MISCELLANEOUS DOCUMENTS, 1717-99 This section contains a number of short documents of relevance to eighteenth-century Catholicism in Bath, most of which have counterparts in other areas : two estate- enrolmentsof 1717 , a will , the House of Lords Return of Papists ( 1767 ) which, irritatingly but like similar returns for some other areas gives no names but is valuable for occupations and periods of residence ; the appeal for subscriptions , ten years later, towards a new Bath chapel , which has more than local interest in that prominent Catholic families from all over the country are represented in it ; two inventoriesof Bishop Walmesley's possessions one shortly after the Gordon Rioters had destroyed many of his (belongings ) and , finally, the list of oaths taken by Catholics in and around Bath in pursuance of the second Catholic Relief Act ( 1791 ) . No local oath-lists relating to the first Relief Act ( 1778) appear to have survived , though Father Brewer claimed that Bath Catholics duly took this oath and a certificate substantiating this in the case of Thomas Arundell of the Paragon exists among the papers of that family (see respectivelypp. 65, 199) . In these documentspunctuation and capitalisation have been modernised and the few abbreviations expanded .
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I. ENROLMENTS OF ESTATES OF JOHN HUSSEYAND FRANCIS CARNE, 17171 A Registry or particular of the real estate of me John Hussey of Marnhull in the County of Dorsett, Esqr . , scituat and being in the county of Somersett , delivered to Philip Bennet Esqr., Clerke of the Peace in and for the said county of Somersett , this third day of April in the yeare of our Lord one thousand, seven hundred and seventeene, in pursuance of and in obedience to an Act of Parliament made in thefirst yeare of the reigne of his present Majesty intituled an Act to oblige papists to register their names and reall estates Imprimis, one tenement and garden with the appurtenances commonly called or knowne by the name of the parsonage howse of St. James, scituate and being in the parish of St. James within the city of Bathe, nowe in the possession of Mrs Anne Quineo,2 which she holds of me by parol agreement for the terme of six yeares , to be computed from the twenty-fourth day of June next ensuing , at and under the yearly rent of thirty pounds cleere of all deduccions save one quit-rent
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Both in S.R.O. , Enrolments of Papists' Estates, 1717-88 . John Hussey also registered properties in Cornwall, Dorset and Wiltshire (E. & P., pp . 24, 40, 283 ) ; Francis Carne in Wiltshire also (ibid. , p. 285 : the estate at Stratton St Margaret mentioned in his will the next document here printed). 2 Penultimateletter of surname unclear ; possiblya d .
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