NO . II TWO LISTS OF INFLUENTIAL PERSONS
APPARENTLY PREPARED IN THE INTERESTS OF MARY, QUEEN OF SCOTS, 1574 AND 1582 EDITED BY JOHN BANNERMAN WAINEWRIGHT
Record Office, Dom. Eliz . XCIX, 55 , CLVII, 90 )
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THE transcripts of these lists and the materials for this introductory note have been supplied by the Rev. J. H. Pollen , S.J. For the notes of identification the Editor is solely responsible. The first list belongs to the year 1574. It is written in a small paper book of twenty leaves endorsed Recusants names ; but it actually contains the names of various noblemen, knights , and gentry of England and Wales (together with those of three Scotsmen ), roughly grouped as " Catholicks
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and " Heretikes ." The second list belongs to the year 1582. It is written on two pages, and is endorsed Memorial the. It contains the names of various noblemen and knights of England divided into Catholic , Indifferent , and Protestant . On the outside leaf of the first list is written :
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ot euouk eht etats fo eht eneuq . d. " S" tyas Ducats 12000 365 60000 72000 36000 4380000 ducados iada anno "
Of this entry no explanation is attempted. On the fly-leaf are the
following entries :
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( from wynkfilde to bukstones
12 mil . to Congleton- 12 mil . to latham therle of 50 (Darbies house 20 mil to lirpole 6 or 8 mile / . mi from chatsworth to congleton 16 mi and so to lirpole as before 42 (from Sheffilde over the moores to glossoppe 16 miles miles to bery 8 miles to blagebourne 12 miles to wyrepole 48 12 or 14 miles.
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The distances seem for the most part singularly underestimated. Lirpole of course is Liverpool , bery Bury, and blagebourne Blackburn . Wyerpool or Wyer Water was in those days, and until Fleetwood was built, an important harbour for vessels of moderate burden . The important thing to remark , however, is that Mary, Queen of Scots , was imprisoned in the Earl of Shrewsbury's manor at South Wingfield, Derbyshire , for some months