Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 September 2015
In the reign of Elizabeth I we find Christopher Maire of the family of Maire or Meire in Cheshire married to a Moresby of Cumberland and living in the city of Durham. In 1572 he bought the manor of Hutton in the parish of Monkhesledon of William Wyvell of Patrick Brompton in Yorkshire; some years later he made the further purchase, from Robert Aske, of Hardwick-by-the-Sea, in the same parish.
1. Surtees, R., Durham, vol. 1, pp. 59, 52.Google Scholar
2. Letter of Rev. John Yaxley dated 17 July 1707, quoted in Challoner, Memoirs of Missionary Priests, 1924 ed., p. 600.
3. Wife of John Hall of Framwellgate, Durham.
4. “Chronicon Mirabile” (Extracts from Parish Registers) 1841, pp. 10-11 & f.n.
5. Ibid.
6. C.R.S. vol. 53, p. 51.
7. Recusants Roll E.377/9 It.Adh.It.(2)Ebor.
8. E.377/7 Res.Ebor.
9. Ibid., It.Adh.It.Res.Ebor.
10. E.377/17 It.Adh.It.(3)Ebor.
11. E.377/9 It.Adh.It.(3)Ebor.
12. E.377/12.
13. E.377/17 Res.Ebor.
14. Pells Receipts E.401/—.
15. E.377/13 It.Adh.Res.Ebor.
16. E.377/16 It.Adh.Res.Ebor.
17. E. 135/12/8 (K.R.Exch.).
18. E.377/17 Res.Ebor.
19. E.377/35.
20. C.R.S.53, p. 338.
21. L.R. 7/87.
22. E.377/43 Adh.lt.Ebor.
23. Surtees Society, vol. III, p. 282.
24. Par. Reg. Hesleden.
25. Foster, Visitations of Durham.
26. Ibid., p. 82, & Par. Reg. of Romualkirk, which records her birth. 29 Oct. 1705
27. E.377/68 It.Adh.It.(4)Res.Dunelm.
28. Sharp MSS. 110.
29. Surt. Soc, vol. 173, pp. 148-50.
30. Obit Book Durham.
31. Knox, Douai Diaries, p. 49.
32. C.R.S. vol. 26.
33. Suri. Soc, vol. 173, p. 156.
34. C.R.S. vol. 12 (O.B. Obituaries).
35. E.377/68 Adh.Res.Dunelm & It.Adh.It.(4)Res.Dunelm.
36. Sharp MSS. 79 & 110.
37. E.377/36 It.Ebor.
38. Surt. Soc., vol. 135, p. 142.
39. Ibid., vol. Ill, pp. 57, 67.
40. Ibid., vol. 47, Appendix.
41. E.377/68 Adh.Res.Dunelm.
42. Sharp MSS. 79.
43. Ibid
44. E.377/68 It.Adh.It.(4)Res.Dunelm.
45. Estcourt & Payne, English Catholic Nonjurors of 1715, p. 330.
46. Surt. Soc, vol. 173, pp. 150-1.
47. Salvin MSS. D/SA/F26, Durham Ree. Off.
48. Foley, Records S.J., vol. 5, p. 652.Google Scholar
49. Hexham & Newcastle Diocesan Archives.
50. C.R.S. vol. 28, p. 39.
51. Surt. Soc, vol. 173, p. 155.
52. C.R.S., op. cit., pp. 39, 94.
53. Knox, op. cit., p. 59.
54. Kirk, Biographies of English Catholics, p. 155.
55. Annals of the English Benedictines of Ghent, p. 199.
56. Ibid., p. 82, & par. reg. of Romualkirk, which records her birth, 29 Oct. 1705 & burial, 11 Oct. 1794.
57. C.R.S. 53, p. 51.
58. E.377/9 It. Adh.It.(2)Ebor & It.Adh.It.(3)Ebor.
59. E.377/12 Dunelm.
60. E.377/16 It.Adh.Res.Ebor.
61. E.135/12/8.
62. E.377/18 Adh.Res.Ebor. & E.377/17 It.Adh.It.(5)Ebor.
63. E.377/17 It. Adh.It.(4)Ebor.
64. E.377/41 Ebor.
65. E.377/48 Ebor.
66. E.377/16 Adh.Res.Ebor.
67. Surt. Soc, vol. III, p. 281.
68. E.377/68 Adh.Res.Dunelm.
69. E.377/71 It.Dunelm.
70. E.377/68 It.Adh.It.(2)Res.Dunelm.
71. Sharp MSS. 79 & E.377/68 It.Adh.It.(4)Res.Dunelm.
72. Dept. of Palaeography & Diplomatic, Box 108, Durham Univ.
73. E.377/68 It.Adh.Res.Dunelm.
74. E.377/68 lt.Adh.It.(2)Res.Dunelm. & Sharp MSS. 79.
75. Sharp MSS. 79, 110.
76. Surt. Soc 173, pp. 140-43.
77. Ibid., pp. 145-47.
78. Ibid., p. 143 f.n.
79. Hexham & Newcastle Dioc. Arch.
80. For all these Jesuit Maires, see Foley, op. cit., pp. 653 if.
81. Knox, op. cit., p. 56.
82. C.R.S. 28, p. 141.
83. H. & N. Dioc. Arch.
84. “I think Mr. Maire had better retire for a quarter of a year, till the bustle is over. I should be sorry to loose him from Gateshead entirely”. (Letter of Rev. Robt. Carnaby to Thos. Gibson, 2 Sept. 1736.) (Ushaw MSS.).
85. Knox, op. cit., p. 61.
86. Kirk, op. cit., p. 155.
87. Register of the Poor Clares of Dunkirk (Ushaw MSS.).
88. Surt. Soc 111, p. 281.
89. C.R.S. 6, p. 174.
90. Return of Papists 1767 (House of Lords MSS.).