Reference code: GB-0298-UC/M3
Title: Ushaw Collection of Manuscripts: Volume III
Dates of creation: 1501-1789
Extent: 1 volume
Held by: Ushaw College Library
Language: Mostly English and Latin. The documents are in English unless otherwise stated in the item record.
Volume III of the Ushaw Collection of Manuscripts covers a wide range of subjects relating to Catholic history, including: Pope Clement XIV's suppression of the Jesuits in 1773; the fate of the Jesuits in England; the Marriage Act and its
implications for Catholics marrying in Protestant churches; the appointment of vicars apostolic, coadjutors and priests; other internal Catholic matters.
Volume III was compiled and bound in 1936 by the late Mgr Bernard Payne who was librarian at Ushaw from 1930 until 1977. Acquired at different times from many different sources.
Open for consultation.
Permission to make any published use of material from the collection must be sought in advance from ushaw.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 IIIUC/M3/1 14 February 1502
Language: Latin
Letter from Dom. Henry Thew, monk of Durham, to Dr Thomas Swalwell, warden of Durham College, Oxford: dealing with priory business, mostly account payments
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Found as bookmarker in a book formerly belonging to Durham priory.
This item is displayed in the Big Library at the end of sections XI-XII
UC/M3/2 9 May 1631
Language: Latin
Copy of letter from Urban VIII,
“Britannia non minus”, addressed to Bishop Richard Smith on the controversy between regulars and seculars (copy made on 9 August 1631)
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UC/M3/3 11 January 1605
Letter from Joseph Smithson to Gilbert Talbot, 7th earl of Shrewsbury: details of the repair of the earl's house at Roughforthe
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UC/M3/4 26 March 1596
Language: Spanish
“Discurso a Su Magd de las cosas de Inglaterra”: advice sent to Philip II about the successor to Queen Elizabeth suggesting that an Englishman should be made a cardinal
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UC/M3/5-6 23 July 1615 - [1703]
Language: Latin
Letter from Pope Paul V to William Harrison (copy): faculties for Archpriest (UC/M3/6 is a copy made in c.1703).
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UC/M3/7 14 August 1625
Copy of a proclamation by King Charles I recalling his subjects from the seminaries beyond the seas and putting the laws against Jesuits and popish priests into execution
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UC/M3/8 28 June 1705
Memoranda on a trust established by Mr Maxfield (alias John Melling) and Mrs Elizabeth Tarleton for single women and the secular clergy, mostly detailing its history from the 1630s
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UC/M3/9 2 February 1648/49
Articles made between Edward Tarleton and Elizabeth Tarleton, his sister
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UC/M3/10 [?1651]
Priest-catchers list
Signed by James Wadsworth, Francis Newton, Thomas Mayo, and Robert de Luke
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UC/M3/11 21 August 1659
Language: Latin
Printed declaration by Pope Alexander VIII condemning
Apologie pour les casuistes contre les calomnies des Jansenistes
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UC/M3/12 26 May 1660
Language: French
Copy of letter from Charles II to [Princess Henriette-Anne], describing his reception in England
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UC/M3/13 23 April 1662
Copy of letter of Dean Humphrey Ellis giving faculties to Lord Aubigny for the marriage of Charles II to Catherine of Braganza. Includes a note on the implied acceptance of the Old Chapter (copy made in 1831).
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UC/M3/14 19 March 1667/68
Language: Latin
George Catterick giving faculties to William Pearson
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UC/M3/15 21 June 1670
Language: Latin
Constitution by Pope Clement X (
“Superni magni Patrisfamilias praeordinatione”) declaring the privileges of regulars in preaching and hearing confessions
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UC/M3/16-17 1 June 1671
Memoranda and copies of letters on the Tarleton trust, including the history of the trust and testimony from John Mullins (alias Beesley)
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UC/M3/18 20 February 1674
Order from Charles II to Lord Widdrington to disband four companies of his regiment, with particulars of the disposal of officers and arms
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UC/M3/19 1 March 1676 - 1 February 1678
“Status Collegii Anglicani Doucensis”: list of persons and summary accounts at Douai College (copy of a manuscript in the Weldbank archives).
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UC/M3/20 24 October 1682
Letter from Edward Lutton to [?] (addressed to Madame Meynell, Dalton, Yorks): sending Latin transcripts including:
Congregation of Indulgences abolishing several indulgences (7 March 1678)
Decree from the Inquisition: “Decree Adversus Confraternitates Mancipiorum Matris Dei” (5 July 1673)
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UC/M3/21 20 June 1679
Account of five Jesuit priests executed at Tyburn (John Fenwick, John Gavan, William Harcourt, Antony Turner and John Whitbread)
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UC/M3/22 10 January 1681
Language: Latin
Declaration by Philip Howard, cardinal of Norfolk, testifying that he has given relics of SS Liberatus and SS Victoria to Lord Widdrington
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UC/M3/23 15 April 1681
Language: Latin
Declaration by Philip Howard, cardinal of Norfolk, granting faculties to John Blackburn
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UC/M3/24 29 August 1685
Language: Latin
Letter from Pope Innocent XI to Bishop John Leyburn (copy): granting faculties
With a note made by a vicar apostolic (probably George Witham)
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UC/M3/25-26 31 December 1685
Language: Latin
Bishop John Leyburn (copies): decree on the observance of the feasts of St Gregory and St Thomas of Canterbury
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UC/M3/27 [1700]
Will of Richard Barting of Melling, Lancashire, leaving his property for the support of the indigent secular clergy to the trustees, naming Bishop Smith, John Martin, Christopher Tootell, and Robert Brown
2f
UC/M3/28 1 June 1688
Declaration by the vicars apostolic, secular and regular clergy, on the practice of putting out money on good security for certain gain, with the power of calling in the principal and without lucrum cessans or
damnum emergens is usury (copy)
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UC/M3/29 13 May 1691
Rules and constitution of the Secular Clergy Fund of Durham and Northumberland (copy). Confirmed in May 1703
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UC/M3/30 2 April 1691
Letter from B.B. to Bishop James Smith: the question of whether sponsalia with a Protestant be broken under certain conditions including exposing an illegitimate child, clipping or coining, incest, and impediment to
marriage
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UC/M3/31 8 August 1691
Letter from [?Bishop James Smith] to [?Edward Barlow]: fifteen cases of conscience and their solutions
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UC/M3/32 19 August 1691
Letter from R[obert] V[inter] to [Bishop James Smith]: agreeing to resign his parish for a sum of money (half of which will go to Ward), his fears over disablement and who will support him, rejecting accusations of simony, asking whether he can
be removed from Yorkshire to London
1f
UC/M3/33a [September 1691]
Letter from R[obert] V[inter] to [Bishop James Smith]: defending himself against accusations of simony, listing his income, agreeing to take Ward as his assistant, declaring that he has not neglected his instructions
1f
UC/M3/33b 5 September 1691
Letter from Bishop James Smith to R[obert] V[inter]: accusing him of simony and of neglecting his parish, offering him Ward as his assistant, promising him £5 p.a. for three years if he resigns his charge
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UC/M3/34 22 January 1692
Language: Latin
Patent by Bishop James Smith appointing George Crook as rural dean of Lonsdale
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UC/M3/35 7 March 1692/93
Letter from Bishop John Smith to Edward Barlow: the settlement of the fund, the lack of jurisdiction of the chapter, the charitable collection being made among the gentry as well as the clergy, the death of Trafford, Roger Anderton
2f
UC/M3/36 29 May 1693
Letter from Bishop John Smith to Edward Barlow: his intention to offer the whole pension to the incumbent (Mr Brockholes), the importance of catechising and instruction, the need to examine Gooding's boys (intended for Douai College)
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UC/M3/37 9 April 1695
Letter from Bishop John Smith to Edward Barlow: Gooding and Martin (brother and sister-in-law) offering a charitable donation of tithes and property to enable them to be admitted to the sacraments so long as there is no scandal concerning their
decision to live together, the death of Anderton, his good relationship with the chapter, the agent at Rome desiring separate chapters, his wish to avoid appointing priests from London, Brockholes, the parish at Croston and Leyton, the death of
Dalton, Barlow's new watch
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UC/M3/38 6 October 1695
Language: Latin
Decree from the Congregation of Propaganda on the subjection of regulars to the vicars apostolic
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UC/M3/39 31 December 1695
Letter from Bishop John Smith to [Edward Barlow]: his reluctance to give confessional faculties to an Irish Franciscan and seeking Barlow's advice on the teaching of their children, Anderton's death, his view that chapter has no jurisdiction so
there can be no archdeacons, the reception of the decree on regulars among the Jesuits and the Benedictines, details of several priests
1f
UC/M3/40 26 September 1696
Language: Latin
Congregation of Propaganda to the Vicars Apostolic: answering queries on ruling a district sede vacante, extending faculties and powers of dispensation, and publishing indulgences
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UC/M3/41-42 5 October 1696
Congregation of Propaganda (
“Alias a particulari Congregatione” on Pope Innocent XII's confirmation of the decree of 6 October 1695 concerning the cessation of the regulars' privileges (two copies, authenticated by Challoner).
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UC/M3/43 27 May 1697
Letter from Bishop James Smith to [Richard] Jameson: ordering him to go to Bardsea or Holywell or he will lose his faculties
2f
UC/M3/44 25 March 1698
Language: Latin
Agreement between Richard Towneley of Towneley to pay £400 or £200 to Charles Towneley . Signed, sealed and witnessed
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UC/M3/45 [1700]
Language: Latin
Blank patent from Bishop James Smith for a vicar-general for Yorkshire, Durham, and Northumberland
2f
UC/M3/46 10 October 1699
Letter from Bishop James Smith to [?]: informing him that, although his powers as vicar-general cover only part of the district, his powers to give faculties are valid for the whole district
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UC/M3/47 [1760 x 1769]
Language: Mainly Spanish, with some Latin and English
Copies of letters and documents relating to the English College in Valladolid mainly concerning the oath with obligation to serve on the English mission and the question of the number of students joining the Jesuits
These documents are allegedly from the college's archives
56f
UC/M3/48
Number not in use
UC/M3/49 [?early 18th century]
Case papers relating to inferior Catholic gentlemen, both farmers and freeholders, in reference to the obligation laid upon them to force their Protestant servants to an exact observation of Lent and other fasting days and holydays
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UC/M3/50 [1760 x 1769]
Document on the Johnson Fund (of the Midland District) for the maintenance of superannuated or disabled secular clergy
Documents and funds in possession of Bishop Hornyold and Mr Walton of London
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UC/M3/51 [?1693]
[?Bishop James Smith] to Edward Paston: reproving him for his unsatisfactory conduct of the presidency of Douai College
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UC/M3/52 [?early 18th century]
Language: Latin
Letter from [?Thomas Ladhue] to Mgr Gonsales (draft): asking for absolution from any penalties of apostasy incurred by a Dominican in minor orders (Joseph Brunt)
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UC/M3/53 [?early 18th century]
Letter from G.B. to [?Alban Butler]: the likely offence caused to Protestants from his work
1f
UC/M3/54 28 March 1702
Letter from Mr Longville to Lady Howard of Worksop (at Standon Lordship by Ware): claims of relief in Ireland, claims of honour at the coronation in 1702
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UC/M3/55 25 May 1702
Language: Latin
Letter from the Congregation of Propaganda to the vicars apostolic (copy): decreeing the following:
No matrimonial dispensations nor indulgences should be given without the vicars apostolics' consent
Regulars professed abroad, especially Irish Capuchins, should leave the kingdom
No easy dispensations to secular priests or students to enter religion should be given
Validation of the decree of 1688 establishing the northern district
Restriction of the privileges of religious
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UC/M3/56 1703
Rules and instructions of the Sodality of the Immaculate Conception (copy from a printed source).
4f
UC/M3/57 23 February 1708
Language: Latin
Letter from Bishop James Smith to Cardinal Capara (draft): clearing the secular clergy of the charge of Jansenism
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UC/M3/58 2 July 1707
Letter from A.B. to [?Richard Short]: accusing him of preferring money to religion
2f
UC/M3/59 11 June 1708
Letter from B.P. to Gerard Coonan: informing him that Coonan's nephew may marry a rich gentlewoman (Mascarani) but not without Coonan's consent
2f
UC/M3/60 13 June 1708
Language: Latin
Pope Clement XI:
“Universi Dominici gregis” (copy): condemnation of Pasquier Quesnel's Le nouveau testament en français avec des réflexions morales
1f
UC/M3/61 10 April 1709
Will of Bishop James Smith
Signed, sealed and witnessed
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UC/M3/62 20 April 1709
Instructions accompanying the will of Bishop James Smith, giving details to his trustees (copy)
2f
UC/M3/63 1759
Extracts from Tobias Smollet's
A complete history of England, vol. 9, concerning the Lancaster Plot of 1694
2f
UC/M3/64 [April 1691]
Letter from Bishop James Smith to B.B.: answering queries relating to cases of conscience
2f
UC/M3/65 [?18th century]
Papal document:
Ex emineti Principis Apostolorum sede
2f
UC/M3/66 29 November 1709
Printed letter from the London clergy to each respective member of the clergy in the country on the mistaken reports of Jansenism among the clergy, as witnessed by the declarations of each of the vicars apostolic, and of the provincial of the
Jesuits
This item is described as above but cannot be located, 4 December 2012
UC/M3/67 9 July 1710
Language: French
Serment de fidélité
Addressed to the States General of the United Provinces
1f
UC/M3/68 1711
Index by Christopher Tootell to the contents of letters from Bishop James Smith to Edward Barlow and others, 1692 - 1711
1f
UC/M3/69-70 20 April 1709
Extracts of the will of Bishop James Smith, with comments
3f
UC/M3/71 20 November 1711
Language: Latin
Letter from Michele Tamburini, General, and the procurators of the Society of Jesus congregated in Rome to Clement XI (copy): declaration of obedience to the decree of Chinese rites
1f
UC/M3/72 17 February 1711
Language: Latin
Copy of UC/M1/86
2f
UC/M3/73a 26 March 1715
Language: Latin
Letter from Cardinal Paolucci to the president, convictors and alumni of Douai College: commending them for their acceptance of the constitution
Unigenitus against Jansenism
2f
UC/M3/73b 17 February 1711
Copy of UC/M1/86
1f
UC/M3/74 26 September 1712
Will of Cuthbert Morley of Thurnham, Lancashire, leaving the residue of his estate to support a priest in Hornby and Claughton
3f
UC/M3/75 19 March 1716
Language: Latin
Letter from Pope Clement XI to Bishop George Witham: faculties for five years
Signed by Cardinal Spada for the Inquisition
3p
UC/M3/76 29 September 1717
Copy of a clause for repealing a clause in an Act of Parliament obliging Protestants to enrol purchases made and leases taken of papists
2f
UC/M3/77 10 October 1716
Language: French
Letter from the nuncio at Brussels (Vincenzo Santini) to Bishop John Talbot Stonor (copy): unacceptable proposals to add to a simple oath of loyalty to the king
2f
UC/M3/78 [1730 x 1739]
Language: Latin and English
Settlement by Bishop Dominc Williams of a case of conscience for Sir Edward Gascoigne, executor of a will leaving money to English Benedictine monasteries at Lamspring, Dieulouard and Paris
Includes an extract from the will
3f
UC/M3/79 [?1604]
Language: Latin
Instructions by the nuncio at Brussels to Dr William Gifford (dean of Lille) to foster peace and loyalty to the king among English Catholics
1f
UC/M3/80 1720
Memorial by [Thomas Strickland] on the method of raising £100,000 from the estates of Roman Catholics
Includes a French translation of the preface of Laurence Mayes's
Du juramentis (1720), published at Rome in favour of the Pretender
6f
UC/M3/81 1726
Copy of unsigned note extracting an entry from the marriage register of the parish of Lancaster, 1725-1726, relating to John Walmsley, Agnes Berry, Quarmoor, by a popish priest (copied 4 December 1844).
1f
UC/M3/82 15 January 1725
Language: Latin
Congregation of the Index condemning the English translation of the Montpellier Catechism (copied from the printed version).
1f
UC/M3/83 11 July 1726
Language: Latin
Letter from Pope Benedict XIII to Bishop Dominic Williams (copy): granting faculties
Authenticated by the nuncio at Brussels, 29 February 1728
2f
UC/M3/84 1727
Copies of oaths of allegiance, supremacy, abjuration, and the declaration against transubstantiation
4f
UC/M3/85 [April 1727]
Letter from Thomas Gibson to [?] (New Elvet, Durham): rumoured relaxation of the Lenten fast in the Northern District
Includes a copied letter from James Barker (alias Rigby) who says he published no such relaxation
1f
UC/M3/86 [1740]
Notes by Bishop Dominic Williams summarising his confirmations in 1728, with brief notes on other events during his episcopacy
2f
UC/M3/87
Number not in use
UC/M3/88 15 January 1729/30
Letter from Bishop Dominic Williams to Nicholas Lamb (Coxhoe): specifying Lenten regulations, and fixing three plenary indulgence days
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UC/M3/89 [December 1716]
Case of the English Catholics (UC/M1/126) laid before the emperor
4f
UC/M3/90 9 September 1730
Language: Latin
Letter from the Congregation of Propaganda to Bishop Dominic Williams: the banning of
Animadversiones in librum Edmundi de Burgo by the Congregation of Index
1f
UC/M3/91 1731
Printed Act of Parliament for selling part of the estate of Robert Westby esq. in the county of Lancaster
11f
UC/M3/92
Number not in use
UC/M3/93 18 February 1737
Note by Thomas Anderton on monies given to certain priests in Lancashire
Extracted from Anderton's account of the deeds and bonds in his custody
1f
UC/M3/94a 1713
Notes by Thomas Eyre on Catholic charitable funds
1f
UC/M3/94b 5 September 1739
Fragment of resolutions of a meeting of the secular clergy at York on the distribution of funds for indigent clergy under a bishop who is a regular
1f
UC/M3/95 30 June 1749
Letter from M. Giffard to John Joseph Hornyold: his health and acquaintances
2f
UC/M3/96 5 July 1741
Language: Latin
Letter from the nuncio at Brussels to Bishop Edward Dicconson: sending him a pastoral letter of Pope Benedict XIV announcing a jubilee
1f
UC/M3/97 10 July 1741
Instructions by Bishop Edward Dicconson for the jubilee
1f
UC/M3/98 22 July 1741
Language: Latin
Blank patent by Bishop Edward Dicconson for appointing a vicar general, including note that he has made Thomas Hawardan vicar general for the western section of the district
1f
UC/M3/99 22 July 1741
Language: Latin
Bishop Edward Dicconson appointing Brian Tunstall as vicar general for Yorkshire
2f
UC/M3/100-101 10 July 1741
Copies of UC/M3/97
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UC/M3/102 22 July 1741
Language: Latin
Bishop Edward Dicconson appointing William Maire as vicar general for Northumberland, Durham, and Berwick on Tweed
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UC/M3/103
Number not in use
UC/M3/104 4 February 1742/43
Letter from Thomas Smith to Bishop Edward Dicconson: Kennet's stroke, listing the Otley deeds in his possession (which he traces back to 1605)
1f
UC/M3/105 6 April 1742
Language: Latin
Bishop Edward Dicconson appointing George Ball as rural dean of Cumberland
4f
UC/M3/106 25 October 1743
Letter from St Mary Pelagia Ratcliffe (Rouen) to Mrs Towneley (Towneley): account of her life in religion, including an addition of verses to the Nine Choirs of Angels
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UC/M3/107 15 September 1743
Letter from Thomas Smith to Bishop Edward Dicconson: a catalogue of deeds, securities, bonds and other particular information relating to Martin and Nuthill
2f
UC/M3/108a 24 June 1743
Term dates for Twyford School
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UC/M3/108b 24 June 1743
Expenses for Twyford School
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UC/M3/109 5 October 1742
Language: Latin
Grant by Bishop Edward Dicconson of additional faculties to Thomas Hawarden, vicar general to the north west
1f
UC/M3/110 5 July 1744
Language: Latin
Letter from Cardinal Dei Monti to Bishop Edward Dicconson: thanking him for his letter of congratulations and his regret in hearing of the bad example of the regular clergy
2f
UC/M3/111 2 September 1745
Language: Latin
Pope Benedict XIV,
Emanavit nuper confirming a decree of Propaganda of 16 August 1745 subjecting regulars in England to the vicars apostolic for granting faculties
2p
UC/M3/112 8 August 1743
Language: Latin
Letter from Cardinal Federigo Marcello Lante to Bishop Edward Dicconson: his appointment as the new Protector, offering to lay Dicconson's petition before Propaganda as soon as possible
1f
UC/M3/113a 2 September 1745
Copy of UC/M3/111
2p
UC/M3/113b 23 August 1748
Language: Latin
Letter from the vicars apostolic (Stonor, B. Petre and Dicconson) to the Superiors of the clergy, secular and regular: sending
Emanavit nuper and Propaganda's decree of 1745, giving rules for obtaining faculties and for exercising them outside the district for which they are granted
2p
UC/M3/114 25 November 1745
A prayer for Charles Stuart and the Old Pretender
1f
UC/M3/115 7 September 1746
Letter from E. Hamilton (Amsterdam) to [?Mr Power]: settling down in Amsterdam, accusing Lord George Murray of being a traitor, his lack of knowledge over Charles Stuart's whereabouts
1f
UC/M3/116
Number not in use
UC/M3/117 3 March 1747/48
Letter from Bishop Edward Dicconson and Thomas Mitchell: appointing replacement trustees for a charitable fund left by Lady Mary Ratcliffe
1f
UC/M3/118 10 December 1747
Account by Nicholas Skelton stated with Bishop Dicconson of trusts and clergy money in his hands (£2,710) (copied by Thomas Eyre)
1f
UC/M3/119 28 October 1748
Language: Latin
Printed faculties by George Bishop issued to Anthony Witham for the Midland District
2p
UC/M3/120 18 November 1748
Language: Latin
Printed faculties by William Maire issued to Thomas Gibson for the Northern District
2p
UC/M3/121 30 December 1748
Letter from William Gaunt to Robert Westby, esq.: the possibility of having to resign his current role as chaplain at Mowbreck owing to the uncertainty of his foundation
2f
UC/M3/122a 15 February 1749
Letter from William Gaunt to [?]: copying his letters to Charles Buck who has challenged him to a public disputation after the conversion of a Protestant woman
1f
UC/M3/122b 15 February 1749
Letter from William Gaunt to Robert Westby: apologising for his apparent disrespect in his former letter (UC/M3/121) and explaining the insecurity of his foundation
1f
UC/M3/122c 10 February 1749
Letter from Charles Buck to William Gaunt: appointing him a time and place for their public disputation on religion
1f
UC/M3/123 19 August 1749
Letter from Bishop Richard Challoner to Bishop Edward Dicconson: sending a copy of the joint letter of the vicars apostolic to Propaganda confirming how the pope's brief and the decree of Propaganda have been received by seculars, regulars, and
the laity, as well as Sir Henry Bedingfield and Sir Henry Englefield's attempts to revoke the decree on behalf of the regulars
2f
UC/M3/124 [1741]
List by Bishop Edward Dicconson of clergy in the Northern District, with additions for the later 1740s (copy made in 1864 from Bishop Goss's copy).
19f
UC/M3/125 18 October 1751
Language: Latin
Permitting Bishop Edward Dicconson to grant faculties to his coadjutor, Bishop Francis Petre
4f
UC/M3/126 1753
Regulae observandae in Anglicanis missionibus ab Apostolicis Vicariis, necnon a sacerdotibus missionariis saecularibus ac regularibus (Durham, 1753)
This is the
Apostolicum ministerum of Pope Benedict XIV
37p
UC/M3/127 1753
Notes on the sufferings of the Quakers (1655-1686), based on a book by Joseph Bessen published in 1753
2f
UC/M3/128 1753
Printed instructions and regulations by Bishop Francis Petre for the Indulgences allowed to the faithful of the Northern District
15p
UC/M3/129 1753
Pope Benedict XIV,
Apostolicum ministerium, p.33-47
15p
UC/M3/130 3 November 1753
Letter from Bishop Richard Challoner to Bishop Francis Petre: Propaganda's view that going before the parson in church for the legalisation of marriage is communicatio in sacris, his attempt to get Vienna and Turin to
intercede for Catholics, answering indulgences, plans to send three boys to Rome
1f
UC/M3/131 19 April 1733 - 19 April 1757
Language: Latin
Various personal papers of the Jernigham family:
(1) Baptism certificate for William (22 February 1735)
(2) Marriage certificate for George and Maria Plowden (19 April 1733)
1f
UC/M3/132 6 December 1753
Printed faculties from Bishop Francis Petre for John Coates
4p
UC/M3/133 10 December 1753
Language: Latin
Letter from the Congregation of Propaganda to Bishop Francis Petre: commenting on the rules and decrees Petre has received from him
2f
UC/M3/134 15 March 1766
Language: Italian
Letter from the Inquisition to Bishop Francis Petre: dispensations from disparity of cult (and a sanatio in radice) for Joseph Blackett and Barbara Smith, George Dunning and Mary Harland (Smith and Dunning being
Quakers)
2f
UC/M3/135 30 August 1755
Letter from Bishop John Talbot Stonor to Anthony Witham: the question of whether going before the parson to legalise a marriage may not be seen as a mere legal ceremony to satisfy the civil law on marriage
1f
UC/M3/136 8 August 1755
Pope Benedict XIV:
Quam ex sublimi, signed by Cardinal Valenti for the Congregation of Propaganda concerning the need for each vicar apostolic without a coadjutor with right of succession to appoint a vicar general with powers
sede vacante
4p
UC/M3/137 16 October 1756
Language: Latin
Printed regulations and advice by Bishop John Joseph Hornyold for his clergy
19p
UC/M3/138
Number not in use
UC/M3/139 19 May 1757
Letter from R[obert] Westby to Henry Howard: engaging to pay certain monies if his niece, Dorothy Parker, is professed as a nun in the house in Paris
1f
UC/M3/140a 10 August 1757
Letter from Bishop Francis Petre to William Maire: his move from Wycliffe to Dodding Green and the south, appointing Maire as vicar general
2f
UC/M3/140b 10 August 1757
Bishop Francis Petre appointing William Maire his vicar general with powers to act sede vacante
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UC/M3/141 2 September 1758
Language: Latin
Letter from the Congregation of Propaganda to Bishop Francis Petre: rebuking him because Fr Paten (O.S.B.), properly qualified, has been given faculties by the vicar general for a year instead of six years as ordered by Pope Benedict XIV
2f
UC/M3/141a 18 May 1763
Language: Latin
Printed faculties for Henry Titchbourne for the Midland District
2p
UC/M3/141b 15 March 1752
Opinion by a Douai theologian [?Planel] on episcopal consecration sine baculi pastoralis traditione, suggesting that the matter should be referred to the Holy See
1f
UC/M3/142 2 September 1673
(1) Lady Ann Constable of Everingham donating a farm at Otley to the secular clergy, with a transcript by Thomas Daniel
(2) Christopher Banks and Robert Dolman declaring that lands held by Peter Vavasour belong to the Yorkshire Brethren's fund, with a transcript by Thomas Eyre
2f
UC/M3/143 10 November 1761
Will of Robert Westby of Mowbreck, Lancashire (copy)
4f
UC/M3/144 26 January 1762
Extract from the Dublin Diocese of an exhortation read in all the Roman Catholic chapels of Dublin exhorting hearers to be loyal and peaceable citizens
1f
UC/M3/145 3 June 1762
Language: Latin
Printed constitution by Pope Clement XIII
Cum omnium guidem ecclesiarum on abuses in missionary countries, and forbidding the election of judices conservatores to certain regulars
8p
UC/M3/146 10 June 1764
Language: Latin
Memorial from five students of the English College in Valladolid to the Madrid nuncio protesting against a new interpretation of the missionary oath
2f
UC/M3/147 14 July 1764
Language: Latin
Congregation of Propaganda sending Bishop Francis Petre a copy of the decree issued in answer to the petition of the regular clergy for a dispensation from Pope Benedict XIV's rule of a sexennial return to a house of their order situated in a
Catholic country
2f
UC/M3/148 28 March 1765
Language: Latin
Bishop Francis Petre appointing John Chadwick vicar general for the western part of the Northern District
2f
UC/M3/149 28 July 1765
Language: Latin
Printed faculties by William Maire in the Northern District for William Gibson
4p
UC/M3/150 29 March 1765
Letter from Bishop Francis Petre to John Chadwick: Petre abiding by his decision to appoint Chadwick as vicar general in spite of Chadwick's reservations
2f
UC/M3/151 11 August 1765 - 25 September 1771
Attested copy of the will of John Maire of Lartington, Yorkshire
With a codicil of 25 September 1771
2f
UC/M3/152 [1802]
Note on the children of Thomas, father of Edward 9th duke of Norfolk
1f
UC/M3/153 [1766]
John Chadwick's account of monies in the Skelton Estate/Fund belonging to the clergy or under their management in the hands of Messrs Clifford and Pennington
On reverse: extracts from letters connected with these funds
1f
UC/M3/154 31 July 1766
Language: Latin
Pope Clement XIII granting faculties for five years to Bishop Thomas Talbot, coadjutor of Bishop Hornyold
Signed by Cardinal Corsini for the Inquisition
4p
UC/M3/155 6 December 1766
Will of William Stott of Silver Street, Durham
Includes seal
2f
UC/M3/156 1767
Manuscript pedigree of the Howard family
Includes a printed
Standing orders relating to ascertaining the descents of the peers of this kingdom (London, 1767)
1f/1 sheet
UC/M3/157 3 May 1767
Letter from Don Mariano Pavila (Lisbon) to [?]: his promise to pay money for Miss Mariana at Dame Pickering's and his astonishment at her complaints, instructions on the schooling of his children and their pocket money
1f
UC/M3/158 20 July 1767
Language: French
Letter from Caetano Joze de Souza (Lisbon) to [?]: fee queries relating to his son's boarding at the Lisbon College
1f
UC/M3/159 19 November 1767
Language: Latin
Printed faculties by Pope Clement XIII for Bishop William Maire for five years
3p
UC/M3/160 [1768]
Language: Latin
Leter from Bishop William Maire to the nuncio at Brussels (draft): asking him to inform Propaganda of his consecration by Bishop Challoner and to transmit his profession of faith
1f
UC/M3/161 [1768]
John Chadwick's account of the Skelton Fund/Estate presented to the clergy (see UC/M3/153 and UC/M3/168 for continuation)
2f
UC/M3/162 9 August 1768
Language: Latin
Printed faculties by Bishop William Maire to Matthew Gibson
2p
UC/M3/163 6 March 1769
Letter from Bishop Francis Petre to the secular clergy of Lancaster, Chester, Cumberland and Westmorland: ordering that a register be made of capital items and securities to guard against future losses of money and property belonging to the
secular clergy
This register, under pain of suspension, is to be sent to John Chadwick
2f
UC/M3/164 11 April 1769
Deposition by Ann Fenwick of Hornby that Morley's trust was mortgaged upon the Cross Keys at Lancaster
1f
UC/M3/165 26 June 1769
Letter from Thomas Blake (Dunkirk) to [?]: Master Frank's application to his studies, the transportation of Mrs Wadding's box for her son
1f
UC/M3/166 14 September 1769
Language: Latin
Testimony by Bishop John Joseph Hornyold to the integrity of all the Franciscans in the Midland District (draft)
1f
UC/M3/167
Number not in use
UC/M3/168 [1770]
Continuation of John Chadwick's account of the Skelton Fund/Estate presented to the clergy (see also UC/M3/153 and UC/M3/161)
1f
UC/M3/169 [1770]
Memoranda by Bishop Richard Challoner that £50 is to be distributed to priests of the secular clergy for masses for the dead at the ordinary custom of 2s 6d ( list made by Anthony Wright)
1f
UC/M3/170 14 February 1770
Letter from F. Paddey to [?]: thanking him for the care of his deaf son and his plans to send him to London to see an ear specialist
1f
UC/M3/171 16 August 1770
Language: Latin
Printed faculties from Pope Clement XIV to Bishop William Walton for five years, with two prorogations
4p
UC/M3/172 30 October 1770
Letter from Bishop William Walton to John Lonsdale (York): his intention to reside with Lonsdale at York and give him money for funds
2f
UC/M3/173 23 December 1770
Language: Italian
Letter from the Congregation of Propaganda to Bishop Francis Petre: granting a senatio in radice for a marriage where Petre had exceeded his faculties and granting the widening of his faculties
2f
UC/M3/174 11 January 1771
Language: Latin
Letter from the nuncio at Brussels to Bishop William Walton: congratulating him on his appointment and asking him to send his profession of faith and oath
2f
UC/M3/175 8 May 1771
Letter from Bishop Richard Challoner to Bishop William Walton: the lack of news relating to the renewal of the sexennial claim with Stonor reporting that the regulars had petitioned for its abrogation
1f
UC/M3/176
Number not in use
UC/M3/177 6 August 1771
Letter from Bishop Richard Challoner to Bishop William Walton: regretting that such inadequate provision has been made in the north for Walton, Walton's claim on Otley Farm, Challoner's views on saying mass without a server
1f
UC/M3/178 15 November 1771
(1) Bishop Francis Petre: directions to James Orrell for executing his will (copy by Thomas Eyre)
(2) Eyre's queries about monies belonging to the bishop to distribute at his own discretion and about revenues for educating students in the colleges
1f
UC/M3/179 19 April 1772
Language: Latin
Congregation of Propaganda confirming that the pope has conceded to English Catholics a plenary indulgence during the octave of SS Peter and Paul
2f
UC/M3/180a 19 April 1772
Printed directions for gaining the jubilee
Enclosure in UC/M3/179
1 sheet
UC/M3/180b 19 April 1772
Printed notice by Francis Petre of the plenary indulgence with the consequent transfer of the indulgence granted by Pope Benedict XIV
Enclosure in UC/M3/179
1 sheet
UC/M3/181 10 July 1772
Testimonial on Elizabeth Smerfort as to her good character by Beuval, chaplain of a hospice at Boulogne, with testimonial to Beuval's credibility by the bishop of Boulogne
1f
UC/M3/182 5 October 1742
Letter from J[oseph] Holden (Wycliffe) to Bishop Edward Dicconson: sending particulars of a clerical delinquent including recommending suspension and transfer to a French seminary, Debord unwilling to leave Newhouse
2f
UC/M3/183 [1773]
Duke of Norfolk's instructions to his chaplains in the north on masses for the Howard family
1f
UC/M3/184 [1773]
Printed circular from an ex-Jesuit on the affairs of the former English Province
12p
UC/M3/185 [1773]
List of ex-Jesuits in Lancashire, Cheshire and Westmorland who have signed the Brief of Suspension (sent to Bishop Walton)
1f
UC/M3/186 26 January 1773
Letter from Bishop Richard Challoner to Bishop William Walton: the publication of the vigil of St Matthias by the London District, history of the feasts of St George and St Thomas, his wish to re-establish the cult of certain saints in the Sarum
rite, the Lenten fast
2f
UC/M3/187 8 May 1773
Language: Latin
Discessus and recommendation given to William Gibson, who is about to travel abroad with J. Silvertop
1f
UC/M3/188 26 June 1773
Language: Latin
Letter from Cardinal Andrea Corsini, Protector, to the vicars apostolic: thanking them for their congratulations and commending them for their work
1f
UC/M3/189 11 August 1773
Language: Latin
Letter from the Congregation of Propaganda to Bishop Francis Petre: asking him to send an account of his vicariates with statistics of worshipping Catholics, numbers of regulars and in what orders etc.
2f
UC/M3/190 25 August 1773
Language: Latin
Letter from the Congregation of Propaganda to Bishop Francis Petre: nuncio at Brussels sending the brief and encyclical on the suppression of the Jesuits, informing him that ex-Jesuits must subscribe to the brief
2f
UC/M3/191 18 August 1773
Language: Latin
Printed circular by Cardinal Andrea Corsini to Bishop Francis Petre announcing the suppression of the Jesuits and instructing the bishops on how to carry it out
1 sheet
UC/M3/192 24 August 1773
Language: Latin
Letter from the Congregation of Propaganda to [Bishop Francis Petre]: copy of the special provision made by Pope Clement XIV for the suppression of the Society of Jesus in missionary countries
Enclosed in UC/M3/190
2f
UC/M3/193 1 October 1773
Language: Latin
Letter from the nuncio at Brussels to Bishop William Walton: asking whether Petre received two briefs relating to the suppression of the Society of Jesus
1f
UC/M3/194 12 October 1773
Letter from a [student at Douai College] to [?]: receipt of a box, Divines taking prefects' playday, his desire not to take a regular course of philosophy
1f
UC/M3/195 21 October 1773
Letter from Bishop Richard Challoner to Bishop William Walton: his view that it is not practicable or safe to authenticate copies of the Brief of Suppression of the Society of Jesus, sending a number of signatures to Rome, Jesuit property, the
ex-Provincial vicar and ex-Jesuits, his wish to obtain English seculars at the English College in Rome
1f
UC/M3/196 [1774 -] 1784
(1) Itinerary of Bishop William Walton in 1774 giving confirmation in Lancashire including places and numbers confirmed
(2) Bishop Matthew Gibson's itinerary in Lancashire and Yorkshire in 1782
(3) Bishop Matthew Gibson's itinerary in Northumberland, Cumberland and Westmorland in 1784
4f
UC/M3/197
Number not in use
UC/M3/198
Number not in use
UC/M3/199 31 January 1775
Letter from G. Wilmot to Lady Anastasia Stafford: details of his executorship of the estate of Robert Westby
2f
UC/M3/200 28 February 1775
Language: Latin
Letter from the nuncio at Brussels to Bishop Richard Challoner (copy): announcing the election of Pope Pius VI
1f
UC/M3/201 7 May 1775
Language: Latin
Plenary indulgence by Pope Pius VI to those who take the missionary oath and to those who renew it on its anniversary
1 sheet
UC/M3/202 19 July 1775
Letter from George Goodwin to the duchess of Kingston: thanking her for her help in the matter of his vessel, asking for assistance to get him the post of tidesman at Sandwich or Dover
2f
UC/M3/203 12 September 1775
Language: Latin
Letter from the Congregation of Propaganda to Bishop William Walton: giving him permission to consecrate the Holy Oils outside Holy Thursday and with the assistance of fewer priests
2f
UC/M3/204 12 September 1775
Language: Latin
Letter from the Congregation of Propaganda to Bishop Francis Petre: permission to ordain men titulo missionis provided they take the missionary oath to serve the district
2f
UC/M3/205 14 October 1775
Bishop Francis Petre (Northern District):
Observanda ab omnibus sacerdotibus ad sacras missiones...admissis
9p
UC/M3/206 6 March 1776
Language: Latin
Blank patent by Bishop William Walton for a vicar general
1f
UC/M3/207 28 January 1776
Language: Latin
Printed circular by the Congregation of Propaganda: Pope Pius VI granting power to all bishops in missionary territory to dispense from certain conditions for gaining the jubilee indulgences
1 sheet
UC/M3/208 6 March 1776
Language: Latin
Bishop William Walton appointing Matthew Gibson vicar general sede vacante
Includes two blank forms
2f
UC/M3/209
Number not in use
UC/M3/210 9 April 1776
Language: Latin
Letter from the nuncio at Brussels to Bishop William Walton: asking him to send boys for the English College in Rome
2f
UC/M3/211 16 April 1776
Letter from John Chadwick to Bishop William Walton: providing details of missions, the troubles of an ex-Jesuit (Price) who has been harshly treated by his brethren and who has been offered faculties by Chadwick, putting a regular in
Whitehaven
2f
UC/M3/212 [1777]
Letter from John Chadwick to Bishop William Walton: the neglect of the WIigan mission, a dispute over the Skelton Fund
2f
UC/M3/213 [1777]
Fragment of a printed notice to the faithful informing them of a reduction in the number of holidays of obligation
1p
UC/M3/214 18 May 1777
Directions for the faithful of the Northern District on the future observance of holydays of obligation
1 sheet
UC/M3/215 1 February 1778
Language: Latin
Bishop of St Omers (J. A. de Chastenet) granting Edward Eyre faculties to hear confessions of youths of both sexes in the English College of St Omers, in the Ursuline Convent, and in Jardin Notre Dame
11p
UC/M3/216 27 November 1778
Language: Latin
Bishop of Coutances giving faculties to Charles Felix de Viziel
1f
UC/M3/217 6 March 1776
Language: Latin
Copy of UC/M3/208
1f
UC/M3/218
Number not in use
UC/M3/219 1 July 1780
Language: Latin
Letter from the Congregation of Propaganda to Bishop Matthew Gibson: notification that Pope Pius VI has appointed him vicar apostolic of the north
2f
UC/M3/220 20 August 1780
Language: Latin
Letter from Bishop Matthew Gibson to the nuncio at Brussels (draft): acknowledging his appointment as vicar apostolic of the north
1f
UC/M3/221 19 September 1780
Language: Latin
Letter from the nuncio at Brussels to Bishop Matthew Gibson: informing him that he has sent the notification of his consecration to Rome and requiring copies of his oath and profession of faith
2f
UC/M3/222 1781
Language: Latin
Letter from Bishop Matthew Gibson to the nuncio at Brussels (draft): enclosing his litterae patentes to be sent to Rome
1f
UC/M3/223 25 June 1780
Language: Latin
Pope Pius VI granting faculties to Bishop Matthew Gibson, with prorogation in 1786 for another six years
4p
UC/M3/224 6 June 1780
Instructions by Mrs Jenny Daniels to her spiritual trustees leaving money to support clergy missions (includes an extract of further details from a letter by Robert Banister to Bishop M. Gibson)
4f
UC/M3/225 8 November 1780
Language: Latin
Bishop Matthew Gibson appointing John Chadwick vicar general sede vacante
1f
UC/M3/226 5 June 1781
Language: Latin
Letter from the nuncio at Brussels to Bishop Matthew Gibson: receiving his profession of faith and oath
2f
UC/M3/227 1 August 1781
List by John Carter of securities in his hands
2f
UC/M3/228 15 December 1781
Letter from Pope Pius VI to Joseph, king of Hungary and emperor-elect (copy): remonstrating with him over the invasion of papal rights in Lombardy
2f
UC/M3/229
Number not in use
UC/M3/230 10 August 1782
Language: Latin
Letter from the Congregation of Propaganda to vicars apostolic (copy): the powers of the vicars apostolic in certain cases of mixed marriages
This copy was authenticated by Brussels Nunciature, 1 October 1782
2f
UC/M3/231 [1782]
Will of Jane Eyre of Sheffield, widow of Nathaniel Eyre
1f
UC/M3/232 5 February 1782
Letter from Robert Johnson (Dodding Green) to Bishop Matthew Gibson: financial difficulties of Rev Sullivan and the Dodding Green mission
2f
UC/M3/233 [1783]
Will of Mary Maire, widow of John Maire of Lartington (copy)
2f
UC/M3/234a 17 May 1785
Legal opinion by John Maddocks of Lincoln's Inn on Mrs Maire's will
2f
UC/M3/234b 14 January 1783
Notes by James Barnard on Joseph Bolton's will
1f
UC/M3/234c 14 January 1783
Private instructions of Joseph Bolton to his executors
1f
UC/M3/234d 14 January 1783
Further instructions by Joseph Bolton to his executors
1f
UC/M3/234e 14 January 1783
Instructions by Joseph Bolton about his will
1f
UC/M3/235
Number not in use
UC/M3/236 9 December 1783
Letter from Thomas Butler (Hornby) to Bishop Matthew Gibson: enclosing an account of monies in Clifford's trust
2f
UC/M3/237 31 December 1783
Letter from Archibald MacDonald (Liverpool) to Bishop Matthew Gibson (extract): informing him that priests in the district serve a limited area without encroachments which were expressly forbidden by Bishop Petre
1f
UC/M3/238 5 January 1784
Letter from [?] to Ann Bolton (Preston): giving a transcript of the will, instructions and codicil made by her brother, Joseph Bolton
2f
UC/M3/239
Number not in use
UC/M3/240 30 January 1784
Letter from St Mary Austin Barneby to Edward Eyre: the Boltons, messages from Eyre's aunt (Broomhead), the abbess sending greetings to the bishop, asking him to send some Staffordshire nuns
2f
UC/M3/241 4 March 1784
Letter from Bishop James Talbot to Bishop Matthew Gibson: the subject of ex-Jesuits, particularly the need for ex-Jesuits to submit to bishops and to unite in temporals as other colleges do, the continuance of the grand vicar, Lisbon College
2f
UC/M3/242 16 March 1784
Letter from Robert Johnson (Dodding Green) to Bishop Matthew Gibson: terms of W. Thornburgh's and John Leyburn's trust
2f
UC/M3/243 4 May 1784
Letter from Christopher Stonor (Rome) to Bishop Matthew Gibson: his dislike of Strickland's proposal and suggesting that priests trained at Liège are secular clergy and should be under secular government, criticism of Challoner's appointment of
the ex-provincial as vicar, suggesting that the body must not be perpetuated as Jesuits pass from one district to another, details of Cardinal Corsini's conduct of the English College in Rome
1f
UC/M3/244 6 May 1784
Letter from John Corne (Corbridge) to [?]: the possible establishment of a foundation at Stafford, his spending on furniture at Corbridge, Miss Orrell's possible appointment as his housekeeper
1f
UC/M3/245 21 May 1784
Letter from John Corne to [?]: Bishop Talbot requiring him to accept an appointment at Bromley
1f
UC/M3/246 10 June 1784
Letter from John Corne (Corbridge) to [?]: the spirit of animosity against Catholics at Corbridge
1f
UC/M3/247 10 July 1784
Vincent Eyre in account continued of the personal estate of the late George Wilmot
Eyre succeeded to Wilmot's legal business
2f
UC/M3/248 13 July 1784
Letter from Robert Johnson (Dodding Green) to Bishop Matthew Gibson: account of the income of the Kendal mission
2f
UC/M3/249 31 August 1784
Letter from St Mary Austin Barneby (Dunkirk) to Edward Eyre (Longbirch): news from his aunt (Broomhead) and the abbess, the shortage of postulants, holy pictures being used as catechism prizes, Fr Edmondson's illness
2f
UC/M3/250 22 November 1784
Letter from St Mary Austin Barneby to Edward Eyre: Darrell acting as the agent for the transfer of his books, Edmondson's poor health
2f
UC/M3/251
Number not in use
UC/M3/252 8 June 1786
Language: Latin
Letter from the nuncio at Brussels to Bishop Matthew Gibson: announcing his appointment and willingness to help
2f
UC/M3/253 25 June 1780
Language: Latin
Letter from the Congregation of Propaganda to Bishop Matthew Gibson: Pope Pius VI conceding power of dispensing in marriage of first cousins in ten cases for six years, prorogation in 1786 for six years and ten cases
2f
UC/M3/254 15 July 1786
Letter from the Congregation of Propaganda to Bishop Matthew Gibson: declaring that ex-Jesuits may not freely dispose of the Society's property, chapels or residences which now belong to the mission
2f
UC/M3/255 15 July 1786
Copy in Matthew Gibson's hand of UC/M3/254
2f
UC/M3/256 15 July 1786
Printed account of Miss Pitts of her conversion to the Catholic faith and of her entering religion
4p
UC/M3/257 20 August 1786
Language: Latin
Letter from Bishop Matthew Gibson to the nuncio at Brussels (draft): complimentary answer to UC/M3/255
2f
UC/M3/258 27 January 1787
Letter from the administrators of St Omers College to the vicars apostolic: binding themselves to provide half-burses for one church student from each of the four districts
2f
UC/M3/259 18 August 1787
Language: Latin
Letter from the Congregation of Propaganda to Bishop Matthew Gibson: answering his queries on marriage of Catholics before a parson
2f
UC/M3/260 18 August 1787
Language: Latin
Copy in Gibson's hand of part of UC/M3/259
2f
UC/M3/261 18 August 1787
Letter from the Congregation of Propaganda to Bishop Matthew Gibson: thanking him for his report on the District and urging him not to be despondent, the desirability of Catholic schools now that they are legal, enclosing UC/M3/260, asking to be
kept informed if the government makes concessions
2f
UC/M3/262
Number not in use
UC/M3/263 7 February 1788
Letter from Charles Dormer to his uncle Bishop Thomas Talbot: passing on from Lady Shrewsbury information about money matters connected with the late Lord Shrewsbury's estate, the possibility of Dormer and Talbot taking a continental tour
2f
UC/M3/264 23 February 1788
Letter from Charles Blount to [?Bishop Thomas Talbot]: Lady Blount's effects and the bishop's role as trustee, advising him to be wary of Berkeley, his regrets over offence caused to the bishop
1f
UC/M3/265 25 February 1788
Letter from Samuel Rock (Kiddrington) to Bishop Thomas Talbot: his improving affairs and his need for a convenient lodging and an increased salary, his hopes that he will pay off the college debt gradually
1f
UC/M3/266 14 April 1788
Letter from Thomas Rayment to Bishop Thomas Talbot: his stay with Whitgreave, his poor health and Mrs Berkeley taking care of him, Benedict (his son) and his ordination as deacon at Douai College
2f
UC/M3/267 27 April 1788
Letter from A. Lacon (O.S.B.) to Bishop Matthew Gibson: listing Benedictines who have made the retreat and seeking renewal of their faculties, replacement of the chaplain at Lawkland, the Liverpool affair, Bungwallis and Clayton, faculties to
binate for Butler
2f
UC/M3/268 24 May 1788
Letter from Thomas Varley (London) to Bishop Matthew Gibson: asking whether Gibson can assist in paying off a debt of a promising student (Christopher Dunlin) at Douai College
1f
UC/M3/269 3 July 1788
Letter from Thomas Varley to Bishop Matthew Gibson: Mary Teresa Eyre's legacy for the benefit of the poor in the Vicariate, Dunlin's pension
1f
UC/M3/270 11 July 1788
Letter from Thomas Berington to [?]: terms for the building of a new presbytery or chapel
1f
UC/M3/271 12 July 1788
Letter from William Molyneaux (S.J.) to Bishop Matthew Gibson: list of ex-Jesuits, asking Gibson to decide their status
1f
UC/M3/272 25 July 1788
Letter from Messrs Bullock and Warren to [Bishop Matthew Gibson]: hogshead of wine
1f
UC/M3/273 14 August 1788
Letter from William Gibson (Douai College) to [Bishop Matthew Gibson]: asking him to place John Worswick in or near Lancashire, mending broken windows in Douai College
1f
UC/M3/274 30 August 1788
Letter from J. Sone (Havant) to (Bishop Thomas Talbot): a wedding
1f
UC/M3/275 8 September 1788
Letter from Bishop James Talbot to Bishop Thomas Talbot: visiting Wright near Marnhull (where a mission has been established) and Lulworth Castle, praising the Weld family, carried out confirmation at Gosport and his plans to do so at
Brockhampton
1f
UC/M3/276 25 November 1788
Letter from John Busby to [?Bishop Thomas Talbot]: turnpike securities in the Cadeby Fund, the disagreeable position of Worswick, Sir John Lawson's purchase of land for a school in the north
1f
UC/M3/277 18 December 1788
Letter from James Appleton to Bishop Thomas Talbot: his settlement with Lady Jerningham, his acceptance of Lady Shrewsbury's offer of the chaplaincy at Lacock Abbey
1f
UC/M3/278 18 January - 2 August 1789
Letter from Marmaduke Tunstall to T. E[yre]: extract and note by Eyre on the flight of Douai College
2 August 1789: William Gibson's arrival at Stella Hall from Douai with T. Smith and George Gibson of Stagshaw
1f
UC/M3/279 19 March 1789
Letter from Simon Bordley to Bishop Matthew Gibson: the customs of the Lancashire clergy, especially in regard to stipends
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