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The Staffordshire Clergy, 1688–1803

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 September 2015

Marie Rowlands
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The “Staffordshire Clergy” who achieved such unfortunate prominence in the disputes surrounding the Catholic Relief Acts have been alternately condemned as the irresponsible ene1nies of authority and upheld as the victims of those defenders of the Church who “have wrought incalculable mischief” by confusing “heterodoxy with immorality, a misinformed mind with a malicious will”.

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Research Article
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British Catholic History , Volume 9 , Issue 5 , April 1968 , pp. 219 - 241
Copyright
Copyright © Catholic Record Society 1968

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N.B.—I am grateful to His Grace the Archbishop of Birmingham for permission to use material from the Diocesan archives. References to these are given to the numbers in the calendar published in two parts by the National Register of Archives (Historical Manuscripts Commission), which is hereafter abbreviated as B.A.A.

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6. B.A.A. C176, C464, C.787.

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8. Lists at the Presbytery, Brewood.

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10. B.A.A. A.70-74, A.104.

11. B.A.A. C.382x, p. 4.

12. The latest known list presented by the constables in Staffordshire is for 1758, Staffs. R.O. Q/S/Bm 9 & 10.

13. B.A.A. C.110, A.84-6. Coughton Court, Throckmorton papers, Strong Room Box 82, Folder 1. Sedgley Park Archives at Cotton College, S.P. 27.

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15. B.A.A. C.541, C.534, C.504.

16. B.A.A. A.12.

17. B.A.A. A.8.

18. B.A.A. A.768.

19. B.A.A. C.506.

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22. B.A.A. A.77.

23. B.A.A. C.540.

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25. BAA C 470

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28. B.A.A. C.471.

29. B.A.A. C.1226.

30. Staffordshire Catholic History, No. VI, p. 39.

31. B.A.A. A.26a, A.136, A.1251, A.217, A.135

32. B.A.A. A. 139.

33. B.A.A. A.653a, A. 1234b.

34. B.A.A. A.624.

35. B.A.A. A.569, A.621.

36. B.A.A. A.624. Kirk, Biographies of English Catholics (1909), p. 178.

37. B.A.A. R.11.

38. B.A.A. R.14.

39. B.A.A. R.13.

40. B.A.A. R.19.

41. B.A.A. R.20.

42. B.A.A. R.23.

43. B.A.A. R.25.

44. B.A.A. R.26.

45. B.A.A. R.28, R.29, R.30.

46. B.A.A. A.270.

47. B.A.A. A.607, R.35.

48. B.A.A. C.245.

49. B.A.A. C.148, C.164, a paper in Francis Fitter's writing.

50. B.A.A. A.142. A.144, A.147-155.

51. B.A.A. C.1243.

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59. B.A.A. C.961.

60. B.A.A. C.991.

61. B.A.A. C.962.

62. B.A.A. C.961-3, C.001-3.

63. B.A.A. C.1227.

64. B.A.A. C.963.

65. B.A.A. C.969.

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67. B.A.A. C.970.

68. B.A.A. C.975.

69. B.A.A. C.990, C.975, C.986, C.995.

70. B.A.A. C.974, C.986.

71. B.A.A. C.1243.

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74. B.A.A. C.1013.

75. B.A.A. C.1016.

76. B.A.A. C.l011-1057.

77. B.A.A. C.1066-7.

78. B.A.A. C.1073.

79. B.A.A. C.1015.

80. B.A.A. C.1 150.

81. B.A.A. C.1 189.

82. BAA C1185

83. B.A.A. C1148, C.1156. Compare also C.1161, letter of Thomas South-worth but in Joseph Berington's hand. Kirk's views on the meaning of the passage expressed in 1796 differentiated between spiritual powers and ecclesiastical discipline. C.1356. Joseph Berington saw papal power entirely as a matter of powers granted to the Head of the church by the canons of the church. C.1360. In 1798 Joseph Berington declared himself unable to accept the brief Auctorem Fidei then being tendered to French emigré clergy as a test of freedom from Gallican opinions. C. 1509.

84. B.A.A. C.l204. Salvaggio told Kirk in Jonuary 1793 that the Address was disapproved of in Rome. C.1257.

85. B.A.A. C.1225.

86. B.A.A. C.1227, C.1244, C.1258, C.1261, C.1263, C.1267.

87. B.A.A. C.1246.

88. B.A.A. C.1270.

89. B.A.A. C.1243.

90. B.A.A. C1372.

91. B.A.A. C.l356. Thomas Stone retracted before his death.

92. B.A.A. C.1383, C1433.

93. B.A.A. C.1391, C.1392.

94. B.A.A. C.1434. Joseph Berington's name was deleted in proof but eventually appeared.

95. B.A.A. C.1434.

96. B.A.A. C.1415.

97. B.A.A. C.1433.

98. B.A.A. C.1442.

99. B.A.A. C.1437.

100. B.A.A. C.1424.

101. B.A.A. C.1443.

102. B.A.A. C.1445.

103. B.A.A. C.1446.

104. B.A.A. C.1453.

105. B.A.A. C.1459.

106. B.A.A. C.1456.

107. B.A.A. C.1464.

108. B.A.A. C.1468.

109. B.A.A. C.1481.

110. BA.A. C.1482.

111. B.A.A. C.1488-1490, C.1493.

112. B.A.A. C.1386, C.1536-1539. Wolverhampton Chronicle 1797. August.

113. B.A.A. C.1511-1512.

114. B.A.A. C.1549, C.1574. Ward, vol. ii, p. 156.

115. B.A.A. C.1581. Ward, vol. ii. p. 240.

116. B.A.A. C.1593.

117. B.A.A. C.1668.

118. B.A.A. C.1589.

119. B.A.A. C.1602.

120. B.A.A. C.1649.

121. B.A.A. C.1658, C.1662.

122. B.A.A. A.60. Ward, vol. ii, pp. 243-245. B.A.A. C.1663. Edward Eyre wrote from Hathersage in 1802, that he “was glad to hear that the Staffordshire clergy have submitted and wish with all my heart I had done so sooner”. B.A.A. A. 187.

123. Staffordshire Record Office, Whitgreave papers. D.718/2, Carter to Whit-greave, 1798. The three Bishops were: Hornyold, Talbot, Berington.