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Records Volume 53: Miscellanea Rescusant Records

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sheriffs of Yorkshire . Sir Arthur Ingram ( 1629) and Sir John Gibson (1630) were Commissioners . But Sir Thomas Layton ( 1631 ) was a " rebel " against Wentworth's administration . Sir Marmaduke Wyvill ( 1633) had a Catholic wife but was regarded by Wentworth as trustworthy. (Surtees Soc, 36 ; Magee . Eng. Recusants. p. 149) 55 Letter to the N. Riding Justices printed below ; to Lancs. Justices , Hist. MSS Comm . Kenyon MSS. p . 38 ; Strafford Corresp. 20 (a) /82 ; 99 ; 13 ( a) /56. (printed below.) 56 Northallerton Cty Record Office. Quarter Sessions. Book of Recusants Indicted 1629-41. The huge list for 1640 is simply a re-conviction of recusants already convicted. The W. Riding Sessions Rolls of the period have vanished. The copy printed in Yorks . Arch . Soc. Record Series 54. from a Fairfax MS is obviously very defective. Compare. Johnson. Fairfax Correspondence. p . 286 , where Stockdale writes (Nov. 1641) wapentake (of the W. Riding ) where I live , there are 532 recusants "ofInonethissort or another that pay poll money . The E. Riding Rolls, Indictments , for the period have vanished The York & Ainsty Sessions . Books are defective (Bk. 6 to 1599 ; Bk 7. 1617-19 and 1638-62 no recusant refs . ) 57 Wedgwood. Strafford. passim, on the " rebels . " ; Strafford Corresp . Letters from Hoby printed below.

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58 ibid. 12(a) 82. 59 ibid. 3/22 There is (8/258 ) a wonderful defence of the lawyers by Coventry 60 ibid . 3/201 41 ibid. 13(a) 71 ; 10 ; 20 (d) 261 ; 12(c) 205 ; 231 ; 20 ( a) 69 . Everingham MSS . Select MSS. show that Philip Constable of Everingham, E. Riding

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was first convicted at the Old Bailey in 1633 after evading conviction for years

62 Strafford Corresp. passim

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printed below. Heath was also farmer of the seized lands of 2 Yorks . recusants , Grace , Lady Babthorpe and Thomas Worsley the only cases of farming by a Protestant. 63 ibid . 20(a) 68ff . / 64 ibid. 10( ) 272 / . 65 Cal. S.P.D. 1629-31 p . 35. Wentworthto theAttorney-General Aug. 1629 on the Westminster compositions of John Gascoigne , Philip Anne and Mr Cholmeley (of Brandsby, N. Riding) at absurdly low rates. 66 ibid. 1639-40 pp . 141-2. 67 Ibid. 1635-40 passim ; Strafford Corresp. passim , printed below. 68 Recusant History iv /2 /62-3. 69 Cal. S.P.D. 1625-49 p . 503 ; later editions of the Commissioncontained a special clause about this patent Rymer . op. cit. ix /1 /57ff 161ff. 70 Strafford Corresp . passim , printed below. A text of the agreement, from the Ingram MSS is also printed below. Tawney. Business under James 1. pp . 83 . 71 Strafford Corr. passim , below.

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1641-3 pp. 173-4 ; PRO SP 16 / 178/40 (printed below). Prynne's Popish Royal Favourite and Rushworth's Collections contain the gist of these criticisms . 74 ibid ; Cal. S.P.D. 1640-1 p . 518 the complaints of Pulford , a southern Deputy-Receiver, apparently used by Prynne . 75 Receipts below, in the Constable of Everingham & Meynell MSS . 76 Ampleforth Journal June 1959. " Catholics & Parliamentary Sequestrations" ; Hardacre. Royalists during the Puritan Revolution . 77 Cal. of Treasury Bks. 1660-7 p. 11 ; 1672-5 pp . 287, 340, 693-4 , 694ff. , 739-40 , 750, 804 ; 1676-9 pp . 59 , 87, 149, 207, 244 256 , 678 ; 1679-80 pp. 416, 426, 529-30 , 601-2 . 78 1 Geo . capp. 50, 55 ; 9 Geo . cap. 18. 73 Cal. S.P.D.

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