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The Yates Of Harvington 1631–1696

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Michael Hodgetts
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This paper is a sequel to ‘The Pakingtons of Harvington’ by Lionel and Veronica Anderton Webster, which was published in Recusant History in April 1974. There they only had room to discuss in detail the century between the purchase of Chaddesley Corbett and Harvington by Sir John Pakington in 1529 and the death in 1631 of his great-nephew Humphrey III, who had built the Elizabethan Hall with its remarkable priest-holes and wall-paintings. In continuing the story I have had invaluable help from the Websters’ genealogical and legal notes, which Veronica passed on to me in the summer of 1991, the year before her death; but their references have been checked, a great deal has been added, and the structure, the inferences and any errors are mine. The paper therefore appears under my name with these acknowledgements, rather than as a joint publication. I hope that in due course the trilogy can be completed by another paper on The Throckmortons of Harvington, 1696–1923’.

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British Catholic History , Volume 22 , Issue 2 , October 1994 , pp. 152 - 181
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1 Recusant History, 12, (1973–4), pp. 203–215.

2 Country Life, 18 August 1944, pp. 288–291; Hodgetts, ‘Elizabethan Priest-Holes IV—Harvington’, Recusant History, 13, (1975–6), pp. 18–55;Google Scholar Hodgetts, Secret Hiding-Places (Dublin, 1989), pp. 82–99.Google Scholar

3 Humphrey's first recorded marriage, to Bridget Norreys (Kingsmill) was in 1601, when he was forty-six: Recusant History, 12, p. 208.

4 St. Helen's R.O., Worcester, 899:169 BA 1546.

5 St. Helen's R.O., Worcester, 899:115 (1–9); there is a set of photocopies in Birmingham Reference Library (623584).

6 A single volume for mixed entries, 1538–1727, at Chaddesley church. There is a microfilm of it in St. Helen's R.O. (X 988.22) and an indexed transcript, made in 1897, also at Chaddesley church. Refs. to it will be given simply by date in the text.

7 C. 142/486/113.

8 Anstruther 2, p. 173.

9 Will of Humphrey Pakington I (P.C.C. 22 Ketchyn). Wilderhope Manor now belongs to the National Trust; cf Pevsner, Buildings of England: Shropshire (1958), pp. 29, 207 229, 307, 319.

10 Pullen, Part I, no. 586.

11 Pullen, Part II, no. 1097.

12 Pullen, Bible Collections, no. 1075B.

13 Humphrey Pakington was a ‘deare frynd’ of Thomas Habington of Hindlip (Habington, Survey of Worcs., ed Amphlett, John, Worcs. Hist. Soc., 1897, I, pp. 149, 263–4, 382).Google Scholar Both Anne Vaux and Eleanor Brooksby were with Garnet at Coughton in November 1605: SP 14/216/ii, nos. 121, 153, printed by Hodgetts in Worcs. Rec. 47 (June 1986), pp. 27, 30; cf Nicholas Owen's confession in Foley 4, p. 259. Anne Vaux, on her own admission, was at Hindlip with her servant Robert Marshall during the search: Anstruther, Vaux of Harrowden (1951), p. 354. But Eleanor was not, and the government could not find her afterwards, although they were anxious to: Vaux, pp. 343–4, 348, 349. ‘After the execution of Garnet, Anne Vaux remained a prisoner in the Tower and Eleanor lay hid so secretly that her whereabouts has never come to light’; Vaux, p. 382. Do these ownership marks suggest an answer?

14 Vaux, pp. 388–9.

15 Humphrey's inquisition post mortem (C. 142/486/113).

16 C. 142/486/113; Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, Coughton Deeds 1 (dated 22 May 1630).

17 There is a portrait of Humphrey in the Little Drawing Room at Coughton, but this is thirty years earlier, being dated 1599. There is a portrait of his first wife Bridget (cf n. 3 above) at Mallow Castle, Co. Cork, the home of the Jephsons, her descendants through her daughter Elizabeth Norreys, who married Sir John Jephson at Chaddesley on 12 December 1605.

18 Reade, p. 128.

19 Mabbitt, pp. 5–6.

20 She is only mentioned on Sir Henry's monument: Mabbitt, p. 7 and Plate IV opp. p. 8.

21 V.C.H. Berks. 4, p. 290.

22 Ibidem, pp. 453, 458; Ashmole 852/1, f. 200; 852/11, f. 58b.

23 Ashmole 851, ff. 77, 97; 852/1, ff, 200, 202; 852/11, f. 58b. Cf C.R.S. 13, p. 130; C.R.S. 2, pp. 225, 230, 235. See also the monuments of the Yates of Buckland in Buckland church and those of the Yates of Lyford in West Hanney church.

24 Foley, 1, pp. 284–295.

25 C.R.S., 13, p. 130; Ashmole, 8521, f. 200 (‘a Nunne at Sion’).

26 S.P. 12/229/78; cf Recusant History, 16 (1982–3), pp. 149–150, and Hodgetts, Secret Hiding-Places (1989), pp. 65–70.

27 C.R.S., 37, no. 392; C.R.S. 54, no. 392.

28 Anstruther 1, p. 10; S.P. 12/243/76, f. 242, published in Worcs. Rec. 6 (December 1965), p. 10.

29 Anstruther 2, pp. 100–1, 166, 247, 274.

30 Jeaffreson, J. C. ed., Middlesecx County Records 3 (1888), p. 45.Google Scholar

31 Essex Q.S.R. 279/25.

32 There is a typical recusant chapel in the roof of the Castle: Re cusant History 16(1982–3), p. 188, no. 121.

33 Essex Q.S.R. 252/39, 44.

34 C.S.P.D. 1638–9, p. 222 (S.P. 16/406/121); cf C.S.P.D. 1634–5, p. 597 (S.P. 16/285/37), and C.S.P.D. 1639, p. 428 (S.P. 16/426/86).

35 C.S.P.D. 1640, p. 342 (S.P. 16/458/13).

36 St. Helen's R.O., Worcester, 899:115/3, 1.

37 Parkinson, John, Paradisi in Sole Paradisus Terrestris (1629: facsimile ed. Mathuen, 1904), p. 213:Google Scholar ‘The first thin cut leafed Anemone came first out of Italy, although many of that sort have come likewise from Constantinople. And so have the double red or Scarlet Anemones, and the greater double blush, which I first had by the gift of Mr. Humfrey Packington of Worcestershire Esquire, at Harvington’.

38 The four endorsements are in four different hands and the last is upside down. In the original spelling the third runs: ‘in quere for one mr. crismase stone cotter in mor felde whom sele gotte to paiv flouer in the prise’.

39 Mabbitt p. 5.

40 The Celys owned Lattelhaies or Lillehaies in Rettenden, South Hanningfield: Morant, History and Antiquities of Essex 2 (1748), pp. 41, 495.Google Scholar Fremland, the home of Sir Ken Sulyard, was where Garnet kept Corpus Christi 1605 ‘with great solemnity and music’ and a procession round the great garden; that July he was there again, with Catesby, Tresham and Mounteagle: Anstruther, Vaux, p. 276; Caraman, Henry Garnet (1964), pp. 320 and n. 1, 322, 380 n. 1; Williamson, Hugh Ross, The Gunpowder Plot ( 1951), p. 68.Google Scholar In 1601 a list of excommmunicated recusants in Norwich diocese (C.R.S. 60, pp. 102–3) includes Thomas and Bridget Silliard of Grundisburgh; Alice, wife of Richard Martyn of Long Melford; and Margaret, wife of John Danyell of Acton. All these places are in Suffolk; for a link between the Audleys, the Martyns and the Daniels see below, p. 160, and nn. 52, 53.

41 Francis Holte occurs in the Recusant Rolls for Middlesex from 1613–14 to 1624–25: LaRocca, Jacobean Recusant Rolls: Middlesex (C.R.S. 76, forthcoming). For his Franciscan daughters Mary (1604–23), Catherine (1605–72) and Margaret (1608–54) see C.R.S., 24, pp. 7, 11, 177, 185, 241, 245. A fourth daughter, Clare, died as a twelve-year-old pupil at the convent in Brussels in 1625: ibidem, pp. 14, 177, 241. The convent moved to Nieuport in 1637 and to Bruges in 1663: ibidem, p. v.

42 See n. 64 below and the Ferrers pedigree in Palmer, C. F., The History of the Town and Castle of Tamworth (1845).Google Scholar

43 LaRocca, as in n. 41; Warwks. Visitation, 1619 (Harl. Soc. 12), p. 19; Onslow, Francis Agnes, ‘Borne in Worcestershire’, Worcs. Rec. 18 (December 1971), pp. 2–3.Google Scholar

44 Either Barton in Nottinghamshire, owned by the Sacheverells, or Great Barton (Barton Benchurch) in Suffolk, owned by the Audleys (Reade, p. 107).

45 Journals of the House of Commons, Vol. 11 (1640–42), p. 811 [London, 1742].

46 Reade, pp. 110–111.

47 Mabbitt, p. 7; Reade, p. 137.

48 Ashmole 851, f. 77.

49 Calendar of Cmtee for Compounding 2, pp. 901–2.

50 St. Helen's R.O., Worcester, 899:115/2.

51 Latin and Spanish text in C.R.S., 1, (1905), pp. 117–122; translation in Worcs. Rec. 53 (July 1989), pp. 4–16.

52 Ibidem. For the Martyns cf. Haigh, Christopher, English Reformations (1994), pp. 1–12.Google Scholar

53 Reade, p. 110. Anne Daniel was born on 7 June 1629: C.R.S., 1, p. 119; Worcs. Rec, 53, p. 11.

54 S.P. 28/188: see Gilbert, C. D., ‘The Catholics in Worcestershire, 1642–1651’, Recusant History, 20, (1990–1), pp. 336–357,CrossRefGoogle Scholar esp. p. 339.

55 Rushall Hall, 1½ miles NE of Walsall, was garrisoned for Parliament in 1643, captured later that year by Prince Rupert and then held for the King by Col. John Lane, who in 1651 sheltered Charles II at Bentley Hall near by. In May 1644 it was recaptured for Parliament by the Earl of Denbigh and it seems to have been slighted in the summer of 1646. Willmore, Frederic, History of Walsall, (1887) pp. 303, 307–8, 317, 333.Google Scholar

56 Calendar of Cmtee for Compounding 4, p. 2833.

57 Anstruther 2, pp. 205–6.

58 P.R.O., PROB 6/29/295 LH; Index Library 68, Admons. 1649–54, p. 232.

59 Anstruther 2, p. 206.

60 Willis Bund, J. W. ed., The Diary of Henry Townshend of Elmley Lovett, 1640–1663 (Worcs. Hist. Soc., 1920), 1, p. 197.Google Scholar

61 Brownlow, ‘History’, p. 105.

62 Brownlow, ‘Memoir’.

63 Ibidem. This window is at the courtyard end of the Nine Worthies Passage.

64 By his wife Joan Bradbourne, Henry Sacheverell (1547–1620) had three sons, Jacinth (1577–1656), Jonathan (1584–1662) and Victorian (d. 1635), and three daughters, Omphale, Abigail (Pakington) and Jane. By his mistress Elizabeth Keyes, sister of the Gunpowder Plotter Robert Keyes, he had at least three illegitimate sons, Ferdinand (d. 1629), Manfred (1603–26) and Valence (1604–), possibly a fourth, William, and a daughter, Frances. Victorian died ‘in Worcestershire’, which may mean at Harvington or at Areley Kings, five miles SSW of Harvington, the home of his half-sister Frances (Mucklow). There are Sacheverell pedigrees in the Warwickshire Visitation of 1619 (Harl. Soc. 12, pp. 390–3); in Daniel and Lysons, Samuel, Magna Britannia 5 (1817), pp. cxliii–cxliv,Google Scholar 212–213; in Thoroton, Robert, The Antiquities of Nottinghamshire (ed. Throsby, John, 1790) 1, pp. 27, 98;Google Scholar and in Nichols, John, History and Antiquities of the County of Leicester (1794–1811) 3, pp. 220, 394–5, 509.Google Scholar Transcripts of the Sacheverell monuments at Morley (Derbys.) and Ratby (Leics.) are in Nichols 3, pp. 1139–40, and 4, pp. 883–4. See also V.C.H. Warwks. 4, pp. 231–3, 239–40, for New Hall, Sutton Coldfield, which was inherited by Valence, was later a Jesuit chaplaincy and is now a hotel, retaining its magnificently panelled Great Chamber.

65 St. Helen's R.O., Worcester, 899:115/8, printed in Birmingham Arch. Soc. Trans. 63 (1939–40), p. 91.

66 P.C.C. 347 Ruthen.

67 Throckmorton, Muniment Room, Box 57.

68 Ashmole, 851, f. 77 (signed by Sir Charles Yate).

69 Aveling, ‘Yorkshire Fairfaxes:’ II’, Recusant History, 4 (1957–8), pp. 81–93.

70 Gilling parish register (given as a birth, not a baptism).

71 ‘I am glad your litle iuells are all well and doubte but that their pretty company afordes you much content’: Throckmorton, Tribune Chest of Drawers, Folder 47, no. 24.

72 C.R.S. 9, p. 373.

73 Gilling parish register, 16 June 1677 (‘ut fertur’).

74 C.R.S., 9, p. 373; Aveling to Lionel Webster, 2 March 1955.

75 Longford parish register.

76 Estcourt, E. E. and Payne, J. O., English Catholic Nonjurors of 1715 (1885), pp. 226 Google Scholar &c, for which see the index.

77 Pevsner, Buildings of England: Shropshire (1958), p. 172.

78 Estcourt & Payne, Nonjurors, pp. 177, 214.

79 B.A.A.., R.853.

80 They are now in the passage-way beneath the tribune of the Saloon (formerly the chapel). The heraldry and the style of the carving dates them to Lady Yate's time; their original location is given by Brownlow, ‘Memoir’, in his account of the ‘great state room or saloon’: ‘Its chimneypiece… was a magnificent display of richly tinctured coats of arms and delicately carved crests, those of the Yate family particularly’. In his ‘History’, p. 80, he adds that the coats of arms were ‘within a beautiful border richly decorated with carved tracery in high relief with crests, foliage and flowers’. The cartouches are similar to those of the Audleys illustrated in Mabbitt and were perhaps in emulation of them.

81 Bede Camm, O.S.B., Forgotten Shrines (1910, 1936), pp. 253–80;Google Scholar reasserted, rather unconvincingly, in Camm, Life, pp. 18–21.

82 Recusant History, 8, (1965–6), pp. 123–132 (= Hodgetts, ‘Wall?’).

83 Throckmorton, Muniment Room, Box 86, no. 22, printed in Hodgetts, ‘Wall?’, pp. 123–4.

84 Hope, Anne, The Franciscans in England (1878), p. 234,Google Scholar in Hodgetts, ‘Wall?’, p. 127.

85 Brownlow, ‘History’, pp. 106–7; ‘Genealogy’ 3, p. 61. Both are printed in Hodgetts, ‘Wall?’, p. 125. Camm, Life, pp. 20–21, quotes only the second passage—an unfortunate omission, as ‘most likely’ in the first one indicates that Brownlow was putting forward a conjecture.

86 Hodgetts, ‘Wall?’, p. 130.

87 Gunn, H. S., History of the Old Manor House of Wood Bevington [1911], who on pp. v–xvi Google Scholar prints a detailed inventory of the house taken in 1578 at the death of Edward Ferrers. Holiday makers can rent either half of the Manor House through Heart of England Cottages.

88 Dugdale, Warwickshire (1656), p. 635. Wall's alias of Webb (the one invariably used by the Honorer) may have been prompted by the marriage of Ferrers Randolph's cousin, Thomas Randolph of Codington in Oxfordshire, to Anne Webb of Burford: Warwks. Visitation, 1619 (Harl. Soc. 12), p. 303. But there is also a reference to ‘my cousin Webs’ in a letter from Abigail Fairfax to her sister Apollonia Yate: Throckmorton, Tribune Chest of Drawers, Folder 47, no. 21.

89 This passage is only summarised in Camm, Life, p. 13. The Friars Minor were unable to supply a photocopy of the Honorer's text at this point because of an interregnum between archivists.

90 Denis McEvilly, J., ‘Fr. Anthony Parkinson's “State of the Province”, 1716 (Warwickshire and Worcestershire)’, Worcs. Rec. 22 (December 1973), pp. 16–18.Google Scholar

91 Thaddeus, The Franciscans in England (1884), p. 273.

92 B.A.A., C.88. The Worcestershire entries were published by Denis McEvilly, J. in Worcs. Rec. 13 (June 1969), pp. 10–19,Google Scholar and 15 (June 1970), pp. 20–22.

93 Camm, Life, pp. 21–22, 16, 14.

94 First printed in Challoner, Memoirs of Missionary Priests 2 (1742), pp. 427–8.Google Scholar

95 Barnard, pp. 5, 75; V. C. H. Warwks 3, p. 30.

96 P.C.C. 81 North, quoted in Barnard, p. 85; original in Throckmorton, Muniment Room, Box 73, no. 6, together with the unproved will of 1670.

97 Camm, Life, pp. 59–61; cf. n. 113 below. This bequest in the 1676 will replaces a similar one in that of 1670 to Alban East under his alias of Jerningham. In 1670 it was provided that if East died, the legacy was to go to ‘Mr. Armstrong, now living with me’, and there are similar bequests to ‘my cousin Francis Twait’ and ‘my cousin William Silliard’. For these see Anstruther 3, pp. 214, 224.

98 Anstruther 2, p. 92; Onslow (n. 41), Worcs. Rec. 18 (December 1971), pp. 2–3; C.R.S. 24, pp. 8, 25–26, 179.

99 Camm, Life, pp. 14–15, 16–17.

100 For this affair see Barnard, pp. 85–90.

101 MS Life of George Throckmorton by ‘Eugenius Morton’, Coughton Court, Table in Tribune (N.R.A. Calendar, 1964, p. 97). The couple had parted again by 1677: Throckmorton, Muniment Room, Box 65, Folder 1, no. 18.

102 Barnard, pp. 90–93.

103 A True and Exact Relation of the Death of Two Catholicks … in the Year 1628 (London, 1737), p. 5;Google Scholar Camm, Life, p. 7. The Honorer remained Wall's confessor (Camm, Life, p. 74), so he did not move far. But Wolverhampton was within a day's ride of Coughton and Moor Hall (Barnard, p. 47), and Rushock was even nearer.

104 The printed True Copy of Wall's speech upon the scaffold calls him ‘Mr. Francis Johnstons, alias Dormore, alias Webb, alias Wall’.

105 C.R.S., 24, pp. 26, 27, 186, 190, 203.

106 Worcs. Rec. 22 (December 1973), p. 17.

107 Printed in Mander, Gerald Poynton, The History of the Wolverhampton Grammar School (1913), pp. 309–312,Google Scholar from Minute Books or Records of the Merchant Taylors’ Company 3, ff. 306b-308.

108 Hodgson, Aileen, ‘Rushock Manor’, Worcs. Rec. 3 (July 1964), pp. 34–40;Google Scholar Foley 4, pp. 286–7.

109 C.R.S., 24, p. 32.

110 Epitaph in Great Missenden church printed in Estcourt & Payne, p. 12.

111 The soldier who recognised Wall at Rushock in 1678 ‘had been a Servant in the House seven Years before’: A Narrative of the Proceedings and Tryal of Mr. Francis Johnson, a Franciscan… Written with his own Hand (1679), p. 1. For copies and variant readings see Hodgetts, ‘Wall?’, p. 131, n. 1.

112 Ibidem.

113 B.A.A., Alban Butler Collection (bound vol.), printed in Worcs. Rec. 2 (December 1963), pp. 23–25. Challoner, Missionary Priests 2 (1742), pp. 429–30,Google Scholar printed about two thirds of this letter, but not this part.

114 B.A.A., C.88 (as in n. 92), quoted in Camm, Life, p. 25. This is, however, a nineteenth-century note recording family tradition, not, as Camm. implies, a contemporary entry in the register.

115 Camm, Life, p. 77.

116 Anstruther 2, p. 172; Kirk, John, Biographies of English Catholics (ed. Pollen and Burton, 1909), p. 95.Google Scholar

117 Throckmorton, Tribune Chest of Drawers, Folder 47, no. 27.

118 Anstruther 2, p. 49.

119 Throckmorton, Tribune Chest of Drawers, Folder 47, no. 16.

120 Anstruther 2, pp. 60, 254.

121 Cornwallis v. Yate, P.R.O., C.7/480/74; summary, not including these details, in Reade, pp. 110–111. I am grateful to Mr. Philip Harris for a transcript.

122 The presentments are transcribed in Worcs. Rec. 6 (December 1965) pp. 44—45, and 7 (June 1966), pp. 20–22. Cf Whiteman, Anne ed., The Compton Census of1676: A Critical Edition, Records of Social and Economic History N.S. 10 (1986), pp. xxxvi, 180.Google Scholar

123 Wing, S.T.C. 1 (1972), B.3742.

124 Throckmorton, Muniment Room, Box 86, no. 22; printed in Hodgetts, ‘Wall?’, pp. 123–4. Cf B.A.A., A.336.

125 Old Brotherhood Archives IV, 27–28; cf B.A.A., A. 1271. At an inquest held at The Talbot, Sidbury, Worcester, on 20 May 1690 it was found that Lady Yate had also conveyed Chaddesley Corbett and Harvington, with salt-pits in Droitwich and other property, to the English College at St. Omers, to yield £600 a year: British Library, MS Lansdowne 446, ff. 119–120; Society of Antiquaries, Prattinton Collection, Worcs. Parishes 7, p. 25a. But this was sheer fabrication: Hopkins, P. A., ‘The Commission for Superstitious Lands of the 1690s’, Recusant History, 15 (1979–81), p. 268.Google Scholar

126 V. C. H. Worcs. 3, p. 42; Worcs. Rec. 6 (December 1965), pp. 44–45.

127 V. C. H. Worcs. 3, p. 42.

128 It is not among the Yate wills in Throckmorton, Muniment Room, Box 84, or listed in Index Library 80 (P.C.C. Wills, 1694–1700).

129 B.A.A., C.204.

130 Throckmorton, Tribune Chest of Drawers, Folder 47, no. 22.

131 Ibidem, Folder 47, no. 14.

132 Pullen, Bible Collections, no. 242; Part I, no. 459; Part II, nos. 1136, 2485, 3151.

133 C.S.P.D. 1679–80, p. 327; cf pp. 349, 631 (Sir Charles Yate and Jane Finch of Rushock).

134 Hereford and Worcester R.O. (County Hall, Worcester), 110: 185/4.

135 P.C.C. 136 Bate; copy in Throckmorton, Muniment Room, Box 84.

136 Anstruther 2, p. 36. On ‘March the 21’ (no year) Abigail Fairfax wrote to her sister Apollonia: ‘My service to Mr. Bridges and Mr. Whitebread, begging their prayers, for I am sure I cannot pray: the case is much altered with me’ (Throckmorton, Tribune Chest of Drawers, Folder 47, no. 21). For William Whitbread see Anstruther 2, p. 375; a letter from him to Sir Charles Yate, dated 2 June 1663, is Throckmorton, Folder 47, no. 34.

137 She died in February 1719: Throckmorton, Folder 47, no. 47.

138 C.S.P.D. 1687–9, nos. 907, 955.

139 Anstruther 3, pp. 114–117.

140 Brownlow, ‘Genealogy’ 3, pp. 64–65.

141 Throckmorton, Muniment Room, Box 57; Tribune Chest of Drawers, Folder 47, no. 48; Anstruther 3, pp. 55–56.

142 Copies of their marriage settlement of 29 September 1686 are in Throckmorton, Muniment Room, Box 74 and Box 72, no. 11. Their infant son Robert died in November 1688 (Barnard, p. 83). The next son, George, born in 1690, died at the age of sixteen, so that the eventual heir was his younger brother, another Robert (1702–1791).

143 Pullen, Bible Collections, no. 1065.

144 Anstruther 3, p. 6.

145 C.R.S., 9, p. 113.

146 Anstruther 3, pp. 92–93.

147 B.A.A., C.155; cf C.261, C.538.

148 The altar-stone now in the Georgian chapel at Harvington (1743) is the original and may be one of those listed here.

149 At Oscott College with the books.

150 Anstruther 3, pp. 230–1, though his inference that Dodd was not living at the Hall in 1742 (just before his death) is debatable. Kirk (n. 116 above), p. 255, says that Dodd lived and wrote his History in ‘the Priest's house, within the moat and adjoining the Hall’. This would mean what is now called the North Tower but may be a reading-back into the 1730s of an arrangement not made until the 1790s: see my ‘An Inventory of Harvington Hall, 1797’, Worcs. Rec. 45 (June 1985), pp. 16–31.

151 B.A.A., C.260.

152 Anstruther 3, pp. 97–98; cf Pullen, Part II, nos. 1036B, 1214, 1480.

153 B.A.A., C.261.

154 Anstruther 2, p. 178; cf. Pullen, Part II, nos. 21, 101, 140, 155, 516A, 674, 1036B, 1078, 1214, 1480.

155 Hodgetts, Recusant History, 13 (1975–6), pp. 18–26.

156 B.A.A., C.1854, publ. in Worcs. Rec. 38 (December 1981), pp. 26–27. An inventory of 1826 (ibidem, p. 22), after the books had been moved to (Old) Oscott, furnishes the ‘Library’ with ‘Painted square table, four Stuff curtains’ and ‘Small Register stove and front’. This cannot have been Dodd's Library, which has only one window and no chimney.

157 Owen Chambers, F., Harvington Hall: An Historical Account of the Old Manor House at Harvington (c. 1917, 1921, 1925, 1929, 1933), p. 17.Google Scholar

158 Brownlow's ‘History’ (pp. 71–81) has plans of the ground and first floors but not of the second.

159 The best of the carvings were removed in the 1830s. But it was not until the summer of 1855 that Sir Robert George Throckmorton stripped most of the building, with the intention of demolishing it: Brownlow, ‘Genealogy’ 3, p. 72.