Additional Information & Corrections

These notes provide additional information, clarifications and corrections that have come to the author's attention since the book was published in 1992. The author thanks all who have contributed feedback and welcomes additional information. Please send to Tony Hadland, 4 Barcote Cottages, Buckland, Faringdon, Oxfordshire, SN7 8PP, United Kingdom or e-mail to mail@hadland.net

Page 5, para 5 - Lollardy was not entirely eradicated from urban areas in the Vale of White Horse.  There were cases in Wantage and Faringdon in 1499.

Page 19, para 4, line 2 - change "grandson" to "son".

Page 25, para 4, line 4 - William Wollascott held the manor of Tidmarsh.  There is reason to believe that the original manor house was at Tidmarsh Grange but this is open to debate.

Page 30, para 4 - In their 1990 book Crowmarsh, Berenice & David Pedgley (1990) state that the manor house of Newnham at this time was Newnham Farm "but the lord of the manor almost never lived there". The Hildesley's also held nearby Howbery Farm. According to the Pedgleys, William Hildesley "continued at Howbery until at least 1603, and perhaps until the lease ran out in 1605" before moving to Littlestoke.

Page 36, para 6, line 5 - should read "378 years".

Page 39, para 2, line 4 - This school subsequently became a joint Anglican/RC comprehensive and was renamed St. Augustine of Canterbury.

Page 57, para 4 - The Waterperry missioner's Rheims Bible is held by Anthony de Vere.

Page 67, para 7 - Dr Goodman's travelling chalice is owned by a Berkshire Goodman and is on permanent loan to Gloucester Cathedral.

Page 68, para 3 - Carey and Carew are forms of the same surname.  The Carews also intermarried with the Hydes of Purley. In Purley there is a road named after the Carews.

Page 73, para 1 - Although Hyde Hall was often said to have been partly in Pangbourne parish, it seems it was actually just over the border.

Page 74, para 8, line 7 - should read "Christ Church", not "Christ Church College".

Page 77, para 3 - In 1991 what seems to have been a priest-hole was discovered in Churchgate House at the entrance to Cookham churchyard.

Page 87, para 4, line 2 - Ditto.

Page 87, para 9, line 4 - Between "Richard" and "Hyde" insert ," 's son Francis".

Page 90, para 8, line 4 - However, Lord Edward was with the defenders at the end of the siege.

Page 98, para 2, line 5 - insert comma after "traitor".

Page 100, para 4, line 6 - figure in parenthesis should be £2,400.

Page 107, para 1 - Also present were members of the Hyde, Perkins and Winchcombe families.  One of the Franciscans was a Young of Whatcombe.

Page 119, para 2, line 5 - Castle (or Castel) Ireland is now known as Castleisland.  It is 12 miles north of Killarney.

Page 119, para 2, line 6 - He became a Verderer because High Meadow is in the Forest of Dean, near Symonds Yat.

Page 128, para 8, line 9 - Mr Doughty was George Brownlow Doughty, who married Frances Tichbome and had ten children, some of whom died very young.

Page 137, para 1 - Although the census is considered to be reasonably accurate, it almost certainly under-represents the Catholic presence in major urban areas, where anonymity and concealment were much easier.

Page 138, para 3, line 5 - Eve McLaughlin, author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians, considers the suggestion Gallini might have been the Earl's illegitimate son most unlikely in view of the horror of incest.  She suggests that quite possibly the Gallini family had been servants to the Earl and maintained a correspondence with him.

Page 139, para 6, line 8 - The suggestion that Thomas Simeon Weld was the second largest landowner in England originates from David Mathew's book Catholicism in England, published in 1936 and quoted thereafter by others.  In fact, Weld may have been the second largest Catholic landowner, but he certainly was not the second largest landowner overall.

Page 145, para 2 - There were still Catholic Dearloves in Berkshire until recent times.  The family were originally Yorkshire yeoman farmers.  At the turn of the 18th century John Dearlove bought and lived at Sparsholt Court, West Hendred.

Page 147, para 5, line 6 - This injunction applied only during services.

Page 151, para 3 - The claim to be the first legal Catholic chapel to be purpose-built in England after the 1791 Act is not without challengers.  For example, St. Thomas of Canterbury, Newport, Isle of Wight was built between the passing of the 1791 Act and April 1792.

Page 152, para 7 and illustration on page 154 - Further research by Liz Vincent reveals that Maisonette was not the cottage on the east side of Church Road and illustrated in the book. The real Maisonette stood on the west side of Church Road. Incorporated into a larger dwelling of the same name, it was demolished in the latter half of the 20th century. The site is now occupied by Oldfield Close.

Page 156, para 7 - amend start of para to read "Lady Anastasia Mannock (nee Browne) lived at...... Delete second sentence.  This error stems from Stapleton (see Bibliography) who seems to have confused two wives of Sir Thomas Mannock.  Lady Anastasia, (apparently a niece of Sir Thomas Moore, last male of the Fawley line) was his widow.  Lady Mary, a Doughty, of Beenham, had died relatively young. Click here for a transcript of Lady Anastasia's will.

Page 156, para 8, line 3 - delete "left" and insert "gave".

Page 156, para 8, line 5 - delete "a legacy from".

Page 182 - change "Brownlow-Doughty, Mary" to "Browne, Anastasia".

Page 185 - entry for "Doughty, Mr" - add "(George Brownlow Doughty)"

Page 190 - after "Hyde, Francis 11", insert "87".

Page 190 - in "Hyde, John, son of Richard", change "Richard" to "Francis II".

Page 192 - in entry for "Mannock, Lady Mary", change "Mary" to "Anastasia" and change "Brownlow-Doughty" to "Browne".

Page 195 - in entry for "Plowden, Edmund II (Sir)" delete 47, and insert a new line above: "Plowden, Edmund (son of Edmund I), 47".

Palmers of Dorney Court - The Palmer residence Dorney Court near Burnham, Buckinghamshire has what is claimed to be a priest-hole.  In the 17th century there were recusant Palmers at Domey Court.

Taylors of Slade End - Slade End is an area at the south-east corner of the former Berkshire village of Brightwell-cum-Sotwell on the A4130 Wallingford to Didcot Road, just outside Wallingford. The Taylors were one of the Catholic families in the predominantly yeoman cluster based around Dorchester-on-Thames, but originated from Warwickshire. They seem to have been at Slade End, presumably at Slade End Farm, at least from the 1790s until the 1820s.

The Taylors intermarried with the Davey family of Overy, the leading Catholic yeoman family in the Dorchester area.

Scoles of Lewknor and Shirburn - The Scoles were an ancient Catholic family, originally gentry, from Lewknor and Shirburn. They were in Oxfordshire from the reign of Henry VI onwards and intermarried with the Daveys and Taylors.

For further information on the Taylors and Scoles see Hadland, T, "A 'Lost' Baptism - Part II", Catholic Ancestor, Vol.5, No.2, June 1994.

Last updated 19 October 2007.