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A Leicestershire Recusant Family: The Nevills of Nevill Holt – I

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2016

Bernard Elliott
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At the Reformation, three possibilities faced English Catholics. They could continue to be Catholics and so suffer the penalties of the penal laws; they could conform to the Church of England; or they could adopt a middle course and become Church Papists. The Nevills of Nevill Holt, near Market Harborough in Leicestershire, went through all three phases. In the reign of Edward VI, Thomas Nevill I became a Protestant. His grandson, Thomas Nevill II, became a Church Papist under James I; and Thomas II’s son, Henry Nevill I, continued to be one at the time of the Civil War. But Henry l’s son William was definitely a Catholic and went into exile with King James II, while William’s son, Henry Nevill II, was an open Catholic under Charles II. Henry Nevill II’s descendants continued to be Catholics throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries until they left Nevill Holt in the late nineteenth century.

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British Catholic History , Volume 17 , Issue 2 , October 1984 , pp. 173 - 180
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Copyright © Catholic Record Society 1984

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Notes

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27 L.R.O. Box 2012.

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46 Ibid.

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49 L.R.O. Box 2015.

50 L.R.O. FH/GN/1.

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82 P.R.O. E.376/56.

83 Ibid.

84 L.R.O. Presentment Books, Q.S. 7/2.

85 L.R.O. Medbourne-cum-Holt parish register,

86 C.R.S. 1, p. 137; cf C.R.S. 6, pp. 100–101; L.R.O. Box 2497.

87 L.R.O. Box 2497 (will of Henry Nevill II).

88 L.R.O. Box 2250: articles of agreement between Baldwin Conyers and Margaret Nevill. Cf Nichols, p. 718.

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91 L.R.O. Box 2143.

92 L.R.O. Medbourne-cum-Holt parish register.

93 Ibid.

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95 L.R.O. Box 2014.

96 L.R.O. Medbourne-cum-Holt parish register.

97 L.R.O. Box 2497.

98 V.C.H. 5, p. 242.

99 L.R.O. EM/1.

100 Medbourne-cum-Holt parish register.

101 L.R.O. Box 2497 (Henry Nevill’s will).