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CRS Record Series

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Volume I: Miscellanea I (1905)

  • Dr Nicholas Sanders , Report to Cardinal Moroni on the change of religion in 1558-9 [1561].

  • Official Lists of Prisoners for Religion from 1562 to 1580.

  • Conclusion of the Autobiography of Fr William Weston, S.J., 1589-1603.

  • Letterfrom the Ven. Christopher Robinsonto the Rev. Richard Dudley, describing the Martyrdom of the Ven. John Boste, 1594.

  • Papers concerning Catholics during the reign of K. Charles I.

    • Relation of a brawl between the King's officers and the servants of the French Ambassador, concerning the Catholics who resorted to Mass at Durham House, 1626.

    • Letter from Sir John Coke to Lord Conway about the apprehension of a priest at Newington, 1626.

    • Letter of Protection for John Colleton, Priest, 1626.

  • The Notebook of John Southcote, D.D., 1628-36.

  • Autobiographicaland Genealogical Notebook of the Ven. Arthur Bell, O.S.F. , 1638.

  • The Obituary of Dom John Huddlestone, O.S. B. , temp. the Civil War.

  • The Common-place Book of Edmund Napper of Holywell, Oxon.

  • The Owst Permit.

  • Family Notes of the Smiths of Drax.

  • Family Notes of Wilks, Sherlock , Lewys, Whitmore &c.

  • Family Note of Roskell, etc.

  • Catholic Mission Registers of St Peter's, Winchester, 1731-1826.

  • Catholic Mission Registers of Cowdray House, 1745-1822.

  • Catholic Mission Register of Perthîr.

Volume 2: Miscellanea II (1906)

  • Testimonial by Bishop Goldwell and others in favour of Thomas Sackville, afterwards Earl of Dorset . Also three papers from the Vatican on the messages sent by him to Queen Elizabeth.

  • The Memoirs of Father Robert Persons:

    • Father Persons' Autobiography , 1546-1584.

    • A Storie of Domesticall Difficulties in the Englishe Catholike cause.

  • The Official Lists of Catholic Prisoners during the Reign of Queen Elizabeth , Part II, 1581-1602.

  • Records relating to Catholicism in the South Wales Marches, 17th and 18th Centuries.

  • Assent by the Earl of Huntingdon to a Licence to leave home granted to John Beaumont, Esq., of Gracedieu, a Recusant, in 1610.

  • Catholic Registers of Towneley Hall, Lancashire. With the Chaplain's Stipendiary Accounts, and an account ofthe Terrier of Martholme .

  • Petition of Denis Molony to be allowed to practise at the Bar.

  • Catholic Registers of Cheam, Surrey.

  • Catholic Registers of Wootton-Wawen , Warwickshire.

  • Catholic Registers of Bellingham (formerly Hesleyside), Northumberland.

Volume 3: Miscellanea III (1906)

  • Queen Elizabeth's License to Richard Hoghton to visit his brother Thomas , 1576.

  • Tower Bills, 1575-1589 .

  • The Life and Martyrdom of Mr. Maxfield, 1616.

  • Memoir of Edmund Mathew alias Poins at St. Omers College , 1667.

  • Recusants of Masham , Yorkshire, 1589-1628 .

  • Three Letters relating to the treatment of the Catholic Prisoners in Wisbeach Castle, Cambridgeshire , 1615.

  • Three Letters and Translations of the Archpriest Harrison relative to the appointment of an Agent at the Roman Curia, 1618.

  • A Chapter Necrology, 1670-1678 .

  • Catholic Registers of Holywell, Flintshire, 1698-1829.

  • Catholic Registers of Nidd Hall , N.R. of York, 1780-1823 .

  • Catholic Registers of Llanarth, Monmouthshire, 1781-1838.

  • Catholic Registers of St. Joseph's Chapel , Trenchard Street, Bristol, 1777-1808 .

  • Extract of Letter from Sir Robert Crosse to Sir Robert Cecil, 1607.

  • Certificate of Canon Tierney subscribing the Oath of Allegiance, 1813. 

Volume 4: Miscellanea IV (1907)

  • Father Persons' Memoirs (Concluded).

  • Lord Burghley's Map of Lancashire, 1590. 

  • Tower Bills 1595-1681, with Gatehouse certificates, 1592-1603. 

  • Catholic Chaplaincies and Families in the North during the Eighteenth Century

  • Family notes of the Knights of Lincolnshire. 

  • Documents at Everingham

  • Catholic Registers of Holme-on-Spalding-Moor, E. R.  York, 1744-1840. 

  • Catholic Registers of Robert Hall, 1757-1811, and of Hornby, 1811-1851. 

  • The nuns of the Institute of Mary at York, 1677-1825.

  • Papist Returns for the City of York and part of the Ainsty, 1735.

  • Catholic Registers of York Bar Convent Chapel, 1771-1826.

  • Catholic Registers ofthe Domestic Chapel of the Vaughan Family at Courtfield in the Parish of Welsh Bicknor, Monmouthshire, 1773-1832.

  • Inscriptions from Middleton Hall Chapel, Ilkley, Yorkshire.

  • Father John Birkett, Confessor in Lancashire Castle, and the recent discovery of documents 1679-1680.

Volume 5: Unpublished documents relating to the English Martyrs (1908)

Volume 6: Miscellanea V (1909) 

  • Abbess Neville's Annals of Five Communities of English Benedictine Nuns in Flanders, 1598-1687. 

  • The will of Christopher Stonehouse of Dunsley, Whitby, circa 1564-1631.

  • A list of convicted recusants in the reign of king Charles II

  • Catholic Registers of Crondon Park, Essex, with notes about Hopcar, Lancashire.

  • Catholic Registers of Lulworth Castle, Dorset.

Volume 7: Miscellanea VI (1909)

  • Bedingfeld Papers

    • Sir Henry Bedingfeld, the Cavalier

    • Colonel Thomas Bedingfeld

    • Sir Henry Bedingfeld, the First Baronet

    • Sir Henry Bedingfeld, the Second Baronet

    • Sir Henry Arundel Bedingfeld

    • Sir Richard Bedingfeld, Fourth Baronet

    • Catholic Baptismal Registers of Oxburgh (1791-1811)

    • Census of Oxburgh Catholics (1790-1804)

    • Notes, Monuments and illustrations

  • A List of Monmouthshire Recusants, 1719

  • Obituaries of relatives of Abbess Newsham of St. Clare's Abbey, Darlington, 1759-1858

  • Everingham Papists, 1767. 

  • Catholic Registers of Everingham Park, Yorkshire, 1771-1884. 

  • Catholic Registers of Richmond, Surrey, 1794-1839. 

  • Catholic Registers of Callaly Castle, Northumberland, 1796-1839. 

  • Catholic Registers of Slindon, Sussex, 1698-1840. 

  • Catholic Registers of Waterperry, Oxon, 1700-1793. Continued at Oxford, 1793-1834. 

  • Genealogical Supplement to the Bedingfeld Papers.

Volume 8: The Diary of the 'Blue Nuns' or Order of the Immaculate Conception of Our Lady, at Paris, 1658-1810 (1910).

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