UC/P45/1/1   [mid 20th century]
“Durham Co Missions 1”:
1. Chronology of Jesuit missionaries during the 17th and 18th centuries in Durham. Brief history of their work and life
2. Chronology of secular priests on the Old Elvet mission during the 17th and 18th centuries. Brief history of their work and life
3. Chronology of secular priests on the Gilesgate mission during the 17th and 18th centuries. Brief history of their work and life
4. Outline of Catholic priests buried in the churchyard during the 17th and 18th centuries
5. Extract from the Durham Chronicle Friday March 20, 1891, with notes and extracts on the history of the Catholic Church in Durham from an old register preserved at St Cuthbert’s, Durham
6. History of the Catholic Church in Birtley
7. History of the Catholic Church in Bishop Auckland
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UC/P45/1/2   [mid 20th century]
“Durham Co Missions 2”:
1. Brief history of the Kennett family living in Coxhoe Hall in the 15th and 16th centuries and the priests that resided there
2. Brief history of the priests that resided at Crook Hall during the 16th and 17th centuries
3. Outline of the Salvin family who owned the manor at Croxdale from the 14th century, a history of the priests serving at Croxdale and Burnhall during the 16th and 17th centuries, and a reprint of the Humble Petition of John Salvin from about 1642
4. Chronology of secular priests who made up the Darlington mission during the 16th and 17th centuries. Brief history of their work and life
5. Brief history of Harbour (or Arbour) House (near Plawsworth) from the 17th century, including an overview of the Fossour (Forcer) family, as well as an outline of those buried at the Harbour House chapel
6. Outline of places of worship and priests in Hartlepool in the 16th century including a chapel on Henry Street, as well as the religious history of Hartlepool from St Hilda to the 1930s
7. Outline of the Maire family who owned Hardwick Hall from 1587 to 1824, as well as a history of priests serving Hardwick Hall and Hutton House during the 17th and 18th centuries
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UC/P45/1/3   [mid 20th century]
“Durham Co Missions 3”:
1. Outline of the Eshe family and Esh Hall during the 15th and 16th centuries, with a brief history of the Newhouse mission based in the parish of Esh and the priests who served there between the 15th and 19th centuries
2. Short account of Pontop Hall, the Brooms (near Consett) and the Smith family during the 17th and 18th centuries, outline of the priests who served there between the 16th and 18th centuries, and an extract (p.1-21) of the diary of John Smith of Brooms 1778 - 1811
3. Outline of the priests who served South Shields in the 18th and early 19th centuries
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UC/P45/1/4   [mid 20th century]
“Durham Co Missions 4”:
1. Outline of the history of Tempest family, Stella Hall, the parish of Stella, and its incumbent priests from 1540 to 1912
2. History of Catholicism in Stockton-on-Tees and the surrounding area, and of its incumbent priests 1696 – 1900, as well as a pamphlet entitled A Sketch of St. Mary’s Stockton on Tees
3. History of Catholicism in the Sunderland area and of the incumbent priests 1674 – 1925
4. Outline of the Salvin family, the parish of Tudhoe and its incumbent priests 1705 – 1912
1 file 

UC/P45/1/5   [mid 20th century]
“Durham Co. Missions: Sunderland”
Manuscript article entitled “The Resurgence of Roman Catholicism in Sunderland and District in the Nineteenth Century”, including letters, pamphlets and articles used as sources for this article
1 file 

UC/P45/1/6   [mid 20th century]
“Durham Co. Platt Esh”
Manuscript entitled “Memoirs of the old Catholic missions and the sufferings of Catholics in the North of England during the days of persecution. By Ralph Platt, D.D. provost of Hexham and Newcastle” (1873)
Mostly on the history of the parish of Esh Laude
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UC/P45/1/7   [mid 20th century]
“Durham. Sharp MSS”
Listing of recusants in the area covered by the Durham Sessions and of goods and weapons seized
Transcript of manuscripts preserved in the Prior's Kitchen, Durham Cathedral
1 file 

UC/P45/1/8   1740 - [mid 20th century]
“Durham Obituary Books”:
Original manuscripts containing lists of names of deceased Catholics from the Durham area arranged according to month of death. The first book has dates ranging from the 1740’s to the 1760's including a confirmation list from 1757 and a copy of the 21st Canon of the Faithful from the 4th Lateran Council. The book has been fully transcribed and a commentary is included which analyses handwriting and provides further information on some of the people listed. The second book is the obituary book of Rev Nicholas Clavering who was priest at Old Elvet, Durham 1768 – 1787. A transcription of the book is included.
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UC/P45/1/9   [mid 20th century]
“Durham Co. Varia”:
1. Extract from the Durham quarter sessions of January 1606, listing recusants (Prior's Kitchen MSS)
2. Transcription of the presentments of ministers and churchwardens in Durham (Prior's Kitchen MSS)
3. Transcriptions of the records of the Palatinate of Durham, naming recusants and listing where they live
4. Depositions of Christopher Newkirk 1615 to the archbishop of Canterbury
5. Examination of John Norton in the 26th year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth I
6. Photocopy of a list of Recusants in the County of Durham, 1592
7. Photocopy of the Examination of Blessed Geo. Gervase, 1605
8. Durham, Dean and Chapter. Act book of Court of High Commission 1614 – 1617 (abstracts concerning recusants)
1 file 

UC/P45/1/10   [mid 20th century]
“Durham County Miscellaneous”:
1. Sketches of the Missions of Hexham and Newcastle, 1881 – 1929
2. Extracts from “The Franklin MSS”, vol. 1, 1660 - 1780
3. Extracts from the Brooms letters, 1836 - 1839
4. Confirmations given at Stella, 1723 – 1789
5. “A list of all the Papists in the Parish of Darlington, in the Diocese of Durham”, 1780
1 file 

UC/P45/1/11   [mid 20th century]
“Durham University MSS”
Transcript of Mickleton and Spearman MS 2 (University of Durham Library)
1 file 

UC/P45/1/12   [mid 20th century]
“Durham Recusants 17th Century”
1. Correspondence between Annie Forster and Fr. Smith including some family trees, 1953-4
2. Transcripts of recusant rolls
1 file 

UC/P45/1/13   [mid 20th century]
“University of Durham”:
1. Handwritten notes re Richard Marshall 1533 – 1577 (or later)
2. Letter from J. M. Fewster to Fr Vincent Smith re a list of records
3. University of Durham Department of Palaeography and Diplomatic, list of records
4. Letter from Annie Forster to Fr Smith relating to an enclosure of notes on Richard Marshall, 24 May 1968
5. Letter from Joseph Fewster, Department of Palaeography and Diplomatic, University of Durham, enclosing photostats of requested documents.
6. Photostats: recusants in 1629 from parish listings; recusant prisoners 1613; registration of recusants' estates, 1722; and bills and receipts for photostats from University of Durham
7. University of Durham. Department of Palaeography and Diplomatic, Box 1018: Recusants and dissidents, 1683.
8. Transcription of Photostat. Church Commission Box 202.
9. Note on foregoing papers
1 file 

UC/P45/1/14   [mid 20th century]
“Plays”
1. “The Passion of Christ” by Raymund Outis (Rev J.A.S. Coutts)
2. “Isabella of Spain” by Raymund Outis (Rev J.A.S. Coutts)
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UC/P45/1/15   [mid 20th century]
“Plays – Producer 1”
1. “For God and King”. Poster, photographs, script and handwritten notes regarding stage directions, properties and costumes for “A Glorious Failure”
2. “Polly Brown’s Young Man” Written in local dialect. Souvenir programme for Jubilee of Very Rev Father Jacobs, 1909 – 1934, at which the sketch was performed
3. “Tyneside Sketches”. A five act play with 59 pages of script, written in local dialect
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UC/P45/1/16   [mid 20th century]
“Plays – Producer 2”
1. “At the Bird in the Bush”. By Raymund Outis (Rev John Coutts), July 1932. A play set in 1585 which involves “methods and dangers of importing priests and exporting students in the long years of Queen Elizabeth.”
2. “John Carr, The Postmaster Of Newcastle”. By Rev John Coutts. A play set in the period between 1592 and 1594 telling the story of John Carr, John Boste and Richard Ingram, Catholic martyrs
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UC/P45/1/17   [mid 20th century]
“Plays – Elizabethan”
1. “At the Bird in the Bush” by Raymund Outis (Rev John Coutts), July 1932. A play set in 1585 which involves “methods and dangers of importing priests and exporting students in the long years of Queen Elizabeth.”
2. “John Carr, The Postmaster Of Newcastle” by Rev John Coutts. A play set in the period between 1592 and 1594 telling the story of John Carr, John Boste and Richard Ingram, Catholic martyrs
3. Letters to Fr V. Smith from William Scott regarding the performance of the play “The Journey to Spain” at St Joseph’s Church, Benwell in 1936
4. “The Journey to Spain” by William Scott. A play about the journey of two intended seminarians on their way to Spain. Loosely based on actual incidents
5. “They Suffered at Newcastle” by W. Scott. A play concerning the English Martyrs Joseph Lambton and Edward Waterson, executed in Newcastle in 1593
1 file 

UC/P45/1/18   [mid 20th century]
“Meynell MSS”:
1. An account by Dr Ann Forster of Burradon, Northumberland, of the Maynell family of Kilvington
2. Transcripts relating to Thomas and Anthony Meynell, Dorothy Scroope, George Meynell, Edward Saltmarsh, Francis Calvert, Francis Tunstall
1 file 

UC/P45/1/19   [mid 20th century]
“Plays – Jacobite”:
1. “Dilston’s Lord”. A sketch of “the gallant and unfortunate attempt of the Northern gentry, which is called the ‘15 rising”
2. “For God and the King”. The story of the earl of Derwentwater, based on the earl’s own letters.
3. “A Glorious Failure”, previously “For God and the King”
1 file 

UC/P45/1/20   [mid 20th century]
“Northern Brethren's Fund (NBF) MSS”
1. Rev Simon Bordley’s proposed rules
2. Rev Marmaduke Wilson’s proposed rules
3. Letter of Rev J. Barrow to Bishop Gibson, 29th August 1783
4. Letter of Rev R. Thompson to Rev T. Eyre, 27th August 1807
5. Notes written by Rev Thomas Eyre
6. Notes on the rules of the Lancashire Brethren
7. Yorkshire Brethren Account Book 1733 – 39
1 file 

UC/P45/1/21   [mid 20th century]
“Northern Brethren – Rules”
1. Northern Brethren rules
2. Miscellaneous papers
1 file 

UC/P45/1/22   [mid 20th century]
“Durham Records Office Salvin MSS”
Transcripts of documents relating to the Salvin family, including deeds, estate papers, church funds, family papers, letters from George Stephenson re: railways, and pedigree papers
1 file 

UC/P45/1/23   [mid 20th century]
“Leeds Diocese MSS. Hogarth Papers”. Rev Robert Hogarth’s MSS Volume 1 - Extracts from various account books c. 1840:
1. Copy of Bishop Matthew Gibson’s Account book
2. An Account of the Yorkshire Brethren’s Fund compiled by Robert Hogarth, 1842
3. Index
1 file 

UC/P45/1/24   1958
“Public Records Office Recusant Rolls. Extracts I”
Compiled in 1958 by Annie Forster of Burradon for Father Vincent Smith (All Saints, Lanchester). The rolls are accompanied by correspondence from Miss Forster to Father Smith.
1 file 

UC/P45/1/25   [mid 20th century]
“Newcastle Reference Library. Index of Northumberland Recusants”
Index of residents of Northumberland whose names appear in the recusancy rolls
1 file 

UC/P45/1/26   18 May 1956
“Public Records Office. Various MSS”
This volume contains listings of Pellis receipts relating to recusancy in the counties of Durham and Northumberland from Easter 1593
1 file 

UC/P45/1/27   [mid 20th century]
Draft manuscript by W.V. Smith, “Catholic Tyneside for three hundred and fifty years 1500-1850. And Old St Andrews 1795-1874.”
1 file 

UC/P45/1/28   1963
“Old Brethren MSS and Westminster MSS”
Includes transcriptions of lists of members and deceased, minute books, and Westminster Archives vo. 19 no. 57
1 file 

UC/P45/1/29   1936 - [mid 20th century]
“Northumberland Missions I”:
1. Printed pamphlet: Chadwick, Alfred, St Mary’s Church Alnwick, a centenary history. (Alnwick, 1936)
2. Introduction: Catholic missions in Northumberland and Durham in the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries
3. Alnwick
4. Beaufort
5. Bellingham (once Hesleyside and Tone Hall)
1 file 

UC/P45/1/30   [mid 20th century]
“Northumberland Missions II”:
1. Biddleston Hall
2. Callaly Castle, with a printed pamphlet: Culley, Matthew, Callaly and the Claverings (London, 1905)
3. Capheaton
1 file 

UC/P45/1/31   [mid 20th century]
“Northumberland Missions III”:
1. Cheeseburn Grange
2. Cowpen and Blyth
3. Dilston Castle
4. Ellingham Hall
5. Felton Hall
6. Haggerston Castle
1 file 

UC/P45/1/32   [mid 20th century]
“Northumberland Missions IV”:
1. Hexham
2. Hexham (Franciscan)
3. Hexham (Dominican)
4. Hexham (Secular)
1 file 

UC/P45/1/33   [mid 20th century]
“Northumberland Missions V”:
1. Longhorsley
2. Minsteracres
3. Morpeth
4. Netherwitton
5. North Shields
6. Swinburne Castle
7. Thropton
1 file 

UC/P45/1/34   [mid 20th century]
“Northumberland Session Books I”
Northumberland County Records: extracts referring to recusancy, 1609-1685
1 file 

UC/P45/1/35   [mid 20th century]
“Northumberland Session Books II”:
Papers relating to 1680–1745, extracted from County of Northumberland Sessions Order Books
MSS in the possession of the bishop of Hexham and Newcastle and depositions from York Castle
1 file 

UC/P45/1/36   [mid 20th century]
“Registers”
Register of baptisms in Stella, Darlington, Stockton and Birtley, 1775-1840
1 file 

UC/P45/1/37   [1960 x 1969]
“Northumberland Various MSS”:
1. Papists in Northumberland, July 1620
2. Emancipation Act of 1791
3. Recusants in Northumberland, May 1597
4. Bishop Chandler’s visitation notes, c.1736
5. List of Roman Catholic gentry in Northumberland before 1725
6. Haggerston Letters and Sir Carnaby Haggerston’s tour abroad, 1711-1720
7. Copies of 17th century letters at Ellingham
8. Hebdon’s account book
1 file 

UC/P45/1/38   [mid 20th century]
“Registers”:
Register of baptisms in:
1. Bishopwearmouth (Sunderland, St Mary's), 1809-1829
2. Durham secular mission, 1739-1821
3. Durham Jesuit mission, 1767-1826
4. Hardwick, 1743-1747
5. Pontop
1 file 

UC/P45/1/39   [mid 20th century]
“Registers”:
1. Beaufort and Woodhead, 1774-1796 (baptisms)
2. Haggerston, 1790-1909 (deaths); 1834 (Easter communicants); 1852 (Confirmation list)
3. Ellingham including Wooler mission, 1779-1839
1 file 

UC/P45/1/40   [mid 20th century]
“Catholics in the County of Northumberland in the Eighteenth Century”, mostly papers relating to the rebellions of 1715 and 1745:
1. Deals with land tax, 7 March 1705
2. Undated list of landowners.
3. List of persons certified as refusing to take the oath and therefore certified as papists, June 18th 1708
4. Justices' certificate of papists in Coquetdale and Balmbrough Wards, 14 October 1715
5. Justices' certificates of papists in Coquet Dale Wards, 4 October 1715
6. List of papists in Coquet Dale West division (no date)
7. List of reputed papists in the West Division of Balmbrough Ward
8. Probable draft of paper 1710 – 1745
9. List of papists for the north Division of Balmborough Ward, 1745
10. List of papists for the South Division Balmborough Ward 1715
11. List of papists in the West Division of Glendale Ward
12. Papists summoned to appear before the justices, 21 September (1745)
13. List of papists in the East Division of Coquetdale Wards
14. List of papists in the South Division of the Coquetdale Ward
15. List of papists within the East Division of the Coquetdale Ward
16. List of papists within the Northern Division of the Coquetdale Ward
17. List of papists in the North Division of the Coquetdale Ward
18. List of papists in Rothbury parish, 16 August 1715
19. Papists in the North Division of Coquet Dale Ward, 19 August 1715
20. Letter of summons sent by Mr Justice Taylor to seven gentlemen of Northumberland
21. Letter of summons, 11 January 1716
22. Certificates of papists and others summoned to take oaths in Act I Georgii who refused to take said oath
23. Letters of instruction to the High Constable of Northumberland ordering that he search for arms and horses which may be held by recusants, with the reply that none were found
24. Schedule of papists in the Coquet Dale Ward East Division, 1722
25. Letter to the High Constable South East Division of Tindale ward requiring a search for arms and horses over £5 in value, and requiring that he inform listed persons of a summons to appear before the justices
26. Schedule of papist recusants in the North West division of Tindale Ward. 1722
27. List of persons summoned 5th June 1722
28. Abstract for the levying of £100,000 on the papists
29. Authorisation for those named to recover monies from recusant papists, 10 July 1723
30. Valuation of papist estates and relevant accounts
31. Papers regarding the whereabouts of James Thornton of Netherwitton
32. Instructions to Deputy Lieutenants to put Northumberland into the “best condition for defence”, September 1745
33. Justices' certificate of papists in Coquet Dale Ward, 1745
34. Warrant to summon papists, 14 September 1745
35. Warrant to seize papists' horses, arms, etc.
36. Warrant to summon papists. 14 September 1745
37. Names of High Constables of Northumberland, 1745
38. Justices' certificates of papists in Castle Ward at Moothall, 1745
39. Warrant to seize papists' horses etc., September 1745
40. List of names of Papists in the West Division of Glendale Ward, September 1745
41. List of names of papists within the East Division of Castle Ward, September 1745
42. Order to Lord Tankerville to seize recusants' arms and horses over the value of £5 and to restrict recusants' movements to within 5 miles of their residence
43. Justices' certificate of papists in Tindale Ward Hexham, January 1745
44. Justices' certificate of papists in Castle Ward at Moothall, 1745
45. List of papists within the West Division of Castle Ward, September 1745
46. List of papists in the West Division of Morpeth Ward, September 1745
47. List of names of papists within the East Division of Morpeth Ward, September 1745
48. List of papists within the South Division of Tindale Ward, September 1745
49. List of names of papists within the North West Division of Tindale Ward, September 1745
50. List of papists within the West Division of Tindale Ward, September 1745
51. List of papists in the Eastern District of Tindale Ward, September 1745
52. List of papists in the North Eastern District of Tindale Ward
53. List of papists in Hexham, 1745
54. List of papists living in Hexhamshire
55. List of papists summoned to appear, 24 September 1745
56. Papists summoned in the Northwest Division of Tyndale Ward
57. List of papists in the West District of Tindale Ward
58. List of papists in the North East division of Tindale Ward
59. List of names of papists in the East Division of Castle Ward, 1745
60. List of the names of papists in the West Division of Castle Ward
61. List of names of papists in the North Division of Coquetdale Ward
62. List of names of papists within the West Division of Coquetdale Ward summoned, September 1745
63. List of papists in the South District of Coquetdale Ward summoned, September 1745
64. List of papists in the North Division of the Coquetdale Ward summoned, September 1745
65. List of papists in the North Division of Bamburgh Ward summoned, September 1745
66. List of papists in the Douth Division of Bamburgh Ward summoned, September 1745
67. List of papists in the East Division of Glendale Ward summoned, September 1745
68. High Constable warrant to seize all arms etc. belonging to papists, August 1714
69. Warrant to seize persons who may have been involved in the recent rebellion, January 1716
70. Warrant to seize persons, arms and horses of the disaffected within Northumberland, October 1715
71. Warrant regarding riotous and tumultuous assemblies, October 1715
72. Warrant ensuring due diligence in identifying papists, non jurors and others who may act against H.M. Government and ordering the seizure of such persons, their arms and horses
73. Certificate of Edward Charlton taking the aaths of Allegiance, Supremacy and Abjuration, January 1715
74. Summons to papists in Castle wards, February 1714
75. Recognizance binding Mich. Jobling to be of good behaviour.
76. Draft order to seize recusants who may be plotting against the crown and to convey them to goal in Morpeth, October 1715
77. List of persons refusing to take the oaths before justices, February/April 1715
78. Certificate of names of those summoned to take the relevant oaths at the General Quarter Sessions, Morpeth
79. Appendix B. Return of the number of places of worship not of the Church of England in the County of Northumberland, January 1830
80. Appendix C. List of returns of dissenters' places of worship, 1688 - 1853 (County Durham and Northumberland.)
81. Appendix D. Paper 1. Number of Roman Catholics as presented by Parson Walton, 1722
82. Appendix D. Paper 2. Numbers of Northumberland papists in 1708 and 1763
83. Appendix D. Paper 3. Totals of the lists of papists in the diocese of Durham 1767
84. Appendix D. Paper 4. Totals of the lists of papists in the diocese of Durham 1767
85. Appendix D. Paper 5. Totals of the lists of papists in the diocese of Durham 1743/4
86. Appendix E. Extracts from the Catholic Record Society Vol 32, 1932
87. Extracts from “The Franklin MSS” Vol 1. Page 282. Note of Introduction
88. Extract from Witton Gilbert Parish Registers, 1616 re recusants
89. Extracts from letters re papists in various parishes
90. List of popish priests resident in the diocese of Durham 1767
91. Letter from the vicar of Piercebridge re the baptism of children of mixed marriages by Catholic priests, 1736
92. Answers to visitation questions of the bishop of Durham (re Papists)
93. List of papists in the parish of Ellingham, Northumberland
94. List of all papists in the parish of Darlington in the diocese of Durham, 1780
95. Index of names
96. List of documents of interest filed with Northumberland County Records Office
97. Enrolment Books 1719 – 1791
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UC/P45/1/41   [mid 20th century]
“Hexham MSS Stonecroft Parts I and II”
A history of the dispute between the Franciscans and Dominicans, over who should serve Hexham, written by Father Peter Antonius Thompson O.P. between 1725 and 1741. It also contains information regarding the priests who served at Stonecroft and other parishes in Northumberland.
1 file 

UC/P45/1/42   [mid 20th century]
“Registers Book 1”
Transcripts of registers for areas of Co. Durham, Northumberland and North Yorks:
1. Alnwick, 1794-1812
2. Billingham, 1794-1837
3. Haggerston, 1786-1840
4. Haggerston, 1790-1850 (Deaths)
5. Burington and Berwick, 1793-1816, 1804-1840
6. Ellingham, 1779-1840
1 file 

UC/P45/1/43   [mid 20th century]
“Registers Book 2”
Transcripts of registers for areas of Northumberland:
1. Witton Shields, 1789-1803
2. Morpeth, 1803-1869 (incomplete)
3. Cheeseburn Grange, 1775-1816
4. Stella, 1817-1839
5. Thropton, 1769-1840
6. Some parts of Newcastle upon Tyne, 1765-1794
7. North and South Shields, 1771-1837
8. Minsteracres, 1769-1839
9. Whittingham 1724-1811
1 file 

UC/P45/1/44   [mid 20th century]
“MSS Hexham, St Mary’s”
Contains information about registers 1715-1832, including the registers of the Dominican Mission in Hexham, St Mary’s Hexham and the Secular Mission at Cockshaw. With detailed listings of Easter Communion and Confessiones Sacramentales.
1 file 

UC/P45/1/45   [mid 20th century]
“Newcastle. Various Authors”
Accounts of the Newcastle Catholic Mission
1. Typed copy of “The Suppression of the Hierarchy in Newcastle and Gateshead” by Joseph Gillow (1889)
2. Typed copy of “Newcastle and Gateshead” by J.R. Batenden, 1912
3. Printed copy of Old St. Andrews, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, written by Very Rev W. Canon Brown 1915
4. Printed copy of Catholic Newcastle by W. Vincent Smith 1933.
5. “Marian Priests in Newcastle under Queen Elizabeth” by W. Vincent Smith, Ushaw Magazine 1934
6. “The Tyne in 1620 and Mrs D. Lawson” by Provost Consitt
7. The Churches and Chapels of Newcastle (Nicholson, 1871)
8. Printed copy of A Description of St. Mary’s Catholic Church Newcastle-upon-Tyne (1848)
9. Printed extract An Historical Description of the Roman Catholic Chapel, Newcastle-upon-Tyne 1826
10. Universe article on Dorothy Lawson
11. Northern Cross article on old St Andrew's School
12. St Dominic’s Parish, 1873-1973
1 file 

UC/P45/1/46   1825 - [mid-20th century]
“Newcastle: Notes and Papers”:
1. Newcastle Catholic Library Rules
2. Printed poster advertising a Catholic Tract Society Meeting, 17th July 1825
3. Drawing of a Catholic School, Newcastle–upon-Tyne, by J. A. Dodds.
4. Printed appeal to raise money for St Andrew’s Church, Worswick Street, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1892
5. Sketches of the sanctuary, Old St Andrew's, 1825
6. Catholic Church, Carliol Square, 1833, copied from Northern Monthly Chronicle
7. Print of Catholic School (St Andrew's)l, Newcastle-upon-Tyne by J. Ewbank, DCL
8. Print of Old St Andrew’s Chapel and School, 1835
9. “Mulier Fortis” Tercentenary of a Tyneside Heroine. Penal Times and Dorothy Lawson”, by Rev W. Vincent Smith
10. Subscription sheet for a new (larger) Catholic Chapel in Newcastle
11. Article from Northern Cross, 1983 re St Andrew’s Church, Bishop Thorman and Cardinal (George) Basil Hume
12. Typescript article entitled “Smuggling in and out of Tyneside 1585–1595”
13. Note on John Raynes, master of the West Spital
14. Note on John Carr, postmaster of Newcastle
15. Note by Alfred J. Ellison on Sir Cuthbert Ellison, priest
16. Typescript transcript of the first report and accounts of the Newcastle Society of Vincent de Paul, 1846–48
17. Newcastle residents mentioned in the Register of Roman Catholics in Northumberland in the 18th Century, Surtees Society (1918)
18. Letter to Father Mick, dated 21 August 1932, accompanied by a print of “The Cloisters, Blackfriars, Newcastle”
19. Document of the restoration of property to Thomas Thornton and his wife in 1659 and a document regarding George Bertram petitioning the Commissioners at Haberdashers Hall, London in 1653
20. Printed letter regarding the anniversary meeting of the Newcastle-upon-Tyne Catholic Friendly Society, 1825.
21. Additional copy of the print of the sanctuary of Old St Andrew's, 1825
22. Letter granting Rev Father W. Vincent Smith permission to use the Library of the Society of Antiquaries in 1932
23. Extracts from St Andrew’s register of Burials, 1630-1650
24. Letter from A. Ellison to Fr Vincent Smith, June 1934
25. Index of references to Tyneside places in Catholic Record Society publications
26. Notes from “A History of English Canonesses of Holy Sepulchre (New Hall)”, printed for private circulation, 1899
27. Letter to Fr Smith from A. Ellison, 25 October 1932
28. Letter to Fr Smith from A. Ellison, 25th May 1934
29. Handwritten note with an example of what happened to clerical and monastic property
30. Handwritten notes from Surtees Society vol. 116 with brief extracts from printed wills to see how Newcastle behaved during the early reformation period
31. The Marian Priests in Newcastle under Queen Elizabeth, printed in the Ushaw Magazine, July 1934
1 file 

UC/P45/1/47   [mid 20th century]
“Northern Brethren”:
1. Transcript of the Cecil MSS, which directs the setting up of the Northern Brethren's Fund including rules for the election of officials and its administration. 1596
2. “The N.B.F.” A history of the Northern Brethren's Fund, with appendices including, NBF Rules 1691 and 1726; deeds of 1693, 1697 and 1703; list of benefactors 1710; and a list of the superiors etc
3. Printed pamphlet: The Northern Brethren's Fund, 1660-1960
4. Papers relating to the Northern Brethren Fund, including agenda, rules etc., 1983-84
1 file 

UC/P45/1/48   [mid 20th century]
“Biddleston A/C Book. 1816–1826”:
1. Alwinton Parish Register, 1719-1723
2. Register of births of dissenters, Alleton and Hollystone 1765-1803
3. Biddleston Account Book, October 1816-November 1826, and school accounts, December 1864-January 1867
1 file 

UC/P45/1/49   [mid 20th century]
“MSS at Thropton”:
Includes registers, 1647-1682
1 file 

UC/P45/1/50   [mid 20th century]
“Recusant Rolls”
County of Northumberland, 1599-1682
1 file 

UC/P45/1/51   [mid 20th century]
W.V. Smith, “Eighteenth century mass centres in the county of Durham”
1 file 

UC/P45/1/52   [mid 20th century]
“Jesuit Archives at Farm Street, London”
A history of the Jesuits in the Durham District (towns in Northumberland and Durham), pts 1-3
3 files 

UC/P45/1/53   [mid 20th century]
“Tyneside Sketches”
Playscripts written in the Tyneside vernacular:
1. “The Folks on Wor [Stare?] Heed”
2. “Tyneside Sketches, a play in five acts”
1 file 

UC/P45/1/54   [mid 20th century]
“WIddrington Families”:
1. Family trees
2. The Widdringtons of Felton
3. Roger Widdrington and the Widdringtons of Swinburn and. Cartington
4. Sir Ralph Widdrington and the Widdringtons of Hirst
5. Benjamin Widdrington and the Widdringtons of Buteland
6. John Widdrington and the Widdringtons of Chibburn, Plessey and Monkwearmouth
7. Sir Ephraim Widdrington and the Widdringtons of Ritton and Trewhitt
8. Robert Widdrington and the Widdringtons of Barnhill
9. Thomas Widdrington and the Widdringtons of Ashington and Nesbett, par. Stamfordham
10. Rodger Widdrington and the Widdringtons of Colwell
11. William Widdrington and the Widdringtons of Thropton
12. Robert Widdrington and the Widdrington’ of Templehealey
1 file 

UC/P45/1/55   [mid 20th century]
“Constable of Everingham Park MSS, Part I and II”:
1. Over 100 letters written to Sir Marmaduke Constable 1720 – 1730 and some letters to Mr Potts O.S.B., chaplain at Everingham
2. Family correspondence to the end of the 18th century
3. The letter book of Mr Potts
4. Private correspondence of Mr Potts
Included in this volume are the family trees of the Salvins of Croxdale Hall, the Swinburnes of Capheaton, the Radcliffes of Dilston, the earls of Derwentwater, and the Haggerstons of Haggerston and Ellingham, to whom Sir Marmaduke was related.
1 file 

UC/P45/1/56   [mid 20th century]
“Constable of Everingham Park MSS, Part III”:
1. Correspondence of Sir Marmaduke Constable and Sir Carnaby Haggerston, 1740–1745
2. Appendix A. Chaplains to the Haggerston family
3. Notes (compiled by Fr W. Vincent Smith)
1 file 

UC/P45/1/57   [mid 20th century]
“Constable of Everingham Park MSS, Part IV”:
Personal correspondence of Dom J. Bede Potts O.S.B. including index and notes
1 file 

UC/P45/1/58   [mid 20th century]
“Constable of Everingham Park MSS, Part V, Volumes A and B”
Letters from Dom J. Bede Potts O.S.B. to Sir Marmaduke Constable, 1726–1743
1 file 

UC/P45/1/59   [mid 20th century]
“Constable of Everingham Park MSS, Part VI”
Letters from Sir Marmaduke Constable to Dom J. Bede Potts O.S.B., 1730–1743, including bibliography and notes
1 file 

UC/P45/1/60   [mid 20th century]
“Constable of Everingham Park MSS, Various”
Correspondence between Dom J. Bede Potts O.S.B. regarding Sir Marmaduke Constable’s affairs. This includes the family trees of the Potts of Mitford, Widdringtons of Colwell and the Haggerstons of Haggerston Castle
1 file 

UC/P45/1/61   1967 - 1973
1. Typescript copy of Peter Roebuck's article “The Constable's of Everingham, 1640-1760”
2. Offprint of Peter Roebuck's article “Absentee landownership in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth centuries: a neglected factor in English agrarian history”, The Agricultural History Review, v. 21 (1973)
1 file 

UC/P45/1/62   [mid 20th century]
“Yorkshire Various MSS”
Yorkshire Record Office Beverley. Some MSS of Catholic Interest:
1. Langdale of Holme on Spalding Moor
2. Will of Dame Jane Vavasour of Haslewood
3. Book of cases regarding papists’ estates
4. Deed of Langdale of Howton 1698
5. Deed of Langdale of Howton 1699
6 Deeds of Derwentwater of Dilston re lead mines
7. Lease from the earl of Derwentwater 1702
8. Assignment from Hon Thomas Radcliffe to Thomas Errington
9. Assignment to Nicholas Armstrong of Alston Moor
10 Assignment to Robert Widdrington of Widdrington
11. Assignment to Ambrose Barnes of Newcastle
12. 21 deeds mostly relating to the Radcliffes of Dilston
13. Appointments by Henry, duke of Newcastle 1688
14. Mortgage Sir Thomas Creagh of Newcastle to Hon J. Radcliffe 1697
15. Declaration of trust by Hon Thomas Radcliffe 1699
16. Petition of Lady Mary Radcliffe to the Commissioners for Forfeited Estates
1 file 

UC/P45/1/63   [mid 20th century]
“Leeds Diocese MSS. Douai College Agent 1722-1793”
This is a transcription of the Yorkshire Agent’s Douai College accounts 1722-1793
1 file 

UC/P45/1/64   [mid 20th century]
Grand Tours of Sir Marmaduke Constable 1701 and William and Edward Hogg, 1746-51
1 file 

UC/P45/1/65   [mid 20th century]
“PRO Recusant Rolls I”
Copies of the recusant rolls for the Durham area (39 Eliz - 1637)
1 file 

UC/P45/1/66   [mid 20th century]
“PRO Recusant Rolls II”
Copies of the recusant rolls for the Durham Area (36 Eliz - 1637)
1 file 

UC/P45/1/67   [mid 20th century]
“PRO Recusant Rolls III”
Copies of the recusant rolls for the Durham Area (21 Jas I - 11 Chas I)
1 file 

UC/P45/1/68   [mid 20th century]
“Papist Returns 1680-1735”:
1. Printed Pamphlet: Transactions of the Architectural and Archaeological Society of Durham and Northumberland, Vol. XI, Pts V and VI
2. Papists Removal and Disarming Bill (1680)
3. List of all the papists or reputed papists within the county palatine of Durham
4. Return of papists for the counties of Durham and Northumberland, 1705. Organised by individual parish return.
1 file 

UC/P45/1/69   [mid 20th century]
“Papist Returns for 1767 in Northumberland”
1 file 

UC/P45/1/70   [mid 20th century]
“Hexham and Newcastle Diocesan Archive Part I”
Volume I, A–G:
1. Bellingham
2. Berwick-upon-Tweed
3. Biddleston
4. Birtley
5. Brooms
6. Callaly
7. Cowpen
8. Croxdale
9. Durham St Cuthbert
10. Durham St Godric
11. Esh
12. Gateshead
1 file 

UC/P45/1/71   [mid 20th century]
“Hexham and Newcastle Diocesan Archive Part I”
Volume II, H-St:
1. Hartlepool
2. Hexham I Cockshaw
3. Hexham II Hencoats
4. Hexham III Stonecroft
5. Houghton-le-Spring
6. Hutton House
7. Jarrow
8. Longhorsley
9. Lowick
10. Newcastle Secular Mission
11. Newcastle St Andrew
12. Newcastle St Anthony, Walker
13. Newcastle Cathedral Church of St Mary
14. Newcastle St Dominic
15. Newhouse
16. North Shields
17. South Shields
18. Sedgefield
19. Stella
20. Stockton-on-Tees
1 file 

UC/P45/1/72   [mid 20th century]
“Hexham and Newcastle Diocesan Archive Part I”
Volume III, Su-Z:
1. Sunderland
2. Sunderland St Joseph
3. Thropton
4. Tudhoe
5. Tyne Dock
6. Wallsend
7. Witton Shields
8. Wolsingham
9. Wooler
10. Wrekenton
1 file 

UC/P45/1/73   [mid 20th century]
“Hexham and Newcastle Diocesan Archive Part II”
Account books and other papers about funds, 1740-1827
Book A:
Part I. Account book of Rev Will Maire and Rev Nic. Clavering 1741-1781
Part II. Monies paid to Missions (Four Account Books) 1760-1825
Part III. Account book of Rev John Coates, 1751-1794
Part IV. Account book of Rev Thomas Eyre 1794-1810
1 file 

UC/P45/1/74   [mid 20th century]
“Hexham and Newcastle Diocesan Archive Part II”
Account Books and other papers about funds 1740 -1827
Book B:
Part V. Account Books of Rev John Yates 1810-1827
Part VI. “Durham Estate” account book, 1769-1827
Part VII. Account books of Bishop Matthew Gibson. 1781-1795
Part VIII. “The Maire Charity Monies” 1694-1823
Part IX Miscellaneous Papers:
1. Letters to Bishop William Gibson
2. Accounts of the Mission Funds
3. Various Legacies etc.
4. Banker Wright’s Correspondence etc.
5. Bishop Penswick’s Affairs
6. The Finance Committee
7. Division of funds of the Old Northern Vicariate, 1840
1 file 

UC/P45/1/75   [mid 20th century]
“Hexham and Newcastle Diocesan Archives Part 3: Various Bundles of Papers”:
1. The Cartington Charity
2. Mission boundaries, 1854
3. Mission inventories c. 1838-1851
4. Benedictines
5. Franciscans
6. Jesuits
7. Returns of papists etc.
8. The Taylor family of Cornsay
9. Ushaw College
10. Miscellaneous papers: faculties, bishops etc.
11. Colleges: Lisbon, Prior Park, Rome, Valladolid
12. Dominican papers of the 17th Century
13. Jacobite papers, Act of 1722, report of 1739
14. Trial of Edward Barrow of Westby Hall, 1746
15. Lancashire papers: Burscough Hall, Fernyhalgh, Manchester, Robert Hall, Stonyhurst, Wigan and Yeland
16. London District. Rev Jos. Bolton
17. Westmorland papers. Dodding Green, Kendal
1 file 

UC/P45/1/76   [mid 20th century]
“Hexham and Newcastle Diocesan Archives Part 3: Various Bundles of Papers” (continued):
1. Yorkshire papers: Aldborough, Crathorne, Marton, Sheffield and Ugthorp
2. Rowland Conyer’s benefaction
3. Papers of Thomas Crowe
4. List of priests who left Ushaw between 1808 and 1835
5. List of souls for whom masses should be said, by the incumbent of Puddington, 1715-1836
6. Thurnham papers 1785
7. Papers of Rev Thomas Roydon senior, c.1699-1746
1 file 

UC/P45/1/77   [mid 20th century]
“Hexham and Newcastle Diocesan Archives Part 4”
Episcopal letters of Bishop John Gibson, 1790-1814
1 file 

UC/P45/1/78   [mid 20th century]
“Hexham and Newcastle Diocesan Archives Index”
Index to the diocesan archives of Hexham and Newcastle Parts 1, 2 and 3
1 file 

UC/P45/1/79   [mid 20th century]
“Return of Papists for the county of Durham, 1767”
1 file 

UC/P45/1/80   [mid 20th century]
“St. Cuthbert's Durham MSS”, transferred to Durham County Record Office in 1966
1. Forcer papers
2. Recusants indicted at the General Sessions at Durham, 1606-1615
3. Papists in Durham City, 1731
1 file 

UC/P45/1/81   [mid 20th century]
“Westminster MSS. Bishop Leyburn’s Confirmations”
A record of Bishop Leyburn’s confirmation tour which took place 7- 16 August 1687. Names of candidates are recorded for places visited, which included Cliffe, Durham, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, Netherwitton, Cartington, Swinburn, Dilston and Callaley
1 file 

UC/P45/1/82   [mid 20th century]
“Lancashire Records Office Bishop Dicconson’s Letter Books”
Transcripts of the bishop’s letters 1734-1738
1 file 

UC/P45/1/83   [mid 20th century]
Miscellaneous:
1. Forster letters relating to Ushaw (1810-1814) and priests in Northumberland (1810-1820)
2. Typescript article entitled “The post-Restoration persecution of the clergy in the north of England”
3. Typescript article entitled “Recusant doctors and surgeons in Northumberland and Durham, 1655-1791”
4. Typescript note on French emigré priests
5. Typescript article entitled “Widdrington Bourne of Morpeth, a Catholic schoolmaster in 1764”
6. Typescript article entitled “Two Newcastle lawyers in 1705”
7. Extracts from the Surtees Society, vol. 173 on Durham recusant estates, 1717-1778
1 file 

UC/P45/1/84   [mid 20th century]
“Upholland MSS I”
Preliminary calendar for the Banister-Rutter papers, 1781-1794
1 file 

UC/P45/1/85   [mid 20th century]
“Upholland MSS II”
Further correspondence and transcripts of Banister-Rutter letters, as well as typescript articles entitled “Names of all the priests who, educated at the English College, Lisbon, have laboured on the mission in England arranged according to the dates at which they left the College”, and “Visitations and clergy-lists of Bishops Thomas Williams, Edward Dicconson, William Walton, Matthew Gibson & William Gibson”
1 file 

UC/P45/1/86   [mid 20th century] - 13 March 1977
“Northumberland Registers”
Papers of the Forsters including Upper Eshells and Kenstone, as well as emigrant letters from James Thomas Forster describing his new life in Quebec, 1834-1858
1 file 

UC/P45/1/87   [mid 20th century]
“Hodgson, Salvin and Trollop”
1. The Hodgsons of Hebburn and Langley. Coat of arms, family tree and recusant records of the Hodgson family
2. The Hodgsons of Brandon. Family tree and recusancy records
3. The Hodgsons of Lintz. Family tree and recusancy records
4 The Hodgsons of Manorhouse. Family tree and recusancy records
5. The Salvins of Croxdale. Coat of arms, family tree and recusancy records
6. The Salvins of Thornton Hall and Heworth. Family tree and recusancy records
7. The Trollops of Thornley. Coat of arms, family tree and recusancy records
8. The Mass centre at Thornley
1 file 

UC/P45/1/88   [mid 20th century]
“Radcliffe and Haggerston”:
1. The Radcliffes of Cartington and Dilston. Family tree and recusancy records
2. The Radcliffes of Thropton and Warton. Family tree and recusancy records
3. The Radcliffes of Blanchland and Netherwitton. Family tree and recusancy records
4. The Radcliffes of Corbridge. Family tree and recusancy records
5. The Haggerstons of Haggerston. Coat of arms, family tree and recusancy records
6. The Haggerstons of Sandhoe and Ellingham. Family tree and recusancy records
7. The Haggerstons of Fenwick. Family tree and recusancy records
8. Untraced Haggerstons
1 file 

UC/P45/1/89   [mid 20th century]
“Forcers”
Papers of the Forcers of Harbourhouse, including recusancy roll, 1591-1635
1 file 

UC/P45/1/90   [mid 20th century]
“Claverings and Riddells”
1. Papers of the Claverings of Callaly; Berington; and Leachild
2. Papers of the Riddells of Gateshead; Fenham and Swinburn; Swinburne, Longhorsley and Felton; and Cheeseburn Grange
1 file 

UC/P45/1/91   [mid 20th century]
“Witham, Blakiston and Maire”
1. Notes on the recusancy of Witham family
2. The Withams of Cliffe. Family tree and recusancy records
3. The Maxwell-Withams. Family tree and recusancy records
4. The Withams of Stockton. Family tree and recusancy records
5. Other Withams including Peter, a secular priest in Old Elvet, Durham
6. The Blakistons of Blakiston (and Gibside). Coat of arms, family tree and recusancy records
7. Newspaper cuttings re Gibside
8. The Maires of Hardwick. Coat of arms, family tree and recusancy records
9. The Maires of Hartbrushes. Family tree and recusancy records
10. The Maires of Barnacre. Family tree and recusancy records
11. The Maires of Hedley Hope. Family tree and recusancy records
12. The Mission at Lartington
13. Maire Charity monies
1 file 

UC/P45/1/92   [mid 20th century]
“Benedictines”
1. Dom Peter Allanson, O.S.B., “An account of the Benedictine missions in England”
2. Record book of the Northern Province
3. Correspondence with V.W. Smith re: Benedictines
1 file 

UC/P45/1/93/1-   [mid 20th century]
Transcripts of documents in Ushaw College Library:
1 file 

UC/P45/2   9 September 1929 - 29 August 1982
Correspondence, mostly letters to Fr W.V. Smith from librarians, archivists and friends, answering research enquiries on recusant history and commenting on draft manuscripts
Some letters enclose transcripts of documents
1 file 

UC/P45/3   [?1930 x 1980]
Research notes on recusant history by Fr W. V. Smith, with some transcripts of documents
5 files 

UC/P45/4   1897 - 1983
Printed material (including articles and pamphlets) on aspects of recusant history
2 files 

UC/P45/5   1926 - October 1983
Newspaper cuttings collected by Fr W. V. Smith from the Northern Cross and other local newspapers concerning articles on Catholic history in North East England
1 file 

UC/P45/6   1916
Notebook of W. Vincent Smith of history notes compiled while a schoolboy at Ushaw College
1 notebook