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The Secret Treasure of Chaigley

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2016

J.E. Bamber
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At the little church of St. Robert’s at Catforth in the Fylde of Lancashire is preserved a remarkable collection of relics of penal times. The most important is a human head, so often referred to as a ‘skull’ that I shall use the terms here quite indiscriminately, though it still contains, even in its decayed and mutilated state, many parts over and above those of a mere skull. The next most important is a small missal of 1570, on the fly-leaf of which was once inserted a reference to ‘our martyr’. These two items are, as I believe, the only ones likely to be of positive use in reconstructing the case. But with them is preserved a whole collection of other articles in the form of Mass-vestments, altar-cloths, linen, etc., dating variously from the fifteenth to the seventeenth centuries, a number of which bear yellow or brown stains.

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Research Article
Information
British Catholic History , Volume 17 , Issue 3 , May 1985 , pp. 307 - 329
Copyright
Copyright © Catholic Record Society 1985

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Notes

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3 Newdigate, p. 56.

4 Ibid. p. 61.

5 V. C. H. Lancashire VII (1912), p. 14, n. 233.

6 Newdigate, p. 63.

7 Anstruther, Seminary Priests II: Early Stuarts, 1603–1659, p. 159.

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9 Newdigate, p. 63.

10 Gillow, , Bibliographical Dictionary III (1888), p. 339.Google Scholar

11 Source unidentified (ed.).

12 Source unidentified, but of Gillow, pp. 331–2, 339 (ed.).

13 Source unidentified (ed.).

14 Source unidentified (ed.).

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

16 Ibid p. 173.

17 Ibid pp. 169, 170.

18 Newdigate, p. 62.

19 C.R.S. 5, pp. 169, 170

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21 Anstruther, p. 158.