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‘A College of Jesuits’ at Holbeck in Nottinghamshire
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 September 2015
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‘Upon information given to this House that at Holbeck in Nottinghamshire is a settled College of Jesuits and a library of Books belonging to them worth about a Thousand Pounds, which is not fit to remain there: It is Ordered by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled that the Lords with White Staves do attend His Majesty humbly to desire him from this House “that His Majesty will be pleased to give Orders that One or more of the Messengers … may be sent to seize and bring away the said Books to be disposed of as His Majesty shall think fit”! (Die Jovis, 27 die Martii, 1679, 31 Car II)’. And a day or two later ‘Ordered by the Lords Spiritual and Temporal in Parliament assembled that the Messenger appointed by His Majesty to seize and bring away the Books which are secured at Holbeck in Nottinghamshire be, and is hereby, authorized and required to bring away also the Trunks which remain there under seizure and sealed up …’ (Die Sabbati, 29 die Martii).
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1 Journals of the House of Lords.
2 Bodleian Library, Rawlinson Ms.D. 1283.
3 Rawlinson Ms.D. 1283, letters 3 and 2.
4 Foley, Records 5 pp. 481-8.
5 Camden Society, 1859, ‘Narratives of the Days of the Reformation’ p. 30n; Robert Thoroton, The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire (1677) p. 450; G.E.C., Complete Peerage …; Burke, Sir Bernard A Genealogical History of the Dormant, Abeyant, Forfeited and Extinct Peerages of the British Empire, London 1886:Google Scholar Labanoff, Lettres de … Marie Stuart (London 1844), 5,370.
6 Richard Simpson, London 1867, p. 187.
7 Pedigree in Thoroton, (1797), I, 176.
8 Rawlinson Ms.D.1283, letter 2.
9 Thoroton (1797), I, 176. Mary, Queen of Scots, writing to Bess in 1583 mentioned her sister. Labanoff, 5,370.
10 Rawlinson Ms.D. 1283 letter 3. In this third letter Edward Turner wrote ‘This Mr Cartwright [the Justice of the Peace] two years and about half ago when those acts of his Majesty in Council came out against us and a persecution feared sent his son Mr George Cartwright to me at Holbeck and …told me … that if I feared danger he was sent to invite me to his father's house at Ossington and I should be protected there’.
11 Complete Peerage (1887) 3 p. 140n.
12 Robert and Gervase did not marry.
13 He bought ‘the house bell’ in King James's time as is recorded in the Spinkhill Notebook (datingfrom the early years of the eighteenth century) at Mount St Mary's College—small folder f. 3v.
14 The suggestion was by Fr. Ralph Baines, an experienced researcher into the history of Spinkhilland Mount St. Mary's College. A copy of much of his work is in the Province Archives MR/2. Thisreference is MR/2 f. 250.
15 Copies of the Declaration of Trust of 1711 and of the will and Declaration of Trust of 1718 are in MR/2 ff. 242-5.
16 Foley Ms. 4 f. 81v in the Province Archives.
17 Spinkhill Notebook f. 6v.
18 Spinkhill Notebook loose sheet.
19 Spinkhill Notebook f. 6v.
20 Spinkhill Notebook f. 6r.
21 Spinkhill Notebook loose sheet.
22 Spinkhill Notebook small folder f. 4r, and loose sheet.
23 Spinkhill Notebook loose sheet.
24 Spinkhill Notebook loose sheet.
25 Spinkhill Notebook f. 5r.
26 Spinkhill Notebook, section 1, ff. 1-6; C.R.S. 13 p. 177.
27 Letters and papers about the dispute are in Spinkhill Papers in the Province Archives.
28 Spinkhill Papers ff. 55, 56, 74, 88. In a letter a Fr. Cornelius Murphy who was involved in the lengthy negotiations wrote of Fr. Blundell ‘the poor Gentleman talks too much’ (Spinkhill Papers f. 148) No doubt he was greatly worried about the future of the mission.
29 For these priests see C.R.S. 70.
30 There is a copy of the Spinkhill Register in MR/2.
31 Spinkhill Papers ff. 208, 231.
32 For the stay of Thomas Hawkins see C.R.S. 70.
33 Spinkhill Papers ff. 237 ff.
34 MR/2 ff. 252-3.
35 Foley, Ms. 4 f. 78v and their entries in the Spinkhill Register. They were the sons of Thomas's brother, Richard Tristram, as is clear from a statement by John when paying legacy duty on hisuncle's estate (Spinkhill Papers f. 297).
36 Letter of Joseph Tristram to John O'Brien, November 24th 1840 in Province Archives 508.
37 Spinkhill Papers ff. 288-90, Joseph Tristram to Marmaduke Stone, December 14th 1810.
38 Spinkhill Papers f. 288, J. Tristram to M. Stone, December 14th 1810. John Tristram was educated by the ex-Jesits at Liège Academy and Stonyhurst; see Stone Letters in the Province Archives (Stone to Bishop William Gibson, January 29th 1807).
39 Thomas Cross had not re-entered the Society. His letter to Fr. Stone is in the Province Archives DH/4.
40 After the death of Evelyn, 2nd Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull Charles Medows, son of the Duke's only sister Frances (married to Philip Medows), changed his name to Pierrepont on inheriting the Pierrepont estates and was created Baron Pierrepont, Viscount Newark and finally Earl Manvers(1806). He died in 1816. Complete Peerage (1887).
41 Spinkhill Register in MR/2. A copy of Thomas Cross's will is in Province Archives 27/6/5.
42 The letters are in Milner's Letters (Province Archives) II, nos. 108, 109, 113, 140.
43 C.R.S. 70 and the Spinkhill Register.
44 Province Archives 508.
45 June 18th 1840. Province Archives MQ/8.
46 November 15th 1840. Province Archives 508.
47 While at Worcester Joseph Tristram had been Fr. Dilworth's superior at Spinkhill.
48 Fr. Postlewhite was temporarily staying at Spinkhill.
49 November 24th 1840. Province Archives 508. The Duke of Portland had succeeded Earl Manvers in the Holbeck property. There was a connection as the second wife of the 1st Duke of Kingston-upon-Hull was the daughter of the 1st Earl of Portland.
50 November 25th 1840 in 508. The ‘Indulgences’ were the greater feasts on which an indulgence could be gained on the usual conditions.
51 Copies of John Bird's letter (December 5th 1840) and of James Jones's reply are in the Archivesof the Archdiocese of Birmingham, B.531. I am grateful to Fr. P. Dennison, the Archivist, for permission to make use of this letter and others which are in the Archives.
52 December 7th 1840 (Birmingham Archdiocesan Archives B.531).
53 December 30th 1840 (Birmingham Archdiocesan Archives B.531).
54 Lincolnshire Archives A.T.251/35.
55 December 31st 1840 (Birmingham Archdiocesan Archives B.536).
56 January 2nd 1841 (Birmingham Archdiocesan Archives B.543).
57 April 14th 1841 (Birmingham Archdiocesan Archives B.565).
58 April 28th 1841 (Province Archives MQ/8).
59 The signature to the letter is not clear but it was almost certainly from Bishop Walsh; the reference is B. 569 in the Birmingham Archdiocesan Archives. John O'Brien was missioner at Lincoln from 1833 till 1840. At that time the city was in Bishop Walsh's Midland District but in the summer of 1840 it was transferred to the newly established Eastern District.
60 April 30th 1841 (Birmingham Archdiocesan Archives B.568).
61 May 1st 1841 (Birmingham Archdiocesan Archives B.570).
62 May 22nd 1841 (Birmingham Archdiocesan Archives B.575).
I am grateful to Fathers T. Conlan, S.J., F. Keegan, S.J. and P. McArdle, S.J. who kindly gave me the benefit of their local knowldge and researches.