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A Derbyshire Family in the Seventeenth Century: The Eyres of Hassop and Their Forfeited Estates

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Rosamond Meredith
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Manuscript sources. The Hassop muniments, part of the Bagshawe Collection in Sheffield City Libraries, have provided the chief source for this study. They consist very largely of deeds and related documents, but even these are not complete. A small bundle of some thirty miscellaneous papers, a number of them rough notes or mere domestic receipts, together with the parliamentary surveys of the estates, provide almost the only other estate papers in the muniments for the period covered. There are no letters, except for some half-a-dozen which have survived because the blank sheets have been used subsequently for business notes. The deeds are supplemented by two Hassop evidence books, compiled in the later 18th Century, now in the possession of Lady Stephens.on of Hassop Hall.

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British Catholic History , Volume 8 , Issue 1 , January 1965 , pp. 12 - 77
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1. C.J, for dates specified; names were added to the Bill on 17 July, 6, 29 Aug., 26 Sept., 15 Nov., 1650 and 1 July, 1651.

2. F & R. vol.2, pp.520–45.

3. Lists of persons proposed to be excepted by name are given in the Propositions of Uxbridge and Newcastle (Gardiner, S.R., Constitutional documents of the Puritan Revolution, pp. 278–9Google Scholar, 298-9) and those of Newport (Old Parliamentary History, vol.18, pp.59–61). See also CJ., 14 March, 1648/9.

4. CJ. for that date. Of the 18 there specified the following were not included in the Act: Lord Brudenell, Sir Philip Constable, Peter Giffard.

5. CJ., 2 May, 1646.

6. For Hallowes see Keeler, M. F., The Long Parliament, p. 201 Google Scholar and Brunton, D. and Pennington, D. H., Members of the Long Parliament, Appendices V and VI', for his leases see CCC, p. 1732 Google Scholar and CJ., 6 Sept., 1649 and for petition concerning his losses CJ., 25 April, 8 May, 3 July, 1651. In this latter business he was almost certainly acting in conjunction with Gilbert Millington, one of the burgesses for Nottingham; Mrs. Hutchinson explains “what it was that drew Mr Millington into [the] confederacy” opposed to her husband in the House, viz. “they hired him with a subscription for losses, for which they gave him public credit double to what he really had lost.” Lucy, Hutchinson, Memoirs of the Life of Colonel Hutchinson, ed. Firth, C. H., p.198;Google Scholar Hallowes proviso in Act of Sale, F & R., vol.2, p.540.

7. CJ., 19 Aug., 1645.

8. CJ., 25 Sept., 1646.

9. F & R., vol, 2, pp. 591–8 and 623-52.

10. Persons described as “of Derby” were of West Derby, Lanes.

11. A detailed study of The Eyres of Hassop, a Derbyshire gentry family; their rise and recusancy, 1470-1640 is the subject of a thesis presented to Sheffield University by the present writer. The following 4 paragraphs summarize part of this work and detailed references to MS, sources are not included here.

12. Pedigrees of the Derbyshire Eyres are given in FMG., pp.543–64, and The Reliquary vol.12.

13. Eg HMC, (24) Rutland vol. 1, pp.276, 328, 348, 385.

14. E377/49, Derbyshire membrane.

15. For a contemporary Roman Catholic estimate of Pursglove see Bayne, C. G., Anglo-Raman Relations, p.289.Google Scholar

16. Vicar William Fieldsend and Schoolmaster Nicholas Garlick; for an account of the former see my article “William Fieldsend, Vicar of Tideswell and Popish Recusant” in Derbyshire Countryside, June-July 1964, pp.43–5.

17. Adam and Peter Eyre, his third and seventh sons. Knox, T. F., First and Second Douai Diaries pp.241 Google Scholar, 244 and Third Douai Diary, CRS. vol, 10, p.24.

18. SP. 14/43/95. The Calendar entry, Jas.I, 1603-10, p.493, does not state that he was unconvicted.

19. Staffs, pedigrees pp.134(Fowler), 38(Biddulph), 289(Trentham), 129(Fleetwood).

20. Smith pedigree in Nichols vol.3, pp.29, 970; family history in Cooper, W., Wootton Wawen, its history and records, 1936, p.20 ff.Google Scholar The religious position of this family at the end of Elizabeth's reign is well shown in the Responsa of John Smith, brother of Sir Francis, CRS. vol.54, pp.74, 76.

21. Nichols vol.2, p.167.

22. Rushworth, Pt.3. vol.1, p. 162. The other two Derbyshire collectors were Mr. Pole of Spinkhill and Sir Francis Willoughby, but the latter lived in Notts.

23. Proved 6 Oct. 1647. PCC. 199 Fines.

24. Francis Trentham (d.1644) mentions in his will Minors Motte in Hanbury, “the inheritance of my grandfather Trentham … mortgaged and passed ... for money to my grandfather Eyre of Hassop … and lately tendered to me by my loving Uncle Rowland Eyre of Hassop … upon the condition of payment of five hundred pounds.” PCC. 72 Rivers.

25. A practically complete list of the properties is given in the Settlement of 1638.

26. Bag C. 2631.

27. Marriage settlements prior to the development of the technical device of trustees for contingent remainders as discussed by Habakkuk, H. J. in Marriage settlements in the 18th century, TRHS, 4th series, vol.32, pp. 15–30.Google Scholar

28. DAJ. vol.19, p.20.

29. Gell p.58. For biographical details of Gell see DNB.

30. Fowler: Staffs, pedigrees p. 136; Biddulph: Glover, S., History and Gazetteer of the Co. of Derby, vol. 1, Appendix p.81 Google Scholar. reporting “Captain Biddulph of Biddulph a recusant in Staffordshire … slaine.” This cannot refer to Francis's father as generally assumed, as his will was proved at Lichfield 10 Dec. 1642. The report of the son's death was erroneous.

31. Gell p.60; M. T. Fortescue, The History of Calwich Abbey, Ch.4.

32. Cooper, W., op.cit., p.31.Google Scholar

33. GEC, Carrington, 1st Viscount.

34. Hardacre, P. H., The royalists during the Puritan Revolution, 1956, p.9 Google Scholar, quoting Clarendon's History of the Rebellion.

35. For Manners see GEC, Rutland, 8th Earl of and DNB.

36. Gell p.62. Milward was b.1600, d.1671, MP. for Derby co. 1663-71; see The Diary of John Milward, ed. Caroline Robbins, Introduction.

37. C5/7/67 Jackson v. Eyre.

38. Gresley p.72; Eyre was in fact the only RC. See Firth, C. H. on “one serious evil” in the royalist army, namely “the reckless issue of commissions,” in his Cromwell's Army p.25.Google Scholar

39. Sir John Fitzherbert of Norbury, an Anglican, defender of Tutbury, d.1649 and was succeeded by his cousin William Fitzherbert of Swinnerton, a Roman Catholic. Sir John's sister was the wife of Sir John Fitzherbert of Tissington, d.1642, leaving a son and heir William, a minor, but old enough to be a captain in the royalist army. (Anglicans). In CCC, p.1488 the two Williams are confusingly treated as one person.

40. Gell p.63. cf. Lord Loughborough to (Fitzherbert) “... I have written my opinion to … Colonel Eyre and Millward that I think it the best course to draw all their foot into Chatsworth, if they have victuals there, and the horse to quarter as they think fit …; their foot being array men I have no faith in them. God send they behave themselves well within walls.” HMC. (78) Hastings vol.2, p.120.

41. Bag C. 359 (7) pp.2–3 “Memorandum wee have valued the aforesaid house at twelve pounds per annum in Consideration the same is of great convenience for the Merchandize of lead Oare in the said County and of very pleasant scituation.

The said house is in good repaire not fitt to be demolished yet we have taken a view of the severall materialls thereof and doe estimate the same together with the materialls of the severall outhouses and offices thereunto belonging to be worth in Stone, Timber, Leade. Slate, Wainscoate, glasse and Iron upon the place besides the Charge of taking down the same, the probable tyme of converting the same into money alsoe considered £350.”

42. Cal.SPD. Chas.I. 1644, p.191.

43. Rushworth, Pt.3 vol.2, p.644 gives dates of surrender of the various Derbyshire garrisons.

44. Gell p.64. The account given by SirReres, John by (Memoirs ed. Browning, A, p.XXXIX)Google Scholar of his uncle Tamworth's war service is impossible to reconcile with the foregoing account of Evre's, or with public events: “Sir Tamworth Reresby, lieutenant-colonel for the Kine in mv Lord of Newcastle's army under Colonel Aire of Hastop in his repiment of foot, afterwards major to his regiment of hors, wher he continued till Adderton More fight. There the King's party being routed he escaped and continued in the garrison of Basyn House till it was taken.”

Adderton (Adwalton) Moor was fought on 30th June, 1643, quite early in Newcastle's campaign in Yorkshire, some 5 months before Eyre received his commission and was a royalist victory. That Sir Tamworth served with Eyre and was subsequently at Basing House is otherwise quite credible as he was a Yorkshire Roman Catholic and had property in Hampshire and the two families had intermarried several times in earlier generations.

45. “A list of the Commanders, officers and gentlemen of quality that were in the Close of Lichfield at the surrender thereof.” TT. E345./2.

46. Rowland has been confused with Anthony Eyre, half brother of Sir Gervase Eyre of Rampton (d.May, 1644 at Newark). Anthony, a colonel and subsequently Major-General, is mentioned on several occasions at Newark as a daring calvary officer, was wounded at Naseby and signed the Newark articles of capitulation. Rushworth, Pt.3 vol.2 p.644, Pt.4 vol.1 p.51; TT.E337/8 and 10.

47. Lichfield articles, TT.E345/2.

48. . CCC. p.89.

49. Staffs. Order Book, p.XXIX.

50. F & R. vol.1, p.106. Notorious delinquents are there described as such persons “as have raised or shall raise Arms against the Parliament or have been, are or shall be in actuall warre against the same; or have voluntarily contributed ... any Money, Horse, Plate, Arms, Munitions or any other Ayd or Assistance for, or towards the maintenance of any forces raised against the Parliament …; or for the robbing, spoiling, plundering or destroying of any of the Kings Subjects, who have … yielded obedience to the Commands of both Houses of Parliament …”.

51. ibid, vol.1, p.254.

52. TT.E.100/13.

53. So designated in Pole-Gell MSS, HMC. Appendix to 9th Report, Part 2, p.393.

54. Staffs, pedigrees p.187; Staffs. Order Book passim.

55. C5/7/67 Jackson v. Eyre.

56. DAT. vol.70, pp.70–77.

57. CCC. p.80; by the original order of May 6, 1646 (CJ. for that date) the payment was ordered to be made out of the estates of Sir Thomas Termyn.

58. CCC. p.62.

59. Bag C, 360 (1-7).

60. The former group sign the order of 6 Oct. 1647, the latter that of 13 March 1650/1, Bag C. 360 (1 and 7).

61. CCC. p.1892.

62. Pedigree, F.M.G. pp.566–7. Hall's brother was a Turkey merchant and he himself had been in Turkey. He held Lees Hall as Newcastle's tenant. In 1663 Newcastle brought proceedings against him for having disposed of certain cordwood and other timber to the value of £3,000 during the Interregnum. (Portland deeds, DDP42/36).

63. The numerous papers in the case are summarized in CCC. pp.2319–20. The tenants when the parliamentary surveys were made in 1652 were Robert Ashton and Thomas Wright.

64. C6/144/21.

65. Bag C.2789 is an account for 1649 headed “My cosen Eyre is debtor,” obviously Hall's account with Eyre. Besides sums due to Hall for the purchase of fish at Hull, a bay gelding, etc. are the following entries: — “By Repaer of Calver Hall 02. 0. 0. By mony for Repaer of Calver Mill 25. 0. 0.”

66. SP.19/23 p.67; 19/159 p.125.

67. Staffs. Order Book p.18.

68. Habakkuk, Marriage settlements op. cit. p.19 Google Scholar n.; Hardacre, op. cit., p.34.Google Scholar

69. GEC, Dormer of Wyng, 4th Baron.

70. Bag C. 369(8).

71. Cédoz, . Un Convent de Religeuses Anglaises a Paris, p.460.Google Scholar

72. Vivina, J. L., Visitations of the County of Devon, 1895, pp. 74–5Google Scholar; the name of John Berry's wife is not given.

73. Bag C. 2704.

74. CCC. p.3185

75. Bag C. 2704.

76. Reliquary vol.12, Plate V.

77. Bag C. 1896(2).

78. Bag C. 359(1) p.4 “… during his travells (as we are informed) beyond the seas …”.

79. C517/67. Jackson v. Eyre.

80. Bag C. 369 (1).

81. The decree is referred to in C6/157/46. Milward v. Jackson. Note of acquittance Bag C. 369 (16).

82. HMC. (29) Portland vol.1, p.576.

83. Aveling, H., “Catholics and parliamentary sequestrations,” Ampleforth Journal, June 1959, p.111.Google Scholar

84. F & R. vol.2, p.88.

85. “... sold by the rebellious Parliament ... at five years and a half purchase …”, The Life of William Cavendish, D. of Newcastle, by Margaret, Duchess of Newcastle ed. Firth, C. H., pp. 145-6.Google Scholar Newcastle's estates were sold for his life, e.g. the manor of Barlow (Portland deeds DDP 42/64) conveyed for “fourscore years if the E. of Newcastle shall so long live.”

86. F & R. vol.2, p.91 explains “the manner of doubling moneys.” See also Habakkuk, H. J. “Public finance and the sale of confiscated property during the Interregnum,” Econ HR. 2nd series, vol.15, p.70.Google Scholar

87. Joan, Thirsk, “The sales of royalist land during the Interregnum,” Econ. H.R. 2nd series, vol.5, p.203.Google Scholar

88. Bag C. 360 (8).

89. I am indebted to Professor Habakkuk for elucidating for me the matter of Eyre's life-tenancy under the 1638 settlement and hope that I have represented his remarks correctly here.

90. Bag C.2725, conveyance of Staffs, estates, dated 23 Oct. 1652 mentions the Treasurers' receipt of 26 Aug. 1652.

91. F & R. vol.2, pp.87, 103, 155-6 for the rates here mentioned. For a more detailed discussion of the rates laid down for sales see “The transference of lands in England, 1640-1660,” TRHS., 4th series, vol.15, pp.198–205; for a discussion of the price of land in general at this time see Habakkuk, H. J., “The long-term rate of interest and the price of land in the 17th century.” Econ. H.R. 2nd. series, vol.5, p.26; p.32 and 32n. of tnis article give rates for compounding.Google Scholar

92. Bag C. 359 (1-10).

93. 1. Bag C. 359 (5) p.15; 2. Bag C.359 (2,3) p.138; 3. Bag C. 359 (6) p.37; 4. Bag C. 359 (9) p.5; 5. Bag C.359 (1) p.8

94. Bag C. 369 (2) gives annual value of East well estate.

95. Statis. pedigrees, pp.50–51; Staffs. Order Book, p.356 and passim.

96. Staffs. Order Book, pp.247, 254.

97. DNB; Notts. Visitation 1662-4 (Thoroton Soc. Record Series, vol.13), pp.61 Google Scholar and 65, and Thoroton Soc. Transactions, vol.45, pp.5–17 both give rather unreliable details of Hacker's family history.

98. FMG. p.315; Portland deeds DDP 53/16.

99. DNB.

100. Hutchinson, op.cit. p.282.

101. CCC. pp.1891, 1916.

102. Staffs, pedigrees, p.343.

103. Bag C. 2291.

104. Habakkuk, , Interregnum Finance, op.cit. p.81.Google Scholar

105. Bag C. 276S.

106. Bag C. 2764-7, 2769-72.

107. Bag C. 2515.

108. Staffs, pedigrees, p.228; Staffs. Order Book, p.37.

109. Bag C.369(4).

110. Bag C357(13).

111. Portland deeds DDP42/43.

112. Bayley's purchase is noted in margin of parliamentary survey; “this must be excepted for Thos. Bayley hath bought it, he being immediate tenant”; contract by Wildman CCC.2321; conveyance by the trustees to Rogers Bag C.2725.

113. Bag C.2349.

114. Bag C.369(8)

115. Bag C.2725.

116. A note of Richard Hall's (Bag C.369(9)) illustrates transactions at this time:

117. SP. 23/18 p.825.

118. Bag C.369 (2).

119. Bag C.369(3).

120. Collier's second wife was the widow of William Holme, whose daughter was Eyre's first wife. Wilson deed 248 in SCL.; SP.23/76 f.375-7. See also Staffs, pedigrees p.89 (Collier) and FMG. p.561 (Eyre of Bradway). Col. Eyre's contract: SP.23/18 p.942; this is wrongly calendered in CCC p.2321.

121. SP.23/18 p.834.

122. Bag C.2292.

123. Abney contract: CCC. p.2321; Thomas's claims: Bag C.359(1) p.4; repayment Order: Bag C.1643.

124. Bag C.2725, 2726, 2727, 2731.

125. The trustees’ deeds of sale of the properties Eyre retained do not appear to have been enrolled in the Close Rolls. Both these properties were sold by the Eyre family in the 18th century.

126. Habakkuk, , Interregnum Finance, op.cit. p.73.Google Scholar

127. 1. Bag C.369(8) p.3; 2. Bag C.2634A (Schedule attached to marriage Settlement).

128. Bag C. 1430-32. Other deeds of sale of small properties to local yeomen: Bag C.2444, 2445, 1924.

129. Bag C.2347.

130. Bag C.2293.

131. Bag C.2455, 2456.

132. CCC. p.2321; tenants’ names in 3. given in SP.23/18 p.802.

133. Bag C.2350-52 are papers relating to this case (including answer of defendant) of Bullock v. Eyre. For Morewood see pedigree in Joseph, Hunter's Hallamshire, ed. Gatty, A. p.469.Google Scholar

134. Bag C.369(6) contains the particulars of this property. It is not in the survey or in the deed of conveyance from the trustees of Forfeited Estates, Bag C.2731.

135. Deed of Sale to Broughton, Bag C.2486; Bag C.2515 gives the name of the Committee's tenant.

136. Hassop Evidence Book I p.64 (property of Lady Stephenson of Hassop Hall).

137. Bag C.2349.

138. Thirsk op. cit. pp.190–91. CCC.p.2321 summarises the purchasers and particulars of Eyre's estate as recorded by the Committee (except for the mistake over Collier's lands as already mentioned).

Purchasers of the estates as named in Orders from the Committee of Compounding for discharging the lands from sequestration, as summarised in C.C.C. p.2321 (last item amended).

139. In Victoria County History of Leicestershire, vol. 2, p.217, quoting the Chancery enrolment (C54/3725 no.18) of the trustees’ deed of sale (Bag C.2731).

140. eg. Bag C.369 (5, 6, 8, 11).

141. Bag C.369(16).

142. Bag C.1990 (lease; Bag C.359(2, 3) p.94 (old rent).

143. Bag C.2047 (lease); Bag C.359 (2, 3) p.104 (old rent).

144. Nichols, vol.2, p.167; Hassop Evidence Book I, p.17 lists all the purchase deeds, which are not now among the Eyre muniments.

145. Journal of George Fox, ed Nickalls, J.. 1952, pp.52, 58.Google Scholar

146. Reliquary, New Series, vol. 6, p.112 (transcript of State Paper).

147. Snelston deeds at Derby County Record Office at Matlock. The receipt is in Bundle 33. There is an article based on these deeds in DAJ. vol. 72, but the authors on p.68 completely misrepresent the Eyres’ position there. Thomas Eyre's deed of purchase of Snelston Hall in 1620 is in Bundle 23; other subsequent purchase deeds in Bundles 24, 27 and 33.

148. Nichols vol. 2, p. 167, n9.

149. Berry's Sussex pedigrees, no. 75.

150. Bag C.2634A.

151. CCC.1960. It is also stated that the Committee “have made stay of the rents compounded for, on pretence that he was a Popish recusant, which he never was, having always gone to the Protestant Church … some of his children are in the Popish religion … The youngest is at least 40 years old.”

152. Bag C2634B.

153. Bag C369(24).

154. Eyre purchased Stephenson's Shatton property in 1640, subject to the payment of £40 legacies to each of Steohenson's eight children as they came of age (Bag C.1890). The bundle of receiots for these shows that Thomas, who came of age in 1650, was paid instalments of £10, £10, and £2 and Henry was given a parcel of land in 1653 to hold as security until the following March. Both the amounts outstanding were paid off in April, 1654. (Bag C.1896, 1898, 1899).

155. Hassop Hall {Sale Catalogue), April 29 1919. Hampton & Sons. No.613. Rowland Eyre in armour (half length). No. 615, Wife of Rowland Eyre, in black dress (half length). No.564. Thomas Eyre in red costume, holding a ring in his left hand (half length). No.629. Catherine, wife of Thomas Eyre in red low-neck dress (half length).

156. 1st son, Rowland, buried at Gt, Longstone, 11 Feb., 1656. 2nd son, Philip, heir to his father and aged 7, 1662-3, but died soon afterwards. Place of burial not found. Katherine, wife of Thomas Eyre, died 31 July 1659 (Edward Bedingfeld's Obit. Book); buried 2 August, 1659, as “Dame Katherine Eayres, wife of Thomas Eayres, knight” (sic). The poor health of Rowland, the 3rd son, is described in a letter from Wm. Blundell, senior, to his son Thomas, 1,4 Oct. 1672.

157. Bag. C. 369(10). Godfrey Cufiaud alias Ignatius Lampton born in 1608, was a native of Sussex (Foley, H., Records of the English, Province of the Society of Jesus, vol, 5, p.772).Google Scholar “My Lord” refers to Richard, 2nd Lord Molyneux, who died in July, 1654.

158. Annals of the English Benedictines of Ghent, p.165.

159. Professed 29 Nov. 1659, Ibid. That Ursula was at Ghent is proved by a letter of William Blundell's to Elizabeth Eyre, mentioning that Mary had “had a letter from her sister Ursula & her aunt Winefred Smith, they are both well.” 18 July, 1670 (MS. letter book at Crosby); Winifred Smith is known to have been at Ghent.

160. Letter of Nicholas Blundell to his mother, 1 March 1706/7 (MS. letter book at Crosby). See also copy of the Convent obituary notice of Mary, DDBI/24/23 in Lanes. County Record Office.

161. The increasing number of bachelors and deficiency of eligible husbands for daughters of landowning families in general at this period is discussed in Habakkuk, , Marriage Settlements, op.cit. p.24.Google Scholar

162. Necrology of the English Province of Friars Minor, CRS. vol. 24, p.274.

163. Responsa Scholarum, CRS. vol.55, p.545; Liber Ruber, CRS. vol. 40, p.54.

164. William is said to have been a priest in Nichols vol.4, p.398. William Blundell's letter dated 14 Jan. 1669/70 in MS. letter book at Crosby.

165. See Foley, op.cit. in Collectanea, under Alford, William.

166. Bag C.369 (42 and 16).

167. Bag C.369(16). List of deeds in Eyre's closet

168. Ibid.

169. State papers of John Thurloe, ed. Birch, T.. 1742, vol.4, pp.240–41.Google Scholar

170. Ibid., vol.4, pp.240 (Caryll) and 435 (Neville); Add. MSS. 34013 f.16 (Eyre).

171. Add. MSS. 34014, ff,42v., 57.

172. Bag C.1785.

173. Bag C.366 (6) verso.

174. Kirkham, N., “A royal mine in Nether Haddon ?”, DAJ. vol.75, p.22 Google Scholar, quoting E112/294/31.

175. Bag C.366(6).

176. Records of Bishop Pursglove School, Tideswell: rentals for 1654 and ′59; Bag C.349: rental for 1667. The Eyre rentals are probably in the school possession on account of a long dispute over Tideswell School land at a later date.

177. Bag C.1068 (agreement); Bag C.359(7) p.19 gives the old rent.

178. Bag C.1332-50 (Taddington); Bag C.1194 (Kings Stemdale).; Bag C.1352-65 (Priestcliffe Lees).

179. C78/1335/2. This Chancery Decree gives a history of the dispute.

180. Bag C.369(11).

181. Listed among the deeds in Eyre's closet, Bag C.369(16).

182. C6/157/46. Petition of Eyre and Milward.

183. C6/167/46; Bag C.2466 is a copy of the defendants’ answer. Deeds to the property, Bag C.1973 and 1979.

184. Hardacre, op.cit., p.116.

185. Cf. the Marriage Articles of Francis Poole of Spinkhill Derbys. and Cicely Clarke of Flawborough Notts., Jan. 1651/2 (Tibbitts Collection 564 in SCL.). Poole undertakes to “find and allow unto her kinsman, Mr. Henry Clarke, good and sufficient diet and lodging during the naturall life of the sayd Cecely.” Henry Clarke was in fact a Jesuit.

186. Hutchinson, op.cit., pp.3 39-41.

187. Bag C.369(14).

188. Joseph, Hunt&r, op.cit., p.147.Google Scholar

189. Evidence gleaned from E178/6195 (see n.195 below) and Bag C. 2113. Weedon is unknown to Foley op.cit. but I suggest he is possibly the same man as John Nelson, vol.5, p.471 and Collectanea.

190. E178/6195, evidence of Thomas Alkin.

191. Bag C.1068.

192. Milward's Diary op.cit., p.XVIII-XIX. The Archbishop was Gilbert Sheldon, born at Ashbourne, Derbyshire, 1598, Archbishop of Canterbury, 1663-77.

193. Bag C369(30).

194. Bag C.2393-97 are the deeds to these properties.

195. E178/6195 is the evidence for the Crown in this case. I hope to write an account of the proceedings in the near future.

196. Post-nuptial Settlement, 12 April 1669, Bag C.2705 and other papers relating to the settlement 1668-9, Bag C.365.

197. Bag C.2110-12 are the deeds of mortgage of Litton to Richard Langhorne, the Society's Treasurer, for security of the loan; Bag C.2113 is the acquittances signed by Henry Heaton.

198. Margaret, Blundell, Cavalier: Letters of William Blundell to his friends. 1933, and Nicholas Blundell's diary and letter book, 1952.Google Scholar

199. Bag C.2706 is Elizabeth's Pre-nuptial Settlement, 26 May, 1671.

200. Wm. Blundell's letter 30 Apr. 1671 in MS Letter Book at Crosby.

201. Proved 9 Dec. 1669, PCC. Coke 164.

202. CCC. pp.88, 90, 2119.

203. Proved 17 Feb. 1692, PCC. 1692 fo.53. He was buried at Whaplode 30 Oct. 1691.

204. Bag C.2643, a schedule of Thomas Eyre's debts.

205. Chamberlayne's Angliae Notitia, 1672.

206. By Letters Patent dated 14th December, 1660 the manor of Slindon was granted to Walter Fowler for 500 years for the purpose of preserving the inheritance to Philip Eyre as son and heir of Katherine, daughter and heir of Philip Kempe, deceased, eldest son of Sir Garrett Kempe, and to Philip's male issue (C66/2941 no.7). Philip died not long after and there was apparently no clause in the grant securing the reversion to other sons of Katherihe. The inheritance did not therefore come to the next son, Rowland Eyre. The nature and purpose of this grant is misunderstood in Victoria County History, Sussex vol.4, pp.234–5.

207. The last two Eyre owners of Hassop were in fact buried at the Chapel at Hassop, but the bodies were subsequently removed: — Francis, called 8th Earl of Newburgh, d.15 Oct, 1852, buried in Hassop Chapel, body afterwards removed to R.C.Church of St. Mary, Moorfields; Dorothy, called Countess of Newburgh in her own right, d.22 Nov. 1853, buried at Hassop Chapel, body afterwards removed to Fetternear, Aberdeenshire.