APPENDIX

Appendix 1 Penal Laws

For over 200 years Catholics of north Lincs were penalised by the laws of their country. Such as the following:

1. Catholic Peers were forbidden to sit in the House of Lords and other Catholic citizens were not eligible for Parliament.

2. Catholics were obliged to pay double tax and could not vote, and every office of state, even the most insignificant, was forbidden. Non attendance at the protestant church incurred a fine of £2 per month.

3. Catholics could not bear arms, engage in lawsuits, be executioners, practise law or medicine and were forbidden to travel more than 5 miles from home or 10 miles from London.

4. Anyone convicted of constantly refusing to attend the church could be banished for life and if that person returned could be liable to death.

5. Any purchase of land by Catholics had no legal standing. Anyone keeping a Catholic as a tutor could be fined £10 a month and the tutor was fined £2 per day. By sending one’s child to the Continent the fine was £200 and the child automatically lost all legal rights.

6. Any priest found saying mass was fined £120, anyone hearing mass was fined £60. Any Catholic priest returning from abroad who did not abjure his religion within 3 days and any person who returned to the Catholic faith or procured another to return was guilty of high treason The punishment in all cases was public execution by H.D.Q.

7. Catholic Peers were forbidden to sit in the House of Lords and other Catholic citizens were not eligible for Parliament.

8. Catholics were obliged to pay double tax and could not vote, and every office of state, even the most insignificant, was forbidden. Non attendance at the protestant church incurred a fine of £2 per month.

9. Catholics could not bear arms, engage in lawsuits, be executioners, practise law or medicine and were forbidden to travel more than 5 miles from home or 10 miles from London.

10. Anyone convicted of constantly refusing to attend the church could be banished for life and if that person returned could be liable to death.

11. Any purchase of land by Catholics had no legal standing. Anyone keeping a Catholic as a tutor could be fined £10 a month and the tutor was fined £2 per day. By sending one’s child to the Continent the fine was £200 and the child automatically lost all legal rights.

12. Any priest found saying mass was fined £120, anyone hearing mass was fined £60. Any Catholic priest returning from abroad who did not abjure his religion within 3 days and any person who returned to the Catholic faith or procured another to return was guilty of high treason The punishment in all cases was public execution by H.D.Q. From 1778 to 1926 the penal laws against Catholics were progressively abolished in England.

Appendix 11 Thomas Arthur Young’s benefactions in Lincolnshire

1. Gainsborough. Thomas Arthur bore the cost of the presbytery and church of St. Thomas of Canterbury founded in 1866. It was opened privately on 3rd October 1867 and the Solemn Oopening took place on 27th May 1868. The first Requiem Mass celebrated there was for Juliana Young. There is a memorial stone just inside the door of the church bearing Thomas Arthur’s initials within a shield.

2. Market Rasen The north aisle and the baptistery of the Church of Holy Rood (which was founded in 1782) was constructed at his expense. The foundation stone was laid and blessed on 18th December 1867 the Feast of the Expectation of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The memorial stone is built into the outside of the wall of this aisle.

3. Crowle The priory of St Norbet, Crowle, which together with 5 acres of land, the presbytery, church and school was constructed at his expense, was built in 1871 and the first Mass was said there on 2nd September 1872. It was built to reintroduce the Order of St Norbert- the Premonstratensions or Norbertines-into England. In the course of undertaking this task, Tjhomas Arthur became friendly with the Abbott of Tongerleoo Abbey near Antwerp, Belgium- the Rev. Thomas Heylen. The first monks to come to Crowle were Fr Martin Goudons and Fr. Basil Dockx, in September 1872, when the Priory was opened.

4. Spalding Here Thomas Arthur bore the cost of a villa, church, presbytery and land. Fr Gaudens and Fr Dockx helped to start the church in 1875 until the arrival of Fr Van Brison Thomas and Fr John Jochems from Tongerloo. It was opened in 1878. Corresponding recently( needs date citation) with Brother Aldrick of Tongerleoo Abbey, he commented:- “I remember when I was in our Spalding Mission in 1910 there was a little chalice, a gift of Thomas Arthur Young, which we used when cycling to the Irish harvesters to say the Sunday Mass for them. I am sure it is still there and of good use.”

5. Grimsby The story has been told the Thomas Arthur wished very much to build a church at Lincoln and had already approved the design before approaching the Bishop Of Nottingham. When he approached him, however, the Bishop refused to allow him to build the church at Lincoln. Disappointed, but not to be done out of building the church, Thomas Arthur said: 2very well, if you will not let me build it in Lincoln, I shall build it at Grimsby”, to which the Bishop consented. The church was opened on 19th August 1883.

6. Lincoln Though Thomas Arthur was not allowed to build the church there, he succeeded in building two houses adjoining the presbytery for the use of the church which was built later.

7. Frodingham From a cutting from “The Catholic Fireside” of 23rd August 1913, it appears that Thomas Arthur was largely responsible for the expansion of this mission.
In addition to the foregoing works, he was responsible for many others in minor degree, notably at Osgodby, Skegness, Sleaford and Woodhal Spa.

Appendix III John Lingard

John Lingard was born in Winchester on February 5th 1771. He was baptised the following day by James Nolan in St. Peter’s Catholic chapel. Lingard’s parents John and Elizabeth had come to live in Winchester with their daughter Jane from North Lincolnshire. Their families had lived inClaxby and nearby for generations. The Lingards had chosen to live in Winchester after the 1745 invasions of the Jacobite followers of Prince Charles Edward Stuart from Scotland. On that occasion the authorities had arrested many Lincolnshire folk on suspicion of involvement with the rebellion.

Elizabeth Lingard’s father was one of those arrested; he had been imprisoned and fined for alleged complicity with the rebels. The fines and imprisonment ruined him so his daughter Elizabeth and her husband John left their home iin Lincolnshire to live in Winchester where there was a flourishing Catholic community. Some of Elizabeth’s relations had already come to live in Winchester and Dom. Placid Metcalfe a Benedictine priest from Lincoln was ministering to Catholics there.

The Lingard family became involved in the local Catholic church asthey had been in the rural community near to the Catholic chapel in Claxby. Consquently the young John Lingard was sent when he was eleven, in 1782, to the English college at Douai in France, with a view to becoming a priest.

John Lingard was a brilliant scholar, and was appointed while still a student himself to be a teacher of younger pupils, but before he could be ordained the French Revolution broke out and war between England and France was declared in 1793. The college was attacked several times and John’s life was endangered. The college closed iin 1793, professors and studnts fled to England and eventually settled at Crook Hall in Co. Durham.

John Lingard was appointed Vice-President, even though he was not ordained a priest until six months later. When the college moved to Ushaw on the death of its president he acted as president until a successor was appointed. Lingard was then offered presidency of a number of institutions, but he declined preferring to retire to a modest parish in Hornby, Lancashire, where he could pursue his studies and his writings on what became his History of England, that was published in parts between 1818 and 1830. For this work he received considerable sums amounting to £4,133. Lingard used this money to establish several bursaries for students at Ushaw.

The History was recognised as an outstanding piece of work written from a Catholic perspective by a scholar using original sources. Lingard was showered with praise and honours by English speaking countries and by foreign universities.

Pope PiusVII bestowed on him a triple doctorate in divinity, canon and civil law, and his successor LeoX11 gave him a gold medal normally reserved for cardinals and princes. He continued his scholarly work until his death in 1851 at the age of 80, and was buried at Ushaw. As well as his History of England, he is best remembered as the author of the popular hymn, “Hail Queen of Heaven”.

The story of the Rennel’s / Lindgard families illustrates the changes which occurred between theJacobite Rebellion of 1745 and the restoration of the English Catholic Hierarchy in 1850. John Lingard and his parents had lived through a period that had started with persecution of Catholics and ended a hundred years later with toleration and recognition of them.
John Lingard

Appendix IV Candidates Confirmed by Bishop Leyburn 1687 Clixby

Mary Porlington
Catherine Harrison
Ann Machinis
George Mounson
Mary Browne
Bridget Pennithorne
John Dolman
Thomas Stephenson
Peter Penithorne
John Hanson
Edward Machinis
Edward Flockton
Mary Ward
George Chisell
George Hanson
Thomas Grise
John Hanson
Chatarin Pettifor
Mary Barket
William Stephenson
Mrs Francis Bilston
John Grise
Peter Bret
Briget Morley
Francis Stephenson
Mary Pople
Francis Wadford
Mary Medcof
Christifer Bilson
Edward Pople
Wm Moore
Wm. FitzWilliams
Wm Tatam
John People
John Knight
Thomas Griffin
John Taffe
Alan Munson
Mary Hannah Metcalfe
Rebecca Metcalfe
Elizabeth Holmes
Antony Munson
Hainton
Matthew Copland
Dorothy Bradley
John Parker
Thomas Cooper
Ann Sibsey
Ann Sales
Catherin Clay
Ellin Garland
Emerentiana Stafford
Will Stafford
Emer Stafford (deleted)
Joh Carlton
Francis Stokes
Richard Haleby
Eliz Cwley
Anth Pakeman
Christ Hildeyard
Mary Siser
George Chissel
Gabriel Eno
John Smedley
Dorothy Clifton
Mary Michael
Cecily Heneage
John Heneage
John Milner
John Elvigh
Ann Pettifor
John Fawcet
Mary Gray
Mary Simson
Mary Fawcet
John Fawcet
Elizabeth Chadoc
John Baxter
Jane Grimes
John Stokes
Elizabeth Chadoc
John Baxter
John Grimes
John Stokes
Elizabeth Pettiferl
Ann Coleman
George Boulton
Simon Manders
Betty Hall
John Holland
Elizabeth Holland
Henry Stokes
Mary Faucet
Ann Stokes
Ann Lilly
Willlilliam Gariola
Margery Holland
Mary Iranmunger
Edward Shadoc
Lincoln
William Story
George Brerely
Elizabeth Taylor
Thomas Taylor
Ursula Dawson
John Fogarthy
Mary Cod
Thomas Hern
Robert Warrener
Mary Guest
Joseeph Wilson Thomasthorp
Mary Thorp
Francis Hutchinson
Mary Allen
William Alen
Mary Gascoin
Elizabeth Cod
Joseph Proudlove
Recca Wilson
John Woods
William rosdel
Hugh Allen
Anna Lynwood
William Allen
William Sutton
Robert Hollyfield
Joseph Wilson
William Prideon
John Cod
James Sharrock
Henry Robinson
Ann Sharrock
James Willoughby
James Air
Ann Woods
John Gesh
Sara hern
John Wilson
Mary Wilson
William Pridieon
Ann Pridieon