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The Birthplace of the Blessed Robert Anderton

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2016

T. B. Trappes Lomax
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The poem here printed shows that this martyr was born, not in Lancashire as has been generally thought, but in the Isle of Man. It occurs onp. 145 of a MS. book known as “The Great Hodge Podge” which has always been in the possession of the Blurdell family of Crosby Co. Lanc.

It is probably in the handwriting of William Blundell of Crosby who was born i n 1560, i n the same year, that i S, as Anaerton. Blundell was consequently twenty six years old when Anderton was executed in the Isle of Wight in 1586. He died in 1630.

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Research Article
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British Catholic History , Volume 1 , Issue 3 , 1951 , pp. 235 - 238
Copyright
Copyright © Catholic Record Society 1951

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Notes

1) “The learned schools he did forsake.” A Robert Anderton of Brasenose College, Oxford, matriculated 20 July 1578, aged eighteen.

2) “Reeve Captaine Carie”. Sir Robert Carey, afterwards 2nd Baron Hunsdon, held the appointment of Knight Marshal and Captain of the Isle of Wight from 1582 to 1603.

3) “An Iland brought him up”. He was at Rivington Grammar School, co. Lanc., in 1575. (M.M. Kay, History of Rivington and Blackrod Grammar School, 4l.)

4) “to eternally”. The missing word (presumably “heaven”) is illegible in the MS.