Reference code: GB-0298-UC/P15
Title: Northern Vicariate Mission Papers
Dates of creation: [1780-1802]
Extent: 1 file
Held by: Ushaw College Library
Origination: Thomas Eyre
Language: English
Thomas Eyre was born at Glossop, Derbyshire, in 1748. He attended the preparatory school at Esquerchin, Douai, before progressing to the parent English College at Douai in 1762. Following his ordination in 1775, he accepted an invitation to take
charge of a mission which covered the area west of Newcastle to Hexham. In 1794, Eyre was appointed to Pontop Hall, near Consett, before Bishop William Gibson asked him to take temporary charge of a small number of refugee students who had fled
Douai because of religious persecution. Eyre was then appointed to preside over a new college at Crook Hall and, after 1808, at Ushaw. Thomas Eyre died on 7 May 1810, leaving his entire fortune (£8640) to the college.
Notes compiled by Thomas Eyre on clergy and missions of the eastern half of the Northern District during the eighteenth century.
Series brought together by Rev Michael Sharratt as part of the Old Series of documents in Ushaw College Library. Previous series number OS/G/Dio.
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Eyre Papers
UC/P15/1 5 September [1805]
Letter from Joseph Hodgson to Thomas Eyre: notifying him of the death of William Fryer, president of Lisbon College.
On reverse: note on St Omer's accounts for 1802-3.
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UC/P15/2 12 June - 11 November 1802
Notes by Thomas Eyre on the accounts of the administrators of St Omer.
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UC/P15/3 [1800 x 1810]
List by Thomas Eyre of names [?clergy or benefactors].
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UC/P15/4 [1800 x 1810]
Notes by Thomas Eyre:
(1) Will leaving money to the Catholic Church at Darlington and Stockton.
(2) Letter for Mr Seymour about supporting Crook Hall.
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UC/P15/5 [1800 x 1810]
Language: Latin
Copy by Thomas Eyre of a note by E. Fisher on when requiem masses can be said.
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UC/P15/6 [1800 x 1810]
Clergy obituaries, 1780 - 1792.
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UC/P15/7 [1800 x 1810]
Obituaries of English Catholics by Lartington and Hardwick, mainly clergy associated with the Marie family.
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UC/P15/8 [1800 x 1810]
Letter by Rowland Lacon (OSB) to Bishop Matthew Gibson: list of 31 Benedictines in the Northern District, with an annotation by Gibson noting that 24 guineas are owing.
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UC/P15/9 8 June 1798
Record of Peter Holland (for Sir Edward Smythe) laying the foundation stone of the house and chapel to serve the congregation of Esh and Lanchester, in the presence of Thomas Eyre and John Yayes.
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UC/P15/10 5 February 1798
Notes by Thomas Eyre:
(1) Inventory of property belonging to the Newhouse mission after the death of Ferdinand Ashmail.
(2) Copy of the will of John Yates.
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UC/P15/11 21 September 1790
Notes by Thomas Eyre on local Church affairs, 1775 - 1780.
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UC/P15/12 [1800 x 1810]
Notes by Thomas Eyre on confirmations carried out at Stella, 1723 - 1789.
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UC/P15/13 [1800 x 1810]
Notes by Thomas Eyre on the Stella mission from 1700 to the arrival of William Hull in 1793.
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UC/P15/14 [1800 x 1810]
Notes by Thomas Eyre on the mission at Gilesgate, Durham, 1691 - 1753.
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UC/P15/15 1722 - 1783
Rough notes by Thomas Eyre on funds for Stockton and Darlington, 1722 - 1783.
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UC/P15/16 [1800 x 1810]
List by John Coates of missioners in Durham and Northumberland in the eighteenth century.
With a copy by Thomas Eyre, with dates and places of death.
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UC/P15/17 14 May 1807
Letter from William Hull (Newcastle) to Thomas Eyre: information on the chaplains at Hatherope, Gloucs.
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UC/P15/18 [1800 x 1810]
Note by Thomas Eyre on the Stella mission, 1753 - 1792.
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UC/P15/19 [1800 x 1810]
Letter from John Coates to Thomas Eyre: answering his queries about the northern clergy in the eighteenth century.
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UC/P15/20 14 July 1769
Letter from Thomas Daniel to E. Markham (draft): writing as an executor of the late Philip Markham about two bonds.
With additional notes by Thomas Eyre on clergy deaths.
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UC/P15/21 [1800 x 1810]
Short notes by Thomas Eyre on clergy, 1724 - 1748.
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UC/P15/22 [1800 x 1810]
Notes by Thomas Eyre on the Marie family, 1707 - 1736.
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UC/P15/23 [1800 x 1810]
Notes by Thomas Eyre on the Vicars Apostolic.
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UC/P15/24 [1800 x 1810]
Notes by Thomas Eyre on clergy in Co Durham, 1695 - 1759.
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UC/P15/25 [1800 x 1810]
Notes by Thomas Eyre:
(1) On the finances of Newhouse.
(2) Eyre's declaration that he is only the trustee of £2,000 left in his charge by George Silvertop.
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UC/P15/26 22 August 1805
Letter from [?] Hodgson to John Yates: giving details of burials at Lanchester.
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UC/P15/27 [1785]
Account of the clergy at Sheffield and Stannington from 1712.
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Draft at UC/P15/69.
UC/P15/28 22 August 1761
Letter from P. Perry to Vincent Eyre: copying a message from [Alban] Butler concerning Agatha (Vincent's sister and a Blue Nun in Paris) who requires money for an operation; Butler's plan to spend his vacation at Blois with his pupil; a report by
Butler of severe measures threatened against the Jesuits in France including the school at St Omer.
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UC/P15/29 1 December 1808
Letter from Thomas Stonor to [?]: explaining how his cousin's documents may be obtained to allow him to proceed to minor orders.
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UC/P15/30 [1780 x 1810]
Notes by Thomas Eyre on the Cardinal Protectors of England.
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UC/P15/31 [1780 x 1810]
Notes by Thomas Eyre of marriage dispensations and confirmations in Northumberland and Durham, 1745 - 1764.
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UC/P15/32 27 January 1733/34
Attested copy of the marriage certificate, from the register of the Portuguese Embassy, of Henry Francis Widdrington and Anne Gatenby.
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UC/P15/33 [1780 x 1810]
Rough notes by Thomas Eyre on various funds for Catholic charitable purposes, with a list of northern clergy.
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UC/P15/34 [?1685]
Prayers to be said by the Old Chapter for James II, his consort and Catherine of Braganza.
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UC/P15/35 [1790 x 1810]
Notes by Thomas Eyre on the clergy at Newhouse in the eighteenth century.
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UC/P15/36 [1790 x 1810]
Notes by Thomas Eyre on the clergy at Old Elvet, Durham, in the eighteenth century.
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UC/P15/37 [1790 x 1810]
Note of the appointment of Matthew Gibson as vicar general in 1776.
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UC/P15/38 [1790 x 1810]
Notes on local Catholics who died in 1775.
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UC/P15/39 15 September 1803
Letter from Keating & Co to Thomas Eyre: answering an enquiry about Matthew Pritchard.
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UC/P15/40 29 October 1793
Letter from Francis Coates (Newcastle) to [a bishop]: his intentions to reprint Challoner's work subject to the bishop's approval.
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UC/P15/41 [1790 x 1810]
Notes by Thomas Eyre:
(1) Rough notes on the Stella mission.
(2) Rectors of Ryton, 1254 - 1769.
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UC/P15/42 [1790 x 1810]
Notes by Thomas Eyre on the Newhouse mission and William Howard of Old Elvet.
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UC/P15/43 [1790 x 1810]
Notes by Thomas Eyre on Alnwick and neighbouring missions, as well as missions near Durham.
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UC/P15/44 [?1783]
Letter from J. Johnson (Pontop) to [Thomas Eyre] (section missing): indulgences; news of Shelley, Berington, Dr Howard, Blunt and Butler.
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UC/P15/45 [1790 x 1810]
Note by Thomas Eyre on the steward's house in Sheffield built by Shireburn in 1713.
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UC/P15/46 [1790 x 1810]
Note by Thomas Eyre on money bequeathed by Charles (duke of Norfolk) to support a priest at Arundel and Worksop.
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UC/P15/47 [1790 x 1810]
Anniversaries by Thomas Eyre of the Howard family, 1688 - 1732.
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UC/P15/48 [1790 x 1810]
Notes and queries by Thomas Eyre on the Vicars Apostolic.
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UC/P15/49 [1790 x 1810]
Notes by Thomas Eyre on the Vicars Apostolic.
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UC/P15/50 [1790 x 1810]
Notes by Thomas Eyre:
(1) History of Mary Ward and the Community of English Virgins to 1711.
(2) Notes, mainly financial, on the northern clergy, mid to late eighteenth century.
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UC/P15/51 13 February 1800
Notes by Thomas Eyre:
(1) List of Midland clergy.
(2) Copy of the instruction of Bishop William Henry Sharrock to the Western District about the administration of baptism.
(3) Abstinence rules.
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UC/P15/52 [1798]
Obituaries by Thomas Eyre, mainly of northern clergy, 1731 - 1798.
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UC/P15/53 [1790 x 1810]
Manuscript entitled
“Popish priests committed to York Castle in 1745”: summary of the charges brought against the clergy suspected of treason, signed by the gaoler, J. Marsh, followed by a list of persons to be detained on the
instruction of the duke of Newcastle.
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UC/P15/54 2 August 1853
Letter from George Oliver to [?]: lists of English Benedictines and Jesuits, 1821 - 1853, with an explanatory letter.
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UC/P15/55 [?mid 19th century]
Notes by Robert Tate summarising the conditions under which, on 4 September 1724, Lady Jane Vavasour made available £500 to maintain a priest at Hazlewood, with amendments of 8 November 1728.
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UC/P15/56 [1790 x 1810]
List of priests at or near Wycliffe during the early eighteenth century.
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UC/P15/57 [1790 x 1810]
List by Thomas Eyre of major bequests for the support of clergy in the northern district.
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UC/P15/58 [1790 x 1810]
Notes by Thomas Eyre on Croxdale and Tudhoe.
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UC/P15/59 [1790 x 1810]
Notes by Thomas Eyre on the clergy of the Darlington area during the mid to late eighteenth century.
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UC/P15/60 [1790 x 1810]
Quotation from Bishop Gilbert Burnet on the Anglican acceptance of Roman Catholic baptisms and ordinations.
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UC/P15/61 [1790 x 1810]
Notes by Thomas Eyre on Durham City clergy during the early eighteenth century.
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UC/P15/62 [1790 x 1810]
List compiled by Thomas Eyre of the vicars apostolic of the Northern District, with a note on Robert Ward and Edward Hawarden.
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UC/P15/63 1 December 1786
Letter from John Coates to Thomas Eyre: sending a book to answer queries; the bishop should decide whether a change of names [of trustees] is needed.
Also includes a note by Eyre on Matthew Gibson and Michael Tidyman.
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UC/P15/64 [1790 x 1810]
Notes by [John Coates] on Roger Mitford, William Edesford, James Mitford, Luke Potts (all of Thropton); Henry Allen (Sunderland); and John Hankin (Witton Shields).
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UC/P15/65 [1790 x 1810]
Notes by Thomas Eyre on John Yaxley and John Coates.
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UC/P15/66 [1790 x 1810]
Note by Thomas Strickland confirming that he was never on the English mission.
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UC/P15/67 [1790 x 1810]
Synopsis by Bishop Matthew Gibson of his early career, with a note by Thomas Eyre on his baptism.
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UC/P15/68 [1800 x 1810]
Extracts, compiled by Thomas Eyre, of letters from Robert Smelt concerning the reprinting of Panzani's
Memoirs (1794-95).
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UC/P15/69 [1785]
Account of the clergy at Sheffield and Stannington from 1712.
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This is a draft of UC/P15/27
UC/P15/70 [1950 x 1970]
Typewritten account of the Catholic Church in Northumberland and Durham in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
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UC/P15/71 13 August 1875
Typewritten copy of a copy of the Enclosure Act as applied by the Royal Commissioners to Esh and its environs (original act dated 17 January 1774).
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