314 No. VIII
THE CATHOLIC REGISTERS OF CHEAM IN SURREY A MISSION or chaplaincy at Cheam, according to Fr Raymund Palmer, exis-
ted as early as the reign of Charles I, being served by the secular clergy, Bartholomew Fromond, lord of the manor, having charged his estate with £5 towards the support of it . However, Mr Gillow , whose notes enable me to extend Fr Palmer's defective list , states that Fr Edward or Thomas Green , alias Wright, S.J. , was there in 1724 and probably died there July 2, 1727 , whilst Fr Thomas Lockhart , S.J. , was there about the same time. The Dominican Friar, Fr Morgan Joseph Hansbie, D.D., was there about 1742 , and at the end of 1745 wasarrested in the house of the Dowager Lady Petre at Lower Cheam , but continued to serve the mission until 1747. About 1755 , when the Registersbegin, the missionwas attached to the Portuguese Embassy Chapel in London, and was served , as the Registers show, by Fr William Maurus Heatley, O.S.B. His labours , and those of his successors, are herein partly recorded. Fr Thomas Andrew Greswold, O.S.F., of the PortugueseEmbassy, served here during the Fr Bernard Bradshaw, O.S.B., came temporary persecution in June, 1760. from the PortugueseEmbassy December 20 , 1761 , and probably, off and on, till , 1768. Fr Edward Ambrose Elliot O.S.B., was here in 1762 and from time to time in 1769 and 1770. Fr Thomas Bede Bennet , O.S.B., also of the Portuguese embassy , was serving temporarily in January, 1764 ; Fr Richard Harris , O.S.B., from 1770 or 1771 to 1776; Fr John Bede Brewer, O.S.B., in 1776 ; Fr John Joseph Placid Naylor , O.S.B., 1776 to 1785; Fr William Benedict Short, O.P., from 1785 to 1788. The Rev. John Greenway served here after Fr Short from St Mary's , Moorfields. And Fr Charles Benedict Caestryck, O.P., served casually from Woburn Lodge from 1802 to 1814 . The Hon. James Talbot seems to have contributed £ 6 16s. 8d . per annum towards the support of the Mission for three years, 1786-88; and Ferdinand Watkins , M.D., is recordedas a leading Catholic (Payne's Old English Catholic Missions and Mr Gillow's MS. Collections). Mr Payne printed some extracts in the above work. The copy from which these Registers are printed was made by the late Fr Raymund Palmer, O.P., for Mr Frederick Arthur Crisp , F.S.A. , the third founder of our Society, who presented it to us, the original beingthen, and probably is still , in the archivesof the English Province at St Dominic's Priory , Haverstock Hill . The Rev. Dr King, Rector of Cheam, 1747-1780, seems to have displayed strong animusagainst the living and the dead, especiallyin refusing burial to the infant Mary Andrews Nov. 6, 1776) and writing the mother that death was the penalty for a priest (baptizing or converting anyone . The Registers are not very full and not very ancient ; but Fr Palmer'swords near the end, The last page of the Register is torn and part lost," is amplejustification for their being printed whilst a MS. copy remains . If not old now, they J.S.H. will improve in that respect.
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Baptizatorum Conversorum Confirmatorum
Matrimoniorum Status animarum
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In Districtu de Cheame Comitatûs de Surrey.
Mortuorum Inchoatus die 20mo Mensis Julii , Anno Domini Millesimo Septingentesimo Quinquagesimo Quinto, per me Guilielmum Heatley, Sacerdotem Missionarium Ordinis St Benedicti , Congregationis Anglicanæ , hujus Districtûs Pastorem in Dño.