No. III.
CATHOLIC REGISTERS KEPT BY THE REV. BRUNO CANTRILL , O.S.F. , IN LONDON ( ?). 1726-55. CONTRIBUTED BY MONSIGNOR CLAUD REGINALD LINDSAY . INTRODUCTORY NOTE.
The following record is anonymous . Nowhere in the registers has the author signed his name . will be noticed, however, that in the statement of accounts at the end , he mentions dealing with a Mr. Brumford, Barber, of Wild Street, from which it is easy to infer that he lived in the neighbourhood of the Sardinian Chapel , in Lincoln's Inn Fields . The author of this transcription considered it a matter of some importancethat the priest who kept this private register should be identified if possible, and went to considerable pains to discover his, name . As the volume came from the archives of the Clifton Diocese together with Fr. Pacificus Baker's private register, it was thought extremelyprobable that this was also a Franciscan register . Accordingly application was made to the Very Rev. F. Peter, O.F.M., at present Provincial of the Franciscans , for permission to look through documents of the period covered by this register in the archives of Forest Gate , E. , for the purpose
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of comparing the handwritings, and obtaining other information con-
cerning individual Franciscans of that period. The Provincial most kindly gave the requisite leave , and himself lent very valuableassistance. The research was fruitful in result, as the handwriting of these registers was identified with that of Fr. Bruno Cantrill , O.S.F. , who, after holding many important posts in the Order, became Provincial in 1734, and held that office till 1737. He was Provincial again from 1743 to 1746. Fr. Thaddeus , O.F.M., in his book, The Franciscans in England , says that for some time his address was : At Mr Cabry's, Fan Maker, over against Grays Inn Gate . It is more than probable that he lodged there when he had business dealings with Mr. Brumford, the barber in Wild Street . Gray's Inn and Lincoln's Inn Fields are in close juxtaposition , with Holborn running between the two. Fr. Cantrill died in 1759 . The Catholic Record Society's thanks are due to His Lordship the Bishop of Clifton , for so kindly lending the original , and to the Very Rev. F. Peter, O.F.M., the Provincial of the Franciscans , for allowing the Forest Gate archives to be examined . The book is of paper, 7 by 6 inches , sound but rather dirty, bound in vellum now very dilapidated, with string and button clasps .
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MARRIAGES .
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may ye 10, 1730. marryed Peter Turner and Elisabeth williams in ye presence of Thomas Sanders and Dorothey Charlton . 8ber ye 4th ditto crossed out, 1730 above] mary'd Elias Furness [ and Frances Horn in presence of Thomas Tailor and mary his wife. K