The passage before the L.P. was this. H.A. having occasion to goe unto some grounde [...] [manuscript], 1619-1626.

York, 1619-1626.

1 item ; 30 cm x 19 cm

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Stored flat in sling and envelope with description and partial transcription; awaiting rehousing.
Running tear at head.

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Ordered from: Leo Cadogan Rare Books Ltd, D9531, 2021-09-29, Cat. "MANUSCRIPTS - NEW ACQUISITIONS", item #1. From dealer's description: [England. Council of the North] [Recusancy] [Begins] The passage before the L.P. was this. H.A. having occasion to goe unto some grounde [...] [York] [c.1619-1626]. Manuscript, one sheet, 29.4 cms. x 18.8 cms., writing to both sides, secretary hand, 89 lines of c.11 words (c.950 words in all). Nearly two lines crossed out on verso. Light browning, dustiness, tears at central horizontal foldline, tear at top entering text. Three names added in an early hand to margins. An old number ‘451’ at top of recto. Traces of backing material or adhesive at bottom of verso (blank). An illuminating account of a recusancy case at a session of the Council of the North, a law court based in York that was abolished in 1641. The account has interesting reference to the playing of the game of bowls, and Roman Catholic social lives in the north of England. We connect the document to the law court by the names of the judges listed as present. They were the ‘L.P.’ (i.e. Lord President, Emanuel Scrope, Baron Scrope and later Earl of Sunderland (1584-1630)), Sir Henry Slingsby (1560-1634), Sir Thomas Tildesley (’Tilsley’) (1557-1635), and Sir George Ellis (in office 1619-1627). These members of ‘the councell’, as it is called in the document, served together on the Council of the North in the years 1619-1626. An H.A. (identified in the margins as Henry Aldred) had passed by a bowling green in Preston, Holderness, where he saw one ‘C.H.’ who said he would go with him “after he had bould a rubber or two [of bowls] which would take him some two howers time”. C.H. was still not finished with the game when Aldred returned, so he left, noting “the companie also he liked not for their were both papists and recusants there”. Heading off with a companion, a certain Anthony Nevill called “make him drunke”, at which Aldred turned and answered “that neither he nor all the papists in Holderness could make him drunke”. Nevill responded “that his religion was as good as his and theirs”, and after Aldred had left, “it became a greate feast amonge the Papists” Aldred decided to present a petition to the Council, reporting Nevill’s words. The Lord President would not initially accept the case because “he would not be persuaded that he meant of [Aldred] because he named him not”, but after some of Nevill’s friends appeared, Scrope agreed to a hearing, which is recounted. This court had Catholic sympathies. Scrope was known for these and may have been made Lord President with the encouragement of the Spanish ambassador. Of the present judges, Slingsby’s son married the daughter of a Catholic and Tildesley’s cousins included an abbess and a later prominent royalist Catholic soldier. We have seen that Scrope was reluctant to hear the present case. Aldred may be the Henry Aldred son of John Aldred, who is recorded c.1607 in possession of a close in Preston called Thirty-acres. His father, and possibly his grandfather, held this land before him (Poulson). Mervyn James, rev., 'Scrope, Emanuel, earl of Sunderland (1584-1630)', Oxford Dictionary of National Biography online, 23 September 2004 (accessed 22 September 2021). George Poulson, The history and antiquities of the seigniory of Holderness, in the East-Riding of the county of York (2 vols., Hull and London 1840-41), II, 183. Rachel Robertson Reid, The King’s Council in the North (London 1921), 496-498. David Scott, 'Slingsby, Sir Henry, first baronet (1602-1658)', ODNB online, 23 September 2004 (accessed 22 September 2021). Peter J. Tyldesley, 'Sir Thomas Tyldesley 1557-1635', peterjtyldesley.com/tyldesley/pages/16/ SirThomasTyldesley1557-1635.html (accessed 22 September 2021). See also family tree at tyldesley.co.uk (22 September 2021)."

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