Hornby Catholic Mission Papers (St Mary's Church)

The collection comprises four distinct groups: firstly the administrative and related papers of the Catholic Mission at Hornby, secondly the papers of Thomas Benison of Lancaster and Hornby, attorney, and of his daughter Ann Fenwick, benefactress of the Mission, thirdly the collection of papers made by Father Thomas West, antiquary and historian of Furness, and finally an appendix containing stray items from the Lancaster Diocesan archive relating to Hornby. The first two groups are to be found in Volume 1, while Thomas West's papers and the appendix are contained in Volume 2.

The West collection is of great variety. We have his notes on many antiquarian matters, especially genealogy and ecclesiastical history, and other papers including scientific notes and some poetry. He corresponded with several people who were well-known locally. His two books are notable in their own ways: Antiquities of Furness (1774) is a fine work of largely original research, while A Guide to the Lakes (1778) is interesting in that it is one of the first attempts to introduce the region to a wider public. Finally, his collection of mediaeval documents is outstanding and includes three series of monastic title deeds (for Cockersand, Bruern, Oxon. and Watton, Yorks.)

Contents of Vol. 1

RCHY 1 HORNBY MISSION (ADMINISTRATIVE)

RCHY 1/1 Registration

RCHY 1/1/1-2 Robert Hall

RCHY 1/1/3-4 Hornby

RCHY 1/2 Evidences of Title

RCHY 1/2/1-21 Lands in Gressingham purchased by the Revd. Thomas Butler

RCHY 1/2/22-39 Lower Close and Ipers Close, Gressingham

RCHY 1/2/40-65 Lands in Gressingham purchased by the Revd. John Lingard, and miscellanea

RCHY 1/3 Estate Papers

RCHY 1/3/1-4 Cuthbert Morley Trust

RCHY 1/3/5-16 Elizabeth Cansfield Trust

RCHY 1/3/17-29 Tenancy and Mission property papers

RCHY 1/3/30-33 Ann Fenwick executorship papers

RCHY 1/4 Establishment of Hornby Mission

RCHY 1/4/1-14 Construction of Hornby Chapel and Presbytery

RCHY 1/4/15-21 Furnishings and contents of Hornby Chapel and Presbytery

RCHY 1/5 Incumbents' Papers

RCHY 1/5/1-10 Revd. Thomas Butler

RCHY 1/5/11-13 Revd. Dr. John Lingard

RCHY 1/5/14 Revd. George Gibson

RCHY 1/5/15-19 Revd. George Fisher

RCHY 1/5/20 Monsignor William Wrennall

RCHY 1/5/21-29 Historical and genealogical memoranda

RCHY 1/5/30-31 Sermons

RCHY 1/5/32-39 Printed circulars

RCHY 1/6 Miscellanea

RCHY 1/6/1-27 General

RCHY 1/6/28-44 Printed

RCHY 2 BENISON AND FENWICK PAPERS

RCHY 2/1 Estate

RCHY 2/1-24 Manor and Burgage of Hornby

RCHY 2/25-29 Scamler House, Roeburndale

RCHY 2/30-42 Manor of Burton in Kendal

RCHY 2/43-47 Butts Yeats, Farleton

RCHY 2/48-51 Claughton in Lonsdale

RCHY 2/52-55 Barking Yeat, Hornby and Roeburndale

RCHY 2/56-62 Probate papers

RCHY 2/63-64 Morley papers

RCHY 2/65-79 Miscellaneous estate papers

RCHY 2/2 Evidences of title [arranged alphabetically by place]

RCHY 2/3 Business and Official

RCHY 2/3/1-31 Manor of Hornby : stewardship and other papers

RCHY 2/3/32-33 Lonsdale Hundred Court : stewardship papers

RCHY 2/3/34-57 William Penny executorship papers

RCHY 2/3/58-62 Thompson bankruptcy papers

RCHY 2/3/63-67 Chatburne papers

RCHY 2/3/68-97 Miscellanea

RCHY 2/4 Financial Papers

RCHY 2/4/1-17 Benison family

RCHY 2/4/18-40 Ann Fenwick

RCHY 2/5 Household and personal papers of Ann Fenwick

RCHY 2/5/1-9 Household inventories

RCHY 2/5/10-22 Personal papers

RCHY 2/5/23-27 The Ship True Love

RCHY 2/6 Correspondence

RCHY 2/6/1-8 Estate of Ann Fenwick

RCHY 2/6/9-12 Miscellaneous

RCHY 2/7 Miscellanea

RCHY 2/7/1-14 Legal papers

RCHY 2/7/15-19 Plans

Contents of Vol.2

RCHY 3 THOMAS WEST

Early, collected documents

RCHY 3/1 Lancashire deeds

RCHY 3/2 Out-county deeds

RCHY 3/3 Cockersand Abbey

RCHY 3/4 Bruern Abbey, Oxon.

RCHY 3/5 Watton Priory, Yorks.

RCHY 3/6 Other early documents

RCHY 3/7 Correspondence

RCHY 3/8 Notes and drafts for books

('Antiquities of Furness' and 'A Guide to the Lakes')

Antiquarian notes and other papers

RCHY 3/9 Strickland (of Sizergh) abstracts

RCHY 3/10 Archaeological discoveries

RCHY 3/11 Genealogy (mainly outside Furness)

RCHY 3/12 Church history

RCHY 3/13 Miscellaneous antiquarian topics

RCHY 3/14 Theology and philosophy

RCHY 3/15 Literature and political history

RCHY 3/16 Natural history, science and geography

RCHY 3/17 Maps and plans

RCHY 3/18 Accounts

RCHY 3/19 Poetry

RCHY 3/20 Miscellaneous

RCHY 4 APPENDIX

<span class="wrapper"><p>For the background to the Hornby Mission and the Fenwick family see Ann Fenwick of Hornby, a pamphlet by the Bishop of Lancaster, 1977, and the Palatine Notebook vol.3, pp.238 and 261. An article by Geoffrey Holt, S.J., on the life of Thomas West is to be found in North West Catholic History, vol.5, p.14, and the Lancashire Record Office Annual Report, 1952 includes an article dealing with all the parts of the Hornby Mission archive.</p> <p>The Record Office also holds another collection of papers relating to West, found at St. Joseph's, Lancaster in 1980 (ref: RCLj, acc. 5919). Comprising c.50 items, they include his correspondence, antiquarian notes, a draft of A Guide to the Lakes and 20th century notes about the previous ownership of Tytup Hall.</p> <p>Some useful information on Father West can be found in North West Catholic History vol.5 p.14 and in Lancashire Record Office Annual Report, 1952.</p></span>

• <corpname>Hornby Roman Catholic Mission</corpname>
• <persname>Benison, Thomas, of Lancaster and Hornby, attorney</persname>
• <persname>West, Thomas, 1720-1779, jesuit topographer</persname>
• <persname>Fennick, Ann, of Lancaster</persname>

The whole collection was deposited at the Lancashire Record Office in eight stages. The two earliest deposits (accs. 733 and 1970) were partly listed some years ago; they have now been relisted in the present catalogue (completed in 1988) and all subsequent deposits have been included. A list of the previous catalogue marks to the two earlier accessions is given after the list of contents in each volume.

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Contents of later accessions

acc. 3004 : 1/5/1-10

acc. 3128 : 4/1-5

acc. 3214 : 1/3/10, 11; 1/4/15-17, 20; 1/5/26, 33-39; 1/6/7, 9, 10, 13-15, 28-30, 32-37, 39-44

acc. 3498 : 1/2/1-3, 5-59, 61, 62; 2/4/2, 5-17

acc. 3998 : 1/2/63-65

acc. 6198 : 4/6

Thomas West (? 1716-79) was an antiquary and a Catholic priest, living at Tytup Hall near Dalton-in-Furness for the latter part of his life. His only connection with Hornby presbytery was that the Revd. Thomas Butler was his executor. West's papers were moved to Hornby after his death and thus form part of the Hornby Mission archive.