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Yorkshire Notes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 September 2015

Hugh Aveling
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The following discoveries in MS sources in Yorkshire cast a little light on the More family circle and their connections.

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Research Article
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British Catholic History , Volume 6 , Issue 5 , April 1962 , pp. 238 - 246
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Copyright © Catholic Record Society 1962

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References

1. The English Works of Sir Thomas More ed Campbell & Reed. I/i-xii; DNB.

2. Athenae Oxonienses A. Wood. (ed. Bliss. 1813) i/337; see STC under Paynell, Thos.

3. Borthwick Institute, York. H.C. Act Bk 1561-4 ff. 90, 91v., 98.

4. Surtees Soc. 121/24-5 (P.C.C. Stevenson/7); Owen Oglethorpe, Bishop of Carlisle also made William Rastell a supervisor of his will, Nov. 1559. (ibid./21)

5. Aveling. Post-Ref. Catholicism in E. Yks. passim.

6. History & Antiquities of Holderness G. Poulson (1840) i/262-3; 383-4; Visitations of Yorks. 1584 & 1612. ed. J. Foster; P. C. C. Welles. 39 transcribed indifferently in Surtees Soc. 121/8-9 — ‘Sir Richard Tressham’ there is a misreading of ‘Gresham’—see the Yorks. will, Test. Ebor. 18/f.2 (Borthwick Inst., York); Leveson-Gower. Genealogy of the Gresham Family p. 72. Sir Richard Gresham's will— ‘to percyvall Cresswell for his annuytie there by yere v li.’

7. Poulson op. cit. pp. 383ff.

8. Test. Ebor. 25/f.1222; Aveling op. cit.

9. Letters & Memorials of Cardinal Allen ed. T. F. Knox p. 163, where Allen writes to Fr. Agazzari SJ Sept 17 1582 ‘… patrem Lasum . . senem . . qui habuerat ante in matrimonium Cresvelli vestri ac nostri matrem …’; Foley Records SJ. Collectanea i/181-2 on Joseph and Arthur Creswell SI; Yk High Commission Act Bk 1572-4 f.13 (Borthwick Inst., York).

10. Cath. Record Soc. 37/26.

11. Information on Edward More from Mgr. D. Shanahan; Borthwick Institute, York Yk High Comm. Act Bk 1564-6 ff. 94, 98v., 108; Act Bk. 1566-8 ff. 31, 102, 106v.; Cause Papers. R. VII. G. 1290 (Edward Salven's Information); ibid. R.I As. 20154 consists of a large bundle of other papers of Edward More v. Robert Salven 1566-7, which I have not yet examined; Visitation Court Bk R.V1.A/2 Oct 1 1567 on Robt Salven as chaplain to Lord Derby. It is unlikely that the book in Edward More's possession consisted of his grandfather, St. Thomas More's writings (though some of these latter were, a few years before, used by Robert Parkyn, incumbent of Ardwick-le-Street, not far from Barn burgh —see A. G. Dickens. Lollards & Protestants in the diocese of York passim). It Tvas more likely to be an astrological work. In view of the later charges against More of spreading ‘prognostications,’ and the date—shortly before the 1569 rising—More must have been the writer of one of those politico-religious prophecies circulating in Yorkshire at that date and kept long afterwards. See Yk High Comm. Act Bk 1568-9 ff.42v., 44, 44v. and P.R.O. SP.15/28c. a series of doggerel ballads and Catholic prophecies of the 1569 period, found in 1583.

12. High Comm. Act Bk 1569-70 ff. 175, 176v., 178, 182v., 208v., 226-226v., 227, 227v., 228-229v.;

13. Yk Chancery Court Act Bk 1574-9 f.129.

14. High Comm. Act Bk 1580-5 ff.27v., 32.

15. ibid. ff. 3 3v., 40v. (there does not seem to be any surviving record here that Edward appeared between Oct 3rd & Nov 14th), 63v., 64, 64v. Hudson Papers (Borthwick) R H/5 f.1 (1580 presentments—there seems to be no record that Thomas More and family were actually summoned to the High Commission as a result of this presentment.)

16. Hogarth MSS, Leeds Diocesan Archives.

17. ibid. Hogarth's Account p. 93.

18. ibid. Extracts from Various Account Bks. ij 300-1.

19. ibid. Thus ‘Ignatians’—priests trained in the English College, Rome—were suspected; opponents of the Chapter existed among the clergy and several of these would not join the society of 1672.

20. Borthwick Institute, York. Cause Papers. R.VII. HI 1612.

21. Hatfield House. Cecil Papers 139161-3 ; see Fr. Pollen on The Archpriest Controversy in the Month, June 1912; CRS 51/206ff. The northern sodality is mentioned in Sept 1597 by Fr. Garnet SJ as ‘clean dashed’ (CRS 51/207ff.) There is a suggestion that the rules were drawn up originally in gaol at Hull— by Bagshaw in Camden Soc. The Archpriest Controversy ed. Law i/226ff. A letter from Fr. Richard Holtby SJ of June 1601 to a lady (? Lady Babthorpe at Osgodby, where both Holtby and Mush had served as chaplains) says that her friend Mush was ‘the principall deviser in the North cuntries’ of the sodality—ibid. i/176ff.

22. Yk. High. Comm. Bk. 1612-25, f.27v.