No. IV
ROSARY CONFRATERNITY LISTS CONTRIBUTED BY THE REV. BEDE JARRETT , O.P.
THE lists here published are taken from two MSS . volumes in the possession of the English Dominican Province. The first is of paper 8 × 7 inches , and is really the conventual register of the Priory at Bornhem , where the English Fathers were reorganised by Cardinal Howard, O.P. begins as a summary of rents and debts , and ends as a diary . Between these two parts is wedged in the list here published, written in a contemporary hand . Many of the names are of the boys (students) at the Bornhem College (cf. Merry England, Bygone Colleges , by the Rev. Raymond Palmer, O.P. , Feb. 1889) , and the rest are probably, for the most part, of those with whom the Dominican missionaries came in contact in England . This book is in the Archives at S. Dominic's Priory, London. The other is a smaller volume (4¼ inches by 2 ) of white cardboard , covered by thin vellum . It is preserved at S. Peter's Priory , Hinckley . Within its cover is the following
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INSCRIPTORUM CONFRATERNITATEM IN ANGLORUM . ROSARII A R.R.P.P.F.F.O.P.P.
SACRATISSIMI
Thoma Worthington ( ab anno 1728 in annuum 1753) Antonino Hatton ( ab. 1753 in 1783) Edwardo Leadbitter ( ab. 1783 in 1785) Ambrosio Gage (ab . 1785 in 1796) Alberto Underhill ( ab . 1796.
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This volume, unlike the other, was kept in England. F. Worthington settled in 1727 at Middleton Hall, near Leeds , till his death Hatton who in 1753. A year previously he was joined by F.1783. removed to Stourton Lodge, where he died in He was succeeded by F. Leadbitter, who left however in 1785 for Selby. place at Stourton Lodge till 1796. In that year F., Gage took his When he died F. Underhill , to whom the book now passed, was then serving the missions of Roundhay and Hunslet near Leeds , and eventually added Selby to his field of labours. In 1802 he founded the mission in Leeds itself where his little chapel has become a stately Cathedral. In 1814 he removed to Hinckley, taking the book with him , where it still remains. The various places of its sojourn are evident also in the lists where the residence of each member of the Confraternity is given . It will be noted that the lists become almost wholly towards the enda register of the girls' school attached to the convent of Michelgate Bar at York . By this means the missing page of 39 names ( mentioned in the History of St Mary's Convent , with a preface
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