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The Catholic Recusancy of the Yorkshire Fairfaxes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 September 2015

Hugh Aveling
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The Fairfaxes were a definitely Catholic family from 1636 and it is difficult to think that they had no chaplain in the 1630's and 1640's. The considerable donation by Abigail, wife of the 5th Viscount to the funds of the Northern District may indicate that the first chaplains were secular priests. It may also be significant that the first Fairfaxes to go abroad to school went to St. Omer (apparently) and Douai and none to St. Gregory's Douai, before the 1670's. The 2nd Viscount and his wife made no gifts to Benedictines. In 1690 Charles Fairfax of York was trustee of many secular clergy funds. (Leeds Dioc. MSS Hogarth MS.) The extant Yorkshire secular clergy records seem to contain, however, no evidence of a regular secular Gilling or Walton mission or fund.

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Research Article
Information
British Catholic History , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , April 1961 , pp. 95 - 111
Copyright
Copyright © Catholic Record Society 1961

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