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A Leicestershire Recusant Family: The Nevills of Nevill Holt—II

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2016

Bernard Elliott
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On Henry Nevill II’s death at the ripe old age of 85 on 28 June 1728, the terms of his will were duly carried out. In it he arranged that ‘his youngest daughter, the Lady Mary Countess Migliorucci, should have the custody and management of his said son during his insanity, not doubting but she will see him taken all imaginable care of and used with that tenderness and regard that is due to be had for one in his unfortunate circumstance’. Then he left to his grandson, Cosmas Henry Joseph Count Migliorucci (whom he desired to take the surname of Nevill) the sum of £5,000. Next, he left to his eldest daughter, Margaret Conyers, the sum of £2,000 and to his Conyers grand-daughters, Harriet and Elizabeth, £300 apiece. To his youngest daughter, the Countess Mary Migliorucci, he left £10,000 in trust. On her father’s death, Lady Mary Migliorucci faced several problems. The first was to carry out her father’s instruction to take care of her idiot brother and for this she was allowed £200. It would seem, however, that his care fell mainly on the shoulders of Henry Milton, the bailiff of Nevill Holt, for Lady Mary spent most summers at her London house in Queen’s Square, near Ormond Street, Thus, on 3 June 1729, Milton wrote to her that ‘Mr. N. is in good health’.

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British Catholic History , Volume 17 , Issue 3 , May 1985 , pp. 374 - 385
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Copyright © Catholic Record Society 1985

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Notes

1 C.R.S. 8, p. 393.

2 Leics. R.O., Box 2497 (Henry Nevili II’s will).

3 Ibid.

4 EMC 1/1.

5 EMC 1/24: letter from Milton to the Lady Migliorucci at her house in Queen’s Square, near Ormond St, London.

6 4 William & Mary, cap, 1, sect. 34. Cf. J. A. Williams, Catholic Recusancy in Wiltshire, 1660–1791 (C.R.S. Monograph 1, 1968), p. 45.

7 Cf. Marie Rowlands, ‘The Iron Age of Double Taxes’, Staffordshire Catholic History 3 (1963), pp. 30–45.

8 EMC 1/2.

9 EMC 1/4, 5.

10 Leics. R.O., Box 2497.

11 EMC 1/44.

12 Ibid.

13 EMC 1/57.

14 EMC 1/52.

15 Holt, pp. 149–150.

16 Bossy, p. 258.

17 Ibid.

18 Sutherland, p. 29.

19 EMC 1/35.

20 EMC 1/36.

21 EMC 1/38. For Richard and Thomas Woodward, goldsmiths and bankers of Exchange Alley, see Heal, A., The London Goldsmiths, p. 272.Google Scholar

22 Ibid.

23 Sutherland, p. 48.

24 EMC 1/35.

25 EMC 1/41.

26 Sutherland, p. 43.

27 EMC 1/30.

28 Ashton, pp. 136–7.

29 Wright, E., Fabric of Freedom, p. 12.Google Scholar

30 EMC 1/33.

31 Ashton, p. 180.

32 EMC 1/38.

33 EMC 1/56.

34 Nichols, p. 729.

35 Beales, A. C. F., Education under Penalty, pp. 272–3.Google Scholar

36 EMC 1/18. For Fr. John Turberville, see Chadwick, H., St. Omers to Stonyhurst, p. 259.Google Scholar

37 V.C.H., p. 241.

38 Ibid.

39 C.R.S. 8, p. 382.

40 Arthur, Mee, Oxfordshire, p. 349.Google Scholar

41 Monument in Spelsbury church, Oxfordshire.

42 Nichols, p. 729.

43 Ibid.

44 EMC 6/21. The friend was J. B. Gastaldi, the Florentine ambassador.

45 Nichols, p. 729.

46 Ibid.

47 Aveling, p. 267.

48 Bernard, Elliott, Recusant History 7, no. 5 (1964), pp. 249–262.Google Scholar

49 C.R.S. 8, p. 393.

50 Ashton, p. 138.

51 EMC 3/3.

52 EMC 3/9.

53 EMC 5/4.

54 Aveling, p. 272.

55 EMC 13/1–5.

56 EMC 13/12.

57 EMC 5/5.

58 Ibid.

59 EMC 7/2.

60 EMC 7/4c.

61 11 William III, cap. 4. Cf. Thompson, M. A., A Constitutional History of England, 1642–1801, p. 278.Google Scholar

62 Williams, J. A., Catholic Recusancy in Wiltshire, p. 48.Google Scholar

63 EMC 13/11.

64 EMC 3/7.

65 EMC 4/7.

66 EMC 3/18.

67 EMC 5/7.

68 Ibid.

69 EMC 4/5.

70 EMC 4/8.

71 EMC 10/9.

72 EMC 3/8.

73 EMC 4/13.

74 EMC 6/13.

75 EMC 13/26.

76 EMC 1/54.

77 EMC 13/27.

78 EMC 2/3.

79 EMC 6/11.

80 EMC 13/6.

81 EMC 11/23.

82 Bailey, B. J., Portrait of Leicestershire, pp. 76–77.Google Scholar

83 EMC 4/10.

84 Foley, , Records of the English Province, 7, p. 455.Google Scholar

85 Ibid., p. 297.

86 Ibid,, p. 114. Cf. Holt, p. 101.

87 Holt, p. 201.

88 Medbourne-cum-Holt parish register.

89 Leics. R.O. FH/GN/1/13.

90 EMC 10/17. The V.C.H., p. 245, omits George-Henry altogether, makes no mention of the fact that Charles was a Jesuit, and gives the date of his death as 1783 instead of 1792. Unfortunately, the errors in V.C.H. have led other authors to commit the same mistakes.

91 EMC 13/28.

92 Medbourne-cum-Holt parish register.

93 Williams, Catholic Recusancy in Wiltshire, p. 57. The statute was 1 George I, st. 2, cap. 55.

94 Leics. R.O., Q.S. 45/1/24.

95 V.C.H., p. 245.

96 EMC 13/17.

97 Holt, p. 177.

98 Jesuit Archives, Farm St., Annual Catalogue for 1764.

99 Holt, p. 221.

100 Ibid., p. 86.

101 Medbourne-cum-Holt parish register.

102 V.C.H. 2, p. 64, n. 55. Matthew Burgess is not mentioned in Holt.

103 Holt, p. 132.

104 John, Kirk, Biographies of English Catholics, p. 173.Google Scholar

105 N. H. Register.

106 Ibid.

107 Ibid. Fr. Chappell was superior of the Leicester mission from 1785 to 1815: Kimberlin, A. H., The Return of Catholics to Leicester, pp. 15–16.Google Scholar

108 N. H. Register, p. 2.

109 Ibid.

110 Ibid.

111 V.C.H. 2, p. 69.

112 Aveling, p. 312.

113 N. H. Register, pp. 11–14.

114 Ibid., pp. 15–18.

115 Aveling, p. 318.

116 N. H. Register, p. 19.

117 Ibid.

118 Medbourne-cum-Holt parish register.

119 Bossy, p. 251, n. 4.

120 Ibid., p. 260.

121 Ibid.

122 Holt, , ‘An Eighteenth-Century Chaplain’, Recusant History 17 (1984–5), pp. 181–7.Google Scholar

123 V.C.H. 2, p. 60.

124 EMC 13/22.

125 N. H. Register.

126 Leics. R.O., Q.S. 46/1/5/1.

127 I owe this reference to Fr. Michael Williams of Horsforth, Leeds, who is a descendant of Peter Gressier.

128 Bossy, p. 298.

129 V.C.H., p. 242.

130 Davies, J. C., Victorian Harborough, p. 39.Google Scholar

131 N. H. Register.