Catalogue of the Vincent Eyre Manuscripts

UC/P28/1/1 [?1810]
List by Rev John Kirk of cases of manuscripts belonging to the late Thomas Eyre or Nathaniel Eyre now in the possession of John Lingard
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UC/P28/1/2 [?1730]
Transcripts of the acts of parliament (tempore James I and Charles I) relating to the penal laws against Catholics
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UC/P28/1/3 [?1730]
Transcript of the Popery Act (An Act for the further preventing the Growth of Popery) 1698
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UC/P28/1/4 17 April 1730
Extract from an account of a will dispute involving Philip Dorrell of Coleshill, including the opinion of Raymond C.J. on the Popery Act of 1698
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UC/P28/1/5 23 February 1720
Printed case papers of Thornaby v. Fleetwood and 53 others concerning a claim on the estate of the late Lord Gerard (Catholic)
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UC/P28/1/6 9 February 1767
Judgement in the House of Lords on the case of Hobson (an infant) v. Meade concerning a claim on an estate under 2nd & 3rd Queen Anne, including the Lord Justice's criticisms of the penal laws
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UC/P28/1/7 1 November 1737
Opinion of J. Ward on Christopher Parker's case, and opinions of Henchman, Strahan, Reeve and Lutwyche on the right to wreckage in the Humber and Lea
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UC/P28/1/8 1727 - 18 October 1728
Account of the dispute over the estate of George Watkins
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UC/P28/1/9 12 May 1763
Legal opinion of R. Wilbraham in the case of Thomas Edward Clifford, son of Lord Hugh Clifford, who has purchased estates and holds a mortgage.
Wilbraham quotes the Act of 3rd Geo. IV “intended to encourage Roman Catholics to sell and Protestants to purchase their real estates”.
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UC/P28/1/10 11 January 1760
Legal opinion of Edmond Hoskins on a case relating to an estate left by Mrs Margaret Salkeld, and claimed by Ord, the Protestant next of kin
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UC/P28/1/11 1720
An account of the grounds of the suit prosecuted by the duchess of Hamilton against Thomas Fleetwood, esq, and his wife, for the estate of Lord Charles Gerard in the county of Stafford.
Includes a genealogy of the Gerard family
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UC/P28/1/12 3 July 1744
Legal opinion of Richard Challoner on the case of a girl entering a convent and making a promise by letter to put all her money at the disposal of her mother
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UC/P28/1/13 8 May 1775
Legal opinion of D. Ryder, Attorney-General, on the illegal marriage of Mrs Wyburn and the requirement of obtaining a military decree, and the possibility of the English Spiritual Court granting one
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UC/P28/1/14 15 May 1724
Account of a case relating to scruples of conscience over money, including the opinions of Edward Hawarden and John White
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UC/P28/1/15 [?1737]
Incomplete case of Jones & (Catherine) Meredith v. Watkins, relating to inheritance involving a Catholic daughter and Protestant son
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UC/P28/1/16 18 November 1762
Legal opinion by Wilbraham on the inheritance case of Anthony Carew
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UC/P28/1/17 [1720 x 1729]
Transcript of an act of parliament relating to the penalties for those receiving religious education abroad
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UC/P28/1/18 23 June 1759
Case of Johnson v. Thompson: action against a Catholic for not attending Protestant service, including the opinion of D. Poole
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UC/P28/1/19 [1720 x 1760]
Licence to assign between Sir Henry Hunloke and the earl of Besborough, and the opinion that the purchaser has a good title
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UC/P28/1/20 29 August 1762
Opinions of James Booth and the earl of Besborough in the case of Mr Wilmote on the time in which the oath must be taken by a Catholic
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UC/P28/1/21 6 January 1773
Opinion of Thomas Walker on John Lancaster's claim to the estate of Mercer of Rainhill.
Mercer of Rainhill died leaving estate to John Lancaster. He was advised by Booth to sell or mortgage the same. Ellen Thompson, living on one of the estates, refused to leave on the grounds that Lancaster was a Catholic and so the devisement was illegal. The opinion of Walker is that she cannot be ejected nor can the estate be mortgaged
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UC/P28/1/22 31 July 1764
Opinion of James Booth in the conveyancing case of Fairclaim v. Newland
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UC/P28/1/23 5 January 1738
Opinion of James Booth and Edwin Webley on the estate of the late Giles Meredith.
The case related to the Protestant wife of Meredith wishing to eject Meredith's Catholic sister
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UC/P28/1/24 28 April 1738
Notes on property held by the Dormers in the Chancery
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UC/P28/1/25 1758
Case of Carlos & Shuttlewood v. Dormer
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UC/P28/1/26 8 January 1738
Opinion of Fazakerley on the exercise of the penal laws in the case of J.B. a papist [?in the county of Lancaster]
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UC/P28/1/27 [18th century]
Transcript of 12th Anne c. 12 for the preventing of benefices simoniacally obtained, and forbidding Catholics to have the presentation of benefices, the right belonging to the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge
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UC/P28/1/28 25 October 1757
Answer of the earl of Stafford to the Chancellor of the University of Cambridge and James March of Queen's University in a dispute over the presentation of a benefice
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UC/P28/1/29 22 January 1756
Opinion of Wilbraham on a dispute over the selling of a right of presentation of a benefice by Lord Fairfax who was incapable by law of presenting to it
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UC/P28/1/30 [?1742]
[Unsigned] opinion on 12th Anne c. 12 relating to the lease or grant of an advowson
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UC/P28/1/31 9 February 1742
Opinion of N. Fazakerley that Catholics can legally grant or lease advowsons for a valuable consideration
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UC/P28/1/32 [?1762]
Case of the estate of Henry Williams, deceased.
The beneficiaries of his will are all Catholics and his heir at law (Gerald Williams) is a Catholic priest. A distant relative (Mrs Burnell) and the next heir after Williams was a Catholic but had conformed.
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UC/P28/1/33 5 January 1738
Opinion of W. Murray in the case of Giles Meredith, deceased
Case relating to the right of a Catholic next of kin to sell and mortgage a contested estate
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UC/P28/1/34 10 January 1738
Opinion of James Booth in the case of Giles Meredith's heirs
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UC/P28/1/35 9 November 1751
(1) Opinion of James Booth on the Plompton case and the capability of nuns re the inheritance of property when they enter a religious abroad
(2) Opinion of Robert Raymond in a case of a deed of trust of John Tasburgh and Frances his wife
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UC/P28/1/36 21 June 1753
Opinion of Fazakerley on removing the burden of maintaining a Catholic priest on the estate of the late Mr Adams following the proposed sale to Protestants
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UC/P28/1/37 30 October 1733
Opinion of P. Yorke in a dispute over the inheritance of John Courtenay
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UC/P28/1/38 12 May 1763 - 31 July 1764
(1) Opinion of James Booth in the case of Lord Teynham
(2) Opinion of R. Wilbraham in the case of Hugh Lord Clifford
Both cases involved purchases made by Protestants of estates acquired by Catholics contrary to law
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UC/P28/1/39 12 May 1763
Opinion of R. Wilbraham in the case of Hugh Lord Clifford (copy of UC/P28/1/38)
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UC/P28/1/40 [mid 18th century]
[Unsigned] opinion on the case of Lord Middleton questioning whether copyhold lands fall within the statute 11th & 12th William III
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UC/P28/1/41 [1720 - 1770]
[Unsigned] opinion on a conveyancing case under 3rd Geo. I.
The statement of the case is missing
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UC/P28/1/42 1745
Opinions of Wilbraham and D. Ryder (attorney-general) on the duke of Norfolk's answers in Talbot's case
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UC/P28/1/43 27 May 1746
Opinion of Richard Challoner (D.D.) on a case involving the estate of a Catholic who died intestate.
Challoner argues that the measure proposed is not unlawful or unbecoming to a Catholic
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UC/P28/1/44 6 May 1749
Opinions of Wilbraham and Fazakerley on a case involving the eviction of a Protestant purchaser
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UC/P28/1/45-46 16 February 1710
Case brief of Hamilton v. Fleetwood & Others.
Case relating to ejectment in the Court of Common Pleas
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UC/P28/1/47 9 May 1713
Judgement by Lord Justice Trevor, Court of the Common Bench, finding in favour of the defence in the case of Hamilton v. Fleetwood & Others
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UC/P28/1/48 [1720 x 1770]
Opinion of Metcalfe providing evidence of the catholicity of a certain Mrs Giffard through the wording of her epitaph
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UC/P28/1/49 31 July 1751
Lord Chancellor's judgement in the case of Harrison & Wife v Southcote & Moreland.
The case relates to the sale of land by Edmund Southcote and whether he was a Catholic before conveying the estates to the defendant
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UC/P28/1/50 [1720 x 1770]
Case of Smith v Read, relating to Mrs Paine devising her estate to Read and her heir-in-law marrying Smith and desiring a bill of discovery that Mrs Paine was a Catholic and therefore the inheritance is null
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UC/P28/1/51 6 May 1749
Opinion of Fazakerley (following Wilbraham's opinion) in the case of Fairclaim v Newland.
This case relates to the Catholic sale of land
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UC/P28/1/52 1749
Opinion of Fazakerley on a case involving the question of whether a Protestant purchaser living under a Catholic can be evicted
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UC/P28/1/53 [1720 x 1770]
Statement of Amy Smith (Catholic) in a unidentified case
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UC/P28/1/54 27 April 1740
Opinion of Browne on the case of John Thornton, Protestant heir-at-law to the estate of [W.W.] (a Catholic)
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UC/P28/1/55 22 February 1693
Opinion of [?Sampson] Ward on the proposal of the duchess of Norfolk, to sell her estate for her lifetime and draw an income to avoid paying double taxes
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UC/P28/1/56 16 August 1753
Opinion of Fazakerley in a case involving a Catholic trustee in a mortgage
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UC/P28/1/57 18 October 1733
Opinion of C. Talbot in a case involving the disputed inheritance of John Courtenay and the right of Paston and Chichester
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UC/P28/1/58 17 December 1756
Brief for the defence in the case of the University of Cambridge & Thomas Goodwin v Viscount Fairfax & Others.
The case relates to Lord Fairfax's advowson and his sale for a valuable consideration. The buyers were presented to the living but the University of Cambridge had already appointed Goodwin under 12th Anne c. 12
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UC/P28/1/59 April 1703
Opinion of Mr Harecourt, solicitor, on the case of the duke of Norfolk who is next of kin [to his estate] under the Acts of 11 & 12 Wm. III
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UC/P28/1/60 9 April 1701
Opinion of Edward Northey on UC/P28/1/59
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UC/P28/1/61 27 January 1702
Opinion of Edward Sutwyche on UC/P28/1/59, suggesting that the duke of Norfolk should not take the test
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UC/P28/1/62 8 December 1762
Opinion of James Booth in the case of Mostyn v. Wright.
The case relates to Wright acting on behalf of the French Jesuits in the raising of a loan for their West Indian Missions. A pencil note on this manuscript states that it is connected with the removal of the Jesuits from St Omers and makes reference to a letter of Alban Butler of 10 January 1763
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UC/P28/1/63 12 May 1763
Opinion of R. Wilbraham in a particular case questioning whether Edward Clifford (Catholic) can be made a good title to a Protestant mortgagee or purchaser
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UC/P28/1/64 31 July 1764
Opinion of James Booth in a case involving Lord Teynham
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UC/P28/1/65a [18th century]
Opinion of Fitzgibbon in the case of John Farrell
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UC/P28/1/65b 1 February 1715
Case of Edward Northy & Fortescue Alland to the L.L. [?] of the Treasury
This case relates to stewards at Preston attempting to raise money. The Crown is reminded that it is not entitled to profits from estates until High Treason is proved. They are asked to prevent cutting of timber except for personal profit of prisoners in cases where treason is not proved
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UC/P28/1/66 15 March 1765
Opinion of Booth and Wilbraham in the case of Sir Henry Hunloke (earl of Bath) v. Lord George Cavendish.
The case concerns a lease in Piccadilly by Hunloke who was a Catholic
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UC/P28/1/67 12 May 1763
See UC/P28/1/63
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UC/P28/1/68 31 July 1764
See UC/P28/1/64
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UC/P28/1/69 13 December 1774 - 9 May 1775
Opinions of Wedderburn and MacNamara on a case relating to an Irish Protestant who was converted and married a Catholic lady in France whose parents were Irish. He wishes to know his legal disabilities as to land, his marriage and the succession of his children
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UC/P28/1/70 8 August 1738
Opinion of N. Fazakerley in the case of [T.W.]
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UC/P28/1/71 [18th century]
[Unsigned] opinion in the case of Edwin v. Watkin
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UC/P28/1/72 16 December 1719
Draft of a proposed petition by the English Catholics to Rome concerning the Oath of Allegiance, displacement of Cardinal Gualteri, preventing the Pretender nominating Irish bishoprics, obtaining civil relief, and the danger of penalisation of property
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UC/P28/1/73 29 July 1760
Opinion of James Booth relating to the case of Francis Cholmley and his avoidance of a benefice under 12th Anne c. 14
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UC/P28/1/74 [18th century]
Case involving a Protestant next of kin who claims the estate of a Catholic man, who left his estate to two others
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UC/P28/1/75 [18th century]
Case of compassion for Mary Aylmer, widow of Garrett Aylmer, late of Lyons in the county of Kildare, Ireland
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UC/P28/1/76 [18th century]
[Unsigned] opinion that there are no popish recusant estates already forfeited by law
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UC/P28/1/77 8 August 1738
Opinions of N. Fazakerley and Peter Daly on Catholic estates in Ireland under the penal laws
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UC/P28/1/78 [1745]
Copy of a clause of 11th George II c.17 concerning the presentation of benefices belonging to Catholics
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UC/P28/1/79 1740
Opinions of Ryder, Browne K.C., and N. Fazakerley on mixed marriages between Catholics and Protestants
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UC/P28/1/80 10 February 1763
Opinion of James Booth in the conveyancing case of Mrs Stephens
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UC/P28/1/81 25 February 1757
Opinion of James Booth in an inheritance case advising Catholics to sell whatever they are in danger of losing to the penal laws
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UC/P28/1/82 [18th century]
Case of Smith v. Read
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UC/P28/1/83 17 October 1750
Opinion of Wilbraham on a clause in [A.B.'s] settlement
Case refers to UC/P28/79
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UC/P28/1/84 9 February 1742
Opinion of Fazakerley in a case involving the leasing of an advowson by a Catholic
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UC/P28/1/85 [18th century]
Letter from Robert [?] to George Wilmot: a tax case at Bank Newton, Yorkshire, over the double taxation of Christopher Greenwood
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UC/P28/1/86 28 May 1737
Opinions of G. Strahan and J. Andrew on the case of George Forster who has been left estates in France by Joanna Bowes
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UC/P28/1/87 15 January 1744
[Unsigned] opinion on the case of Mr Widdrington
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UC/P28/1/88 9 November 1751
Opinion of James Booth on the case of Robert Plompton.
The case relates to the succession to Plompton's estate by Ann and Cecily Plompton who were nuns at Cambrai
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UC/P28/1/89 9 May 1713
Judgement by Lord Justice Trevor in the case of John Thornby, lessee of the duke of Hamilton v. Thomas Fleetwood and others
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UC/P28/1/90 8 April [18th century]
“State of Mrs Fenwick's case on which appreciation is now making for a private Act of Parliament”
This case relates to Mrs Fenwick's attempts to obtain a real estate from the late Thomas Benson esq
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UC/P28/2/1 10 June 1765
Case involving the sale between Sir Henry Hunloke and William Sitwell esq of the manor of William Thorpe in the county of Derby
Also includes an abstract of Sir Henry Hunloke's title to a messuage in Piccadilly held by Lord Bath
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UC/P28/2/2 8 October 1722
Opinions of Robert Raymond and John Conyers in the sale of land by Lady Frances Winter (Catholic) to John Barber
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UC/P28/2/3 31 October 1722
Opinions of C. Phipps and Thomas Lubuyche on a case of a claim for tithes against William Witham by the vicars of Mansfield in the lordship of Clift
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UC/P28/2/4 27 March 1723
Opinion of Robert Raymond in the conveyancing case of one of the late directors of the South Sea Company (Mr Paston)
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UC/P28/2/5 4 January 1698 - 1 February 1715
Case involving the estates of the earls of Derwentwater.
The case involves the Radcliffe estates being left to Lady Margaret Radcliffe for life and then descending to James, earl of Derwentwater, who being attainted, the estates revert to the Commission for Forfeited Estates. Finding Lady Margaret was a Catholic, the commissioners sent an agent to administer the estates. However, the tenants refused to recognise the agents and continued to pay rents to Lady Margaret
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UC/P28/2/6 15 August 1723
Opinion of Robert Raymond on a case arising from the will of the above (UC/P28/2/2)
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UC/P28/2/7 28 August 1723
Case involving the administration of the right to crops on sown lands owned by “A” who has died in jail. The administrator of A's estate is his mother
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UC/P28/2/8 22 December 1725
Opinion of Thomas Pengelly on the case of the Rt Hon Lord Robert Petres, a Catholic, and his estate at Writtle in the county of Essex.
The case related to a difference over an ejectment order during the minority of Robert under the guardianship of his mother, Edward Southcote and Edward Caryle, who are reputed papists
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UC/P28/2/9 6 December 1727
Opinion of Nathaniel Pigot on a case involving the question of whether “A” (a Catholic) can legally sell advowsons by his marriage settlement
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UC/P28/2/10 [1728]
Opinion of D. Commons on a case involving the question of whether the wording of “casual profits” written into a land agreement made by the duke of Buckingham (in the reign of King Henry VIII) was still legally binding
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UC/P28/2/11 16 August 1729
Opinions of Nathaniel Pigot, Thomas Reeve and Thomas Lubuyche in the case of the manor of Cossing, mortgaged by Henry Hovils, William Wolly, Humphrey [?Shaleross], and Richard Rudyard, to Thomas Rich and Thomas Cockayne
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UC/P28/2/12 18 October 1728
Opinion of C.T. [?Abott] in the case of Mrs Jane Williams, [?daughter] of Mr Allan Horde and whether the latter is entitled to profits from Mrs Williams's trust estate
1f

UC/P28/2/13 1769
Opinion of Wilbraham in a case relating to the Yorkshire estate of John Wilkinson
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UC/P28/2/14 1738
Opinion on N. Fazakerley in the case of “T.B.”, a “papist”
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UC/P28/2/15 1753
Opinions of N. Fazakerley, Wilbraham and Filmer, on the case of earl Stafford and a forester.
The case questions how far a Protestant can safely lend to a Catholic on the security of land
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UC/P28/2/16 1762
Opinion of Wilbraham on a case relating to the duties of a trustee.
The case relates to a woman who wished to speculate and increase her capital
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UC/P28/2/17 1765
Opinion of Wilbraham on the case of the will of Henry Wells.
The case related to Wells devising all his real estate to his Catholic relations and friends and depriving his heir-at-law, a Protestant
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UC/P28/2/18 1762
Case relating to the will of Lord Teynham
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UC/P28/2/19 29 May 1759
Opinion of James Booth in the non-attendance at church of Sir Thomas Haggerston of Haggerston
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UC/P28/2/20 23 June 1759 - 1760
(1) Opinion of D. Poole on the case of Johnson v. Thompson relating to a charge of recusancy for non-attendance at church.
(2) Opinion of J.M. on the case of a Catholic gentleman charged with recusancy
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UC/P28/2/21 1761 - 1763
Opinions by J.M. and Wilbraham on a case relating to voluntary settlements and how far they precluded creditors
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UC/P28/2/22 23 November 1710
Case of Hamilton v. Fleetwood and others, relating to opposition towards the continuation of an injunction
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UC/P28/2/23 1769 - 1770
Opinions of Booth and Dunne on a case relating to the execution of the will of Roger Fryer
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UC/P28/2/24 10 April 1770
Opinion of John Maire on the case of John Johnson and his wife, Helena.
This case related to an agreement between John and Helena to separate and not to interfere with one another's affairs. Helena subsequently became an heir to an estate worth £2,000 pa. Maire raised the question of whether her husband could legally challenge her for possession of the estate
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UC/P28/2/25 2 February 1764
Opinion of R. Wilbraham on a case relating to the brother of two Catholics who claimed the estate from his sisters as his father's Protestant next of kin. Wilbraham considered that the brother's right of possession was merely personal and he could not claim the estate
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UC/P28/2/26 11 January - 8 June 1753
Opinions of D. Ryder and W. Murray on the right of a tenant (B) to deduct Land Tax from a property owned by the rector of (D)
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UC/P28/2/27 July 1756
Opinion of N. Fazakerley on a case involving land owned by Mrs Frances Wells and the right of succession to her nephew, Edward Sheldon
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UC/P28/2/28 1758
Opinion of J. Hardcastle on whether outstanding rents should be paid by the executors of an estate or his successor
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UC/P28/2/29 7 February 1764
Opinion of R. Wilbraham on a dispute over the entitlement to a legacy of the late Mrs Lucy to the executors of the late Henry Williams
1f

UC/P28/2/30 1745
Opinion of D. Ryder on an illegal marriage, the requirement of obtaining a military decree and the possibility of the English Spiritual Court granting one
1f
See also UC/P28/1/13

UC/P28/2/31 1752
Opinion of H. Fielding on the effects and persons of lunatics
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UC/P28/2/32 11 January 1760
Opinion of Edmond Hoskins on a case relating to an estate left by Mrs Margaret Salkeld, and claimed by Ord the Protestant next of kin
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Copy of UC/P28/1/10

UC/P28/2/33 1752 - 1758
Opinions of the Lord Keeper, D. Fazakerley and John Maine, on the will of Richard Tucker and a bequest of annuities to grandchildren provided they are Protestants.
The father (Booth) was a Catholic and considered that the eldest child could not decide the matter as he was only 14 and therefore annuities should be payable to the father
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UC/P28/2/34 2 - 29 March 1757
Opinion of C. Pratt on the case of Wright v. Specman relating to a disputed bond
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UC/P28/2/35 26 February 1759
Opinion of R. Wilbraham on a case involving the presentation of a living by an infant
The infant was not supposed to be a Catholic by law but was under the influence of their parents and, therefore, any presentation was null and void
1f

UC/P28/2/36 1764
Opinion of R. Wilbraham on Mrs Skipwith's disputed legacy to Mrs Wells
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UC/P28/2/37 23 February 1757
Opinion of James Booth on a case involving the succession of an estate to Catholics
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UC/P28/2/38 1756
Opinions of Fazakerley and Wilbraham on the estate of William Jackson.
Fazakerley and Wilbraham argued that a Catholic could make a perfectly good sale of land to a disinterested party despite the claims of a Protestant next of kin
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UC/P28/2/39 2 March 1764
Opinion of John Maire on a case involving the estates of John Marshall.
The case involved Mr Peters, who entered on these estates and was considered to be a reputable owner, although the heir-at-law was a Protestant. Maire argued that it would be quite safe for a Protestant to buy lands from Mr Peters
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UC/P28/2/40 3 April 1767
Opinion of John Maire on the case of Stephen Walter Tempest.
The case involved the refusal of a vicar to allow Tempest to bury his son in the church at Broughton. The vicar threatened to prosecute him as a Catholic
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UC/P28/2/41 24 March 1770
Opinion of James Booth on a case involving disposition to superstitious uses.
The case involved a bequest to a [?Catholic] charity
1f

UC/P28/2/42 17 July 1777
Opinion of the solicitor-general, Duanne, and Maddock on a case of inheritance relating to the estate of Mr Bellew, an Irish gentleman, and Mrs Dorias
1f

UC/P28/2/43 20 May 1777
Opinion of J. Dunning on the question of escaping disabilities on estates.
J. Dunning was of the opinion that a Catholic could:
(1) Buy land in the name of his son (an infant under 18 years and 6 months)
(2) Sell his expectancy in land
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UC/P28/2/44 27 June 1777
Opinion of G. Hill on the question of escaping disabilities on estates
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UC/P28/2/45 31 July 1751
Summary of case law and the opinion of Edmund Hoskins on Harrison (Mr & Mrs) v. Southcote & Moreland.
The case involved succession to an estate involving Catholics
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UC/P28/2/46 21 August 1777
Opinion of E. Thurlow on a case involving a Catholic who wished to purchase an estate in order to obtain a valid title
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UC/P28/2/47 [mid 18th century]
Abstract of laws relating to the estates of Catholics
6f

UC/P28/2/48 11 January 1762
Case of Bord Petre & Hon Anne Howard.
Proposal for a scheme of minutes for their marriage articles, with the consent of guardians on both sides
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UC/P28/2/49 [?1763]
Letter of James Booth to [?]: the affairs of Mr Pye
2f

UC/P28/2/50 23 August 1753
Opinion of James Booth on an intermarriage case of [?S] and [S.C.]
2f

UC/P28/2/51 12 May 1763
Opinion of R. Wilbraham on the case of Thomas Clifford
1f
See UC/P28/1/38

UC/P28/2/52 [?mid 18th century]
Manuscript copy of an act of parliament concerning the collation of benefices etc by a Popish recusant, including an appendix on the effect of the act in Scotland
3f

UC/P28/2/53 1 June 1772
Letter from John Lancaster to [?] Tomkinson: Mr Booth has passed on Lord Langdale's affairs to Mr Wilmot
1f

UC/P28/2/54 25 February 1756
Letter from [?Ricard] to Wilmot: the disposal by a Catholic of an advowson, with the opinion of Booth
1f

UC/P28/2/55 20 February 1756
Brief of a case: Cambridge University v. the archbishop of York and Lord Fairfax on the disposal by a Catholic of an advowson
5f
See UC/P28/2/54

UC/P28/2/56 [?late 18th century]
Newspaper report of parliamentary proceedings on a “Bill for the Better Securing Liberty of a Subject”
On the reverse of UC/P28/2/55

UC/P28/2/57 [?late 18th century]
Pictorial genealogy of the Howard (dukes of Norfolk) family
On reverse of UC/P28/2/55
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UC/P28/2/58 2 March 1746/7
Account of the trial of Lord Simon Lovat
On the everse of UC/P28/2/55
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UC/P28/2/59 29 February 1747/8
Extract of a letter from a gentleman in Scotland to a gentleman in York: account of occurrences in RR. Teviot and Kirtle, the princess of Villemont has brought about a match between the young Chevalier and Princess de Radzeveil
On the reverse of UC/P28/2/55
1f

UC/P28/2/60 March 1746/7
Account of proceedings during the execution of Lord Simon Lovat
1f

UC/P28/2/61 [?late 18th century]
Genealogical tree showing the lines of descent of John of Gaunt
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UC/P28/2/62 [?late 18th century]
Arguments for granting livings to Protestants by Catholics for full and valuable consideration
1f

UC/P28/2/63 3 May 1773
Case of quare impedit involving the earl of Stafford, the bishop of Norwich & others
1f

UC/P28/2/64 [?late 18th century]
Genealogy of the House of Norfolk, including a query as to who will inherit the title if the duke does not take the oath
1f

UC/P28/2/65 24 July 1744
Opinion of D. Ryder on the Catholic purchase of land
1f

UC/P28/2/66 16 November 1704
Letter from Nathaniel Pigot to Sir Robert Throckmorten: informing him that he has obtained Rowland Bartlett as security
1f

UC/P28/2/67 29 August 1762
Letter from James Booth to [George] Wilmot: Oath of Allegiance
1f

UC/P28/2/68 11 July 1763
Opinion of James Booth on the will of Sir Thomas Webb
1f

UC/P28/2/69 [mid 18th century]
Objections to the registration of Catholic estates
3f

UC/P28/2/70 23 September 1735
Pedigree of the Tasburgh family
1f

UC/P28/2/71 [September] 1735
Opinion of Dixon on a case relating to the Tasburgh livings
2f

UC/P28/2/72 [September] 1735
Letter from John Stallingfleet to Peter Fullyn: Dixon's opinion on the Tasburgh case
1f

UC/P28/2/73 2 September 1766
Letter from G. Wilmot to the duchess of Norfolk: marriage arranged between Lord Petre and Anne Howard and citing evidence of James Booth in having a Protestant trustee
2f

UC/P28/2/74 [mid 18th century]
Language: French
Opinion of J. [?Guijaun], Mangis of Louvain and C. Robert, Dr of Civil Law, on a case involving the religious orders and their property
1f

UC/P28/2/75 10 March 1754
Language: French
Opinion of Méchin on a marriage contract
2f

UC/P28/2/76 4 May 1730
Case of Matthias Arcedeckne and Wife v. James Hogan & Others
Appeal from Ireland at the Bar of the House of Lords.
Brief for the defence signed by P. Yorke and C. Talbot
2f

UC/P28/2/77 31 December 1748
Letter from James Booth to [?Lady Lichfield]: advising her that a Catholic needs to exercise caution with their estates
2f

UC/P28/2/78 [mid 18th century]
Manuscript copy of the Acts of 11th and 12th William III and 3rd George I
1f

UC/P28/2/79 [mid 18th century]
Commentary on the Penal Laws and their effect on Catholics' disposal of property
8f

UC/P28/2/80 4 February 1763
Letter from James Booth to Lord Langdale: Lord Montague's affairs, [?selling a parliamentary borough], and [?Gallican] criticism of “Papalians” and distinguishing between genuine Catholics and those that are led by priests
2f

UC/P28/2/81 3 March [?1760]
Letter from James Booth to [?]: delay in sending a draft of a document
2f

UC/P28/2/82 [early 18th century]
Opinion of Nathaniel Pigot on Francis Carington's will (devisees and legatees are all Catholics)
2f

UC/P28/2/83 11 March 1720
Unsigned opinion on Dame Frances's will (devisees and legatees are all Catholics)
1f

UC/P28/2/84 [early 18th century]
Opinion of Nathaniel Pigot on the will of Sir Roger Hall
3f

UC/P28/2/85 10 March 1725
John Goodright v. John Shepherd & Others.
Brief for the defence, signed by [?] D'Anvers
2f

UC/P28/2/86 12 December 1748
Opinion of Fazakerley on Wright v. Charles Specman
4f
See UC/P28/2/34

UC/P28/2/87 23 September - 22 December 1752
Opinion of Edmund Hoskins and N. Fazakerley in a case involving Catholics in the sale of real estate
3f

UC/P28/2/88 [?mid 18th century]
Document entitled “Alterations which Mr Berkeley and his son would have made in the draft of the settlement”
1f

UC/P28/2/89 26 April 1742
Opinion of D. Ryder (attorney-general) and Daley in the case of Coleman v. Burke in Ireland
7f

UC/P28/2/90 1720
Duchess of Hamilton v. Fleetwood & Others
Brief for the defence
2f
See UC/P28/1/11

UC/P28/2/91 [?mid 18th century]
Cox v. Symonds
Opinion of [?Pigot] of the advowson granted to Cox by Gilbert, earl of Shrewsbury
3f

UC/P28/2/92 1720
Effect on the affairs of the duke of Norfolk of the legal construction of 11 c. 12 William III
1f

UC/P28/2/93 3 February 1749
Davis & Shackstaff v. Pine & Hughes
Chancery case relating to John Evans, who is a Catholic, cannot inherit an estate and Hughes is the Protestant next of kin
9f

UC/P28/2/94 [?mid 18th century]
Case involving information against William Fermor of Rotherfield, Sussex, & John Shorthouse, in the Exchequer
3f

UC/P28/2/95 [?mid 18th century]
Case involving Henry Fermor, Ralph Sheldon, Thomas Stonor & Winifred Brooks against a bill brought in for the better discovery of superstitious uses.
This case relates to the English Jesuits at St Omer
4f

UC/P28/2/96 18 January 1729
James Backhouse v. Richard Biddulph.
Case involving Richard Biddulph who was a Catholic and could not take Sir William Goring's estate
3f

UC/P28/2/97 25 March 1700
Regina v. Giffard & Others (Martin and Hughes).
Brief for the defendants in a case involving accusations made against Joseph Giffard, a Catholic bishop, saying mass in the parish of St Giles
1f

UC/P28/2/98 [?mid 18th century]
Case of Thomas Earleston and his succession to his father (Henry's) estate, involving whether the sheriff has the legal right to take possession of the estate because of its use for “superstitious purposes”
1f

UC/P28/2/99 [?early 18th century]
Substance of a petition and answers to matters objected in a bill relating to superstitious uses
3f

UC/P28/2/100 1703
Poem on the Padley Martyrs
5f

UC/P28/2/101 [early 18th century]
Regina v. Boson
Brief for the defence: the defendant was arrested in the house of Mr Sheldon of Weston (taken as a priest for Warwick Gaol)
1f

UC/P28/2/102 1716
Articles of impeachment of high treason against Lords Derwentwater, Widdrington, Nithsdale, Winton, Carrwath, Kenmere, and Nainor
4f

UC/P28/2/103 [early 18th century]
Petition to parliament relating to lands applied for the use of foreign seminaries signed by Lewis Gerard, J. Denham, Timothy Soole, and Samuel Dudley
1f

UC/P28/2/104 1747
Document entitled “Account of expenses paid and to be paid upon the returns of the Justices of Lancashire of the persons in that county who refused or neglected to take the oaths etc.”
1f

UC/P28/2/105 8 September 1745
King v. Revet (John) & Anderson.
Presentation by a grand jury of two priests for trial for exercising their office.
Signed by Knutsford
1f

UC/P28/2/106 27 December 1745
Recusants (including John Green, John Revet, Thomas Wilson, Luke Cooper, Martin Hounshill, William Anderson) committed to York Castle following a warrant for high treason issued by the duke of Newcastle
1f

UC/P28/2/107 2 February 1674/5
Address to Sir John Osborne of a draft commission to or warrant to seize two-thirds of the lands of recusants in certain counties
1f

UC/P28/2/108 1746
Petition by William Hesketh and Thomas Brockholes to the king pointing out that oaths to be taken are of a religious nature and that failure to take them would outlaw Catholics
1f

UC/P28/2/109 [1746]
Petition by the Lancashire magistrates to the king on the refusal of the clerk of the peace to record convictions against Catholics.
Signed by magistrates
1f

UC/P28/3/1 12 June 1691
Letter from Henry, duke of Norfolk, to the Rt Hon the Lord Commissioners for the Custody of the Great Seal of England: property in Norfolk and Suffolk (including dissolved monasteries)
1f

UC/P28/3/2 1716
Great Britain, An act to oblige Papists to register their names and real estates (London, 1716)
8f

UC/P28/3/3 [?1760]
A list of the names of the High-Sheriffs, for the county of Derby, since the reign of Queen Elizabeth
1 sheet

UC/P28/3/4 [early 18th century]
Petition from Thomas, duke of Norfolk, to parliament, for relief from certain effects of the act for further preventing the growth of popery
1f

UC/P28/3/5 [early 18th century]
Brief on the effect upon Thomas, duke of Norfolk, of an act of parliament which he considers to be introspective
1f

UC/P28/3/6 [?1729]
Letter from Alexander Pope to his sister: advice received from a lawyer on her husband's death, and a mortgage
1f

UC/P28/3/7 [early 18th century]
Petition from Thomas, duke of Norfolk, to parliament, for leave to bring in a bill to purchase a capital messuage in St James Square belonging to Lord Frederick Howard
1f

UC/P28/3/8 9 July 1729
Letter from Alexander Pope to his sister (Mrs Racket): legal matters resulting from her husband's death
1f

UC/P28/3/9 28 July 1729
Letter from Alexander Pope to his sister (Mrs Racket): his arrival at Lord Peterborough's, he is in good health
1f

UC/P28/3/10 [?1720]
Petition from Thomas, duke of Norfolk, to the king, for leave to bring in a bill to purchase a capital messuage in St James Square belonging to Lord Frederick Howard
3f

UC/P28/3/11 22 November [?1737]
Letter from Alexander Pope to his sister (Mrs Racket): his safe arrival in Bristol, and the purchase of the Hall Grove estate
2f

UC/P28/3/12 22 January 1738
Letter from Alexander Pope to his sister (Mrs Racket): the possible seizure of the Hall Grove estate because of its Catholic owners and as security for debt, advising sale to a Protestant and suggesting what to do with the money, and agreeing to advance the Racket family £100
2f

UC/P28/3/13 [early 18th century]
Extract from an act of parliament ordering that laws will not pass by will to a Catholic
1f

UC/P28/3/14 20 July 1723
Certification by the Commissioners for Forfeited Estates that Thomas Eccleston of Eccleston, Lancashire, has become a Jesuit and has therefore forfeited his estates
1f

UC/P28/3/15 [early 18th century]
Extract frm an act of parliament enabling Catholics to take lands by way of mortgage
1f

UC/P28/3/16 1715
Answer by Lord William Widdrington to the articles of impeachment for high treason
2f

UC/P28/3/17 [?1716 x 1720]
Petition by Peregrave Widdrington (brother of Lord William Widdrington) to the king seeking a free pardon in respect of the penalties of attainder forbidding him to receive any gift or legacy
1f

UC/P28/3/18 1715
Address of [?Lord Widdrington] to [?the House of Lords] seeking clemency in respect of high treason
2f

UC/P28/3/19 [?1743]
Draft of an inscription for the tomb of Lord William Widdrington
1f

UC/P28/3/20 [?1743]
Great Britain, Act for the relief of William, late Lord Widdrington, in respect to some of the disabilities occasioned by his Attainder
3p

UC/P28/3/21 1701
Pedigree of Thomas, duke of Norfolk, to answer a query relating to who is the next of kin
1f

UC/P28/3/22 [?1720]
Draft petition from Thomas, duke of Norfolk, to parliament, for leave to bring in a bill to purchase a capital messuage in St James Square belonging to Lord Frederick Howard
3f
See UC/P28/3/7 and UC/P28/3/10

UC/P28/3/23 [early 18th century]
Memorandum by Lord Thomas Howard on the basis on act of parliament to review his attainder in view of incumbent debts on the present duchess of Norfolk
2f

UC/P28/3/24 [early 18th century]
Petition from Mrs Mary Aylmer to Sir Robert Walpole asking that she should not, at present, be required to produce her son in the court of chancery in Ireland
2f

UC/P28/3/25 [early 18th century]
Language: French
Account by King Louis XIII of his birth caused by his mother's sea-sickness in 1637
1f

UC/P28/3/26 1774
Newspaper cutting of an act of parliament for making more effectual provision for the government of the province of Quebec
1 sheet

UC/P28/3/27 1773
Newspaper cutting concerning objections to a bill to secure the payment of rents by Catholics to Protestants on mortgages of land, tenements or hereditaments in Ireland
1 sheet

UC/P28/3/28 [late 18th century]
Rules for the Registry Office in Dublin
2f

UC/P28/3/29 [late 18th century]
[?Petition] from Edward Blount to [?] to recommend to His Majesty to take his Catholic subjects into his protection
1f

UC/P28/3/30 1710
Extract of a release by John Thornton of Nether Witton, Northumberland, to Thomas Eyre, Rt Hon James earl of Derwentwater, and others
1f

UC/P28/3/31 1716
Abstract of the bill for obliging papists to register their names and real estates
2f

UC/P28/3/32 1717
Claim by Thomas Eyre, of Eastwell in the county of Leicester, for himself and certain Thorntons of Nether Witton of Northumberland, to a lease or release of land for 100 years for certain purposes
9f

UC/P28/3/33 [early 18th century]
Discourse on the lawfulness of combats to be performed in the presence of the king
4f

UC/P28/3/34 1772
Great Britain, An Act to vest in trustees, to be sold certain estates in the counties of York, Westmorland, and Lancaster, which belonged to Ann Fenwick, widow, before her intermarriage, and for the relief of the said Ann Fenwick, in such manner as in the said act is mentioned (London, 1772)
16p

UC/P28/3/35 [?1723]
Draft Act of Parliament to explain and amend the Act for vesting the estates of Sir Gervase Clifton to enable him to purchase an estate
8f

UC/P28/3/36 26 November 1742
Document entitled “Land Tax since the Revolution printed in the London Daily Post 26th Nov 1742”
1f

UC/P28/3/37 [18th century]
Abstract of the Popery Laws of Ireland
8f

UC/P28/3/38 1774
Note on the right of Protestants to use Bills of Discovery against Catholic estates
1f

UC/P28/3/39 [?1716]
Reasons humbly offered for enlarging the time for registering [relating to the act for registering Catholic estates]
1f

UC/P28/3/40 [18th century]
Reasons humbly offered against two bills (an Act to explain and amend an Act instituted for registering the popish clergy, and an Act for the better putting in execution of the laws and statutes made in this kingdom for banishing popish regulars and papists)
1f

UC/P28/3/41 [?1705]
Clause from an act limiting the privilege of Protestant heirs to papist estates
1f

UC/P28/3/42 29 September 1705
Clause from the same act barring from its effects any Catholics over 21 years of age
1f

UC/P28/3/43 [?1705]
Clause from the same act permitting the wife of a Catholic to enjoy property settled in jointure before marriage
1f

UC/P28/3/44 [?1705]
Identical or similar copy of UC/P28/43
1f

UC/P28/3/45 [early 18th century]
Notes on the effect of an act of parliament giving the right of a Protestant next of kin to seize the estate of a Catholic
2f

UC/P28/3/46 1691
Legal opinion on the case of Sarah Farrell, an Irish Catholic with lands in Galway, Roscommon and Sligo
12f

UC/P28/3/47 [early 18th century]
Case of Sir Lawrence Anderton (a Catholic) and his inheritance to an estate
2f

UC/P28/3/48 1753
Great Britain, Act for allowing further time for inrolment of deeds and wills made by papists; and for relief of Protestant purchasers (London, 1753)
9f

UC/P28/3/49 [18th century]
Great Britain, Bill to explain and amend an Act made in the third year of the reign of His Late Majesty King George the First, entituled, an Act for explaining an Act passed the last session of Parliament, entituled, an Act to oblige papists to register their names and real estates, and for enlarging the time of such registering, and for securing purchases made by Protestants; and for securing the estates of papists, who are or shall become Protestants, against the disabilities created by several Acts of Parliament relating to papists
3p

UC/P28/3/50 [?1738]
Extract from a section of an act preventing Catholics fraudulently exercising a right to present to a benefice, prebend, or ecclesiastical living etc.
2f

UC/P28/3/51 [?1716]
Objections against the bill for appointing commissioners [to deal with the estates of those Catholics who have committed high treason since June 1715]
2f

UC/P28/3/52 [early 18th century]
Draft of a bill to disable Catholics over 18 from inheriting estates unless they take certain oaths and make a declaration, although it will not make void the appointment by Thomas, duke of Norfolk, of Lord Henry Walden as a marshal of England
3f

UC/P28/3/53 [early 18th century]
Extract from a bill to enable Catholics to take manors, lands, etc. by way of mortgage
1f

UC/P28/3/54 [early 18th century]
Draft of a section of a bill enabling Catholics to take manors, lands, etc. by way of mortgage
2f

UC/P28/3/55 [?1739]
Epitaph of Thomas Howard of Greystock
1f

UC/P28/3/56 [early 18th century]
Draft of a Bill enabling Catholics to provide for family or to pay debts out of their estates by their last will and testaments, as well as other reliefs
4f

UC/P28/3/57 [?1753]
Great Britain, An Act for the better preventing of clandestine marriages (London, 1753)
9f

UC/P28/3/58 1746
A letter from a Catholic gentleman to his Protestant friend (London, 1746)
A defence of the loyalty of English Catholics during the Jacobite rebellion
8p

UC/P28/3/59 1717
Great Britain, An Act for the further security of His Majesties person and government, and the succession of the Crown in the heirs of the late Princess Sophia, being Protestants; and for extinguishing the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales, and his open and secret abetters (London, 1717)
16p

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