NO . V CATHOLIC REGISTERS OF ST. MARY'S DOMESTIC
CHAPEL, EVERINGHAM PARK, YORKSHIRE CONTRIBUTED BY JOSEPH STANISLAUS HANSOM
THE Register Book, now at Somerset House, and numbered " York 105 '" outside, and 44 York " inside , is a folio paper one , vellum bound, of about 360 pages , of which only 46 at the front, one of confirmations about twothirds of the way through , and four of marriages and deaths at the end, reversed, are used . It is in good condition , and has been copied by me, by permission of the Registrar - General. My thanks are also due to Mr. A. R. Bellingham , Superintendent of Records, and his staff for their attention . The blank -form certificate is filled in as follows in italics : The annexed or accompanying Book is the original Register Book of Baptisms which has been kept for the Roman Catholic Chapel called St Mary's, n Pocklington , situate in the Parish of Everingham in the County of York founded about the year a Domestic Chapel from the reign of Edward the 6th. A public Church opened in 1839. The Book sent has been from time to time in the custody of the Clergymen for the time being, of the Chapel ; it is sent to the Commissioners from the immediate custody of the Clergyman of St Mary's Church in the Parish of Everingham who has kept it since 1814 as the appointed Pastor of theplace. Signed the seventee[ n]th day of October 1840. Matthew Newsham, Clergyman or Officiating Minister. Another set of Registers, in the possession of the late Lord Herries , has been compared with those at Somerset House. They differ in some respects, and end in 1800. They are evidently older, being written on six and a half sheets of paper folding 10 x6 inches ; the half sheet containing pages I and 2 being loose , the rest sewn together . They are written on all the twenty-six pages , and there are no signatures on the first eight , but on the ninth and following , " T. G., " T. Gur. ," or the fuller T. Gurnall appear. The only description at the head is " Begun by John Bennet Minister. 1771. The particulars are slightly different , and inversions of phrase, the first reading, " Baptised John Dolman of Pocklington Son to Wm and Elizabeth Dolman . Godfather was Robert Dolman . Godmother was N. Dolman Grandmother . April ye it." As in this case and others there are additions to and variations from the Somerset House registers ; being of more or less importance , these have been added in italics within circular brackets, as (at Everingham ) , (Nancy) " in the second baptism. The three particulars are not divided , the first consisting of one baptism, two marriages, and one death. For many reasons it seemed preferable to print from one register the most extensive. It has been matter for regret that these registers could not be printed during the lifetime of the late Lord Herries , our first President, who took great interest in them , as evinced by his lending his own copy, to say nothing of his accepting the office of first President, when the Society consisted of only seventy members. As late as 16 April 1908, his Lordship wrote to the contributor of this paper am glad to hear so good an account of the progress of the Record Society. My sister wrote to me the other day that she met in York a few weeks ago an old lady, Miss Hunter, aged 87. The old lady used to live near here [ Everingham Park], & she said her grand-
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