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CATHOLIC REGISTERS OF REV . JAMES DOMINIC DARBYSHIRE , O.P. , AT STANDISH AND BORWICK HALL, WARTON, LANCASHIRE, 1728 ; GIFFORD HALL, STOKE-BY-NAYLAND , SUFFOLK, 1728 ; AND UGBROOKE PARK , CHUDLEIGH, DEVON, 1736-55 . CONTRIBUTED
BY THE VERY REV. BEDE JARRETT, O.P. INTRODUCTION .
The volume from which these registers have been extracted is a small MS. of 32 pages. is made up chiefly of receipts of a medical and miscellaneous nature . Intermixed among these items are the entries in Flemish, which are mainly concerned with baptisms and the inscribing of names in the Rosary Confraternity . Before each in the Confraternity is drawn a curious circlet, name " inshreven evidently intended to mark the " Roosencrans . This is here represented by a star. James Darbyshire was born in 1690 , and entered at Bornhem College soon after the opening of the new century, for he is recorded on the Rosary Register there on May 3 , 1711 (cf. C.R.S. , vol. xiv, p. 207). After he had become a Dominican, he taught for some years at the Bornhem College, but left for the English Mission in August, 1726. As the following entries show, he began at Standish , near Wigan, as Chaplain to the Standish family, and later at their other seat of Borwick Hall in the parish of Warton, seven miles from Lancaster. In the January of 1729 he removed to Gifford Hall in Suffolk, as Chaplain to Sir Francis and Lady Mannock, and in 1736 he crossed over England and settled till his death with Lord Clifford at Ugbrooke Park , Chud-
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leigh in Devonshire. For a brief period, from Oct. 1st, 1747, he returned to Bornhem as Prior, but did not finish even his three years of office, for on May 11th, 1750 , he resigned the Priorship and came back once more to Ugbrooke. In 1756 he was elected again by the Bornhem community and had accepted the Priorship for a second time when he was seized with his last illness , and died at Ugbrooke, Jan. 7, 1757. His remains still repose at the back of St. Cyprian's chapel there, and it is stated that his private diary from August, 1726, to January, 1757, is still preserved in Lord Clifford's library. Some translations have been added. B.J.
THE REGISTERS . Een Boeksken van de gedoopten, & ingeschreven in het Roosencrans by Ja. Darbyshire , 1728. A small book of the baptisms and registers in the Crown of Roses (or Rosary Confraternity) by James Darbyshire, 1728. July 28, 1728. Ick hebbe gedoopt Ann Brown dochter van Alexander Brown , van Standish Parochie. de Meter was N. Taylor dochter van Oliver Taylor van de selve Parochie.
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baptised Ann Brown daughterof Alexander Brown , of Standish [I have Parish ; the godmother was N. Taylor daughter of Oliver Taylor of the
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