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‘An Establishment at Salisbury’: Some Letters Concerning Catholicism in the City, 1795–1834

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 September 2015

T.G. Holt S.J.
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THE HISTORY of Catholicism in Salisbury from Reformation times until the earlier years of the nineteenth century has been told in so far as it is known in the Victoria County History of Wiltshire, in the volume of the Catholic Record Society devoted to recusancy in that county and in an article in The Month: ‘John Peniston's Reminiscences’.’ As an introduction to what follows the information contained in these may be briefly summarized.

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British Catholic History , Volume 18 , Issue 1 , May 1986 , pp. 103 - 111
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Copyright © Catholic Record Society 1986

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Notes

1 V.C.N. Wilts., 3, pp. 93—4; 6, pp. 155—6; Anthony Williams, J., Catholic Recusancy in Wiltshire, 1660–1791 (C.R.S. Monograph I, 1968) pp. 100,Google Scholar 166–9, 207, 214–9, 244, 249–52, etc.; The Month, no. 1131 (1961) pp. 298—300—a contribution by J. Anthony Williams whose researches also influenced the section in V.C.H. Wilts., 6.

2 Diary of Fanny Burney (Everyman edn.) p. 57, cited in Catholic Recusancy in Wilts., p. 168.

3 Bishop Walmesley was informed that the number of French emigres in the Salisbury congregation was between thirty and thirty—five in 1797 (City of Bristol Record Office, 35721: Rev. J. B. Marest to Walmesley, 17 Feb. 1797, in French). I owe the reference to this and other papers among the Clifton Diocesan Archives, hereafter cited as C.B.R.O. 35721, to the kindness of Mr. J. Anthony Williams who brought them to my notice. John Baptist Marest was a French refugee priest who was later stationed at Wardour.

4 C.B.R.O. 35721, 3 Feb. 1797.

5 Wright's were the Catholic bankers of Henrietta St., Covent Garden, for whom see Essex Recusant, 11 (1969) pp. 66 ff.

6 C.B.R.O. 35721, 8 Feb. 1797.

7 Lord Arundell, 8th Baron; James Everard and presumably his son (also James Everard), later 9th Baron. For Messrs. Peniston, Weeks and Joy, see Catholic Recusancy in Wilts., p. 219. The letter is in C.B.R.O. 35721, 30 May 1797 (in French).

8 C.B.R.O. 35721, 3 Jan. 1798. The Rev. Charles Catrow was chaplain to the Austin nuns at Amesbury House, Wilts. (Anstruther, 4, p. 58); the Mr. Arundell first mentioned would seem to be Raymond Thomas; Odstock appears to have ceased to be a Catholic centre by about 1769; Mr. Fontaine may have been the Antoine Joseph des Fontaines who died in London in 1800/1801 rather than J. B. de la Fontaine, a suppressed French Jesuit who was in England from about 1768 till 1816; the Honble. Mr. Arundell is James Everard; the ‘five or six priests’ were presumably French refugees; Ralph Southworth was also at Amesbury House and Dominic Clifton, vere Fanning, was at Dean House near Salisbury as chaplain to the nuns of the Holy Sepulchre (Anstruther, 4, p. 251; C.R.S., 70, p. 91); Mrs. Arundell died in 1799.

9 C.B.R.O. 35721, 1 May 1798.

10 For the moves of the chapel see V.C.H. Wilts., 6, pp. 155—6; for the suggestion about Vaux Place, V.C.H. Wilts., 3, p. 94, n. 80. The Laity's Directory persists from 1814 in describing St. Martin's Chapel as being in St. Anne's Street.

11 Papers of the College of St. Thomas of Canterbury (in the Jesuit province archives), ff. 178, 311 ff. Another meeting at Salisbury is mentioned in the next paragraph and yet another, in 1787, in Edwards, F., The Jesuits in England (1985) p. 151.Google Scholar

12 Collections Illustrating the History of the Catholic Religion (1857) p. 73.

13 Quoted in the article in The Month cited in note I, above.

14 Foley, Records, 5, p. 814.

15 English Province Correspondence (in the Jesuit province archives), f. 171. George Bruning was writing of future plans.

16 Bishop Baines lived until 1843.

17 Benjamin Louis Moutardier was at Lulworth, Kichard Parker at Wardour.

18 James Knight remained at Courtfield until 1830 and then moved to Soberton in Hampshire.

19 Papers of the College of St. Thomas of Canterbury, ff. 93–4. John tloward, vere Holme, was a secular priest and the nephew of two Jesuits, Frs. Edward arid Francis Holme; after years at the old Jesuit mission at lrnham in Lincolnshire he died at Salisbury in July of this year. See Foley, Records, 7, p. 368.

20 Papers of the College of St. Thomas of Canterbury, ff. 95–6. The annual sum or subsidy of £10 came from the province funds of the Jesuits.

21 Collections …, p. 257.

22 Papers of the College of St. Thomas of Canterbury, f. 97, 28 Sept. 1833.

23 Oliver, Collections…, p. 350, says he was a Dominican but he is not in Obituary Notices of the English Dominicans by W. Gumbley, O P. (1955) under that name.

24 DI/7 and 14/2/16/420 in the Jesuit province archives.

25 College of St. Thomas of Canterbury papers, f. 99.

26 Collections…, p. 73; V.C.H Wills, 6, p. 156. Trappes-Lomax, M. in Pugin (1932) pp. 51–2,Google Scholar discusses A. W. Pugin's rôle as architect of this church and adds that Mr. Lambert became the Kt. Hon. Sir John Lambert, P.C., K.C.B. and was Mayor of Salisbury in 1854. I am grateful to Mr. J. Anthony Williams for this reference.

27 Strickland Letters (Jesuit province archives), f. 115; College of St. Thomas of Canterbury papers, ff 312–4, 317; The Month, art.cit., p. 299; Catholic Recusancy in Wilts., pp. 219, 261; Stonyhurst Lists.