^1. Ms. 9800. Huelin's, Dr. article, “Some Early Eighteenth-Century Roman Catholic Recusants,” appeared in The Journal of Ecclesiastical History, VII, no. 1 (April 1956) pp. 61–68.Google Scholar For the House of Lords’ petition of 28 February 1706, which gave rise to these returns, see Coverdale, P., “The Number of Essex Papists in 1706” in the Essex Recusant, II, no. I (Brentwood, April 1960) pp. 16–29 Google Scholar and sources there cited. On 14 March 1706 the Privy Council directed that orders should be drafted to be sent to the two Archbishops, the Lords-Lieutenant and Custodes Rotulorum “pursuant to the said Address” (P.R.O., P.C.2/81, pp. 157-160) and on 4 April an Order in Council called for detailed particulars of the papists in each parish (for text of the Order, see Huelin, op. ext. p. 62).

^2. In a file labelled “Returns of Papists, Box. 1.”

^3. Diocesan Archives, Salisbury: Returns of Papists, Box 1 (bundle marked “Returns of Papists, 1706-1767”). The three parishes were all in Salisbury (St. Thomas, St. Edmund and St. Mary).

^4. Returns of Papists, 1705/6 (Salisbury portion). This, for example, gives the occupation of the papists at Ninety and Marlborough, whereas the diocesan return gives only their names, and it somewhat amplifies the information given in the latter about two papists in the parish of Wilcot (see supra, p. 17).

^5. Diocesan Archives, Salisbury: Returns of Papists, Box 1.

^6. Diocesan Archives, Salisbury: Returns of Papists, Boxes 1 and 2 respectively; cf. also Victoria County History of Wiltshire, III (1956) p. 96.

^7. Oliver, G., Collections Illustrating the History of the Catholic Religion in Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Wiltshire and Gloucester (1857) p. 73.Google Scholar

^8. ibid., p. 72.

^9. Foley, H., Records of the English Province of the Society of Jesus (1877–1883) V, p. 771.Google Scholar

^10. The letter is the first item in a volume marked “English Province Correspondence, 1746-1854.”

^11. See my “Benedictine Missions in Wiltshire in the 17th and 18th Centuries” in The Downside Review (Autumn, 1960) p. 269.

^12. Hoare, Sir R. C., History of Modern Wilts., Hundred of Dunworth (1829) p. 21.Google Scholar

^13. P.R.O., P.C. 2/76, p. 437 (26 May, 1696).

^14. County Record Office, Trowbridge: Enrolments of Papists’ Estates, 1717-1788; Estcourt, E. E. & Payne, J. O., English Catholic Nonjurors of 1715 (1886) p. 285.Google Scholar See also my article “A Wiltshire Recusant Family: ‘A Malitious Prosecution’” (Wiseman Review, June 1960, pp. 146-8).

^15. P.R.O., Series E.377. The Jopson entries occur in rolls 68 and 70 to 81 (James) and 68 & 73 (his wife). For further particulars of these documents see Bowler, H., “Some Notes on the Recusant Rolls of the Exchequer,” in Recusant History vol. 4, no. 5 (Bognor Regis, 1958) pp. 182–198,Google Scholar and the “Corrigenda & Addenda” in the following issue (pp. 243-4).

^16. See my article “Some Sidelights on Recusancy Finance under Charles II” in The Dublin Review, Autumn, 1959, pp. 245–254 Google Scholar for some evidence of the erratic exaction of financial penalties for recusancy.

^17. P.R.O., E.377/68

^18. In 1717 a “Mary Anne, spinster” registered property at Sutton Mande-ville (County Record Office, Trowbridge: Enrolments of Papists’ Estates 1717-1788; Estcourt & Payne, loc.cit.).

^19. County Record Office, Trowbridge: Great Roll for Hilary term 1666 (presentment by Cawdon & Cadworth Hundred-jury).

^20. For the family, see Codrington, R. H., Memoir of the Family of Codrington (privately printed Letchworth, 1911)Google Scholar; also Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society, XXI, part 2 (1898) pp. 301–345.Google Scholar Two sons who became priests towards the end of the seventeenth century, Bonaventure and Thomas Codrington, are mentioned in V. C. H. Wilts., III, p. 89.Google Scholar A Franciscan nun (Elizabeth Codrington, widow) and friar (Anthony Codrington) are mentioned in vol. XXIV of the Catholic Record Society (1923), pp. 59 and 301-2 respectively.

^21. Codrington, op. cit p. 75.

^22. Lambeth Palace Ms. 639, f.254 verso.

^23. County Record Office Trowbridge: Great Rolls, Trinity term, 1661-1685 (presentments by the constables and Hundred lury of Dunworth); P.R.O. Series E.377/68, 70-79, 82. The other five names on the recusant rolls have not been traced back to an initial presentment.

^24. County Record Office, Trowbridge: Enrolments of Papists’ Estates, 1717-1788; Estcourt & Payne, op. cit, pp. 286-7 (also pp. 43, 82).

^25. V.C.H., Wilts., p. 96 (Table A).

^26. See The Downside Review, Autumn 1960, pp. 264-8.

^27. It is described by John, Aubrey, Wiltshire Topographical Collections (ed. J. E. Jackson, Devizes, 1826) p. 391.Google Scholar

^28. Hoare, Sir R. C., History of Modern Wilts., Hundred of Mere (1822) p. 50.Google Scholar

^29. A Tour Through England and Wales (Everyman edition, 1948) I, p. 191.

^30. Those in the recusant rolls are William Bracher (or Bradshaw) in roll no. 73 (P.R.O. Series E.377), Richard Coffin (rolls 73, 76 and 78), his wife (73), Mary Nattlebury (73), Thomas May and his wife (73), William Moore and John Stourton (73 & 78); those registering property in 1717 were Henry Wall and Thomas Stourton (Estcourt & Payne, op. cit., pp. 43, 228).

^31. Burton, cf. E., The Life and Times of Bishop Challoner (1909) II, p. 277 Google Scholar and Gasquet's “Some troubles of the Gawen Family in Penal Times “(Downside Review, Dec. 1895, p. 292). The memorials to the Stourton family in the parish church are listed by the Rev. Ellis, J. H., The Registers of Stourton, Wilts. (1887), pp. iv to vi.Google Scholar These registers record the burials of twenty-nine of the papists named in the 1706 return.

^32. Hundred of Mere (1822) p. 52.

^32. Compiled under the supervision of C.B.J., Lord Mowbray, Segrave and Stourton, 2 vols., 1899.

^33. History of the Noble House of Stourton, I, pp. 500–501.Google Scholar This enclosure is not mentioned in W. E. Tate's invaluable”Handlist of Wiltshire Enclosure Acts and Awards “in the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, CLXXXIII (Devizes, 1945), pp. 127-173.

^34. Forster, cf. A. M. C., “A Durham Family: Jenisons of Walworth” in Biographical Studies, 1534–1829, vol. 3, no. 1 (Bognor Regis, 1955) pp. 2–13.Google Scholar

^35. e.g. Shepherd, Barnes, Bracher, Feltham, Davis etc. The Bonham registers, dating from 1767, were consulted in the transcript made by the late Dom Paul Brookfield O.S.B., of Downside Abbey.

^36. My totals for 1767 and 1780, based on the Returns of Papists (Boxes 1 and 2 respectively) in the Diocesan Archives at Salisbury, differ slightly from those printed in V.C.H. Wilts., III, p. 96 (Table A). The latter has “no return” for Stourton in 1780 but allows an estimated hundred papists in calculating the total. In fact a return was made by the rector of Stourton, of eighty-three plus “many more belonging to the Parish who are out at Service”; his letter dated 11 September 1780, was, however, folded in four and marked on the outside “Papists Sept. 11th., 1780: Stourton none”—hence its omission from the tabulated returns both at Salisbury and in the Record Office of the House of Lords (Returns of Papists, 1780: Salisbury portion).

^37. Two in St. Edmund's parish, three in St. Martin's and seven in St. Thomas's.

^38. Elizabeth, widow of the third Earl, was a Catholic; she appears in the 1717 registration of papists’ estates (County Record Office, Trowbridge; Estcourt & Payne op. cit., pp. 175, 284-5). May, widow first of the Catholic Charles Arundell—Killed at the Battle of Worcester—and then of the fourth Earl of Castlehaven, was doubtless a Catholic also. In “G.E.C.,” Complete Peerage, III (1913) p. 88 (q.v. also for the two Countesses already mentioned) the widow of the fifth Earl is stated to have been a Catholic.

^39. Doran Webb, cf. E. (ed.) Notes by the 12th Lord Arundell of Wardour on the Family History (1916): genealogical table facing p. 84.Google Scholar

^40. Ms. copy in the Library of the Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Society at Devizes Museum (p. 72). A John Horton—stated in 1717 to have been of Woolverton, Somerset—registered .property in both Wiltshire and Somerset as a Catholic non-juror (County Record Office Trowbridge: Enrolments of Papists’ Estates; Estcourt & Payne, op. cit. pp. 227, 284).

^41. 1705 Poll Book (Devizes Museum—library) pp. 83, 97, 101 (Charles Saph of Stapleford, William Harman of Wilton and Francis Cruse of Wooton Bassett respectively).

^42. Constitutional History of England (1908) p. 520.

^43. House of Lords Record Office: Main Papers 321, c.66; his is the sixteenth name in a list of twenty-eight. The names, rearranged in alphabetical order, are printed in V.C.H., Wilts., III p. 94, note 90. See also Hist. Mss. Commission, 11th Report (1887) Appendix 2, section 321.

^44. Extract printed in Wilts. Notes & Queries, VIII (Devizes 1917) pp. 342-7 For the working of the 1625 Subsidy Act, see Dom, Hugh Aveling in C.R.S. 53 (1961) pp. 295–303.Google Scholar

^45. Waylen, J., “The Falstone Day-Book” in Wilts. Archaeological … Magazine, LXXVII (Devizes, 1892) p. 377.Google Scholar

^46. County Record Office, Trowbridge: Great Rolls for Hilary term 1661-1685 (Cawdon & Cadworth presentments) and P.R.O. Series E.377/68-79, 82. The presentments show that there were two popish recusants named William Champion—a senior and a junior—and it may be that the entry on recusant roll no. 82 refers to one and that on no. 68 to the other.

^47. cf. my article “An Unexamined Aspect of the Penal Laws: the Problem of the Double Land-Tax” (Dublin Review, Spring 1959) p. 34.

^48. Oliver, op. cit., p. 53.

^49. A Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs (1857) IV, p. 703.Google Scholar

^50. cf. my “Catholicism and Jacobitism, Some Wiltshire Evidence ” (Dublin Review, Autumn 1960, pp. 245-254) where, incidentally, I erred in connecting Lord Stourton's arrest with Fenwick's Plot; he was sent to the Tower in 1692 and Fenwick's Plot was in 1696.

^51. Diocesan Archives, Salisbury: Returns of Papists, Box 1 (from the rector of Odstock, 15 August 1767).

^52. Diocesan Archives, Salisbury: Bishop Barrington's Visitation Mss., (1783) f.1255 (also cited in V.C.H. Wilts., III, p. 88, note 13. There seem to be no grounds for alluding to a “congregation of some 50 persons” in the 1780s (V.C.H., Wilts., III, p.88); nine were reported in 1780 (ibid., p. 96 Table A).

^53. V.C.H., Wilts., III, p. 89, note 27.

^54. County Record Office, Trowbridge: Enrolments of Papists’ Estates, 1717-1788; Estcourt & Payne op. cit. p. 287.

^55. House of Lords’ Record Office: Returns, of Papists 1705/6 (Salisbury portion).

^56. Diocesan Archives, Salisbury: Returns of Papists, Box 1.

^57. The 1680 list is in the Record Office of the House of Lords (Main Papers 321, c. 66). For the marriages, see Lord Mowbray, Segrave, C.B.J., and Stourton, , The History of the Noble House of Stourton (1899) I, p. 507,Google Scholar II, p. 715; Estcourt & Payne, op. cit., pp. 42, 194; J. Hutchins, History of Dorset (3rd ed., 1861-3) I, pp. 371-6; 391-405.

^58. Estcourt & Payne, op. cit., passim (cf. index).

^59. cf. “G.E.C.” Complete Peerage, IX (1945), p. 509 Google Scholar; E. Burton, The Life and Times of Bishop Challoner (1909) passim; Worrall, E. S., “Petre Schools: the Charity of Lady Catherine” in Essex Recusant, I, no. 3 (Brentwood, 1959) pp. 109–114,Google Scholar and I. Anthony Williams, “Some Eighteenth-Century Conversions, “ in Essex Recusant, III, no 3 (Brentwood, 1961) pp. 129-133.

^60. V.C.H., Wilts., III, p. 89.

^61. County Record Office, Trowbridge: Enrolments of Papists’ Estates, 1717-88; Estcourt & Payne, op. cit., pp. 284, 285.

^62. cf. Mrs. Stapleton, B., Oxfordshire Post-Reformation Catholic Missions (1906) pp. 165, 232-3Google Scholar. In 1767 five persons of this surname, and in 1780 two, were reported at West (or Great) Shefford, Berks. (Diocesan Archives, Salisbury: Returns of Papists, Boxes 1 and 2 respectively).

^63. County Record Office, Trowbridge: Papists’ Oaths of Allegiance, 1778-1830.

^64. 3 Jac. I, cap. 5. Presentation to Wiltshire livings was granted to Oxford.

^65. P.R.O., Warrant Book, 1686-8 (S.P. 44/337) pp. 66-7. This document is reproduced, but with no indication of its source, by Fr. Thaddeus, The Franciscans in England (1898) pp. 102-3. For the Englefields, see Trappes-Lomax, T. B., “The Englefields and their contribution to the survival of the Faith in Berkshire, Wiltshire, Hampshire and Leicestershire” in Biographical Studies, 1534–1829, I no. 2 (Bognor Regis, 1951) pp. 131–148.Google Scholar

^66. 1 Wm. & Mary, sess. 1, cap. 8. By cap. 24, such persons’ rights of presentation were awarded to the two Universities. On “constructive recusancy,” cf. Butler, C., Historical Memoirs of English, Irish and Scottish Catholics (1822 edition) III, p. 166,Google Scholar where, however, this conception is traced only to 1 Geo. I, st. 2, cap. 13.

^67. cf. Archbishop David Mathew's illuminating essay “The Background to Challoner” in Richard Challoner, 1691-1781 (Various authors 1946) especially p. 8.