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An Eighteenth Century Chaplain: John Champion at Sawston Hall

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2016

T.G. Holt
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John Champion, a Jesuit, was at Sawston Hall near Cambridge, the home of the Huddleston family, from 1730 or earlier until his death in 1776. It is possible from a study of the Huddleston papers deposited in the Cambridgeshire Record Office and of other contemporary documents to discover something of his life as a family chaplain—a life that was probably typical of the lives of other priests of the time.

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Research Article
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British Catholic History , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , October 1984 , pp. 181 - 187
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Copyright © Catholic Record Society 1984

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References

Notes

1 HADA, f. 50v; Province Accounts, 1729–65 (AEPSJ), p. 244; Accounts, 1730–38 (AEPSJ), 11 November 1730; C.R.S. 70.

2 V.C.H. Cambridge & the Isle of Ely 6, p. 261.

3 Teversham, pp. 135, 138–9, Mary Huddleston, young Richard’s mother, died in 1729.

4 Huddleston EEE. 449, 450; J.9; SS.464, 466, 472; EEE.440; SS.467.

5 Huddleston FFF. 10.

6 Huddleston 4.

7 Stonyhurst MSS D.I. 15 (Letter book of the London procurator of St, Omers College), 4 April 1747; 1 January 1746/7; 16 February 1746/7.

8 C.R.S. 27, p. 104; Recusant History 15, p. 184.

9 Huddleston JJ.9; XXX.27; JJ. 10.

10 Huddleston BBB.10.

11 Huddleston J.9; Gentleman’S Magazine 85, Part 2, p. 226, quoting Sawston parish register.

12 Huddleston PPP.12.

13 Huddleston EE.10, 37; K.13 (Timothy’s letters). John’s letters are numerous, and there are others concerning him in the Huddleston papers.

14 Huddleston QQQ.14. The two children then were Richard and Henry (or possibly Mary). There were five in all—another son, Edward, and another daughter, Jane.

15 Huddleston OOO.16; Galloway letters (AEPSJ), n. 54. Crandon or Crondon Park was a house of the Petres in the parish of Stock, Essex, long tenanted by the Mason family.

16 Huddleston EEEE.7.

17 V.C.H. Cambridge & the Isle of Ely 6, p. 260; Sawston Hall Official Guide; Michael Hodgetts, ‘A House with Three Priest-Holes’, Country Life, 22 March 1962, pp. 662–3.

18 Huddleston OOO. 16; Province Accounts, 1729–65 (AEPSJ), 396.

19 Province Accounts, 1729–65, 92.

20 Ibid.

21 Stonyhurst MSS D.I. 15, 30 May 1747.

22 Huddleston, no reference.

23 Teversham, pp. 228–231, and his letter of 21 January 1955 in AEPSJ 21/5/4/6. Cole was also in touch with another Jesuit antiquary, Thomas West: Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Soc. Trans. 79, pp. 135–6.

24 HADA 1741–.

25 HADA, ff. 73v, 74v, 78v.

26 HADA, ff. 5Ov ff; Province Accounts, 1751–93, 159–62; Province Accounts, 1729–65, 244–5, 251, 255–6, 393, 396–7; Province Accounts, 1728–65, 92; Province Accounts, 1730–38, November 1730, January—February 1730/1.

27 Huddleston EEE.450, 449; SS.464; JJ.9; XXX.27; GG.301; Galloway letters, 56, 143, 54.

28 Huddleston GG.301.

29 Ibid.

30 Huddleston OOO.15, 25, 16; Galloway letters, 25, 74, 76.

31 Huddleston SSS.2. About this time Edward Galloway sent Fr. Champion a present of wine: a dozen of mountain and a dozen of red port: M.13.

32 Huddleston WW.11: Mary Bostock to Galloway, 13 May 1774.

33 Galloway letters, 120: J. Dennet to Galloway, 4 May 1775.

34 Huddleston RRR.8.

35 Gentleman’s Magazine 85, Part 2, p. 121; letter from T. F. Teversham bound in Galloway letters, 3v and 5. Fr. Champion’s bill from his apothecary from October 1775 to January 1776 is in Huddleston RR.70.

36 Quoted in Kirk, Biographies of English Catholics (1909), p. 43.

37 Huddleston K.21; BBB.16; R.8; BBB.15; J.14; Teversham, p. 234. Galloway left £100 to his godson’s father and £1,000 to the Academy at Liège, the continuation of the English Jesuit College at St. Omers and Bruges (AEPSJ, Letters, 1773–1804, f. 55v).

38 Estcourt, and Payne, , English Catholic Nonjurors of 1715, p. 176.Google Scholar

39 Letter bound in Galloway letters, 5.