No. VIII.
A CHAPTER NECROLOGY OCT . 1670 FEB. 1678 FROM THE ORIGINAL MS . IN THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY , OXFORD, RAWLINSON , D. 173 CONTRIBUTED
BY MISS LOUISE F. GUINEY
THE writer, the Rev. Alexander Holt alias Rigby , was secretary to the Chapter. He was a Lancashire man, being the son of Nicholas Holt and his wife Grace, who was probablya Rigby. He was born in 1629 , entered the English College at Rome December 23 , 1652 , was ordained priest December 17, 1656 , and left the College for the Mission April 20, 1659. He was acting as secretary to the Chapter in 1667, in succession to John Sergeant. (Vide Bib. Dict. v, 491.) On November 14, 1671 , he was elected a canon, and in the following year he wrote A Defence of the Chapter, " the MS . of which is now at Oscott College. The date of his resignation of the secretaryship is not before me, but find that Dr. John Betham and Dr. Bonaventure Giffard were appointed canons and secretaries on May 29, 1681 . Mr. Holt died October 12 , 1685 . J. GILLOW.
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The names of those of ye Cl : that dyed after Mr Holts being Secretary . Anno 1670, Octob: ye 29 dyed Mr Thomas Sommersett¹ sonne to ye Ld. John Sommersett . In ye same yeare in ye month of November dyed Mr Thomas Street of Herefordshire. December of ye same yeare dyed Mr John Parry, Arch : of Northwales . Anno 1671 , Feb : ye second dyed Mr Robert Manley alias Charnocke,² V. G : of ye North, at his house of Layland in Lancashire .
In ye same month dyed Mr James Walton³ of ye same Country. In ye month of March of ye same yeare dyed Mr John Yong of
Yorkeshire: and then ye news arrived of ye death of Mr Compton in Maryland. May 13 dyed Mr Alban East alias Jerningham. June 5 dyed Mr Stephen Lee, Vr. G. in ye Midland ; hee lived in
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Staffordshire . 1 Lord John Somerset was second son of Henry, first Marquis of Worcester. Another of Lord John's sons , Henry Somerset alias Wintour, was admitted into the English College at Rome in 1651. It does not appear where Thomas Somerset was ordained. 2 Robert Charnock alias Manley . ( Vide Gillow, Bib. Dict . i , 477.) 3 James Walton alias Thomas Cottam. ( Vide Foley , Records S.J. vi.) 4 John Young was ordained priest at Douay in 1632 . 5 Alban West alias East and Jerningham , was ordained priest at Valladolid, and died at Coughton Court , co . Warwick, aged nearly 80. 6 Stephen Lee or Ley was elected V.G. of Cheshire, Stafford, Derby, Notts. , Rutland , Lincoln, Warwick, Leicester, Gloucester, and Worcester in April , 1657 , and as such assisted in the General Assembly of the Chapter in that year ; but in order