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The Pakingtons of Harvington

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2016

Lionel  and
Veronica Anderton Webster
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Harvington Hall, the moated red-brick manor-house near Chaddesley Corbett in Worcestershire, is well known for the exceptional number and ingenuity of its hiding-holes; and it is not unreasonable to deduce from the fortunes and religious adherence of the Pakingtons (who owned it during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries) some explanation of the unusual plan of the Hall itself. But until recently it was stated categorically that the Pakingtons were all, in Foley's phrase, 'rigid protestant' Opinion as to the date and design of the building was misled by this false premise; some confusion of ideas ensued, and doubt was even cast on the authenticity of the hides. The story was further complicated by the infiltration of legend and of inaccurate information copied by one writer from another, as well as by a reluctance, until modern times, to record Catholic connections. The Worcestershire historian Nash, for instance, omits this branch from the family tree, no doubt in deference to the Pakingtons of Westwood, who were among his patrons and who by then were protestant.

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Research Article
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British Catholic History , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , January 1973 , pp. 203 - 215
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Copyright © Catholic Record Society 1973 

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References

Notes

1 Foley 4, p. 32.

2 Theodore, Galton, Gervase Sacheverill: An Episode of the Seventeenth Century (1876);Google Scholar Camm, , Forgotten Shrines (1910), pp. 253–80.Google Scholar

3 Nash, , History of Worcestershire 1 (1781), p. 353.Google Scholar For the senior branch of the Pakingtons at Westwood, see E. A. B. Barnard, ‘The Pakingtons of Westwood’, Worcs. Arch. Soc. Trans. 13 (1936), pp. 28-49; the D.N.B, (not altogether accurate); and a history of the family by the late Lord Hampton, to be published by Phillimores.

4 Humfrey I’s will (P.C.C. 22 Ketchyn) gives useful information about the family and records that his father, John Pakington, died at ‘Mynd’. This was probably the now vanished village of Myndtown in Shropshire, of which the Plowdens were lords of the manor.

5 Acts of Court of the Mercers” Company, 1453-1527, (ed. Laetitia Lyell and Frank D. Watney, 1936), passim, under Austin, Humfrey and Robert Pakington.

6 D.N.B., Pakington, Sir John.

7 Lyell and Watney, pp. 383, 402.

8 British Museum, Add. MS. 31314, f. 8.

9 V.C.H. Worcs. 3, p. 237.

10 Add. MS. 31314, f. 16.

11 Ibid., ff. 20-21, 102b; cf. V.C.H. Worcs. 3, p. 239.

12 This part of Islington is still the Packington Estate.

13 Thomas, Habington, Survey of Worcestershire (Worcs. Hist. Soc., 1895), 1, p. 240;Google Scholar V.C.H. Worcs. 3, pp. 130, 134.

14 There is an account of the funeral at the College of Arms.

15 Letters and Papers of Henry VIII, 8, nos. 609, 886, 974; 10, no. 876.

16 Hall's Chronicle (1548), f. 231; Holinshed's Chronicle (1586), p. 144.

17 V.C.H. Buckinghamshire, 3, p. 3.

18 Lyell and Watney, passim.

19 Holinshed's Chronicle (1586), p. 144.

20 Lyell and Watney, passim.

21 Shropshire R.O. 422/1.

22 Add. MS. 31314, f. 102b; cf. Sir John's will (P.C.C. 30 Bucke).

23 Harleian Society 27, p. 102.

24 S.P. 12/156/29. Full text in Worcestershire Recusant I (April 1963), pp. 20-24.

25 Anthony Munday, The English Romayne Life.

26 C.R.S. 39, p. xxiii.

27 Stevenson and Salter, The Early History of St John's College, Oxford Hist. Soc. N.S. 1 (1939),Google Scholar passim; C.R.S. 22, p. 101; Acts of the Privy Council, 17 August 1581.

28 Worcester R.O. (St Helen's): Berington MSS. 376 (1-32), 569 (1-8), 576 (1-22); Lechmere MSS. (899: 169), BA 1546.

29 Chaddesley Corbett register, 1538-1727 (a single volume for mixed entries).

30 P.C.C. 30 Bucke.

31 P.C.C. 22 Ketchyn (Barnard, p. 33).

32 C.R.S. 54, p. 340.

33 Chaddesley register.

34 C.R.S. 57, p. 195.

35 C.R.S. 53, p. 129.

36 Squiers, Secret Hiding Places, p. 71. The hide had disappeared by the time we visited Harborough with Squiers in 1954.

37 Harleian Society 27, p. 102.

38 Ibid., cf. Humfrey Fs will (note 4 above).

39 Shrewsbury School, Regestrum Scholarium, 1562-65.

40 S.P. 12/183/71.

41 S.P. 12/187/48.

42 S.P. 12/190/11/4.

43 C.R.S. 22, pp. 124-25.

44 Pipe Roll E.372/437, Item Salop. The authors wish to acknowledge with gratitude information supplied from the Pipe and Recusant Rolls by Dom Hugh Bowler, O.S.B.

45 Ibid., C.R.S. 18, pp. 145, 360.

46 P.C.C. 30 Bucke.

47 Pells Receipt Books, 1592-1607 (E.401/1850-80).

48 John, Duncumb, History and Antiquities of the County of Hereford 2 (1812), p. 157.Google Scholar

49 Pipe Roll E.372/437, Item Salop; cf. C.R.S. 18, p. 263; C.R.S. 57, p. 132; C.R.S. 61, pp. 76, 204.

50 Worcs. R.O. (St Helen's), MS. Berington 376 (10).

51 Worcs. R.O. (St Helen's): 705: 580, BA 1628 (1), p. 61.

52 Acts of the Privy Council, 9 November 1595; V.C.H. Worcs. 3 (1913), p. 40.

53 C.R.S. 57, p. 196.

54 C.R.S. 53, p. 129.

55 Acts of the Privy Council, 31 August 1598.

56 Ibid., 4 February 1599.

57 Recusant Roll E.377/7, London Midd.

58 Berington 376 (2).

59 Hatfield Calendar 10, p. 448.

60 D.N.B., Norris, Sir Thomas.

61 John Gerard: The Autobiography of an Elizabethan (ed. Caraman, 1956), p. 257.Google Scholar This Bridget should not be confused with the Bridget Norris who was a connection of Sir Robert Cecil: Hatfield Calendar 10, p. 162.

62 Hatfield Calendar 9, pp. 390, 428; 10, p. 382; 11, pp. 399, 557.

63 Cal. State Papers (Carew MSS.) 1601-03, p. 228.

64 Howard (Corby Castle) MSS. (endorsed ‘1603. Ditton. 20’).

65 Ibid.

66 Hugh Bowler, O.S.B., in C.R.S. 57, pp. xxxiv-xxxv.

67 Recusant Rolls E.377/11 and 13, Salop.

68 John Gerard, pp. 207-08, 268; Anstruther, Vaux of Harrowden, pp. 300-05.

69 Pardon Roll C. 67/70, Memo. 21.

70 Tierney-Dodd, Church History (1841), 4, Appendix 9A.

71 D.N.B., Ramsay, Sir John.

72 Chaddesley register.

73 Burke, Landed Gentry of Ireland (1958), under Jephson of Mallow Castle.

74 Chaddesley register.

75 Recusant Roll E. 377/14, Item Wigorn.

76 Patent Roll C. 66/1739/3: full text in Essex Recusant 4 (1962), pp. 60–62.Google Scholar

77 Memoranda Roll E. 368/528, rot. 191.

78 Bowler, C.R.S. 57, pp. Ixvii-Ixviii.

79 Worcestershire R.O. (St Helen's), Berington MSS. 376 (1-32).

80 Berington 376 (17).

81 Berington 376 (23, 27, 28).

82 Berington 576 (18).

83 Cf. C.R.S. 60, pp. xiii-xiv.

84 Berington 576 (4, 18); cf. 376 (5, 9, 11).

85 Acts of the Privy Council, 1613-28, passim.

86 C.R.S. 34, pp. 77-78.

87 Acts of the Privy Council, 22 October 1621 (twelve days before St Winifred's feast).

88 Richard Simpson, Edmund Campion (1867), pp. 187, 244.

89 Worcs. Arch. Soc. Trans. 18 (1941), pp. 25-30, and portrait facing p. 26.

90 J. C. Cox, Derbyshire Annals 1 (1890), p. 59. According to Cox, Derbyshire Churches 4 (1879), pp. 332-41, Jacynth had Mass said for him in the church adjoining his manor-house at Morley, after which he left the church and the parson proceeded with the Prayer Book service.

91 Berington 576 (2).

92 Inquisition Post Mortem C. 142/486/113.

93 Habington, Survey, 1, pp. 149, 263-4, 382.

94 For the hides at Hindlip, see Recusant History, January 1974, pp. 184-94. An account of those at Harvington will appear in Recusant History for April 1975 (Ed.).

95 Sic, for Supersedeases. A Supersedeas is ‘a writ commanding the stay of legal proceedings which ought otherwise to have proceeded’ (O.E.D.).

96 Sic, for ‘chary’, in the sense (now obsolete) of ‘requiring care or careful handling’ (O.E.D.).

97 Worcester R.O. (St Helen's), Lechmere MSS. (899: 169), BA 1546.

98 Habington, Survey, 1, pp. 149, 264.

99 Middlesex County Records 3 (ed. Jeaffreson, J. C., 1888), p. 45.Google Scholar

100 Henry Townsend’s Diary (Worcs. Hist. Soc.) 2, p. 77.Google Scholar

101 Ibid., 1, p. 197.

102 Christopher, Devlin, The Life of Robert Southwell (Watergate ed., 1967), pp. 7-9, 29.Google Scholar

103 Essex, R.O., Quarter Sessions Rolls 252/5; Middlesex Records, 3, pp. 43, 45, 134.Google Scholar

104 Ibid., pp. 43, 134.

105 S.P. 16/285/37 and 406/121.

106 Calendar of State Papers Domestic, 1641-43, pp. 36, 51; Chaddesley register.

107 Reade, A. L., Audley Pedigrees (1929), part 2, pp. 110–111.Google Scholar

108 Calendar of Committee for Compounding 2, pp. 901–02.Google Scholar

109 Chaddesley register.

110 Estcourt and Payne, English Catholic Nonjurors of 1715 (1886), pp. 75, 219.Google Scholar

111 Reade, , Audley Pedigrees, part 2, p. 111,Google Scholar

112 Worcs. R.O. (St Helen's), 899: 115, no. 2; cf. Worcs. Arch. Soc. Trans. 13, p. 34.

113 Reade, part 2, p. 111.

114 Middlesex Records 3, p. 45.

115 Calendar of the Committee for Compounding 4, p. 2833,

116 Birmingham Archdiocesan Archives, A. 1271; British Museum, MS. Lansdowne 446, p. 120.

117 Bodleian MS. Ashmole 851, f. 77 (Berkshire Visitation, 1664, signed by Sir Charles Yate).

118 Calendar of State Papers Domestic, 1649-50, p. 547; C.S.P.D., 1679-80, p. 327.

119 Estcourt and Payne, pp. 177, 214.

120 Recusant History, April 1965, p. 123. Cf. the Harvington registers in C.R.S. 17.

121 Coughton Court, Throckmorton MSS., John Brownlow, History of Chaddesley Corbettand Harvington, p. 95. Brownlow's calendar of Throckmorton deeds is in his Genealogy ofthe Throckmorton Family, also at Coughton, vol. 3, pp. 89-323.

122 John Brownlow, A Memoir of Harvington Hall (1872): typed copy in Birmingham Reference Library (572391).

123 Pevsner, The Buildings of Worcestershire (1968), p. 193.