English Martyrs Papers

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Introduction

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Catalogue

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Contents

Miscellaneous series of MS transcripts of documents and printed items relating to the English martyrs.

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Provenance

Collection brought together by Rev. Michael Sharratt as part of the Old Series of documents in Ushaw College Library.

Previous custodial history

Previous collection number OS 2 Fa

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 pg.library@durham.ac.uk 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

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Joseph Bamber Papers

Catalogue

UC/P27/1   [?late 19th century]
Rough notes, mostly taken from printed sources, on English martyrs
1 bundle 
UC/P27/2   [?late 19th century]
Transcript of a secondary source on the detention of four Catholic youths in Lancaster (Thomas, Robert, Richard and John Worthington)
7f 
UC/P27/3   [late 19th century]
Transcript entitled “The manner of proceeding against Mr John Rigby a Catholic Gent, put to death in London this present year 1600” from Thomas Worthington, A Relation of Sixteen Martyrs (Douai, 1601), p.3-45
35f 
UC/P27/4   [1887]
Language:  Latin
Hilairus Alibrandi (S.C.A.) & Joannes Baptista Lugari, Westmonasteriensis Confirmationis Cultus VV. Servorum Dei Hugonis Faringdon, Richardi Whiting, Ioannis Bechii et Adriani Fortescue Nec Non Servi Dei Thomae Percy in Anglia Pro Fide Interemptorum ([1887])
Revised by Gustavus Adv. Persiani
14p 
UC/P27/5   5 November 1745
Note from Samuel Buck to the keeper of York Gaol requesting him to take into custody Rev Thomas Wilson accused of being a popish priest
1f 
UC/P27/6   [?late 19th century]
Language:  Latin
Various transcripts of manuscript sources from the 1580s taken from the archives of the English College in Rome on the subject of the English martyrs
34f 
UC/P27/7   [?late 19th century]
Transcript of a manuscript source (dated 24 October 1593) on [?the arrest of] popish priests for saying mass
35 
UC/P27/8   [??early 20th century]
Typescript catalogue of a collection of English Martyrs' papers
10f 
UC/P27/9   1929
Language:  Latin
Pope Pius XI, Sanctissimi Domini Nostri PII Divina Providentia Papae XI Litterae Apostolicae Quibus Venerabiles Servi Dei Thomas Hemerford, Sacerdos Saecularis, Ionnes Roberts, Sacerdos Ordinis S. Benedicti, Ionnes Jones, Sacerdos Ordinis Fratrum Minorum, Robertus Southwell, Sacerdos E Societate Iesu, Phiilippus Howard, Comes de Arundel Borumque Socii Omnes in Anglia in Odium Fidei Interempti Beati Benuntiantue (Vatican City, 1929)
14f 
UC/P27/10   [?late 19th century]
Transcript of a manuscript source of ballads of Catholic martyrs (Sir Thomas Hoghton and John Thulis)
Note confirming that the original manuscript is on a parchment cover formed out of a marriage settlement dated 1717 and is in the possession of a Mr John W. Bone Esq.
4f 
UC/P27/11   [1939]
Language:  Latin
Cardinal Gasparri, Pius PP. XI Ad Perpetuam Rei Memoriam (Vatican City, [1939)]
1 broadsheet 
UC/P27/12   [1970 x 1979]
Photostat of a manuscript source entitled “Of Mr John Felton executed in London 8 Aug 1570” written by Felton's daughter
6p 
Westminster Archives
UC/P27/13   [1886]
Language:  Latin
Decretum Westmonasterien. Beatificationis seu declarationis maryrii venerabilium servorum Dei in odium fidei in Anglia interemptorum
1 broadsheet 
UC/P27/14   [?late 19th century]
Language:  Latin
Transcript of Barberini XXXIII, 89, “Vita et Martyrsium [?] et Reverend. In Christo Patris, [?] Fissheri, Doctoris Theologi, Roffensis et S.E.R. Cardinalis Angli”
10f 
UC/P27/15   [20th century]
Notebook entitled “Our English Martyrs, 1535-1680”
Lists of martyrs, including name, date of death, education, age, method of death, place martyred, and year beatified.
Note on the recto of the front endpaper: "This MS was written by a former Ushaw student, Dom Paschal Jeffreys, a Carthusian monk at Parkminster, and probably sent to the President of Ushaw College"
Former shelfmark: Lower Library 3 IV C 3
Transferred from the Lisbon Room safe
1 notebookpages 1-11, 1-6 
UC/P27/16   [20th century]
List of Lancashire priest martyrs, including (where known), name, town of birth, education, and date and place of death
2 membranes