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Corrections to Kirk’s Articles on the Leckonbys and Whites in his Biographies of English Catholics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2016

W. Vincent Smith
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Every student of Catholic history in the 18th century owes a debt to the Reverend John Kirk, D. D. His Biographies of English Catholics is a mine of information and, though it undoubtedly has to be used with care and criticism, it frequently points the way to further information, One of Kirk’s more serious errors is his confusion of the Leckonbys and Whites.

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British Catholic History , Volume 1 , Issue 1 , January 1951 , pp. 34 - 39
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Copyright © Catholic Record Society 1951

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Notes

(1) Liber Ruber of the English College, Rome. (C.R.S. XL.179; Foley. VI.478).

(2) Seventh Douai Diary. (C.R.S. XXVIII.198,202. The footnote on the former page is incorrect).

(3) Kirk is the only authority traced. The Rev. W. Connick, of the Presbytery, Brailes, has kindly looked through the surviving records of the Mission, but without success.

(4) Bishop Dicconson's List of Priests in the Northern District shows that he was here both when the list was started, c.1740, and when it was ended, c.1753. The copy used here is in the Ushaw College library.

F. O. Blundell O.S.B., in Old Catholic Lancashire (III.178) agrees with the dates 1740–78 for his tenure of the chaplaincy at Euxton, but he calls him James White.

(5) Liber Ruber of the English College, Rome. (C.R.S. XL.173; Foley. VI.475).

(6) All the references in this and the following notes call him Witson. Eyre Papers at Ushaw College; these papers are so far unindexed, but the references will be found in Eyre Papers Transcripts, pp.43, 51. Archives of the Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle Transcripts. pt.I, p.336.

(7) Eyre Papers Transcripts. p.137.

(8) Eyre Papers Transcripts, pp. 23, 43, 51, 129, 130, 137. Archives of the Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle Transcripts, pt.I, p.406, pt.II. pp.3, 13, 14, 29, 37, 38. Ushaw Collection MSS. vol.11, f.71.

(9) Eyre Papers Transcripts, p. 25. Archives of the Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle Transcripts. pt.I, p.37.

(10) Kirk is the sole authority.

(11) His stay at Callaly is not mentioned in Bishop Dicconson's List. It is quite possible that he supplied there for a few months when the Rev. John Danell S.J., the regular chaplain, was away with the family.

(12) According to the Jesuit Archives at Farm St., he was at Pontop before May 1749. His position in Bishop Dicconson's List shows that he cannot have arrived there before 1749. There are frequent references to him at Pontop in the account books of the Durham District of the Jesuits (preserved at Farm St.); also in the Eyre Papers at Ushaw and the Archives of the Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle.