N.B.—I am grateful to His Grace the Archbishop of Birmingham for permission to use material from the Diocesan archives. References to these are given to the numbers in the calendar published in two parts by the National Register of Archives (Historical Manuscripts Commission), which is hereafter abbreviated as B.A.A.

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^2. B.A.A. A.653a, A.664.

^3. B.A.A. A.793, A.934.

^4. B.A.A. A.907, A.961.

^5. Staffordshire Catholic History, no. 1, p. 24.

^6. B.A.A. C176, C464, C.787.

^7. House of Lords, Main Paper, Return of Papists 1767, Staffordshire.

^8. Lists at the Presbytery, Brewood.

^9. House of Lords, Returns of Papists 1705 and 1767. Returns of 1706, Lichfield Joint Record Office, BA/1/12.

^10. B.A.A. A.70-74, A.104.

^11. B.A.A. C.382x, p. 4.

^12. The latest known list presented by the constables in Staffordshire is for 1758, Staffs. R.O. Q/S/Bm 9 & 10.

^13. B.A.A. C.110, A.84-6. Coughton Court, Throckmorton papers, Strong Room Box 82, Folder 1. Sedgley Park Archives at Cotton College, S.P. 27.

^14. B.A.A. A.184, A.417, A.37, A.283, A.2036, C.1226.

^15. B.A.A. C.541, C.534, C.504.

^16. B.A.A. A.12.

^17. B.A.A. A.8.

^18. B.A.A. A.768.

^19. B.A.A. C.506.

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^22. B.A.A. A.77.

^23. B.A.A. C.540.

^24. B.A.A. C.466, C.469, C.471, C.473.

^25. BAA C 470

^26. Seventh Douay Diary, C.R.S. Vol. XXVIII, p. 100.Google Scholar

^27. B.A.A. A.206, C.473.

^28. B.A.A. C.471.

^29. B.A.A. C.1226.

^30. Staffordshire Catholic History, No. VI, p. 39.

^31. B.A.A. A.26a, A.136, A.1251, A.217, A.135

^32. B.A.A. A. 139.

^33. B.A.A. A.653a, A. 1234b.

^34. B.A.A. A.624.

^35. B.A.A. A.569, A.621.

^36. B.A.A. A.624. Kirk, Biographies of English Catholics (1909), p. 178.

^37. B.A.A. R.11.

^38. B.A.A. R.14.

^39. B.A.A. R.13.

^40. B.A.A. R.19.

^41. B.A.A. R.20.

^42. B.A.A. R.23.

^43. B.A.A. R.25.

^44. B.A.A. R.26.

^45. B.A.A. R.28, R.29, R.30.

^46. B.A.A. A.270.

^47. B.A.A. A.607, R.35.

^48. B.A.A. C.245.

^49. B.A.A. C.148, C.164, a paper in Francis Fitter's writing.

^50. B.A.A. A.142. A.144, A.147-155.

^51. B.A.A. C.1243.

^52. B.A.A. A.1025. Roper, J. S., Transcripts from Early Wolverhampton town Deeds, 1.Google Scholar

^53. B.A.A. C.901. Kirk, J., Biographies of English Catholics (1909), p. 17.Google Scholar

^54. Ward, B., The Dawn of the Catholic Revival in England (1909), vol. 1, p. 151.Google Scholar

^55. Ward, B., Dawn, vol. I, pp. 172–3.Google Scholar

^56. B.A.A. C.945, C.946, C.947, C.949.

^57. Ward, B., Dawn, vol. I, p. 180.Google Scholar

^58. B.A.A. C.1006, Ward, B. Dawn, vol. I, p. 184.Google Scholar

^59. B.A.A. C.961.

^60. B.A.A. C.991.

^61. B.A.A. C.962.

^62. B.A.A. C.961-3, C.001-3.

^63. B.A.A. C.1227.

^64. B.A.A. C.963.

^65. B.A.A. C.969.

^66. Ward, B., Dawn, vol. I, pp. 211, 216.Google Scholar

^67. B.A.A. C.970.

^68. B.A.A. C.975.

^69. B.A.A. C.990, C.975, C.986, C.995.

^70. B.A.A. C.974, C.986.

^71. B.A.A. C.1243.

^72. Kirk, J., Biographies, p. 19.Google Scholar

^73. B.A.A. C.1012.

^74. B.A.A. C.1013.

^75. B.A.A. C.1016.

^76. B.A.A. C.l011-1057.

^77. B.A.A. C.1066-7.

^78. B.A.A. C.1073.

^79. B.A.A. C.1015.

^80. B.A.A. C.1 150.

^81. B.A.A. C.1 189.

^82. BAA C1185

^83. B.A.A. C1148, C.1156. Compare also C.1161, letter of Thomas South-worth but in Joseph Berington's hand. Kirk's views on the meaning of the passage expressed in 1796 differentiated between spiritual powers and ecclesiastical discipline. C.1356. Joseph Berington saw papal power entirely as a matter of powers granted to the Head of the church by the canons of the church. C.1360. In 1798 Joseph Berington declared himself unable to accept the brief Auctorem Fidei then being tendered to French emigré clergy as a test of freedom from Gallican opinions. C. 1509.

^84. B.A.A. C.l204. Salvaggio told Kirk in Jonuary 1793 that the Address was disapproved of in Rome. C.1257.

^85. B.A.A. C.1225.

^86. B.A.A. C.1227, C.1244, C.1258, C.1261, C.1263, C.1267.

^87. B.A.A. C.1246.

^88. B.A.A. C.1270.

^89. B.A.A. C.1243.

^90. B.A.A. C1372.

^91. B.A.A. C.l356. Thomas Stone retracted before his death.

^92. B.A.A. C.1383, C1433.

^93. B.A.A. C.1391, C.1392.

^94. B.A.A. C.1434. Joseph Berington's name was deleted in proof but eventually appeared.

^95. B.A.A. C.1434.

^96. B.A.A. C.1415.

^97. B.A.A. C.1433.

^98. B.A.A. C.1442.

^99. B.A.A. C.1437.

^100. B.A.A. C.1424.

^101. B.A.A. C.1443.

^102. B.A.A. C.1445.

^103. B.A.A. C.1446.

^104. B.A.A. C.1453.

^105. B.A.A. C.1459.

^106. B.A.A. C.1456.

^107. B.A.A. C.1464.

^108. B.A.A. C.1468.

^109. B.A.A. C.1481.

^110. BA.A. C.1482.

^111. B.A.A. C.1488-1490, C.1493.

^112. B.A.A. C.1386, C.1536-1539. Wolverhampton Chronicle 1797. August.

^113. B.A.A. C.1511-1512.

^114. B.A.A. C.1549, C.1574. Ward, vol. ii, p. 156.

^115. B.A.A. C.1581. Ward, vol. ii. p. 240.

^116. B.A.A. C.1593.

^117. B.A.A. C.1668.

^118. B.A.A. C.1589.

^119. B.A.A. C.1602.

^120. B.A.A. C.1649.

^121. B.A.A. C.1658, C.1662.

^122. B.A.A. A.60. Ward, vol. ii, pp. 243-245. B.A.A. C.1663. Edward Eyre wrote from Hathersage in 1802, that he “was glad to hear that the Staffordshire clergy have submitted and wish with all my heart I had done so sooner”. B.A.A. A. 187.

^123. Staffordshire Record Office, Whitgreave papers. D.718/2, Carter to Whit-greave, 1798. The three Bishops were: Hornyold, Talbot, Berington.