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A Note on Bury's Hall in Norfolk

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 September 2015

T. G. Holt, S.J.
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TWENTY YEARS AGO an article entitled ‘The Eyres of Hassop and some of their connections from the Test Act to Emancipation’ was published in two parts in Recusant History. A section was devoted to the Eyres of Norfolk. Their house in that county—Bury's or Bures or Berries Hall near Swaffham—was acquired by Thomas Eyre at some date shortly before 1688 and passed to three of his six sons, Henry, John and James, in succession, being sold after the death of the last in 1749. In recent years it has ceased to be a private house and is now a country hotel. There remain in the neighbourhood to remind the visitor of the family the monumental inscriptions in the nearby Holme Hale church to Mary, the wife of Thomas Eyre—‘She was very exemplary and eminent for her piety, charity and other virtues, and exchanged this life for a better the 28th of September 1710, Aet. 67’—and to two of her sons.

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British Catholic History , Volume 18 , Issue 4 , October 1987 , pp. 440 - 443
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© 1986 Trustees of the Catholic Record Society and individual contributors

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Notes

1 Recusant History, 9, pp. 5–38, 267–287. The article was by Rosamond Meredith.

2 C.R.S., 7, p. 228, note. The other three sons became Jesuits but one left before ordination.

3 Carthew, G. A. A History of the Parishes of West and East Bradenham … with Holme Hale, p. 194.Google Scholar

4 ‘Varia, 1706–1815’, ff. 8a-8c. All Mss. referred-to are in the Jesuit province archives unless it is stated otherwise.

5 The details of Fr. Hanmer's story may be found in The Letter Book of Lewis Sarbran, S. J. (C.R.S., 62) pp. 111, 114, 119, 166, in ‘The College of the Holy Apostles District Accounts’, ff. 34, 35 and ‘Thorpe, Notes and Fragments’, ff. 96, 97.

6 Letters about the journey are noted in C.R.S., 62, pp. 215, 256, 295, 297, 310.

7 Gerard, J. Stonyhurst College Centenary Record, p. 79;Google Scholar The Gentleman's Magazine, 15, p. 52.

8 ‘College of the Holy Apostles District Accounts’, f. 44.

9 Payne, J. O. Records of the English Catholics of 1715, p. 47.Google Scholar

10 ‘Letter Book of the London Agent for St. Omers College’ (in the Stonyhurst College archives). December 13th, 1733; ‘College of the Holy Apostles District Accounts’, ff. 56v, 64v.

11 Letter Book of the London Agent for St. Omers College’, January 11th, 1732/3.

12 ‘College of the Holy Apostles District Accounts’, f. 62v.

13 ‘Province Accounts’, 1730–1738 and 1738–1742.

14 The English Jesuits, 1650–1829 (C.R.S., 70) p. 157.

15 ‘College of the Holy Apostles District Accounts’, f. 72v.

16 For Edward Galloway's visit and William Neale's letter see ‘Galloway Letters’, nn. 52, 90.