ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY 



rder. Neile refused them countenance unless they conformed, forbade 

 rsons in his diocese to attend their service, and complained to the king 

 rough Laud of these strangers ' that take the bread out of the mouths of 

 iglish subjects by overbidding them in rents of land, and doing more w^ork 

 • a groat than an Englishman can do for sixpence.'^" For a time he placed 

 5 interdict upon them. Their minister departed ; the materials for their 

 apel were sold," and they went to the parish church, where they behaved 

 voutly. Neile begs Laud to procure copies of the prayer-book in French 

 d Dutch for them/* Somewhat later they obtained Hberty of worship, and 

 lilt their chapel at Sandtoft in Lincolnshire/" Neile has been blamed for 

 rrow insistence on conformity, and for unwilUngness to license chaplains in 

 ivate families. He told Laud, however, that he was ready to tolerate such 

 rates at poor stipends, provided that they kept to the prayer-book at family 

 ayers.'" The danger lay, not merely in the possible foundation of Puritan 

 nventicles, but also in the risk of affording shelter to seminary priests. 



Since the penal statutes of EUzabeth's reign, the main attention of the 

 iritual and secular authorities had been directed to Papist recusants. The 

 stices were active against suspected priests. In 1591, for example, a priest 

 med Robert Thorpe was taken, early in the morning of Palm Sunday, by 

 justice and a posse of constables, at a house in Menethorpe, where he was 

 pposed to be going to say mass. He and his host were dragged out 



their beds and hanged at York Castle on 31 May." Few parishes in 

 e county failed to contribute their share of recusants and non-churchgoers 



quarter sessions and assizes. The district round Bubwith and certain 

 aces in Holderness show the largest number of returns in the East Riding."* 

 he list of 1604, for Craven, contains the well-known names of Tempest 



Broughton and Pudsay of Bolton-by-Bowland, but is unexpectedly small.** 

 ists of the later part of the 17th century contain several entries from 

 ;dbergh, Broughton, Ingleton, Austwick in Clapham parish, and other 

 aces in StainclifFe and Ewcross wapentakes.** Round Masham and Kirkby 

 [alzeard, and in Wensleydale and Swaledale, Papists were numerous." 

 anwick St. John in Teesdale, and the whole neighbourhood of Barnard 

 astle, generally returned a large number. One hundred and seven recusants 

 e mentioned in Stanwick parish in 1 604" : from the hamlet of Aldbrough 

 one, sixty were presented at Richmond quarter sessions in January 1673-4." 

 he chief families of the district were strongly Romanist : Rokeby, Wycliffe, 

 irlington, Catherick, Metham, Metcalfe, Gascoigne, Tunstall, Pudsay, and 



** S.P. Dom. Chas. I, cccxxxvii, 47. " Reference as note 47 above. 



"" S.P. Dom. Chas. I, cccxxxi, 71. " Ornsby, Dior. Hist. York, 376. 



" See note 47 above, p. 58. Ornsby, op. cit. 381, refers to Neile's refusal to consecrate Sir Henry 

 ngsby's private chapel at Red House, in Moor Monkton parish (see also Yorkshire Diaries [Surt. See], 421). 



" E. Peacock, ^iirf of the Roman Catholics in the County of York in 1604 (Bodl. Lib. MS. Rawlinson 

 452), 124 n. 



''Ibid. 134 (Bubwith), 122-129 (Holderness). 



'^Ibid. 17-22. 



"'^^^ Depositions from the Castle of York, ijth cent.{S,Mtt. Soc. xl), 133 (25 March 1664), 138, 139, 

 [arch 1665-6) 167, 168 (6 July 1669), 182 (8 July 1670). 



"Peacock's list, op. cit. 73 seq., contains names of forty recusants and thirty-four non-commu- 

 ants from Masham, 106 non-communicants from Kirkby Malzeard (36 seq.), thirty-eight recusants and 

 :nty-four non-communicants from Grinton-in-Swaledale (67 seq.). 



•^Ibid. pp. 81, 82. 



" Quarter Sess. Rec.(M. R. Rec. Soc), vi, 195 seq. 



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