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The Eyres of Hassop, and Some of Their Connections, from the Test Act to Emancipation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 September 2015

Rosamond Meredith
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A previous study traced the career of Rowland Eyre the cavalier during the Civil War and Commonwealth (Recusant History, vol. 8, no. 1). The present account continues the story from the time of Charles II; the earlier history of the family will not be recapitulated.

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British Catholic History , Volume 9 , Issue 1 , January 1967 , pp. 5 - 52
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Copyright © Catholic Record Society 1967

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44. Prenuptial settlement, 12 Nov. 1706, Bag.C. 2711. (Not the same family as the Stanleys of Bickerstaffe, below).

45. VCH. Lanes., vol. 3, 385n; under her mother's marriage settlement she was entitled to £1500 portion.

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68. Burstall, op. cit., 112. An older daughter died an infant on 14 May 1687 (Ed. Bedingfeld's Obit book). Dates of family deaths and marriages in this chapter are from Bedingfeld's Obit, book and book of weddings (ZSW545/1 and 2) unless otherwise stated.

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74. Foley, vol. 7, 238.

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76. Marwood, 91; information from the original diary of the convent, now St. Augustine's Priory, Ealing, W.5.

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110. PCC. 195 Henchman.

111. Add. MSS 28,228/264.

112. Settlement 21 July 1721, fortune £4500 (Swinburne deeds ZSW11/2).

113. Further details on points at issue in ACM/DD/92 and 93.

114. Add. MSS 28,228/219.

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119. Add. MSS 28,228/280. See also 28,228/252 and 264.

120. Add. MSS 28,228/316.

121. MDA./A365 (Letter from Peter Dunn, 2 Aug. 1720).

122. CP. 43/666/7.

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127. Parish register (in Guildhall Library).

128. CP. 43/666/7. All the beneficiaries under the will were parties to a fine levied in 25 George II (Hassop Evidence Book II).

129. Portuguese Embassy chapel records, CRS. vol. 38, 93. Eleanor Wood, 34 years, is stated to have married William Keetin, son of Benjamin Gerard Keetin, born at Chester, merchant of Dunkirk, 39 years; Robert Suffeld, her brother-in-law, acting for her father. Witnesses John Maire, Robert Suffeld, Teresa Petre (printed Hetre).

130. CRS. vol. 24, 64.

131. Ibid., 66.

132. Nicholas Blundell's Great Diurnal.

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138. CRS. vol. 19, 206.

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140. Bag.C. 363 (and the quotation following).

141. Widow of Richard (who died in the earlier part of 1724) and mother of Anthony. The latter wrote to Baker, 29 Aug. 1724: “You may derect yr. letters either to me or My Mother, as you please. The business Goes under her name att present, I wanting one year of age myselfe.” (Bag.C. 363, which includes a number of notes for discharge of bills by the Wrights, from July 1723-4).

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146. She was Mary, daughter of Henry Wells of Bambridge, Hants. She died at Warkworth, which suggests she and her husband (whose father Sir Charles Browne was still living) probably lived at Warkworth. See Baker's, G. County of Northampton, 1822, vol. 2, 741 Google Scholar (Holman-Eyre pedigree). William Hol-man's will (PCC. 296 Browne) relates to his personal estate only.

147. Registrations of papists’ estates, Northampton CRO.

148. Baker, op. cit., vol. 2, 740.Google Scholar Baker appears to have seen the Eyre deeds to the Warkworth estate, not now available. The price was £15,656.16s. From later enrolled deeds (KB 122/269 (24 and 25)) it appears that the trustees of the settlement were the same persons as those appointed under his will.

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151. MDA.C506.

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156. These until recently belonged to Sir H. G. M. Dashwood, Bart. They were used by Mr. Robson in the work cited; this is concerned primarily with the election and it is unlikely that he would have noticed Thomas Eyre's name, as he was dead several years before that date.

157. Sheet, Somerscales and Widdrington, by a Connection of the same, 1906, 115-117.

158. 9 July, 1737, enrolled KB 122/165, r.65.

159. Will, PCC Collier E209; 7th Douai Diary, CRS.28, 112-48.

160. Wills of Henry Francis Widdrington and William Tempest Widdrington, Skeet, Somerscales and Widdrington, 118-121.

161. The Hassop Library, left for religious purposes by the will of Thomas Eyre (d. 1792) and now at Tollerton Hall, Notts.

162. Burke's Peerage: Newburgh; R. Arnold, Northern Lights, 202-3; KB. 122/269 (24 and 25).

163. ZTR XVI(1).

164. Rate books in Westminster Public Library. 1746: “Thomas Ayer Esq.”, written against “Maj. Gen. Sir John Cope” (the previous occupant).

165. Quotation from will of Hon. Bernard Howard, dated 27 Jan. 1712/13. PCC. 233 Whitfield. The burial registers, now in the Record Office of the Greater London Council, contain many Roman Catholic names from about that date. See also Cansick, F. T., A collection of … epitaphs … of St. Paneras, Middlesex, 2 vols., 1869–72.Google Scholar

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167. Married 1 June, 1750 (CRS. vol. 19, 196).

168. Will, PCC. 104 Lisle.

169. The Letters of Horace Walpole, ed. Toynbee, Mrs. P., vol. 3, 181.Google Scholar

170. MDA/C595, August 1754.

171. MI. at Warkworth, Baker, G., op. cit., vol. 2, 745.Google Scholar Enrolled will KB122/ 290/130.

172. “Durham recusants’ estates”. Surtees Soc. vol. 173, 53.

173. “Records of Invercauld: Monaltrie papers”, New Spalding Club, 1901; “The prisoners of the ′45”, Scottish Historical Society, 1929, vol. 2, 182;Google Scholar Burke's Landed Gentry, 1952 under Farquharson of Invercauld. The Farquharson sources give Elizabeth Eyre's Christian name and father's name incorrectly.