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The Distribution of Catholic Chaplaincies in the Early Eighteenth Century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2016

J. Anthony Williams
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Among the archives of the Archbishop of Westminster is a four-page list of ‘Persons of Quality’ and their chaplains and of other Mass-centres, riding-missions, etc. marked in pencil ‘between 1695 and 1710—c. 1701’ possibly because the latter was the year when the Catholic eighth Duke of Norfolk, who heads the list, succeeded to the title. It is, however, possible to assign a more accurate date to this document, i.e. between 14 September 1704 when Sir Henry Arundell Bedingfield—born in 1689 and marked ‘yet minor’ in the list—succeeded to the baronetcy and 11 May 1706 when Lord Carrington died without issue. It may be that further investigation can narrow down the date still further. The document gives no indication of the purpose for which it was compiled though the tenor of its final page suggests that it was drawn up by a secular priest, probably a member of the Old Chapter. The contents of the document are summed-up in a note added in a later hand at the end: ‘This paper tells whether the family was served by a clergyman, that is a secular priest or by a regular viz. a Jesuit (underlined) or a Monk or a Friar’.

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Research Article
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British Catholic History , Volume 12 , Issue 1 , January 1973 , pp. 42 - 48
Copyright
Copyright © Catholic Record Society 1973 

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Notes

1 A.A.W., Series A, 38, no. 2, mentioned in my Catholic Recusancy in Wiltshire, 1660-1791 (C.R.S. Monograph series, no. 1, 1968), p. 111,Google Scholar note 125. I am indebted to the Archivist, Miss Elisabeth Poyser, for access to this document and kindly checking my transcript of it. All spellings are as in the original, but should present few problems to students of recusant history, who will readily recognise Blunt as Blount, Tonstal as Tunstal, Doril as Darell, or Darrell (of Calehill), etc.

2 ‘G.E.C.’, Complete Peerage, IX, p. 630. From this work and from Kirk, J., Biographies of English Catholics, 1700-1800 (ed. Pollen and Burton, 1909)Google Scholar and Estcourt, E. E. and Payne, J. O., English Catholic Nonjurors of 1715 (1886)Google Scholar it is possible to identify most of the persons named in this list.

3 C.R.S., 7, p. 161.

4 ‘G.E.C.’, Complete Peerage, III, p. 67. This peerage then became extinct.

5 In the MS. the words ‘keeps to none but’ are crossed-out. Lord Stourton's name is repeated on the fourth page of the document. See also C.R.S. Monograph 1, pp. 111, 171.