William Newman Papers

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Introduction

About the creator

Contents

Arrangement

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Catalogue

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About the creator

Rev William Newman (1577-1640) was the driving force behind the establishment of Lisbon College. Although he was never to become president, Newman founded the college from property entrusted by the estate of the late Nicholas Ashton, a Catholic chaplain in Lisbon.

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Contents

Papers of William Newman mostly during the period of his official employment as a chaplain in Lisbon, including faculty papers, notes and a letter to King Philip IV of Spain on the threat posed by the Dutch fishing fleet, and letters to the Inquisition on the suppression of controversial works and opinions.

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Accession details

Lisbon College closed in 1973 and this collection, along with the rest of the Lisbon Archive and Library, was transferred to Ushaw College by Mgr James Sullivan in the following year.

Conditions of access

Open for consultation.

Copyright and copying

Permission to make any published use of material from the collection must be sought in advance from the Lisbonian Society and, where appropriate, from the copyright owner. The Library will assist where possible with identifying copyright owners, but responsibility for ensuring copyright clearance rests with the user of the material

Arrangement

The papers follow the original arrangement of the collection which is broadly chronological.

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Finding aids

Calendared card catalogue

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Catalogue

LC/P9/1   1621
Language:   Portuguese
William Newman's account of the English Residency in Lisbon and its connection with the proposed seminary
1f 
LC/P9/2   1 August 1624 - 8 June 1632
Language:  Portuguese
Faculties by William Newman:
10 items 
LC/P9/3   15 March 1629
Language:   Portuguese
Receipt from Francesca Gil to W. Newman for 32 milreis
2f 
LC/P9/4   [?1630]
Language:   Spanish
Declaration by W. Newman to Philip IV of Spain about the Dutch fishing fleet (“la pesqueria Holandes”), presumably written in [?August] 1630
2f 
LC/P9/5   25 April 1631
Language:   Spanish
Aide-mémoire by W. Newman for the oral presentation in Madrid of a case about the Dutch fishing fleet
This item cannot be located, 11 December 2012
8f 
LC/P9/6   6 June 1631
Language:   Spanish
Letter from W. Newman to the Inquisition (Madrid): delation of certain religions in Madrid whom Newman accuses of possessing replies to Kellison's Treatise of the Hierarchy and the Inquisition's investigation
Authenticated copy
Includes typescript transcript
2f/4p 
LC/P9/7   20 September 1631
Language:   Spanish
Note by W. Newman about the Dutch fishing fleet
This item cannot be located, 11 December 2012
1f 
LC/P9/8   [?1631]
Language:   Spanish
Petition by W. Newman written in Madrid about the Dutch fishing fleet
2f 
LC/P9/9   [?1631]
Language:   Portuguese
Letter from W. Newman to King Philip IV of Spain: reasons for admitting three of his relatives to the English Nunnery (Syon) at Lisbon
2f 
LC/P9/10   17 January 1632
Language:   Spanish
Three petitions from W. Newman to the General Council of the Inquisition at Madrid: delating William Stillington S.J. in connection with the Modesta ac brevis discussion of “Nicholas Smith” and the ensuing controversy
Includes a typescript transcript
2f/10p 
LC/P9/11   [?1632]
Language:  Portuguese and Latin
Letter from W. Newman to the [?Inquisition at Madrid]: suspecting propositions taken from Jesuit books with condemnations by Irish bishops
1f 
LC/P9/12   26 February 1632
Order from King Philip IV of Spain to pay W. Newman 698,141 milreis, arrears of his salary as chaplain to the garrison of Lisbon Castle from 1611 to 1630
2f 
Old Catalogue Number 236a