No. IX
OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS SUPPLEMENTING REV . MONOX HERVEY'S REGISTER CONTRIBUTED BY JOSEPH S. HANSOM
THE following documents are from the North Eastern circuit records at the Record Office , London, and were selected to illustrate the register of the Rev. Monox Hervey, or as he appears in YorkshireJohn Rivett. The letters are not complete , but I could find none of
the other fourteen mentioned in Hervey's examination, and there would seem to have been some of Anderson's beside those produced. They consist of depositions or informations, and examinations relating to Hervey, Anderson and Potts ; whilst some refer to the two Misses Metcalfe of Guisbrough, compromised by being the vehicle for passing school money to Hervey ; and an account of Edward Clavering's marriage in York Castle , by his wife, &c. The index will give the necessary references between the documents and the registers. The arrangement has not been easy , some overlapping others, chronological order not being always possible or advisable. An endeavour has been made to group them. J. S. H.
(1) THOMAS DAWSON'S INFORMATION AGAINST REV. MONOX HERVEY The Information of Thomas Dawson Master & Marriner of Lythe in the County of York. This Deponent saith, that about ten days ago Robert Stango
of Ugthorpe said in [ his house ad- out, Whitby above] that there had been lately at divers times with Mr Rivett at his house in
Ugthorpe several persons well dress'd & suppos'd to be Gentlemen, and that divers other persons had frequented the house of the said Rivett from 10 till 12 a clock at night suppos'd to be papists living in that Neighbourhood , And this Deponent further saith that he was informed in his own house last night that four Gentlemen dress'd in Lac'd Cloths had been lately seen at the House of the above said Mr Rivett. Sworn at Whitby in Tho Dawson the North Riding of the County of York 11th of Dec 1745 before me Robert Linskill Endorsed ] Tho : Dawson's Deposition against Rivet Dec. [ 1745 before R. Linskil Esq.
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(2) THOMAS BIRKETT'S INFORMATION AGAINST REV. MONOX HERVEY . North Riding Thomas Birkett of Whitby in the parts aforesaid mercer one of ye people comonly called Quakers Yorkshire Deposeth that he knows the person living at Ugthorp in the said 2331