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The Recusancy of the Brandlings
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 September 2015
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This is not a family history of the Brandlings of Northumberland from their first appearance in history in the sixteenth century, for they were not a staunch Catholic family with a record of determined recusancy. The Brandlings had Catholic leanings in the mid-sixteenth century, and two of the family were recusants. By the early seventeenth century, however, the family appears to have conformed entirely. And then in the second half of the century the main branch and their cousins of Hoppen and Alnwick Whitehouse appear as Catholics, most probably as the result of Catholic marriages in the previous generation. A century later, and the main branch had conformed, and the junior branches had died out. The Brandlings were therefore a “fringe” recusant family, but even so they had a certain impact on the Catholic life of the North, and their history is not without interest for students of recusancy.
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50. From a Ms. visitation record of Bishop Williams in the Leeds Diocesan Archives, which differs from that published in CRS xxv, p. 112 ff. (From Rev. G. Bradley.)
51. One is in the fly-leaf of the Middleton register, see below; the other is CRS xiii, p. 16.
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60. The book is now with the Franciscan sisters at Goodings, Berkshire. We are grateful to Sister Frances-Agnes Onslow, O.S.F., herself a step-relation of the Brandling family, for this information.
61. Printed in Payne, op. cit., p. 57 ff.
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73. NCH, ii, p. 352.
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80. The vestment is now at the Franciscan monastery, Goodings. The information comes from Sister Frances-Agnes Onslow. Our thanks are also due to Mr. T. M. Robinson for the use of the Caley papers.
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89. NCH, xiii, p. 352; Charles-John as MP, A A, xxiii, pp. 153-4; Ralph-Henry and James Ord, Batty, supra; John, AA, 4th s., xviii, p. 115.
90. Surtees, op. cit., i, p. xcviii; NCH, xiii, p. 351.
91. RR E 377/71; Northumberland Sessions Order Book, vol. v; Northumberland Records, bundle 445, no. 46.
92. Alumni Oxonienses, ed. Foster, early series, i, p. 171.
93. NCH, i, p. 246. This pedigree is our source for all information about this branch not otherwise attributed.
94. NCH, i, p. 294.
95. Surtees, op. cit.,, ii, p. 92.
96. NCH, iv, p. 373 n.
97. NCH, i, p. 246.
98. SS ci, pp. 309, 326, 332.
99. Disbursement book of Sir Thomas Haggerston, 1690-1709 (from Sir Carnaby Haggerston).
100. SS cxxxi, pp. 85-6.
101. Newcastle Record Series, vi, p. 152.
102. SS xl, p. 206; Northumberland Sessions Order Book, vol. 1.
103. SS cxxxi, p. 85.
104. Newcastle Quarter Sessions.