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The Presence of The Mary Ward Institute in Yorkshire 1642–1648

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 September 2015

M. Gregory Kirkus
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Although the Institute of Mary Ward made no stable foundation in the north of England until the founding of the Bar Convent in 1686, recusant history testifies to a fairly constant presence of its members in Yorkshire in the period 1642 to 1686. It is the purpose of this paper to identity these members, to describe where possible their place of residence and to explain why they were there.

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Research Article
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British Catholic History , Volume 25 , Issue 3 , May 2001 , pp. 434 - 448
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Copyright © Catholic Record Society 2001

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References

Notes

1 Folios 64 and 65. The Brief Relation is the earliest biography of Mary Ward, written shortly after her death, almost certainly by Mary Poyntz and Winifrid Wigmore. A seventeenth century manuscript copy is kept in the Archives of the Bar Convent.

2 Historia Vitae Mariae Ward 1674 by Dominic Bissel, 1674. Bissel was a Canon of Augsburg and a friend of Mary Poyntz from whom he derived much information. BCA, MW 13/12 p. 185. (a ms. copy)

3 BCA, MW/27/l(ii).

4 BCA, MW/27/l(iv).

5 BCA, MW/27/l(v).

6 Chambers, C., Life of Mary Ward Vol.2. 1885. p. 483 Google Scholar, note.

7 The Lost Houses of York and the North Riding 1998. p. 63.

8 BCA, MW/27/l(I).

9 ‘Translation of the ancient anonymous Italian life of Mary Ward’, written c.1650–1660. BCA, A.18 p. 27 of a typescript copy. The original is in the Roman Biblioteca Casanatense.

10 Aveling, p. 96.

11 Ancient anonymous Italian life. BCA, A. 18 pp. 24–25.

12 English Brief Relation, folio 68.

13 Elizabeth was the only one of eleven Bedingfield sisters who married; the other ten were nuns. When a widow, Elizabeth was professed as a Canoness in the English Convent in Bruges.

14 Leitner, J., Geschichte der Englishchen Fraulein, 1869, pp. 322–323 Google Scholar.

15 Aveling, p. 95.

16 Friedl, Maria Ward Vol.2, p. 317.

17 No reliable source can be found for this often repeated word-of-mouth tradition.

18 Depositions p. 270. Catherine was imprisoned by ‘young Hotham’ when ten years old. Hotham was fighting in the Tadcaster area in 1643, so Catherine must have been born c. 1633.

19 Ibidem, p. 270.

20 BCA, 3F/2, p.1.

21 Ibidem, p. 2.

22 Foley, p. 580.

23 Ibidem, p. 752 and Coleridge, pp. 19–20.

24 Foley, p. 746 and D. Quinlan, North Riding Catholics 1600–1850, p. 10.

25 Coleridge, p. 19.

26 Ibidem, p. 19.

27 History of Barwick-in-Elmet by Colman, F. S., published by the Thoresby Society, Vol.17, 1908 Google Scholar.

28 Foley, p. 747.

29 Ibidem.

30 Bolron, Robert, ‘the perjuror of the North’. Depositions, p. 240nGoogle Scholar.

31 There are good accounts of this ‘Yorkshire Plot’ in The Month, Vol.18, pp. 383–410 and in F. S. Colman’s History of Barwick-in-Elmet (see above), pp. 182–184. The plot is romanticised in the novel ‘Sir Thomas Gascoigne or the Yorkshire Plot’ by Agnes Stewart, 1880. The authoress dwells on the death of Margaret More in true Victorian fashion.

32 Foley, p. 753, quoting from Howell’s State Trials.

33 The Tryal of Sir Tho. Gascoigne, Bart, for High Treason, London, 1680.

34 Ibidem, p. 14.

35 Aveling, pp. 63 et seq.

36 Ibidem, pp. 63–64.

37 Foley, pp. 763, et seq.

38 Depositions, pp. xxxi-xxxii.

39 Ibidem, p. 232, note.

40 Foley, p. 747.

41 Aveling, p. 96.

42 Tryal of Sir Tho. Gascoigne. Pp. 31–32.

43 BCA, Catalogue. Elizabeth Butcher is thought to be buried in an unmarked grave in Osbaldwick churchyard.

44 Foley. p. 751.

45 BCA, 3F/10/3.

46 Depositions p. 272 and Foley pp. 700–701.

47 N. Pevsner, Buildings of England, volume on Yorkshire, the West Riding, p. 91. E. Waterton and P. Meadow’s Lost Buildings of the West Riding has a picture of the house and states it was purchased by the National Coal Board in 1947 and fell victim to coal-mining in 1967 when it had to be demolished on account of mining subsidence.

48 Sister Dorothea: this mysterious person was a member of the Institute in Mary Ward’s lifetime. She operated a Catholic underground movement, probably from Hintlesham Hall in Suffolk. Successfully concealing her identity, she wrote a full account of her activities. The original document is in the Nymphenburg Archives. It is printed in Chambers, C.’s Life of Mary Ward, Vol.2, pp. 27–39 Google Scholar.

49 Depositions, p. 272.

50 Ibidem, p. 272.

51 Register of St. Mary’s Church, Castlegate, 1970. Vol.1, p. 120.

52 Depositions, p. 272, note.

53 Depositions, p. 270, note.

54 Foley, p. 746.

55 Annual Letter for the year 1681, quoted by Foley, p. 746.

56 Depositions, pp. 236–7.

57 Aveling, p. 104.

58 Depositions, pp. 236–7.

59 Aveling, p. 253, note.

60 ‘More’s niece’, probably one of the four daughters of Basil More, who was arrested at the same time as his sisters Margaret and Mary.

61 BCA, Catalogue.

62 Depositions, p. 233.

63 Ibidem, pp. 235–236.

64 BCA, C.45, Register of Mary Ward nuns (Hammersmith).

65 A full account is given in Recusant History, Vol.24, No. 2. pp. 171–178.

66 Her portrait hangs in the Great Parlour of the Bar Convent.

67 BCA Catalogue.

68 Foley, pp. 699–700.

69 Aveling, p. 101.

70 Catholic Record Society, Vol.4, p. 354 Google ScholarPubMed and D. Quinlan, North Riding Catholics 1600–1850, p. 10.

71 N. Pevsner, The Buildings of England, volume on York and the East Riding, pp. 211–213.

72 BCA Catalogue of nuns

73 Catholic Record Society Vol.4, p. 354 and BCA 3F/9 ‘Portrait of Frances Bedingfield.’

74 Coleridge, p. 95 quotes a letter from Mary Portington, Paris, 1697.

75 Drake, F.: Eboracum or the History and Antiquities of the City of York, 1736. P. 247 Google Scholar.

76 BCA, L.25.

77 BCA, 3F/2.

78 Coleridge, pp. 81–89.

79 Catholic Record Society, Vol.4, p. 354 Google ScholarPubMed.