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The Gateshead Martyr

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 May 2017

M. J. Cashman
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The canonisation of John Boste may have awakened some interest in the story of his fellow-prisoner, John Ingram, who was the third and last of the seminary priests to be executed on Tyneside during the reign of Elizabeth I. Such an interest is easy to gratify, since Ingram is one of the best documented of the English Martyrs. As with his two predecessors, Joseph Lambton and Edward Waterson, we have both an account by Holtby of the martyr's trial and execution, and some evidence of the latter in the same Newcastle Account Book; but in this case, these sources can be rounded out by a series of official letters and, most unusually, Ingram's own letters and epigrams.

He was born in 1565, at Stoke Edith, Herefordshire, a county noted for the strong Catholicism of its gentry. His parents, Richard and Anne Ingram, however, seem to have been non-Catholics at that time since John needed a dispensation from heresy, when he was sent to Douai in 1579.

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Research Article
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British Catholic History , Volume 11 , Issue 3 , October 1971 , pp. 121 - 132
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Copyright © Catholic Record Society 1971

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Notes

1 Anstruther, G., The Seminary Priests, 1 (1968), p. 183.Google Scholar

2 Trappes-Lomax, T. B., ‘The Englefields and their contribution to the survival of the faith in Berks., Wilts., Hants, and Leics.’ Biographical Studies 1, No. 2, p. 132, citing the Cotton MSS. (Titus B. 3).Google Scholar

3 C.R.S. 5, p. 278.

4 Ibid., p. 281.

5 1st and 2nd Douay Diaries, ed. Knox, p. 191.

6 C.R.S. 5, p. 165.

7 O. Meyer, England and the Catholic Church under Elizabeth (1916), appendix 3.

8 C.R.S. 5, pp. 174-8.

9 Morris, John, Troubles of our Catholic Forefathers, 3, p. 122.Google Scholar

10 Anstruther, G., A Hundred Homeless Years (1958), p. 16.Google Scholar

11 C.R.S. 5, p. 271.

12 Ibid., p. 65.

13 Ibid., p. 281.

14 Anstruther, G., The Seminary Priests, 1, p. 183, citing A.P.C., 23, 345.Google Scholar

15 C.R.S. 5, p. 243.

16 Ibid., p. 242.

17 Ibid., p. 281.

18 Ibid., p. 279.

19 Ibid., p. 242.

20 Ibid., n. 41.

31 Dictionary of National Biography, 33, p. 314.

22 Forbes-Leith, W., Narratives of Scottish Catholics, p. 355.Google Scholar

23 C.R.S. 5, p. 279.

24 Ibid., p. 278.

25 D. Mathew, The Celtic Peoples and Renaissance Europe, 1935.

26 C.R.S. 52, p. 112 (note).

27 It was never rebuilt, and two arches of the vaults are all that remain above ground today. I am indebted to Lady Dorothy Morley and her husband for allowing us to see these, and to her gardener, Mr Middleton, for showing us the way and providing information.

28 He himself refers to it (Morris 3, p. 198).

29 Ibid., p. 196.

30 Calendar Border Papers, ed. J. Bain, 1894, 1, p. 92, no. 144.

31 An expression used by Sir Robert Ker, cited by A. L. Rowse in The Expansion of Elizabethan England, 1955, p. 18.

32 Berwick is sufficiently near Norham for Ingram to use the better-known place-name.

33 C.R.S. p. 279.

34 Presumably ‘Angus’ and ‘Erroll’.

35 C.B.P., p. 515.

36 Ibid., p. 518, no. 923.

37 Ibid., no. 924.

38 Dated 10 January 1593-94, C.B.P., no. 927.

89 Cf. Holtby's narrative, Morris 3, p. 197.

40 C.B.P., no. 928.

41 S.P. Eliz. Dom. Add., p. 360.

42 C.R.S. 5, p. 240.

43 Morris 3, p. 196.

44 Ibid., pp. 41-48.

45 Edward Lingen, Ingram's nephew, had left England for reasons of conscience and served as an officer in Sir William Stanley's regiment. Captured with Henry and Thomas Walpole soon after landing in Yorkshire, he was still in the Tower in 1598, occupying a cell adjoining William Weston's, who praises Lingen's steadfastness in his autobiography ( Caraman, P., Henry Garnet, 1964, p. 180 Google Scholar).

46 He was presumably ‘a precher, one Mr Hardeside, a seminarie was, and now God be thanked is convertid’ (Chamberlains’ Account 1590-96 [Payments], p. 27, Newcastle City Archives). Newcastle Corporation paid him the considerable sums of forty shillings in 1595, and twenty the next year, if he was the priest referred to in the same terms: ‘Paid and geven to a precher, a seminarye was and now convertid, who preched in St Nicholas’ Church …’ (C/A op. cit., p. 623.) His name was also spelt ‘Hardistile’ (S/P 238, p. 474). Verstegan recorded his capture: ‘One Mr Hardesty, a priest, being taken in the North, was brought up to London and is sent down againe’ (C.R.S. 52, p. 68). This was in August 1592. Holtby refers to him (Morris 3, pp. 122, 193) and Fr Grene describes his attempt to preach to the prisoners in York Castle on 18 December 1593. (Foley 3, p. 763).

47 Foley 3, pp. 743 ff.

48 Reid, C. R., The King's Council in the North, 1921, pp. 208 ff.Google Scholar

49 C.R.S. 52, p. xxi, where it is stated that the rivalry between Cecil and Essex has recently been played down by historians.

50 Henry Walpole.

51 C.R.S. 5, p. 241.

52 Ibid., p. 272.

53 Ibid., p. 242.

54 Morris 3, p. 202.

55 C.R.S. 5, p. 280.

56 Ibid.

57 Ibid., p. 242.

58 Morris 3, p. 314 (William Hutton's notes).

59 Foley 3, p. 765.

60 C.R.S. 5, p. 280.

61 Foley 3, pp. 743 ff: ‘Mr Ingram often put on the rack, and another torture as ill, termed by some “Younge's Fiddle”.’

62 Morris 3, p. 314.

63 C.R S. 5, p. 279.

64 Morris 3, p. 196.

65 C.R.S. 5, p. 243.

66 Morris 3, p. 197.

67 C.R.S. 5, p. 288.

68 Morris 3, p. 314.

69 Foley 3, p. 765.

70 C/A, op. cit., p. 204. The ‘bluestone’, set in the Tyne Bridge, marked the boundary between Newcastle and Gateshead.

71 Ibid., p. 198.

72 Ibid., p. 201 (printed in Welford, R., History of Newcastle and Gateshead 3, p. 87 Google Scholar).

73 Challoner, p. 205.

74 Morris 3, p. 210.

75 C/A, op. cit., p. 198.

76 Morris 3, p. 212.

77 C.R.S. 37, p. 55.