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THE CATHOLIC REGISTERS OF THE DOMESTIC CHAPEL OF THE GORING , BIDDULPH , AND WRIGHT FAMILY AT BURTON HOUSE , BURTON , SUSSEX . 1720-1855. CONTRIBUTED BY FATHER BERNARDINE, O.S.F.C. EDITED AND ANNOTATED BY JOSEPH STANISLAUS HANSOM .
The manor of Burton , anciently Botechitone and later Bodexton, and Boderton in Commoners, is near Petworth . John Goring (will ) was the first of Burton . His grandson William and his Hen. descendants were knighted, the fourth being made a baronet. lineal four Sir Henry Goring , the second baronet, by his marriage with Mary, widow of Sir Thomas Gage of Firle in Sussex, second baronet, and daughter of John Chamberlain of Shirburn Castle, Oxon , had inter alios Sir William , the third and last baronet, and a daughter Anne married to Richard Biddulph , Staffs ., whose descendants (Wright) eventually inherited in 1835. Sir William Goring , having no issue by his wife Dorothy Plowden , relict of Philip Draycott of Draycott and Paynesley , Staffs ., the estate passed to his sister Anne (Mrs. Richard Biddulph) . Sir William , as a Catholic Nonjuror , in 1717 made declarations of his property at Burton , and also ( in right of his wife) at Draycott and Paynesley . His will dated 22 Jan. 1723, was proved 17 March 1724 , desires burial at Burton . * Dame Dorothy, his widow, by her will of 2 July 1729 , proved 8 June 1737, desired " to be buried in the church of the English Sepulchrines (nuns ) at Liége , all her English servants to have their charges borne to London (J. O. Payne , English Nonjurors and Records of English Catholics) . She may be the Madam Draycott at Liége at an earlier date . She returned there in her second widowhood. Sir William Goring had also been there, and also Plowdens (Cath. Rec. Soc . xvii ) .
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After remaining in the Biddulph family until 1835 the Burton
estate went by bequest of John Biddulph to his kinsman Anthony George Wright, who assumed the name of Biddulph, whose son Anthony John Wright -Biddulph d.s.p. 12 Aug. 1895. After his death the estate was sold , no longer being in Catholic hands : but the mission continued. The old domestic chapel in Burton House seems according to the Registers to have been dedicated to the Blessed Virgin . Mr. T. W. Horsfield, in his " History of Sussex " ( 1835 ), says- In 1759 a great part of Burton House was destroyed by fire, when a new , spacious and splendid structure was begun after a design of Giacomo Leoni. In 1826 this mansion was itself destroyed by fire, and a new house has lately been erected . An elegant chapel for the service of the Church of Rome has recently been fitted up. This was evidently the chapel built outside Burton House, dedicated to St. John the Baptist , and blessed in December 1831 by the Right
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Rev. Dr. Bramston, Vicar Apostolic of the London District.
He died 29 Feb. 1723-4. An obituary list of one of the Kemps of Slindon (C.R.S. vii , 387) puts it on 11 March. This is the difference of the old and new styles .