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Was Dr. Edward Hawarden A Missioner in Durham?
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 11 October 2016
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“It has been said that Dr. Hawarden left Douay in 1707. He then came on the Mission, and was placed at Aldcliffe, near Lancaster, where the Daltons then resided … Such, however, was the high opinion that Dr. Smith, Bishop of the North District, had of him, that, wishing to have him nearer to his own person, he placed him at Gilligate in Durham, and when he made his will in 1709 appointed him one of his trustees, and left him £10 for life on condition of his continuing to reside in the North. Soon after his arrival in England he was chosen a member of the Chapter, and in 1710 an Archdeaon, and also the Catholic Controversy Writer. On this latter account it probably was found necessary that he should reside in London in order to have an eye to the works written against us, and that he might have the convenience of books necessary to answer them. He therefore quitted Durham sometime after 1719, and repaired to London.” (Kirk. 115).
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(1) The copy is at Ushaw College. It will be found in a bound volume of manuscripts: Ushaw Collection MSS. vol. III. 62c.
(2) Most of the Eyre Papers at Ushaw are unindexed. The note will be found in the transcripts Eyre Papers (Cabinet Papers). p.32.
(3) Rev. John Cotes (d.1794) made up this list for Eyre apparently from MSS. in his care as Superior of the Common Clergy Fund (now the Northern Brethern’s Fund), some of which are now massing. Mr. Cotes’s own list is at present mislaid at Ushaw, but a copy of it will be found in Eyre Papers Transcripts. pp.21, et. seq.
(4) All these MSS. are in the Archives of the Northern Brethern’s Fund in charge of the Treasurer and Secretary.
(5) The probate of his will is in the Archives of the Diocese of Hexham and Newcastle. It is dated 27 January 1730. In it Mr. Rivers styles himself “Richard Rivers so called of the parish of St. Giles.” The Eyre Papers state that he died “universally beloved on Dec. 13, 1731.” But his tombstone, now missing from St. Giles’ churchyard, was – according to Robert Surtees – inscribed? “Mr. Richard Rivers, Nov. 27, 1731 aet. 84.” (The History and Antiquities of the County Palatine of Durham. vol.IV. pt.2. p.59).
(6) Ushaw Collection MSS. vol.III. 62c.