt to Father Fenwicke,then atSt. Germans, who was Superiour until the arrival of Mr. Placide Nelson elected Priour, but told him he could not furnishhim with mony for his journy The Doctour said he would come to Paris and conferwithFather Corker about the Brother's concerns Which he did about the 17th of 7ber 1693 and calling for the President Father Corker , & Father Bennet Nelson, he expos'd to them all the Circumstances of the brotherand say'd that this businesse had made a great noise, that he had not at present power to conclude the businesse , but thathe was confident yt if ye Motherwere there, She woulde approove of what Father Corker should determine and think raisonable. Father Corker having considered all things maturely, said : That he judged it raisonable and just that the mother should give to her son the arreares of his pension att the rate of 30 li a year, pay at present a thousand pound, and give duringhis life a hundred pound a year.

Doctour Betham seem'd to like well of this determination , and said hewouldthat day write to the Mother his opinion and inform herofwhat FatherCorker had propos'd.

And as forthemony(whichwas20 li ) for the Brother'sjourny to Lambspring, Father Joseph Shirburne said he would at present giveit, which he really did, borrowing it persons who have need of itt and demand it now .

The Difficultyis now to decide what the Mother should giveto have a writing sign'd by her son whereby he is to renouncetoall, as well what his father left him by his will, as to the estatefallen him bythedecease of his brother

The demand made by FatherCorker seem'd very little (and what the Motherhad before promised) the reason is because that in the agreement made betwixt Madam Short and Mr. Joseph Shirburne it is expresselysaid that the brotherwhen he cometh to agein case he professe shallrenounce to all that his fatherleftby his will

But it was not sayd that he should renounce to whatfellto him bylaw , and thedeathof his brother,soe that is muchmoreadvantagious to the monks to have the agreement fulfill'd, and that they

Lambspring was foundedinGermany in 1643 bythe English Benedictines .

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enjoythe reversion of the eldest brother's estate than to takewhat FatherCorker thoughtjust.

The brother when he was att age was examined by the Lords Chancelours of England and Ireland, by Sir Daniell Arthur, and others ye chiefest lawyers of our nation, who took him apart and enquired ofhis resolution whichthey found to be strong. Whereupon he demanded advice how he should settle his estate upon faithfull people for his good, which accordingly he did in good forme, and thewritingswill be produced if needbe

Butto avoid further dispute the monks will stand to thedemand and judgement of Father Corker, tho' they are offerd mony for their pretensions.

No. 65

I the undernamed doe vow and promise to you my great God , Creator, conservator, and most merciful redeemer in the presence ofyour heavenly court a perpetuallychastitie under the wingsof your glorious mother, and for ever most pure Virgin Marie . Idoe likewise vow and promise to you, that I will yeeld and give perfect obedience in all things relating to either my body or soul to Dr. Henrie Hugh, during his life, as witness my hand, this 27 of September , consecrated to the glorious martir Wenceslaus , King and Virgin ; ofmy age the22 year and ofour Saviour Jesus Christ1693 .

This is a true copie taken from the original and attested by the underwritten: Fr. Antonie Oniel, Guar: of Drogeda, F. Patrick Gernon, Guar: of Dundalk, F. Patrick Barnwel, Lec. Juh , late Guar, of Dublin, and Sir Patrick Bellew , ¹ father to the young ladie, who made the vow .

Dr. Henry Hugh is parish priest of Drogheda, and the vow here copied was writt by him as the sayd witnessesdoe likewise testifie. Theyrtestimonie bears date Aug. 13 , 1695 .

No. 66

Totherightreverend Fatherin God John Lord Bishop ofAdramite , V.A. My Lord! We the Dean, and the Chapter of the English catholic clergy, met together in a general assembly, consideringthat since according to yourseveralverballanswers to a lateaddress your lordships declare, that notwithstanding your ordinary power of erecting chapters, they will not be allowed, without leave and confirmation fromtheSeeApostolic ; and that therefore accordingto the present discipline and practize you cannot doe it : We cannot

1 Sir PatrickBellew of Barmeath, Co. Louth, was createda Baronet in 1688 . He was sheriffofCounty Louthin 1687 married Elizabeth daughter ofSir Richard Barnewall and died in January 1716. Hehad six daughtersand five sons and was ancestor of the BaronsBellewof Barmeath

without a deepe sense of greife humbly representthatifthis beso , as your Lordships declare, these ill effects will, as we humbly conceave, neccessarilyfollowin the respective vacancysyour Lordships will leave at your deceases (which vacancys of what continuance they maybeas thecircumstancesofthenationnow standsGod only knows) these ill effects, wee say, will necessarilyfollow.

To witt thatwithout a standing ordinaryEpiscopall jurisdiction we cannot properlybe called a church : We are destituteofallthe advantages and comforts which such jurisdiction brings with it. Weare without order, exposed to the incroachments of our adversarys, more than in any country whatsoever, and to theflowing in of forreigners, whose absolutions in the sacrament of pennance are invalid, and sacrilegious, and whose priestly functions , and administrations of other sacramentsare criminall, without facultys from the ordinary episcopall jursidiction. The laity will be left without the sacrament of Confirmation , which in the vacancy ofa Bishop cannot without great inconveniencysbe administer'd without facultysfromthestanding ordinaryjurisdiction, and finallywithout many other spirituall and temporall benefitts, which without the said ordinaryjurisdiction Catholic people can not have.

For the prevention of all which and manyother evills ,your Holy predecessours of blessed memory, thoughtit absolutely necessaryto institute a Chapter, for the continuance of ordinary episcopall jurisdiction sede vacante to endure donec pluribus in anglia episcopis catholicis constitutis plura in regno erigantur capitula Theyjudged their ordinaryepiscopall jurisdictionto reachtothis so necessarya provision for the essence and existence of a church sede vacante . They had the judgements of divers eminent Bishops and learned canonists, and accordingly by their respective breves erected and confirmed this present chapter as aforesaid. And except your Lordships think fitt either to goe on in the steps of your Holy Predecessors in supporting the present chapter, or use your utmost endeavours for obtainingothers, effectually to be erected, in your respective diocesses, we iustly apprehend both clergy and laity in thisnationwill beexposed to theforesaid and manyothermischeifs .

For it is well known by your lordships that we have bin divers times forbidden by King Charles the second and his cheifministers , ever to accept of a VicarApostolic; as a title and authority understood to be contraryto the ancient laws of thisnation, and exposing English subjects to the danger of a praemunire, and exclusion from the King's protection . Moreover it is well known to yourlordships whatremonstranceswemadeto King James theSecond, for preventing the admission of such a title, and authority, and what good intentions he expressed for the obtaining an absolute ordinary for us And finallyit ought allso, as we humbly conceave, to be consider'd in what danger we still lye from the said laws, havinga prince upon the throne not of our religion and whom we mayiustly fear, may be easily perswadedto theexecution of them .

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This now being our present state, we the said Dean and Chapter ofthe English Catholic clergy, mett together in a GeneralAssembly, having thus offered to your Lordship's consideration the necessity ofa succession of ordinaryepiscopall jurisdiction, and being sensible thatwecannot hopefor so favourable circumstancesforits establishment as by your Lordship's zealous endeavours and concurence who have bin worthy membersof our Chapter, and whom we have just reason to esteem tenderly, sollicitous for our welfare doe with all due respect supplicate your Lordships effectuallyto solicite the see apostolic forthe establishment of such a succession of ordinary episcopall jurisdiction, a thing so necessaryfor our country, above other countrys separated by schismefrom the Holy See , or if your lordshipps shall thinkfitt to accept of our concurrencealso therein , we shalldepute such membersto attend your Lordships from time to time asmay be proper for the carryingon and accomplishing so good a worke . And we shall, as in duty bound, pray for the long life and happinessofyourlordships.

JOHN PERROTT , Dean, in nomine mei & totius capituli Ecclesiae Anglie simul congregati.

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INTRODUCTION

Atfirst sightit would appear unlikely that any collection ofducuments could surpass, in the strangeness of their provenance, those which have just been described Yet there can belittle doubtthat the LambethLettersare even more unusual, for with one possible exception (No. 64) they are all Catholic letters taken out of the General Post by a Government spy called Spence, with his comments upon them , and a note or two by Archbishop Tenison These letters are a selection from a somewhat larger number contained in Lambeth MS. 1029, chiefly between folios 62 and 107. Some of these letters are purelyIrish in interest, others are sheets ofnotes of Tenison's , in which he has scribbled down the names of correspondants and other comments Tenison's notes are difficult to extend completely, as they are written partly in abbreviation , and partlywith an occasionalshorthand sign to stand for partofa word. As they are largelypolitical ratherthan Recusant in nature (many of them being concerned with reactions of correspondants to the proposed peace) and as manyof them are mere lists of names, the presenteditor has decidedto exclude them fromthetext, contenting himselfwith noticingtheir presence in the manuscript . The documents whichremainwould appear to be a purelyrandom selection, and this supposition would seem to be confirmed by letters in the collection which have no connection with Recusant Post Thus John Taaf, the alleged Missioner and Capuchin, who had become anAnglican wrote to Tenison: "Ihave been at yourhousevery day this last wicke . and at lastfoundthat all was in vained and that I am altogether made a foule of I thouht that if you had noe mindeto serve me that you would be most sincere as to tell me of it and not keep me in this towne to fall into some disordre as I am in great danger to doe it be four and twenty hours, for my cooke protested that he would arest me ifI doe not pay him to morow , as for my landlordhe has lett my roome to an other saeing thatI am not able to payhim, nowI must lye in the streets or with some fellowor another that will gaineme noe honnour, thisistheextremityIam puttoforChangingmyreligion " This letter is representative of others in the volume, which consist of begging letters or lettersof complaint from clergymen. AltogetherMS . 1029 contains letters dating from 18th December 1684 to 9th January 1711/12 . Did Tenison have any motive in selecting those Recusant Letters whichremained in his files ? As has been suggested there seemsno rhyme nor reason in their selection (though it must be admitted

1Lambeth MS. 1029, 2nd June 1689. Nos 90 & 91 are examples of letters relatingtoIrish affairs, while No. 92 is an exampleof Tenison'scomments on the letters he read.

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that many of them relate to the General Chapter of the English Benedictine Congregation held in London in 1697) The retention oftwo of them (a letter from a student asking for money and from an old man asking for medical help for a female relative with an incurable disease) must have caused some havoc in the humble lives of the people concerned, but it is difficult to see how it could have helped Tenison The problem of the motive for selection poses the larger problem of why surveillance was maintained at all over the Recusant Post by Tenison It is easy enough to understand why the Government should wish to keep a watch over all Catholics ; it is less easyto see why Tenison should have Catholic letters sent to him, when he makes no use of them as a basis for an arrest by a Privy Council Messenger. Perhaps the answer is that he merely wanted to know what was going on in the Recusant World.

It goes without saying that just as intercepted letters are rare even among the State Papers, so it is very unusual to find such a large collection of them in private hands In fact Tenison's collection tells us muchmore about this branch of Post Office workthan we are likely to learn from other sources . The Lambeth letters reveal an organisation that would have done credit to a modern Police State, inwhich all Recusant letters are taken out ofthepost, read, copied, abstracted or sent to the Archbishop (a select few only of this latter category) while the fastenings and seals ofthe others arerestored so skilfully that they can be slipped back into the post and arrive at their destination without too muchevidence of tampering. H. Spence, the "Secret Man, " who collected Recusant Letters for Tenison in 1697 was merely one of a chain of officials similarly engaged A "Secret or inner office, " had existed in St. Martin Le Grand Post Office since the time of James I. The officials concerned were authorised "under the immediate warrant of one ofour principal Secretariesof State. " The activityofthe "secret men" lay underground, like moles, and they only betrayed their existence on the occasionof an upheaval such as a state trial In 1723 , at Bishop Atterbury's trial, copies of his letters were produced and given in evidence against him A clerk from the Post Office certified to the fact that they had passed through the post, and that he had seen them opened, read, and copied. Itwas suggested that: "One of His Majesty's Post Office decipherers the Rev. Edward Willes, be cross examined, but the majority of the Lords decided: That it is the opinion of this House thatit is not consistent with the public safety to ask the decipherers to discover the art or mystery of deciphering. " The establishment for opening letters was a very extensive one , under Walpole, at least The Chief decipherers (Dr. Willes and his son) drew £1,600 between them, while very large salaries were paid to the other

1 Her Majesty's Mails, William Lewins, London, 1864, Chapter IX

people in the office, the second decipherer, third decipherer, four clerks and doorkeeper. Everyone in the office, even the letter carriers and bellman, took their work seriously and scrutinised letters as theysortedthem,lookingforincriminatingcorrespondence . One minor official commented "IfI once learn that a personwho lives a genteel life is a Roman Catholic, I immediately look upon him as onewho, by education and principle is an inveterate enemy ofmyKing and country" Scrutinyintensified during William III's reign ; the "secret man" was expected to keep letters no longer than the next morning, so that the correspondentswho were being watched might not suspectthe examination and changethe course of their letters . As early as 1672 the Dutch deputies complained that their letters "by art were resealed, " The practice of opening letters increased after 1688. Viscount Sydney wrote to the Post Master General in 1692 asking for letters directed to particular addresses to be sent to him. After letters had been seized, they were examined by the Privy Council and following examination arrests might be made by a Privy Council messenger . Thus on 25th April 1689 a warrant was issued to detain John Leyburnfor High Treason. It is worthnoticingherethat asubsequentwarrant was made out apparentlyfor the Vicar Apostolic , on August 28th , 1691 , about a year before his papers were discovered So far as I know,nonotice has been taken ofthis warrantbyrecusanthistorians.4 "In order tomake sure that all fishweredriven intothe net,itwas made illegal to send letters except throughthe post ; if any were found travelling by a different means they were to be seized and sent to theSecretariesof State or the Privy Council, to theend that the personsconveying or sending themmay be proceeded against according tolaw . "5

The activities of the Privy Council and the Post Office caused Recusants(and otherfolkwho did not wishtheir lettersto be read) to evade the surveillance of the General Post Office bya variety of devices Letterswerewritten ina highly enigmatic style, signedby pseudonyms or initials, addressed to a third party, who would delivertheletter in person or, to accommodation addresses such as Inns,orsentthroughtheDiplomaticBag, or bypersonal messenger . How far did these devices succeed in baffling the decipherer? The reader will be best able to judge that for himself from Spence's comments on the correspondants over whom he kept watch. He was not always able to penetrate the aliases which concealed the

1 H.M.C. Rep Downshire, 1 , 487

The British Post Office, A History, H. Robinson, Princeton, 1948

S.P.D. William& Mary.

Ibid Aug. 28. 1691. "Warrant to Thomas Beake, messenger, Whitehall in ordinary, to search for and apprehendLeybourne, and seize him and his papers on suspicionof high Treason . " "Report from the Secret Committee of the Post Office Together with the Appendix " 1844.

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identityof the writers, but on the whole he seems to have had a fair measure of success . No doubt if the English Recusants had been aware just how far reaching was the watch on their written thoughts they would have refrained from using the post at all. As it is their precautions were very necessary, as anyone willagree who has talked to someone interrogated by secret policemen as a result of careless correspondance There was probablyonly one method of securing a correspondancefrom being unread and that was to send it in cipher. Leaders like Leyburn were here able to make use ofthe disciplines of the Continental Universities of the daywith a fair confidence that they would baffle the Government. It is difficult to think of an English equivalent for the contemporary French writer, Jean Baptiste Boisot, who cracked Granville's cipher as a prelude to writing a history of his life Yet if Leyburn had employed cipher, would he have sent cipher documents through the post?

The Post Office Official who sent the Lambeth Recusant Correspondence to Tenison was W. H. Spence, who, in 1697 , had apparently been employed in this fashion for a considerable time He had been working at St. Martin's le Grand at least since June 1695 , when he had petitionedthe PrivyCouncil for an allowance to be paid to him through Mr. Blathwayt¹ (another Post Office Officialwho appearsin Number 99 ofthe Lambeth Correspondence.) In the following year Spence was concerned as a witness, in an enquiryby the Privy Council into thesmuggling activitycarried on by Comptroller Brokett. Spence had complained to a man named Blackhall that "the lace trade was coming on again, " had said that the Postmaster General, was "possessed" by rogues and villains on account of the lace trade, and that the Comptrollerhad done great prejudice to the King's Service by removing Eades , Spence's assistant, who had acquired great skill in distinguishing what letters were fit to be inspected Another witness, Franco, described how Brokett "used to look among the letters that came from the Hague, Brill, and Antwerp, and carry someof them tohis closet, where he shut himselfup; Franco had heard him tear the covers but not seen it This he ordinarily did in the night time, whileSpence was above in his chamber" (he apparentlylived over his work). Franco endeavoured to find out what were the letters he took but could not When the bags were to be made up, he brought his letters in a sly manner, and slipped them into the "packs, " then tied and sealed them up, so that neitherSpence nor he could see what those letters were. He used to receive a great many letters by foreign post, and some he put into his pocket without opening.3 Spence's testimony against the Comptroller

1 S.P.D. William& Mary, 1695, June21 ,Whitehall

2 S.P.D. Will. III, 1696, July 22 .

3 Ibid , Sept. 25th

apparentlydid no harm to the witness; a little later, on July6th, 1697 , the Privy Council "read Lord Montgomery's letter, which Mr. Spence stopped. "

What Spence has to tell us about himself, in theLambeth Letters, is a great deal more informativethan what can be learned from the PrivyCouncil records. In his nine letters (6th June 1796 ,2nd July 1697, 5th July 1697 , August 30th 1697, 24th September 1697 , 27th September 1697 and 7th October 1697, together with two undated notes) Spence lays bare his whole method of scrutiny. There is further a letter sent to Tenison by James Vernon on 26th September 1697. Although all that is left of the Spence-Tenison correspondence is comprised in the few letters preserved in MS. 1029 , there is no reason to suppose that it either ended or beganin 1697. Besides showing how the "Counter Counter Reformation" worked,Spence's correspondence has provided some useful statistics about the Catholic population of England at this time. Those who contest thatthat population was larger than has been thought may find some support in the assumption that Spence merely "skimmed the cream" of the whole Catholic mail of the day, and neverthelessmanages to provide a formidable list of correspondants. Asthepersons concernedare so verynumerousit has been possible to annotate only a few of them (the writer would particularly wish to thank Dom Gregory Freeman O.S.B. in this connection) Such notes as have been provided are biographical, but there is little in the letters to defeat the reader, and it is hoped that the words of ordinary Catholics of the day will themselves provide the best introductionto life in "courts, colleges, and convents , " at this time.

No 62

Honoured Sir, August.

I received yours of July the 27 with no small surpise and really no less reluctance to comply both for want of capacityto perform such a charge, and also the interruption of the schoolewhichmade me onceof a mind to reply to yours and beg you would assign one more fit, butMr. Kinsman and Mr. Wood: assureing methat to do sowo'd be very displeasingto you, and perhaps a great disappointment and very inconvenient, on this consideration I went and returned thence last night, and in the firstplacedesireyou'dpardon myslow account, for really I was so pester'd my 9 dayes I had not one moment to write, and wish with all my (heart) I could now to your satisfaction, but fear it will be otherwise forÍ find them very much disunited , and two principal (reasons) thereof first Mrs. Randolph's acting without any dependance of assistants, which certainly breeds very muchdisquiet This I laid home to her after the best manner I could and she seemed . . . it more than a little

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and very unwilling to make the least reform in it, and I have some reasontofearwil be as backward in performing. The secondcause is that they have a young unexperienced Mistress of No: (vices) whichhas done harm enoughthelast 3years, and I fear liketogoon. She's ofMrs. Randolph's makeing, so must be maintained, . . . and is what ere the house suffer by it She had 13 voycesand Bray 11 and the latter being so near was partly the cause (of the) other's election , for I really .. think Mrs. Ran. (dolph) wh'd pref(erno) novice inthe house to Mrs. Bray, tho' she has doneallin her (power) to comply with her, and not a complaint against her but (what) Mrs. Ran : (dolphe) made but not a word till she was sure of her ownagain and when she was askedif Mrs.Brayhad not beenexact intheperformancesofher duty, all she had to say of her was"t'was well if she continued . " I had no way to prevent Mrs. Lee being made but by absolute authority, and haveing no particular orders for that I proceed'd the safest. .. without necessity. I have now onefavourto beg, that you'l pleas to order I maynot be sent there anymore nor to Bridges for I have great necessityoflieingathome both on my owne and Scholars' account, who have been so much abroad this last year that I have been obliged to begin a 2d. time the samebook, and made very little proficiency in the whole Ifear, but ifI may be at home I'll still do my endeavour. I desire also you'd pleas to give Mrs. Bray a line of encouragement to suffer as well as she can for really I think her Mistriss very unkind to her and I can find takes some occasionto mortifye her without much reason . I hope you'l pleas to pardon this troublesome and unconnected relation tis such an one as the subject and hast would permit, if you knowI have been deficient or otherwise faulty you'l please to let me know. I shall receive it with satisfaction, and endeavour all reasonable amendment. if you desire any further informationof any thing in my power I shalbe very readyto give ir or do any thing els that lyes in the power of

Honoured Siryour most obedient

A. WILLIAMSON

There are no officers changed but dispenser and infirmarian the accounts are as follows received the year1696 disburst remains owing flo 2119 04 00 3289 14 00 1170 10 the novice's portionhad pay'd this but I believe she'lnotcomplain on't, because 'twilbepartly imputedto her keepe. Mrs. Ran(dolph) desires you'ltake300: mss.

There's onething more they desired I wou'd acquaintyou,thatthe house next totheirs is to be sold now , and if'tis not donenowe they cannot have it these 20 years again, and perhapsnever, they desire your leave and assistance , and advice in the matter. I believe they willnot compass it Mr. Redley does themverygreat service, they thankyoufor him, he reallybehaves himselfverywelland he's interest in ..(Document here in need ofrepair) . . stationand remit the restto those who have more power to descend to allparticulars and be tedious tho' I must give you one or two about the Mrs. than I meant . They had a novice who had finished her year and some months more And two dayesafterthe electionsShewentout. I went to her to ask on what account. She told really she loved the order the best of any; and of all houses in it that most ; and totestifyit she had rather be here than in othermonasterieswhere shehad her relations, so she told me she had done two noviceships here and goneout twice on the same account, because ofhermistris , and told me she thoughtin her conscience if anyharm came toher for going out , her Mrs. would have it to answerefor. But I being just there leaving them , She writtwo lines afterme asfollowes "Sir Ihave noprejudice against theMrs. of novices, thewoman forought I know meanswellYet she has some humours and particularwayes that unless we are saints nowwill troublethem longe, I am not the first that has been sacrifised to the world and that by her indiscretion you know it that severall has left the house on her account , and believe me if there be no remedy, manymay follow. I am not a child and therefore you may not think I could not be so longin the housewithout takeing notice of her proceedings She was the occasionofmyfirst going and so she is of my second , if any misfortunes overtakes me in this world I shall Laie my acknowledgements to her for it, god forgive her. That is all I have to say. I beglikewise you'l inform Mr. Price how I have been treated and let him know worse may follow unless there be some remedy, these are her very (words) I have the letter by me still

This is, Sir, a long and unsatisfactory story to tell you, but what Ithinkmyobligations you knowto form the best judgement on it. She has several times offer'd Mr. Howarden to resign her office if he'l advise her to it. I could wish she woo'd again, and yourself or him eitheradvise her, or more than advise, for tho' I reallythink, nayam convinced She's an extraordinarygoodreligious womenand means well , yet I am equally sure the hous has suffer'd much by her, and may suffer more, for it being Mrs. Randolph's desire to continue her she'l never complain tho' a hundred novice leave 'em on the same account ... Mr. Woodward ... there about two months hence for which the ....

No. 64

(Copy of a Letter of Mr. Dean¹ a Popish schoolmaster at St. Mary le bon at which schole were found about 16 Schollars, & it was broken up by the Justices of the Peace by order of the Lord Lieutenant of ye duke of Bedford about Midosmer 1696)]

Superscribed. These for his honoured friend Mr. Pore at the hand & Apple near St. Margaret's church Southwark .

Honoured Sir , Your keeping your son so long at home occasions my givingyou this trouble to know I have yet mett with no disturbance for these Times, nor am apprehensive of any as being no military man Many surprizing things have happened of late, but God will bring to light the Truthof Kings& the wickedness & Cursedness of Men . A line or two from your self of your Resolutions concerning the disposing ofthe child & also of your own welfare would be a great satisfaction to me that I am may know you have not forgotten

Marti27 1696

Honoured Sir

Your most obliged humble servant THO : DEANE

Sir my very humble service to your Lady & kind remembranceto theChild

(Copy ofa popish letter at S. Maryle Bon).

General Letter Office June the6th 1697

No. 66

May it please your Grace , Having had your Grace's Permission I presume to lay before your Grace what yesterdaye's forreigne Mailes in & out, afforded inrelationtothe English Popish Religious Concernes

1. That to Mr. Thomas Smith is from Mrs. Dalbridgcourt, Lady Abbesse ofPontoise.

1 Perhapsthe same ThomasDeane who was born at Maldenin Kent, entered University College, Oxford, on 19th October 1699, became an M.A. in 1676, and in 1684 a Fellow After 1688 he withdrew fromOxford to avoid themoband came to London, whereon 18th December1691 he was pilloried on the charge of being a Jesuit He died on 10th November 1735 after spendingmost of his latter yearsin the Fleet Prison for debt (Gillow.)

3 Elizabeth d'Albridgecourt 5th Abbess (1684-1710) of Pontoise , a monastery of Benedictine nuns under the direction of the Jesuits The Professionof Elizabeth had been blessed by Mgr de Harlay at St. Germains in the presence of James II and his court (Guilday )

2. That to Saltmarche is from his Brother, late Confessourto that House

3. That to Richard Pepper is from the English Nuns at Leige. Mrs. Hawley is theirAbbisse .

4. That to W. Grove I take to be from Doway, it is at least however dated from some place in French Flanders

5. As to that to Mr. Brookes I cannot call to mind whenceit comes but have return it and shall remember it another time. Brookes is a Priest

6. That for William Bird is as I take it from the English Relgious at Lisle.

7. That to Price is from Abbiss Petre's Nunneryat Ghent .

8. That to Mr. Galloway¹ from Mrs. Wright is from another Nunneryat Bruges, of which Mrs. Wright is Abbisse.

9. That to Mr. Bruce I take to befromScotch Religious.

10. Thatto Nicholas Sharpis I am confident from some Religious tho'I am stranger to the hand

11. That to Young is from the Jesuit's Agent at Antwerp Thyrsus isDon Thyrso Gonzalez, theGeneralof the Jesuits Brewer the English Provincialof the sameOrder.

12. That for Constable2 is from Mrs. Gifford theEnglishAbbisse at Rouen.

13. That to Swiban is from Mark Preston³ near the Arch in Lincoln'sInne ffields to the English Nunneryat Pontoise

14. That to Chaumont is from the same hand as the English Religious at Liege.

15. That to Nickolson is from L. Galloway in Bloomsbury to the English Nuns in Dunkirk.

16. Madam wright is one of the English Abbesses in Bruges.

17. Justin Peters the English Abbisse in Ghent

18. That to Vincent Neerinx is likewise for Religious.

19. That to Le Bland is from a Religious here to others of his Coat in France.

1 Mr. Galloway may have been the "Monsr. Galloway" mentioned in Marwood'sdiaryas livingnearLaFlechein 1701. (C.R.S.Misc Vol VI/108 )

3Constablemay have been Dom Augustine Constable , son of SirPhilip, the first Baronet, professed at St. Gregory's 1649 who was on missiontill his death in 1712. (C.R.S. Misc Vol p. VI 262.)

Mark Preston was a pseudonym of William Molineux, son of Richard 5th Viscount , died 1706

*Nickolson may have been Francis Nicholson, controversialist, 1650-1731 Nicholsonhad been anAnglicanrectorwhobecame a CatholicunderJames II After 1688 he tookthe habit in an English Carthusian monasteryat Nieuport in Flanders and in 1692 he returned to England, later moving to Portugal. (Gillow )

5 Madam Wright MaryWright, Prioress of the English Convent (Houseof Nazareth) Bruges, 1693-1709 . Shewas of the Kelvedon family.

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20. That for Madam Bedingfield¹ is for the English Abbisse of the Poor Clares , at Grevilines.

21 That for Morg. Southwill is from Bedingfield a Councellor at Lawin Graye's Inn. A man in great esteem withthe Romanists.

22. Thatfor Chaumon'sIntendantis from George Loup, a Priest.

23. Farishurst's is from Groves, a Great Manager in Monastery Concernes Grovesgoes by severall other names.

My Lord of Canterbury [bottom of sheet one]

No. 67

(M. Spencereceived July 2'd. '97 Let 3. Of Persons)

General Letter Office July ye2nd 1697 .

May it please your Grace

The Pacquet to Williams is from Paris. that to Browne from L'Isle or Douay. Those to Heskith²& Hunter³ from Doway. that to Betts I thinkfrom Rouen Those to Lawson5 & Allibonefrom Rome, that to Eltonefrom Paris Those to Galloway from Dunkirk& Antwerp. That to More from Paris.

Those to Gibson, Danvilliers , Callow, & Phillips from Brussells Those to Brinckhurst & Smith from French Flanders Derry & Morpeth,I thinkfrom Bruges. That to Reede I Suspect to Paris That to Ligart is for Mrs. Gifferd's Nunnery at Rouen. Those to Melstraet have enclosed to several Parts Brewer is Provincial of the English Jesuits. The Coalpits I take to be Liege. Edward Spencer is I thinkthe head of the House at St. Omers His Brother here their Agentis

1 Madam Bedingfield was Ann Bedingfield (in religion Anne Bonaventure) the 5th Abbess of the Poor Clares at Gravelines She madeher Profession on 12thAugust 1640anddiedon 17thNov., 1697. (C.R.S.Misc Vol VI/240 ) Edward Bedingfield (mentioned elsewhere in these letters) was the third son of Sir Henry Bedingfield of Oxburgh, Norfolk, and was called to the Bar in 1688. "Being perhaps the only Catholic then at the bar, it was naturalhe should often be employedby Catholics (C.R.S. Misc Vol VI 235)

Heskith may be the same Roger Hesketh whom we have already met as the bearerof a letterof compliment to Leyburn

3 Hunter. May be Father Thomas Hunter, S.J., the Controversialist. Born 6th June 1666, he studied at St. Omers , entered the Society on 7th September 1684 and was from 1701-1704 a Professor of logic and Philosophy at Liége. Betts Possibly John Philip Betts, priest and schoolmaster . He was educated at Douay and then became first assistant and subsequently masterat Twyford School (Gillow )

5 Lawson. Possibly Thomas Lawson, s J., 1666-1750 , ordained priest in 1691 and minister in the English College at Rome (Gillow.)

Mrs. Giffard Winefrid Clare Giffard was Abbess of the Poor Clares of Rouen between 1670 and 1702. She had made her Profession on 4th October 1633 and died on 23rd Nov. 1706. (Gillow.)

a Priest their true name I take to be Petres Francis Simens I suspect to be Francis Plowden.¹ That to Swiban is for France the rest carrytheirowneDirections .

To these My Lord, I have presumed to add that to fischer . Ludolph therein mention'd I have long known He is deeply tainted with Quietisme. If your Grace shall be pleased to see the Answers toit,I shall lay 'em before your Grace; theybeing ofthe same strain.

My Lord, the present great Hopes of the Jacobites at home & abroad keep me so employ'd that I was not able to make upthis Dispatch sooner . I am with all zeale & Respect May it please your Grace .

Your Most Dutifull& Most Humble & most Obedient servant , My LordofCanterbury H.SPENCE

No. 68. Let 2

General LetterOffice July5th 1697

MyLord

These several Pacquets I humbly conceive , My Lord , need no Descant either as to the places they come from or goe to : They have severalsprincklings of the mighty Expectations ofthatParty . My Lady Strickland2 tels her Son in that to Trentham under Cover to Ligart, viz Mrs. Gifford, "I have very great hopes to contrive this as to yr. Meeting me half way will effect all those desires of which more in her next. " London is her half way; for shee is Sckulkingin the North of England under the name of Riddle , as I remember . The enclosed Blank mention'din thatto Worthington I have taken out and am going to putt it into another hand, who possibly may think it Fitt to be laid beforeyr. Excellenciy. I am afraid I trespasse too much upon yr. Grace's Patience, for wch. humbly craving pardon Irest

My Lord

Your Graces

Most Dutifull

Most obedient Servant H.SPENCE

MyLd .Archbishop

1 FrancisPlowden Was from an old Catholic familywhich had contributed nine members to the Society of Jesus Francis Plowden (Alias Perot and Simeon-"Simens") was in Paris in 1701 as Procurator fortheEnglish Jesuits , and was much concerned in financial matters.

2 Lady Strickland wife of Robert Strickland of Catterick and Richmond , Co. York, who accompaniedthe royal exiles to St. Germainsand became Treasurerto James II and Vice Chamberlain to Queen Mary Beatrice

Sir,

No. 69

I pray you direct the enclosed to the person from whom you desired Mr. Forcett (?) in your Letter of the 16 of June to tell me ythe wasin goodhope of Endinge is lawsuit soone ....

Londone July 16 , 1697

Iam Sir yours, No. 70

July 16, 1697

I have written soe very often to you without receiving any return that I concluded my letters were intercepted and therefore resolv'd towrite no more but what Mr. Smith has transcribed out ofyours to mee the 16th of the last month's and write this at a Venture. I am glad for your owne sake your law suit is neer an end tho' I am not soe sure ifI am ... to believe it sinceyou have often told me soe without any good grounds. I wish it may prove true now , for their Justice I find approve you. For my part I am soe worne out with sicknesse , old age, and so ... that I have abandonedall hopes of my worldly arrangements and that which completes all my miseries is that the onely support I have here in my misfortunes is like to be taken from mee for she has a cancer in her brest which kills certainly tho' not suddanly when she was in Orleanes she saw an Abbot there that had an infallible cure ifthe brest werenotbroken as hersisnotyet I entreat youto enquire after him or if you can heare of any remedy that is infallible without chardge to find it I am glad to hear you were all well I pray god continue and increase all needful comforts to you. Your friend Mr. Steward died a month agone of a lingeringsickness . R.W. is not pleased youhave not yet given him an account of French army, hewrit to you remember all to yoursand if youcan dispatchyour business soe that I may see you before winter or rather ...

I am

Yrs.

(A Monsieur , Monsieur Bernard Smith Proviseur du College du St. Antoine de Padouea Louvain)

No. 71

Ad castram Gordonianum in Aeneia 19 July 1697

ReverendeDomine

Meminisse poteris quod anno proxime elapso sub medium Septembris relictaGermania venerim in Holandiam et inde Londinium, nec dubito quin audiveris quod ibi in carcerem conjectus fui cujus molestisnon nisi post aliquot menses memet liberare potui secondodemum die hujus mensisScotiam intraviac 15 huc

appuli favente Deo secretis quam fieri potuit itineribus paucissimisque cognitiis . Eandem vivendi rationem per aliquod tempus tenere oportet quoniam iis qui nunc rempublicam apud nos administrant multis nominibus invisus sum et obnoxius Viditamen Vinsterum¹ et aliquot alios missionis socios qui bene se habent et vossalutant, plures propediem visurus Deo dante quant. hactenus videre potui in Australi parte regni res nostrae sunt in statu quo prius, hic ad boream paulo meliore quoniam aliqui nuper reconciliantur Ecclesiae Post aliquot hebdomadas Eminentissimis D.D. scriptarus sum , unde plenius rescire poteris quis rerum status sit apud nos commendo me precibus vestris et sum

ReverendeDomine

Reverentiae vestrae servushumilissimus

THOMAS EP : PERISTOCK²

V. A. in Scotia

(Al Mon signore Illustre & Reverende Signore Il Seignore Don Guglielmo Lesleo³ nella corte di Eminentissimo Cardinale Carlo Barberini a Roma)

SUMMARY

Writing from CastleGordon the Bishop of Peristachium saysthat Lesley may remember he left Germany in September, came to Holland and thence to London, where he was thrust into prison, and could not be released for severalmonths. He entered Scotland on2nd Julyby secret paths He is unpopular withtheGovernment, has seen Winster and other missionaries Things as they were in the South, but a little betterin the North where some have become reconciled to theChurch .

1 Vinster Alexander Winster (Dunbar) was a native of Morayshire who entered the Scots college at Rome. In 1651 he was ordained priest and six years later he entered the Scottish Mission. In 1658 he succeeded Ballantyne as Prefect He was in Paris between1668 and 1672. Hetook refuge in Edinburgh Castle in 1688 but was allowed to retire northwards unmolested He died in 1708 in his 83rd year (Bellesheim)

Thomas, Bishop of Peristachium wasof good family, the son ofSirThomas Nicolson of Kennay He was born in 1645, educatedas a Protestant, and for fourteen years held a Professorshipat the Universityof Glasgow . He became a Catholic in 1682, studied at Douai, was ordained priest in 1685 and in 1687 returned to Scotland to Missionary activity After escaping from Edinburgh in 1688 he was imprisoned and eventually permitted to leave the countryon his brother's recognisance that he would not return While in France he was a confessor to a house in Dunkirk and was made Vicar Apostolic for Scotland in Paris on 27th February 1695. After obtaining a passport, the cancelling of his brother's recognisance through the good offices of the Bavarian Ambassadorin England, Abbate Scarlatti, he crossed the Channelin November 1696, only to be immediately arrested andnotreleased tillthe following May. His Report to Propaganda (printed in Bellesheim Vol IV p. 364) echoes some of the phrases of his letter to Lesley (Bellesheim )

Don GuglielmoLesleo or (WilliamLesley) was agentfor the Scottishsecular clergy at Rome for nearly sixty years Some of his vast correspondence is now at Blairs (Hay)

For MR SMITHSON att Horesham in Sussex. August the 1st 1697 .

Honoured Father,

I make bold once more to trouble you on the same subject, haveing not as yet had the honour of an answerto my last I hope You'll not thinke me troublesome before t'is time at least if you take into consideration the ill convenience of being in a forraine country with an empty purse T's needless to repeat here my expencesfrom the time that I receavedthe 20 li haveing already given it at full in my last. I'm still oblig'dto continue my pension at23 lis. a monthe it being thecheapestin the towne. To takemy degrees next spring I find myselfe like to be very hard put to it but yet by God's helpe I hope to be as good as my word. I've writ & studdied within these four monthes past a treatise of the institutesofphysickof a thousand pages & another ofthedistemper ofthe head of almost 500 pages : I have as yet eight more treatises to write, some bigger & some less. Severall have diswaded me from this undertaking , & counseil'd me rather to betake myselfe to printed autheurs or at least to copie the writings of the other professours which are much shorter, but I'm resolv'd to persist in the method I've begun, tho' it coast me twice the peine, for by soe doeing I pretend to become master of all the opinions of him who is perhaps the learnedestDr. of physick in Europe.

Sir you'll be pleas'd to lett me knowe in your next , whetherI shall take my degrees here or else where ; if here I proetend to pass Bachelour in Aprill next & by the end of july have done all my acts (which are in all 11) & pass Dr. t'will coast here near 400 lis. or 30 li sterlin : if You're pleas'd that I shall takemyselfe where the chargeswill be but halfe as much & I can take themwhen you shall thinkefitt

Iam provided with all necessaries till November next by which time You will be pleased to put me in repair by the same means as the last time, for I receav'd for the 20 pound 280 lis when as formerlyfor 8 pound I never receavedabove 90 lis. so that bymy last letter of exchange I profitted 40 lis Haveing nowgiven youa full account of the state of my affairs I leave the rest to Your will & pleasure asking you for nothing more but to give my humble duety to my Mother& to accept of the same Yourselfe from him who is ,remembring his love to all his brothers & sisters .

Your

Most

oblig'd& most duetifull Sonne WILL SMITHSON

Most Honor'dSir,

76

August the 2d. 1697

Comparing the Date of this letter with its contents itmayseeme somewhat perchance preposterous, but you'l please to consider all I say as ifwrit after your meeting, whereat I suppose you willbee chosen to succeed Mr. Shirburne . And as such I now address myselfe to you The distance of place and the long time letters are in coming and goeing made me unwilling to expect the news of your Election and the Ardent desire I have of advancinge my own happiness obliges mee to write beforehand, that I may the Sooner have your answere. When I reflect ofwhat I have to say, I ought, meethinks to Apologize for Soe Long and tedious a letter, as I forseethis will prove ; but the Subject and my circumstances will, I humbly presume, plead my excuse, & tho' att (the) Same time I begg a favour of you, yet it is of that nature that I may reasonably hope to be excusablefor the Importunity, and that you will make noe difficulty to grant my petition, Since what I shall desire ofyou is not only highly conduceing, but likewise in a great measure necessaryfor my eternal Salvation, whichtho' it bee my chief business to procure by all possible means , yet, Sir, it is now becomesoe far yours, as that you are obliged not onlynot to hinder it but even to promote it according to your power. Et Quantum sub cura sua fratrum se habere scierit numerum, agnoscat pro certo quia in die Judicii Ipsarumomnium animarum redditus est Domino rationem etc.

It is now about Six years agoe that haveing by God Almighty's grace been penetrated somewhile before with a deeper sense ofmy obligations and the perfection I'me bound to tend to; and not finding those helps among us which are elsewhere , but on the contrary, the greatest hindrances imaginable & Innumerable subjects of Scandal, I humbly petition'd upon my Knees Mr. Shirburne, as I now would doe to you, if you were here, that he wouldgrant mee his leave to quitt our Body, and goe pass the rest of my Days at La Trappe. This place I suppose you have heard of, & its more than Sufficient, because not necessary , I think to tell, that it is a reformed Cistercian monastery, where the Rule we profess is Kept in its primitive & greatest perfection Mr. Shirburne granted mee my request Immediatly, But Some days after recall'dhis word. I had two ways then notwithstandingofquitting, first by goeing away without Leave, as a young Brother of ours did Since, But came back again after some months Stay: 2ndly by getting leave from Rome The first medium I would not take out of respect to our Laws, or ratherthe very Pillar on which they are built,I mean Plantata the Validity ofwhichtho' too often call'd into question among us , I would in noe manner seeme to doubt of by my Actions , and indeed it's what my Conscience would not permitt mee And finding therein wee have a communication of M

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Priviledges with those, to whom it is forbid under pain of excommunication etc. to goe to any other order or congregation tho' stricter without the General's leavein writeing I could not Convince myself I could with a safe Conscience act Quite Contrary , Since there were other means for to compass my desires And the Kindness I had and shall always retain for our congregation made mee Differ useing the 2nd. Expedient because it Could not bee done without blasting the Congregation's reputation: And perceiving that Mr. Shirburne was hastening faster than ordinary to his grave I hoped that with a few years patience God almighty would soe dispose things that I might obtainmy desire without noise, which I nowmost Earnestly wish, & in order thereunto, humblybeggyou will please, Sir, to grant mee Leave to goe and Incorporate myself among the Religious of La Trappe. It's now Seaverall years I've lived with Continual Interior discontents, which I can bear noe Longer, and am resolved nowto purchase the happinessof a Quiet conscience tho'att never Soe dear a rate, which I cannot possess amongus, where the greatest of vices reigne, and the more abominable they are and Scandalous , the more free they are from punishment and Conviction . To mention all I know , & whathas happened of late years, mens refugit credere, humanae hoc audire aures expavescunt. That a Religious man, a Priest, should debauche a young woman in Confession , ly withher Severall times, get her with child, bee poxed : All this bee known among seaverall externes & most of our own, & not yet bee punished, The Same person Some years after attempts to debaucheanother woemanwho was married , write letters worse than which the Divil himself could not dictate, which were putt into Superior's hands by the woeman herself, that hee should Continue in this State daily with almost as visible sacriledges as sacrifices without any Correction from first to last, Is all this Credible ? Chiefly if wee Consider the crimes were pipeing hot att your Last meeting, where, notwithstanding , instead of being punished hee Sate withthe rest as judge in severall causes , after which the person by miracle might repent but noe medium's taken to hinder the like or greater miseries That another, after many Scandals abroad, & reiterated Complaints from seaveral hands, should laughat a formal precept of obedience put upon him under pretence of many defects in it, of which one was want oftrue Latin, as hee pretended, another that it was not Signifiedto him by a public huissier etc. And after all, Carryhis point and instead of being made an example of, on the contrary without any Correction get to live, as hee yet continues, out of his convent, where hee may perchancedoe miracles, But I'me certain that his very remaining there cannot but bee Scandalousto those who Know his former Conduct, and I wish his behaviour maybee now Religious. That another, After haveing premeditated his running away, & got most things in readiness for his goeing into England & being discovered by Seculars , should undergoe noe

punishment for soe open an apostasy, but on the Contrary after reiterated Scandals, & continued Idleness bee promoted to the order of priesthood some two years after to the publick scandal without doubtofall who know him To examin our vow ofpoverty with daily practises and examples, one would think it were made chiefly to bee trangressed, and things are got to Such a pass that I Know not well In whose power it is to hinder them , Tho' few goe about it. In fine there's nothing but to resolve to Lay aside conscience , goe thoro' thick & thin, resist violently a Superior for to doe what one pleases. As for other house they doe in noe wise excell ours , as much as ever I could understand ; If wee bee worse than them in some things they are much worse than us in others. And asto England ( Abyssus abyssum Invocat) I shall saynothing of it, I suppose you know more than I can tell you. I'me truly sorry tofind myself forced to mention anythingof all this to you. I Supersede thousands which alone were now more than sufficient for to make me Seeke Some more Secure place for to worke my Salvationin. But since my Petition will Seeme , I believe, new & strange, I thought myself obliged to give you some hints of my motives, which are soe Solide, that it might either been granted or the Denial of it own'dUnjust It's not absolut necessity forces me to address myself to you ; would I goe on my own accord , I could be admitted, but I will not for the reasons already alledged. Therefore I must either have your leave, or get it from Rome The Later if I bee forced to, it will bring a perpetual Infamy upon the Congregation for the avoiding whereof I humbly apply myselfto you, begging of you by the pretious blood of our Blessed Saviour Spilt for us on the Cross You'lplease to give me the Leave I desire without forcingme to what I have soe great an aversion from: for I have a true Kindness for the Congregation, which I shallalways retain, and according to my present dispositions I would willingly dyfor to procure it all Spiritual blessings , But tho' I would loose mylife; yet you'l not wonder if I refuse to loose my Soul forit, & therefore should you refuse me the leave I now ask I will Sett forth at Length and after another manner than now to you my reasons for quitting it, whichwill soon obtainmee from a Superior power, by the means I shall use the Leave I now ask you I shall need noe money for the effectingof this, there are persons ofthe greatest Virtue, Learning and prudence who att first word will undertake the business , But since it cannot be done without the Congregationsdiscredit & perchancealmost total ruine, Ishouldbee heartily grieved to come to those extremitys, & hope youby your prudence will prevent them which Cannot bee done, but by a Speedy grant of what I've soe long desired, & now beg ofyou , & can expect no longer for. It may be objected that there's noe bodyforces mee to be Idle, or Absolutely hinders mee from acting as I should doe & that if others doe ill, I need not follow their example, that there are betterthan I in the Congregation All which

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I grant. I'me far from Preferring myself to all the people in our Body, on the Contrary I doe humbly and Sincerely aacknowledge myselfto be the most unworthyomnium peripseme? & doe hope there are Saints in it, I'me sure there are those whom I do truly honor and esteeme. But all this does not prove that I ought to remain any Longer in it, for if thesereasons must take place, Adieu Religion For who is forced to be Idle in theworld ? who is there in an absolut Impossibility of doeing their duty of fulfilling the Commandments ? who needs to follow the worst example ? for to quitt the world one must be better and more vertuous than any who remains in it ? I need not answere these Queries Since therefore notwithstandingall this, it is a councell to Leave the world and Embrace a Religious course of life, soe a fortiori when onehas once Entredupon vowsin Religion AndtherebyConsiderably Encreas'd one's former obligations contracted in baptisme & that thereinone has not sufficient helps for the acquittingof one's new obligations by reason of Irregularitys& bad Customes which Predominate one not only may But ought without doubt to Seek a Safer harbour for to avoid the Eternall shipwrack of one's Soul. Qui amat periculum peribit in ille. The sad Consequences of bad example want no proofs, whether wee examin thehistorythehistory offormer ages or reflect on what passes daily beforeour Eyes & for our greater caution the holy Ghost Seemes to make it almost infallible Cum perverso perverteris And that Impunity of vice is one of the greatest scandals, the Heathens themselves were fully convincton't, and dailyexperienceconfirmesitto betrue. Maxima peccandi membra, says Cicero, Spes Immunitatis Hitherto , by the Assistance of God almighty's grace, I've avoided severall of those enormous faults I Lament in others, to whom nevertheless I doe not in the least preferr myself : But my daily transgressions make me with reason fear that if I continue in the State I'me in I shall Shortly become unworthy of his Soe mercifull a protection, which as yet I've experienced, and if once that judgement fall upon me, what crime may I not committ ? Left to myself what misery am I not capable of, & soon shall I not fall into? And therefore , that I may bee more faithful to my obligations & avoid my eternal ruine, I think myself obliged to repaire to a place of greater Security than our Congregation affoards or is consistent with our Customes . I could undertake, meethinks, & goe thoro with too anything By God's assistance , tho' never Soe repugnant to corrupt nature, if encouraged by good example. But I find by Experience that bad example is an extreame hindrance to mee ; Such is my weakness , & that I goe daily down the hill. The very thoughts of haveing been nigh thirteen years now in religion, of whatI have to answer for since thattime, whatI should have done &whatI havedone, should makeme tremble, & I'me fullyConviced I shall not mend among us. Therefore I mustEndeavour toattone Elsewhere To almighty God for my past Infidelitys, & implore his

mercy by my Constant Endeavours of a more exact complyance withmyobligations for thefuture SinceI first had a desireofthis courseof life which I nowresolve to Embrace without anyfurther delay I've us'd all my Endeavours to Know God almighty'swill about it ; And Since the motives inducing mee thereunto are still the same orgreater, & that I feel mydesire daily Encrease , I've all reason to hope that God almighty has preordained that place for mee to worke my salvation in Flesh and blood surely can pretend to noe share in that Call, whereby they are like never to have any rest in this world But how Infinite are your mercys o my God, to give mee, after I've deserved Hell soe many times, to give me, I say, such a Longing after perfection, which I'me now as far from , as unworthy of! The Highest degree would be full little enough for to render a missioner duely Qualified, & what shall we say of those who daily undertake soe great and dreadful a function with dispositions soe different from those requisit to their State ? For mypart its what I'me soe far unfitt for and incapable of both by my want of vertue & Learning that I should esteeme it an open tempting of almighty God to engage myself in it, for which way soeverI turnemyself in our Body, I find no suchsecurityfor mee as I'me obliged to procure. I foresaw from the beginning ofthisletter that I should abuse your patience, and I'm afraidI've done it more than I even then thought of, forwhich I humbly beg your pardon and for anythingI've said whichmayoffend you There's a great deal ungratefullto you I believe, to hear, whichI can assure you tis noe less mortifying to mee to mention & could I have supposed you would have granted mee your Leave for bare asking without giveing you instances of my motives, I would never have spoke of what I wish maybe buried in eternal oblivion, or at Least thought of only by those to whom it belongs Soe far as is necessary for preventing the like or other miserys in a body which should bee holy, in a Congregation which should be perfect, & which I shall always wish and daily praymaybeesoe .

I hope, Sir, duely reflectingof the premises you'l afford mee a speedy and satisfactoryanswer My petition is unusuall Indeed amongus, But in no wisecontraryto our Laws, for ourConstitutions Suppose Such leaves to bee asked and granted too. Cap. 8. de Clusura par. 10. Qui ad alterum ordinem vel congregationem transeundi licentiam petierit, non obtineat licentiam talem, antequam Superior monuerit Reverendissimum A. Praesulm. Si nonperseverit, sed ad nos redeat, amittat Locum professionis, et computabitur illi tempus professionisdumtaxat a reditu This Supposes leavegranted to quitt the Congregation, the actuall Leaving it, & enjoyns the penalty he's to undergoewho havingobtain'd the Said Leave and quitting, does not persever but comes back And noe wonder Leave should begranted among us, when there's soe great imperfection, Soe great & many hindrances from the Performances of one's obligations, & true vertue soe hard to bee found & practised,

since Superiors of the most reformed congregationswillingly assent to let their Religious goe thither, & many of them are the first in giveing the Example, being fully convinced that thereby they most efficaciously contribute to their Religious Eternall Salvation, & take the best medium to procure their own, Since that's the place where God is nowServed with greater perfection thaninany other ; And with soe much greater that the Quitting alone of a congregation to repaire thither does not in the Least cast an aspersion upon it, or argue that Irregularitysreigne therein, on the Contraryit is, & ought to bee, looked upon as an honor thatpersons educated therein aspire afterwards to such perfection as is found & practised at La Trappe. This, God knows, is far from Shareing in my Motives, all I desire is to Live forgotten by all creatures, to love, serve, and please God alone But I thinkI mayrejoice that my goeing is not prejudiciallto the Congregation, whichIoughtto Endeavour, and for this End alone 'tis, Sir, I've given you all this troublethat by opening my Interior to you I mayobtainthat Leave from you which if denied will force me to what (as I've already mentioned) I've soe great an aversion from: But haveing used all my Endeavours to prevent all violent means , I shall, if obliged to you, goe on themore vigorously forthat Ishall havefullydischarged my Conscience & whatsoever ill consequences may attend the Congregation will by at your door; I will say nothing but truth, but on the other hand if, denied your leave , I will leave no truth untold for the Compassingmy End. Pardon Honor'd Sir, if you find my Expression too strong, all's at Stake, when the Soul's in danger. Ifyou could read my Interior, fewer words would suffice : And all I've said is onlyforto make you Enter into mySentiments in relation to myself ; I do not Intend to Threaten, But barelyto give you to understand the mediums I must & will Infallibly and Speedily take if you thinkfitt not to takenotice ofwhat I say. In the mean Time, in quality of a dutifullSubject, I should bee sorry todoeorsay anythingcontraryto my obligations, & there's nothing I would not doe att your wish unless it bee contrary to this my design, in opposition whereunto I cannot but believe even Express Commandsto be of noe force. I wish all may be disposed for the best at your meeting ; Private ends causes commonly a strange Bustling about votes, for my part I've sent none . but Blanck only, not judging in my Conscience any one person absolutely fitt for prior among us . There are some, as I've already said I truly honour and respect, and whom, by reason of their virtue, would I think not be improper men forpriors among saints, But all things consideredvery unfitt for that Station in our Body, and others of less vertue afortiori In relation to myself Its altogether Indifferent to mee, who is it, not only by reason of my future short stay, intheCongregation, But even ifI had noe thoughts of Quitting. I enlarge Insensibly Excuse, good Sir, all this trouble. It's the first, and shall be the last time, If I hear this

safe.

I shall add noe more, But conclude with a reiterated desire that you please to Send mee without delayyour leave for the Reasons above mention'd In expectation whereof I subscribe

Honor'dSir your most obedient servant B.

DUNSTAN LAKE¹

No. 77

Ego Fr. Bernardus Gregson Definitor et Elector primus meo et Collegarum meorum nomine pronuncio in Priorem Monasterii Sancti Edmundi Parisiis legitime electum secundumConstitutiones nostras Reverendissimum Patrem Josephum Johnston. Die tertio Augusti stilo veteriAnno Domini 1697 .

Fr. BERNARDUSGREGSON2 Definitor lus

Fr. AUGUSTINUS CONSTABLE Deffinitor Secundus

Fr. MICHAEL PULLEIN³ Definitor tertius

1 B. Dunstan Lake was born at Wavetree in Lancashirein 1666 and clothed at St. Edmunds on 7th Nov., 1684. He was professed on 11th Nov., 1685. Between 1689 and 1693 he attempted to get permissionto transfer to La Trappe but was refused He applied again in 1697 and was given permission by the new President Gregson and his new Prior, Johnston. He left Paris about the beginning of October, 1697 and was clothed at La Trappe as a Cistercian on 20th October 1697, taking the name of Bede He died at La Trappe on 30th or 31stMarch 1704 Bernard Gregson. Dom William Bernard Gregson was a monk of St. Lawrences Like the other Benedictine monks mentioned below he was concerned in the General Chapter of the English BenedictineCongregation which was held in London from 30th July to9thAugust, 1697 (Old Style.) This was a meeting held every four years and the most important business was the election of all the Superiorsand Officials ; also various petitions would be receivedand discussed Theelectionswere conductedby thefive Definitors or Councillors who are listed in No. 177 which is the official intimationof the Community of St. Edmund in Paris that their new Prior was to be Joseph Johnston

Gregson sat in the General Chapter as a Definitor of the Province of Canterbury. The Chapter elected him as Presidentfor the nextQuadriennium.

3 Michael Pullein a monk of St. Lawrences was born at Hampsthwaite in Yorkshire on 26th October 1653. He was educated at St. Gregorys , Douay and Professed at Douay on 8th December 1672. He was sent on the English mission in the Northern Province and became successively Provincial of York, 1693-97, Cathedral Prior of Coventry 1697, and Prior ofSt.Gregory's 1700-05 and 1710-13. He was Definitor of the Regimen in 1721 and diedat Douay on 3rd February 1723

Pullein (or Pulleyn) sat in the Chapter because he was Provincial of York (the monks working in England were under the jurisdiction ofeither the Provincial of York or of Canterbury, according to their geographical location )

Fr. AUGUSTINUS LLEWELLING¹ Definitor 4 tius

Fr. JOANNES LUMLEY2 Definitor 5 tius. Johnson's Election with names of the Definitors

A Monsieur

Monsr. FAIREHURSTchez Monsieur CHARLES HERREFORDMARCHAND a Roterdam

Honoured Sir

I sendyouthis instrumentin hast I cant expresse thethorough satisfaction itgave me I hope you accept of my humble submission , best respects & sincere service August the 3rd, 1697

I am yourvery humble servant I humblykiss yourhand

WILL PHILLIPSON

THO BRA.

No. 78

AUG 4

Sir , I most humbly crave leave to observethat in those to Whismore toMontague is mention madeofGibson, gibson is LordMontgomery, but Whismore being a Religious, I have crowded in with the Rest.

No. 79

I cannot possibly fix the station of the Strand Landlord, the number to be suspected being so great, But am apt to thinck it may be some one that frequents the three Kings between Strand Bridge & SomersetHouse, whichI have observedto bean Alehouse. To which Place Mr. Shirburne & all of his Livery as well as several others ofthe like sort were wont to directletters

No. 80

I humbly begg you would be pleased to note that in that in Guilliaume Thompson Mademoiselle Harrison is the Dutchesse of Gourdon. Her Brotherthe Duke of Norfolk, the writerthe Lady Thomas Howardof Worksop.

1 Dom Edward Augustine Llewellyn was also a Yorkshireman, who after conversionhad become professed at St. Edmunds on 13th November 1658 He was sent to the Southern Province of England, and became Provincial of Canterbury in 1691-93 . There were three of theseProvincials and they formed the President's Council In 1697-1710 he was Definitor of the Regimen, and in 1693-1711 he was stationed at Bath, wherehe died He sat in the General Chapter by reason of being the titular Cathedral Prior of Bath (the old Benedictine Cathedral priories were perpetuated bythese honorary titles). At the Chapter, in addition to being made Definitorof the Regimenhe became Electoral Definitor

2 John Lumley was a monk of St. Lawrences ; he was the 5th Electoral Definitor and had a seat in the Chapter by reason of being a Preacher General

Honor'd Sir.

No. 81

Att Mr. Dunstans' lakes earnest request, I humbly crave leave to lettyou knowmy opinion concerningye Supplication hee makes unto you. I am heartily Sorry for the Resolution hee hath taken ofLeaveing us, but since all wee can say to him signifies nothingatt allto induce him to remaine with us, The best course I thinkwill be foryou to Condesend to his desires & so allnoise& disputeswill bee avoided which is a thing much desired by Honor'dSir your obedient servant

4th ofAug. 1697

BENNETT NELSON

No. 82

fromLouvainAugust the4th1697

Dear Sir,

On the 1st of Last month as I remember, I writ to you about severall things of our publick concerns which (I told you then I would Leave hereafter to Mr. Fairhurst, for the reason I then mentioned. I hoped my letter(s?) were safe There went att same time one from Mr. Fairhurst to Sir Robert, to Mrs. Moor , to Mrs. Tompson & Mr. Woolfe which wee are in pain about because of Consequence & there was full answers to all your precedent letters. I then told of a letter I would write which I desired you would deliver. The Inclosed is it which I pray superscribersgive it to Mr. Wand's successor I've writ by this post another which goes by Amsterdam to Mr. Howard¹ which I hope will go safe They are all one in a manner . But however issue bee our master , & that by Amsterdam be not arrived,when you receivethis, expect some days& ifit come not please to give him this & if hee doe not fill Mr. Wand's place, give it Immediatly to him who does & gett an answer , I pray with all speed, & send it to mee directly For Mr. Lake att Mr. Charles Hanford etc. I hope to God whosoever it be hee will neitherrefuse nor differr Sending me an answer, forImportant reasonI mention. If he should I pray lett me know Immediately that I may take my measurs for I only expect his answer or a refusal If after a reasonableexpecting I receive noe answer from you I he hinders your from writing (which seemes tho' at present to mee almost impossible) and shall act accordingly. But if you gett a letter I pray remember to send it directly & not Inclosed in Mr. Fairhursts . That you'llprocure me an answer and send it lawfully as I desire is the only petition I

1 Mr. Howard, may be Dom ThomasAugustine Howard, 3rd or4th son of Sir Francis Howard of Corby, Knight, who, born in 1644 , was professed at Douay in 1622 and ordained in 1688. He was Prior of St. Gregory's 1677-81, Cathedral Prior of Ely in 1681 and a Definitor of the Province in 1693-7the sort ofinfluentialperson, in fact whose aid Lake waseager to obtain

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shall ever make to you, and shall think myself highly obliged to you by grantingit me att present. If this seem something strange to you I pray a whyle if Mr. Howard or suspend your judgement another tell you gett ye Contents of mine as I guess hee may asto whatIhope att least pray doe .. . ye

wish to make no noise. I am DearSir,yours T. LAKE

The small one inclosed is from Mr. B. Nelson whichyou'l please to Superscribe& give it to Mr.Wand's successor . I've sent another of his bythis day's post, in that I have sent by Amsterdam . Ifit benot as yet arrived I pray expect Some days, because Iwould rather that were delivered being writt all in his own hand and this is only a copy on't Subscribed by him, for the time pressing for sendingletters& hee being busie I was forced to copy itforhim .

For Mr. Thomas Williams to bee Left with Mr. Wright att the Golden Cupp in RussellStreet Covent Garden in London

These

Lett. 9

Mr. Lake's Letter very remarkable London

ifboth this e that by Amsterdam goe safe e that Mr. Howardbee not master

You'll please haveing deliver'd the Inclosed to Burne that for Mr. Howard. But tho' you had given this Small one from Mr. B. Nelson, yet give that other whichcomes intheAmasterdam pacquet because it is all writ in his own hand.

No.

83 (Let. 10 Actions of the Meeting

For Mr. B. A. NELSON¹ Paris )

Most Honored Sir, I humbly thank you for your kind letter, and the news you sent me in it : a favour whichI knownot howto requite any otherway, than byimparingnow to you the news of our affairshere , whichI

1 William Benedict Nelson to whom this letter was addressed was not Prior of St. Edmunds at this time (the Prior was Dom Richard Placid Nelson, whoalsosent a deputy to the Chapterin the person ofDom William Phillipson) William Benedict ("Bennett") Nelson, was living in Paris and could claim a seatin the Chapter as CathedralPriorofDurham .

shal do in short, because that I understand that others intend to doit at large. say therefore that we al met hapily together on the day appointed only Mr. March¹ appeared not nor Mr. Moor² tho' invited more than once byMr. How, there wasmuchand long debate about Mr. Laws , ³ who representedMr. Kent, 4 at last it was carryed for Mr. Laws, setting amongst us , then they proceeded quickly to the election of the 5 def(initors)

1

2

3

4

5

Mr. Gregson

Mr. Condal

Mr. Pullen

Mr. Lew

Mr. Lumbley

Mr. Gregson is president 2d electedMr. Har prov. bor Mr. Pul., Cant, Mr. How Mr. Gregsonrenounced his cathedral prebendaries so that therewere three vacancies, the 1 chosen Mr. Pullen , the 2 Mr. Jas Price, the 3 Mr. Thomas Price matters are not yet comefromMrs. Hussey5 so that nothingis yet done in her business. Mr. Philips is for Douai Mr. Chapp' for Dieul(ward) Mrs. Sutton

1 "Mr. March" was the alias of Dom William Cuthbert Wall (Alias Marshor Marshall) a monk of Lambspring Abbey in Westphalia, which at that time belonged to the English Benedictine Congregation He held the honorary title of Preacher General and as such should have taken his place in the General Chapter.

2 Dom Benjamin Bede Moore was a monk of St. Edmunds He was the secretaryof the President, but sent his excuses .

3 "Mr. Laws" was Dom William Benedict Lawson, a monk of Lambspring. He brought the disputedauthorisation to take the Abbot's place.

4 "Mr. Kent, " alias for Dom John Mauris Knightly, the Abbotof Lambspring He could not be present and there was some dispute about the right of his appointed Substitute to sit in Chapter and alsoof theright of Knightlyto be Abbot of Lambspring

5 Mrs. Hussey. Dame Cecilia Hussey , professed at the English Benedictine Abbey of Cambray in 1672, and Abbess there from 1694-97 and again from 1705-1710 . The votes of the Community for the election of the next Abbess were late in arrivingat Chapter Seep 166 below . Mr. Phillips John Philipson is mentioned in the letter as being elected Prior of St. Gregory's Douai

7 Mr. Chapp Laurence Champney is mentioned in the letter as being elected Prior ofSt. LawrencesDieuluoard.

8 "Mrs. Sutton" was the alias of Joseph Johnston who is describedas being elected Prior of St. Edmund's, Paris Johnston was in particularlybad odourwiththeEnglish authorities ; as a contemporarychroniclerremarks: "R. F.Joseph Johnston got out of England andarrived at Parisaboutthe 14 of Septemberwith great difficulty, for had he bin caught hewould have bin put to death by ye Orangians for having used all his endeavours to promote his Royall Master's cause, which gave occasion to ye King's foes to impeache him ofbeingconcern'din a design ofassassinating ye detestable Prince ofOrange , " He is the new Priorof St. Edmund's mentionedin the next letter He was installed as Prior but soon resigned his position to save his brethren and countrymen from the wrath of the government He even had to hide himself in a Maurist monastery near Meauxin order to avoid the attentions of the BritishAmbassadorto Paris

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forS. Edmunds whichis al at presentthat Ithinkworth theimparting toyouatthepresent, and therefore I concludeand rest

Most Honoured Sir

Your most humble and obedient servant G. BAG¹

Aug. 5 69

(5 Aug. 1697 in handlist.)

84

London Aug. ye 6th 1697 . Let. II Actions ofthe Meeting

Honoured dear Sir

I hope you receivedyour money sent you by the lastpost& allso an account of our proceedingstill that time viz that the 5 electors Grigson, La tour, Pullien Lewellin & Lumley who declared the 1st our generall, Mr. Jonston of Paris ye other 2nd. Generall Mr. Hudson, provinc : Hudson & Pullen Cathedral prs of Covent Pullen of Rochester Jo : Price³ of Gloucester TomPrier Secretary Loddy .... I hopeweshall make an endtomorrow& on monday I designe for Berkshire to return hyther after 8 or 10 dayes & sow to you; butt not knowing what difficultymay intervene, I have writt to Ltty to entreat Mr. Greenwood to prepare for that Remyifhe beabsentyou'l be pleased to speake tohimaboutit. Since I wrotethis we have mett again & the Regimenare chosen , La tour, Llewllin & Ja : Nelson; Several ofyourfriends aremindful ofyou, but I might tell youSatrapis non places I shall tell you more of that when I see you, whichshall be as (soon as) I can possibly in the interim with mykind respectstoall friends I am with all sincerity

dear sir

Your ever obliged humble servant.

Jo: LONGIN

nothing is yett don about Mrs. Hussey because her letters are miscarryed.

1"G. Bag" may possibly be an alias for Dom Gregory Timperley, who representedDom Benet Nelsonat the Meeting. Timperley was aman who had been in trouble with the government at the time of the Popish Plot, and might haveneeded analias

"Mr. Hudson" may be an alias for Dom John Augustine Hudson a monk of St. Lawrences.

3"Jo Price" may be James Price ; educated at the English College at Douay, he became confessor to the English Poor Clares at Rouen in 1668 and so continued till his death in 1697. In 1692 he was elected an archdeacon of theChapter .

4 "Mr. Greenwood " may be the Dom Gregory Greenwood , a monk of St. Gregorys, who was educated at St. Gregorys and professed on 1st August 1688. He was Cellerarius in 1698, and subsequently went on mission to England.

No. 86

Aug. ye26 1697

I have defer'd writing a Longe time till I could give you an accountofthe watchwhich wee have not yett receavedtho' in hops dayly of havinge of it, hearinge it is at Gaunt and as soone as it comes toour handsyoushall havespeedynotice My Aunt returns you millions of thanks for the care you have taken about it, and in havinge got soe much monny in your hands , shee desiers you will returne fortypoundebyMr. Beriond Marchaunt ; hiscorospondant att Antwerpe is Koning, the person wee make use of, you will inclose your bill to mee, the remainder in your hands be pleased to keepe till I let you knowe howe to dispose ofit Weeweremuch surprized at the death of Mr. Price who is much condoled havinge beene veryfaithful in his concearns for this house My Auntisata Loss who to pitch upone. I proposed to her your Brother Gallowaye, who as I have heard, has for manny years returned all ther Monnys for Graveline, Dunquerke, and I think Bruges Lett mee knowe if it bee soe and if hee continues actinge in ther concearns , and if wee may safly relye one him: you see howe free I am with you; My Aunt is soe great an admirer ofyour deareSelfethatshee seems more desierous of him because hee is relaited to you. therefore let mee have your speedy answere because others may be proposed and unwillingeto pitch till shee has your answere and let mee knowe what the monestrys give him : our family is but smale neither have wee any troublesome concearns nore nothing otherwayesthen thereturninge our Monnys ; wee hearemyunkellPetre has disposed ofhis daughter I should bee glad to know if she is gone intothecountry and some perticulars of the persone she has maried which is not much to my Aunt's Liking because shee thinks him but a poore matche, wee heare my unkell ... tosetlehimselfe and is about maryinge but who wee can't heare you will much oblige us to let us knowe what you knowe & cane heareof ye mater, and where hee is what ever you writ of it my Aunt assurs you shall goe noe further ; I have writ soe longe a leter that there is litle place to assure you of my gratefull thanks for your goodness and continuallkindnes which is soe great that not ever canbee expressed of gratitud you truly desarve from her that is most intyerly

Your efectionet most humble servent whilst life

MARGA: FFETIPLACE¹

1 Margaret Ffetiplace was possibly Elizabeth Fettiplace, née Mostyn, sisterof the Baronet Sir Edward Mostyn of Talacre. Mrs. Fettiplace was a widow , and she was one of the three nuns of Lierre who were nieces of Elizabeth Mostyn ofLierre Her name in religion was "MargaretofJesus " (C.R.S. Vol VIp. 58.)

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My Aunt gives you her kind serves and desires your speedyest answerthatyoucane

TheseforMr. Aubreye at Mr. Nelson's house an Apothicaryinwyld street London

No. 88

Irish affairs Let4 Aug. 30th'97

Imost humblycrave leave to observethat in theletter toHeilber the Spanish Consultells the Primateof Irelandthat the VicarGen. of the Augustins is gone incharg'd with Recommendation from the Span Ambr & himself to Abbot Don Qurros Abbot Passarion to reprysent the deplorable Condition of the Catholicks of Ireland if Remedies be not found to the new Lawes. The rest will with leave speakfor themselves.

No. 89

For Madam ROSE ONEILLE at My Lady Oneill's house inSmithfield. Aug. the 30th 1697 Madam

I had the honour to receive yours of the 3rd June and have communicated it to all your friends heere, who were all overioyed to heare you were well and proud of the Caracter Mr. Oneale has from others as well as from his fond Mama Mis grows and is a very fine Child ; she had a thin cough that lasted her three houres , which allarmed mightilyyour friends in that house, who have all the tendernessand careimaginable of the Child. We dined Sunday last at my lady Lee's, the old gentleman, Maior Meagher'swife and Daughter, yours, and Mrs. Magenis; we remembered you often in good Canary, whichis grown common in our parts by the takeing of prizes; your lame Kinsman is still in the same habitation, as well as ever you saw him, the gentleman that broke was restored to his post againe, the ould gentleman contributed very much to the reconciliation , and we had no Duels fought on anny account by our Countrymen ; so that you see what rumers and reports Idle people will invent, your brother Madam has writt several times to you. Coll. Hussey who came over heere for his son has several letters for you and tould us he would be in London in 15 dayes, but he was sent back from Brussells to Mons, where he is to remain till the later end of the campagne. They are all well at courts Colledges and Convents, and have none dead since my last but Mr. Perkins the Governor, who was buryed some days agoe at

the fosse , he dyed of a fitt of a Colick in less than a quarterofan houre, Santeuil the famous poet dyed in two dayes of the same indisposition ; they are building of a Chappell at Lombard which gives your Chief friend there Imployment enough; we have none heere that Deserves to haveMr.Oneille. Yourfriends in both houses would beglad to havean opportunityofservingyou in him , andnone readyer to do it it it were in his power then ould Scully. The widowRoch is mightily courted by my Lord Dunkela Scotch man that has not at present Six Sols marquez, but heir, they say, to six hundred pounds a yeare, whichhis mother enioyesat present; I gave you in my last account of your letter to your black friend which was intercepted by her spouse and shewn about; his Cosn . (ofwhom there was so much noise) had it ontheFosse as a particular acquaintance and friend of ours tould me who could not gett sight ofit, your ant is very well I seldom see her for I do not go tothat part of the world, both courts go the later end of next month 14 leagues of as they use to do ; they talk much of peace and yett others will assure you that it will not be concluded this yeare, by lettersfrom Flanders they talk very much of besiegingAudenarde and another place in Catalonia near Lerida, your Cousin Dillon¹ has behaved himself to admiration at Barcellone and so did the battalion of his regiment that was there and all your Countrymen with a considerable losse, he had 250 killed of his battalion with 32 officers killed and wounded, the other battalions proportionally , Monsieur De Vensdosme has writt tothe King to make himaBrigadier, I hope in a little time to send my Lady Eustace what maior o'Brien owed her but can make no good of Robert Maxwell both her sisters and the widdows Children are well, all in the same conditionyou left them your sister's sister is not muchpittyed by friendes heare and I believe she could wish herselfe without the beau he could a Talbot at my Lady Lees wish your lame kinsman travelledall this summer on pretence of an indisposition butreally to avoid Charges haveing sold his equipage last campaigne not Doubting of a peace haveing probably that intelligence from his fatherinlaw, his lady is still in Englandand Mrs. Murphynowwith him at Perpray ? in Languedoc Theyexpect every dayMonsieur De points who was formerly in Irland, he is comeing home with 20 millions from Cartegane which he took and plundered. your antI do believe may, be something the betterbut now I remember it she was in doubts whether she would hazard annything on that

1 Cousin Dillonmay be the Hon Arthur Dillon, second son of Theobald7th Viscount Dillon of Temple Oge, Co. Dublin Dillon took the commandof the regiment offoot raisedfor James andled them intoLouis XIV's service. On 1st June 1690 he was appointed the first Colonel of the Regiment. He served in Spain 1693-7 and was eventually promoted to brigadier in 1702 . The writerof the lettermay beCatherineDillon, sisterofArthur Richard Dillon, Archbishop of Narbonne, who was living at St. Germain about this time. (Clarke, 254.)

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expedition or no. I hope this will find you returned the north and all things answer your expectations and are to your satisfaction a revidere adieu

For Madam Rose oneille at My Lady oneill's house in Smithfield Dublin MyLord

No. 96

Although I have not the honour of your Lordship's acquaintance yetImake boldtolettyou know that a Gentleman veryneerrelated to you as haveing had education in your Famaly is in aweak condition and does hartily wish himselfe with you. His name is Mr. Alexander Brown, whom I have a particular care of, and for whom I have agreatrespect He has long been in England and Imployed his time soe wel that hehas pritty wel provided for himselfand may be a considerable benefactor to your house, and wil be soe as I find him resolved, althoughI understand he has leave granted from an Apostolical Vicar to setle uppon others or his own Countrymen. But in conclusion you are made his Heir according to the Last will and Testiment he has already signed which he was oblidged to make contrary to custome Lest the next Heir at Law had comein and you had lost all My Lord he beggs leave that he may have liberty to gratify some particular persons according to prudence unto whom he has been oblidged, and leave smal Legacys for his soul and such leave he wil make use of with great moderation. Heis soe disposedat present that he would leave allhis concernsin confusion ratherthen violatethe solemnpromisehe madelongagoe, butthis would be a highindiscretion if not injusticeto you, whereforehehas madea setlemen which wil stand goodat Lawand that infavour ofyour house . He has been oblidged to several persons, soe cannot wel avoid leaving smal matters to such who have taken pains and are to give themselvestroublein his and your Lordship's concerns. I doenot question but your Lordship and others concern edwillconsiderhis present circumstancesmuchdifferingfrom those withyou. Hehas left all things in the settlement toyourdetermination, and submitted all to your approbation soe that you may refuse what you think anywise unreasonable Be pleased my Lord not to judge I speak for myself because when you understand all you wil find that I have been noe ennimy to your family, but has done all the good serviselying in my power Mycheifconcern is to make a happy end and that what he does may be legal and secure to him, If it please God that he bee soon called to a better life (which I apprehend may be very speedily) I shal give your Lordship notice by the first Post that you may Imploy one to lookaftertheconcerns I bega speedyanswarefor his satisfaction, whichifit come after his death It shal be my care that noe il use

be made ofit. you may please to write a civil letter to him , with such leave as you think fit to grant or can grant . your Lordship may please to inclose it to Mr. Philip Layton in Northumberland and cause it to be sent to any of the English fathers Societ Jesu, atLondon and your commandswill be punctuallyobeyedby My Lord

Your Lordships

Most humble and devoted servant

PHIL LAYTON S. J.

when any comes this way they wil know how muchaccording to dutyIhave beenservisable He has desiredme to givethetrouble ofthisletter

P.S. What I write needs not be any constraint foryou maydeny freelywithout fear of loosing, I onely mention libertyforlittleto gratifyand please the dyeing Gentleman who is muchbentuppon takeing notice of his freinds, he leaves nothing to any Relation exceptone

Reverendissimo Illustrissimo D. Domino Cooke Monasterii Sti Jacobi. Scotorum Abbati dignissimo Herbipoli.

No. 97

Sept : 21 1697 .

Sir

The inclosed comes from Mr. Phil. Layton who beggs thefavor of you to see it sent forwards, the letter is of Concern, he sayth there is an immediatcorrespondence between Brussells and Wiresburgh ifyou singify in your next the receipt of the letter you will muchoblige.

Your faithful Servant

CH : SPENCE

A Monsieur

Monsr Jean Melstraet a Anvers.

No. 98

[(Mr. J. SPENCE . . Sept. 24. '97)]

My Lord,

General Letter Office

A fierce Indisposition , a large Inspection, and the absence of the Servants I have hitherto entrusted upon this Errand, have occasion'd an interruption of any trouble of this nature to your Grace NeverthelessI have not been wanting in my usual diligence tho'I wasdepriv'doftheusual means of dispatch & conveyance.

2

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A great part of the Enclos'd relate to the Popish concernes in Ireland, others give some taste how the Peace is relish'd by that Party, and the Rest contain some little curiosityor other, possibly unworthy of your Grace's observation Such as are clos'd again have nothingremarkable.

DonPhillip in that toAbbot Passarin's (ad Fontainan Irishman , and I fancy an Agent from St. Germains or Rome or Both) beggs heartilyofHimfor some haret to comfort the poor Jacobites , ispittyinghim tosee how they curse France, evento Blasphemy ,naythat suchof'em as are men of sence proceed so farre as to say this is the greatest Provocation to Atheisme the Devil could have invented. He asperses our whole Nation with ill fundamentals & Principles and recommendsanew to theAbbot the Irish Interests

Ihumbly begpardon for this detention I durstnot myselfStirre frommyStationtobringthis PacquetforfearoftheMails coming in I am withallduty& veneration .

MyLord

Most HumbleMost Obedient & Most Dutifulservant

H.S.

No. 99

MyLord I send your Grace the Intercepted Letter which Mr. Blathwayt made mentionof& desired the answer to it might bee procured if it were possible. I am with thegreatest respect.

MyLord

Your Grace's Most obedient& most faithful Servant

JA VERNON Whitehall 26 Sept. '97 .. Ar( )pofCanterbury . [EXTRACT]

[(Letter from FRANCIS JER at Brussells)]

Honor'dSir, Sept. 11th '97

The inclosedhathbeenpresentedtotheInternuntio atthis court, to which by his favourable acceptance& promise of assistance he gave great countenance but was solicitous to know if the bishops of England had concerned themselvesin it.

Therefore we humbe desier you will be pleased to sollicite the Catholick ministers in England in our behalfe and procure from them such concurrence as you thinck fitt Your respectfull servant

FRANCIS JER .

mywife as yourmost obligedservant desires to liveinyourmemory. [(superscribed thus "leave these at Mr. Daniel's house in Brownlowe St. by Drury Lane, Londres . . . souls couvert de la veuve Charron & fils de Rotterdam . "

The above mentioned enclosed was "Tres humble Remonstrance des Catholiques d'Angleterne.")]

No. 100

General Letter (Office) Sept. 27th (1697)

MyLord

I have a heap of those Gentlemen's Letters concern'd in the Mandate de propaganda, but shall not be able to goe thro' them these 84 houres continual labour, But will use all care that Your Grace shall have the Best Account can be given I alwais first dispatch Merchants ; and then other Persons, and Spend the Rest of my time with these Gentlemen, Amongst those which attend this there is one to Lady Bruce which has an Enclos'd from Sir Robert Gayer, and that to Gifford has a Remonstrance of the Catholicks of England to the Pope's Internuncio Henrye de Mermet's NewsLetter is fromFfoxa BooksellerinWestminster Hall.

No. 104

General Letter Office October 7th 1697

MyLord,

Those signed Archer & Hartley I believe are those same by Harvey, He us'd formerly to meddle in political matters, being to be taken out by five they never went But I have not seen his hand of a long time till of late I believe He has been at Rome about the Catholicks taking the Oaths here. One has concerted that matter with the Court ofSt. Germains & the approbation of that of Rome. I gave as I remember Mr. Ellis theLetter.

The Italian Letter to Mrs. Barb Boyle from Dublindesires ofthe Internuncio the faculty to dispense in Gradibus Consanguinitatis & Anffiitatis, the last being expired the rest of its matter is chiefly contained in the letter at the end, from which Pen three long ones nowareinmyhands in Spanishupon the same subject.

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In that to Galloway is one to Pordagefrom Lady Carylof Dunkirk wherein she drops some odd Expressions.

I find that Archer alias Hartley has delivered something atSt. Germains from Lord Montgomery under the name ofSimpson but as it seemed the first had nothing material, I lett it goe for the betterdecoy.

The Number of Mails wee had the last Week together with those in & out this, have render'd it impossible for me to make my way thro' em , tho' I give myself not a Moment vacation, having such an Infinity ofwhich I have reasonto be jealous Iam almost positive I am in the Right in the matterofBing.

I am with allzeal& veneration

MyLord Your Grace's

Most Obedient Most Humble& DutifullServant

H. SPENCE .

No. 107

M. Spence Oct. 19 197 Oct. 19 .

Sayes Bedingfield of Graye's Inn to Sir William Walgrave "The season is here as irregular as with you & abundance are dead suddenly And I find it a mighty Enquiry if when a Guide forsakes his chargeit is notlawfull for Each particularto gropehis own way, and save himself the Best He can, or whether it will be expected theyshould stand still in expectation of some other Guide, or of the Returne of their old."

I'le carefullywatchthe Answer .

Mayit please your Grace .

This Pacquet having been made up before your Grace's Orders came, and there being some touches relating to the Mandate I presume to trouble Your Grace with it, but shall refrain from all Such Instrusions henceforward, but ever remain withallimaginable zeal, Respect & veneration ,

MyLord ,

Your Graces

Most Humble Most Obedient & Most Dutifullservant

H. SPENCE .

(For Mr. Ralph Snowe's at Lambeth)

REGISTEROF MARNHULL, 1772-1826

INTRODUCTION

MARNHULL,intheCountyof Dorset, is a parish three miles northof Sturminster Newton and seven mileswestofShaftesbury.

Thegreater partofour informationabout theMarnhullMissionand about the Catholic family living in Marnhullcomes fromtwo documents. The first is a memorandum written in 1740 by a grandson of the George Hussey who purchased Marnhull Manor in 1651.1 The second document is a foolscapsheet, written upon on bothsides, from the Plymouth diocesan archives and known as the Bishop Graham MS . It is headed"MarnhullMission"anddated4.5.84, i.e. before Bishop Graham was consecrated It has manyerasures and additions, which suggest that it was supplemented from time to time

About 1651 George Hussey purchased from Edward Walcott a property of some 380 acres called Nash Court, lying between Marnhullvillage and the present Catholic church, and “either there or in Stour Provost village a Catholic priest was accessible from nearly that period" (Bishop Graham MS.; Joseph Gillow, Bibliographical Dictionary III, 507. Oliver, Collections, p 41)

George Hussey (born 1622, died 1677 or 5 October 1711.3), married, as his first wife, Elizabeth Walcott, grand-daughter of Charles Walcott of Walcot Hall, Co. Salop, and daughter ofEllis Walcott (or Elias, theVicar'sLatin rendering of Ellis in the Baptismal register) by his wife Dorothea, daughter of Sir Richard Conqquest. They were living in Marnhull before 1651, for the burial oftheir son, George, is entered in Marnhull Burial Register on 17

1 This appeared in Notes and Queries for Somerset and Dorset , Vol XV , 1916-17 , pp 220-224 (cited here as N. & Q.) An elucidation of this document was published in Biographical Studies (Recusant History), Vol II. No. 1 , pp 55-65 . Bishop Charles Graham, third Bishop of Plymouth, born 5 April 1834; consecrated Coadjutor 28 October 1891 ; succeeded 25 October 1902

3 Hutchins (Historyof Dorset) gives 1677 , but the grandson(N. & Q.) gives 5 October 1711 , and the Marnhull Burial Register records the burial of George Hussey Esq on 17 October 1711. The grandsonalso says that his grandfather's mother was Shirley Hussey, but the grandfather, George, was the son of James Hussey (and grandson of Sir James Husseyof St. Mary Blandford), who married Elizabeth Hovenden, daughter of George Hovenden, Canon of the 10th Prebend of Canterbury (he succeeded to it in 1609 and died 24 October 1625).

* This correctsGillow Cf. Biographical Studies (Recusant History), loc cit

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April 1649. As well as this son there was a daughter, Cecily, born 1652, who entered the English Benedictine Convent at Cambrai 15 December 1670; was Abbess there 1694 to 1697 , and again from 1705 to 1710, and died there 9 April 1721 (N.S.) (C.R.S., XIII, 51, 72). There is a portrait of her at Stanbrook Abbey. Another daughter, Elizabeth, was buried 3 December 1657. Elizabeth Walcott, the mother, died probably before 1657 ,for whereas inthe Burial Register George is describedas theson ofGeorgeand Elizabeth Hussey, Elizabeth is entered as the daughter of George Hussey Esq The first child of the second marriage, Susan, was born circa June 1660. She entered the Discalced Carmelites at Valenciennes2 July 1678, Mary Teresa of the Child Jesus, and died there, sub-prioress, 8 August 1702 (C.R.S., XIII, 51; N. & Q.) George Hussey's second wife (whom he married probably between 1657 and 1659) was Grace Dyve or Dives, daughter of Sir Lewis Dyve.¹ She died 3 July 1683 (N. & Q.; Estcourt and Payne, English Catholic Nonjurors, p . 40) Of this second marriage there were three other children besides Susan. The son, George, was baptized in Marnhull church 3 May 1663, and buried 31 March 1664. The second son, John, was born 24 September 1665, and baptized in Marnhullchurch 3 October 1665; he died at Mr. Budd's, a grocer in Drury Lane, London, 4 June 1736. The seconddaughter, Martha² (once called Mary), married Bernard Addis.³

George Husseywas succeeded by his son John, who married Mary Burdett (born April 1673, died 17 November 1756), daughter of Thomas Burdett of Smithfield and his wife (née Cary), in her father's house in Gold Street by Cheapside , before Mr. Morrice,4 on 11 February 1695 (O.S.)

John Husseyand Mary Burdett had thirteenchildren ,andthose

1 Beatrice Walcott (baptized 1575) sister of Ellis Walcott , married as, her first husband , Sir John Dyve (died 1607) They had one son , Sir Lewis Dyve (1599-April 1669), the father of George Hussey's second wife. So George Hussey'sfirst wife was a niece of Beatrice, and his second wifewas Beatrice's grand-daughter. Beatrice married, as her second husband , before 1610 , Sir John Digby, created 1st Earl of Bristol in 1622. The Marnhull Marriage Registeris missingfor this period, so the date ofGeorge Hussey's second marriage cannot be established

2 Gillow , loc cit says there were four daughters and one son. In C.R.S. , XIV, 146n , hegivesAnn Husseyas one ofthe four; in factshe was agranddaughter.

3For Bernard Addis, see Payne, English Catholic Nonjurors, pp 76, 293 ; Recordsof English Catholics of 1715, pp 48-9 .

4 James Maurice, vere Robert Plumerden, son of Robert and MaryPlumerden of London (C.R.S. , XL, 102 ; VIII, 388 ; XIX, 136 see , 159 ; XII, 8 ; Foley, VI, 435).

5 They had a cousin, Rebecca Hussey, living in Marnhull She had at least one son, Thomas, who married Elizabeth- ; and a daughter who became Mrs. O. Hara and had two children, Anna Maria and Charlotte Rebecca's brother-in-law, James Hussey, wasa Protestant (Payne, Records of English Catholics of 1715, p 12 ; Catholic Nonjurors of1715, p 40)

who survived to school age were all sent overseas for a Catholic education.

GEORGE , born 28 November 1696, who married Susanna Dove , born on the same date, He died 4 April 1740 (N.S.) and she 24th December, 1760 (N. & Q.; C.R.S. , XLIII, 119).

THOMAS , born 28 or 29 October, 1697. He was a secular priest always known as Thomas Burdett; he was confessor to the English Teresiannuns at Hoogstraet, and died there 28 May, 1739 (C.R.S., XL, 176-7; Kirk, 135; Foley, VI,476)

ANN , born 2 June 1700, died 29th February 1702.1

JOHN , born 7March 1702 , died25July1702

MARY , born 22May17032

JOHN , born8 July1704, died 22 November 17533

JAMES, born26July 1706, died 10 June 17734

FRANCES , born 17 April 1707, died 19 November 1750

GRACE , born26January17085

GILES , the Artist, born 10 February 1710, died June 17886

LEWIS , a Jesuit scholastic, born 1711, died 1733 at Liége (Foley, VII, 386)

EDWARD, O.S.B., baptized in Marnhullchurch 16th May 1712 died 25thFebruary17867

1 N. & Q. gives 29 February, but 1702 was not a leap year

2 She was at the Benedictine Convent at Cambrai for four years (C.R.S., XIII, 65) Shemarried George Maire, a grocerin Smithfield (born 26 June 1701, died c. 1766-7) on 22 January 1724 (O.S.) Thegrandsonsays (N.&Q.) that theyhad three children, John, Edward and Mary. This would seem to correct Foley, VII, 480 and V , 564-6. Cf. C.R.S. , XII, 57 ; Kirk, 154-5

3 A merchant , then a sea-faring man, and in 1740 in part possession ofthe estate

4 An Attorneyin the Middle Temple

5 She married, 29 May 1734, Augustine Rowe They had at least two sons , John and Robert Grace and Frances were also at the Cambrai Convent for nearly two years (C.R.S., XIII, 68)

Always called the fifth son ; he was in fact thesixth.

? For over a century Dom Edward Hussey has been a problem. Reference booksgive confusing details, for his was the only birth for which no date was given Thanks to the Rector of Marnhull (the Rev. A. J. Mangold), who discovered the record of his baptism, his age is now known. The Burial Register also records "March 3rd 1786. . . Mr. Edward Hussey, Priest, aged 74." The O.S.B. Obit Book says that he was educated at St. Gregory's, Douai We have the dates when the rest of the family went there as school -boys : John (thefather, called"Dives") 1765 ; George, 1708 ; Thomas 1712 ; John 1717 ; James and Giles 1720, but no entryfor Edward The manuscript list giving these dates is at Downside. It was complied by Edmund Bishop and Dom Norbet Birt. Edward is listed as a school-boy in 1738 (with Edmund Bishop's comment "surely earlier"); "1738, 24 June Half-year's pensionfor Edw . Hussey& Pocket £5; 1738 , 24 Nov. from Mr. Burdett, half-years' pension for Edw . Nussey, due Oct. last₤4 . " The Sodality Book also shows that Edward Husseyentered the Sodality on 2 February 1740. Obviouslythe 1738school -boyEdwardHussey wassome other memberof the family, probably from another branch, and the pensionwas paid by Father Thomas(Hussey) Burdett ; in 1738 Dom Edward's Father, John Hussey, had been dead twoyears.

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ANN born c . 1714, professed Poor Clare at Gravelines, 29 September 1731 , aged 17 , Sister Mary Xaveria, died 20 January 1780 (C.R.S., XIV, 146 , 168)

On the deathof John Hussey in 1736,1 the eldest son, George, succeeded to the estate. At his death four years later John was "in part possession of the estate" (N. & Q.). He died in 1753 Jamesthenextbrother, died in June, 1773. Nothingrelating to his twentyyears'tenure has so farbeendiscovered.

Joseph Gillow (Bibliographical Dictionary , III, 507) makes DomEdwardthe elderbrother² andtherefore the next in possession He also states that Dom Edward resided at Marnhullfor the last year of his life. Dr. Kirk (Biographies of English Catholics , p 134) states definitely that the Benedictine was the youngest brother and yet was "in possession of the patrimonial estate " Giles , according to Kirk, went to live withDomEdwardat Marlborough, but Kirk'snext sentence seems to contradict his previous assertion: "thedeathofthe elder brotherleft Mr. Giles Husseyas thenext in possession ofMarnhull."

James died in 1773 and there can be no doubt at all now that Giles and not Dom Edward, succeeded to the estate. All the entries inthe MarnhullRegister from 1773 until his death in 1786 are made by Dom Edward Hussey Many persons mentioned in the Register are describedas servants of Giles Hussey Esq. ofMarnhull or of his family. It may be that thestayat Marlborough generally attributed to Dom Edward (1758-85)3 needs revising, and that from 1773 until his death, 25thFebruary 1786,4 he was living with his brother GilesatMarnhull.5

1 John Husseyleft a house at Bath, called "Belltree" to his son Giles (Payne, Records of English Catholics of 1715, p 11) Dr. Oliver says (Collections, p 55) Beltree House was the missionary centre of Bath, and the chapel was also there The Mission was always served by the Benedictines. Beltree House , accordingto Dr. Oliver, was "Held under the Corporation at a ground rent of £8 per annum . " He also had leasehold estates at St. Kew and St. Wenn in Cornwall Cf. Payne, English Catholics Nonjurors p 24 ; and pp 40, 227 and 283 for Marnhull Manor, his leasehold estateat Bathand houses in Wiltshire

2 Also Oliver, op cit p 333

3 Birt, Obit Book O.S.B., "Educated at St. Gregory's, Douay Professed at Douay, 8th November 1731. Secretary of General Chapter, 1741 and 1745. Subprior. Senton the English Missionin South Province Was at Witham Place, Essex, 1749 ; Flixton, Suffolk, 1750-52 ; KirkhamHouse , Exeter, 1752-55 ; Coughton, 1758 ; Marlborough, 1758-85 ; Nash near Marnhull, 1785 till death there. Buried at Marnhull. " Cf. Downside Review , Vol XX : ibid., 2nd series, Vol II, p 99 ; Foley, V, 970 (wrong date of death).

* Cf. Oliver, Collections , p 333. Others give 25 September1785, as date of death, but there are entries by Dom Edward in the baptismal register for 1786, and he was buried on 3 March 1786

5 According totheReturn of Papistsin 1780 (RecordOffice, House of Lords , Main Papers) there were 64 papists in the parish of Marnhull and 68 in the parish ofStour Provost

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Giles survived his brother for another two years, dyingin June 1788. During his lifetime he resigned Nash Court to his nephew JohnRowe¹ with the injunctionthat he take the name Hussey, and he himselfwent to live at his nephew's residence at Bearston (or Beeston), Ashburton John Rowe married Anne, daughter of George Rowe of Cranbourne, and died 22 January 1811 , aged 75 .

The next in possession was John Rowe, son of John and Anne. Hewas born 23 October 1794, and married , 12 May 1817, Catherine daughter of John Knappof Bath and Portsea, and granddaughter of James Knapp of Langstone, Hampshire. He was still livein 1871 .

An item in the Graham MS reads: "25 Nov. 1901 obiit Mrs. AgnesFreamedied [sic], the last representative in the Mission ofthe goodold Catholic Husseyfamily ofNashCourt".³

"The firstpriestwho made a premanent markin settlingdown in the place [Marnhull] was the REV THOMAS CORNFORTH , who, from his own means or from collections amongstfriends, purchasedin Old Mill Lane , half a mile from the village, a good sized piece of land , whereonin 17264 he had built by Mr. John Pike for£285 9s. Od a small thatched cottage witha room upstairs fit for a chapelfor20 or 30persons to hear Mass , and in two rooms below he lived.

Through Mrs. Ann Roberts this property was by deed oftrust, dated 3 August 1733, (vested in Mr. George Hussey forthe use of the Mission . And again bytheWill of the Rev. ThomasCornforth , dated 26 July 1748 and by codicil of same date, his brother Mr. John Hussey was constituted executor and assign for all his property, but to have said house, orchard, books and furniture onlyin trust for Mr. (Bishop) Richard Challoner and any assigns he might appoint . He also raised and left behind him what is called the Cornforth Fund towards the support of the Marnhull incumbent and StourProvost" (Graham MS.)

1 The son ofhis sister Grace and Augustine Rowe

2 Catherine-Howse Knapp, born 1 September 1797 , died 22 July 1818 .

3 The MS. of the grandson's Memorandum, already quoted, was placed in thehandsoftheEditor (1016-7) of N. & Q. byMajorFreame.

Kelly's Directory for Dorsetshire (1890) says that the chapel was moved from Stour Provost to Nash Court in 1725

5 Eldest son of John Husseyand Mary Burdett

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The Rev. ThomasCornforthdied 5August 1748.¹ The Jesuits seem to have beenserving Marnhullround aboutthe same period.² Gillow says (Bibliographical Dictionary , III, 507) "it has beenstated that about 1730 a secularchaplain ofthenameof Smith³ was succeeded by a Jesuit, one of the two fathers of the 1 Thomas Cornforth, alias Roydon, born Lichfield diocese 1679 ; came to England from Douai as a priest 1709 ; elected Capitular 1739 (C.R.S. , XXVIII, 9n, 18, 25) "This apostolic priest long residedat Stour Provost and was very instrumental in creating there a fund for his successors in that mission, which usually passes by the name of Marnhull There he 'died on5thAugust 1748 , on Fridayevening, about 8 o'clock, aged seventy' as I found in the memorandum of a Prayer-book" (Oliver, Collections, p 275 ; Cf. C.R.S., XII, 7where"Shaftesbury" is given as place ofdeath).

Marnhull Burial Register (see below) "Aug. 7. 1748 Mr. Thomas Cornforth . " In the

After his discovery of Dom Edward Hussey's baptism the Rector of Marnhull (the Rev.A. J.Mangold) kindlycontinued, unasked , hisresearches . He found a contemporary note on a scrap of paper recording fees charged to the Hussey family One section read: "Priests buried ... 1742 Burdett; 1748 Cornforth ; 1756 Sebastian; 1768 Bishop; 1769 Molineux " Register itself was a burial entry: "Sept. 22. 1742 Edward Burdett (Nash Priest)." This appears to be the only mention of a priest Edward Burdett atNashCourt ; indeedthe only mention ofa priest ofthat nameanywhere Mrs. MaryHussey(died 1756), née Burdett, had a brother , Edward Burdett ofThames Ditton (Cf. Payne, Records ofthe English Catholics of1715,p. 11). Did hedie atMarnhull ? That he was reallya priest seems very doubtful His tombstone reads: "Edward Burdett, Brother of Mary the wife of John Husseydyed in September 1742 aged 75." Cf. Biographical Studies (Recusant History), II, p 65. He was therefore in fact a layman, Mrs. Hussey's brother. There were four priests named Thomas Cornforth or Thomas Roydon and there is a danger of confusing them, as Dr. Kirk and Joseph Gillow have done (Kirk, Biographies , p 59 ; C.R.S. , XIII, 229)

2 Marnhull was also served by the Jesuits, or visited by them , between1633 and 1676 (Foley, III, 265).

3This secular priest named Smith seems to have been mentioned first by Dr. Kirk (op. cit., p 166) and subsequentlyalluded to by Gillow (III, 507) and Dr. Oliver (Collections, p 413)

Dr. Oliver mentions two John Smiths; the seniorhe, says, was a Roman student and died at Bearscombe c 1749 and was buried in Dodbrook churchyard ; and the junior, accordingto him, came on the EnglishMission in 1766 and was said to have been at Marnhull for six years c 1766 . There was a John Turner vere Smith, son of John Smith ofNorfolk, who entered the English College in Rome 30 October 1675 , aged 19. He was ordained priest 5 April 1681 , and left for England 9 March 1682 (C.R.S. , XL, 90-1) A Mr. Smith is reported by the Archdeacon of Cornwall, Devon and Dorset, in 1693, as having lately come to these parts (C.R.S. , IX, 113). A Rev. FrancisSmithdied, at an advancedage, at Mr. Chester's at Bearscombe in Devon25 February 1747/8 (C.R.S. , XII, 7 ; Kirk, op cit, 212). Iam indebted to the Rector ofDodbrook (the Rev. F. O. Urwin) for the following record of burial: "1747 , February 28 , Francis Smith of ye parish of Buckland Tout Saints" "Bearscombe , or as it was orginially called, Woodmaston, is, and has been for many years past, a farm house" in the parish of Buckland Tout Saints, and, the Rector continues, "ithas a graciousness not usual in a farmhouse . "

It is just possible that the Rev. Francis Smith was at Marnhull before 1726. The Rev. John Smith, junior, as will be seen below was , the Rev. John Smyth who was there for some six months in 1787 .

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name of Richard Molyneux, and that Fr. John Englefield S.J. was at Marnhullfor a short time about thisperiod. "

Perhaps the above statement is a confusion of the following facts:- Fr. Richard Molyneux senr served the Mission from 17491 to 1761 , and Fr. RichardMolyneux junr died there in 1769; and the Rev. John Smith who came from the English College at Rome in 1766, was chaplain for six yearsabout thistime.

JOHN ENGLEFIELD, S.J. was on the English Missionin 1724 and the following years He died in 1733. Atsome timebetweenthosetwo dates hewas at Marnhull (C.R.S., XIII, 179. note 6) He wasapparently succeeded by RICHARD MOLYNEUX SENR S.J. from 1749 to 1761 and RICHARD MOLYNEUXJUNRS.J. was hereatsome timebefore 1769, whenhedied there, 5 June aged 69 (Foley, VII, 514; C.R.S., XIII, 166, note 17)²

"Mr. Joseph Sabastian died at Marnhull in Dorcetshire on ye 27th July 1757" (C.R.S., XII, 9).3 Dr. Oliver (op cit , p 409) calls him John Sebastian from the English College, Rome There is no student of this name in the Collegelists, nor indeed does any other trace of him appear to have been found Dr. Oliver states thatthelate Mr. Richard Rawe told him thatFr. Sebastianwas at Marnhullas earlyas 1750

THE REV . GEORGE BISHOP died at Marnhull 16 August 17684 (C.R.S. , XII, 12) Dr. Oliver (op cit , p. 242) says that a priest named Bishop was at Marnhull about 1773; thatis fiveyears after

1 Richard Molyneux senr S. J. was in Maryland from 1733 to 1749. From Marnhull he went to Bonham, where he died in 1766 , aged 70 .

2 Englefield's name is replaced by Molyneux's ; and Marnhull is in thelist of Jesuit addressed for 1768 (C.R.S. , XIII, 187 and 187 note 8). Richard Molyneux witnesseda codicil to the Will of Benedict ConquestofIrnham at Brussels 13 April 1761 (Will at IrnhamHall) Richard Molyneux, junr born 3 May 1700 ; entered the Society at the age of 22. "I meet him at Marnhullon 25th November 1755, and there he ended his course 5th June 1769 (Oliver, op. cit , p 356). Marnhull BurialRegister (see supra, note 1 , p 7) "June 8 1769 Mr. Richard Miloneux a reputed Popish Priest ' Kirk (op cit, p 166) has a confused accountof Richard Milyneux.

3 Dr. Oliver says it was from a fever caught attending a poor family in Shaftesbury Marnhull Burial Register: "July 30. 1757 Joseph Sebastian a reputed Popish Priest . "

* There is something curious here Several times during these years both a secularpriest and a Jesuit seem to be serving Marnhull at thesame time. It is alsocurious that, although a priest seems always to have been in the neighbourhood , sucha good Catholic family as the Husseys shouldpresent their children in the parish church for baptism Marnhull Burial Register (see supra, note 1 p 7) : "Aug. 19. 1768 . Mr. George Bishop a reputed Popish Priest. "

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his death . There is no mention of a priest for the next five years until the arrival of DOM EDWARD HUSSEY O.S.B. unless the REV . CHARLES FRYER² was here in this interval, though it seems unlikely that hewould havebeemordained bythen. Dr. Oliver (op cit , pp 309, 310) says that Charles Fryerwasar Marnhullbeforebeingtransferred to London,wherehe died23rd June, 1811.3

Dom Edward Hussey has hitherto been said to have served Marlborough from 1758 to 1785. In view of the MarnhullRegister these dates may be questioned The first entry is "Marlboro February 1772" and the next "Marnhull 1773." James Hussey died in June 1773, and Giles then inherited the estate From August 1773, till a few daysbeforehis death in February, 1786, Dom Edward Hussey kept the Marnhull Register, recording sixty-one baptisms at Marnhull, three atStourProvost and one eachatWoodfield, Fontmell , Blagden Commonand Todber. It would seem that for these thirteen years Dom Edward was living with his brother Giles atMarnhull

After Dom Edward's death DOM WILLIAM (AMBROSE) ALLAM O.S.B. washerefor a while in 1786, entering three baptisms in June ofthat year. He was probablyon a visitfrom Bonham where he keptthe Register from November 1785 to April 1796. FromMay toSeptember, 1787 the Marnhull Register is signed by the REV JOHN SMYTH.4

For the next thirty years, 1789 to 1819, the REV . JOHN STANLEY

1 Son of Francis Bishop and probably Elizabeth Bishop (Cf. Payne, English Catholic Nonjurors, p 275) ; nephew of Rev. Henry Harnage; born 23 April 1695 ; Douai 1716 (C.R.S., XXVIII , 37) ; St. Gregory's, Paris, Sept. 1717-Dec 1722, Deacon(C.R.S., XIX, 123n ; XXVIII, 115) Priest at Brailes, Irnham (1742-4) and Harvington (1750-2) Cf. C.R.S. , XVII, 367-8 (where Gillow wrongly says that he was ordained in Paris in 1718 ; Gillow places him at Marnhull c 1761) ; Kirk, op. cit.,p. 26.

2 Kirk (p 88) says that he and his brother William (Oliver thinksWilliam is uncleto Charles ) arrived in Douai 12 May 1760. William led the second colony ofstudents to Valladolid 15 September1770 (C.R.S., XXVIII, 303), and in 1782 became President of Lisbon, dying there 15 August 1805 . Cf.Gillow, II, 335 .

3A Rev. Charles Fryeris witness at a wedding in the PortugueseEmbassy Chapelin London, performedbythe Rev.WilliamVictor Fryer, 7 July1790. WilliamVictor Fryer was a nephewof the Lisbon Presidentand his brother Charles (C.R.S., XXXVIII, 134)

4 Son of John Smith (a convert) and Elizabeth Pointer (Protestant) of Norfolk, born 4 November 1739 (O.S.) ; English College, Rome, 15 July 1754 ; priest 29 March 1766 ; left for England 26 May 1766 (C.R.S. , XL, 212 ; Foley, VI , 497) Dr. Oliver (op cit , p 413) says he went to Mr. Arundell of Bath from Marnhull , but as other statements in the same paragraph are inaccurate, this should be treated with reserve Chaplain to Portuguese Embassy in London from at least 1795 to 1816 (C.R.S. , XXXVIII, 131 , 1335, 138, 139) ; died 28 April 1817, aged 78 (C.R.S. , XII, 135 erroneouslystated to be a Douai student) ; in 1806 gave£1,000 burse to St. Edmund's, Ware, in exchange for an annuity of £51 (The Edmundian), Dec. 1913, No. 62, p. 17.

is in charge of the Mission.¹ He resigned on 13 October 1820 , but remained in Marnhull till his death 14 April 1828. He bequeathed£200 to the Mission (Oliver, Collections , p. 415; C.R.S. , XII, 179 wherehe is wronglycalledWilliam .)

In 1795 The English Benedictine Nuns of the Champ de l'Alouette, Paris, were driven out of France and "arrived at Dover on 3 July. Two days after this arrival Nash Court was to let, and of this through Lord and LadyArundellthey were able to take possession on 1 September. Not, however, till the 20 October did the whole of the Communityin London join; for at first there was no chapel in the house; then no Mass could be saidonSundays for them byMr.Stanley" (Bishop Graham MS .).

The ABBÉ JEAN PIERRE PELLETIER then became their chaplain till he returned to France in 1802. Dr. Oliver says that he was a Jesuit (Collections , pp. 145 , 374).³

ABBÉCHARLES LEONARD PREMOND.4

He was succeeded by the

The ABBÉ ALEXANDRE JULIEN SIMON5 assisted the Rev. John Stanley from Januaryto June 1820. From June 1820 to May 1821 , the baptismal entries are by the ABBÉ P. GILBERT , who adds "M.M." after his name.6

From September 1821 , to January 1823 , the ABBÉ ROMAIN DESSAUX was here.? In 1824 the REV .

1 Son of James Stanley and Anne Savage ; born in London 3 October 1759; Valladolid 1775-1786 ; priest 24 September1785 ; leftfor England 12 July 1786 ; (C.R.S. , XXX, 202-208)

2 Cf. C.R.S. , IX, 431 .

3 According to Dr. Oliver, he died c 1820

* Born Honfleur 30 July 1760 ; residedat the Sorbonne 1778-84 ; Canon ofSt. Honoré, Paris, 1788 ; chaplain to the BenedictineNuns at Marnhull 1802-1807 ; he went to Cannington when the Nuns went there, 1807; returned to Paris c 1817 or 1818 ; Canon of Notre Dame; chaplain to Charles X, assisted at his coronationat Rheims; left Francewhenthe king was expelled; arrived Cannington13Nov. 1830 ; the Nunswent toStaffordshire and he joined them there in Oct. 1836; died there 26 Aug. 1837 (Oliver, Collections, pp 387-8).

5 Born 18 Feb. 1771 ; subdeacon of Caen, embarked for England 15 Sept. 1792 ; back in France 1815; curé of Fontaine-Henry (Canton Creully, diocese of Bayeux) from 10 April 1815 ; obtained exeat for England 19 March 1816; suppliedat Cannington, Dartmouth ,Marnhull and Weymouth; went to Stonehouse , Plymouth, August 1820 ; died there suddenly5 April 1821 (Oliver op., cit , pp 182, 276, 411)

6 C.R.S. , XII, 220, has an obituary notice : "L. Gilbert, à Osgodby , du diocese de St. Brieuc, âgé de 70 ans, 1836, Feb.25" .

7 Deacon at Barquet, Deanery of Beaumont-le-Roger (Dept. Eure) 1792; receivedpassport 8 Sept. 1792, embarked at Dieppe 10 Sept. 1792 (name spelt Desseaulx in embarkation list). Canon F.-X. Plasse seems to say that he died in Bath in 1803 (Le Clergé Francais Refugié en Angleterre, II, 412). Unless there were two priests of the same namefromthediocese of Evreux, this is incorrect. Canon Plasse himself contradicts it (op. cit, II, 314). Dr. Oliver says (op cit , p 287) that the Abbé Dessaux was at Marnhull for a while, returned to Franceand died there 7 January, 1835 , aged 78. In facthe died in Little George Street, Portman Square, London 7 January 1835 (aged 78 , accordingto C.R.S. , XII, 210 ; aged 75according to Plasse, op. cit , II, 314). He was buried 12 January in St. Mary's Moorfields

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WILLIAM CASEY came fresh from ordination at St. John's College , Waterford.¹ "By the side of his cottage with the chapel upstairs [he] opened the Church of St. Mary on 3 July 1832." (Graham MS .). He went to Tawstock from 5 April 1839, to 18 May 1840, but then returned to Marnhull (Oliver, op. cit , pp 261-2). In his absence "the Rev. JOHN LARKAN from prior Park served for the Eastertide , the REV JOHN DAWSON till June, the REV . CHARLES KAVANAGH in August and the REV. PETER BOND2 of Swansea from October" (Graham MS.).

In September 1846, FatherCasey mentioned in a letter to Bishop Ullathorne the school he had recently built, where a schoolmistress could live to teach Catholic children It was on ground belonging toMr. Hussey, at the junction of Old Mill Lane with theShaftesbury Road, nearer the village. In 1863 the Presbytery was re-furnished and enlarged, and Mr. and Mrs. John Hussey lived in it till the Spring of 1867. In December 1865 , FatherCasey handed over £300 to Bishop Vaughan beforeleaving , stipulatingan annuity of£36for himself. In August 1867 , Father Casey retired to St. Anne's Hill, Cork, and subsequently to London, where he died 29 April 1873 , aged 73 (Graham MS )

Father Casey's place at Marnhull was supplied on Sundays from Spetisbury bythe REV JOHN SABBE till the appointment ofthe REV . THOMAS SPENCER on 12 October 1867. The Presbytery was letto Captain Jarrett till 8 September 1870 so Father Spencerstayed with Mr. Hussey in the village until he took possession ofthe enlarged and repaired schoolroom Father Spencer left 27 June 1878, and was replacedbythe REV WALTER KELLY, who stayed till 30thSeptember 1881. His place was taken, till 1 August 1884 , by theREV . JOHN CHARLES MCCARTHY . In 1884 the Canons Regular of the Lateran took over the propertyto establish a junior schoolfor their Order and on 10 June the REV FELIX MENCHINI C.R.L. and GILBERT HIGGINSC.R.L. took up residence.³ Dom Augustine White C.R.L. was appointed Superior of St. Joseph's Priory, Marnhull, in September 1884. Withhimwasthe REV. IVERS OLIVERC.R.L.

On 25 August 1891, the Canons Regular handed over the propertyto the Oblates of the Sacred Heartfrom Beauminster andthe REV . CONSTANT DODARD tookchargeof Marnhull In January 1892 , therestofthe Community left Beauminster forMarnhull. TheCommunity then moved from Marnhullto Belmont House, Shaftesbury in January 1895, and Father Dodard became English-speaking

1 He was born in Tipperary, 1800 .

2 Born 1 August 1811; left for Lisbon College 7 January 1824 ; ordained priest there 29 March 1824. He went to Tasmania with Bishop Willson 29 January 1844 (Oliver, op. cit , p. 234)

3 St. Mary's "church in 1835 was transferred by Dr. Vaughan, Bishop, of Plymouth , to the Austin Canons, who have added a chanceland built the adjoining Prioryand College of St. Joseph in 1886." (Kelly'sDirectoryof Hampshire, Wiltshire and Dorestshire , 1890, p 1248).

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Missionary for both places with residence at Marnhull On 3 August 1897 , Fr. URBANROUVIEREtookFather Dodard's place, and the latter went to France to become a Benedictine novice in the Benedictine congregation under which the Oblates had decided to place themselves Fr. Dodard was recalled to Marnhull on 2 February 1898, to wind up the temporalities appertaining to the Benedictines in bothMissions. In July 1898, all theFathers leftfor France, but Fr. Dodard joined the Plymouth diocese and settled down at Marnhull In the summer of 1903 French Nuns expelled from Kermariain France took possession of the property but left for Shaftsebury at Christmas, 1905. On 25 March 1906, the property was leased to French Trappestine Nuns A Communityof Sisters of the Helpers of the Holy Souls took over St. Joseph's, Priory on 20 June 1921, at Bishop Keily's request, but left again on 31 May 1928. In 1951 theysold the propertyto thediocese of Plymouth PriestsatMarnhull: -

REV CONSTANT DODARD 1891-1922

REV MICHAELFRANCIS WEDDICK1922-1928

REV . P. MORTELL 1928-1929

REV . PATRICKDWANE 1929-1932

REV . WILLIAM MOYLAND1932-1937

REV . JOHN HUG 1937-1945

REV . JAMES BUCKLEY1945-1950

REV . FRANCIS GALLAGHER 1950-1960

REV . JOSEPH O'BRIEN 1960-

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MARLBRO 1772

MISCELLANEA

A BAPTISMAL REGISTER

February 23d was baptized Henry Eade, son of Henry Eade and Mary Eade his Wife, born the 19th of February 1772. The God Mother was Hannah Hughes, a servant in the Family of John Hyde Esqr Marlborough Wiltshire. 1773 byme Edward Hussey.

MARNHULL August3d wasbaptized Ann Trew , Daughter ofRoger Trew, and ElizabethTrew his Wife, born thesameday of the same month The God Father was James Curtis senior of the Parish of Marnhull in the County of Dorset byme Edward Hussey.

MARNHULL 1774

May 7th was baptized John Curtis, son of George Curtis and Martha Curtis his Wife, born the 6th of the same month. The God Mother was Grace Mullet servant in Family of Giles Hussey Esq . of the Parish ofMarnhull intheCountyofDorset by me Edward Hussey 1774

MARNHULL August 12th was baptized John Lodder¹ son of John Lodder and Elizabeth Lodder his Wife, born the same day of the month The God Father was Francis Shepherd, theGod Mother was GraceMullet, bothof them servants in Giles HusseyEsq Familyin the parish of MarnhullintheCounty ofDorset,byme EdwardHussey.

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MARNHULL 1775 March 24thwas baptized Dorothy Curtis Daughter of Dorothy Curtis, born the 23d of the same Month. The God Mother was Ann Curtis of the parish of Marnhull in the Countyof Dorset , by me Edward Hussey.

MARNHULL 1776 January2d was baptized Frances Curtis Daughter of George Curtis and Martha Curtis his Wife, born the 31stofDecember 1775. The GodMother wasFrances Best servant to Giles HusseyEsq in the parish ofMarnhull, by me Edward Hussey .

1 Lodders are mentioned among the Catholic non-jurors of 1715 ; Jeffery Lodder, of Stour Provost, yeoman, has a house for lives of self , Mary, his wife andthat of EdmundWiles MartinLodder, ofStour Provost, yeoman, hasa house for lives of self, his wife, Jane, and brother, Francis, andreversionof another, on the death ofhis sister , Susan Lodder, now Susan Sanger William Lodder, of Stour Provost, yeoman has an estate for lives of self and his two daughters Gilbert Lodder, of Stour Provost, blacksmith, has a house for life Margaret Lodder, of Anstey, Wiltshire , spinster, is mentioned in the Will of Thomas, 4th Lord Arundell, as his servant Estcourt and Payne, English Catholic Nonjurors of 1715, pp 40, 43, 82, 286

MARNHULL 1776

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was baptized Februarythe 7th James Trew, son of Roger Trew and Elizabeth Trew his wife, born the 5th of the same month . The God Mother was FrancesBest servant to Giles HusseyEsq . ofthe parish ofMarnhull intheCountyof Dorset byme Edward Hussey.

MARLBRO 1776

April the 24thwas Baptized Ann Hutchins Daughter of William Hutchins and Hannah Hutchins his wife born the 21st of the same month. The God Mother Hannah Hughes of Burdropin Glocestershireby me Edw . Hussey.

MARNHULL June the 18th was baptized Jane YoungDaughterof Thomas Young and Mary Young his wife bron the 17th of June . The God Mother was Ann Curtis, all of them in the parish of Marnhullin the CountyofDorsetbyme Edw Hussey. 1776

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MARNHULL 1777

March 19th was baptized MarthaCurtis Daughter of George Curtis and Martha Curtis his wife, born the 13th ofthe same month The God Fatherwas John Baltch The God Mother was MaryNorthoverservant in theFamily of Giles Hussey Esq of Marnhull parish in the Countyof Dorset by me Edward Hussey.

MARNHULL 1777

June 1st was baptized Grace Pike, Daughter of Elizabeth Pike, of the Parish of Fontenal* in the CountyofDorset, born the 19th of April 1777. The God Father was John Moger servant to Giles Hussey Esq The God Mother was Ann Curtis of the parish of Marnhull, by me Edwd Hussey.

MARNHULL

November 30th was baptized Anastasia Hatcher Daughter ofAnastasia Hatcher and Joseph Hatcher. +1 The God Mother was Mary Cull of the parish of Marnhullin the County of Dorset by me Edward Hussey.

MARNHULL 1777 1778

August 29thwas baptized James Curtis son of George Curtis and Martha Curtis, born the 29th of the same month the God Mother was Winifred Price servant to Giles Hussey Esqr in the parish of Marnhull in the Countyof Dorset by me Edward Hussey.

MARNHULL 1779

January 6th was baptized George Easton, son of George and Elizabeth Easton of Blagden Common in the County of Dorset born the 16th of December 1778. The God Father was Thomas Pike, the God Mother was MaryHunt,bothofStour Provost, by me DdwdHussey.

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1Several entries have a cross thus in the margin, presumably noting subsequent decease of the child

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MARNHULL 1780

MISCELLANEA

January 7th was baptized Ann Curtis Daughterof George Curtis and Martha Curtis, born the 6th of January, the God Father was Martin Shepherd. The God Mother was Elizabeth Barnes, servants to Giles Hussey Esqr in the parish of Marnhull in the County of Dorset by me Edwd Hussey.

1780

MARNHULL January 23d was baptized Bennet Johnson son of John Johnson and Winefrid Johnson, born the same day of the same month, The God Fatherwas Martin Shepherd, The God Mother was Catherine Burrett bothresiding in the parish of Marnhullin the Countyof Dorset, by me Edward Hussey.

1780

MARNHULL February 7th was baptized Joseph Hatcher son of Joseph Hatcher and Anatasia [sic] Hatcher born the same day of the same month, the God Father was John Johnson, The GodMother wasMaryCull bothofthem residing in the parish of Marnhull in the County of Dorset, by me Edward Hussey.

MARNHULL 1780

July 16th was baptized James Lodder son of John Lodder and Elizabeth Lodder, born the 15th ofJuly 1780. The God Father was John Johnson Jun The God Motherwas Winefrid Johnson both residing in the parishof Marnhullin the County of Dorset, by me Edward Hussey.

MARNHULL 1780

October 14th was baptized Ann Hatcher Daughter of William Hatcher and Ann Hatcher born the 12th of the same month. The God Father was James Cull, The God Motherwas Winefrid Johnson of the parish of Marnhull in theCountyofDorset, byme Edward Hussey.

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MARNHULL 1780

WOODFIELD

December 27th was baptized Elizabeth Timber Daughter of Elizabeth and Robert Timber of Stour Provost, born the 23 of the same month, The God Father was Robert Shepherd servant to Giles Hussey Esqr ofthe parish of Marnhull in the County of Dorset, the God Mother was Catherine Pike of Stour Provost in the County of Dorset, by me EdwdHussey. 1781

April the 8th was baptized Mary Pike Daughterof Frances Pike, born the 8th of the same month the God Father was Stephen Pike ,the God Motherwas Elizabeth Tucker, both of them residing in Woodfield , by me Edward Hussey.

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MARNHULL 1781

September the 2d was baptized Maria Chenery Daughter ofWilliam Cheneryand ElizabethChenery, born at Sherborn in the County of Dorset on the 15th ofJuly, the God Fatherwas Martin Shepherd, the God Motherwas Elizabeth Barnes servants to Giles Hussey Esq of the parish of Marnhullin the County ofDorset, by me Edward Hussey

MARNHULL 1781

MARNHULL

September the 30th was baptized ElizabethLodder, Daughter of George Lodder and Rebbeca Lodder of Stour Provost in the Countyof Dorset, born the26th ofthesame month, the God Father was George Curtis of the parish ofMarnhullinthe County ofDorset, the God Motherwas Elizabeth Lodder ofStour Provost, by me EdwardHussey. 1782 +

February the 3d was baptized James Cull son of Elizabeth Cull of Stour Provost in the County of Dorset born the same Day ofthe above month. The God Father was James Cull The God Mother was Mary Cull both of the parish of Marnhull in the county of Dorset by me Edward Hussey.

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MARNHULL 1782

February10thwasbaptized John Hann son ofThomas Hann and Elizabeth Hann born the eighth of the same month. The God Father was William Chenery of Sherborn . The God Mother was Elizabeth Barns, servant in the Family of Giles Hussey Esqr of the parish of Marnhull in the County ofDorset, by me EdwardHussey.

MARNHULL 1782

March the 4th was baptized Lucy Morgan Daughter of Thomas Morgan and Mary Morgan born the 3dof the same month The God Father was Martin Lodder The God Mother was Jane Lodder, all of them of Stour Provost in the Countyof Dorset, by me Edward Hussey

MARNHULL 1782

March the 10th was baptized Joseph Pike son of Peter and Mary Pike born the8th ofthe same month, The God fatherwasStephen Pike of Woodfield where the parents and the child reside, the God Motherwas Martha Butt servant to Giles Husseyof Marnhullin the countyof Dorset by me EdwdHussey .

1782

MARNHULL Marchthe 10th was baptized LucyMitchard Daughter of Richard and Elizabeth Mitchardof Stour Provost born the 7th of the same month . The God Father was Martin Shepherd of Marnhull in the County of Dorset, The God Motherwas Elizabeth Lodder ofStourProvost by meEdward Hussey.

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MARNHULL 1782 March 31st was baptized Mary Catherine Chante daughter of Sarah and John Chante of the parish of Marnhull in the Countyof Dorset The God Father was Martin Shepherd, the God Mother was Catherine Burret servants to Giles HusseyEsq ofMarnhull, by me EdwardHussey.

MARNHULL Aprilthe22nd was baptized Catherine PikeDaughter 1782 ofCatherine Pike and John Pike of Stower Provost in the countyofDorset, the God Mother was Catherine Burret House Keeper to Giles Hussey Esq of Marnhull, by me

Edwd Hussey.

MARNHULL 1782

April the 30 was baptized James Johnson son of John and Elizabeth Johnsonoftheparish ofMarnhull in the county of Dorset born the same day TheGod Motherwas Winefrid Johnson of the same parish, by me Edward Hussey.

STOWER 1782 +

August 24. were baptized Lucy Timber and Elizabeth Timber Twins and Daughters of Robert Timber and Elizabeth Timber of Stower Provost in the County of Dorset , born the 23d of the same month, The God Motherwas Catherine Pike of Stower Provost by, me Edwd Hussey

MARNHULL September 22d was baptized Philip Curtis, born the 1782 18th, son of George Curtis and Martha Curtisof the parish of Marnhull in the County of Dorset by me Edward Hussey.

FONTENEL 1782

November 2d was baptized John Easton son of George and Elizabeth Easton of blagden common born [blank] the God Father was Robert Shepherd servant of Giles Hussey Eq in the parish of Marnhull, by me Edwd Hussey.

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MARNHULL 1783

Born the 4th & January 5th was baptized Maria Catharina Shepherd Daughter of Mary and Martin Shepherd The God Father was Giles Hussey Esq . The God Mother was Catherine Burret. all of them living in the parish ofMarnhull, byme Edward Hussey.

MARNHULL January7th was baptized Ann Hatcher daughter of 1783 William and Ann Hatcher born the 7th of the same month The God Father was Robert Shepherd all of theparish ofMarnhull, by me EdwdHussey.

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MARNHULL 1783

February 2d was baptized Thomas Chenery son o William and Elizabeth Chenery born in Sherbourn Dec. 13. 1782 The God Mother was Catherine Burrel ofMarnhullby me Edwd Hussey.

MARNHULL April 6th was baptized Anastasia Hatcher Daughter 1783 of Josephand Anastasia Hatcher born the sameday. The GodFatherwasThomasJohnsonThe GodMother ElizabethJohnsonby me Edward Hussey.

MARNHULL May the 5th was baptized Sarah Pike Daughterof Peter Pike and Mary Pike of Stower Provost , born the4th ofMay, the God Fatherwas Stephen Pikeof Stower Provost The God Mother was Mary Cull of Marnhull, by me Edward Hussey.

1783

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1783

MARNHULL November 30th was baptized Clare KimberDaughter of Thomas and Ann Kimber his Wife born the 24 of the said month The God Mother was Catherine Pike, all of them of the parish of Stower Provost by, meEdward Hussey.

MARNHULL 1783

December 29th was baptized Stephen Mitchiard son of Philip and ElizabethMitchiard of Stower Provost born the 27th of the same month The God Mother wasMarthaofMarnhull parish,bymeEdwd Hussey Curtis.

MARNHULL 1784

ofStoke in

MARNHULL 1784

was baptized the 12th of January Thomas Moger bornthe 11th of the sayd month, the God Fatherwas James Moger the God Mother was ElizabethMoger Somersetshireby me Edward Hussey.

March the 8th was baptized Peter Curtis, son of Georgeand Martha Curtis Born the 8th of the same month, The God Father was Robert Shepherd, allof parish ofMarnhullby me Edwd Hussey.

MARNHULL April the 10th was baptized Thomas Chant son of 1784 John Chant and Sarah Chant, born the same day. The God Mother was JaneShepherd, alsoof the Parish ofMarnhullwitness my hand Edwd Hussey.

MARNHULL 1784

April the 24th was baptized Robert Chant son of Samuel Chant and Editha Chant born the 20 of the said monthTheGod Mother was Jane Shepherd, also oftheparish ofMarnhull , by meEdwardHussey.

MISCELLANEA

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1784

BLAGDEN COMMON DORSET 1784

May the 10th was baptized Thomas Easton son of George and Elizabeth Easton of blagden common in the parish of Fontmel born April 21. 1784. TheGod Father was GeorgeHatcher of the parish of Marnhull by me Edward Hussey.

MARNHULL

MARNHULL 1784

May the 20th was baptized John Johnson , son of John and Elizabeth Johnson born the same day. TheGodMother wasMaryCull, byme Edward Hussey.

July the 10th was baptized Ann Maria Chenery, daughter ofWilliam Chenery and Elizabeth Chenery born at Sherborn The God Mother was Mary Burrel bymeEdwdHussey

August 2d was baptized Martha Pike daughter of Francis [sic] and Thomas Pike born the 30 of July. The God Mother was Elizabeth Tucker of Stower by me Edwd Hussey.

MARNHULL

TODBER 1784 1784

September 19 wasbaptized Elizabeth LodderDaughter of John and Elizabeth Lodder, born the 18th of the same month, the God Father was John Johnson Junior the God Mother was Sarah Kendal, by me EdwardHussey.

STOUR

February the 11th was baptized Stephen Pike son PROVOST of Peter and Mary Pike Born the 10th of the said 1785 Month The God Mother was Mary Cull of Marnhull byme EdwardHussey.

MARNHULL

Februarythe 18thwas Baptized John Shepherd, the 1785 son of Martin Shepherdand Mary Shepherd, bornthe same day, the God Father was Robert Shepherd, the God mother Elizabethbarnes, by me Edward Hussey.

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MARNHULL June the 14th was baptized John Johnson, son of 1785 John and Elizabeth Johnson of the parish Marnhull born the same day as above the God Father was Joseph Hatcher, the God Mother Ann Hatcher byme Edwd Hussey .

MARNHULL June the 18th wasbaptized John Cull Son ofSusanna 1785 Cull of the parish of Marnhull born the 17th ofthe said month The God Father was John Johnson, the God Mother Ann Hatcher byme Edward Hussey

MARNHULL 1785

August the 8th was baptized Fabian Kimber Son of Sarah Timber [sic] of Stower Provost born the 4th of the said month The God Mother was Elizabeth Barnesby me EdwdHussey

STOWER

PROVOST 1785*

MARNHULL 1786

January 9th was baptized Maria Kimber Daughter of Thomas and Ann Kimber, born the first dayofthe said month, the God Mother was Grace Langman of Stower, bymeEdwd Hussey.

January the 11th was baptized John Young son of Robert and Elizabeth Young born the same day of the say'd Month The God Father was Martin Shepherd, the God Mother was Sarah Kendal, by me Edwd Hussey. + 1786

MARNHULL Jany the 18th was baptized Stephen Michard son of Richard and Elizabeth Michard his wife, born the 15th of the sayd month; the God Mother was Jane Lodder, byme EdwardHussey.

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MARNHULL 1786 was baptized Jany 24 Ann Hatcher Daughter of Josephand Anastasia Hatcher his wifeborn thesame day The God Father was Thomas Hann, the God Mother was Ann Hatcher, by me Edwd Hussey.

MARNHULL 17851

February 14. was baptized Robert Pikeson ofJohn and Catherine Pike his wife Born of the 11th ofthe same month; the God Mother was Elizabeth Barnes ofStower Provost, towhichParish the Pikes belongbymeunsigned.1

The next three entries are in the hand of The Rev. William Allam.

MARNHULL 1786 byme ,

FONTMILL 1786 me,

June 9th, was baptized Benedict Chant, Son of Samuel & Editha Chant his wife, born May 25 ofthe same year The God-mother was Theresa Shepherd WmAllam

June 16th, was Baptized John Easton, Son of George , & Elizabeth Easton his wife; born June 9th, ofthe same year, the Godfather was Robert Shepherd, by Wm Allam 1786 born

MARNHULL June 16th, was Baptized George Hatcher , Son of George Hatcher, & Sarah Hatcher his wife; June 11th, of the same year. The Godfather was Martin Shepherd, the Godmother Catherine Burrell, by me Wm Allam.

* Query recte 1786 ? 1 Dom Edward Husseydied in 1786

MISCELLANEA

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The next four entries in the hand of Father John Smyth

MARNHULL May 21 was baptised ElizabethChenery Daughter of William Chenery & Elizabeth Chenery his wife. Godfather John Smith by me J. Smyth

1787

MARNHULL 1787 J. Smyth

MARNHULL 1787

June 10. was baptised Michael Cull natural son of Susanna Cull God-mother Sarah Kendall by me

July 7. was baptised in case of necessity Ann Price daughter of John Price & Sarah Price his wife & on the 2d of September the rest of ceremonies supplied God-mother [blank] Curtis by me John Smyth

1787

MARNHULL September 24th was baptised Elias Johnson son of John & Elizabeth Johnson, God-father Martin SheppardGod-mother Teresa Sheppard, by me

J. Smyth

Henceforthin the hand of Father John Stanley.

MARNHULL 1789

Stanley 1789

Decberye25 was baptized JosephChant son ofJohn Chant & Sarah his wife born in Octber of the same year Godmother Jane Shepherd, by me John

MARNHULL June ye 17th was Baptized Elias Johnson son of John Johnson and Elizabeth his wife born June ye 16th of yesame year Godfather Thos Fillelbyme

Stanley

STOUR PROVOST 1789

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SHASTON 1789

John Stanley

MARNHULL 1790 born 17 or 18 May 1790 John

June ye 21st was baptized Anastasia Pike Daughter of John Pike & Mary his wife ... Godfather John Johnson by me John Stanley

Septber 13th 1789 was baptized William Isaac Sonof Cyrus Isaac & Mary his Wife born ye 7 of Septber ofye same year. Godfather Chas Barns byme

May ye 22nd baptized Ann Cull natural daughter of Susanna Cull Godmother Jane Shepherd by me John Stanley

1790

MARNHULL Septber ye 19. 1790 was baptized Ann Hatcher daughter of GeorgeHatcher &Sarah his wife, born ye 17th of 7ber ye same year Godfather Wm Hatcher

Junr

Godmother Susanna Hatcher byme

1790

John Stanley

MARNHULL Septber ye 23rd 1790 was baptized Mary Chant daughter of Samuel Chant, & Editha his wife born August ye 26 of ye same year Godfather Jno John Stanley Stanleybyme

SHASTON 1791

me

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STOUR

PROVOST 1791 1791

Septber [date uncertain] 1791 was baptized John Isaac son of Cyrus Isaac & Maryhis wife, born August 30 in same year Gossips Chas & Martha Barns by John Stanley

Septber 25th 1791 was baptized James Pike son of Peter Pike & Mary his wife born [blank] 1791. Gossips Thos Fillel. Ann Hatcher by me Stanley John

MARNHULL Octber 18. 1791 was baptized Stephen Martin natural son of Ann Martin [now Hatcher above]. born ye 11 Octber 1791 Godmother Ann Hatcher. by me

John Stanley 1791

MARNHULL Janry29th 1792 was baptized Ann JohnsonDaughter of John Johnson & Elizabeth his Wife born ye 27th Janry 1792. Gossips Wm Hatcher Jun . Sarah Hatcher.byme

FONTMILL 1792

Stanley

MARNHULL John Stanley

July 15. 1792 was baptized Ann Cull naturaldaughter ofElizthCull G. Elizth Johnson by me John

August 19. 1792 was baptized Ann Chant Daughter of John Chant & Sarah his Wife born ye 13 August 1792. G. Jane Lodder . byme John Stanley

[p. 16]

MARNHULL Decber 18. 1792 was baptized James ShepherdSonof Martin Shepherd & Mary his Wife born ye same day John Stanley Goss. Wm Hatcher Susanna Hatcher . by me

SOMERSET

BLACKFORD Janry 6. 1793 was baptized Ann Russ daughter of Thos Russ & Jane his Wife born ye 4th of ye same month & year Gos Ann Hatcher byme ,

Stanley John

MARNHULL

MARNHULL

MISCELLANEA

Febry 12th 1793 was baptized Jane Cull natural daughter of Susanna Cull by me , John Stanley

April21st 1793 was baptized Mary Hatcher daughter of Joseph Hatcher & Anastasia his Wife born ye 19th ofye samemonth& year Goss John & Eliz Johnson byme , John Stanley

[p. 17]

STOUR

PROVOST August 6 1793 was baptized Peter Pike son of Peter Pike & Mary his Wife born ye same day Godfather John Stanley by me John Stanley

MARNHULL Septber 29th 1793 was baptized Elizabeth Hatcher daughter of Jas Hatcher and Ann his Wife born ye 25 of ye above month & year. Godfather Charles Barns, by me John Stanley

MARNHULL April 27. 1794 was baptized Mary Johnson Daughter of John Johnson & Elizabeth his Wife born April- 1794 Goss George & Sarah Hatcher, by me John Stanley

MARNHULL August 3rd 1794 was baptized Francis HatcherSon of George & Sarah Hatcher his Wife born August1st John Stanley 1794. Goss . Jn° & Eliz Johnson by me

Thenextentryis on a slip ofpaper affixed to the margin ofthepage

SOMERSET

BLACKFORD Novber 23rd 1794 was baptized Thos Russ , son of Thos & Jane Russ ; born Novber 21. 1794 (Godfather myself) by me John Stanley SINCE OF MARNHULL

MARNHULL Janry 31. 1797 was baptized ThomasShepherdSon of Martin Shepherd & Mary his Wife born Janry 30. John Stanley 1797. Godmother Ann Stanley, by me

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TODBER by me

June1797 was baptized Mary Barns natural daughter of Eliz. Barns. Godmother Mary Pike Jun John Stanley

MARNHULL Decber 14. 1797 was baptized Stephen Harding Son of Peter Harding & Susanna his Wife ; born July 5 of ye same year Godmother Jane Lodder. by me John Stanley

MARNHULL March 11. 1798 was baptized Maria Hatcher daughter of Wm Hatcher & Mary his Wife; born ye 7 of ye above month& year Gssps Wm Curtis & Sussanna Hatcher, by John Stanley me

MARNHULL April 1st 1798 was baptized James Chant Son of John Chant & Sarah his Wife ; born March 30th of John Stanley ye same year. Godfr John Stanley, by me

MARNHULL

Godfather John Stanley ,by me

May 7. 1798 was baptized William Hatcher Son of James & Ann Hatcher his Wife ; born April24-25.98. John Stanley

MARNHULL Decber 19. 1798 was baptized Benedict JosephHatcher son of Geo Hatcher & Sarah his Wife born ye 19th of Mr. Le Pelletier ye abovemonth& yearby

[p. 19]

MARNHULL June 10. 1799 was baptized Winefride Johnson Daughter of John Johnson & Elizabeth his Wife; born ye 3rd of ye above month & yearGodfather Wm Hatcher Jun Godmother Sarah Hatcherby me

BLAGDEN COMMON IN FONTMEL

MARNHULL John Stanley

August 15. 1799 was baptized Richard Hatcher son of James Hatcher & Ann his Wife, born August 6th 1799 Godmother Maria Hatcher by me Stanley John

August 18. 1799 was baptized George Kendallson of Geo Kendall & Dorothy his Wife, born 15 of ye George & MarthaCurtis ofMoorside, aboveMonth&year Gssps by meJohn Stanley

MARNHULL Septber 24. 1799 was baptized John Hatcher Son of Wm Hatcher & Mary his Wife born ye 20 Septber 1799. Godmother Jane Lodder by me John Stanley

MARNHULL May 11. 1800 was baptized Elizabeth Hatcher Daughter of Richd Hatcher & Mary his Wife born May 7. 1800. Gssps Geo & Sarah Hatcher by me John Stanley

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MARNHULL May 12. 1800 was baptized Elizabeth Chant daughter of John Chant & Sarah his Wife, born May 9 of John Stanley sameyear (godfather) myself, by me ye

MISCELLANEA

MARNHULL

March 2nd 1801 was baptized Mary Ann Hatcher daughter of James Hatcher & Ann his Wife; born Janry 30. 1801 (Godmother) Jane Lodder , by me Stanley John

MARNHULL April 19. 1801 was baptized Jas Hatcher Son of Wm Hatcher & Mary his Wife; born April 11. 1801 John Stanley (Godmother Susanna Fillel) by me

MARNHULL May27. 1802 was baptized Thomas Johnson, Son of Benedict Johnson & Jane his Wife; born May 23 John Stanley 1802 (Godfather Richd Hatcher) by me

MARNHULL April 20. 1803 was baptized Henry Hatcher , Son of Richd Hatcher & Mary his Wife: born April 25 or 26 [sic] 1803. (Gssps. Wm Hatcher Jane Lodder) by me Stanley

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MARNHULL John Novber 1. 1803 was baptized Martin Curtis. Son of William Curtis & Mary His Wife; born Octber 31st John Stanley 1803 (Gssps Geo & Martha Curtis Senr) by me

MARNHULL Decber 19. 1803 was baptized Charles Hatcher, Sonof William Hatcher & Maryhis Wife born Dec. 15. 1803 . John Stanley [Gossips. Rich & Maria Hatcher. by me

MARNHULL Septber 23rd 1804 was baptized John Curtis natural son of Frances Curtis. Gossips Wilm & Maria Curtis born Sept 21. 1804 byme John Stanley

MARNHULL Octber 25. 1804 was baptized Alban Hatcher natural son of Mary Hatcher; born Octber 22. 1804GodJohn Stanley mother Jane Lodder: by me

MARNHULL Febry 3rd 1805 was baptized Joseph Hatcher Son of Rich Hatcher & Mary his Wife, born Janry 29. 1805. Gssps. Wm& MaryCurtisbyme John Stanley

[p. 22]

MARNHULL July 7th 1805 was baptized Wm Hatcher , Son of Wm Hatcher & Maryhis Wife, born ye 3rd ofyesame month 1805 Gossips Wm& MaryCurtisbyme John Stanley

MARNHULL MARNHULL

Octber 28. 1805 was baptized Stephen Hatcher, son of James Hatcher and Ann his Wife born ye 25th of ye same month & year Godmother Jane Lodderby me

John Stanley

Novber 21. 1805 was baptized John Gray, son of John Gray& Ann his Wife, born only 20 of ye same month& year. Gossips Wm Curtis& Jane Lodder, byme John Stanley

MARNHULL Janry 11th 1806 was baptized Helen & Mary Ann Curtis, twin Daughters of Wm & Maria Curtis his Wife born on ye abovesaid Day Gossips to Mary Ann, Richd & Maria Hatcher , & to Helen John & Ann Curtis by me

Stanley

MARNHULL John Janry15th 1806 wasbaptized Maria KendallDaughter of Geoge & Dorothy Kendallhis Wife born Janry 1st ofye same year. Gossips Geo Čurtis Sen & Dorothy CurtisSen ™ bymeJohn Stanley

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MARNHULL March 16. 1805 [sic] was baptized Elizabeth Johnson Daughter of Benedict Johnson & Jane his Wife born by me John Stanley 11th March 1805

MARNHULL August 2nd 1807 was baptized Teresa Johnson Daughter of Benedict Johnson & Jane his Wife born July 29-1807 byme John Stanley

MARNHULL 1809 by me

STOUR PROVOST byme

MARNHULL

Gossips ....

Decber 3. 1809 was baptized John Johnson son of Benedict Johnson & Jane his Wife, born Novber 27. John Stanley

March 12. 1809 was baptized Wm Lodder Son of Francis Lodder & Jane his Wife, bron March 2nd of ye same year Gossips Geo Hatcher Jane Loder Senr John Stanley

March 26. 1809¹wasbaptized MarthaCurtis Daughter ofWm Curtis & Maria his Wife born March 22. 1809 by me John Stanley Novber18. 1810 was baptized William Son of William & Anastasia Ridley his Wife born 17 Novber 1810 Gossips [blank]

[p. 24]

MARNHULL by me John Stanley

Decber 10. 1810 was baptized Mary Daughter of Martin & Mary Shepherd: Gossips Richd & MariaShepherdby me born 8th Decber 1810 John Stanley

MISCELLANEA

MARNHULL

Febry 17. 1811 was baptized Philip Son of John & Elizabeth Curtis : born Febry5. 1811 Gossips Philip & MariaCurtis byme

John Stanley John

MARNHULL Septber 22. 1811 was baptized Jane daughter of Richard Hatcher & Maryhis Wife: born Septber 16. 1811 GossipsWm Hatcher& Anastasia Ridley by me Stanley

MARNHULL Novber 17th 1811 wasbaptized Ann Hatcher ,daughter of James Hatcher & Ann his Wife, born Novber 8. 1811 Godmother MariaCurtis byme John Stanley

MARNHULL Febry 27th 1812 were baptized Edmund & Helen Hatcher twin Children of William Hatcher & Mary his Wife born Febry 26. 1812. Gossips to EdmundRichd & Maria Hatcher : to Helen Geo . Hatcher & Anastasia Ridleybyme

John Stanley

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MARNHULL April 1. 1812 was baptized Elias, Son of George Kendall & Dorothy his Wife born March 24. 1812 John Stanley Gossips Philip & Maria Curtis : by me

MARNHULL Novber 22. 1812 was baptized Edward Son ofWilliam & Anastasia Ridley, born Novber 18. 1812 Gossips Francis Shepherd Jun of StourtonWilts & Catherine Shepherdof Bridzer Wilts . byme John Stanley

MARNHULL Decber 6. 1812 was baptized James Son of Benedict & Jane Johnson born Novber 27. 1812 Gssps. George Hatcher Sen of Marnhull & Jane Lodder also of Marnhull by me John Stanley

MARNHULL Janry 6. 1813 was baptized Charles Son of Martin Shepherd& Maryhis Wife born Janry5. 1813. Gossips James Curtis of Cannington Somerset & Catherine Shepherd of Bridzer Wilts by me John Stanley

MARNHULL April 9. 1813 was baptized George Bastable Son of Thomas Bastable & Ann his Wife ; born April8. 1813 . Gossip Maria Curtis of Marnhull by me John Stanley

[p. 26]

MARNHULL Novber 16. 1813 was baptized Elizabeth Curtis , daughter of John Curtis & Elizabeth his Wife, born John Stanley Novber 2nd 1813 GossipMariaCurtisbyme

MARNHULL

June 19. 1814 was baptized Sylvia Ridley, Daughter ofWm Ridley & Anastasia his Wife; born June 11th 1814. Gossips Martin Shepherd & Ann Russ by me John

Stanley

MARNHULL July 13. 1814 was baptized Richard Hatcher , Son of Richard Hatcher & Maria his Wife; born July 12 . 1814. Godfather myself Godmother Ann Russ by me

Stanley John

MARNHULL Janry 15. 1815 was baptized George Hatcher, Son of George Hatcher Jun & Susanna his Wife ; born Decber 22. 1814. Gossips Richd Hatcher & Maria Curtisby me

John Stanley

MARNHULL March 12. 1815 was baptized William Hatcher , Son of Francis Hatcher & Elizabeth his Wife ; born Febry John Stanley 28. 1815 Godmother MariaCurtis -byme

[p. 27]

MARNHULL June 4th 1815 was baptized James Johnson , Son of Elias Johnson & Mary his Wife, born May 30. 1815. Godfather George HatcherGodmother Elizbeth Skinner, by me John Stanley John

MARNHULL August 1st 1815 was baptized William Curtis Son of John Curtis & Elizabeth hisWife ; born July25 1815 Godfather myself Godmother Frances Curtis, by me

Stanley

MARNHULL Octber 3rd 1815 was baptized Elizabeth Russ , Daughter of Thos Russ & Sarah his Wife; born Septber 26. 1815 Godmother Maria Curtis : by me

Stanley

MARNHULL Decber 14. 1815 was baptized Ann Christina Bastable daughter of Thomas Bastable & Ann his Wife: born Decber4. 1815 Godmother Maria Curtis, by me

MARNHULL John John Stanley Decber 8. 1816 was baptized Charles Barns Son of Charles Barns & - - his Wife born [blank] 1816 Godmother Frances Curtis, by me John Stanley

MARNHULL born Janry 1st 1817 was baptized Francis Frederic Hatcher Son of Richard Hatcher & Maria his Wife; Decber25. 1816. Gossips JamesShepherd& Maria Curtis : by me John Stanley

MARNHULL March 2nd 1817 wasbaptized Sarah Hatcher daughter of Francis Hatcher & Elizabethhis Wife born Febry 23. 1817 Gossips James Shepherd& Maria Curtis byme Stanley John

MISCELLANEA

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MARNHULL July 24th 1817 was baptized Caroline Daughter of John Curtis & Elizabeth his Wife, born ye 12 July- 1817 Gossip MariaCurtis, by me John Stanley

MARNHULL Novber 16th 1817 was baptized Teresa Daughterof Martin Shepherd & Mary his Wife born Novber 15th 1817 Godmother Ann Curtis by me John Stanley

March 10. 1819 was baptized Ann Curtis Daughter of John & Elizabeth Curtis unfinished andunsigned

The nexttwo entries in the hand ofthe Abbé A. J. Simon

MARNHULL Martha Matilda Hatcher daughter of francis Hatcher and Elizabethhiswifewasbornon thefifthofNovember one thousand eight hundred and nineteen, and baptized on the secondof Januaryone thousand eight hundred and twenty. Godfather George Hatcher By me A. J. Simon

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MARNHULL Elizabeth, Daughter of Henry Hardy and Jane his Wifewas born on the 14th of May, 1820, and baptized on the 21st of the same month. Sponsors Thomas Russ and Honour Colbourn By meA. J. Simon

On a slip ofpaper affixedto the top ofp. 29 writing, upsidedown

Edward [blank] son of [blank] born [blank] was baptized [blank] Sponsors Thos Raymund[Arundell above] Esq and Mrs. Sharp.

On the other side, in ink, but written also in pencil underneath

Charles Barns born [blank] 1816 Wife's name [blank]

Nicholas Kendal bapt [blank] born [blank] Gossip [blank]

Chas . Barn'sson baptizd May 23rd 1819 born [blank]

Goss . Martha Barns

Silvia Hatcher baptd June 30. 1819

Revd John Stanley

MARNHULL 1820 Marnhull

Entries now in the hand of the Rev. P. Gilbert

Elizabeth Bastable a daughter to John Bastable and Mary his Wife, By Birth Johnson, born the 18th of June 1820 has been baptized the 25th of the same month, Sponsors John Johnson her grandfather and Winifred Johnson her aunt, by me P. Gilbert M.M.

MARNHULL 1820

Elizabeth Bastable, a Daughter to Thomas Bastable and Ann his Wife by birth Hatcher, born the 27th of November 1820 has been Baptized the 3d of December, the Ceremonies performed the 5th of the same month 1820 : Sponsors George Hatcher her uncle and frances Hatcher her relative, by me P. Gilbert M.M.

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STOUR

PROVOST 1820

Sarah Barnes a daughter to Charles Barnes and Ann his wife by birth Gibbs, born the 28th of November 1820 has been baptized the 25th of december 1820. Sponsors John Harding and Mary Hasket by me P.Gilbert M.M.

MARNHULL Mary Caroline a Daughter to Richard Hatcher and Mary his Wife by birth Shepherd, born the 25th of february 1821 , has been baptized the 2d of March ofthe same year Sponsors William Ruttely and Mary Shepherd by me P. GilbertM.M.

1821

MARNHULL 1821

Henry, a son to John Curtis and Elizabeth his Wife by birth Lodder, born the 23d of last April has been baptized the first of May of the same year 1821 , Sponsors Dorothy Kendall his paternal aunt, by me

GilbertM.M.

MARNHULL 1821 P.

James a son to Thomas Russ and Sarah (by birth Gillingham ) his Wife born the last day of April 1821 has been baptized the third of May of the same year, Sponsors John Harding & Honour Colbourne, by me P. Gilbert M.M.

The next entries are in the hand of the Abbé Romain Dessaux

MARNHULL 1821

Johnson

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MARNHULL 1821 1822

September9th 1821 Marydaughter of Elias and Mary Johnson, born the 7th inst., was baptized by me RomanusDessaux Sponsors John JohnsonWinifred

November 5th Robert Son of William and Anastasia Rutley, born the4thinst. wasbaptized bymeRomanus Dessaux godmother Mary Shepherd

MARNHULL february 3d 1822 Elizabethdaughter of francis and Elizabeth Hatcher, Born the 21th of december1821 , was baptized by me Romanus Dessaux Sponsors George Hatcher, Ann Bastable

MARNHULL 1822

MISCELLANEA

June 30th 1822 John son of Charlesand Ann Barnes , born the 18th of May, was baptized by me Romanus Dessauxgodmother Maryhasket

MARNHULL November 10th John son of John and Mary Burgess born the 4th inst was baptized by me Romanus Dessaux God Mother Elizabeth Moulton 1822

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MARNHULL 1823

January 15th 1823 Agnes Mary Daughter of William and Sarah Sharp, Born the 15th inst was baptized by me Romanus Dessaux Sponsors Edward Huddleston Mary Huddleston

[The restofthe baptismal entries are in the hand of Father William Casey]

MARNHULL June 3rd 1824 John : Son of John & Maria Smyth 1824 his wife (by birth Johnson) born, the 3rd of June 1824, was baptized June 6th the same year by me WmCasey Sponsors John Johnson& Maria Johnson

MARNHULL Elizabeth, Daughter of Francis & Elizabeth Hatcher 1824 his wife (by birth Longman) born 11th of June 1824 was baptized the 25th ofJulyin the same year by me Wm. Casey. Sponsors GeorgeHatcher & Charlot Batterbury

NOVEMBER 14th 1824

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John White & ElizabethMoultonwere married Novr 14th 1824 by me William Casey Witnesses James Virgin& the Honble Mrs Arundell

MARNHULL James, the Son of John & Mary Bastable his wife 1824 [by birth Johnson] born May 30th 1824 was baptized the 6th of June 1824 by me Wm Casey Sponsors [blank]Johnson& [blank]

SHAFTESBURY Mary Mable Tomasini Daughter of James Thomas 1823 & Maria Bardouleau his wife, by birth Woodcock , born February 15th 1823 was baptized June 30th 1824 byme Wm CaseySponsors Reni Fulgenu Jacques Bardouleau JaneRussell

SHAFTESBURY MariaJean Le Masseu Daughter of James Thomas & Mary Bardouleau his wife (by birth Woodcock) born May 25th 1824 was baptized June 30th 1824 by me Willm Casey Sponsors Reni Fulgenu Jacques Bardouleau & Jane Russell 1824

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MARNHULL Henery Thomas Birgess, Son of John & MariaBirgess his wife (by birth Pike) born January20th 1824 was baptized September6th 1824 by me Will m Casey Sponsors Thomas Pike & MaryPike

MARNHULL 1825

Elias, Son of Elias & Mary Johnsonhis wife (bybirth Bastable) born January 18th 1825 was baptized January21st 1825 by me Wm Casey Sponsors Benedict JohnsonWinifredSmyth

MARNHULL 1825

John & Mary Ann, the Children of James & Maria Virgin his wife (by birth Ribene) were baptized by me W. Casey Feby 27th 1825 aged John seven years the 12th of September 1824 and Mariaaged nine Francis White the son of John & Elizabeth White (late Moulton) his wifewas baptized by me the Revd Willm Casey April 2nd 1825 .

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born Sunday the 27th of February 1825. Sponsors Edward Huddleston & Frances hisDaughter

MARNHULL 1825

Thomas Barns, the son of Charles & Ann Barns (formerlyGibbs) hiswifewas baptized byme ,William Casey , April 9th born the 24th of February 1824Sponsors W. Casey & Maria Virgin

MARNHULL

Sept™ 4th 1825

Edward [blank] Marnhull

March the sixth 1826 was born Thomas Bastable the son of Absolom Bastable & Anastasia Hatcher, baptized March 22nd 1826 by me William Casey the Sponsors were Thomas Bastable & ElizabethRutley

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MARNHULL John Bastable, son of John & Mary Bastable (olim April Johnson) his wife was born the 7th of April 1826 29 and baptized April 29th 1826 by me Willm Casey The Sponsors to the above child were John Hussey Esq - by proxy,for John Smith& WinifredSmith

MARNHULL May 7th 1826

Casey Ann White, daughter of John & Elizabeth White (olim Molten) his Wife, was born 2nd of April 1826 and baptized ye 7th of May 1826. Sponsors Edward Huddleston Esq & Isabella Huddleston William

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MISCELLANEA

MARNHULL

James Smith, son of John & Winnifrid Smith (olim Johnson) his Wife, was born 7thofMay 1826 and baptized the 15th ofMay 1826 . SponsorsThomas Grey & Maria Curtisbyme Willm Casey Eliza Sharp, daughter of Willm & Mary Sharp (olim Combe) his Wife was baptized the 21st ofMay by meWilliam Casey

Witnesses Mary Ellis & Mrs. Arundell

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Rest of the page blank

Thebook isnowreversed pp 46, 45, 44blank. On p 43is aspecimen of a Form or Will or Testament

[p.42]

A Register of thoseconfirmed

June 5th 1753. were confirmed by Bp Yorke at Marlbro in the County ofWiltshire, John Hyde, Mary Hyde, Margt Hyde, Ann Hyde, Jane Hyde, MaryLucas,MaryCarey, as witnessmyhand Edwd HusseyO.S.B.

June 9th 1765 were confirmed by Bp Walmesley O.S.B. at Marlborough in the County of Wiltshire, Ann Cruse , Hannah Goslin as witness my hand Edwd Hussey O.S.B.

June 3d 1781 were confirmed by Bp Walmesley at Marnhull in the County of Dorset, JamesShepherd, James Hann, DominickReed, William Johnson , John Johnson, James Cull, James Pike, John Hann, Joseph Curtis, John Curtis, John Kimber, John Ogber, Catherine Shepherd, MaryCurtis, Mary Reed , MaryMaidment , Ann Kimber, Catherine Langman, Mary Langman, [p.41] Frances Langman, Teresia Barnes, Mary Barnes, Catherine Pike, Mary Ogber, AnnOgber, Elizabeth Pike, Catherine Kimber, Catherine Shepherd, Catherine Hann, as witness my hand Edwd Hussey O.S.B.

June 23rd 1796 were Confirmed by ye Rt. Revd BishopWalmsley at Marnhull, Dorset

Charles Barns, Paul Sarah Kendall , Ann . Eliz Johnson , Winefrid. Thos Fillel, William. Susanna Fillel, Mary. John Curtis, Francis. James Curtis, Edward . Frances , Constantia Martha , Teresa . Ann, Maria.Chapelo, Maria Aloysia.- Sanger, Elizabeth .Jay, Maria Witness John Stanley ECI. Saec . Sac.

June 13. 1802 wereConfirmed at Bonham nearMereWiltsbyye Rt Revd Bishop Sharrock

Rich Hatcher ... John Shepherd

Octber 1809 was confirmed at Bonham nearMere

Philip Curtis by ye Rt. Revd Pet. Collingridge

April 23, 1820 were confirmed at Marnhull near Shaftesbury

Joseph Hatcher, Thomas Benedict, Johnson, Thomas Elias Johnson, Thomas. Thomas Hatcher,William Robert Galpin

Joseph Elena Curtis, Mary James Hatcher, Peter Susanna Harding , Ann. Ann Barstable, Mary. Elizabeth Moulton , Ann William Rutley, George. George Hatcher,John Roger Hann, Joseph. Henry Hatcher, Peter Mary Hatcher , Ann. Mary Barstable, Elizabeth Ann Johnson, Maria. MaryAnn Rutley, Cecilia. Jane Harding, Elizabeth Henry Harding.

Joseph. Thomas Russ, Joseph Steven Hatcher, James, Hugh Hatcher, Joseph. Elizabeth Curtis, Maria. Mary Shepherd, Martha. Winefrid Johnson, Elizabeth. Charles Barns, John Maria Kendell, Elizabeth Anna Hatcher , Mary. Ann Hatcher, Elizabeth Mary Curtis, Magdalena. Martin Curtis, William. Eliza Johnson, Martina. [p. 39] Jane Hann, Mary. francis [sic] Hatcher, Mary. Ann Barnes, Mary Ann Hatcher, Mary Sarah Russ, Maria Thomas Barstable John , Joseph Hatcher, William. John Harden, Thomas John Curtis, Edward George Hatcher , Thomas. Mary Johnson, Barbara Anna Rutley, Martha John Hann , Peter. TheresaJohnson, Mary.

This Sacrament was administered to them on the above mentioned day by the Right Revd Bishop Collingridge. Witness, A. J.Simon, french priest.

On a loose leaf This is to certify that Stephen Harding son of Peter Harding & Susanna his Wife was born July 5th 1797 as appearsfrom ye baptismal register kept inmypossession as Witness

Thisistocertify thatThomasShepherdSon ofMartinShepherd & Mary his Wife was born Janry30. 1797 .

In the Abbé Dessaux's hand 19 de March payé 6f a ma domestique 3 one notes of frome bank, one of Sherborne bank, 2 one notes of Sturminster Bank 16 de Septembre payé4₤

Betsy Mitchard , Betsy Tuker, George Lodder, George Pike , franc Lodder

In another hand Edward Huddleston MaryHuddleston

MISCELLANEA

On the other side, in the Abbé Dessaux'shand there arehere4 boys & 3 girls/ I haveat my catechismevery Sunday, when the weather permit, 4 Boys & 3 girls 2 of the Boys & two of the girls are preparing themselvesfor the first Communion the 3 others are too young still

A letter from Bristolwritten by Bishop Ullathorne, withanswers written on it,gives an idea of the Misson in 1847

Reverend and Dear Sir 7, King Square, Bristol May 15th 1847

With aview to compiling a status of the District, required by the Holy See , I respectfully request thatyou will, with as little delay as possible, furnishme with the status ofyour Mission , viz:

Number in Congregation ?

Number of Baptisms the last year reckoning from Adventto Advent?

Number ofConversions?

NumberofCommunicants ?

Answers written on letter 103 6 2 89

Number, as far as known, of those who have neglectedtheir duties ?

Number of Apostacies?

Whetherthere be a School , ofwhat average: from 4 to 13 kind ,howmanychildren ofeachsex? 2 Infants schools , boys& girls age from 6 to 12 or 14

Where Church or School be involved in , or exempt fromdebt?

Number ofCatholics in other towns and out-lying places in your neighbourhood, where thereis no resident Pastor ? outlying about 10 or 11 -all this being required by the Holy See tional remarks you may deem advisable, and future hopes and prospects of your Mission . withany addiespecially as to

I take this opportunity of informing you that, with the assistance oftheotherMembersoftheCommissionappointed by theSacredCongregationofPropaganda, the affairs oftheCollege ofPriorParkhave been thoroughlyinvestigated to my satisfaction, and although the finances of the establishment are , and have been, in a very embarrassing state, yet for the , honour and creditof this District and of the Church, we have resolved to propose that a great effort be made to save it to Religion,

hoping that animproved administration , and suchco-operation as we are able to evoke, may enable us to get through our difficulties , with the aid and blessingof Almighty God.

I shall have further to communicate withyou on thissubject ata later period, and prayingAlmighty God to bless you,

Iremain ,

Rev. and Dear Sir,

Your devoted Servant in Christ,

W. B. ULLATHORNE

On theback oftheletter

In 1852 returnmade31 Children names onthebooks,avgeAtt25.

In 1853 32 on the books, averageno.24.

INDEXES

N.B. The hyphen,

Acclam, 25, 27

Accrige, Thomas , xix

Addis, Bernard, 166

Adle , 16

INDEXES

PERSONS AND PLACES

-, indicates that the Christian nameis notknown.

Balke, 29, 30

Ainderby, vii, xv, xxxiv, 9, 13, 59, 77-8, 80, 83, 89 , 101

Aire , 75

Akeham ,9

Albridgecourt, Elizabeth d' , 138

Aldeweke, 24

Allam, William , 172, 183

Allen, Cardinal, xi, xix, xx, 48

Allerton(shire), ix, xi, xiv, xix , xxff, xxxiv, xxxvii, 1 , 40, 48, 76, 77, 80, 83

Alleycowton, 30

Alliborne, 140

Alured, Mathew, 89

Amsterdam, 153

Anderson , Cuthbert , 16

Antwerp, 139, 140

Arathorne, 7

Archer , -, 163

Arden, 6

Aresom , 25, 27

Armyn, Robert, 44

Arnecliffe, 25, 26

Arthur, Sir Daniel, 126

Arundel, Adam, 28 ; Lord, xxxvii, 92

Arundell, Lord, 173 ; Mrs., 194, 196

Aselby, 27

Ashburton, 169

Aske, Christopher , 56 ; John, 11

Atkinson, Charles, 8, 53 ; Henry, 8

Atleycowton, 29

Aton, 25, 26

Atterbury, Bishop Francis , 132

Atty, Capt , 86

Awdbrough, 12

Jane ,

Ballantyne, -, 143

Baltch, John, 177

Bardouleau, James, Maria, Mary, Reni , 194

Barforth , xii,xviii, xx, xxiv, 4, 6, 20, 34

Barlow, Thomas , xiii

Barnard Castle, ix, 83

Barnbow , xviii

Barnby, 26

Barns, Ann, 194 , 195, 197 ; Charles , 184-6, 191-197 ; Elizabeth, 178-9, 182-3, 186 ; John, 194, 197 ; Martha, 185, 192 ; Mary, 186 , 196-7 ; Sarah , 193 ; Teresia, 196 ; Thomas, 195

Barnewall, Patrick, Sir Richard, 126

Barwicke , 27

Bassett, William, 16

Bastable, Absolom, Anastasia , 195 ; Ann, 190-1, 193, 197 ; Elizabeth, 192-3, 197 ; George, 190 ; James, 194 ; John, 192, 194-5, 197 ; Mary, 192, 194-5, 197 ; Thomas , 190-1 , 193, 195, 197.

Batarsby, 43

Bath, 152, 168-9, 173

Batlaye, 10

Batterbury, Charlotte, 194

Bawke, 3

Beake, Thomas , 133

Bearscombe, 170

Beauminster , 174

Bell, Robert, 72

Bedingfield ,, 164 ; Ann, 140

Bellasis , Sir Henry, xviii, 11 , 36, 50 , 52-3; Sir Thomas, 11 ; W , 52

Bellew, Sir Patrick, 114 , 118 , 126

Benet, John, 20ff

Bengrowe , W , 44

Awmonde, William , 65

Aubreye ,, 158

Baddsworth, 67

Badersby, 25, 32

Bagby, 35 Baker, -, 96

203

Benks, Richard, 44

Berneby , 25

Berwick, 25

Beriond ,, 157

Best, Capt., 86 ; Roger, 28 Frances, 176-7 ; Betham,John, 122 , 124

Bethell, Grisselte , Sir Hugh, 10 ; Walter, 58

Betts, John Philip, 140

Biland, 26

Binkes, Thomas, 34

Bird, William , 139

Birdforth, xv, xix, 40, 77 , 83

Birgess, HeneryThomas , John,Maria, 195

Bishop, Elizabeth,

Francis, 172 ; George, 170-2

Bishop Auckland, 55

Blackitt, Wm ., 16

Blackwell, 16

Blagden , Common, 172, 177, 180

Blakestone, Thomas , Sir William, 11

Blanchard, Roger, xxx, 64

Bland, Sir Thomas, 60

Blethwayt, -, 134 , 162

Bointon, Sir Francis, 12 ; Williamde , 27

Boisot, Jean B , 134

Boketon, 23

Boleby, 25 Bolton, viii, 4, 9 , 34 , 41, 44

Bond , Peter, 174

Bonham, 171 , 197

Boroughbridge , xix

Borrowby, 16, 40

Bothom, 33

Bourchier, Thomas, 89, 102, 109

Bower, Christopher , 57, 65; Michael, 80

Brown(e) ,, 140 ; Alexander, 160 ; Lawrence, xxxv, 81, 84, 87

Bowes, Cuthbert, 48, Elizabeth, 6 ; Robert, 37 ; William , 6

Boyle, Barb, 163

Boynton, 24

Talbott, 47, 50 ;

Bradford, Robert, 37

Brakenbrough,x, xviii

Brakenbrough family, xxii, 14 ; Leonard, xxvi, 35, 48-9, 55-6, 59, 70; R, 50

Bramhall, John, xxx, xxxi, 36

Brand, Lancelot, 16

Brandesby , Ralph, 65 ; Robert , 16

Bray, -, 136

Braydley, W, 46-7

Brewer , -, 140

Brereton ,, 104 , 108 , 110

Bridgeman, Orlando , 104 , 106

Bridzer , 190

Brinkhurst, -, 140

Bristol, Bishopof, xxviii ; Jo, 56

Brockholes , Roger, 117, 119

Broghton, 25, 26

Brokett ,, 134

Brough, 11

Brookes ,, 139

Brudenell, Lord , xxxvii, 92

Bruges, 140, 157

Bruce ,, 139 ; Lady, 163 ; W. de , 38-9

Brusedall , 32

Brussels , 140, 161 , 171

Bruys, P. de, 27

Bubwith Ferry, xx

Buckland, Tout Saints , 170

Buckley, James , 175

Bulmer, Sir Barthram, 12 ; Sir Raiphe , 14

Burdett, Edward, 170 ; Mary, 166, 169 ; Thomas , 166-7

Burgess, John, Mary, 194

Burleigh, Lord, xix, xxv, xxvii, 35 , 51

Burrett, Catherine , 178, 180-1, 183 ; Mary, 182

Burton, Milo, 37; Tho , 58

Burton Constable, 11

Busby, Christopher, 16

Busebet, Robartus, 27

Buskeby, 25

Butterwick, 29

Byerley, Anthony, 99, 101 , 107-8

Byrdsall, Robert, 37

Caley, Tho., 81

Calfe Howe, 41

Callow , -, 140

Cambrai , 155, 166-7

Campion , Bl. Edmund , xi, xx

Cannington , 173 , 190

Carlton, 9, 11 , 24-6

Caryl, Lady, 164

Casey, William , 174 , 194-6

Castle Gordon , 143

Castlelevington , 25

Catherick ,, 14 , 15; Anthony, 3, 37, 41, 44 ; Edmund , xxi; George, xxi, 72 ; Margery,xi,44

Cattall, 8

Caverley, 10

Cawton, Bryan, 70

Cecil, Sir William, viii, xix

Challoner , BishopRichard, 169

Champney, Laurence , 155

Chant (e), Ann, 185 ; Benedict, 183 ; Editha, 181, 183, 185; Elizabeth, 187; James , 187; John, 181, 184-5, 187 ; Joseph, 184 ; Mary, 180, 185 ; Robert, 181 ; Samuel , 181 , 183, 185 ; Sarah, 180-1, 184-5 , 187 ; Thomas, 181

Charles I, 62, 96-8 ; II, 127

Chaumont, -, 139

INDEXES

Chenery, Ann, 182 ; Elizabeth, 179 , 181-2, 184 ; Maria, 179 ; Thomas , 181 ; William , 179, 181-2, 184

Cherbury, Lord Herbert of, 115

Chilton, 37

Chipping (e), Michael, xxxiv, 72, 77 , 79 , 83 ; Thomas, 16, 45

Chiswell , Richard, 113-4, 118

Cholmeley , Sir Henry, 11

Clapeham, William, 10

Claughton, 119

Claxton, John, Thomas, 7

Cleasby, Asculph, xx

Cleveland , xiv, xix, xx, xxi, 29, 30 , 44

Cliffe, 8

Coke, William , 34

Colbourne , Honour, 193

Cold, Kirby, xv , xxiii, 81-2

Collingridge , Bishop, 197

Colville, William de, 26

Conquest, Benedict , 171 ; Sir Richard, 165

Constable , Augustine, 139, 151 ; Sir Henry, xxi, 11 , 15-16 ; John, 9, 47-8, 51, Sir John, 15; Margarite,9

Conyers family, xi, xvi, xx , xxiii; Christopher , 20, 47-8; John, 44 ; Katherine, 9; Margery, 44 ; Nicholas , Robert,9

Coplaye, Edwarde , 10

Cork, 174

Corker, James, Maurus, 122 , 125

Cornforth, Thomas, 169-170

Cottom , 25

Coughton , 168

Covill, William , 7

Cowper, Sir Anthony Ashley, 93

Cowton , 30

Crakell, John, 54 ; Richard, 16; Simon, 53

Cranholme , 26

Crathorne , -, 9, 25, 27 ; Nich de, 43

Creswell , George, John, Margarite, Raiphe, 9

Croke, Sir Henry, 100, 102

Cromwell, Oliver, 93, 95, 98

Crouch, Gilbert, xxxvii, 93, 102

Cruse, Ann, 196

Cull, Ann, 184-5 ; Elizabeth, 179, 185 ; James, 178-9, 196 ; Jane, 186; John, 182 ; Mary, 177-9, 181-2 ; Michael, 184 ; Susanna, 182, 184 , 186,

Cumberland , Henry Clifford, Earl of, 9, 11 , 34

Curtis, Ann, 176-8, 189, 192; Caroline, 192 ; Dorothy, 176, 189 ; Edward, 197 ; Elena, 197 ; Elizabeth, 190 , 192-3, 197 ; Frances, 176, 188 , 191 ,

205

196 ; George, 176-181, 187-9 ; Helen, 189 ; Henry, 193 ; James, 177, 190, 196 ; John, 176, 188-190, 192-3 , 196-7 ; Magdalena , 197 ; Maria, 197 ; Martha, 176-8 , 180-1 , 187-9 ; Martin, 188, 197 ; Mary, 188-192, 196-7 ; Mary Ann, 189 ; Peter, 181 , Philip, 180, 190, 197 ; William, 188-9 , 197

Dalby, 71

Dalton, xi, xii, xxxii, 5, 6, 15 , 16 , 23, 33, 41, 58, 71, 109-12 ; William , 60

Danby, Sir Christopher , 6 ; John,xiii, xxxvii, 93-6; Thomas , 58

Dan(d)by, 12, 25-6, 41

Daniel ,, 163

Danvilliers, 140

Darey, Sir Conyers, xviii, 11 , 53 , 58 ; John, 24, 43 ; Philip, 24-5 ,43

Darlington, 16

Dartmouth, 173

Daville, Thomas , 58, 80

Dawney, Sir Richard, 60; Sir Thomas , xviii, 11 , 59

Dawson, John, 37, 174

Deane, Thomas, 138

Deighton, John, 64, 69 ; Thomas , xxxi-xxxiii, 62-5, 67-71

Denton, xv, 10 , 14 , 15 ,40

Derby, Countess of, 76 ; Earl of, 10 , 38; Ferdinando , William, 10

Dessaux, Romain, 173, 193-4

Dickinson, Thomes , 80 , 89

Derry ,, 140

Digby, Sir John, 166

Dillon, Arthur, 159 ; Catherine , 158-9; Viscount, 159

Dilstone , 9

Dinsdell, 8

Dishforth, xxiv

Dobson, John , xix

Dodard , Constant, 174-5

Dodsworth ,, 53; Mathew, 20ff; Roger, xvii, xviii

Dolman, Sir Robert, 10 ; Thomas , 67

Douai, xiii, xvi, xix, xxiv, 72-6, 119 , 122, 143, 151 , 155 , 167-8 , 170

Dove, Susanne, 167

Dowland, 76

Drogheda , 126

Dromonby, 25 , 47

Dunbar, Viscount, 35

Dundalk, 126

Dunkirk, 73, 75, 139, 140, 143 , 157 , 164 . Dunnynge, Charles, 107

Durham, Bishops of, xiv, xix, xx, xxvi, 3, 37, 47

Dwane, Patrick, 175

Dyve, Grace, Sir Lewis, 166

Flixton, 168

Fontain, 162

Fontmell, 172, 177

Eade, Henry, Mary, 176

East, Dalton , x

East Gales, viii

East Harlesey, xxiii, 23, 99

Easton , Elizabeth, George, 177 , 180, 182-3 ; John, 180, 183 ; Martha, Philip, 180; Thomas, 182

Ebrall, William , 72

Eddlethorpe , ix

Eden Dean, xii

Edston , xii

Egglesfield , Elizabeth, ix, 5; Mary,46

Egglestone , viii, 77

Egton, xxi, 25-6

Elizabeth I, 35

Elredby, 26

Ellerbecke, 7

Ellis ,, 163

Ellis, Mary, 196; Sir William, 68

Eltofts , -, 6

Engilby, 25-7

Englefield, John , 171

Eltone ,, 140

Esby , 25

Esh, 71

Eshell, 8

Esington, 25

Eskedale, hermit of, 38-40

Eston, 24-6

Etherington, Richard, 85

Eton, Edmund, 82

Eure, Lord Raiph, 9 ; Lord William , xviii, 59 ; Sir William , 9, 30

Exeter , 168 ; Earl of, 16

Faceby , 25

Fairfax, Sir Ferdinando , Marie, 11 ; Lord, 79 ; Sir Thomas,

Ursula, 11 ; Sir William , 50

Fanshawe, Lord, 67

Farlington, 58

Fairhurst ,, 152-3

Fawconberg , Walter de , 26-8

Fennicke , Luke, 12

Fenwick ,, 124

Fettiplace , Elizabeth, 157

Fillel, Susanna, 196; Thomas , 184-5, 196; William , Winefrid, 196

Firbank, Robert , xx

Fleury, St. Benoit, 124

Forster, Richard, xiii

Foskewe, Sir John, 47

Forcett ,, 142

Foston, William, 37

FountainsHall, xxix

Fowles, David, 112 ; Thomas, 89, 99

Foxton, 25

Fox ,, 163

Frankland, Henry,51-2

Freame , Agnes, 169

Franco ,, 134

Fryer, Charles, William , 172

Gaile, Francis , Mathew , Robert , 9

Gailes, 16

Gallagher, Francis, 175

Galpin , Joesph, Robert, 197

Gamble, Henry, 56

Galloway ,, 139, 140, 157 , 161

Ganton, 10

Gargrave, Sir Rychard, 55 ; Thomas , 45

Garnham, John , 71

GarriceLands, 40.

Garnett ,, 16

Gascoigne, family, 9 ; John, xviii, 9, 59 ; Richard, xvii, xviii; William, 12, 36

Gaterbyfamily, xxii

Gaterley , 35

Gates, Edward, Sir Henry, 14

Gautres, 35

Gayer, Sir Robert, 163

Geldart, John , 80, 89

Gernon , Patrick , 126

Ghent, 139

Sir

Gibson ,, 140 , 152

Giffard , Bishop Bonaventure , 115 ; Winefrid, 139-41

Gifford, -, 163

Gilbert, P., 173 , 192-3

10 ; Gilling, 6, 50

Girlington, Nicholas , 50 ; Nynian, 6

Gilby ,, 61

Gisburn, 25, 27, 32, 43

Gonzalez ,Thyrso, 139

Goodier ,, 49 ; Anthony,50

Goodwin , William, 57

Gordon, Duchess, of 152

Goodricke ,, 72

Goslin, Hannah, 196

Gowton , 25-6

Graham, Bishop Charles , 165ff

Grange, Anne, 33-4, 36-7, 41 ; George, Gregory, xiii ; Gregory, 37, 41 ;

INDEXES

Jane, xxx, 65; Mary, 33, 41, 62-5; Thomas , xiii, 23, 33-4, 36-7, 41, 62; William, 34, 41, 72; William , Gregory,xiii

Gravelines , xxiv, 74-5, 157, 168

Gra(e)y, Ann, 189; Edward, 84 ; John, 189 ; Thomas, 196

Greasebrough , 71

Greenwood , Gregory, 156

Gregson, Bernard, 151

Green(e) ,, 44; William , 3, 35 Elizabeth, ix ;

Greivrig, 25 Gre(e)nhowe, 24-6

Grinston family, xi, xvi, xx

Groom , Richard , xxvi

Grosmont, Priory, xx

Grove, W , 139, 140

Gwynn, Nell, 115

Hackforth, 6, 8, 34

Haighill, 60, 61

Ha(i)ll, Christopher , 44, 58

Hallikeld, 77 , 83

Hambleton, xxiii, 35

Hammond , William, 29

Hampsthwaite, 151

Hanford, Charles, 153

Hann, Catherine , 196 ; Elizabeth , 179 ; James, 196 ;

Hugh, 197 ; James, 186-90, 197 ; Jane, 190 ; John, 187 , 197 ; Joseph, 177 , 181-3, 185, 197 ; Maria, 187-191 ; Martha Matilder, 192 ; Mary, 186-8, 197 ; Mary Ann , 188, 190, 193 ; MaryCaroline, 193 ; Peter, 197 ; Richard, 187-191, 193, 197 ; Sarah , 183, 185-7, 191 ; Silvia, 192 ; Stephen, 189, 197 ; Susanna , 185, 187 , 191 ; Thomas, 197 ; William , 178, 180, 185, 187-8 , 190-1, 193, 195, 197

Hauforth, John, 57

Hawe, Christopher , 85

Hawkins, Lady, 14

Hawksworthfamily, xi

Hawley (Abbess), 138

Hawnby, vii, x, xxi, xxix, xxxiv , 3 , 6, 23, 30

Heaton, Richard, xxxviii,xxxix

Hedlam , 55

Hedworth , Sir John, 12

Hemlington, 25, 28

Herrington, Paul, 34

Hertlei, Peter, 16

Hesketh , Roger, 140

Hewthwaite, 99

Higgins, Gilbert, 174

Hildiard, Sir William , 12

Hildislaye, 5 , 44

Jane, 197 ; Hill, Stephen, 47

John, 179, 196-7 ; Joseph, Mary, Peter, Roger, 197

Hansard, Richard, 44

Hansbyfamily, 12

Harbourne, 58

Harding,Ann, Elizabeth, Henry,Jane, 197; John, 193 ; Joseph, 197 ; Peter, 186, 197 ; Stephen, 186 , 197; Susanna, 186, 197

Hardwick, 82

Hardye, Thomas, 65

Harlay, Mgr de , 138

Harrington family,xx

Harrison, Sir Thomas, 78

Harrow , 35

Hilton, vii, 23, 25-6, 30-2 , 43-4

Hinderwell, 25

Hingilbie, 32

Histon, 32 , 43

Hotson , Henry, 37

Holmes , Seth, 29, 88

Holmside , xv

Holt, 13

Holtby family,7 ; George, xii, 23, 47; Isabell, 16, 23 ; Richard, xii, xvi, xx , xxiv , 47

Holmsed (tte), 4, 13-4, 59, 107

Hoogstraet, 167

Hopkinson, John , xvii

Hornby, 7, 11 , 60

Hornby Castle, xii

Harvington, 172

Hasket, Mary, 193-4

Hartley ,, 163

Haslerton , 3

Hatcher, Alban, 188 , Anastasia , 177 , 181 , 183, 185 ; Ann, 178, 180 , 182-3

185-9, 190, 197; Benedict Joseph, 187, 197 ; Charles, 188 ; Edmund, 190; Elizabeth, 186-7, 191-3 ; 197, Frances, 193 ; Francis, 186, 191-3 , 195, 197 ; Francis Frederic, 191 ; George, 182-3, 185-7, 189-193, 197 ; Helen , 190 ; Henry, 188 , 197 ;

Horsham, 144

Horsley, 62

Hoton, 23, 24-6

Hoton, Hugo, de, 28 ; John de, 43

Hovenden , Elizabeth, George, 165

Hovingham, xii

Howard, Thomas, 152-4

Howarden ,, 137

Huddleston, Edward, 194-5 , 197 ; Frances, Isabella, 195 ; Mary, 194 , 197 ; Richard,xxi,xxiv, 35

Hudles, Robert, 37

INDEXES

Hudson, John, 156

Hug, John, 175

Hugh, Henry, 126

Hughes, Hannah, 176-7

Hull Blockhouses , xix, xxvii, 17 , 51-2

Humet, William de, 27

Humfrey, Colonel, 88 ; John, 80

Hunt , Mary, 177

181 , 188, 197 ; Winefrid, 178, 180, 187, 192-3, 197 ; William, 196

Johnston, Joseph, 151 , 155

Jones, Michael, 55

Kavanagh, Charles, 174

Kaye, Francis, 58

Kearby, xii, 14 , 59 , 87, 107

Hunter, Thomas, 140

Hungate ,, xxiv; Robert, 56

Huntingdon, Henry Lord , 16

Hussey, Ann, 166-8 ; Cecily, 155 , 166; Colonel, 158 ; Edward, 167-8, 172, 176-183, 196 ; Elizabeth, 166 ; Frances, 167 ; George, 165-9 ; Giles, 167-9, 172, 176-180 ; Grace, 167 ; James, 165, 167-8 , 172 ; Lewis, 167 ; Martha, 166-7 ; Rebecca, 166 ; Shirley, 165 ; Susan, 166; Thomas , 167

Hutchins, Ann Hannah, William , 177

Huthwaite, Raiphe, 79

Hutton, John, xxi, xxiv, 14 ; Richard, 105-6

Hutton, Bonvile, xi, xx, xxiii, 14, 20, 22, 30-2, 43, 47-9

Hutton, Rudby, 9

Hyde, Ann, Jane, John, Margaret, Mary, 196

Ilebecke , 6

Ile(y), Hugh, xx,20, 54-5

Inglebyfamily, 9 ; David, 10

Ingram, Sir Arthur, xxxiv, 40, 60 , 96

Innocent XII, 119-21

Ireland, Elizabeth, 71 ; Gerard , xiii, William, 74

Isaac, Cyrus, Mary, John, William , 184-5

Irnham , 171-2

Jackman ,, 14

Jackson , Elizabeth, 92 ; Ensign, 80 ; Sir John, 51, 55 ; Marmaduke, 88 ; Thomas, xvi, xxxvi, 47, 67, 70, 92-3 , 100, 102

James, I, xxxiii, 35 ; II, 122, 124 , 127 , 138-9 , 141

Jeffrason, Christofer , 16 , 65

Johnson , Ann, 185, 196-7 ; Barbara , 197 ; Benedict , 178, 188-190, 195, 197; Elias, 184, 191 , 193, 195, 197 ; Elizabeth, 180-7, 189, 196-7; James, 180, 190-1 ; Jane, 188-190 ; John, 178, 180, 182, 184-7, 189, 193-4, 196; Martina, 197; Mary, 191 , 193-5 , 197 Teresa, 189, 197 ; Thomas ,

Kechford, Thomas, 71

Keily, Bishop , 175

Kellet, Stephen, 28

Kelly, Walter, 174

Kendal, Dorothy, 187, 190, 193 ; Elias, 190 ; Elizabeth, 197; George, 187 , 190 ; Maria, 197 ; Nicholas, 192 ; Paul, 196 ; Sarah, 182-4 , 196

Kendrowe , John, 16

Kerby Knole, 9, 15

Kildaile, 25, 27, 43

Kildaile, Percy, de , 27 , 43

Killingbeck, Thomas , xiii, 14

Kilton, 25-6, 43

Kilvington , 33, 35, 44-5, 47 ; North, viii-xii, xv, xxi-ii, 5, 13, 37, 40, 47 onwards, passim; South, xix, xx, xxx, 15 , 36

Kimber, Ann, 181 , 183, 196 ; Catherine, 196 ; Clare, 181 ; Fabian, 182; John, 196 ; Maria, 183 ; Thomas, 181 , 183

Kirkby Ravensworth, x, xix, 25, 29, 30

Kirklevington ,25

Kitchen, Robert, Stephen, 85

Knapp, Catherine -Howse, James,John 169

Knarsbroughe , 35 , 83

Knayton, xvi, xxxi, xxxvii, 40, 45, 56, 58, 62-5, 69, 71, 77, 80, 92, 100

Knightly , John, 155

Laikinbie, 25

Lake, Dunstan, 145-151, 153-4

Lambert, Robert, 12 , 15

Lambspring, 122 , 155

Lancaster, St. John, 44

Langman, Catherine , Francis, 196; Grace, 183; Mary, 196

Langstone , 169

Langton, 55

Lanmoth, ix, 3

Larkan, John , 174

Lascelles, of Brankenbrough family, x , xv , xvi, xviii, xxxii, xxxiv, 10; Francis, 6 ; Raphe, 74 ; Thomas , 51-2 ; Sir Thomas, 78

Lasinbie, 25, 27

Latimer, Lord, 3, 6

Laton, Charles, 11, Katherine, 11 , 12 ; Thomas , 11, 12 ,47

La Trappe, 145-6

INDEXES

Malton , xxi, 9

12, 51, 53; Philip, 161 ;

Lawson , Thomas, 140 ; Sir Raiphe, 9, 11 ; Roger, 11 ; William, 155

Leake, xiii, 58

Le Bland, 139

Mannering, John , xxi, xxii

Manfield ,, 37; Williamde , 43

Markham , John de, 23 209

Markinfeilde, Anthony, 72-6 ; John, 73-6 ; Thomas, 30

Marlborough, 168 , 176 , 196

Marnhull, 165ff

Marsk, 25-6

Marston, xv, 4, 44

Ledger, -, 10

Leeds, 16

Leicester, Earl of, ix

Lesley, William, 143

Lethome, 25

Leventhorpe , 25, 27

Levin, 32

Leyburn, BishopJohn, 113ff, 133

Liège, 139, 140

Martin, 104, 108, 110 ; Ann , Stephen, 185

Marton, 25, 27, 29, 30

Maryland, 171

Masham , 102

Manleverer, William, 47-8, 50-3 , 58

Maunby, xxvii

Maunsell, John, 47

Maynard, Sergeant, xxxviii, 104 , 108

Meagher, Major, 158

Lille, 139

Ligart, -, 140

Lincoln, John de , 25

Lincoln's Inn , ix

Lionis, Francis, 71

Lisbon, 119, 172, 174

Lith, 25-6

Little Broughton, xii

Little Fencott, 85

Little Smeaton , xix

Liverton, 25, 27

Llewellyn, Edward, 122, 152, 156

Lockwood, Christopher , 29 ;John, xxi

Lodderfamily, 176 ; Elizabeth, 176, 178-9, 182 ; Francis, 189, 197 ; George, 179, 197; James, 178; Jane, 179, 183, 195-6, 188-9 ; John, 176, 178, 182 ; Martin, 179 ; Rebbecca, 179 ; William, 189

Lofthouse, 25, 27

Loskey, John, 52

Loup, George, 140

Louvain, xix, 142 , 153

Lowcocke, Stephen , 1

LowsieHill, xx, 22

Mechlin ,xx

Medley, William, 37

Melstraet, Jean, 140 , 161

Melton, Sir John, 68

Menchini, Felix, 174

Mermet, Henrye de , 163

Metcalfe ,, 16; Oswald , xii, 7

Anthonie, 12

Metham , 9, 12 , Metham, Sir Thomas,9

Lumley, John, 152 ; William, 81 , 107

Lythom, 26

Ludolph ,, 141

Lytster ,, 11

MacCarthy,John , 174

Maidment , Mary, 196

Maize, George, 167

Magenis ,, 158

Maldon, 138

Mallory, Sir John, xviii, 10 , 56 , 59 ; Sir William, 10, 47

Maltby, 25 , 27

Maltby, John de, 27 ; William de , 43

Meynell, Agnes, 15-6 ; Anne, xiii, 4, 23 ; Anthony, viii, x, xii, xiii, xvi, xxiv, xxixff, 3-6, 11 , 13, 16, 34, 37-8, 44-6, 49, 59, 60, 82, 88-9, 93 onwards passim; Charles, viii, 6, 35; Clare , xiii; Collet , xiii; Cuthbert, 43, 45 ; Dorothy, 6; Edmund, 6, 23 ; Elizabeth, xii, 4, 6, 7; Francis, 6, 107 ; George, xi, xv, xxvi,xxviii, xxxii-iv,4-6, 9, 23, 33-4 , 40-1, 48-9, 71, 77, 87, 101 , 108, 109-12 ; Helen, 4 ; Henry, vii, 3, 13, 24; Hugh (Hugo), xiii, xxxv , 1-2, 5, 23ff, 32, 43, 59, 80 ; James, xiii, 5, 92 ; Jane, xii,, 7 ; John,xiii, 2, 3, 5, 23, 36, 43-4, 59 ; Katherine, 4, 45 ; Laurence, ix, 6, 33 ; Marggaret, xii, 4, 7, 13, 33, 82 ; Mary, xii, xiii, 4, 7 , 15-6 ; Nicholas , 2, 13 , 23ff., 36, 43-4 ; Richard, viii, ix, xi-xiii, xxv-xxvii, 4, 5 , 13, 15 , 16 , 36-7, 43-6, 56, 58, 73, 92 ; Robert, vii, viii, ix , xvi, xviii, 1-3, 6, 13 , 29 , 31, 34, 36-7, 41, 43-4, 48-9, 59 ; Roger, ixff, xv, xvi, xix, xx,4, 6, 7, 15 , 16, 31 , 37 , 44-6, 49, 59, 108 , 110 ; Susan, 43 ; Stephen, 2, 26 ; Thomas vii, xff, d. xxxvi, 1-112 passim, Ursula, 4, Walter, 43 ; William ,

viii, xiii,xvi,5, 6, 8, 32, 43-4, 59 , 72; Winifred, xiii, 11, 34, 44, See also , "Danby, " "Grange , " "Holtby," "Ireland, " "Metcalfe, " "Trollope, " "Markenfeild "

Middleton, 2, 24-6, 36

Middleton, William, xviii, xxvii; Sir William , 10

Midlesbroug , 25

Midridge,99

Mitchard,Betsy, 197 ; Elizabeth, 181 , 183; Lucy, 179 ; Philip, 181 ; Richard, 179, 183 ; Stephen, 181 , 183

Mitforde, Hugh, 25

Ness , xv, xxvii, xxxii, xxxiv, 56, 59, 77-8, 80-1, 83, 89, 99, 101 , 107 , 109

Netherdale , xx

Nether Stilton, 58

Nevill family, 3; Ann, 55 ; Radulphus 28; Sir Thomas , 13

NewburghPriory, xvii

Newby, 25-6, 29

Newcastle -upon-Tyne, 14 Newham , 25

Newport, 73, 75

Newton , 25-7

Nicholson, Francis, 139; Thomas,xxi; Sir Thomas , 143

Nidd , xx

Moger, Elizabeth, James, 181 ; John, Nieuport, 139

177 ; Thomas , 181

Molineux, Richard, 170-1 ; William, 139

Molins,William, 89

Montague, Lord, xxvii, 92, 96; William , 112

Montgomery, Lord, 135, 152, 164

Moore, Benjamin, 155 ; Richard, 89

Moresam , 25

Nodding, Margaret,5, ix

Norfolk, Duke of, 152

Normanby, vii, 3, 25, 27, 29, 30; Adam de, 28

Northallerton, vii, x, xv, xvi, xviii, xxxi, 6, 13, 37, 41, 47, 58-9, 92-3 , 111

Northampton, Earl of, 56

Northumberland, Earls of; Henry Percy, 9, 14 ; Thomas, 6

Northover , Mary, 177

Morgan, Lucy, Mary, Thomas , 179

More ,, 140, 153

Mortell, P, 175

Norton, William, 16, 78

Nostell , xiii

Nunkilling, 9

Nunthorpe, 25 ,27

Mortham , ix

Morly,-, 95 Morpeth ,, 140

Morton, 8, 25

Mostyn, Sir Edward, 157

Moulton, Elizabeth, 194, 197

Mount Grace , xv, xxiii

Mount St.John , xx

Mowbray, Rogerde, 76

Mowgrave, 12

Moyer, Samuel , 89

Moyland, William , 175

Mudd(e), James, 53 ; Thomas, xix

Mullet, Grace , 176

Mush, John, xx ,xxi, Mynington, 27

Myskelby, 26

Myton, 29 , 30

Nandike, Thomas, xii, 71

Narandike, Thomas, George, 7

Nash, 165, 168-9 , 173

Nawton, Katherine, ix, 5 ; Richard, 37

Neale, Sir Paul, 78

Neerinx , Vincent, 139

Nelson ,Anne, Margerie, 12 ; Richard , 12 , 154 ; William, xxxv, 83, 86-7; William, Benedict , 154-5

Nesam, Anthony,x

Oates, Titus, 122

O'Brien, Joseph, 175

Odingsell , Joseph, 80

Ogber, Ann, John,Mary, 196

O'Hara, , 166

Oliver, Ivers, 174

Oglethorpe ,, 10

Oriel, Antonie, 126 ; Rose, 160

Ormesbie , 25-7

Osburn, Edward, 68

Osgodby, xx

Osmotherby , xxiii

Ostend, 73-4

Oswalde, Henrie, 16

Overton, 6

Ownsbergh , 28

Owton, 12

Lady, 158 ;

Oxford, University College, 138

Paddocke, Holme, 53

Palliser ,, 86 ; Anthony, 111 ; Mary, 88; Richard, 72 ; Thomas , 38

Palmes , Sir Guy, 106

INDEXES

Paris, 122, 140, 173, See "St. Edmunds"

Passarion (Abbot), 158 , 162

Pearsie, Raulph de, 38-9

Pearson, Robert, 100

Pelletier, Jean, 173

Pudsey family, 8, 12 ; -64 ; Elizabeth 34; Mary, viii; Philippe, 34 ; Sir Thomas , xviii, 4, 6, 34, 44, 59 ; Winifred, xi, xxiv,4

Pullein, Henry, 52 ; Michael, 151

Pygott, Henry, 72-3

Pemberton ,, 113

Pennyman , Bartholomew , 16 ; William, 59

Pepper, Richard, 139

Quarleton, 24

Qurros (Abbot), 158

Perkins, Anne, Francis, John, 113 , 118

Perkins ,, 158

Perrott, John, 128

Peters, Justin, 138

Radcliffe , 9

Petre ,, 141 ; (Abbess), 139

Phillips ,, 140

Radcliffe family, 12 ; Robert , 49

Phillipson, John, 155 ; William, 152

Pickhall, xi, xv, xix, xxvii, xxxii, xxxiv, 12 , 13, 37-8, 59, 61 , 77-8 , 80-1, 83, 87, 89, 97, 99, 101 , 107

Pickergill, John, 102

Pickering ,, xix

Pike, Anastasia , 184 ; Catherine, 178 , 180-1, 183, 196 ; Elizabeth, 177 , 196 ; Frances , 178, 182 ; George, 197 ; Grace, 177 ; James, 185 , 196; John, 169, 180, 183-4 ; Joseph, 179 ; Martha, 182 ; Mary, 179 , 181-2, 184-6, 195; Peter, 179, 181-2 , 185-6 ; Robert, 183 ; Sarah, 181 ; Stephen, 179, 181-2 ; Thomas, 177 , 182, 195

Picton, 25; Galfudusde 27 ; William de, 43

Pinchinthorpe, 25, 28

Place family, 8

Plowden, Francis, 141

Plumerden, James, 166

Pointer, Elizabeth, 172

Pollexfen, -, 113 ; Sir Henry, 122

Mary, 32;

Pool(e), George, xiii, 4, 23, 32; Gervase, 32 , 72 ; Peter, 4

Pontifract, 30

Pont le Voy, 124

Pontoise, 138

Pore ,, 138

Portsea , 169

Postgate, Nicholas, xxi

Pordage ,, 164

Pothow , 24-6

Premond, Charles, 173

Price ,, 137, 139, 157 ; Ann, 184 ; James, 156 ; Winifred , 177 ; John , Sarah , 184

Prideaux, Edmund, 98; Edward ,xxxvi

Priesthawes , 8

Proctor, Sir Stephen , xxix , 57

Rawcliffe, Brian, 37

Rawe, Richard, 171

Randolph ,, 135-7

Raynes, George, xx, 20 Charles , 68 ;

Redcar , 25

Reading ,, 99, 102, 104, 106, 108

Redley ,, 137

Reed, Clement , 78, 80, 83-4, 89, 102 ; Dominick,Mary, 196

Reresby, Sir John, xvii

Richardson , John, 66

Reede ,, 140

Richmondshire, xiv, xix, xxiv , xxxiv, 7, 30-1, 36, 45

Riddisdale , 4

Ridley, Anastasia, 189 , 190-1 ; Edward, 190 ; Sylvia, 191 ; William , 189 , 190-1

Ringleton, 23

Roberts, Ann, 169

Ripon, ix, xiv, xix, xx,45 , 83

Roke (s)by, xv, 13, 27-8, 37, 46, 59,107

Rome, xvi, 121 , 140, 143, 162, 171-2

Roselles, Galfrid, 43; Williamde , 27

Rokesby ,, 8, 10, 44 ; Joan, ix, Thomas , 5

Rouen , 139, 156

Rouviere, Urban, 175

Rowclife, 27

Rowe, Augustine, 167 ; Grace, John, Robert, 169

Rowesby, 25

Rowntree, James, 56

Rowthe, 36

Roxbie , 11

Rudby, 25-6

Rungton, 25-6 , 43

Russ, Ann, 185 ; 191, Elizabeth, 191 ; James, 193 ; Jane, 185-6 ; Joseph, 197 ; Maria, 197 ; Sarah, 191 , 193, 197 ; Thomas , 185-6, 193, 197

Russell, Jane, 194

Ruttely, Anastasia, 193 ; Anna, Cecilia, 197 ; Elizabeth, 195 ; George, 197 ; Martha, Mary, 197 ; Robert, 193 ; William, 193, 197

Rymere, Ra, 80, 89, 101-2, 109

Sabbe, John, 174

St. Edmund's (Paris), 118, 121 , 151-2 , 155 ; (Ware), 172

St. George, Richard, xvii, xviii

St. Germain, 122, 124, 138, 141 , 162

St. Gregory's(Douai), 151, 155 , 167 , 172 ; (Rome), 121

St. Lawrence's , 151 , 155

St. Mary, Blandford, 165

St. Omers, 140

Saire, John, 12

Saker, Robert, 86

Salisbury, Earl of, 56, 58

Savage, Anne, 173

Saltmarsh , 9, Saltmarsh ,, 139 ; Edward, xiv, xxxv, 86-7, 89

Savile, Sir John, xvii, xxxi, xxxvii, 60-64, 66, 69, 70 ; Sir Thomas, 60

Sawcocke, Thomas,43

Sawley, 16

Scakelden , 7

Sayer, Lawrence, 71

Scalinge, 25

Scarlatis, Abbate, 143 ; Baron , 117

Scoterley, Jo de,43

Scotherskell , 25-6

Scott, Richard , xxvi

Screwton , 80

Scriven , 8

Scroope, Dorothy, xi, xv, xxii,xxix, 40, 41

Scropefamily, 34 ; Francis, 12; Lord, ix, xix ; Lord John, 9, 11 , 34

Scruton,viii, x, xv, xxxiv, 13, 30 , 59 , 78, 83, 85, 111

Scudamor , Capt , 79 ; Thomas, 6

Sebastian , Joseph, 170-1

Sedberry, 12

Sellaby, 14

Semer, 24-6, 32

Seton, 25 ; Adam , de , 28

Sex (h)o(w), 11, 25

Shaftesbury , 174

James, 185, 191 , 196 ; John, 182 , 192 ; Marie, 180, 189, 196; Martina, 197; Martin, 178-186 , 190-2, 197 ; Mary, 180 , 182, 185-6, 189, 190, 192-3, 197 ; Richard, 189 ; Robert, 178 ; 180-3 ; Theresa, 183-4, 192 ; Thomas , 186, 197

Sherborne, 179 , 181

Sheriffe, Hutton, 79

Shipley , 12, 14-5 , 59

Shirburn, Joseph, 113, 118, 122, 124-5 , 145-6, 152

Short, William , 113 , 124-6

Siggeston, ix

Simon , Alexandre, 173 , 192

Simson, Henry, 85

Sinderby, viii, x, xv, xxxiv, 13, 30-1 , 59, 78, 83, 87, 89, 101

Sissy, 11

Skackleton, xii, 23

Skarbrough, 38

Skargill, 10

Skelton, xi, 6, 8, 26, 28, 112

Skiars , 10

Skinner, Elizabeth , 191

Skuller, 33, 40

Sletholme, 26

Slingsby , Sir Henry, xvii, 8 ,

Smeeton, William , 99, 101 , 107-8

Smelt, Thomas, 9,

Smith, Bernard, 142 ; Edward, 71 ; George, 37 ; James, 196 ; John , 170-1, 184 ; 196 ; Thomas , 138 ; Winifred, 195-6

Smyth, John, 40, 172, 184, 194 ; Maria, 194

Smithson, Will, 144

Snape, 3

Snotterton, 32, 43

Snowe, Ralph, 164

Snydale, 71

Sockbridge , 44

Somer, William , 79

Southwill, Morg, 140

Sowerby, x, xii, xv, xxi, xxxii,xxxiv , 14, 34, 59, 62, 77, 79, 80, 83, 87, 89, 95 97 99, 107-8

Spence, H, 116ff , 131ff

Spencer, Edward, 140 ; Thomas , 174

Spenithorne , 12 ,41

Spinkhill, xiii, 4

Spittlebecke , 33

Spittle Bridge , xxxi, 36

Sarah,

Sharp, Agnes, 194; Elizabeth, Mary, 196; Nicholas, 139 ; William , 194

Sharrock, Bishop, 197

Sheffield, Lord, xix, 11 , 12

Sheppard, Charles, 190 ; Elizabeth, 192 ; Francis, 178 ; Jane, 181 , 184;

Stainton, 25

Stanesby, 25 , 28

Stanbrook , 166

Stanforth, 62

Stanhope, Sir Edward, xix, 11 , 16-17

Stank, ix, 5

INDEXES

Stanley, Ann, 186; James, 173 ; John , 172, 184-192, 196

Stanwick , xi, xxi, xxiv, 3, 14 , 36 , 41 , 44-5

Stapleton family, 11 ;, Bryan, 9 ; Richard, 30

Staynderelinge ,25

Stelley, 12

Sterky, -, 82

Stillington, 81

Stobbard, Farland, 96

Stockeld , xviii, xxvii

Stokesley, xiii, 30

Stonehouse, 173

Stopley, 25

122 ;

Stour Provost, 165, 168-9, 172, 177183

Straingwares , Elizabeth, James, 44

Strickland, Lady, 141 ; Sir Thomas , 12 , 124

Stringer, Thomas , 71

Studfawde , 35

Studley, 10

Suffolk, Duke of, 9 ; Margarite, 10 ; Earl of, 56

Sussex, Earl of, 45

Swainby, 24

Swayle, 29, 30

Thoralby, 25

Thormonby, 25-7

Thornebroughe ,28

Thornton leBeans,xxiii, xxiv,40

ThorntonleStreet, x-xii, xv, xxi,xxii, xxix,xxxii,xxxiv,xxxvi, 11 , 13-15 , 25, 27, 35-6, 44, 53, 55-7, 59-61, 77, 83, 87, 89, 97, 99, 101 , 107-8, 112

Thornton Watless , xxi

Thorpe, 45

Thwaites family, xxxii ; Elizabeth, xxiv, 8 ; Frances, Jane, 8 ; Mary, xii, xxvii, 4, 8, 20ff, 44, 53-4; Thomas, 95; Uursula, 8 ; William, xv,8

Thwenge , Lucy, 43 ; Marmadukede , 27, 53

Timber, Elizabeth, 178, 180 ; Lucy, 180 ; Robert, 178, 180 ; Sarah , 182

Timperley, Gregory , 156

Tocotts, 25, 28, 37 ; Adam de, 28 ; Roger, 5, 6, 37

Todber, 172

Tolesby, 25, 27-8

Topcliffe, 16

Tompson ,, 153

Towneley family, 10; Christopher , xvii, xviii

Tranholme, 24-5

Sydall , William, 37

Swiban ,, 139

Taaf, John, 131

Talbot family, xxii ; Elizabeth , xii ; John, xii, xiii, xxi, 31, 36, 44, 47; Richard, 31 , 57 ; Roger, xiii, 47;\

Thomas,x; William , 64, 71

Tankard, Sir Henry, 51 , 58

Tankards, 35

Tankredefamily,6

Tanton, 25, 27

Tasmania , 174

Tawstock, 174

Tempest family, 13, 15 ; Sir Nicholas , 12 ; Rowland, 4, 14 ; Sir Thomas, 4,

Tenison , Archbishop, 113-118 , 131ff

Thacker, family, 8

Theakston, Richard, xxv, 47-8

Thirnam, Robert, 44

Thirsk , ix, x, xv, xx, xxxii, -, xxxiv, 13 , 30, 34-8, 41, 57, 59 , 60, 65, 76-7, 80, 87 , 99 , 112

Thornaby, ix, 26

Thornborough , xix, 33 , 40 , 52

Thorgnby,xiv

Thornley, 7

Trentham, -, 141

Trew, Ann, Elizabeth , James, Roger, 176

Trollope, John, 7, 23 ; Margaret, 87, 107 ; Sampson, xii,7

Trotter, Edward, 112 ; Elizabeth, xi, 6 ; Henry, 6, 8 ; Richard, 99, 101-8; Robert, 6, 8

Tucker, Elizabeth, 178, 182, 197

Tunstall, 12, 25-6

Tunstall ,, 49 ; Ann, 48 ; Bishop Cuthbert, xx, 55; Francis, 10 ; Marmaduke, 35 ; William , 111

Twigmore, xx

Twyford, 140

Tychborne, John, 71

Tyldesley , Thomas, 68

Tynmouth, 73

Ugthorp, 105

Ullathorne , Bishop, 174 , 198-9

Umfrevill,4, 15

Upsall, xx, xxi, 25 , 27, 35

Valenciennes , 166

Valladolid, 172-3

Thompson , Christopher, Frances , Henry, 8 ; Leonard, 102, 107 56

Vaughan, Bishop, 174 ; Richard, 52,

INDEXES

Vavasourfamily, 10

Vernon, James , 162

Virgin, James, 194-5 ; John, Maria , Mary, 195

Wakebridge , 4, 23, 32

Wakefield, 61

Walcott, Beatrice, 166 ; Charles, 164; Elis, Elizabeth, 165-6

Walgrave, Sir William, 164

Walkington, 89

Wall, Cuthbert, William , 155

Walmesley, Bishop, 196 ; Lady, xxiii

Walpilliow, 25

Walton, 71

Walworth , 15

Whitlinge, Thomas, William, 16

Whitby, xxiv

Whorlton, viii, 25-6

Whoselton, 24, 30

Williamson, Anthony, 34

Willson, Bishop, 174

Wilton, 14

Wild, John, xxxvii

William, III, 122

Wiclife ,, Robertode , 23

Williams, Thomas , 154

Williamson, A., 136

Willes, Edward, 132

Wilson, Robert, 33

Winsley Wood , xx

Winslow , Edward, 89

Winster, Alexander , 143

Wiresburgh, 161

Wandesford , Christopher, 12 ;Richard xix, 12

Wand ,, 153

Ward, Christopher , 37

Warkoppe, Waterford, 174

Waterhouse , 7 16

Waterton, Thomas , 71

Watten, 74

Watts, Francis, 68

Wayte, T., 81-2

Wirksell, 25

Witham, 168 ; John, 35

Wyse, William, 59, 70

Wood , Gilbert, 88

Woodefeilds , 57

Woodfield, 172 , 178-9

Woodhouse , 10

Woderofe , John , 25

Woodward, -, 137

Wearsdale , -, 96

Webbe , Sir William, 12

Webster, 86 ; Antonye,47

Weddick, Francis, Michael, 175

Weetwood, 13

Wentworth, Thomas (Strafford), xxx, xxii, xxiii,xxxvii , 62, 64 ; 69-70; (ofBretton), 10

Westerdaile , 25

Westingby, 25-6

West Laton, 12

Westmorland, Earl of, 10 , 14

Westwode , 83

Wetherby, xxviii

Weymouth, 173

Wharlton, 43-4

Wharton, 2

Wharton family, 8; Philip, Lord , xviii, 8, 59

Wheatley, Richard, 16

Whitby, 26, 38-9

Whismore ,, 152

White, Anne, 195 ; Augustine, 174 ; Elizabeth, Francis, 195 ; John, 194-5

Whitingham, Sir Tymothie, 14 , 50 , 58

Worcester , Earl of, 56

Wormall, John, 50

Woolfe ,, 153

Worsall, 12, 71

Worthington, -, 141

Wotton, Lord, 56

Wraye, Sir William, 10

Wright, Mary, 139

Wright, 154 ; Thomas , xix, 48-9

Richard, 79;

Wylde, John, 93-6 ; 100-1, 111

Wyvell, Sir Marmaduke, 12 ; Salomon 68

Wytham ,, 47%; George , John , Katherine, 8

Yarme,xxii, 25, 27 , 28 , 36

York, x, 3, 52-3, 62, 151 ; Castle , viii, xviii,xx, xxvii, xxxi, 10 , 52, 60, 62

York, Archbishops of, xiv (Hutton), 50-2 ; (Matthew), 20, 53, 56, 58, 109

York(e), Bishop, 196 ; Edward, 52, SirJohn, 12

Young, 139 ; Elizabeth, 183 ; Jane, 177 ; John, 183 ; Mary, 177 ; Robert, 183 ; Thomas , 177

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MANAGEMENT The affairsofthe Societyshall be managed bya Council consistingwhen complete oftwelve elected members threetrustees and sixhonorary officers viz. theRecorderBursarLegalAdviserLibrarian Secretary and General Editorfour members of the Council forming a quorum and the Council being entitled to act notwithstanding vacancies in its number The Council shall have powerto appoint a President and Vice-Presidents. The Council is empowered to elect one oftheir number, or one of theVice-Presidents, as theirChairman who is authorizedto act in the Council's name between meetings ; he willhave a castingvote TheCouncilwill electits chairmanannually atitsfirstmeetingafter theAnnual General Meeting The Council shall also have power to elect members to the Society by a bare majority of the members of the Council present at a meeting and powerto terminatethe membership ofanymemberwithout assigning any reason by a majority of not less than threequartersof all the members oftheCouncil

APPOINTMENTOF COUNCIL Officers shall be appointedbytheSocietyin GeneralMeeting. Theyshallhold office for one yearandbeeligible for re-election One third of the twelve elected members of the Council shallretire each yearby rotation and shall be eligibleforreelection. Elected members of the Council shall be elected by the Society in General Meeting Nominations for appointment as elected members of the Council shall be sent to the Secretary seven daysbeforetheAnnual General Meeting Only Roman Catholics shall be eligible for membershipof the Council The Council shall have powertofilla casual vacancy eitheramongtheofficers oramong the elected members and anypersonappointedtofill a casual vacancy shallhold office fortheperiodfor whichthepersonwhose vacancy he fills would have heldoffice

TRUSTEES The Trustees shall be appointedand may be removedby the Societyin General Meeting. It shall be their duty to hold the invested fundsand propertyoftheSociety.

MEMBERSHIP . Membershipshallbe open to individuals learned societies librariesreligiouscommunitiesand otherbodies whethercorporateor incorporated Such bodies shallbeentitledto exercise votingpowers vested in members by their Librarian or AssistantLibrarian or any other person nominatedby such bodyforthepurpose.

SUBSCRIPTION . TheannualSubscriptionfor each memberisTwoGuineas or such sum astheSocietyin General Meetingmayfrom timetotime determine payable in advance on June 1st in each year. Every memberwhose subscriptionis not in arrear shallbe entitledtoreceive one copy of each publication which may be issued by the Society during the year without further payment but the Societyshall not issue free to members publications whose cost to non-members is substantiallyinexcessoftheannualsubscriptionfortheyearoryears in respect ofwhichthepublication is issued so asto confera benefiton anymember greaterthanis commoninthe caseofagreements topur- chase books priorto publication A member wishingtoresign from the Societymust inform the Bursaror the Secretary beforeJune1st otherwise he will be liablefor his subscriptiondue onthat date forthe ensuing year. A memberwhose subscriptionis two years in arrear shallceasetobea memberand shall not be re-admitteduntilall arrears have beenpaid

GENERAL MEETINGS

An annualmeeting ofthe Societyshall beheld of which at least sevendays noticeshallbe sent to allmembers whohave supplied the Secretary withan addressintheUnited Kingdom Members who have not suppliedsuch an address shall not be entitled to receive any notice of meetings An extraordinary general meeting may be called at any time by the Council. At least one calendar months notice stating the object of the meetingshall be giventoall members who have supplied the Secretary with an address in the United Kingdom Voting at anygeneral meetingoftheSocietyshall beexercisable only bymembers present in person orby thebodies referredto inRule7 bytheir representative in person.

AUDIT

TheBursar'saccountshallbeauditedbya member oftheSociety orbya professionalaccountantappointedby theCouncil attheclose ofthefinancialyear whichexpires on May 31st

PROPERTY The property and incomeoftheSociety shallbe appliedsolely totheobjectoftheSocietyand no part thereofshallatanytimebeapplied for anypurpose which is not a lawful charitablepurpose . Provided that this rule shall not preventthe payment to any officer or servant oftheSocietyofreasonable remunerationforservices actually performedby him on behalfof the Society Ifthe Societyshall be dissolved it shallbefore dissolutionand after dischargingorproviding for its liabilities if anyprocurethat its surplus assets ifany are effectivelysettled upona charitabletrust fortheadvancement oftheRoman Catholicreligion

Recusant History

A JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN POST-REFORMATION CATHOLIC HISTORY IN THE BRITISH ISLES

Duringthe pastten years RECUSANT HISTORY has published many articles with direct bearing on English political, social and economichistory. In addition, even the specialistarticleson more technical aspects of Church history have illuminated unfamiliar featuresof the nationallife Writingaboutthe lives,works, ideas and influence both of prominent and of lesser-known English Catholics, contributors have used original materialsfrom an exceptionally wide variety of sources , ranging from foreign diplomatic and ecclesiastical archives to local and family records in England and Wales

RECUSANT HISTORY is published under the editorial direction of THE[CATHOLIC RECORD SOCIETY It appears three times a year, andthe annualsubscription is still only 12s 6d , or $2. It may be obtained from: The Arundel Press , Sussex Road , Bognor Regis.