Reference code: GB-0298-UC/M5
Title: Ushaw Collection of Manuscripts: Volume V
Dates of creation: 1668-1867
Extent: 4 files
Held by: Ushaw College Library
Language: Mostly English and Latin. The documents are in English unless otherwise stated in the item record.
“Volume” V of the Ushaw Collection of Manuscripts covers a wide range of subjects relating to Catholic history, including the Roman Catholic penal laws in England, political campaigns involving the Catholics in
England, the religious orders. the Cisalpine movement, diocesan administration, Catholic synods, and other aspects of the government of the Catholic Church.
The origins of Ushaw Collection of Manuscripts Volume V are unknown but the continuation of the number sequence suggests it is likely to have been compiled by Mgr Bernard Payne (who was librarian at Ushaw from 1930 until 1977) after the
completion of the fourth volume in the mid-20th century. Unlike its predecessors, Volume V has not been bound and is a loose-leaf collection of documents.
Open for consultation.
Permission to make any published use of material from the collection must be sought in advance from pg.library@durham.ac.uk and, where appropriate, from the copyright owner. The Library will assist where possible with identifying copyright
owners, but responsibility for ensuring copyright clearance rests with the user of the material
The sequence retains the original volume-number arrangement
There is a bound printed catalogue of the first five volumes of the Ushaw College Manuscripts (excluding the more recent additions) compiled by Rev Michael Sharratt:
“Ushaw College Catalogue of Archives: Ushaw Collection of Manuscripts” (Ushaw College: Durham, 1987). Card indexes are also available with both chronological and numerical arrangements.
Ushaw Collection of Manuscripts Volume VUC/M5/400 8 May 1849
Memorial from the Lancashire clergy to Bishop John Briggs for the annual synod recommending chapters or boards to manage temporalities, the District Fund, and a Finance Committee; the lack of an answer to their complaints about Common Stock;
arguing that every priest should be maintained by the bishop, and recommending the Sheffield mission for the Rosminians.
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UC/M5/401 26 October 1849
Letter from Thomas Grant to Bishop John Briggs: on the Charitable Trust Bill including the action by Propaganda and Bishop Griffiths in 1847, the possibility of Parliament reopening the question, Propaganda's view, the opinion of the Methodists,
past maladministration and general complaints, and the need for a committee to assist bishops in seeking the truth of the matter.
2f
UC/M5/402 [?1840]
Printed circular, signed “Clerici” , arguing against the frequency and unnecessary changes of clergy from one parish to another.
This copy has been sent to the Rev T.A. Slater.
12p
UC/M5/403 [1840 x 1849]
Printed petition from the London clergy to the pope seeking the restoration of the Hierarchy.
2p
UC/M5/404 [?1846]
Memorial by the Congregation of St William's Chapel, Lee House, Thornley, to Bishop Sharples, on the historic administration of the chapel by lay trustees and the suspension of Frank Trappes by Bishop Brown, and its effect in denying the right to
lay presentation.
2p
UC/M5/405 [1850 x 1859]
Printed letter by Bishop William Hogarth to the clergy, enclosing a petition against the Charitable Trusts Bill to be signed and sent to a Liberal Member of Parliament.
1 sheet
UC/M5/406 [1840 x 1849]
Printed circular by members of the Catholic clergy to the Vicars Apostolic concerning the way in which the rights of priests are ignored by bishops.
2p
UC/M5/407a 1851
Memorial of certain Catholic priests [?in Robert Hogarth's hand] to Cardinal Wiseman seeking the establishment of church laws resting on English law as well as canon law, including no spiritual interference with property, no foreign system, no
spiritual courts, and a role in the election of bishops.
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UC/M5/407b 1 July 1850
Statute for the formation of ecclesiastical councils of the London District addressed to the clergy of this district by Nicholas Wiseman, with postscript.
Includes significant manuscript annotations and comments in the hand of Robert Hogarth criticising the statute.
11p
UC/M5/408 15 November 1850
Printed broadside of a letter from Charles Langdale to Lord John Russell, entitled
The Catholic Hierarchy.
1 sheet
UC/M5/409 7 June 1851
Draft memorial from Robert Hogarth to Cardinal Wiseman asking for a voice in the nomination of bishops, the appointment of archdeacons, a consistorial court, and the immovability of priests after five years in the care of souls.
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UC/M5/410 10 August 1806-7 March 1808
Copy by Thomas Eyre of a letter from Francis Tuite to [?] on the state of the funds of St Omers and the debt owed by St Edmunds.
(On same sheet): copy by Thomas Eyre of a letter from Francis Tuite to Henry Rutter on the recent payment of an outstanding debt to St Omers.
2f
UC/M5/411 7 May 1853
Printed suggestions by Catholicus for managing Catholic ecclesiastical property in England with a plea for including lay trustees for each fund (2 copies).
1p
UC/M5/412 31 July 1852
Language: Latin
Draft copy of an address of gratitude by the Cathedral Chapter to Pope Pius IX, with a pencilled list of signatures.
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UC/M5/413 July 1852
List of capitulars by the Old Chapter, with deaths noted until 1857.
1f
UC/M5/414 17 July 1852
Synodical letter of the Westminster Province relating to the first Provincial Synod at Oscott.
6p
UC/M5/415
Number not in use
UC/M5/416 13 - 14 December 1853
Printed admonitions and exhortations addressed to the clergy of the diocese of Beverley by Bishop Briggs on the occasion of the First Synod at York.
8p
UC/M5/417 21 February 1854
Language: Latin
Printed pamphlet by the diocese of Hexham entitled
Synodus Dioecesana, Hagulstadenis Habita in Ecclesia Pro-Cathedrali S. Marie....
6p
UC/M5/418 9 May 1855
Diocese of Beverley,
Acta et statuta Secunde Synodi Dioecesanae Beverlacenis (York, 1855).
6p
UC/M5/419 15 July 1855
Printed synodical letter from the Second Provincial Council of the Westminster Province at Oscott (2 copies).
4p
UC/M5/420 [?1847]
Observations by Henry Stonor on three bills (superstitious uses, Roman Catholic trust property and Roman Catholic charities).
4f
UC/M5/421 1856
Observations on the positions of Catholic trusts under existing laws and under a bill entitled
“A Bill to Amend the Law relating to the Conveyance of Lands for Charitable Uses”.
2f
UC/M5/422 28 February 1856
Circular by Bishop John Briggs of Beverley to the clergy concerning rules from the Holy See for obtaining a dispensation for, and assisting at, a mixed marriage, with an application form.
3p
UC/M5/423 28 April 1856
Letter from Bishop William Hogarth to Charles Newsham: proposals to regulate and save the Institute of St Ninian's in Wooler, and the monks from Ampleforth visiting Ushaw for ordinations.
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UC/M5/424 18 December 1856
Extracted letter from Henry Edward Manning to Cardinal Wiseman: report on the Oblates of St Charles.
Copied by Charles Newsham.
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UC/M5/425 16 July 1859
Synodical letter of the fathers assembled in the Third Provincial Council of Westminster, at St Mary's College, Oscott.
8p
UC/M5/426 8 April 1860
Letter from Frederick William Faber to Cardinal Wiseman: admitting that he may have made theological mistakes in a recent book but will submit unreservedly, and hoping that Wiseman will not let the incident affect him.
2f
UC/M5/427 31 January 1859
Notes on the Cathedraticum in England before the Reformation and in the present day, including an account of the collections and subscriptions for the diocese of Liverpool for 1849 - 1858.
2f
UC/M5/428a 27 February 1862
Diocese of Liverpool Ecclesiastical Education Fund for the year ending 31 January 1862.
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UC/M5/428b [1780 x 1789]
Language: Latin
Draft, in the hand of Matthew Gibson, of an address to the Holy See about the English College in Rome.
2f
UC/M5/428c 13 January 1867
Printed letter in support of J.H. Newman's projected Study House for the Oratory in Oxford.
3f
UC/M5/429 20 May 1862
Printed rules of the Old Brotherhood of the English Secular Clergy.
11p
UC/M5/430 16 October 1863
Printed circular by Nicholas Wiseman to the bishops sending a copy of a decree of Propaganda confirming decree XV of 3rd Westminster Synod about the jurisdiction of bishops over the three seminaries.
1 sheet
UC/M5/431 18 March 1865
Language: Latin
Bishop William Hogarth granting faculties as Vicar General to Robert Tate, to be exercised within Ushaw College.
1 sheet
UC/M5/432 8 May 1869
Language: Latin
Letter from the Congregation of Propaganda to Archbishop H.E. Manning: answering queries about bishops and regulars, regional seminaries, and the projected Catholic University.
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UC/M5/433 6 November 1884
Release by Bishop John Bewick, and others, to Thomas Trewhitt of West Hartlepool on the execution of John Lawrenson's will.
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UC/M5/434 1848
Printed memorial to Pope Pius IX by Catholic priests and laymen of Great Britain warning of dangers in a proposed Act of Parliament to establish diplomatic relations between Britain and the Holy See.
1 sheet
UC/M5/435 1789
Names of the lay gentry subscribers to the Fund General [?Northern Brethren's Fund] since its institution.
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UC/M5/436 [19th century]
Oeconomia Clericus or the clergymen instructed in housekeeping.
1 sheet
UC/M5/437 [1790 x 1799]
Fragment of a notebook containing a list of foundation/anniversary Masses for members of Lancashire families.
4f
UC/M5/438 1788
Confirmation and other statistics of Yorkshire Catholics under Bishops Maire, Walton and Gibson.
6f
UC/M5/439 1736
Language: French and Latin
Notes and extracts from books on Jansenism.
2f
UC/M5/440 1784
Account of the estate and effects of George Wilmot.
2f
UC/M5/441 [1800]
Account of the Faculties of Theology and Greek at the University of Edinburgh.
2f
UC/M5/442 [?1777]
Printed petition from the Roman Catholics of Ireland presented to the earl of Buckinghamshire (Lord Lieutenant of Ireland) requesting further relief from prohibitive land tenure regulations.
2p
UC/M5/443
Number not in use
UC/M5/444 1720
Language: Latin
Printed instructions by the bishop of Ypres for confessors, including the form of faculties.
4p
UC/M5/445 2 August 1788
Language: Latin
Bishop Matthew Gibson granting faculties to James Pope, O.S.B..
2 copies
1 sheet
UC/M5/446
Number not in use
UC/M5/447
Number not in use
UC/M5/448 [1740]
Affidavit by Robert Carnaby concerning Bishop William's declaration that the Vicar-General was to govern sede vacante.
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UC/M5/449 [1780 x 1789]
Transcript, in the hand of Bishop Matthew Gibson, of a papal document beginning
“Inscrutabili Divinae Sapientiae atque Bonitatis consilio”.
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UC/M5/450a [1780 x 1789]
Pope Pius VI's instructions for a jubilee, with an English translation in Bishop Matthew Gibson's hand.
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UC/M5/450b 1750
Language: Latin
Pope Benedict XIV's
Abstractum brevis jubilaei, with a note in English stating that the publication of the jubilee is fixed for Low Sunday.
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UC/M5/451 17 November 1791
Lettert from Robert Banister to Bishop William Gibson: informing him that he has received the stated case and the
Answer to the Blue Books, commenting on Plowden's work and Bishop Matthew Gibson's difficulties with Bishop James Talbot and others over the Oath of Allegiance.
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UC/M5/452 10 February 1792
Letter from Robert Banister to Bishop William Gibson: offering advice on responding to the committee, criticising Hornyold's letter to Gibson, the Staffordshire address, making suggestions about Douai College's difficulties, advising that a
college in England should be in an isolated place, and possible legal action against the Vicars Apostolic.
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UC/M5/453 26 July 1792
Letter from Robert Banister to Bishop William Gibson: commenting on the second edition of Sir John Throckmorton's second letter.
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UC/M5/454 30 July 1792
Letter from Robert Banister to Bishop William Gibson: advice on how to condemn Sir John Throckmorton's 2nd edition.
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UC/M5/455 16 November 1795
Letter from Robert Banister to Bishop William Gibson: the lack of urgency in setting up a college in England, advising him that the French will restore property and rent arrears, he will be pressed to agree with Douglass and Walmesley, Daniel
remaining president at Douai, Douglass wanting Old Hall and Gibson wishing for Crook, advising against London because of its Cisalpine leanings, and news of Bishop Berington.
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UC/M5/456 26 January 1796
Letter from Robert Banister to Bishop William Gibson: the northern clergy's desire for the college to be in the north, advising him to tell Douglass not to join him at Old Hall, the implications of Douai's restoration, advising him to appoint
[John] Barrow to set up the college, and Plowden and the museum deed.
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UC/M5/457 14 August 1797
Letter from Robert Banister to Bishop William Gibson: Blancoe's suitability as a chaplain for the Claughton nuns, his astonishment at Douglass's approval of Joseph Berington's epistle, Berington seeking clerical support in Lancashire, and
advising Gibson that he and Barrow will walk out if Berington appears at the general meeting.
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UC/M5/458 11 October 1797
Letter from Robert Banister to Bishop William Gibson: Bishop Berington's desire not to retract as Propaganda demands, Douglass's approval of Joseph Berington, his opinion of Crook Hall, Daniel's hopes for the restoration of Douai in spite of
costly repairs, Barrow's scepticism on whether the English government will allow Douai to reopen, suggesting that Daniel be appointed as president at Crook, Douglass's deception of Erskine over Old Hall, and recommending Old Elvet for the site of
the new college.
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UC/M5/459 16 December 1797
Letter from Robert Banister to Bishop William Gibson: news of Greenway, Bishop Douglass, Bishop Berington and Joseph Berington; and informing him that Douglass and the London clergy have opposed Daniel's appointment at Crook.
2f
UC/M5/460 7 April 1668 & 1772
Letter from J.A. Comenus to Antonia Bourignon: offering spiritual advice (includes portrait dated 1772).
3f
UC/M5/461 [1690 x 1699]
Memoranda by Bishop James Smith “to be recommended to the P.P.” dealing with the virtues and life of the clergy including how to dispose of church money, general meetings, sacraments of penance and matrimony,
saying grace standing, catechising children, Gooden's school, and Barlow.
2f
UC/M5/462 29 November 1709
Printed letter from the London clergy to “each respective member of the clergy in the country” denying accusations of Jansenism among the clergy.
1 sheet
UC/M5/463 13 August 1850
Language: Latin
Printed celebrat by Bishop Nicholas Wiseman to Edward Consitt of the Northern District (endorsed for Ambroise and Paris).
This item is described as such in the printed catalogue but cannot be located.
UC/M5/464 1699
Manuscript of a Catholic hymn book.
32f
UC/M5/465a-b 2 March 1844
Language: English and Latin
Letter from William Riddell to Pope Gregory XVI: his acceptance of the coadjutorship going to Bishop Francis Mostyn.
English and Latin drafts.
2 letters
UC/M5/466 1701
Copies of documents concerning the history of English Catholics, taken from Dodd's
Church History.
40f
UC/M5/467
Number not in use
UC/M5/468 4 June 1733
Letter from Robert Witham to Mr Woolfe: statement on the Woolfe Fund.
1f
UC/M5/469 25 August 1783
Memorandum by Bishop Francis Petre on his will.
2f
UC/M5/470 16 January 1794
Language: Latin
Certificate of the baptism of Richard Thompson by John Worthington, signed by Richard Barrow.
1f
UC/M5/471 15 July 1795
Certificate confirming that Richard Thompson of Crook Hall has taken the oath (relating to the Roman Catholic Relief Act of 1791) at the Durham Quarter Sessions.
1f
UC/M5/472 26 September 1818
Letter from Robert Gradwell to Richard Thompson: Cardinal Litta's attitude to Stonyhurst's clash with Bishop Gibson.
1f
UC/M5/473 1807
Printed address of “several of His Majesty's Roman Catholic subjects to their Protestant fellow subjects” on the loyalty of Catholics; signed by John Douglass and 58 others (i.e. the new Catholic Committee or
Board).
7p
UC/M5/474 29 December 1886
Printed English translation by the Congregation of Sacred Rites of a decree confirming the honour given to the Blessed Martyrs John Cardinal Fisher, Thomas More and others put to death between 1535 and 1583.
4p
UC/M5/475 1791
Declaration and protestatation signed by the English Catholic dissenters in 1789, including the names of those who signed it.
13p
UC/M5/476 26 November 1814
Letter from William Croskell to Bishop William Gibson: the dress and titles of the nuns at the Bar Convent, York, during the time of hostility.
2f
Owned by St Cuthbert's, Old Elvet, Durham.
UC/M5/477 30 June 1816
Language: Italian and Latin
Letter from the Congregation of Propaganda to the Bar Convent, York: removing the convent from the jurisdiction of the superiores in Munich and placing it under the control of the Vicar Apostolic of the Northern District.
2f
UC/M5/478 6 July 1816
Letter from P. MacPherson (Rome) to Bishop William Gibson: sending a rescript for the Bar Convent, York (UC/M5/477), and James Stevenson in Naples wishing to leave the world and dedicate himself to God.
2f
Owned by St Cuthbert's, Old Elvet, Durham
UC/M5/479 20 May 1814
Elizabeth Shepherd (Mary Xaveria of the Infant Jesus) declaring her freedom to be professed as a Carmelite nun at Cocken Hall.
2f
Owned by St Cuthbert's, Old Elvet, Durham
UC/M5/480 20 March 1848
Letter from G.B. Pagani (Radcliffe College) to a bishop: commenting on an article in the
Tablet which had created an unfortunate impression on Pagani.
2f
UC/M5/481 [1780 x 1789]
Notebooks [by Matthew Gibson] on scripture.
3 volumes
UC/M5/482 6 February 1771
Photostat of John Lingard's certificate of baptism, carried out by James Nolan.
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