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Fr. Charles Shireburn: An Early Eighteenth Century Jesuit

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 February 2015

Geoffrey Holt
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The accounts kept by Sir Nicholas Shireburn of Stonyhurst with his goldsmith for the years 1697–1702 and the following years show that he was paying for the education at St. Omers College of two Shireburn ‘nephews’, Charles and Richard or ‘Dick’. The exact relationship is not known, ‘sons of a poor relation’, ‘distant relations’, ‘connected with the Shireburnes of Stonyhurst but the exact connection is uncertain’. When Charles Shireburn died in 1745 The Gentleman’s Magazine stated that he was related to the Dowager Duchess of Norfolk, Mary, daughter of Sir Nicholas Shireburn. The Extinct Baronetcies shows that some of the Shireburns of Stonyhurst in the sixteenth century had younger sons. Charles and Richard may have been descended from one of these.

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British Catholic History , Volume 29 , Issue 1 , May 2008 , pp. 44 - 47
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Copyright © Catholic Record Society 2009

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Notes

1 Quoted in Gerard, J.: The Stonyhurst Centenary Record (Belfast 1894), p. 79 Google Scholar. See Stonyhurst MSS C.1.10. There are various spellings of the Shireburn name. The one used in this article is common.

2 Gerard, p. 79.

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10 Ibidem, p. 228.

11 Holt, G. (ed): The Letter Book of Lewis Sabran S.J., Catholic Record Society, vol. 62 (London 1971), pp. 96, 102, 112, 114, 133, 215, 256, 295, 297, 310.Google Scholar

12 English Jesuits, op. cit., p. 228.

13 Ibidem; the expenses of his journey to England are entered in the Accounts of the College of the Holy Apostles, Archives of the British Province of the Society of Jesus (ABPJ) f. 44. ‘Cloathes and Journey from Blandyke (St. Omers College), £5’.

14 Holt, G.: ‘A Note on Bury’s Hall’ in Recusant History, vol. 18, no. 4, 1987, p. 440 Google Scholar; Foley, Records, op. cit., vol. 5, pp. 575–6.

15 Payne, J. O.: Records of the English Catholics of 1715 (London 1889), p. 47.Google Scholar

16 Stonyhurst Archives—Letter Book of the London Agent for St. Omers College, December 13th, 1733; College of The Holy Apostles District Accounts, ff. 56v, 64v.

17 Letter book of the London Agent for St. Omers College, January 11 1732/3 (Stonyhurst MSS).

18 College of the Holy Apostles District Accounts, f. 62v.

19 ABPJ Province Accounts 1730–38, 1738–42.

20 Epistolae Generalium Anglia III (2), July 16th 1740 (copies).

21 Historical Manuscripts Commission 10th Report App. 4, p. 185.

22 Pollen, J. (contributor): Bedingfeld Papers, Catholic Record Society, vol. 7 (London 1909), pp. 165–192 Google Scholar; Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, vol. 6, p. 13. CRS, vol. 7, p. 195 shows that Charles Shireburn was forwarding the fees for Richard and Edward Bedingfeld at St. Omers College 1738–42.

23 ABPJ 14/2/19/40v, copy of one much damaged in the Old College of St. Francis Xavier (ABPJ), Bristol, f. 1; G. Holt: ‘The Glamorgan Mission after the Oates Plot’ in The Journal of Welsh Ecclesiastical History, vol. 1 (1984), pp. 11–27. Matthew Pritchard, a Franciscan, was bishop in the Western District, 1715–1750, Lawrence William York, a Benedictine, was Pritchard’s coadjutor from 1741 and succeeded to the District in 1750.

24 Epistolae Generalium Anglia III (2), 1740–44. For the Talbot case see Holt, G.: ‘Gilbert Talbot and the Talbot Case’ in Recusant History, vol. 24 (1998), pp. 166–170 CrossRefGoogle Scholar. On the poverty of Liège see Holt, G.: The English Jesuits in the Age of Reason (Tunbridge Wells 1993), pp. 29 Google Scholar seq.

25 Chadwick, op. cit., p. 269–70.

26 English Jesuits, op. cit., p. 228. For his will see Stonyhurst MSS C.1.2.11.