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The Skull of Wardley Hall

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2016

J. E. Bamber
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In 1918, the late Mr Ernest Axon wrote an article on the Wardley skull in which he stated:

Of recent years it has been assumed, with great unanimity, that the well-known skull at Wardley is that of Father Ambrose Barlow, a Benedictine, who after a self-sacrificing life as a Catholic missioner in Lancashire, his native county, was in the year 1641 executed under the old law by which every Catholic priest was ipso facto a traitor.

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British Catholic History , Volume 16 , Issue 1 , May 1982 , pp. 61 - 77
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Copyright © Catholic Record Society 1982

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References

Notes

1 Lancs. and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, 36 (1918), p. 78.

2 Wardley Hall, Worsley, Manchester, M28 5ND, file on ‘Wardley Hall Skull’, report of Professors J. Fleure and J. S. B. Stopford, 18 March 1931 (copy). In the same file are copies of letters from Professor Fleure of II and 16 March 1931.

3 Hart-Davis, Henry Vaughan and Holme, Strachan, The History of Wardley Hall (1908), pp. 157–8Google Scholar.

4 The Diary of Richard Kay of Bury, 1716-51 (Chetham Society, 1965), p. 102.Google Scholar

5 Preston R.O., DDHu 42/2.

6 Registers of the Parish Church of Wigan, 1:1580-1625 (Lanes. Parish Register Society, 1899), p. 189;Google Scholar cf pp. 175, 182, 214.

7 Hart-Davis and Holme, pp. 159, 114.

8 Chetham Library, Manchester, MS. Pedigrees of Thomas Barriti, f. 113.

9 Baines, Edward, History of the County Palatine and Duchy of Lancaster (1836), 3, pp. 145–6;Google Scholar Roby, John, Traditions of Lancashire (1892), 2, pp. 311–21Google Scholar.

10 Hatton Correspondence (Camden Society, 1878), 1, p. 133.

11 Barritt pedigrees, f. 113.

12 George Philips, Nathaniel, Views of the Old Halls in Lancashire and Cheshire (1893), pp. 47–51Google Scholar.

13 Rimmer, Alfred, Summer Rambles round Manchester (1890), p. 131.Google Scholar

14 William Edward Armitage Axon, Lancs, and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, 1 (1883), p. 37.

15 Barritt pedigrees, f. 113.

16 Stow, John, Annales (1631), p. 574.Google Scholar

17 C.R.S. 5, pp. 169, 170, 173.

18 A study of the Catforth skull will appear in Recusant History in May 1983.

19 Joseph Gillow, ‘The True Story of the Skull of Wardley’, Manchester City News, 7 December 1895; Hart-Davis and Holme, p. 58.

20 Richard Hollingworth, Mancuniensis, ed. William Willis (1839), p. 115.

21 Gillow, ‘True Story’; Hart-Davis and Holme, p. 63.

22 Recusant History, 4, pp. 38-46, and cf. this issue, pp. 42-60.

23 Anstruther, The Seminary Priests, 2, pp. 13-14; Downside Review (January 1938).

24 Lanes and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, 36, pp. 80-81.

25 Chetham Society 42, p. 269.

26 See n. 2 above.

27 Lancs, and Cheshire Antiquarian Society, 36, p. 81.

28 The original of Professor Cave’s report of June 1960 is also at Wardley Hall: see n. 2 above.