Reference code: GB-0298-UC/P8
Title: Tate-Slater Letters
Dates of creation: 1835-1875
Extent: 22 files
Held by: Ushaw
Origination: Robert Tate
Language: English
Robert Tate was born in York in 1799 and educated at Ushaw College. He was ordained in 1822 and initially chose to remain at Ushaw in a teaching capacity (Philosophy). He was made a prefect of studies in 1824 and, following the death four years
later of the president John Gillow, Tate was promoted to vice-president. After a spell as a missioner in Hazelwood, Yorkshire, Tate returned to Ushaw to teach dogmatic theology in 1839 at the request of the new president, Charles Newsham. He clearly
excelled in this role and, in 1845, was honoured by the pope who made him a doctor of divinity. Much to his relief, Tate narrowly missed out on an episcopal appointment to replace Bishop Riddell of the Northern District, who died in 1847; he was
greatly pleased with the eventual appointment of William Hogarth. In 1849, he resigned his vice-presidency and returned to work as a missioner at Hazelwood. Throughout this period, Tate remained on cordial terms with Hogarth, so much so that the
latter ignored his episcopal colleagues and unilaterally appointed Tate to the presidency of Ushaw in 1863. In stark contrast to his predecessor, his presidency was characterised by moderation, with only minor embellishments made to the Ushaw
buildings. Robert Tate died as president of the college in 1876.
Personal correspondence between Rev Robert Tate and the Rev Thomas Slater, with some letters to James Chadwick. The letters cover a wide range of subjects but are particularly valuable for their insight into the development of local Catholic
missions in Yorkshire from the 1830s to the 1870s, including the foundation of missions and churches, the role of local Catholic gentry families of Yorkshire and South Durham (specifically the Stourtons, Maxwells and Vavasours), and the attitude of
the Protestant community towards Catholics following the restoration of the hierarchy. As Tate was heavily involved in Catholic ecclesiastical administration, the letters also provide a wealth of information on all aspects of the running of the
Catholic Church and its often stormy internal disputes, particularly those involving Bishop John Briggs, which characterised mid-nineteenth century Catholicism. The letters also detail Tate's role in the administration of Ushaw College as
vice-president and, later, president. Throughout the correspondence, Tate offers frank and forthright opinions on the changing nature of Catholicism in England, in particular contrasting his own Gallican views with the development of ultramontanism
and its influence on devotional practices and clerical attitudes, and how these changes influenced the wider political situation.
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The letters and other papers follow the original arrangement of the collection which is broadly chronological. The exception to this arrangement is a handful of letters added to the end of the numbering sequence at a later date.
Card catalogue with calendar
The Rev. Michael Sharratt has drawn extensively on the Tate-Slater correspondence in his examination of Tate's Gallican views:
M. Sharratt, “The old school or purple socks? Robert Tate (1799-1876) on a changing church”, in W.J. Campbell (ed.),
Ushaw College 1808-2008: a celebration (Ushaw, Durham: St.
Cuthbert's Society, 2008), p.36-52.
UC/P8/1 19 March 1835
Tate to Slater: rumours that he may not return to Ushaw and hopes of remaining a country curate, his antipathy towards Newsham who has made disparaging remarks about his mission in Hazelwood, agreeing with Slater on the need for bishops to be
present at the Vicar-Apostolic meetings relating to the accounts of the charitable fund for infirm members, the lack of danger of undue episcopal control over the fund, the future opening of the chapel at Layburn, his opinion that the Irish Church
revenues question will be resolved.
2f
UC/P8/2 25 October 1835
Tate to Slater: a resolution passed at a meeting in Newcastle seeking an increase in bishops, his hopes that the clergy will agitate for the restoration of the hierarchy in spite of Rome's reluctance, Lingard's new edition of the Bible, Dr
Youens's depression.
2f
UC/P8/3 4 February 1837
Tate to Slater: a bishop and clergy meeting, his opinion on the proposed division of the Northern District and the need to avoid giving regular bishops the vote in the election of bishops, differences between King William IV, Lord Melbourne and
Daniel O'Connell over the Irish question, scandals involving Dr Baines's clergy in the south, his hope that he will become a bishop, Slater's visit to Ushaw.
4f
UC/P8/4 30 April 1837
Tate to Slater: a rumour that Briggs had denounced his clergy in Rome as “radicals” and his application for a coadjutor to smother the movement and the suggestion of Tate to fill this role, a meeting passing
resolutions relating to a division of the Northern District and recommending Yorkshire as a bishopric, growing calls for regular clergy to vote in episcopal elections, Briggs's homily on clergy lifestyle, his dinner with Youens to celebrate his
departure from Ushaw, Youens's successor, the death of Cardinal Weld, his opinions on politics.
2f
UC/P8/5 18 August 1837
Tate to Slater: anger at the election of Liddle, the future of Lord Melbourne's government and the Irish question, his opinion of Queen Victoria, his belief that Newsham will be a good president and approval of his reforms, his eyewitness account
of violence at the Wakefield election.
2f
UC/P8/6 21 November 1837
Tate to Slater: the generosity of the clergy towards donating £600 towards Ushaw, the lack of support from the gentry towards Catholic education, Charles Blundell's will and large bequests to various clergy and religious institutions, opening of
a chapel at Allerton, the plan to provide prize essays in Philosophy and Theology.
2f
UC/P8/7 29 December 1837
Tate to Slater: the postponement of the president's feast, Witham's £1,300 collection for Ushaw.
3f
UC/P8/8 8 February 1838
Tate to Slater: his grief over the death of Laytham and Wheeler, his surprise at Fletcher being transferred to Durham, Trappes's reasons for leaving Broughton and disagreement with the squires of the parish, his annoyance at those Christians
professing to venerate the clergy but giving them cause for despair.
2f
UC/P8/9 20 April 1838
Tate to Slater: a Vicars Apostolic meeting, his hope that Slater will be present, the drunken behaviour of the mayor of York (Hudson), a clergy retreat in which Trappes acted as a confessor, Newsham's confidential offer for Tate to return to
Ushaw as a professor.
2f
UC/P8/10 22 May 1838
Tate to Slater: a clergy meeting at York, the sending of a letter to Rome: the districts, Mr Blundell''s disputed will, Tate resigning himself to returning to Ushaw.
2f
UC/P8/11 16 June 1838
Tate to Slater: likely opposition to Briggs's proposal for financial committees, the need for a place where mission revenues can be received, his desire for a bishop for Lancashire which he believes would help resolve the issue, his willingness
to go to Ushaw.
2f
UC/P8/12 25 November 1838
Tate to Slater: the opening of a church at Leeds, Edward (son of Lord Vavasour) is struck with religious mania, his hopes to make arrangements for his return to Ushaw early next year, Roman decrees allowing Jesuits to build chapels and indulge in
Roman devotions, Tate's opinion of Jesuits, the order of the archbishop of Paris for masses to be said for the conversion of England, recommending that Slater reads
Nicholas Nickleby.
4f
UC/P8/13 26 January 1839
Tate to Slater: his discussions with Newsham and delays in his appointment owing to his sister's poor health, his approval for Slater's arrangements relating to financial committees, possible agitation for the restoration of the hierarchy, the
interference of Rome in fermenting division between the regular clergy and the bishops, his belief that Catholicism will never flourish in England without a proper form of government in spite of the optimism of Jesuits for the conversion of England,
the duchess of Hornsby is forming a Catholic household.
2f
UC/P8/14 4 June 1839
Tate to Slater: a petition sent from York to Rome seeking the restoration of the hierarchy, his eagerness to return to Ushaw.
2f
UC/P8/15 1 September 1839
Tate to Slater: his imminent departure to Ushaw, his replacement at Hazelwood (Mr Fisher), a dispute: the church at Skipton.
2f
UC/P8/16 12 December 1839
Tate to Slater: his satisfaction over his position at Ushaw, the installation of gas, imparting information on missionary work to priests, his lifestyle.
2f
UC/P8/17 31 December 1839
Tate to Slater: Rome's plan to organise new Catholic districts, his appreciation for Ushaw's Christmas services.
2f
UC/P8/18 [18 May 1842]
Tate to Slater: his visit to Hartlepool to visit Lady Stourton.
2f
UC/P8/19 [July 1842]
Tate to Slater: preparations for the defensions, criticism of a pamphlet [?by Trappes] on Dodding Green.
2f
UC/P8/20 8 July [1842]
William Hogarth to Slater: relating to a furniture list for the Brooms house, and the case of Rogerson and his plan to consult with Dr Moyston.
1f
UC/P8/21 11 July [1842]
Tate to Slater: Rogerson's resignation, his opinion of Sibthorp, urging Slater to come to the defensions at Ushaw.
3f
UC/P8/22 15 July 1842
Tate to Slater: relating to Rogerson, the opening of a church at Stockton, the failure of an Ushaw student taking the London University examination.
3f
UC/P8/23 2 January 1843
Tate to Slater: the student revolt, Platt and O'Toole's departure from the college, his time being taken up by his prefect of studies' duties.
2f
UC/P8/24 8 January 1843
Tate to Slater: the causes of the student revolt, the condemnation of the revolt by the Lancashire clergy, his opinion of the appointment of Consitt as the new prefect and Gillow to replace O'Toole, his burden of revising the studies.
5f
UC/P8/25 8 February 1843
Tate to Slater: extolling Chadwick's virtues, Worthy's character, the improved atmosphere in the parlour, criticism of the president, problems caused by the lack of a constitution, his revision of the studies, a reference to the need for proper
canonical government in England.
2f
UC/P8/26 [6 April 1843]
Tate to Slater: criticism of Lucas, the absence of the Ushaw staff.
2f
UC/P8/27 11 April [1843]
Tate to Slater: commenting on Catholic education and attempts to obtain government funding, speculation that Peel may be willing to grant money to Catholic schools, news of Sharples.
4f
UC/P8/28 5 June [1843]
Tate to Slater: rumours that he is to be appointed coadjutor to Bishop Brown, his dissatisfaction with Newsham.
UC/P8/29 26 June [1843]
Tate to Slater: Brown's failure to obtain a fiât for a concordat to enable the appointment of a coadjutor, his relief that there is no possibility that he will be picked for the post, the death of Charles Orrell, the miracle of the cure of Lord
Clifford's son's foot.
2f
UC/P8/30 6 July [1843]
Tate to Slater: Brown's failure to obtain a fiât for a concordat to enable the appointment of a coadjutor, signs of returning confidence to Ushaw and his conversation with Newsham, relinquishing his prefect of studies role.
2f
UC/P8/31 12 August [1843]
Tate to Slater: the vicar apostolic's assurance that Tate will not be appointed coadjutor, details of his travels in Ireland including Mount Mellearay monastery and church, the expectations of Irish repeal and Tate's meeting with Daniel
O'Connell, an account of Slone Castle, a mass meeting at Tara, opposition by Irish Catholics towards repeal, his belief that Sharples will be appointed coadjutor.
3f
UC/P8/31a [August 1843]
Draft manuscript [?by Robert Tate] with an account of a recent trip to Ireland
The first 10 folios are missing
folios 11-101
UC/P8/32 29 September [1843]
Tate to Slater: fund-raising in the district for a new chapel at Ushaw and Brown's refusal to contribute, the site of the new chapel.
2f
UC/P8/33 12 March [1844]
Tate to Slater: the commencement of the building of the chapel, arrangements for consecration.
2f
UC/P8/34 [March 1844]
Tate to Slater: his admiration for the design of St Mary's cathedral in Newcastle, his belief that the Ushaw chapel will be one of the most beautiful in England, the situation in Ireland, his relief at Riddell's appointment.
3f
UC/P8/35 25 May [1844]
Tate to Slater: the successful subscription campaign for the chapel, a meeting at York and questions put to the bishop: the “Common Stock” Fund, opinions of the Lancashire clergy on Dr Sharples and Wiseman, the
progress of the new chapel, Eastwood's crusade against secular clergy.
4f
UC/P8/36 9 June [1844]
Tate to Slater: thanking him for his congratulations on the papal doctorate, his desire to put a stop to charges of Gallicanism, the need for Sanderson to visit a monastery to repent, opinions on O'Connell, the unpopularity of Queen Victoria, a
local pit strike.
4f
UC/P8/37 14 September [1844]
Tate to Slater: plans for Gentili's retreat, Ushaw's Irish students, the possibility of establishing a preparatory school at Hareholme.
4f
UC/P8/38 [1845]
Postscript to a letter from Tate to Slater with more information on the Lancashire coadjutor, and Lingard's health.
2f
UC/P8/39 4 January [1845]
Tate to Slater: a disagreement involving Riddell's refusal to allow Ward to be buried in St Andrew's in Newcastle, the need to put down the democratic spirit, the state of Oscott.
4f
UC/P8/40 30 January 1845
Tate to Slater: persuading Slater that the new Roman collar and coat he is wearing are improvements on his previous form of dress, the movements of Trappes and his speeches against Mostyn and Riddell, Eastwood's evidence before the Mortmain
Committee, the attitude of the northern nobility towards Riddell.
3f
UC/P8/41 17 February [1845]
Tate to Slater: the appointment of Mr Wrennell as the new prefect, the need to reduce the number of priests in Newcastle, Briggs's desire to open the Wycliffe affair involving himself and Newsham, the parliamentary situation including the budget,
the clash between the repealers and the Irish moderates.
2f
UC/P8/42 26 February [1845]
Tate to Slater: his opinion that the clergy must remain free of lay interference and influence, lamenting the downfall of the [?Catholic] Institute, the lack of financial support from the Catholic gentry and the need to encourage the poorer
members to subscribe to an annual donation, the need to emancipate the chapels from gentry control, an increase in dissatisfaction amongst the younger clergy, Trappes's appeal to Rome.
4f
UC/P8/43 16 March 1845
Tate to Slater: the stormy situation at Newcastle and the increase in “democratic notions”, the death of Dr John Fletcher, the jubilee of John Lingard's ordination.
4f
UC/P8/44 26 March 1845
Tate to Slater: Dr Riddell's retirement, his own chances of succeeding him, a retreat at Ushaw, donations for windows in the new chapel, Dr Fletcher's will.
4f
UC/P8/45 31 May 1845
Tate to Slater: his illness, desire to return to his mission in Yorkshire, criticism of Briggs, his belief that materialism is affecting the Ushaw staff and students, suggesting Charles Eyre as a possible candidate for Newcastle, his opinion of
the current situation in Ireland regarding the repealers and dissenters, donations for the new chapel.
4f
UC/P8/46 21 August 1845
Tate to Slater: his visit to Scorton convent with Hogarth, Errington's advice to students to go to Rome.
4f
UC/P8/47 2 September [1845]
Tate to Slater: planned discussions for an examinations board for Ushaw, the Lancashire clergy's attitude towards Sharples.
2f
UC/P8/48 24 October [1845]
Tate to Slater: ordering books for Ushaw, the decline in standards of teaching, Riddell's popularity.
4f
UC/P8/49 10 December [1845]
Tate to Slater: an injury to his leg, his opinion of Sharples, the postponement of visits by Newman and Faber.
2f
UC/P8/50 31 December [1845]
Tate to Slater: conversions in Newcastle, the negligence of the procurator at Ushaw, the lack of support for the Church by the Catholic gentry.
4f
UC/P8/51 27 June [1846]
Tate to Slater: a bishops' meeting at Ushaw and Sharples being overbearing, the transformation of the refectory, George Dunn's daughter joining a convent in Cork.
2f
UC/P8/52 [November 1846]
Tate to Slater: his desire to leave Ushaw, the visit of Lord and Lady Arundel, Spencer joining the Passionists, Newsham leaving Brooms in debt.
4f
UC/P8/53 27 November [1846]
Tate to Slater: his desire to leave Ushaw.
2f
UC/P8/54 25 December [1846]
Tate to Slater: the sudden death of Lord Stourton, Riddell's plan to attend the president's feast.
2f
UC/P8/55 31 December 1846
Tate to Slater: his isolation and his inability to relate to the younger generation, the funeral of Lord Stourton, F. Trappes in Rome.
6f
UC/P8/56 12 June 1847
Tate to Slater: reminiscing on his student days at Ushaw, his envy of Slater's busy missionary life, Sir E. Vavasour's state of mind, news of Lord and Lady Stourton.
2f
UC/P8/57 [7 August 1847]
Tate to Slater: the clergy retreat at Ushaw and a list of those present, the ceremony for the blessing of the bell for the new church.
3f
UC/P8/58 [12 October 1847]
Tate to Slater: the typhus epidemic and the deaths of a large number of priests, the new appointments of Coxe and Moore in the Birmingham diocese, the movements of Briggs in York, Billington's funeral.
2f
UC/P8/59 12 October 1847
Tate to Slater: plans to petition the pope for a new Catholic hierarchy.
4f
UC/P8/60 14 October 1847
Tate to Slater: Dugdale's successor.
2f
UC/P8/61 30 October 1847
Tate to Slater: on the death of Dugdale and Cornthwaite as his successor, Bishop Walsh declining the archbishop of Westminster position, news of Trappes and his activities in Rome in relation to obtaining more evidence for his case, complaints
against Briggs for importing Irish Jesuit priests into Yorkshire, Briggs making no attempt to educate native boys for the mission.
4f
UC/P8/62 3 November 1847
Tate to Slater: an account of the demise and death of Riddell from an attack of typhus, Riddell's successor.
3f
UC/P8/63 5 November 1847
Tate to Slater: professing himself incapable of replacing Riddell and the successor likely to be a pro-papal choice, Riddell's final resting place, Newsham's reluctance in allowing anyone from Ushaw to attend Riddell's funeral because of the
fever, his name and others (including Philip Kearney) in the frame as the successor.
4f
UC/P8/64 [November 1847]
Tate to Slater: cases of fever at Ushaw, Langdale meeting bishops about the education of the poor, reiterating his desire not to be Riddell's replacement.
2f
UC/P8/65 [November 1847]
Tate to Slater: the petition to the pope, his weariness of Ushaw life, Singleton's case.
The letter is described as above in the card catalogue but cannot be found [22 March 2012].
UC/P8/66 30 November [1847]
Tate to Slater: reiterating his desire not to be Riddell's replacement, his opinion on the character of the ideal candidate, the typhus outbreak at Ushaw, the introduction of monks as priests and schoolmasters at Everingham.
5f
UC/P8/67 8 December 1847
Tate to Slater: the illness of his sister, the vicar apostolic's circular making known Tate's opposition to his appointment as bishop, a reference to a petition sent to the pope.
2f
UC/P8/68 12 December [1847]
Tate to Slater: asking him to support Tate's decision to refuse the appointment, Wiseman chosen to be the archbishop.
4f
UC/P8/69 15 December 1847
Tate to Slater: reiterating his desire not to be Riddell's replacement, news from Rome that Sharples could be appointed in spite of opposition from the English clergy.
4f
UC/P8/70 18 December 1847
Tate to Slater: the death of his sister.
2f
UC/P8/71 21 December 1847
Tate to Slater: the proposed appointment of Sharples to the Northern District, Tate's opposition to this.
2f
UC/P8/72 27 December 1847
Tate to Slater: thanking him for his condolences on the death of his sister, the opposition to the appointment of Sharples, reference to an attempt to persuade Propaganda that only Irish clergy and people have effected improvements in religion in
England, legal difficulties delaying the appointment of ordinary bishops, Lord Minto's influence on the pope in preventing an increase in bishops in England.
4f
UC/P8/73 31 December 1847
Tate to Slater: hoping that clergy will actively oppose the appointment of Sharples to the Northern District, his suspicions that Sharples' appointment is part of a plan to move Ushaw to Lancashire.
2f
UC/P8/74 [1847]
Tate to Slater: Slater's illness, an address to the pope, the charge against Singleton.
2f
UC/P8/75 31 January 1848
Tate to Slater: the delay in the announcement of the new bishop of the Northern District, news from the
Tablet on fever deaths, reference to the Hampden case, Youens in low spirits in Liverpool, Gillow's plan to raise money to supply priests to the mission, the need for a scheme to improve the education of priests,
comments on the political situation abroad.
4f
UC/P8/76 [February 1848]
Tate to Slater: rumours of the appointment of Sharples, Minto succeeding in delaying the announcement of the hierarchy, seeking Slater's opinion on whether Wiseman wrote Lord Shrewsbury's letter to the Lion of Judah in the
Tablet.
2f
UC/P8/77 22 February 1848
Tate to Slater: news of the illness of priests due to typhus, Shrewsbury's second letter to the
Tablet, the House of Lords agreeing to receive a lay (but not ecclesiastical) envoy from the pope, Lancashire clergy convinced that Sharples will be appointed to the Northern District, urging Slater to call a meeting
to prevent it.
3f
UC/P8/78 4 February [1848]
Tate to Slater: conceding that no remonstrance against the appointment of Sharples would have an effect on Fransoni and Rome, his threat to return to Yorkshire if Sharples is appointed, the latest accounts from Rome dividing England into 14
districts, death of Fletcher, the church pastoral, commenting on foreign affairs.
3f
UC/P8/79 13 March 1848
Tate to Slater:: Propaganda's condemnation of objections to the appointment of Sharples, his hope that Hogarth should be appointed, foreign affairs (particularly France), the arrangement of a lay meeting in York to discuss the disappearance of
chapel receipts, a debt owed to the college by Bishop Brown.
4f
UC/P8/80 17 April 1848
Tate to Slater: Propaganda's request for suggestions of names for the Northern District appointment, Tate's desire to fight for Hogarth and his plan to ensure that he (Hogarth) is appointed, the signing of a petition by the Yorkshire clergy
against the Diplomatic Relations Bill.
5f
UC/P8/81 24 April 1848
Tate to Slater: Fransoni's inclination to attend to the wishes of the clergy on the Northern District appointment, his reasons for not signing a memorial organised by F. Lucas.
4f
UC/P8/82 [30 April 1848]
Tate to Slater: their signing of different petitions, his belief that they both contain the same principles of suspicion of the Whigs, his reasons for signing another petition, praising Dr Brown for his treatment of the clergy.
6f
UC/P8/83 [13 May 1848]
Tate to Slater: his annoyance at Slater's suggestion that he has “given in” about the memorial, a reference to the political situation in Rome, the pope's exile.
2f
UC/P8/84 [3 June 1848]
Tate to Slater: the death of Dr Youens and Newsham's brother from typhus.
2f
UC/P8/85 [5 June 1848]
Tate to Slater: a eulogy for Dr Youens, no decision on the new northern bishop, “factious, vulgar Irish priests” causing trouble in all the major centres in Yorkshire, Wiseman opening a new church at Clifford.
5f
UC/P8/86 9 June 1848
Tate to Slater: George Gillow being affected by the death of Youens.
2f
UC/P8/87 11 July 1848
Tate to Slater: Gillet's resignation from the Newcastle mission, plans for the hierarchy, Prince Albert's visit to York.
2f
UC/P8/88 [17 July 1848]
Tate to Slater: arrangements for visiting, the anti-Catholic attitude of
The Times, the possibility of Ullathorne becoming the new archbishop.
2f
UC/P8/89 [9 August 1848]
Tate to Slater: Hogarth's imminent appointment as the new bishop, arrangements for his consecration, news of other appointments to the new hierarchy, the need for the clergy to ensure canonical rights are extended to them, the situation in
Ireland including the famine and rebellion.
5f
UC/P8/90 [15 August 1848]
Tate to Slater: Hogarth's consecration, arrangements for the new hierarchy, commenting on the Irish situation, the anti-Catholic opinions of
The Times.
4f
UC/P8/91 21 August 1848
Tate to Slater: an address to Hogarth and speculation over how Lancashire clergy would react if they were invited to sign it, the popularity of the new bishop.
2f
UC/P8/92 22 August 1848
Tate to Slater: arrangements for the consecration service.
2f
UC/P8/93 [25 August 1848]
Tate to Slater: asking Slater to arrange a dinner for the new bishop as a mark of respect for the clergy.
2f
UC/P8/94 [September 1848]
Tate to Slater: George Morgan sending his two boys to Ushaw, the demolition of Allerton Hall and its replacement by a tudor style building, a reference to the dedication of the new chapel.
2f
UC/P8/95 20 September-1 January 1848
Tate to Slater: the consecration of the new chapel, the address to the pope and the need for the clergy to sign it at Ushaw, his decision to leave Ushaw.
2f
UC/P8/96 21 October 1848
Tate to Slater: the opening of the new chapel at Ushaw, Pugin's design for a new library with Fr Wilkinson to pay for most of its costs, the Rigby affair, Wendell's rejection of the Oscott presidency, the poor health of Charles Eyre, his desire
to remain at Ushaw until the end of the year.
6f
UC/P8/97 [November 1848]
Tate to Slater: Charles Gifford's debt, the loss of the countess's estates, anger at Briggs over financial matters.
4f
UC/P8/98 29 November 1848
Tate to Slater: the plight of the pope, the decline of the Yorkshire district due to the Irish clergy.
2f
UC/P8/99 3 December 1848
Prayer certificate for Mrs Catherine Mary Dunn.
1f
UC/P8/100 7 January [1849]
Tate to Slater: claiming that Dr Briggs's management is universally resented in Yorkshire, particularly on financial matters, the clergy have lost confidence in him.
2f
UC/P8/101 25 January [1849]
Tate to Slater: expounding the case of an American parson - Connelly, a convert - who wishes to resume relations with his ex-wife, Tate's critical opinion of converts.
2f
UC/P8/102 30 January - 1 February 1849
Tate to Slater: his reasons for wanting to leave Ushaw, particularly his relationship with Newsham, his replacement by Chadwick, writing a pastoral letter recommending the education of the poor.
On the reverse: a note from Slater to Hogarth forwarding Tate's letter to Hogarth in order for the latter to know Tate's true feelings.
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UC/P8/103 29 February 1849
Tate to Slater: his plan to resign from Ushaw and Hogarth's desire for him to see out the academic year, Trappes's proposition for Tate to take up the Sheffield mission, Tate's lack of ties with Yorkshire, the death of the
“Northern star” and details of his will, Dr Walsh's burial.
4f
UC/P8/104 [2 March 1849]
Tate to Slater: sending a letter from Trappes: the feeling aroused by Dr Briggs's Irish clergy in Yorkshire.
1f
UC/P8/105 [6 March 1849]
Tate to Slater: his conversation with Newsham, his desire to leave Ushaw in the summer.
2f
UC/P8/106 16 March 1849
Tate to Slater: his desire to leave Ushaw by Easter, his opinion on the opposition to the appointment of Dr Corless as dean of the locality, a dispute between Charles Eyre and Riddell.
3f
UC/P8/107 17 March 1849
Tate to Slater: Hogarth's illness.
2f
UC/P8/108 [March 1849]
Tate to Slater: on leaving Ushaw in the summer, the exposé of George Hudson in York, the story of the sportsman Joe Maxwell, his plans to retire to Stonyhurst.
4f
UC/P8/109 21 April 1849
Tate to Slater: Hogarth's illness, feeling at home in Darlington.
2f
UC/P8/110 [May 1849]
Tate to Slater: the memorial on the Common Stock Fund, Mathew Kearney's purchase of the ford near Lanchester.
2f
UC/P8/111 16 May [1849]
Tate to Slater: the Hudson exposé, the reasons for the clergy's animosity towards Briggs, his own meeting with Briggs.
4f
UC/P8/112 16 May [1849]
Tate to Slater: the plan of the Yorkshire clergy to reduce Briggs's authority, the clergy's awareness of Tate's plans to leave Ushaw.
2f
UC/P8/113 [May 1849]
Tate to Slater thanking him for his account of Hogarth, his rejection of Briggs's plan to move him to Yorkshire.
2f
UC/P8/114 20 July [1849]
Tate to Slater: his imminent departure from Ushaw, his plans for a tour of Belgium.
2f
UC/P8/115 26 July 1849
Tate to Slater: a meeting of the Lancashire clergy, his visit to the new Salford Cathedral, his sadness at leaving Ushaw.
2f
UC/P8/116 19 August [1849]
Tate to William Hogarth; his tour of Belgium, impressions of Aix-la-Chapelle, Cologne, Tournai cathedral, Trappes's plan to recruit Belgian priests for his English mission.
f
UC/P8/117 23 November [1849]
Tate to Slater: plans for his 50th birthday, other news.
4f
UC/P8/118 [27 November 1849]
Tate to Slater: Riddell's accident, the pope's high opinion of Hogarth in a letter.
2f
UC/P8/119 16 March [1850]
Tate to Slater: Briggs's dismissal of the memorial sent to him by the clergy outlining their grievances with him, the possibility of a petition being sent to Propaganda, the lack of news of the pope's return to Rome, the Gorham case, Mr
Langdale's plan to raise funds for a Catholic school, other news.
4f
UC/P8/120 22 March [1850]
Tate to Slater: arrangements for meeting him, a French newspaper's account of a cross being placed on the spot of Edward Vavasour's death, the political situation in France, his belief that Catholic education is vital in preventing socialism.
2f
UC/P8/121 [20 April 1850]
Tate to Slater: the unfair treatment of a priest by Briggs.
2f
UC/P8/122 [June 1850]
Tate to Slater: his consideration of going to Prior Park to assist in the reform of their studies and his reasons for doing so.
4f
UC/P8/123 25 August [1850 x 1859]
Tate to Slater: his inability to attend the Newcastle meeting, Bishop [Hogarth's] lack of communication with Chadwick.
2f
UC/P8/124 [September 1850]
Tate to Slater: [Vincent Eyre's] attack of typhus, the Carmel nuns praying for Slater's mother.
2f
UC/P8/125 22 September [1850]
Tate to Slater: the poor health of Slater's mother.
2f
UC/P8/126 [1 October] 1850
Tate to Slater: the health of Slater's mother, the account of Bishop Hendren's resignation.
2f
UC/P8/127 [December 1850]
Tate to Slater: his memories of the young Wiseman at Ushaw, the anti-Catholicism of Lord John Russell [during the Papal Aggression].
2f
UC/P8/128 17 January 1851
Tate to Slater: his appointment to the Yorkshire mission, the anxiety of the Yorkshire clergy over the restoration of the hierarchy, Wiseman's speech during his enthronement and its implications for the clergy, a detailed analysis of episcopal
authority.
6f
UC/P8/129 5 February 1851
Tate to Slater: suggesting changes to the address to be sent to Hogarth [on the hierarchy].
2f
UC/P8/130 1 April 1851
Tate to Slater: with an account of his new parish in Hedon, near Hull, the editor of the
Hull Advertiser being favourable to Catholics, the popularity of Michael Trappes at Hull and his regular dining with the mayor, an account of his dinner with the Catholic gentry at Burton Constable, the Talbot convent
case,
The Times likely to raise a “No Popery” cry in the next election, his opinion that Wiseman is to blame for the outcry, Briggs's shabby treatment of Frank Trappes and his
replacement, Briggs's use of diocesan funds for a chapel in Bradford, declaring himself a Protectionist, Taylor's libel on Wiseman's mother.
8f
UC/P8/131 3 May 1851
Tate to Slater: arrangements for meeting him, Trappes's desire for employment, a conference in Hull calling for more involvement in ecclesiastical matters by the clergy, his consideration of making a speech in York, his opinion of Conceptionists
leaving Howden and Everingham, his belief that the York meeting will complain about Irish clergy, news of a proposed convent bill, the Protectionists and the Whigs.
8f
UC/P8/132 31 May 1851
Tate to Slater: criticism of Queen Victoria's temperament, the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, account of a race day at York, the decision at a meeting in York to reject admission of Irish Catholics to the fund, his opinion that Hogarth should retire
from missionary life, Fr Wrennell's retirement following his nervous breakdown, Wiseman's role in fermenting anti-Catholic tension.
8f
UC/P8/133 9 July [1851]
Tate to Slater: the opening of Howden church and the likely difficulties in maintaining it, his attendance at a meeting to raise money for a new school in Hull, Hogarth and Riddell appearing before the mortmain committee, criticism of the
Ecclesiastical Titles Bill, the formation of a local committee relating to the opening of the new church in Hartlepool by Wiseman, the news that the pope's chaplain was seeking a cavalry home at Stagshaw Bank in preparation for another Papal
Aggression, seeking his opinion of Manning's ordination.
7f
UC/P8/134 19 July 1851
Tate to Slater: the appearance of “Card” at the mortmain committee, his opinion that the
Hull Advertiser should receive Catholic patronage, the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill.
2f
UC/P8/135 5 September 1851
Tate to Slater: his conversation with Trappes on Catholic converts, Lingard's will, seeking Slater's impressions of the opening of the new church at Hartlepool, the reduction in confirmations at Hull, Briggs's desire to be an archbishop and
Tate's refusal to assist in drawing up an address to this effect, news from Prior Park, the duke of Norfolk, Trappes's influence on railway staff, a debate in the House of Lords [?on the Ecclesiastical Titles Bill].
8f
UC/P8/136 2 November [1851]
Tate to Slater: news from St Ninian's, Wooler, rumours of a clerical scandal in Hull, Wiseman's role in the appointment of new bishops, the situation in Ireland.
10f
UC/P8/137 17 November 1851
Tate to Slater: the process of choosing bishops, suggesting a court of elders to investigate moral issues relating to priests, the holding of a diocesan synod.
2f
UC/P8/138 26 December 1851
Tate to Slater: his retirement from ecclesiastical politics because of disillusionment, his opinion that the restoration of the hierarchy only succeeded in arousing great bigotry, Briggs's scheme for evangelisation likely to inflame bigots, Henry
Artrop's mental illness and scandal over his feelings towards a woman, Hogarth's need to put an end to missions from Gateshead to make Fr Betham look ridiculous, St Ninian's campaign, the dismissal and reinstatement of Andrew Burns at York, his
views of Ushaw, reference to a Defence Association, the Achilli-Newman case, the death of a new Catholic newspaper.
10f
UC/P8/139 14 January [1852]
Tate to Slater: a memorial by the Northern clergy to Wiseman relating to the hierarchy's duty to the clergy and their role, Artrop's release from an asylum, possible changes in Hexham diocese.
4f
UC/P8/140 18 February [1852]
Tate to Slater: Artrop's constant state of drunkenness and living openly with women, his view that this is a serious scandal and is affecting the number of converts in the Hedon area, views on ecclesiastical law, his opinion that Wiseman plans to
make a controversial speech in order to create further conversions.
6f
UC/P8/141 30 March [1852]
Tate to Slater: Wiseman's secretary being snubbed at court, his hopes that bishops will be guided by God in the provincial synod, Briggs's intention not to employ Trappes in Yorkshire, Artrop's marriage, reflections on his Hedon parish, the
trouble caused by the Irish in the Hexham diocese and Hogarth's opinion of secret societies, his opinion of the Irish as a race, the problem with mixed marriages.
6f
UC/P8/142 24 April [1852]
Tate to Slater: a new railway hotel at Hull, applications for admission from the Irish clergy, the determination of the Yorkshire clergy to resist Briggs's will, Briggs's attitude towards Ushaw and the education of priests, criticism of
Vavasour's plan to settle three Italian priests at Hazelwood, criticism of Wiseman's power, criticism of monsignori and the effect of [ultramontane] ways in provoking hostility in England, seeking the opinion of the Hexham clergy on the Charitable
Trust Bill, seeking the evidence of the Mortmain Committee, his opinion of Frank Trappes as an “incorrigible mischief maker”, Irish election prospects, the lack of converts, the difficulties experienced by Catholics
in the post-papal aggression period.
6f
UC/P8/143 14 May 1852
Tate to Slater: a meeting at York discussing the number of Irish clergy being introduced into the diocese by Bishop Briggs, Tate's opposition to their presence, Frank Trappes's evidence before the mortmain committee, a meeting concerning an
ownership claim relating to Vavasour's house, criticism of synod and Wiseman's interference.
9f
UC/P8/144 6 September 1852
Tate to Slater: Wiseman's influence at the provincial synod, criticism of the formation of the new diocesan chapter, his fear that Yorkshire will be invaded by Irish priests, the ownership claim relating to Vavasour's house, his fears over Lord
Derby's actions and its impact on the Catholics of England.
8f
UC/P8/145 12 September 1852
Tate to Slater: Slater's affiliation with Render and his role in the affair over chapter appointments, a reference to the honours and badges of office of the “Roman school”.
5f
UC/P8/146 2 October [1852]
Tate to Slater: the death of Lady Stourton.
2f
UC/P8/147 1 November 1852
Tate to Slater: his ceremony in being made canon and his criticism of the canonry system, confirmation of his return to Hazelwood, the current anti-Catholic feeling which he blames on the scandals caused by the Irish and the rise of the
[ultramontanes].
12f
UC/P8/148 21 December [1852]
Tate to Slater: the funeral of Lady Stourton.
8f
The letter is described as above in the card catalogue but cannot be found [22 March 2012].
UC/P8/149 12 January 1853
Tate to Slater: the decree of the Synod, Lord Liverpool and Bishop Brown's opposition to Wiseman's promotion of Roshele within Lancashire, the limitations of the chapter and its need to seek approval from the “red
stocking” brigade, the possibility of leaving his mission, news of priests' movements, donations for a new school, parliamentary affairs including the refusal of the Irish to support any ministry not prepared to vote for repeal and Derby's
ungracious attitude on leaving office, deaths of children from the cholera epidemic, the Achilli-Newman case.
UC/P8/150 29 March 1853
Tate to Slater: Fisher's false charge against him, Newsham's portraits.
8f
UC/P8/151 19 May [1853]
Tate to Slater: criticising Ullathorne's conduct and arguing that the
Rambler is not a suitable forum for a reply, his anger at Crowe and advising against building a Catholic chapel on a piece of land, the bishop of Durham, the death of Sir E. Haggerstone.
4f
UC/P8/152 27 May 1853
Tate to Slater: his acceptance of an invitation to Dr Newsham's jubilee, his reaction at being back at Hazelwood, the local community, a dispute involving Briggs, the plan for financial committees to be formed, his plan to write to Wiseman on
Briggs's underhand attempts to obtain information from priests' housekeepers, Crawley joining the society at St Ninians, a donation left to Hedon mission.
10f
UC/P8/153 16 June 1853
Tate to Slater: priests' movements, the Catholic gentry's decision not to hold a meeting to protest against the convent bill.
2f
UC/P8/154 18 June [1853]
Tate to Slater: doctorates for Gibson and Fletcher, recalling the duke of Wellington's funeral, Lord Landsborough's unpopularity, his trustees buying up every available Yorkshire estate.
6f
UC/P8/155 2 July [1853]
Tate to Slater: Newsham's Jubilee, Wiseman expressing his disappointment that the Catholic gentry meeting to protest against the convent bill had fallen through owing to the fear that Irish MPs would take over the meeting, his impressions of the
new buildings at Ushaw, the lack of Yorkshiremen at Ushaw due to the importation of Irish priests.
4f
UC/P8/156 17 July 1853
Tate to Slater: canvassing Slater's vote for John Prest of Leeds to be voted to the position of secretary of the Poor Schools Committee, Sackville Fox's conduct, Roskill's father leaving a large bequest to his son.
4f
UC/P8/156a 19 July [1853]
Tate to Slater: recommending John [?Prest] for the position of secretary of the Poor Schools Committee.
2f
UC/P8/157 19 August [1853]
Tate to Slater: Goss is not fit to be a bishop, the Beverley chapter meeting to organise financial committees and his belief that Briggs's policy on chapter appointments has led to financial difficulties, John Rigby's appointment at Selby,
Cooke's plan to build a large church at Leeds and his likely difficulties with finance, reporting that regular clergy will be under the jurisdiction of the bishops, Rome's opinion of the northern clergy as disobedient and rebellious, a dispute
surrounding Grant's share in the funds of the old London district.
4f
UC/P8/158 31 August [1853]
Tate to Slater: Chadwick's inability to finish a retreat at St Ninian's, Hogarth sending a list of new indulgences to be introduced in the diocese, the formation of financial committees, Briggs's residence in Ireland, Wiseman and Grant's feud
over money, a bequest to the Hedon mission.
4f
UC/P8/159 15 September 1853
Tate to Slater: the railway through Stutton as one of George Hudson's follies, the changing landscape of York, the division of the Beverley chapter, seeking information on the procedure for Hexham's finance committee, Briggs's fondness for
Ireland, criticism of the Beverley chapter, his decision not to attend Roskell's consecration, cholera at Newcastle, new Catholic devotions including indulgences and the frequency of communion, Trappes's visit to Ireland.
6f
UC/P8/160 23 September 1853
Tate to Slater: the serious illness of Charles Langdale, his view that Beverley are ahead of Hexham in sending a circular requesting prayer and fasting for cholera victims, Briggs's illness caused by the cholera, the system of rural deans
operated by Slater's financial committee,
The Times and their allegiance to Russia in their conflict with Turkey, his criticism of Wiseman.
6f
UC/P8/161 27 September 1853
Tate to Slater: describing an old school Catholic, the reduction in conversions, criticism of chapters, the cholera epidemic, Henry Clifford's poverty, a letter to
The Times signed by a Catholic curate.
5f
UC/P8/162 12 October [1853]
Tate to Slater: the devastation of the local potato crop, the death of Bradley, the request of the nuns at Scorton for Render to carry out a visitation rather than Briggs owing to the involvement of the latter in the dispute, their removal, the
cholera epidemic.
4f
UC/P8/163 2 November [1853]
Tate to Slater: the new church at Howden, a committee meeting, Wiseman's decision to go to Rome, probably to resolve a dispute between himself and the bishop of Southwick.
2f
UC/P8/164 5 December [1853]
Tate to Slater: the meeting of the synod, his role as joint promoter of the synod, the appointment of a Committee of Investigations for charges brought against clergy, other appointments to the chapter, criticism of a circular from Briggs
relating to abuses in missions, criticism of the decree regarding the wearing of Roman collars, the dispute between Briggs and the Scorton nuns, the banishment of the Duke of Norfolk from the Royal Court, his criticism of the frequency of chapter
meetings.
12f
UC/P8/165 8 December [1853]
Tate to Slater: stating that he will not wear a Roman collar, Slater's status in the diocese.
4f
UC/P8/166 17 December [1853]
Tate to Slater: the first diocesan synod at Beverley including a summary of the decrees passed, appointments to the synod, his opinions of the synod.
5f
UC/P8/167 29 December [1853]
Tate to Slater: the Briggs-Scorton nuns dispute, Briggs's consultation with the chapter: a
Rectores mission, asking Slater to protest against the frequency of chapter meetings.
2f
UC/P8/168 18 February [1854]
Tate to Slater :criticising a sermon by Wiseman, his objections to wearing a Roman collar, criticism of bishops placing too much emphasis on formalities, Briggs's lack of encouragement towards schools and colleges, Chadwick's illness, his
criticism of newly created clerical offices, his hope that the Hexham diocese could be made into a metropolitan see so that Briggs would be subject to Hogarth.
5f
UC/P8/169 [?April 1854]
Tate to Slater: Slater's health.
1f
UC/P8/170 12 April [1854]
Tate to Slater: Slater's firearm-related injury.
2f
UC/P8/171 14 April [1854]
Tate to Slater: Slater's illness, Vavasour's plan to educate all his children at Ushaw, Fanny [?Taylor's] desire to join the Sisters of Charity, the “Irishness” of the Sunderland convent and its impact on English
nuns going to other dioceses, a dispute in Durham over the election of a prison chaplain, Greenwell's Puseyism.
2f
UC/P8/172 18 April [1854]
Tate to Slater: Slater's illness, Mrs Vavasour's brother to be aide-de-camp to Brigadier Butler in the Crimean War.
2f
UC/P8/173 21 April [1854]
Tate to Slater: Slater's health, Hogarth's intention not to go to a bishops meeting because of a recent illness, rumours that Goss will be appointed the new bishop of Plymouth, a financial dispute between Sherburne and the Lancashire clergy,
rumours of other bishops' appointments.
4f
UC/P8/174 25 April [1854]
Tate to Slater: the increasing popularity of York races, his criticism of a meeting of canons, the spread of Mormonism in England.
4f
UC/P8/175 29 April [1854]
Tate to Slater: Henry Marshall's inspection of the local schools and the suppression by Wiseman of Marshall's report on the management of Catholic schools, his criticism of Wiseman's attachment to Roman ideas, criticism of chapter's
recommendations, his scepticism of Croskell's popularity in his temporary parish, and the Durham jail chaplaincy affair
5f
UC/P8/176 1 May 1854
Tate to Slater: the Marshall-Wiseman affair, his plan to attend the York chapter meeting and deliver a speech on Catholic unity and concord.
3f
UC/P8/177 4 May 1854
Tate to Slater: the Marshall-Wiseman affair
2f
UC/P8/178 19 May [1854]
Tate to Slater: admittance of boys to Ushaw and the need for them to obtain quittance, Trappes raising funds to pay off the Hull debt, arrangements made for parishes in debt, the resignation of four Liverpool canons from the chapter and his
desire to resign also, the Sackville Fox affair.
4f
UC/P8/179 12 June [1854]
Tate to Slater: a court case involving a young lady [Miss Jones] and Rev Richard Singleton (priest of Stockton), the Poor Schools Committee meeting, criticism of Briggs and his involvement in the will of a deceased Catholic, his criticism of the
hierarchy.
6f
UC/P8/180 11 July [1854]
Tate to Slater: the Jones-Singleton case at Stockton, criticism of Briggs, criticism of the plan to create rectors.
3f
UC/P8/181 13 July [1854]
Tate to Slater: plans for a St Cuthbert's Society, the Hexham chapter arranging parish boundaries.
2f
UC/P8/182 8 September [1854]
Tate to Slater: criticising the Hexham diocesan clergy as troublesome, the local press noting the increase in Catholic chapels in the Hexham diocese, the new church at Wolsingham.
2f
UC/P8/183 16 September [1854]
Tate to Slater: the end of the Jones-Singleton case in which Singleton has been exonerated and Tate's opinion that this was an “exceptional triumph” given that the bench was stacked against Singleton, Briggs's
engagement in the Keighley affair and accusations made against Briggs by the Tempest family that he was putting pressure on the late Miss Tempest to leave her property to the church.
3f
UC/P8/184 18 September [1854]
Tate to Slater: the
York Herald's account of the Jones-Singleton case and the belief that charges would have been quickly dropped had the accused not been a Catholic priest, and opposition against Wiseman.
2f
UC/P8/185 2 November [1854]
Tate to Slater: the large number of church openings in the Hexham diocese, the proposed new St Cuthbert's Society at Ushaw, Platt's replacement of Browne at Newcastle, the Boyle case, his belief that the anti-convent feeling should subside owing
to their involvement in helping injured soldiers in the Crimean War, the difficulties of holding mass in the Crimea.
5f
UC/P8/186 12 November [1854]
Tate to Slater: strongly condemning the Anglican Evangelical - George Fox - for capitalising on the Singleton case in Stockton by publishing a pamphlet criticising priestly celibacy, the Cornsay estate, Trappes's travelling to Rome carrying a
petition from Joe Tempest protesting against his late sister's bequest, the diversion of the Crimean War, Mr Langdale, a chapter mass at York for soldiers killed in action.
3f
UC/P8/187 22 November [1854]
Tate to Slater: alluding to the Ushaw revolt of 1842, the defeat of the Singleton case for the second time, its effect on the increase in court cases against priests in other parts of the country including Preston and Sheffield, his information
on Anglican clergymen seducing women, the public trial of Walsh of Keighley in the insolvency court, Henry Clifford witnessing the charge of the Light Brigade.
4f
UC/P8/188 [21 December 1854]
Tate to Slater: R. Hogarth's involvement in the St Cuthbert's Society and plans for the inaugural meeting, Joe Tempest's petition, the appointment of Briggs as assistant bishop at the papal court, Brown's campaign against Goss, turning down an
offer to work in the Newcastle mission, the hostility towards priests in Stockton, a disagreement between Haggerstone and Charles Eyre, an anti-Catholic matter in the Durham newspapers and criticism of Alessandro Gavazzi's anti-Catholic orations,
the unpopularity of Queen Victoria and the government over the Crimean War.
6f
UC/P8/189 [26 December 1854]
Tate to Slater: Christmas celebrations, St Cuthbert's Society, Joe Tempest's petition, the death of Sherburne, bequests to Ushaw by priests.
2f
UC/P8/190 2 January 1855
Tate to Slater: Vavasour's health, his attendance at Ushaw watching Henry Maxwell's children in a Christmas play, the depletion of the [?Catholic] gentry caused by the Crimean War.
3f
UC/P8/191 12 February [1855]
Tate to Slater: William Vavasour's descent into madness and its effect on the Hazelwood community, the appointment of a coadjutor for Wiseman, the detention of Grant and other bishops at Rome over the Lucas affair, Tate's criticism of the
Tablet and the likelihood of Lucas's views causing a schism, Walsh's accusations against his former neighbours at Keighley, the political situation, criticism of Wiseman's novel
Fabiola,
the improvement of the
Catholic Standard under Henry Wilberforce.
6f
UC/P8/192 12 April [1855]
Tate to Slater: Wiseman's court case with Boyell, the Beverley synod, a pamphlet, the Singleton case, the replacement of Gradwell, a new school angering anti-Catholics, news of St Cuthbert's Society.
4f
UC/P8/193 14 May [1855]
Tate to Slater: the old generation of Catholics, a detailed account of the synod, the appointment of a coadjutor for Wiseman, criticism of the Maynooth issue in parliament.
6f
UC/P8/194 16 June [1855]
Tate to Slater: St Cuthbert's Society, chapter news, rumours of priests dining with a schoolmistress, the effect of the Jones-Singleton case.
3f
UC/P8/195 10 July [1855]
Tate to Slater: his non-attendance at a synod, the committee of the St Cuthbert's Society, the new chaplain at Ushaw, a strong anti-Ushaw feeling amongst the Lancashire clergy, news of Henry Clifford in the Crimea, Adolphus Liddell engaged for
the Singleton case at the Quarter Sessions, Tate's opinion that he will be a good man for the case and likely to be well-disposed given his Puseyite sympathies.
4f
UC/P8/196 16 July [1855]
Tate to Slater: his attendance at the Provisional Committee meeting [?of the St Cuthbert's Society], the progress of the Singleton case and the anti-Catholic bigotry of the prosecuting lawyer, Lord John Russell paying the price for his
anti-Catholic letter to the bishop of Durham [during the Papal Aggression].
2f
UC/P8/197 19 July [?1855]
Tate to Slater: his involvement in the St Cuthbert's Council.
2f
UC/P8/198 25 August [1855]
Tate to Slater: arrangements for a half burse to be given to a church student, St Cuthbert's Society news, criticism of Briggs attending a church opening in Killarney, priest appointments in Yorkshire, criticism of the York centre.
4f
UC/P8/199 13 October [1855]
Tate to Slater: Briggs's visitation of his deanery, the transformation of the monastery at Market Weighton into a reformatory school, his contribution to Wiseman's subscription, Trappes laying the foundation stone for a school in Hull, and the
attitude of the Hull newspaper to Catholics, and his opinion of Lord Palmerstone
4f
UC/P8/200 19 October [1855]
Tate to Slater: the Market Weighton monastery, a chapter meeting, his increased workload in carrying out visitations owing to the ill health of Lambert.
3f
UC/P8/201 22 October [1855]
Tate to Slater: a meeting in York, the planned new reformatory school, clerical scandals in Yorkshire including Astrop's case being publically debated in Hull, Briggs's opinion of Newman's conversion and praising the state of Catholic learning,
an article in the
Weekly Register: Marshall's assertions of non-attendance of Catholic children at school.
5f
UC/P8/202 [2 November 1855]
Tate to Slater: blaming Slater's bronchitis on his wearing a Roman collar, Wiseman's conflict with an anti-Catholic author criticising the Immaculate Conception, a new house and church at Ugthorpe, the meeting relating to the proposed reformatory
school, the winding up of Prior Park, his plans to make a visitation at Kilvington.
7f
UC/P8/203 20 November [1855]
Tate to Slater: Slater's illness, the plan to leave his current mission.
4f
UC/P8/204 1 December [1855]
Tate to Slater: Slater's illness, Cornthwaite should accept the offer of a bishop or become a coadjutor to Hogarth, the question of mixed marriages discussed at the York chapter meeting, the Jesuits, the Rosicrucian, a memorial from Protestants
sent to the Queen [Victoria], the Astrop allegations which were subsequently proved to be false, Market Weighton monastery.
5f
UC/P8/205 11 December [1855]
Tate to Slater: the bigotry of Lord Landsborough, news of a chapter meeting, the order from Briggs relating to the Feast of the Immaculate Conception, the Astrop case, William Vavasour, Wiseman's views of a concordat with Austria.
4f
UC/P8/206 24 December [1855]
Tate to Slater: the Cornsay affair, his hopes that the Astrop case has finally ended, a request for Tate to allow his priest (O'Neill) to agree to the old custom of giving communion rather than insisting on the decree of Congregation of
Rites.
4f
UC/P8/207 31 December 1855
Tate to Slater: Trappes's fund-raising tour for a new school, his opinion that the new
Catholic Directory reflects the “Roman invasion” and his criticism of this, diocesan statistics in the directory.
3f
UC/P8/208 8 January [1856]
Tate to Slater: the changing nature of Ushaw in particular the lack of respect from the young clerics, the Irish priests are likely to destroy the prestige of a clergy and synod meeting in York, Tate prohibited from receiving Philip Vavasour's
help in confessions, sermons or mass, and the Boyle-Newman case.
6f
UC/P8/209 11 January [1856]
Tate to Slater: Briggs's illness, the Cornsay case, Crane's desire to continue delivering mass in spite of his eye trouble.
2f
UC/P8/210 21 January [1856]
Tate to Slater: the squire of Houghton's papers belong to Mrs Fitzherbert which prove her marriage to the Prince of Wales, progress of the conversion work of Market Weighton monastery, Briggs's health, the closure of Prior's Park, Rosicrucians
deserting Everingham.
2f
UC/P8/211 30 January [1856]
Tate to Slater: Alderman's death, publication of the Fitzherbert correspondence, his plans to retire to St Ninian's in Wooler.
4f
UC/P8/212 11 February 1856
Tate to Slater: construction of Trappes's school at a standstill, his opinion of Alderman's replacement, Briggs's recovery, criticism of Irish priests, his Lenten fast, reasons for the reduction in diocesan income, the political situation between
Russia and France, the appointments of priests.
6f
UC/P8/213 19 February [1856]
Tate to Slater: the destruction of a church in Shotley Bridge caused by high winds, the increase in the number of churches in the surrounding area of Ushaw, contrasting the present clergy with their predecessors, the sale of vessels from Prior
Park in the
Weekly Register, Hogarth's ill health and his desire for an assistant, Lord Derry and his moderate stance in the Papal Aggression.
5f
UC/P8/214 23 February 1856]
Tate to Slater: the death of the duke of Norfolk, Frank Trappes's assistance to Hogarth, the death of Edward Maynard.
2f
UC/P8/215 11 March [1856]
Tate to Slater: the destruction of St Ninian's house, his attendance at a chapter meeting in York, Brigg's health, the discouraging accounts of the rector of Durham, the effect of the notice on mixed marriage.
5f
UC/P8/216 23 March [1856]
Tate to Slater: relations between Britain and France, John Wallis's purchase of the
Tablet and the likelihood of it changing its political stance, the duke of Arundell's will.
4f
UC/P8/217 7 April [1856]
Tate to Slater: arrangements for visiting.
2f
UC/P8/218 19 May [1856]
Tate to Slater: the York meeting and Briggs's speech affected by his ill health, Rome siding with Tempest in the Grange affair, the Cornsay farm affair.
7f
UC/P8/219 23 June 1856
Tate to Slater: the death of Fletcher and his burial at Ushaw, criticism of anti-Catholics and their meetings in Exeter Hall, Vavasour likely to die, the death of Mr Bastard, marriage of Philip Stourton's daughter, Brian Stapleton offering his
services to the reformatory.
4f
UC/P8/220 2 November [1856]
Tate to Slater: Slater's severe illness and Suffield's replacement as a temporary priest until his health improves, his hopes that they will receive a few more decrees from the diocese of Hexham before the new law is repealed, Crane's confusion
over new ceremonial changes.
6f
UC/P8/221 9 December [1856]
Tate to Slater: St Andrew's feast, Fr Rose at Hardwick, his complaints about women's headdress at altar and other Italian indulgences, his view that these changes are not suited to the Saxon temperament, his opinion that the ending of the penal
laws and integration of Catholics into the community has resulted in increased clerical scandals and the lack of a community of feeling among the clergy, a reformatory meeting at York in which the matter of young offenders being subject to
proselytism was discussed along with the financial viability of converting a monastery into a Catholic Reformatory school, plans for Cornsay farm to be conveyed to the Ushaw trustees in spite of Briggs's opposition, his impression of the church at
Selby, the difficulty for Trappes in obtaining nuns for his school and his plans to seek assistance from France, Fr Knight's difficulties with his congregation and Tate's view that they were probably caused by his preaching.
6f
UC/P8/222 31 December [1856]
Tate to Slater: questioning whether midnight mass on Christmas night is permitted in the Hexham diocese, the large number of priestly deaths.
2f
UC/P8/223 6 February [1857]
Tate to Slater: his absence from the President's Feast, his view that young priests trained at Ushaw are selfish and conceited, the synodal decrees, plans for a new Catholic chapel in Durham, Bolton's speech at the priest's protection house in
Dublin, a priest from Poland living with a woman in York, deaths associated with shipwrecks.
8f
UC/P8/224 28 March [?1857]
Tate to Slater: arrangements for meeting Slater in York, his wish to visit the new reformatory school in Market Weighton, his opinion on the upcoming general election.
2f
UC/P8/225 [3 April 1857]
Tate to James Chadwick: the changing nature of the paschal services, news of local Catholics, his opinion of Gothic architecture.
4f
UC/P8/226 14 April [1857]
Tate to Slater: Easter ceremonies at Hazelwood, a reference to Slater “tie(ing) up the Irish with decelerations” [possibly relating to curtailing secret societies], John McHall collaborating with an Orange
candidate [possibly relating to the 1857 election], the behaviour of the current bench of English bishops recalling the Blue Book Committee and bishops attacking other Catholics through the newspapers, the need for the schools committee to obtain
guarantees from bishops, the use of government grants, a case between Wiseman and De Roux, Gillow's death leaving only two Douai men surviving.
4f
UC/P8/227 15 May [1857]
Tate to Slater: Ullathorne's resentment over a letter in the
Weekly Register, a dispute between Trappes and Render, absentees at the synod.
8f
UC/P8/228 18 May [1857]
Tate to Chadwick: Newsham's portrait, the situation in Rome, his opinion of Pope Pius XI, Protestant ceremonies, Newman's translation of the Vulgate, administrative matters at Ushaw College.
6f
UC/P8/229 25 May [1857]
Tate to Chadwick: the history of the Felton family, local clergy appointments, Wiseman's lectures in Marylebone, a dispute between Trappes and Render.
4f
UC/P8/230 5 June [1857]
Tate to Chadwick: Cookson's opposition to Ushaw, a detailed critique of Newsham, the Trappes-Render dispute.
7f
UC/P8/231 22 June [1857]
Tate to Chadwick: a social event at Stourton to celebrate the opening of the new hall there, the difficulty of the Durham mission, Macartney's scheme with Vavasour at Eyton Bridge, William Vavasour's mental illness, Wiseman's visit to Ushaw and
its effect on the Lancashire clergy.
6f
UC/P8/232 24 June [1857]
Tate to Chadwick: Robert Smith and the Durham mission, the possibility of Tate being appointed to this mission, Briggs's desire to get rid of Tate.
4f
UC/P8/233 14 July [1857]
Tate to Slater: clerical scandals in Newcastle, questioning why cases of this nature have increased so much recently and blaming it on Ultramontane influence in the Church, the Charity Bill, a poisoning case in Scotland.
4f
UC/P8/234 11 September [1857]
Tate to Chadwick: a case involving a lady wishing to send her child to a convent.
6f
UC/P8/235 23 September [1857]
Tate to Chadwick: advising him on explaining to his lay Catholics the workings of Church government, the hierachy and the role of the clergy.
6f
UC/P8/236 26 September [?1857]
Tate to Slater: the death of Mrs Langdale, its effect on her husband.
1f
UC/P8/237 14 October [1857]
Tate to Slater: Fr Knight and his dispute with John Hines, the Reformatory school, opening of a church by Wiseman in Ugthorpe, Platt's state of mind and the possibility of his replacement by Robert Thompson, [?Trappes] likely to have the duty of
saying mass for the deceased in Lancashire withdrawn, Lady Stourton's son sent to India to help to put down the Indian Mutiny.
7f
UC/P8/238 2 November [1857]
Tate to Slater: a trial involving Hines and Fr Knight, Kellet's appointment to Bishop Thornton, Spooner and his influence on the anti-Catholicism of the newspapers.
5f
UC/P8/239 9 November [1857]
Tate to Slater: arrangements for meeting.
2f
UC/P8/240 30 November 1857
Tate to Slater: the death of the Durham High Church Anglican and staunch anti-Catholic Rev George Townsend, as well as the death of another anti-Catholic Colonel Cholmley of Howsham.
2f
UC/P8/241 5 January [1858]
Tate to Slater: the visit of P. Vavasour, Platt's state of mind, the large number of communicants at Midnight Mass.
4f
UC/P8/242 12 March [1858]
Tate to Slater: the death of Lord Clifford in Rome, Trappes raising £2000 for a new convent and founding another mission in Hull, the new priest and his complaints on the state of the living at Bishop Thornton, criticism of priests joining
religious orders, the Jubilee fund, the new bishop of Northampton, his political views in relation to Palmerston and Derby, the difficulty of saying Mass for all deceased priests.
8f
UC/P8/243 8 April [1858]
Tate to Slater: Rogerson leaving, the dissolving of the confraternity at Wooler, fees for sacraments, the parsons at Hull preaching against social events organised by Trappes, William Vavasour and his state of mind.
4f
UC/P8/244 12 April 1858
Tate to Chadwick: an article in the
Dublin Review criticising the Gothic movement, commenting on the truth of whether John Lingard was to be appointed a cardinal, the appointment of the bishop of Northampton.
4f
UC/P8/245 14 May [1858]
Tate to Chadwick: advising him on a case relating to whether Morgan should be accepted to the priesthood.
12f
UC/P8/246 24 May [1858]
Tate to Slater: the decline of the York fair, the anti-Catholicism of the courts in the case of Ross, Amherst a possible choice for the Northants diocese, the synodal meeting and its discussion on stolen fees, criticism of John Walker of
Scarborough, a dispute between Render and Briggs over St George's school in York, raising funds for the Ushaw jubilee, his opinion of the convent in Hull and anger among the parsons caused by a lecture on the Middle Ages by Trappes, political
comments, the Indian Mutiny.
6f
UC/P8/247 3 June [1858]
Tate to Chadwick: arrangements for meeting.
2f
UC/P8/248 13 June [1858]
Tate to Chadwick: the appointment of John Gillow, Chadwick's status at Ushaw, a dispute involving Chadwick and [?Newsham], criticism of plans to change the canons' dress.
7f
UC/P8/249 25 June [1858]
Tate to Chadwick: plans for the Ushaw jubilee, his invitation by the West Riding clergy to attend Briggs's jubilee.
4f
UC/P8/250 5 July [1858]
Tate to Chadwick: plans for the Ushaw jubilee, the possibility of John Walker attending the jubilee, the possible appointment of a coadjutor for Briggs, Crane's debts.
4f
UC/P8/251 8 July [1858]
Tate to Slater: the Ushaw jubilee, the materialism of the new Catholic clergy, Crane and Robert Gibson's health, his refusal to attend the 25th anniversary of Briggs's episcopacy, the need for Briggs to appoint a coadjutor, a new church at
Scarborough, criticising the Durham priest as a spendthrift.
6f
UC/P8/252 4 August [1858]
Tate to Chadwick: his conversation with Newsham on the Lancashire disputes, the plan to make Ushaw a pontifical college, his dissatisfaction with the teaching at Ushaw, Talbot's power in Rome, the appointment of a coadjutor [for Briggs].
2f
UC/P8/253 1 September [1858]
Tate to Chadwick: the possible appointment of Dr Grant as coadjutor to assist Briggs, his suggestion that Newsham should also have a coadjutor, the reception of Wiseman [at the Ushaw jubilee].
5f
UC/P8/254 7 September [1858]
Tate to Slater: Cornsay, the Ushaw jubilee and Wiseman hijacking the event, masses for deceased clergy, the poor state of Bishop Thornton's chapel.
9f
UC/P8/255 4 October [1858]
Tate to Chadwick: Clifford's account of Wiseman's tour of Ireland, William Vavasour's health, the attitude of Newsham towards Wiseman and the latter hijacking the jubilee celebrations, the plan to transform Ushaw into a pontifical college, his
attitude towards a coadjutor appointment, Fisher's unpopularity.
4f
UC/P8/256 14 October [1858]
Tate to Slater: Slater's health, the chapter meeting, criticisms of ultramontane practice, the Ushaw jubilee.
4f
UC/P8/257 2 November [1858]
Tate to Slater: Trappes and his inability to pay off the convent debt,
The Times article on Samuel Wilberforce, the
Weekly Register and Williams's article, the Poor School Committee, the Mortara affair, the attack by the Durham militia on Rev George Fox, his
belief that the mob will rule, criticism of the Ushaw jubilee, Cardinal Wiseman's poor reputation in Yorkshire, William Vavasour's health.
4f
UC/P8/258 30 November 1858
Tate to Slater: his inability to attend the forthcoming chapter meeting, a new mission in Framwellgate, description of the new bishop of Durham as a bigot, the cost of a new church in Esh, the English attitude to Napoleon, movements of priests in
Yorkshire.
4f
UC/P8/259 8 December [1858]
Tate to Slater: the death of John Leadbitter, movements of priests in the diocese, Trappes preaching in celebration of the hierarchy.
3f
UC/P8/260 26 December 1858
Tate to Slater: the decline in communicants at Hazelwood because of deaths and migration of the workforce, William Vavasour's ill health.
4f
UC/P8/261 7 January 1859
Tate to Slater: the Irish causing scandal to the Catholic cause in Yorkshire, his desire to minister at Easington.
2f
UC/P8/262 15 January 1859
Tate to Chadwick: Smith's return to the Penrith mission, John Walker's tour of various missions, Briggs's health, Dr Grant.
4f
UC/P8/263 14 February [1859]
Tate to Slater: Trappes raising money for the convent in Hull, the death of Charles Eyre and Robert Henry Anderson, Lingard's interview with Pope Leo XII, the appointment of Dr Grant as chaplain-general to the English Catholic forces, William
Leadbitter's appointment as vice-president to a Catholic college in Bruges, Briggs's illness.
2f
UC/P8/264 17 March [1859]
Tate to Chadwick: Tierney's answer to Wiseman on a matter relating to Lingard, Goss snubbing Wiseman at the Liverpool meeting, the alleged disloyalty of the Catholics and Wiseman's role in fomenting this, criticism of the college in Bruges,
Philip [Vavasour's] offer to lead the Ripon mission, John Gillow's pamphlet on the subject of Jansenism, Hogarth's plan to remove Chadwick from Ushaw.
4f
UC/P8/265 23 March [1859]
Tate to Slater: the reduction in Catholics in the Hexham diocese, Garstany's Irish replacement at Ripon found drunk in bed, the will of Charles Eyre, politics and Napoleon, an anti-Catholic campaign associated with the building of a new church in
Durham and his belief that several university students attend the Catholic chapel, Newman's acquisition of the
Rambler.
4f
UC/P8/266 25 March [1853]
Tate to Chadwick: Chadwick's plans to leave Ushaw and the Hexham diocese, the health of Robert Croskell.
6f
UC/P8/267 30 March [1859]
Tate to Chadwick: Chadwick's plans to leave Ushaw and the Hexham diocese, Crane's separation from Sherwood.
4f
UC/P8/268 4 April 1859
Tate to Chadwick: Chadwick's plans to leave Ushaw and the Hexham diocese and its implications for Ushaw College, Briggs's health, the Crane-Sherwood dispute.
4f
UC/P8/269 6 April [1859]
Tate to Chadwick: the settlement of the question relating to the relative power of the bishops over Ushaw College, Philip [Vavasour's] plans.
4f
UC/P8/270 8 April [1859]
Tate to Chadwick: the settlement of the question relating to the relative power of the bishops over Ushaw College, Chadwick's attachment to Ushaw.
4f
UC/P8/271 18 April [1859]
Tate to Chadwick: Newsham's attitude to the proposed settlement of the bishops' powers, Chadwick's plans to leave Ushaw, Philip [Vavasour's] plans, the Crane-Sherwood dispute.
4f
UC/P8/272 26 April [1859]
Tate to Slater: Trappes raising money for the Hull convent, the 50th jubilee of Hogarth's ordination, the changing shape of Lenten observances, a proposed clergy meeting, European and domestic politics including the West Riding election, Crane's
dispute with Sherwood, the new clerical dress for canons.
4f
UC/P8/273 13 May [1859]
Tate to Chadwick: Chadwick's plans to leave Ushaw, John Gillow's snubbing of Chadwick in his appointment of a committee to oversee the jubilee scholarship, the Clifford affair.
5f
UC/P8/274 20 May [1859]
Tate to Chadwick: Chadwick's plans to leave Ushaw.
2f
UC/P8/275 23 May [1859]
Tate to Chadwick: Chadwick's plans to leave Ushaw.
4f
UC/P8/276 1 June [1859]
Tate to Chadwick: Chadwick's plans to leave Ushaw, a possible appointment to the Lanchester mission.
6f
UC/P8/277 3 June [1859]
Tate to Slater: description of Hogarth's jubilee celebrations, declining to attend the Clifford offering, describing Rev George Fox as bigoted, the influence of Catholics at the polls, the decision at the clergy meeting to continue the practice
of saying mass for deceased priests, Slater's resignation from the Poor Schools Committee, reduced number of Easter communicants owing to the migration of young [Irish] Catholics, Chadwick's poor treatment by Newsham at Ushaw College, his opinion
that Newsham's building policy is ruining the college, the Crane-Sherwood dispute.
4f
UC/P8/278 6 June [1859]
Tate to Chadwick: Chadwick's plans to leave Ushaw, his appreciation for Newman's writings.
4f
UC/P8/279 14 June [1859]
Tate to Slater: the changing nature of York, Briggs's letter in
The Times, Wiseman and Ireland, Rogerson's statues and Northern Brethren Fund, the proposed synod.
4f
UC/P8/280 22 June [1859]
Tate to Chadwick: Chadwick's plans to leave Ushaw, the success of the pilgrimage, the situation in Italy/
3f
UC/P8/281 29 June [1859]
Tate to Chadwick: Chadwick's plans to leave Ushaw.
2f
UC/P8/282 2 August [1859]
Tate to Slater: criticism of the illiberalism of the
Star newspaper and its attacks on the pope's temporal power, Napoleon's attitude towards England, his opinion that Slater's convert should only finance and not try to dictate arrangements for an asylum for convents,
Briggs's decision not to invite Tate to the next synod, the anniversary of the death of Bishop Smith and the changing nature of Catholicism, the Irish population in Ripon.
3f
UC/P8/283 22 August [1859]
Tate to Slater: ultramontane practices and their effect on Catholicism in England, the growth of Sheffield, Sackville Fox's daughter received into the church at Everingham and Rev George Fox's attitude towards this, Sackville Fox's estates
mortgaged to Jews, Walker to be appointed bishop of Beverley, criticism of Wiseman at the synod, his desire that Manning should replace Errington, a dispute between Hogarth and Cornthwaite, the status of Ushaw, the Northern nobility and their
reluctance to provide funding for Catholic projects.
5f
UC/P8/284 13 September [1859]
Tate to Slater: the uneventful clergy meetings, Walker's pastoral on the reformatory school, the financial position of Sackville Fox and George's attitude towards him, the growth of Hutton Henry, the poor attendance at the last chapter meeting,
an objection to his vote, Crane's unhappiness about Bishop Thornton.
5f
UC/P8/285 1 November [1859]
Tate to Slater: the death of Marsland and his popularity, criticism of Wiseman and his policy in making English Catholics seem suspect, possible future war between Catholics and Protestants, Italian events and the threat to the pope, the meeting
of the commissioners of the Common Stock Fund, Philip Vavasour's Irish Catholic population in Ripon.
8f
UC/P8/286 30 November [1859]
Tate to Slater: declining to attend the chapter meeting, the good prospects for the pope in the Italian war, his preference for the
Tablet over the
Weekly Register, the building of a new school by Trappes.
4f
UC/P8/287 29 December [1859]
Tate to Slater: a dispute between Henry Maxwell and O'Neill, Hogarth's recovery, Gillow's role as an attorney in the Goss-Ushaw case in Rome, Mansell [?Marshell]'s lecture in Dublin on the temporal power of the pope, the plans of Vavasour to
build a new church in Ripon, an anti-Catholic campaign in Durham involving Huggett, Monk and John Shields.
6f
UC/P8/288 [1860 x 1869]
Printed circular letter signed by P. Hutton, J.S. Northcote, E. Purbrick, J.N. Sweeney, and F. Wilkinson: plans to establish a Catholic university.
2f
UC/P8/289 [?1860]
Tate to Slater (incomplete): the success of the appeal to Rome by the Lancashire clergy over increased cathedraticums, commenting on reports that Propaganda has set aside decrees passed at the Oscott synod relating to jurisdiction claimed by
bishops in colleges not within their dioceses, Render receiving £600 for his house in Lop Lane previously belonging to the York Brethren Fund.
1f
UC/P8/290 27 January 1860
Tate to Slater: the meeting to express sympathy with the pope, the death of William Vavasour, Briggs's poor health, the views of the newspapers on the pro-papal meeting.
6f
UC/P8/291 9 February 1860
Tate to Slater: payments to Vavasour's children, his hopes that Philip Vavasour will not leave his Ripon mission, Briggs's health, Lord Landsborough's funeral and the poor attendance of the Catholic gentry, a scandal among the Anglican clergy at
Durham, Fr Kelly's actions at South Shields and Tate's opinion that Irish priests do not appreciate the limitations on their power in England, the attitude of the English papers towards Napoleon.
3f
UC/P8/292 20 March [1860]
Tate to Slater: Render's fund-raising visit to Hazelwood, the new bridge to be built in York and the decline of the city as a social centre, Walker's denial that he will receive an episcopal appointment, the potential damage caused by Goss's plan
to persuade Rome to give jurisdiction over Ushaw to all bishops, the pope's decision not to sanction decrees of the last Oscott synod, report on the reformatory school, Lord John Russell's attitude to Italy, Kelly's inflammatory letter in the Durham
paper.
4f
UC/P8/293 14 April [1860]
Tate to Slater: the English government's attitude to the pope, local clergy movements, Briggs's poor health and his possible replacement by Walker, the opening of Trappes's new school, John Shields's challenge to Fr Platt, the Stourtons plan to
secure Chadwick as a successor to Fr Bridge.
4f
UC/P8/294 19 April [1860]
Tate to Slater: food shortages, contrasting English and Irish churchgoers, Wiseman's choice for Manning to be his coadjutor, Lambert Clifford and his brother appointed papal chamberlains, the Dominicans in Newcastle, a rumour that Lord
Landsborough is to convert to Catholicism in order to marry Henry Maxwell's daughter.
4f
UC/P8/295 20 April [1860]
Tate to Chadwick: Chadwick's appointment as chaplain to Lord Stourton, the Dominicans setting up a mission in Newcastle, Lambert's appointment as chamberlain to the pope.
2f
UC/P8/295a 17 May 1860
Tate to Slater: Philip Vavasour's affinity with his Ripon mission, Vavasour's plans to journey to Rome, the deputation visiting Lambert following his appointment to Rome, the unpopularity of new religious devotions introduced in the Clifford
mission, an account of the clergy meeting at York, a dispute between Langdale and Glover, Hogarth's pastoral letter on the use of the offertory income by priests.
6f
UC/P8/296 26 June [1860]
Tate to Slater: Briggs's poor health, Walker receiving a D.D. at Rome, the poor amount contributed by the local Catholic nobility to the papal subscription, the betrayal of the pope by the Italians, the Charitable Trusts Bill, R. Hogarth's
missionary jubilee, the lack of news relating to the coadjutor appointment, Fr Suffield and the Dominicans, the Vansittart case, the parish of Gainford, his role in the Ushaw examinations.
8f
UC/P8/297 4 August [1860]
Tate to Slater: the eagerness of converts to join the orders, Errington's refusal to resign, comments on the political situation.
2f
UC/P8/298 18 August [1860]
Tate to Chadwick: a funeral in the East Riding, Lambert Clifford, Cooke's health, the opposition in Crook to Wilkinson's support for the pope.
2f
UC/P8/299 27 September [1860]
Tate to Slater: detailed objections to him taking the Beverley mitre or becoming coadjutor.
6f
UC/P8/299a 10 October [1860]
Tate to Slater: his visit to Lord and Lady Stourton and impressions of the surrounding area, the situation in Italy and the reaction of
John Bull and the
Tablet towards the pope, his objections to the Beverley mitre.
6f
UC/P8/300 2 November 1860
Tate to Slater: advising Slater that he was correct in his decision not to move to Gainford, the lack of news on Briggs's replacement and the possible candidates.
4f
UC/P8/301 1 December [1860]
Tate to Slater: the selection of names for the new bishop of Beverley, the farewell dinner for R. Hogarth, the death of Monica Tempest who was building a convent at Skipton, the death of the Duke [?of Norfolk].
4f
UC/P8/302 4 January 1861
Tate to Slater: Briggs dying and the title of archepiscopal to be sent to him from Rome, a chapter meeting led by Wiseman.
4f
UC/P8/303 14 January [1861]
Tate to Slater: Briggs's burial in Hazelwood and description of his funeral service, the non-attendance of the Catholic nobility, his objections to becoming Briggs's successor, Chadwick being given a new burial ground by Lord Stourton.
6f
UC/P8/304 1 March [1861]
Tate to Slater: Crane's death, Wiseman's serious illness, his poor opinion of the bishop of Durham and his penchant for the German school of theology, Shaftesbury's episcopal promotions of Evangelical clergymen to Carlisle, Durham and Ripon and
the attitude of High Churchmen towards this, the resignation of Henry Walker from Everingham for health reasons, raising money in Ireland for a new church in Blake Street (York), his opinion that Robert Thompson will not remain at Houghton,
Newsham's health, Wiseman's meeting with John Gillow and Cornthwaite over Ushaw affairs.
6f
UC/P8/305 8 March [1861]
Tate to Slater: regulations over masses for deceased priests, Newsham's serious illness, death of Ellis, the crowded attendance at a church in Hull following a Jesuit mission.
4f
UC/P8/306 20 March [1861]
Tate to Slater: George Caley's death, Trappes's mission in Hull and the crowded chapel of English Catholics there, Hogarth's health, criticism of the bishop of Durham.
4f
UC/P8/307 5 April [1861]
Tate to Slater: the death of Slater's mother.
3f
UC/P8/308 10 April [1861]
Tate to Slater: the death of Slater's mother, new appointments in Yorkshire.
4f
UC/P8/309 26 April [1861]
Tate to Slater: an account of the clergy meeting at York, the possibility of Tate receiving an episcopal appointment, a slanderous story in a Manchester paper concerning the pope and Wiseman, the resignation of the Marylebone MP, the anti-Whig
sentiment of the town corporations, Newsham's health, clergy appointments.
4f
UC/P8/310 [?June 1861]
[?] to Tate: the [?translation of the] relics at Ushaw.
1f
UC/P8/311 1 June [?1861]
Tate to Slater: his visit to Ushaw for the translation of the relics and his plans to say mass for Slater's mother, Trappes's return from Rome.
2f
UC/P8/312 18 June 1861
Tate to Slater: the unlikelihood of having to replace Briggs.
2f
UC/P8/313 20 June 1861
Tate to Slater: warning him against living in Ushaw College, the latest speculation on the Beverley mitre.
2f
UC/P8/314 25 June [1861]
Tate to Chadwick: the possible appointment of more vicars-general for the Hexham diocese.
2f
UC/P8/315 6 August [1861]
Tate to Slater: the death of Philip Stourton.
1f
UC/P8/316 3 September [1861]
Tate to Slater: his visit to the reformatory school, the appointment of the new Beverley bishop and Tate's satisfaction that he has been passed over, the appointment of Fr Consitt as the new professor of Moral Theology at Ushaw, a query over
trustees of new Ushaw property.
5f
UC/P8/317 23 September [1861]
Tate to Slater: the
Great Eastern ship.
3f
UC/P8/318 15 October [1861]
Tate to Slater: arrangements for meeting.
2f
UC/P8/319 16 October [1861]
Tate to Slater: the death of his (Tate's) uncle in the West Indies.
2f
UC/P8/320 30 October [1861]
Tate to Slater: his opinion that Hogarth may resign, his description of the ideal characteristics of his replacement, the unusual style of Philip Vavasour's new church at Ripon, Fr George Green keeping low company, political news including Sir
John Graham's death and the situation in Italy.
7f
UC/P8/321 2 November [1861]
Tate to Slater: wishing him happy birthday, news from the diocese.
4f
UC/P8/322 4 November [1861]
Tate to Slater: Rigby's school unlikely to rival Ushaw, Cornthwaite's consecration, urging Slater to take up the
Tablet, unemployment in the West Riding.
4f
UC/P8/323 30 November [1861]
Tate to Slater: a pastoral for the education fund, account of the installation [?of Cornthwaite], the opening of Rigby's school, Hogarth's poor health, Gillow's trip to Rome to try to get Propaganda to reconsider their verdict.
4f
UC/P8/324 27 December [1861]
Tate to Slater: his Christmas celebrations including the large number of Protestants at Midnight Mass, the funeral of Prince Albert, the movements of the new bishop, Thomas Lane Fox's death, the death of George Vavasour's wife.
5f
UC/P8/325 11 February [1862]
Tate to Slater: a daughter of Lord Hemes and her decision to join the Sisters of Charity, his lack of expectation that the Papal Fund will reach £10,000, the building of a new church in Blake Street (?York), local clergy appointments, John
Furness giving a mission to 1,000 children at Hull, his opinion of Lambert Clifford, the death of Platt.
4f
UC/P8/326 [26 April 1862]
Tate to Slater: the opening of Philip Vavasour's church at Ripon, informing Slater that his (Tate's) mother was a convert, dispute between Wiseman and Ullathorne, the bishops split into many factions, his concern that many of his Irish
parishioners may have joined the Irish Brotherhood, the refusal of Corlass to pay back money owed to the Lancashire diocese, questioning if Ushaw College will buy Burn Hall.
4f
UC/P8/327 23 May [1862]
Tate to Slater: a clergy meeting which included voting an address to the pope, Trappes raising money for the bishop's income, the situation in Italy.
4f
UC/P8/328 4 September [1862]
Tate to Slater: the new bishop's confirmation service at Hazelwood, the consecration ceremony for the new church at York, the death of Crowe.
2f
UC/P8/329 30 September [1862]
Tate to Slater: Newsham's poor health and his argument with the Lancashire clergy as its most likely cause, Corless's dispute with [?Cornthwaite], his surprise that the clergy have chosen the vicar general as the new superior, the publication of
an unflattering biography of Bishop Milner.
6f
UC/P8/330 1 November 1862
Tate to Slater: England's disposition towards the pope, Lord Arundel's death and assessment of his character, the progress of the new church at York, Newsham's poor health.
6f
UC/P8/331 24 November [1862]
Tate to Chadwick: a papal decree relating to the status of Ushaw, money donated to the college by the Rev Thomas Sherburne.
4f
UC/P8/332 1 December [1862]
Tate to Slater: Newsham's health, the effect of Roman titles ruining priestly spirit, ordination of local priests, visitation plans, the bishop [?Bickersteth] and dean of Ripon and their opposition to Vavasour, criticism of Delaney being chosen
to collect money for the reformatory school, his nostalgia for the old days.
8f
UC/P8/333 9 December [1862]
Tate to Slater: a Protestant review of Husenbeth's
Life of Milner, Hogarth's appearance at a court case in Durham, Render's unsuccessful tour of Ireland.
1f
UC/P8/334 [26 December 1862]
Tate to Slater: the contrast between the old and new school and their perceptions of priestly life, the large number of communicants at Midnight Mass, a eulogy for Lady Constable, the hanging of a Catholic in Durham and his view that there would
have been petitions against the decision had he been a nonconformist.
4f
UC/P8/335 29 December [1862]
Tate to Chadwick: Lady Stourton's funeral.
2f
UC/P8/335a 31 December [1862]
Tate to Slater: Lady Stourton's funeral, nostalgia for the old days, Trappes's health.
2f
UC/P8/336 7 January [1863]
Tate to Slater: the funeral of Lady Stourton, his ridicule of the double standards of Puritans, Render raising money for the Catholic Church.
4f
UC/P8/337 3 February 1863
Tate to Slater: the death of Newsham, his appointment as successor.
2f
UC/P8/338 10 February [1863]
Tate to Slater: dispelling rumours that staff at Ushaw are not happy with Tate's appointment, the interference of the bishops, the arrangement for his successor at Hazelwood.
3f
UC/P8/339 27 February [1863]
Tate to Slater: his plans on arrival at Ushaw, the protest made among the staff against the mode of Tate's appointment.
4f
UC/P8/340 6 April [1863]
Tate to Slater: his plans for Ushaw.
2f
UC/P8/341 14 April [1863]
Tate to Slater: Trappes's suggestion that Tate's installation should be in “Great Week”, the poor health of Bishop Goss, Cookson's plans to retire to the Scorton mission, his plans to retain a traditional spirit at
Ushaw.
3f
UC/P8/342 13 June [1863]
Tate to Slater: a financial dispute with Goss, the lack of news on his replacement at Hazelwood, the bill relating to Roman Catholic chaplains will allow J.P.s to discriminate against Catholics.
2f
UC/P8/343 15 June [1863]
Tate to Slater: arrangements for meeting Hogarth.
2f
UC/P8/344 9 July [1863]
Tate to Slater: defensions at Ushaw, forthcoming ordinations, Render raising money for his new church, his view that the new Esh Laude chapel will be impressive, the smuggling of food away from Ushaw, the planned extension of the cemetery.
2f
UC/P8/345 12 July [1863 x 1875]
Tate to Slater: defensions, informing Slater that the new baronet of Burton Constable has been injured in an accident.
2f
UC/P8/346 28 July 1863
Tate to Slater: plans for meeting Slater, Trappes attending a meeting in Lancashire, his plans for Chadwick to return to Ushaw, plans for 300 Catholics from North Shields to visit the college.
3f
UC/P8/347 2 September [1863 x 1875]
Tate to Slater: Barnes's visit to Broom Hall, a party of Phills at Tynemouth.
2f
UC/P8/348 1 October 1863
Tate to Slater: local clergy appointments, taking over teaching duties from John Gillow, Wiseman's serious illness and his popularity increasing since his Southampton lecture, lack of response to the new prize medals, numbers of college staff and
students.
2f
UC/P8/349 2 November 1863
Tate to Slater: numbers of college staff and students, Goss's illness, Render holding a bazaar, his opinion of Newsham's presidency.
4f
UC/P8/350 5 November [1863]
Tate to Slater: strange events in Leeds relating to the bishop and a bailiff, Trappes's illness.
1f
UC/P8/351 7 November [1863]
Tate to Slater: the proceedings in a bankruptcy case, a dispute between Clifford and the bishop over the payment of railway dividends to a convent, John Gillow's inability to cope with the Hartlepool mission, a bazaar at York.
2f
UC/P8/352 1 December [1863]
Tate to Slater: Hogarth's confirmations over the winter months, plans for planting trees, enclosing a note from Mr Davison seeking a holiday for the students to allow them to attend the local hunt.
2f
UC/P8/353 12 December [1863]
Tate to Slater: the livestock show and clergy dinner, planting trees, Trappes's plans for a new church in Hull, a bequest to enable a new altar for Esh chapel, the improving health of Goss and Gillow.
2f
UC/P8/354 26 December [1863]
Tate to Slater: the Christmas service at Ushaw, Gillow's poor health, rumours of Wiseman's poor health and possible successor, the dispute involving Lady Londonderry and the Seaham Harbour Catholics over a new chapel.
4f
UC/P8/355 26 December [1863 x 1875]
Tate to Slater: the [?Halsham] mausoleum built by Baronet Constable at a cost of £10,000, Tate's opinion that it is a terrible burial place for the Cliffords, Trappes's decision not to attend the funeral.
2f
UC/P8/356 28 December [1863]
Tate to Slater: plans for Gillow's return, his belief that Wiseman is likely to die.
2f
UC/P8/357 9 January 1864
Tate to Slater: the skating week at Ushaw, the Durham magistrates putting off the prison chaplain question, the lack of a single Catholic magistrate in Durham to support Fenwick's motion for a £150 annual allowance towards a Catholic chaplain,
Platt's failure to obtain money for this purpose.
2f
UC/P8/358 31 March [1864]
Tate to Slater: Hogarth's good health, the death of Ellis, Goss's instruction to the clergy to ignore Judge Shaw because of his allegiance to the Protestant faith, the college almost full to capacity, tree planting.
4f
UC/P8/359 9 April 1864
Tate to Slater: the offer of the Durham magistrates to allow £50 pa to pay for a Catholic chaplain and contrasting it to the £100 pa received by the Catholic chaplains at Wakefield and Preston, news of Garibaldi.
2f
UC/P8/360 11 April 1864
Tate to Slater: memories of his school days at Ushaw.
2f
UC/P8/361 10 May [1864]
Tate to Slater: his impressions of the new St Wilfrid's church in York.
4f
UC/P8/362 15 August 1864
Tate to Slater: the decline in the numbers of Ushaw students and staff, the birth of George Dunn's son in Newcastle, the political situation.
2f
UC/P8/363 2 September 1864
Tate to Slater: Slater's health, Trappes's visit to Ireland to see Peter Daly who has been suspended again, the large numbers of sightseers visiting Ushaw.
4f
UC/P8/364 10 October 1864
Tate to Slater: his plans not to attend the synod, Glover's affair, the number of students at Ushaw.
2f
UC/P8/365 2 November 1864
Tate to Slater: difficulties imposed on him at Ushaw, his tour of Lancashire, plans for Manning to preach at Platt's new church, Fr Penswick's burial.
6f
UC/P8/366 [30 November] 1864
Tate to Slater: contrasting his college and missionary life, Hull students at Ushaw, an attack in the local newspaper on the mayor of Durham attending the opening of St Godric's, Manning's visit to Ushaw, the arrival of a cope sent by Count
[?Torre Diaz].
6f
UC/P8/367 [27 December 1864]
Tate to Slater: the death of Laura Maxwell.
2f
UC/P8/368 12 January 1865
Tate to Slater: the agreement by Hogarth that Slater can lease coal in his royalty to ease his financial position.
2f
UC/P8/369 30 January 1865
Tate to Slater: the death of the marchioness of Wynard, Charles Gillow's arranging the drafting of Slater's will, his generosity with playdays, Wiseman dangerously ill.
4f
UC/P8/369a 15 February 1865
Tate to Slater: the death of Wiseman.
2f
UC/P8/370 17 February 1865
Tate to Slater: Wiseman's funeral, delaying the decision to appoint a new vicar capitular.
2f
UC/P8/371 18 February 1865
Tate to Slater: Chadwick representing Ushaw at Wiseman's funeral, Wiseman's replacement, his eulogy of Wiseman.
2f
UC/P8/372 21 February 1865
Tate to Slater: rumours over Wiseman's successor, the Queen's decision to send a representative to the funeral, the large numbers expected.
2f
UC/P8/373 23 February 1865
Tate to Slater: the election of O'Neal as vicar capitular, the huge interest for Wiseman's funeral, a meeting of the chapter to choose Wiseman's successor.
2f
UC/P8/374 3 March 1865
Tate to Slater: arrangements for Wiseman's papers, the burden of his workload.
2f
UC/P8/375 9 March [1865]
Tate to Slater: his lunch with Judge [?Shee] and other lawyers.
2f
UC/P8/376 [3 April 1865]
Tate to Slater: Hogarth's good health, the pope's annoyance at the inclusion of Errington's name as a possible replacement for Wiseman.
2f
UC/P8/377 19 May 1865
Tate to Slater: a meeting in York and the rejection of Davison's desire for dividends to be used for sick and infirm members, Sir Clifford Constable's marriage, plans for Manning to go to Rome for his consecration as the new archbishop of
Westminster, opinions on his appointment.
2f
UC/P8/378 1 June 1865
Tate to Slater: the settling of Wiseman's affairs, the consecration of Manning, Jesuits against the appointment, plans for Trappes to build another school at Hull.
3f
UC/P8/379 8 July 1865
Tate to Slater: the enlargement of the Ushaw cemetery, Joe Tempest's death, his belief that the Liberal candidate [?for Durham] is more sympathetic to Catholics.
2f
UC/P8/380 16 July 1865
Tate to Slater: Sir C. Constable's desire to make amends for his past life.
2f
UC/P8/381 22 July [1865]
Tate to Slater: ordinations at Darlington, the South Durham election.
2f
UC/P8/382 8 September 1865
Tate to Slater: a photographer visiting Ushaw, five northern bishops to attend a meeting at Ushaw, Ushaw full to capacity, his opinion that the lanes are swamped with Irish priests and foreigners, Platt's good relations with the bishop of
Durham.
2f
UC/P8/383 19 September 1865
Tate to Slater: the success of the bishops' meeting at Ushaw in improving relations between Ushaw and Lancashire.
2f
UC/P8/384 2 November 1865
Tate to Slater: his trip to Lancashire.
6f
UC/P8/385 7 November [?1865]
Tate to Slater: the reprinting of the college prospectus.
2f
UC/P8/386 30 November 1865
Tate to Slater: his lack of interest in national politics, local clergy appointments, the purchase of Holmside for a mission.
2f
UC/P8/387 18 December [1865]
Tate to Slater: Hogarth's health.
2f
UC/P8/388 26 December [1865]
Tate to Slater: the Ushaw photographs, Wilkinson's appointment as a canon, Tempest's will.
4f
UC/P8/389 10 January 1866
Tate to Slater: arrangements for Slater visiting Ushaw.
2f
UC/P8/390 30 January 1866
Tate to Slater: the death of Hogarth.
4f
UC/P8/391 1 March 1866
Tate to Slater: his daily visits to Hogarth's grave, Hogarth's possible successor, on his fears over the spread of cattle plague to Ushaw, the popularity among all denominations of a statue of Hogarth to be erected in the Darlington chapel,
subscriptions sought to defray expenses for the Oscott trial, Slater's knowledge of the Cornsay estate valuable.
4f
UC/P8/392 3 March 1866
Tate to Slater: Hogarth's successor, his opinion of the archbishop's Lenten pastoral.
2f
UC/P8/393 4 April 1866
Tate to Slater: Cornthwaite's disposition towards Ushaw, plans for a clergy meeting in York.
2f
UC/P8/394 7 April 1866
Tate to Slater: the political situation, the cattle plague reaching Everingham.
2f
UC/P8/395 30 April 1866
Tate to Slater: the York meeting, his holiday in the city and surrounding villages, news of the local Catholic gentry.
6f
UC/P8/396 4 May [1866]
Tate to Slater: his opinion that Cornthwaite is likely to be appointed to Hexham, [Rev] George Fox's visit to Rome.
4f
UC/P8/397 9 May 1866
Tate to Slater: Chadwick's letter to Slater in which Mr Tarnaselli has suggested that refusal of the sacraments should be restricted to those parents who knowingly endanger their children's faith by sending them to Protestant schools but this
should not be publicly broadcast, a possible war on the continent, the Second Reform Bill.
4f
UC/P8/398 11 May 1866
Tate to Slater: suggesting that Slater shouldn't worry about the Tarnaselli controversy.
2f
UC/P8/399 26 May [1866]
Tate to Slater: ordinations, no news of a new bishop.
4f
UC/P8/400 25 June [1866]
Tate to Slater: Charles Gillow's poor health, a fire in Newcastle.
2f
UC/P8/401 9 July 1866
Tate to Slater: the latest report that Charles Eyre will be the new Hexham bishop, the political situation, death of Mrs Baillie, the erection of hurdles and its effect on Ushaw, the death of Bishop Wilson.
4f
UC/P8/402 28 July 1866
Trappes to Tate: his health, travel arrangements for the St Cuthbert's Society meeting.
2f
UC/P8/403 14 August [1866]
Tate to Chadwick: rumours of Charles Eyre's appointment as bishop of Newcastle.
1f
UC/P8/404 18 August [1866]
Tate to Chadwick: Lambert Clifford's poor health.
2f
UC/P8/405 21 August 1866
Tate to Chadwick: Chadwick's appointment as the new bishop of Hexham.
2f
UC/P8/406 22 August 1866
Tate to Chadwick: Chadwick's appointment as the new bishop of Hexham.
4f
UC/P8/407 23 August 1866
Tate to Chadwick: arrangements for meeting.
2f
UC/P8/408 25 August 1866
Tate to Chadwick: Chadwick's appointment as the new bishop of Hexham.
2f
UC/P8/409 5 September 1866
Tate to Slater: arrangements for Chadwick's consecration, fish being brought to the pond at Ushaw.
2f
UC/P8/410 17 September 1866
Tate to Slater: the postponement of the consecration, the poor harvest in Lancashire.
2f
UC/P8/411 28 September [1866]
Tate to Slater: arrangements for Chadwick's consecration.
2f
UC/P8/412 29 September [1866]
Tate to Slater: Thomas Eyre's bequest.
2f
UC/P8/413 30 September 1866
Tate to Robert [?]: Chadwick's wishes for Robert to finish his studies in Belgium.
1f
UC/P8/414 3 October [1866]
Tate to Slater: arrangements for Chadwick's consecration, Manning's pastoral on the pope's temporal power.
2f
UC/P8/415 6 October 1866
Tate to Slater: the case of Sir Roger Fishbourne.
2f
UC/P8/416 13 October 1866
Tate to Slater: the death of P. Orrell [?O'Neal].
2f
UC/P8/417 2 November [1866]
Tate to Slater: wishing him a happy birthday, Chadwick's consecration.
2f
UC/P8/418 30 November [1866]
Tate to Slater: [?Henry] Wilberforce visiting Ushaw to look after their sick boy, the Sunderland nuns, the situation in Italy, ordinations.
6f
UC/P8/419 31 December 1866
Tate to Slater: the president's feast, local clergy news.
4f
UC/P8/420 15 January 1867
Tate to Slater: the benefits of skating, the president's feast, death of Canon Bennett, the success of Tarnaselli's church at [?Hutton Henry], the plans of the Conservatives to regain the Durham county seat.
4f
UC/P8/421 19 January [1867]
Tate to Slater: the death of a relative of two boys killed in the Regent's Park ice-skating catastrophe, Tom Swarbrick dying, the serious illness of Robert Leadbitter of Ryton, his opinion of Durham City, the increase in food consumption by the
Ushaw students.
2f
UC/P8/422 28 January 1867
Tate to Slater: Chadwick's poor health, plans for a High Mass [?at Ushaw] for the anniversary of Hogarth's death.
2f
UC/P8/423 29 January [1867]
Tate to Slater: Chadwick's health, the anniversary High Mass for Hogarth.
2f
UC/P8/424 30 January 1867
Tate to Slater: Chadwick's health, the Robertson family burnt to death following a fire at Hedon.
2f
UC/P8/425 2 February 1867
Tate to Slater: Chadwick's health, the funeral of Mr Robinson, the anniversary masses for Hogarth and Newsham.
2f
UC/P8/426 15 February 1867
Tate to Slater: the present generation's requirement for “proofs” in Theology which had been prompted by questions of the papal supremacy, tree planting at Ushaw, an outbreak of measles, Lord John [Russell] and the
Kelly case.
4f
UC/P8/427 18 March [1867]
Tate to Slater: his plan to go to Rome to seek Pope Pius IX's blessing including details of his itinerary, as well as the planned meeting of bishops at Rome for the canonisation.
3f
UC/P8/428 25 March [1867]
Tate to Slater: the death of Tate's sister.
2f
UC/P8/429 10 April 1867
Tate to Slater: his visit to St Peter's Basilica in Rome to see the tomb of Pope Gregory XVI, his dinner with Sloane in Florence, his attendance at a party organised by Philip Howard which included Prince Massino, the duke of Norfolk, Mgr Talbot,
his visit to the English College.
2f
UC/P8/430 6 May [1867]
Tate to Slater: his visit to Naples and a description of the city, his audience with the pope and his appointment as domestic prelate, seeing Cardinal Antonelli's art treasures and his impressions of the cardinal, the lack of ostentation at the
papal mass, his favourable impression of Barnabo, his visit to the catacombs and meeting Cardinal Catarini, his visit to Naples Cathedral, plans for the rest of his European trip.
3f
UC/P8/431 21 May [1867]
Tate to Slater: his favourable impressions of the cathedral at Cologne, the pope's plans to prevent Catholics from going to Oxford University.
2f
UC/P8/432 26 May [1867]
Tate to Slater: his recent European trip.
2f
UC/P8/433 8 July [1867]
Tate to Slater: Chadwick's health, the installation of a cross over Crowe's grave.
4f
UC/P8/434 15 July [1867]
Tate to Slater: arrangements for meeting Chadwick, news of Ushaw examinations.
2f
UC/P8/435 5 August 1867
Tate to Slater: the current spirit prevailing among the students at Ushaw.
2f
UC/P8/436 7 August 1867
Tate to Slater: the retreat at Ushaw, the opening of a new church at Doncaster.
3f
UC/P8/437 11 August 1867
Tate to Slater: arrangements for meeting Slater.
2f
UC/P8/438 2 October [?1867]
Tate to Slater: numbers ordaining at Ushaw, Napoleon's retreat, the pope's current difficulties.
2f
UC/P8/439 4 October [1867]
Tate to Slater: the unsuccessful excavation at Durham Cathedral, the bishops' meeting at Ushaw.
4f
UC/P8/440 2 November 1867
Tate to Slater: his visit to Claughton, attending the opening of the town hall in Preston, Garibaldi's march on Rome, [?Fenian] trials in Manchester.
4f
UC/P8/441 5 November [1867]
Tate to Slater: the death of R. Gillow, Trappes's role in St Cuthbert's Society, arrangements made for the leasing of coal.
2f
UC/P8/442 21 November [1867]
Tate to Slater: Trappes's lawsuit.
2f
UC/P8/443 29 November [1867]
Tate to Slater: the installation of hot water pipes in the seminary and infirmary, the killing of Julian Watts Russell at Mentana.
4f
UC/P8/444 29 December 1867
Tate to Slater: the president's feast, the death of Robert Smith, plans for a mission to be started at West Hartlepool.
2f
UC/P8/445 11 January 1868
Tate to Slater: the president's feast, his visit to the new buildings at Cornsay, the death of Mrs Agor.
2f
UC/P8/446 5 February 1868
Tate to Slater: his memories of Hogarth, Lingard and Gillow.
2f
UC/P8/447 9 February [1868]
Tate to Slater: news of local Catholics.
2f
UC/P8/448 17 February 1868
Tate to Slater: R. Hogarth's funeral, planting trees at Ushaw.
2f
UC/P8/449 21 February 1868
Tate to Slater: the death of Judge Shee, tree planting, the decorations at Esh Laude.
2f
UC/P8/450 6 March [?1868]
Tate to Slater: Trappes's attendance at the Leeds meeting, his letter to a [?Catholic] in the legal profession advising him against attending lectures and listening to the “ravings” of [William] Murphy.
1f
UC/P8/451 10 March 1868
Tate to Slater: the sinking of a coal pit at Cornsay, ordinations, R. Hogarth's possessions, tree planting.
2f
UC/P8/452 25 March [1868]
Tate to Slater: John Eyre, his plans to send his children to Ushaw.
2f
UC/P8/453 13 April [1868]
Tate to Slater: his meeting with Dominicans and Jesuits, the progress of Esh Laude, John Eyre's sons, his plans to attend the clergy meeting at York.
2f
UC/P8/454 14 May 1868
Tate to Slater: the York meeting, Lambert Clifford, the enlargement of Ushaw refectory, the opening of the new toilets at Ugthorpe by Cardinal Manning, comments on the political situation.
3f
UC/P8/455 5 August [1868]
Tate to Slater: the attendance of Grand Week at Ushaw, news of old friends.
4f
UC/P8/456 23 August 1868
Tate to Slater: a rabbit hunt at Ushaw, plans to go to Lartington, the development of Cornsay, marble flooring being laid in the refectory, the death of Jack Farrow.
3f
UC/P8/457 5 September 1868
Tate to Slater: the deaths of Rev Henry Rodgers of Bradford, Walter Selby, and Mr Isley, former president of the English College in Lisbon.
2f
UC/P8/457a 10 September 1868
Tate to Slater: his disappointment at Slater's non-appearance, Trappes's health, his day at Cornsay with other Ushaw staff to view the progress of the building work.
2f
UC/P8/458 10 October [1868]
Tate to Slater: Slater's plans not to retire.
5f
UC/P8/459 2 November 1868
Tate to Slater: his meeting with other Catholic notables at Claughton and Preston, the anti-Catholic feeling against Knight and in Hartlepool generally [caused by the anti-Catholic lecturer Patrick Flinn], Lord Harries's son standing for the
Beverley constituency.
4f
UC/P8/460 30 November 1868
Tate to Slater: his meeting with Chadwick, Charles Langdale's poor health, tree planting at Ushaw.
4f
UC/P8/461 24 December 1868
Tate to Slater: a grand function at Ushaw, Langdale's funeral, Charles Eyre's appointment in Glasgow.
4f
UC/P8/462 23 January [1869]
Tate to Slater: J. Henderson MP for Durham and his opinion in the
Field that Ushaw professors teach the dogma of the preservation of foxes, Trappes carrying out improvements to his church, the writing of controversial letters by the provost of St Oswald's in Durham, J.B. Dykes, to
the
Durham Chronicle, with an enclosed newspaper cutting from the [
Field] on the fondness of Yorkshire men for cruel field sports.
3f
UC/P8/463 [10 February ?1869]
Tate to Slater: Trappes's poor health, ordinations on Easter Saturday.
2f
UC/P8/464 20 February 1869
Tate to Slater: a court case involving convent deeds at Hull, Chadwick's trip to Scotland to consecrate a new bishop.
4f
UC/P8/465 29 March [1869]
Tate to Slater: Chadwick leading a college retreat, his opinion of Manning, the dispute in Glasgow between the bishops, Love & Co's plans to buy land on Chadwick's estate for a drift mine, the increase in Irish colliers in the locality (whom
he believes are mostly Fenians), plans to start a mission at Newhouse for them, Catholic deaths, the damage caused by rabbits at Cornsay.
4f
UC/P8/466 [30 March 1869]
Tate to Slater: a Fenian trial in which the accused was found guilty and hanged, the health of Manning, Talbot and Cullen, a coal shaft being sunk near the football field at Ushaw, Wilkinson giving up his mission in Crook, reports of several of
his parishioners fighting in the papal army.
4f
UC/P8/467 8 April [1869]
Tate to Slater: the stone of a new church at Durham being laid on Whit Tuesday, the mayor of Newcastle entertaining the clergy, the contrast between race crowds in Durham and York.
2f
UC/P8/468 15 April [1869]
Tate to Slater: Mgr Talbot's mental illness, the poor health of Rev Joseph Vincent Fortan of Trinidad, the death of Frank Cornway of Salford.
2f
UC/P8/469 17 April [1869]
Tate to Slater: the deaths of Mary Agnes and Frank Cornway, Donald McDonald's good relationship with Archbishop Eyre at Glasgow.
2f
UC/P8/470 23 April [1869]
Tate to Slater: the death of John Dawker, Newdegate's motion against convents, Tate's lack of trust for any statesman where Catholicism is concerned.
2f
UC/P8/471 25 April [1869]
Tate to Slater: the York meeting, Cullen's poor health, the deaths of Walter Maddocks and Lord Fingall, good prospects for the recovery of trade.
4f
UC/P8/472 13 May [1869]
Tate to Slater: Trappes's poor health.
2f
UC/P8/473 15 May 1869
Tate to Slater: Trappes's health, bishops monopolising decisions in synod.
2f
UC/P8/474 8 June 1869
Tate to Slater: Trappes's health, the coal works at Cornsay, his attendance at a dinner in Cornsay, a ceremony for the foundation of a new church, institute and priest's house in Tudhoe.
6f
UC/P8/475 14 June 1869
Tate to Slater: Trappes's health.
2f
UC/P8/476 16 June 1869
Tate to Slater: Trappes's health, the opening of the Tudhoe church, Day of Felton retiring.
4f
UC/P8/477 17 June [1869]
Tate to Slater: Trappes's health, Liddell and Chadwick viewing the Cornsay coal field, the Irish Disestablishment Bill.
4f
UC/P8/478 19 June [1869]
Tate to Slater: the transfer of George Waterton to the South Shields mission, his popularity among his Durham congregation.
2f
UC/P8/479 18 July 1869
Tate to Slater: Trappes's health improving, plans for Cornsay colliery.
2f
UC/P8/480 23 July [1869]
Tate to Slater: the large number of people planning to attend a gathering at Ushaw, Trappes's lunch with the prince and princess, the funeral of the dean of Durham.
2f
UC/P8/481 30 July [1869]
Tate to Slater: Trappes's health, the large number of people planning to attend a gathering at Ushaw.
2f
UC/P8/482 31 July [1869]
Tate to Slater: the plans for Rossi to paint a portrait of Thomas Eyre from R. Hogarth's silhouette.
2f
UC/P8/483 23 September [1869]
Tate to Slater: Thomas Eyre's portrait hanging in the refectory, Rossi's plans to paint Youen's portrait.
2f
UC/P8/484 28 October [1869]
Tate to Slater: his health, ordinations.
2f
UC/P8/485 2 November 1869
Tate to Slater: Slater's plans to attend the synod, Tate's plans to retire, his visit to Claughton and Lancaster, preparation for the Vatican Council, Manning's pastoral on papal infallibility and Tate's hopes that it will be refined, his opinion
that the pope is a great figure.
4f
UC/P8/486 30 November [1869]
Tate to Slater: Rossi's portrait of Youens, Tate's plans to have his portrait painted, a meeting in Newcastle on education, his hope that the definition of papal infallibility will silence liberal Catholics.
4f
UC/P8/487 16 December [1869]
Tate to Slater: his health, the attorney Richard Thompson and his reception into the Catholic Church prior to his death.
4f
UC/P8/488 24 December [1869]
Tate to Slater: Chadwick's opinion of the English newspaper coverage of the Vatican Council, Temple [?Chevallier's] appointment.
2f
UC/P8/489 18 January [1870]
Tate to Slater: the president's feast, opinions of Tate's portraits, a livestock market at Consett to raise money for the earls of Derwentwater to reclaim their estate.
2f
UC/P8/490 25 February [1870]
Tate to Slater: the burial of a 17 year old Irish student at Ushaw, the Poor School Committee in London for the Education Bill, the marriage of Miss Smith to Captain Kaye, Thompson's plan to start a new church at Newhouse, the opinion of
The Times correspondent at Rome.
4f
UC/P8/491 11 March [1870]
Tate to Slater: the death of Dr Grant at Rome.
1f
UC/P8/492 12 March [1870]
Tate to Slater: the false report of the death of Grant.
2f
UC/P8/493 15 March [1870]
Tate to Slater: Talbot Clifton's return to the Church, rumours that the duke of Northumberland is to become a Catholic, the false report of the death of Grant.
2f
UC/P8/494 21 April [1870]
Tate to Slater: Trappes's health and the possibility of him giving up the chairmanship, the deaths of young priests.
2f
UC/P8/495 15 May [1870]
Tate to Slater: his non-attendance at the York meeting, Trappes not resigning his chairmanship, the Education meeting at Leeds, the health of Bishops Browne and Goss, the Vatican Council, a controversy surrounding John Henry Newman and the editor
of the
Universe, criticism of Disraeli's novel
Lothair for its attacks on Catholics.
4f
UC/P8/496 2 June [1870]
Tate to Slater: the death of Grant, preparing the brasses for inscriptions on the gravestones at the Ushaw cemetery.
4f
UC/P8/497 7 June [1870]
Tate to Slater: the death of Mrs Alder of Cornsay, Liddell's plans to build miners' cottages at Cornsay.
2f
UC/P8/498 7 July [1870]
Tate to Slater: his dislike of this busy time of the year.
2f
UC/P8/499 12 August [1870]
Tate to Slater: the squire of Claughton's visit to Ushaw, Napoleon being punished for his treatment of the pope, sinking a well in the farm yard at Ushaw.
2f
UC/P8/500 [2 November] 1870
Tate to Slater: his holiday in Claughton, Lancaster and Leighton, news of local Catholic deaths, the success of the meeting of bishops at Ushaw, the 23rd anniversary of Bishop Riddell's death, ordinations.
5f
UC/P8/501 30 November [1870]
Tate to Slater: the good behaviour of the Ushaw students and his role in this, Stevenson of Durham's conversion, rumours of the duke of Norfolk's relationship with Princess Marguerite, the portrait of Dr Lingard and the bequest of Miss Dunn, the
anti-sectarian party at Manchester, romance among college domestic staff, planting trees, Trappes's plan for another school, foreign policy of the government, and praising Manning's pastoral on the Vatican Council.
6f
UC/P8/502 22 December 1870
Tate to Slater: the death of Lady Victoria Hope Scott.
2f
UC/P8/503 24 December 1870
Tate to Slater: skating at Ushaw, the situation in Rome, news of local Catholics.
2f
UC/P8/504 5 January 1871
Tate to Slater: Trappes's health, his expectation that the Benedictines will be turned out of Douai College by the Prussians, three of whom will come to Ushaw, a murder in Quebec (near Esh), skating at Ushaw.
2f
UC/P8/505 14 April 1871
Tate to Slater: a large party visiting Ushaw to view a steam plough and barrow, the York clergy meeting, Trappes's health, Paris under siege.
2f
UC/P8/506 7 May 1871
Tate to Slater: the 61st anniversary of the death of Ushaw's first president, Thomas Eyre, improvements to the cemetery, the York clergy meeting, the Burton Constable estate, the clergy's political leanings at the Durham election, York races, the
death of Charles Fairfax of Gilling.
4f
UC/P8/507 24 September 1871
Tate to Slater: Charles Eyre's nostalgia for the old days at Ushaw, retreat, ordinations, staff and student numbers.
2f
UC/P8/508 2 November [1871]
Tate to Slater: the steam plough at Ushaw, ordinations, the political situation.
3f
UC/P8/509 8 November [1871]
Tate to Slater: his visit to various places in Lancashire and Westmorland, including Claughton, Barrow-in-Furness, Leighton, and Lancashire, in particular commenting on the growth of Barrow-in-Furness and the Catholic Church in the town, the
large capacity of Hull's Catholic schools enabling all the Catholic children to be educated in the city, the ordained priests, declining to attend the Heads of Colleges meeting in London, his opinion of Tichbourne.
4f
UC/P8/510 [30 November 1871]
Tate to Slater: tree planting at Ushaw, Frank Wilson's attendance at the Heads of Colleges meeting, death of John Rigby of Selby and the possibility of a large bequest to Ushaw, Lady Stockpoole's criticism of Rome's moral condition and the
threats made to the clergy, the Pope's position.
4f
UC/P8/511 10 December [1871]
Tate to Slater: Rev Thomas Smith's serious illness, Suffield's marriage at the Unitarian church, Trappes's priestly jubilee, the prince's health, the Tichbourne case, his decision to give up skating at Ushaw.
3f
UC/P8/512 25 December [1871]
Tate to Slater: the St Cuthbert's chapel decorations at Ushaw, the outbreak of smallpox at Esh, the pope's refusal to make a separate peace with Victor Emmanuel, Bismarck's attack on the Catholic Church in Germany.
3f
UC/P8/513 24 January [1872]
Tate to Slater: the death of Vincent Eyre, Norman Moore's work on Charles Waterton and his early days at Tudhoe, the death of Sir Arnold Knight, ice skating at Ushaw.
2f
UC/P8/514 26 January 1872
Tate to Slater: the president's feast, a dispute over money between Fr Andrew Barns and his Middlesbrough congregation, a dispute between Dr Goss and the
Westminster Gazette over the status of Jesuits in England, the increase in loyal [?royalist] feeling in Britain following the prince's illness.
4f
UC/P8/515 26 February 1872
Tate to Slater: the pageant in London in thanksgiving for the prince's recovery and the increase in loyal feeling, Ushaw's Benediction service in celebration of this, the death of Bishop Morris, Trappes's letter to Tate (enclosed) concerning Sir
Talbot Constable's withdrawal of salary from the Marton mission, Dr Edward Browne of Wrexham, the Tichbourne case, the former Catholic priest Suffield's unpopularity as an Unitarian preacher in Croydon.
6f
UC/P8/516 27 February [1872]
Tate to Slater: Bishop Browne of Shrewsbury's desire for an old copy of
Garden of the Soul.
2f
UC/P8/517 3 March [1872]
Tate to Slater: thanking him for sending
Garden of the Soul, Slater's ill health, a party of Durham barristers visiting Ushaw for vespers and dinner.
2f
UC/P8/518 [22 April 1872]
Tate to Slater: Trappes relieving Cottom-Fisher following his accident at Hedon, Consitt preaching at the college, Holy Week celebrations, Miss Chorlton's plan to build a chapel, priest's house and school near her mansion in Helseyside, Sir
Clifford Constable's widow remarrying, death of the solicitor Henry Anderson (son of Robert Henry of York).
3f
UC/P8/519 23 May [1872]
Tate to Slater: the Yorkshire clergy meeting, Trappes's search for a new priest for Marton, a meeting between the bishop and the Cornsay tenantry including difficulties with the coal men affecting production, the pub in Cornsay, the sinking of a
pit near Aldin Grange, the popularity of the education question.
4f
UC/P8/520 [?May - June 1872]
Tate to Slater (incomplete): Trappes's poor health, Mrs Edward Riddell's proposed new husband is a relative pauper, a proposed meeting involving Catholic notables and the pope to discuss the threatened extinction of religious houses in Rome, the
increase of “Reds” in Europe.
3f
UC/P8/521 6 August [1872]
Tate to Slater: defensions at Ushaw, the death of Bishop Turner, the will of Marmaduke Maxwell, Robert Leadbitter.
4f
UC/P8/522 29 October [1872]
Tate to Slater: his visit to Claughton, Lancaster and Leighton for his autumn break, Dr Goss's funeral and his successor, declining to attend Drs Vaughan and Weather's consecration at Manchester as well as the opening of the spire at Newcastle,
Canon Benoit (Dr Turner's confidante) replacing Hebert Vaughan as the head of the Foreign Mission College at Mill Hill, no news on Lord Stourton, death of Mrs Goldie, the poor potato crop at Ushaw.
4f
UC/P8/523 2 November [1872]
Tate to Slater: the floods in Italy, Bismarck's difficulties with the Upper House in Prussia, the death of Dr Goldie's widow at York, Lord Boyne, promotions among English judges.
2f
UC/P8/524 2 December [1872]
Tate to Slater: measles at Ushaw, the Ushaw students' examination results at Ushaw (including Louis Casartelli and Arthur Thompson), the lack of news on Goss's replacement.
4f
UC/P8/525 10 January [1873]
Tate to Slater: the president's feast, Napoleon's death, the pope outliving his enemies.
2f
UC/P8/526 12 February [1873]
Tate to Slater: the death of Frank Trappes, Edward Riddell's poor health, Archbishop Eyre's request to Croskell seeking a valet.
2f
UC/P8/527 6 March [1873]
Tate to Slater: the death of Mrs Ellison of Sheffield.
5f
UC/P8/528 16 April [1873]
Tate to Slater: a clergy meeting at York, Slater's new curate, a meeting of bishops, Belgian priests in Yorkshire, Lord Harries's improving health.
4f
UC/P8/529 17 April 1873
Tate to Slater: Jackson's case, Henry Wilberforce's serious illness.
2f
UC/P8/530 7 May 1873
Tate to Slater: the 63rd anniversary of Eyre's death, resolutions aimed at changing the constitution of the York Brethren, Philip Vavasour's movements, the planned synod.
24f
UC/P8/531 23 June 1873
Tate to Slater: the death of Canon Walker.
2f
UC/P8/532 11 July [1873]
Tate to Slater: mortuary cards for Trappes's nephew.
1f
UC/P8/533 14 September [1873]
Tate to Slater: Manning's stay at Ushaw, the [?Ushaw] jubilee, Fr Burke's popularity as a preacher at Newcastle, a new school at Cornsay and donations towards it, student numbers at the college, criticism of Orton gambling at Tudhoe.
3f
UC/P8/534 7 October 1873
Tate to Slater: the clergy expected to attend the jubilee, the large numbers of college students, thoughts on retiring.
4f
UC/P8/535 2 November 1873
Tate to Slater: the jubilee, the ordination of an Irishman (Mr Hanley), Lord Petre's eldest son visiting Ushaw, Trappes's influence on Ushaw.
4f
UC/P8/536 1 December [1873]
Tate to Slater: his memories of Trappes, his hopes that he can retire before dying, tree planting in Ushaw, order from the bishop vetoing all political meetings in schools and dancing at tea feasts, the new lord of Brancepeth and his friendliness
towards Ushaw, his opinion of the Rev Temple Chevallier.
4f
UC/P8/537 9 December 1873
Tate to Slater: Slater's involvement in weekly masses, the building of a wall near Ushaw Farm, the increase in the number of Irishmen appearing in murder cases in the Durham courts which prejudices the English against Catholicism, Knight's
health, Alderson's chapel at Hartlepool.
4f
UC/P8/538 22 December [1873]
Tate to Slater: the deaths of Mr Brockholes and Martin Proctor of Aughton, Joseph Cowen.
2f
UC/P8/539 [27 December 1873]
Tate to Slater: the president's feast, Brockholes's funeral.
2f
UC/P8/540 [December 1873 x January 1874]
Tate to Slater: enclosing a bulletin about “our friend at Whitby”.
1f
UC/P8/541 7 January 1874
Tate to Slater: the postponement of the president's feast because Macartney is dying, Brockholes's bequest to Ushaw.
3f
UC/P8/542 16 February 1874
Tate to Slater: the death of Platt, Slater's plan to retire, the North Durham election, Bismarck, the successful Catholic meeting in London.
4f
UC/P8/543 6 March [1874]
Tate to Slater: Knight's death and funeral.
2f
UC/P8/544 26 March [1874]
Tate to Slater: Slater's sale of his agricultural stock, the news that Manning has become a cardinal.
2f
UC/P8/545 25 June [1874]
Tate to Slater: an inscription for Trappes, the sale of Provost Platt's books.
2f
UC/P8/546 17 October 1874
Tate to Slater: the presentation to Dr Hall, the earl of Zetland's marriage, the marquis of Ripon's donation of £5,000 to Mgr Capel's College of Higher Studies in London, newspaper gossip relating to the marquis of Ripon's conversion to
Catholicism, new priests.
6f
UC/P8/547 18 October [?1874]
Tate to Slater: a momento of Philip [?Vavasour] for Slater at the request of his executor.
1f
UC/P8/548 2 November 1874
Tate to Slater: the shallowness of the pond, tree planting, his appreciation of Ushaw cemetery, the provost's inspection of schools at Esh, Cornsay, Ushaw Moor and Sacriston, the proliferation of education generally.
2f
UC/P8/549 1 December 1874
Tate to Slater: the improvement to the pond, the bishops of Beverley and Liverpool departing from Rome, Manning's return as a cardinal, Bismarck and the bishop of Munster.
2f
UC/P8/550 2 December 1875
Tate to Slater: the arrival of Chadwick in Rome, the health of the pope and his current movements, the [?Cornsay] pitmen working a three day week.
4f
UC/P8/551 [?1863 x 1875]
Tate to [?]: instructions on designing a new chapel
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