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JAQUES STERNE (C 1695-1759)

A DOCUMENTARY RECORD OF AN EIGHTEENTH-CENTURY LIFE

(Daniel Reed, ‘Jaques Sterne (c 1695-1759), The Documentary Record of an Eighteenth-Century Life’)

Version 2.0 – 17 February 2019

This timeline is dedicated to mapping the documentary record of a single eighteenth-century life, that of the clergyman and civil magistrate, Jaques Sterne (c1695-1759). He is most popularly known as the uncle of , author of The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1759-1767) and A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy (1768) but was a far more notable figure than his nephew in the North of during his own lifetime. This timeline is designed to investigate the life and career of an historical figure through the building blocks of the surviving archival record, and by the means of charting key events and geographic location indicators. It is intended both as resource for those interested in Sterne studies, and eighteenth-century society more broadly.

This timeline is not presented at the current time as being exhaustive of all known references to Jaques Sterne, and will be periodically updated with further information. A further biographical sketch will follow in a future update.

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OUTLINE OF CAREER –

Curate of Washingborough, Lincolnshire September 1717 – April 1718 Curate of Holy Trinity King’s Court, April 1718 – 1722 Rector of Rise, East Riding of January 1723 – June 1759 Vicar of Hornsea-cum-Riston, East Riding of Yorkshire 1729 – June 1759 Prebendary of Apesthorpe, York 1729 – 1731 Auditor of the archbishop’s estates 1730 – 1746 Prebendary of Ulleskelfe, York 1731 – 1735 Prebendary of South Muskham, Southwell 1734 – 1755 Precentor of York 1735 – June 1759 1735 – 1750 Archdeacon of the East Riding 1750 – 1755 Prebendary of the Second Stall, Durham 1755 – June 1759

OUTLINE OF CAREER – CIVIL JUSTICE

Justice of the Peace for the East Riding of Yorkshire 1728 – June 1759 Justice of the Peace for the Liberty of St. Peter 1728 – June 1759 Commissioner of Sewers in the East Riding of Yorkshire c. 1738 – June 1759 (inactive role) Justice of the Peace for the Liberty of Southwell & Scrooby 1739 – post 1744 ? Justice of the Peace for the Liberty of Cawood, Wistow, 1744 – June 1759 and Otley Justice of the Peace for the Liberty of 1744 - ? Justice of the Peace for the c. 1746

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TIMELINE

ABBREVIATIONS

BIA – The Borthwick Institute for Archives BL – The British Library BM – Bowes Museum CCEd – The Clergy of the Church of England Database CHC – The Coventry History Centre CRO – Cornwall Record Office ERYAS – East Riding of Yorkshire Archives & Local Studies Service HHC – The Hull History Centre LA – Lincolnshire Archives NA – Nottinghamshire Archives WYJS – West Yorkshire Joint Archives Service YCA – York City Archives. YML – Library

Bold type indicates Jaques Sterne’s whereabouts at the time, where this can be confirmed or reasonably asserted.

C. 1695 - 1720 c. 1695 Is born in Yorkshire. Possibly at Woodhouse, in the West Riding. 1700 Named as tenth in line to a settlement in trust between William Jaques, Simon Sterne and William Headlam to the family estate at Elvington and elsewhere.1 April 1703 His father, Simon Sterne, died. Simon bequeathed all of his books on divinity to the first of his sons to enter into holy orders. This would be Jaques.2 2 November 1703 Named alongside his brothers, Roger and Simon Sterne, as lives in the renewal by his brother, , of a lease of Mickle Ings in Otley, from the . The lease had originally been made between Archbishop

1 HHC. DDGD/565, Abstracts of the title of Mrs Mary Sterne to property at Elvington, 1646-1805. 2 Forrester, Richard, ‘Uncle Jaques Sterne’, in, The Shandean (1992), p. 199.

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Sterne and his son, Simon Sterne, in 1671, for a fine of £20. The new fine was £90.3 29 June 1711 - admitted as a pensioner at Jesus College, Cambridge.4 1712 Cambridge - admitted as a Sterne Scholar to Jesus College, Cambridge.5 31 May 1712 Named in a renewal of a lease of Mickle Ings in Otley, as 2 November 1703, less the life of his brother, Simon.6 1715 Appears in a Sterne family tree printed in Ralph Thoresby’s Ducatus Leodiensis.7 1715 Cambridge - achieved his B.A.8 10 January 1715 Beverley - Indicted at East Riding Quarter Sessions for killing hares in the parish of Sutton-upon-Derwent.9 5 May 1715 His mother and eldest brother, Mary and Richard, enter into a settlement to ensure that the Sterne family estate at Elvington is ‘absolutely conveyed’ to Richard Sterne and his heirs, forever.10 27 November 1716 Then of ‘the ’, named alongside William Sterne, rector of Averham, and William Pickett, as lives in the renewal by his sister-in-law, Mary Sterne, of a lease of the tithes of Whitcliffe near Ripon, from the Archbishop of York. The lease had originally been made between Archbishop Sterne and his son, Richard Sterne, in 1668. The new fine was £118.11 1717 Beverley - Produced a certiorari to remove his indictment for killing hares to the court of the King’s Bench.12 22 September 1717 Lambeth - Ordained as deacon by , of Lincoln.13 23 September 1717 Licensed as curate to his brother-in-law, George Fairfax, in Washingborough, Lincolnshire.14

3 BIA. Bp. Dio. Bk. vol. 2, Archbishop Sharp’s MSS, c. 1700. 4 Ibid, p. 200. 5 Ibid. 6 BIA. Bp. Dio. Bk. vol. 2, Archbishop Sharp’s MSS, c. 1700. 7 Thoresby, Ralph, Ducatus Ledoiensis: Or, The Topography Of the Ancient and Populous Town and Parish of Leedes [&c.] (London: 1715), p. 215. 8 Ibid. 9 ERYAS. QSF/32/B/1, Indictment of Jacques [sic] Sterne of Elvington :- poaching, c1715. 10 ERYAS. RDB/1/2/ Book E, Register of memorials, volume E, 23 May 1712-5 Oct 1716. Sterne &c to Sterne. Reg’d the fifth Day of May 1715: at five in the afternoon. 11 BIA. Bp. Dio. Bk. vol. 2, Archbishop Sharp’s MSS, c. 1700. 12 ERYAS, QSF/38/C/16, Recognizance of Jacques [sic] Sterne of Elvington, John Doe and Bethell Robinson of York gentlemen: - J.S. to plead to an indictment against him for killing hares, removed into King's Bench, c1717. 13 CCEd.

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1718 Cambridge - Achieved his M.A.15 April 1718 York - Began curacy at the Church of Holy Trinity, King’s Court.16 February 1719 York - Banns certificate between William Bentley of the parish of Christ’s and Catherine Seynior of St. Crux issued by Jon Morrice ‘in the absence of Mr Stearn’.17 15 March 1719 Archbishop William Dawes mentions ‘Mr Sterne’ in a letter to Dr John Audley, diocesan chancellor.18 April 1719 York - Issued banns certificate between Sidney Cruttenden of the parish of Christ’s and Sarah Gill of St. Crux in York. They were married on 16 April 1719.19 31 October 1719 His sister (and wife of Col. Walter Palliser), Elizabeth Palliser, dies aged 33 and is buried beneath the chancel of the parish church of Washingborough, Lincolnshire on 2 November.20

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12 January 1720 Dunnington Church - Married to Katherine Goodricke, eldest daughter of the late Sir John Goodricke, and widow of Charles Mosley. The ceremony is officiated by John Womack, curate of Dunnington.21

14 Cole, R. E. G. (ed.), Speculum Dioceseos Lincoliensis Sub Episcopis Gul: Wake Et Edm: Gibson A.D. 1705-1723, Part I Archdeaconries of Lincoln & Stow, Lincoln Record Society Volume 4 (Lincoln: The Society, 1913), p. 136. 15 Forrester, ‘Uncle Jaques Sterne’, p. 200. 16 The vicar of Holy Trinity King’s Court in York from October 1719 was Nathan Sharp. When Thomas Beckett became curate of the parish in 1728, Sharp paid him a stipend of £20 per annum. See, CCEd. 17 YPRS, The Parish Register of St. Crux, York, Volume II. p. 94. 18 The letters of Dr John Audley (1670-1744), from the Osborne Mss c 195, Beinecke Library, Yale University. William Dawes to John Audley, 15 March 1719. 19 YPRS, The Parish Register of St. Crux, York, Volume II. p. 94. 20 John, Ninth Lord Monson, Lincolnshire Church Notes Made By William John Monson, F.S.A., Afterwards Sixth Lord Monson of Burton, Lincoln Record Society Volume 31 (Hereford: The Society, 1936), p.399; LA. WASHINGBOROUGH PAR/1/1, General Register, 1564-1734. 21 CHC. 1633/1, St. Michael’s Coventry, ’ transcipts, 1663-1754/6. Katherine Goodricke, the daughter of Sir John Goodricke and his wife Sarah (nee Hopkins), was baptised at St. Michael’s church in Coventry on 14 October 1679. The entries in St. Michael’s parish register for the baptism of Katherine’s elder brother Henry on 9 September 1677 and the burial of her infant brother John on 9 December 1682, suggest that the Goodricke family were based in (or around) Coventry between 1677 and 1682. Sarah Goodricke was from a Coventry family. Katherine’s brother and heir to family seat of Ribston, Sir Henry Goodricke, became a privy councillor and was listed on the commission of the peace for Warwickshire on 5 July 1692, although he did not attend any sessions. See, H. C.

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18 December 1720 – Priested by Sir William Dawes, Archbishop of York. 26 August 1721 York - Jaques and Katherine sell one of her houses in Petergate to Timothy and Robert Fish.22 29 September 1721 His mother, Mary Sterne (neé Jaques), dies aged 69 and is buried at Washingborough, Lincolnshire, on 1 October. 23 November 1721 York - Issued banns certificate between Humphrey Green of Christ’s and Mary Stringer of All Saints’, Pavement, in York. They were married at All Saints on 12 November 1721.24 15 May 1722 York – Sterne and his wife Katherine sell the second of Katherine’s properties, a ‘capital messuage’ in Petergate, to John and Alice Bulman.25 5 February 1723 Instituted into the rectory of Rise, East Riding of Yorkshire. The appointment was personally recorded by Archbishop Dawes in a survey of the .26 2 March 1723 Inducted into the rectory of Rise, East Riding of Yorkshire, by John Garnett, rector of the adjacent parish of Sigglesthorne.27 March 1723 Incorrectly named ‘Jacob Sterne’ in a memorandum of tithes payable from Hugh Bethell of Rise due on Lady Day (25 March).28 15 September 1723 Rise church - Administered the sacrament to Hugh Bethell of Rise.29 19 December 1723 Katherine Sterne takes the oath of allegiance in York on the same day as her husband’s aunts, Ann and Mary Sterne.30 March 1724 His aunt Mary Sterne, died. Under her will of 17 June 1719, Jaques inherited the lease of the tithes of Whitcliffe held from the Dean and Chapter of Ripon, lands of a value of £11 bought by Richard Sterne from John Sedgwick and a lease for

Johnson & N. J. Williams, 'Quarter Sessions Records Easter, 1690, To Michaelmas, 1696', Warwick County Records, Volume IX (Warwick: Sir Edgar Stephens, 1964), p. xvii-xviii, xxi; The officiating minister at Sterne’s marriage was John Womack, who was later appointed in 1720 rector of Manby in Lincolnshire, which was in the patronage of Sir Henry Goodricke (see, CCEd). In 1722, Womack was subsequently succeeded by Henry Bradley, associate of Jaques Sterne and future vicar of Haxey, in the gift of the archbishop of York. 22 Forrester, Richard, ‘Uncle Jaques Sterne’, in, The Shandean (1992), p. 203. 23 Monson, Lincolnshire Church Notes, p.399; LA. WASHINGBOROUGH PAR/1/1, General Register, 1564-1734. 24 BIHR. PR/Y/ASP/2, register of baptisms, marriages and burials, 1690-1792. 25 Forrester, ‘Uncle Jaques Sterne’, p. 203. 26 CCEd; BIHR. Bp. Dio. Bk. 5, survey of the diocese, 1714-c. 1730s. 27 BIHR. V. 1717-1719. Exh. Bk. f. 63. 28 ERYAS, DDRI/26/79, Notes of tithes in Rise, 1676-1723. 29 ERYAS. QSF/62/E/4, Sacrament certificate of Hugh Bethell (Rise), c1723. 30 YCA. F.12/f147r, Oath of Allegiance, 5 December 1723, 19 December 1723.

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three lives near Ripon, valued at £70 - a yearly value of £88. Also all of her books.31 9 March 1724 Advertisement appears in the York Mercury of a farm to be let near Selby. Enquiries to be directed to ‘Mr. Sterne on Peasholm-Green in York’, and one other.32 25 March 1724 Begins the rental of the Little Blackhall Close at Rise, East Riding of Yorkshire, at a rate of £7 10s per annum. Rent was to be collected half-yearly.33 21 May 1725 The Dean and Chapter of Ripon pass an order to renew Sterne’s lease of the tithes at Whitcliffe for a fine of £6 15s.34 23 May 1725 Rise church - Administered the sacrament to Hugh Bethell of Rise.35 6 July 1725 Cambridge - Awarded his doctorate in Civil Law from Jesus College, Cambridge, alongside fifteen other recipients (including Thomas Mangey), and 103 Masters of Arts. Sterne was ‘one of the seven who received a doctorate at the hands of Dr Bentley, when the latter delivered the famous oration subsequently prefixed to his edition of Terence.’36 12 August 1725 York – Sterne’s tenant at Ripon, Richard Bolton, writes concerning the lands in his occupation.37 9 September 1726 Beverley - Preached the visitation sermon at the primary visitation of Lancelot Blackburne, Archbishop of York.38 26 September 1726 Thomas Jackson is licensed as curate of Rise, with Sterne paying a stipend of £30 per annum.39 October 1726 Beverley - Signed the oath roll of allegiance, supremacy and abjuration alongside other local gentlemen such as John Moyser and William Osbaldeston.40

31 Forrester, ‘Uncle Jaques Sterne’, p. 199. 32 York Mercury: Or a General View of the Affairs of Europe, But More Particularly Great Britain: With Useful Observations On Trade, No. 4 Vol. VI, Monday, 9 March 1724. 33 ERYAS. DDRI/acc. 2980, Hugh Bethell of Rise Hall account book, 1725-1752. 34 Brotherton Library, University of Leeds. Ripon MS 43, Act Book. 35 ERYAS. QSF/69/D/17, Sacrament certificate of Hugh Bethell of Rise esquire (Rise), c. 1725. 36 Parker’s Penny Post (London), 9 July 1725. The other recipients of degrees included Dr Thomas Mangey, future prebend of Durham. See, Françoise Deconinck-Brossard, ‘Mangey, Thomas (1683/4–1755)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http://www.oxforddnb.com/view/article/17931, accessed 1 Oct 2014]. 37 BIA. CC. Ab. 9. Letter from Richard Bolton, to, Jaques Sterne, 12 August 1725. 38 ERYAS. PE144/23 [Sigglesthorne], Church book, 1629-1766. 39 CCEd.

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2 November 1726 Slingsby – Thomas Gee writes to Thomas Jubb, explaining that Sterne cannot attend the visitation correction court held that day at St. Mary’s Church in Beverley, due to being taken ill. He relates that Sterne has spoken to Lancelot Blackburne about not submitting the terrier for Rise, and the archbishop left Sterne ‘at his Liberty either to give or not give it in’.41 18 November 1726 Hugh Bethell pays Sterne £23 8s 9d, for tithes.42 10 January 1727 Katherine Sterne is named as beneficiary in Francis Mosley’s will, to have £2000 held in trust and spent on lands for her use and benefit. The lands revert to the Mosley family upon her death.43 14 January 1727 Rise? – attested to the ‘Regular Life and Conversation of Thomas Jackson, clerk, alongside John Segar Carter, Richard Sissison, and Seth Sissison.44 4 March 1727 Enters into an indenture to lease a farm to Edward Snowden of Ripon at Whitcliffe, North Riding of Yorkshire.45 2 April 1727 All Saints Church, Rise - Administered the sacrament to Thomas Jackson, vicar of Wawne.46 3 April 1727 St. Augustine Church, Hedon – Married Thomas Jackson, vicar of Wawne, to Elizabeth Sissison of Hedon.47 30 August 1727 Cholmley Turner and Sir Thomas Wentworth are returned to Parliament for Yorkshire in the county election.48 1 December 1727 York Minster - Attended the opening of Convocation as a representative of the clergy of the Archdeaconry of the East Riding, alongside the future Dean, .49

40 ERYAS. QDR/1/15, Oath Roll [Oaths of Allegiance, Supremacy and Abjuration; and Declarations against transubstantiation], 17 Sep 1726-24 Jul 1727. 41 BIHR. V. 1726-7/CB, Visitation Court Book, ff. 146-147. Thomas Gee, to, Thomas Jubb, 2 November 1726. 42 ERYAS. DDRI/acc. 2980, Hugh Bethell of Rise Hall account book, 1725-1752. 43 HHC. DDBM/35/36, Will of Francis Mosley, 1727. 44 YML. D/159, Chapter file, 1727. 45 YML. Add MS 609, Lease between Snowden and Sterne, 1727. 46 ERYAS. QSF/76/E/1, Sacrament certificate of Reverend Thomas Jackson vicar of Waghen (Rise). c1727. 47 Park, Godfrey Henry, The History of the Ancient Borough of Hedon [etc.] (Hull: W. G. B. Page, 1895), p. 272. 48 In Ross, Sterne: A Life, it is asserted that there is no direct evidence of Jaques’ participation in the politics of 1727. However, in Mr H. Bradley’s letter to Sterne, dated Yarm, 23 October 1736, he reminds Jaques of the encouragement to vote during ‘Mr Turner’s first Election’, surely a reference to 1727. See, Catholic Record Society, Miscellanea, vol. 32 (The Society 1933), p. 378. 49 Bray, Gerald (ed.), Records of Convocation. XV. York, 1625-1861, Church of England Record Society (Woodbridge: Boydell, 2006), p. 243.

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Midsummer 1728 Beverley - Attended East Riding Quarter Sessions.50 29 ? 1728 Rise church - Administered the sacrament to Hugh Bethell of Rise.51 Michaelmas 1728 Beverley - Attended East Riding Quarter Sessions. Votes were cast to elect the first Registrar for the East Riding, the successful candidate being Daniel Draper.52 14 December 1728 Named as a Justice in the Commission of the Peace for the Liberty of St. Peter in York, qualifying as a Doctor of Laws.53 21 January 1729 As Justice of the Peace, took the recognizances of Leonard Hart and William Sharp of Skirlaugh, to keep the peace.54 Early 1729 Rise - Attended by Robert Appleton, clerk of the Peace, for the approval of a petition to Parliament concerning An act for the better regulation of attornies and solicitors. 16 February 1729 Rise - Entered the baptism of William, son of Hugh and Ann Bethell into the parish register.55 5 March 1729 Rise Church - Presided over the burial of Ann, wife of Hugh Bethell, who died just weeks after the birth of their son, William.56 19 April 1729 Collated to the prebend of Apesthorpe in York Minster.57 3 May 1729 Decreed in chapter at York Minster that Sterne is to be installed as prebendary of Apesthorpe. Instituted into the vicarage of Hornsea-cum-Ruston, East Riding of Yorkshire.58 9 May 1729 Installed by proxy as prebend of Apesthorpe at York Minster.59 Midsummer 1729 Beverley - Attended East Riding Quarter Sessions.60 13 July 1729 Hunsingore Church - Received the sacrament from Joshua Goodall. Witnessed

50 ERYAS. QSF/81/A, Draft Minutes. 51 ERYAS. QSF/82/E/11, Sacrament certificate of Hugh Bethell esquire (Rise), c.1728. 52 ERYAS. QSF/82/A, Draft Minutes. 53 YML. F2/1/4, Copy fiat for Commission of the Peace, 14 December 1728. Thomas Hayter was also named for the first time on this greatly expanded commission, qualifying as a clerk. 54 ERYAS. QSF/84/C/2, Recognizance of Leonard Hart of Skirley farmer: - appearance, c1729; QSF/86/C/14, Recognizance of William Sharp of Skirley ironsmith: - appearance., c1729. 55 ERYAS. PE80/3, [Rise, All Saints’ Church] Register of baptisms, marriages and burials, 1704-1807. 56 Ibid. 57 Horn, Joyce M. & Smith, David M., Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae 1541-1857, Volume 4 – York Diocese (1975), pp. 22-23. 58 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747; CCEd. 59 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747 60 ERYAS. QSV/1/2, Order Book A, 1708-1731.

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the sacrament of his brother-in-law, Captain John Saville Goodricke.61 10 August 1729 Rise Church - Administered the sacrament to Hugh Bethell of Rise.62 Michelmas 1729 Beverley - Attended East Riding Quarter Sessions.63 25 November 1729 York Minster – Attends a chapter meeting.64 27 November 1729 York Minster – Attends a chapter meeting.65 30 November 1729 Rise - Entered the baptism of John, son of Hugh and Elizabeth Carr into the parish register book. This was the last baptism entry that he made in the parish register.66 Christmas 1729 Beverley - Attended East Riding Quarter Sessions.67

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1730 Sterne is noted as the Prebendary of Apesthorpe in Thomas Gent’s, The Antient and Modern History of the Famous City of York.68 1730 As Justice of the Peace, took the recognizances of Thomas Rashill of Bewholme, William Dickson and John Collison for selling ‘unwholesome’ meat from a distempered cow. The case was later dismissed.69 20 March 1730 Rise - Entered the burial of Hannah Anthony into the parish register. Jaques had overseen the burial of her mother, also Hannah, just five days earlier on the 15 March. This was the last burial entry that Jaques wrote in the register.70 29 March 1730 Rise? – attested to the qualifications of Thomas Jackon, to become vicar of Preston cum Hedon, alongside John Segar and William Clark.71 April 1730 Beverley - Attended East Riding Quarter Sessions.72

61 ERYAS. QSF/85/E/5, Sacrament certificate of Reverend Jaques Sterne LLD. of Rise (Hunsingore), c1729. 62 ERYAS. QSF/85/E/2, Sacrament certificate of Hugh Bethell esquire, (Rise), c1729. 63 ERYAS. QSV/1/2, Order Book A, 1708-1731. 64 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 65 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 66 ERYAS. PE80/3, Register of baptisms, marriages and burials, 1704-1807. 67 ERYAS. QSF/87/A, Draft Minutes. 68 Gent, Thomas, The Antient and Modern History of the Famous City of York (York: Thomas Gent), p. 65. 69 ERYAS. QSF/91/C/9, Recognizance of Thomas Rashil, William Dickson and John Collison all of Buam husbandmen: - T.R. for "selling unwholesome flesh", c1730; QSF/91/E/6, Indictment (Ignoramus): Thomas Rashill of Bewholme yeoman: - selling flesh from distempered cow., c1730. 70 ERYAS. PE80/3, Register of baptisms, marriages and burials, 1704-1807. 71 YML. D/162, Chapter file, 1730. 72 ERYAS. QSF/92/A, Draft Minutes.

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23 April 1730 East Riding - Passed the accounts of the overseers of Hornsea alongside Charles Pool, John Storr and John Greenhead.73 25 May 1730 Signs a parchment assignment dated 27 November 1729 as witness to the payment of £1000 with interest by Thomas Scott to Richard Osbaldeston, , and others for lands at Aldbrough, East Riding of Yorkshire.74 1 June 1730 York Minster – Agreed at Chapter alongside Richard Osbaldeston, John Richardson, , John Bradley, Thomas Hayter and , to issue the inhibitions ahead of a General Visitation of the Dean and Chapter of York. Also, Sterne voted alongside Hayter and Stephens that Edward Finch’s residence in a non-canonical house was not agreeable to the statutes of the cathedral.75 25 June 1730 Lancelot Blackburne issues a patent at Bishopthorpe to appoint Sterne as auditor of the archbishop’s estates.76 1 July 1730 York Minster – Attends alongside the other dignitaries and prebendaries of the cathedral, at the decree to proceed in the General Visitation of the Dean and Chapter of York. 77 16 July 1730 Decreed in chapter at York Minster that Sterne is appointed as auditor of the archbishop’s estates.78 3 August 1730 Sterne is named in a commission from Archbishop Lancelot Blackburne alongside George Oldham, Richard Hill, John Lambert, Thomas Farside, and Nicholas Woolfe to inspect Burton Agnes parish church upon the petition of Sir William St. Quintin.79 23 October 1730 Rise – writes to Thomas Hayter regarding Sir William St. Quintin’s renewal of a lease of lands at Nafferton. Also refers to newspaper reports that Bishop Benjamin Hoadly is not to succeed to the see of Durham, and the publication of a History of Roman Law. Offers the compliments of his wife, Katherine.80 11 November 1730 York Minster – Attends a chapter meeting. Sterne voted alongside Dean

73 ERYAS. DDX173/3, Hornsea with Burton overseers' account book, 1709-1799. 74 ERYAS. DDRO/30/22, Assignment of a mortgage relating to Aldbrough, 1729. 75 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747; C1/61-64, Forms for proceeding upon a General Visitation held by the Dean and Chapter of York, 1730. 76 ? BIHR – August 2017 snaps. 77 YML. C1/61-64, Forms for proceeding upon a General Visitation held by the Dean and Chapter of York, 1730. 78 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 79 BIHR. Bp C&P III/34, Commission to inspect Burton Agnes church, 3 August 1730. 80 BIHR. CC Ab. 9. Letter from Jaques Sterne, to, Thomas Hayter, 23 October 1730.

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Osbaldeston in favour of the latter’s proposition that ‘the Dean by vertue of his Office on the Meeting on Martinmas Day sometimes called a Chapter appointed by the Statutes of [H. VIII] for the Business of this Cathedral has a Right to collect the Debates of such as have a Right to be present and debate and put such Questions as arise and Collect the Votes of the Members whether they affirm or denye the said Questions.81 20 November 1730 York Minster – Attends a chapter meeting.82 10 December 1730 York – As auditor of the archbishop’s estates, orders a summons for the presentation of accounts for the manor of Wistow.83 12 December 1730 York Minster – Attends a chapter meeting. Edward Finch having refused to deliver the keys to chest holding the common seal of the Dean and Chapter to his fellow canons, is waited on at his house by Sterne and Samuel Brearey in order to convince Finch to relinquish the keys. They were unsuccessful.84 14 December 1730 York Minster – Attends a chapter meeting.85 17 December 1730 York Minster – Attends a chapter meeting. Edward Finch appeared in chapter to defend his recent actions regarding the keys of the chest containing the common seal of the Dean and Chapter. Sterne voted alongside John Bradley, Samuel Brearey, William Elsley, Richard Levett and Dean Osbaldeston that Finch’s behaviour was inconsistent with the duty and canonical obedience of the cathedral. 86 19 December 1730 York Minster – Attends a chapter meeting.87 26 December 1730 East Riding - Witnessed the indenture of William Fish to Midgley in Great Hatfield as recorded in the Registry of Deeds.88 15 February 1731 Resigns the prebend of Apesthorpe in York Minster in the presence of Ben Waide, Charles Cowper and Thomas Awmond.89

81 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 82 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 83 BIHR. CC Ab. 9, Manor of Wistow accounts, 1730s-1740s. 84 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 85 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 86 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 87 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 88 ERYAS. RDB/1/2/Book B, Register of enrolments of deeds of bargain and sale, Book B, 11 Apr 1709-20 Aug 1752, pp. 56-57. 89 BIHR. Bp C & P XIX, Jaques Sterne’s resignation of the Prebend of Apesthorpe at York, 15 February 1731.

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17 February 1731 Sterne’s resignation of the prebend of Apesthorpe is presented by Thomas Hayter, and accepted by Archbishop Lancelot Blackburne.90 27 February 1731 Collated to the prebend of Ulleskelf at York Minster.91 April 1731 Beverley - Named among other Justices of the Peace at the East Riding Quarter Sessions to report upon the County expenses in maintaining the Castle of York.92 13 April 1731 Decreed that in chapter that Sterne is to be installed as the prebendary of Ulleskelf at York. 93 15 April 1731 York Minster - Installed as prebendary of Ulleskelf at York Minster.94 25 April 1731 Rise - Takes the information of James Hart against Richard Field, dancing master of Etton, East Riding of Yorkshire, in the charge that he performed a fake marriage ceremony. Also, at Rise Church, he received the sacrament from John Moorhouse.95 8 June 1731 York Minster – Attends a chapter meeting.96 18 June 1731 York Minster – Attends a chapter meeting.97 20 June 1731 York Minster – Attends a chapter meeting.98 23 July 1731 Named in the Commission of the Peace for the East Riding of Yorkshire.99 31 July 1731 York Minster – Attends a chapter meeting.100 23 September 1731 Rise - Recognizance of James Hart of South Skirlaugh to appear at the East Quarter Riding Sessions at the trial of Richard Field, dancing master.101 11 November 1731 York Minster – Attends a chapter meeting.102

90 BIHR. Bp C & P XIX, Jaques Sterne’s resignation of the Prebend of Apesthorpe at York, 15 February 1731. 91 Horn & Smith, Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae, pp. 60-61. 92 ERYAS. QSF/92/A, Draft Minutes. 93 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 94 Horn & Smith, Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae, pp. 60-61; YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747; YML. D/163, Chapter file, 1731. 95 ERYAS. QSF/93/D/8, Informations of James Hart: - Richard Field of Etton dancing master "Put a sheet on in imitation of a surpluce" at John Kirkhouse's at Woodhouse in Arnel parish Riston; and read the marriage service between Richard Kentley and Mary Dixon ("who immediately after went to bed together") and also pretended to give the sacrament of the Lord's Supper, c1731; QSF/92/D/1, Sacrament certificate of Reverend Jaques Sterne doctor of law (Rise), c1731. 96 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 97 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 98 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 99 ERYAS. QJC/1/4, Commission of the Peace, 23 July 1731. 100 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 101 ERYAS. QSF/94/C/9, Recognizance of James Hart of South Skirlaugh husbandman: - to prosecute Richard Field., c1731.

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21 January 1732 Francis Goulton of Highthorn, near Easingwold, writes to Thomas Hayter regarding the value of a property in Kilburn, having received a letter from Sterne some days earlier.103 Easter 1732 Beverley - Attended East Riding Quarter Sessions.104 13 April 1732 Rise – Ripon letter. [CC. Ab.] 4 May 1732 East Riding - Passed the overseers accounts of Owthorne, in Holderness alongside Francis Appleyard, at the cost of a shilling.105 16 June 1732 Bishopthorpe – Writes out Archbishop Lancelot Blackburne’s collation of George Legh to the Prebend of Botevant in York Minster.106 20 June 1732 York Minster – Attends a chapter meeting.107 12 August 1732 York Minster – Attends a chapter meeting.108 14 December 1732 York Minster – Attends a chapter meeting.109 15 January 1733 York – Pays £10 10s contribution towards the re-paving of York Minster, on the same day as James Young, rector of Catwick in Holderness.110 19 January 1733 York – Acts as witness to his niece Anne’s will, alongside Jacob and R. Costobadie.111 2 February 1732 York Minster – Attends a chapter meeting.112 11 June 1733 York Minster – Attends a chapter meeting; acts as witness to an agreement between John Bradley and Thomas Jubb for the repayment of £100 lent by Jubb.113 29 June 1733 Bishopthorpe – Edward Ridsdale writes to Sterne concerning a recent meeting of the archiepiscopal tenants at the White Harte in Ripon.114 2 July 1733 Writes to Edward Ridsdale regarding a renewal of a lease of lands in Ripon.115

102 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 103 BIHR. CC Ab. 9, letter from Francis Goulton, to, Thomas Hayter, 21 January 1732. 104 ERYAS. QSF/103/A, Draft Minutes. 105 HHC. PR/3, Owthorne. Overseers of the Poor Account Book, 1706 – 1785. 106 YML. D/164, Chapter file, 1732. 107 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 108 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 109 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 110 YML. B3/2/11, The Accompt of Subscriptions towards the New paving of the Cathedral Church of York, 1731- 1736. 111 Clay, J. W., Sterne Family (1910) [&c] 112 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 113 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747; YML. D/165, Chapter file, 1733. 114 BIA. CC. Ab. 9. Letter from Edward Ridsdale, to, Jaques Sterne, 29 June 1733.

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13 July 1733 Bishopthorpe – Edward Ridsdale writes to Sterne concerning the resolution of the tenants of Ripon.116 20 July 1733 Bishopthorpe – Edward Ridsdale writes to Sterne concerning the lease of lands in Ripon, and states that he intends to wait on him.117 30 August 1733 Bishopthorpe? – annotates a copy of Archbishop Lancelot Blackburne’s letter to Richard Worsop relating to the Manor of Otley.118 14 September 1733 Acts as agent between the York tailor Thomas Siddall and Hugh Bethell, presumably to produce items relating to the High Shrievalty of Yorkshire.119 11 November 1733 As auditor of the archbishop’s estates, passes the accounts for the manor of Otley.120 29 November 1733 Named alongside his nephew and niece, Timothy and Frances Sterne, as lives in the renewal by Timothy Booth of Halifax, of a lease of Mickle Ings in Otley, from the Archbishop of York. The new fine was £435.121 30 December 1733 Rise Church - Administered the sacrament to Hugh Bethell of Rise122 10 January 1734 Beverley - Attended East Riding Quarter Sessions. Petition is received from the inhabitants of Hornsea, requesting relief for their losses in a ‘most dreadful tempest’, which caused over £600 in damages with the result that ‘a great part of the town is become desolate’. Sterne did not sign the petition from the parish where he was vicar, but £5 were sent to the sufferers by order of the Justices. 123 19 February 1734 York – Edward Snowden writes to Sterne concerning the mills at Ripon.124 19 March 1734 Edward Snowden writes to Sterne with further information concerning the mills at Ripon.125 April 1734 Writes to Cholmley Turner in support of the election campaign. He comments

115 BIA. CC. Ab. 9. Letter from Jaques Sterne, to, Edward Ridsdale, 2 July 1733. 116 BIA. CC. Ab. 9. Letter from Edward Ridsdale, to, Jaques Sterne, 13 July 1733. 117 BIA. CC. Ab. 9. Letter from Edward Ridsdale, to, Jaques Sterne, 20 July 1733. 118 BIA. CC. Ab. 9. Copy letter from Lancelot Blackburne, to, Richard Worsop, 30 August 1733. 119 ERYAS. DDRI/acc. 2980, Hugh Bethell of Rise Hall account book, 1725-1752. 120 BIHR. CC Ab. 9, Manor of Otley accounts. 121 BIA. Bp. Dio. Bk. vol. 2, Archbishop Sharp’s MSS, c. 1700. 122 ERYAS. QSF/103/F/4, Sacrament certificate of Hugh Bethell of Rise esquire (Rise), c.1733. 123 ERYAS. QSF/103/A, Draft Minutes; QSF/103/D/9, Petition of the inhabitants of Hornsea: - losses in a "most dreadful tempest". "Within the space of two minutes twenty-four dwelling houses with about fourteen barns (were) demolished besides a considerable number more very much shattered". (Over £600 damage exclusive of the church. "a great part of the town is become desolate"); QCT/1, Account book (annual), 1731-1780. 124 BIA. CC. Ab. 9. Letter from Edward Snowden to, Jaques Sterne, 19 February 1734. 125 BIA. CC. Ab. 9. Letter from Edward Snowden to, Jaques Sterne, 19 February 1734.

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that he had spent time with the agent of William Pulteney and that he would call upon Sir Francis Boynton to garner his support.126 21 April 1734 Delivers letters and other papers relating to Church lands at Ripon to Thomas Hayter.127 25 April 1734 Is collated into the prebendary of South Muskham in Southwell Minster.128 6 May 1734 York - Met with other gentry in support of Sir Rowland Winn and Cholmley Turner ahead of the general election.129 15 May 1734 York – The poll for a Knight of the Shire is held. 25 May 1734 Is installed as prebendary of South Muskham. At the same chapter, the injunctions against the Vicars Choral of Southwell were presented to the Chapter.130 28 May 1734 The Dean and Chapter of Ripon pass an order to renew Sterne’s lease of the tithes at Whitcliffe for a fine of £11.131 10 June 1734 York Minster – Attends a chapter meeting.132 21 June 1734 Named among the prebendaries of Southwell to choose a proctor for Convocation on 21 June 1734.133 14 July 1734 Sigglesthorne Church - Received the sacrament from William Foord.134 14 August 1734 York Minster – Attends a chapter meeting.135 16 August 1734 York Minster – Attends a chapter meeting.136 23 September 1734 James Borwick writes to Thomas Hayter, and refers to Sterne’s account of Archbishop Blackburne’s good health.137

126 Curtis, Lewis Perry, The Letters of Laurence Sterne (Oxford University Press, 1935), p. 423. Boynton and Pulteney were MPs for Hedon, with the former acting as a Justice for the East Riding alongside Sterne. 127 BIA. CC. Ab. 9. Letter from Edward Snowden to, Jaques Sterne, 19 February 1734. 128 CCEd. 129 Lashley's York miscellany; containing a collection of all the letters, ballads, advertisements, paragraphs in the news-papers, &c. that have been .... (1734). 130 BIA. Bp C&P XVII/26, Letter from John Abson, to, Thomas Hayter, 26 October 1734. 131 Brotherton Library, University of Leeds. Ripon MS 43, Act Book. 132 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 133 NA. SC/3/1/44, election of proctors, 21 June 1734. 134 ERYAS. QSF/105/D/2, Sacrament certificate of Jaques Sterne of Rice (Siglesthorne), c.1734. 135 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 136 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 137 BIHR. CC Ab. 9, letter from James Borwick, to, Thomas Hayter, 23 September 1734.

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3 November 1734 Rise – As Justice of the Peace, takes information of Mary Batty of Ellerby against James Marshall of Skirlaugh, East Riding of Yorkshire, the latter being accused of demanding money and threatening Batty with a pistol.138 4 November 1734 Rise – As Justice of the Peace takes information of James Marshall in his defence. Took recognizances of both Marshall and Mary Batty.139 11 November 1734 As auditor of the archbishop’s estates, passes the accounts for the manor of Wistow.140 24 January 1735 York Minster – Sterne appears alongside Nicholas Woolfe, as representatives of the clergy of the Archdeaconry of the East Riding at the meeting of Convocation.141 March 1735 Samuel Berdmore writes to Sterne, informing him of the latest in the dispute between the Chapter and the Vicars Choral. He asks for further guidance in Sterne’s suggestion of using articles. Also, information about a lease on the prebendal estate of South Muskham. Berdmore offers to pay for substitutes for Sterne’s preaching turns at Southwell, that he might repay him later. Expresses that Sterne might meet them at Southwell if the timing of his journey makes this possible, and asks that Sterne might pay his respects to Lancelot Blackburne, Dorothy Cruwys, and Thomas Hayter.142 7 April 1735 Samuel Berdmore writes to Thomas Hayter regarding the ongoing dispute at Southwell between the Chapter and the Vicars Choral. ‘If it should be thought adviceable to proceed by articles as Dr. Sterne suggests We must Entreat that our directions may be plain.’ Sterne also suggested that the whole chapter of Southwell should be summoned. 143 7 May 1735 Thomas Hayter writes to John Brackon regarding his ordination papers, and states that if they were sent to York, they would be ‘either in Dr: Sterne’s Possession or Mr. Jubbs.’144 3 June 1735 York – The Cartulary of St. Mary’s Abbey is borrowed from York Minster

138 ERYAS. QSF/107/D/7, Information of Mary Batty of Ellerby spinster: - James Marshal of Skirley demanded money and threatened her with a pistol at the house of John Batty of Ellerby, c1734. 139 ERYAS. QSF/107/D/8, Examination of James Marshall of Skirley: - denying accusations as QSF/107/D/7, c.1734. 140 BIHR. CC Ab. 9, Manor of Wistow accounts, 1730s-1740s. 141 Bray, Convocation. XV. York, p. 259. Nicholas Woolfe was prebendary of Weighton, 1732-1750. 142 BIHR. Bp C&P XVII/26, Letter from Samuel Berdmore, to, Jaques Sterne, [c. March 1735]. 143 BIHR. Bp C&P XVII/26, Letter from Samuel Berdmore, to, Thomas Hayter, 7 April 1735. 144 BIHR. Ord/31, ordination papers, 1735. Letter from Thomas Hayter, to, John Brackon, 7 May 1735.

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Library, ‘by Mr. Costoby [Costobadie] servant for Dr. Stern’.145 4 July 1735 Thomas Farside writes to Sterne in relation to the tithes of , and the fishing tithes of Robin Hood’s Bay.146 21 July 1735 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.147 22 July 1735 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.148 23 July 1735 York - At York Quarter Sessions, Sterne is convicted of assaulting John Bignall, a barber. 26 July 1735 Sterne writes to Thomas Hayter, providing an account of the tithes of Whitby, and surrounding areas, as provided by Thomas Farside.149 5 August 1735 Dr Heneage Dering conducts the visitation of the Archdeaconry of the East Riding at St. Mary's Church, Beverley and delivers the enquiries of archbishop Lancelot Blackburne into the numbers of Catholics in the archdiocese.150 2 September 1735 Thomas Farside writes from Whitby, in reply to a letter from Sterne, and refers to the tithes of carious chapelries in that area, and the fish tithes in Robin Hood’s Bay. He also promises to send Sterne some more lobsters.151 10 September 1735 Sterne writes to Thomas Hayter, informing him that Thomas Farside’s former account of the tithes at Whitby were inaccurate, and that they may be more valuable than previously thought.152 28 September 1735 Makes out the ‘Answers to His Graces Queries concerning Papists in the Parish of Rice in Holderness.’ To all questions, he answered, ‘None’.153 20 October 1735 Sterne writes to Thomas Hayter, relating that he has recently spoken to Richard Osbaldeston, Dean of York, who informed him that the archbishop has been misled as to the true value of the tithes of Whitby.154

145 Brunskill, Elizabeth, 18th Century Reading, Some notes on the people who frequented the Library of York Minster in the Eighteenth Century, and on the books they borrowed, Occasional Paper Number Six of the York Georgian Society (The Society, 1950). 146 BIHR. CC Ab. 9. Copy extract of letter from Thomas Farside, to, Jaques Sterne, 4 July 1735. 147 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 148 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 149 Daily Gazetteer (London Edition) (London, England), Tuesday, July 29, 1735; Issue 26; BIHR. CC Ab. 9. ‘Copys of part of several letters from Dr. Sterne concerning Tythes of Whitby &c., 1735’. 150 See returns in, Catholic Record Society, Miscellanea, vol. 32 (The Society 1933). 151 BIHR. CC Ab. 9. Letter from Thomas Farside, to, Jaques Sterne, 2 September 1735. 152 BIHR. CC Ab. 9. ‘Copys of part of several letters from Dr. Sterne concerning Tythes of Whitby &c., 1735’. 153 CRS, Miscellanea, p. 300. 154 BIHR. CC Ab. 9. ‘Copys of part of several letters from Dr. Sterne concerning Tythes of Whitby &c., 1735’.

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28 October 1735 John Richardson, Precentor of York and Archdeacon of Cleveland dies, aged 60. He is buried in York Minster three days later.155 29 October 1735 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting, and protests residence as a canon residentiary of York.156 4 November 1735 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting, and protests residence for the second time.157 8 November 1735 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting, and requests a leave of absence ‘being ‘obliged to take a Journey to London in Order to wait upon and receive from his Grace the Lord Arch-Bishop of York now at London his Graces Collations to the Dignitary of the Precentorship [etc.]’.158 17 November 1735 London – Resigns his prebend of Ulleskelfe at York Minster, which is accepted by Lancelot Blackburne on the same day, in the presence of Thomas Hayter and Thomas Blackmore. Is also collated as both Precentor of York Minster (also confirmed by Archbishop Blackburne on that day) and Archdeacon of Cleveland.159 19 November 1735 London – Appoints Robert Fysh as his proxy for installation as Precentor of York, and Archdeacon of Cleveland. Witnessed by Thomas Hayter and .160 22 November 1735 The mandate for Sterne’s installation as Precentor, Archdeacon of Cleveland, and prebendary of Driffield are read in chapter at York Minster.161 24 November 1735 Installed as both Precentor of York Minster and Archdeacon of Cleveland, with Robert Fysh acting as Sterne’s proxy.162 1 December 1735 Writes to William Herdsmen upon the Archbishop’s orders, declaring that he should desist from serving Aislaby chapel and take up residence at Sneton, in the North Riding of Yorkshire.163

155 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 156 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747.; YML. D/167, Chapter file, 1735. 157 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 158 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 159 BIHR. Bp C & P XIX, Jaques Sterne’s Resignation of the Prebend of Ulleskelfe at York; BIHR. Bp C & P XIX, forms of Collation to the Precentorship of the Church of York and Prebend of Driffield together with Mandates for Induction & Installation, 17 November 1735; Horn & Smith, Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae, pp. 9-11. 160 YML. D/164, Chapter file, 1732. This document is incorrectly filed, as it dates to 19 November 1735. 161 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 162 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 163 BIHR. C.V/CB.8, Court Book and Calls, 1734-1742, f. 67.

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2 December 1735 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting, and protests to begin residence on 3 December 1735.164 3 December 1735 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting, and protests to begin residence on that day for a second time. Sterne is granted leave to use the Precentor’s stall.165 11-12 December 1735 Property on Peasholme Green ‘late in the tenure of Reverend Doctor Sterne’ purchased by Sarah Hill from her father, John Hill. Jaques had recently moved.166 12 December 1735 William Herdsmen writes a letter to Sterne, dated from Whitby, in which he promises to fulfil Sterne and the Archbishop’s requests, but lambasts the conduct of Thomas Farside for representing his case in such an ‘unjust and untrue’ manner concerning a burial, stating that Farside has represented ‘gross falshoods’ to the Archbishop and to Sterne. He refers to a petition of the principle inhabitants of Whitby.167 17 December 1735 Sterne delivers Herdsmen’s letter to Robert Jubb and orders that a copy be entered into the Court Book.168 18 December 1735 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.169 20 December 1735 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting. Installs Samuel Berdmore as prebendary of Bugthorpe.170 29 December 1735 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting. Is granted a leave of absence from his residence from 3 to 12 January. 171 14 January 1736 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting. Is granted a leave of absence from his residence for two days.172 17 January 1736 Desires that he might join Thomas Hayter in his humble service to

164 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747; YML. D/168, Chapter file, 1735; Daily Gazetteer (London Edition) (London, England), Saturday, December 6, 1735; Issue 138. 165 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747; YML. D/168, Chapter file, 1735. 166 Forrester, ‘Uncle Jaques Sterne’. 167 BIHR. C.V/CB.8, Court Book, f. 67; Thomas Farside was curate of Whitby. He responded to the Archbishop’s enquiries regarding Papists, dated 23 September 1735. See, CRS, Miscellanea, p. 335. Farside was appointed curate of Whitby in 1735 upon the interest of Hugh Cholmley Esq., but little over a year later, was replaced by James Borwick, possibly on the patronage of Archbishop Blackburne and Sterne. Borwick was licensed on 13 July 1736. See, Annesley, Cressida & Hoskins, Pamela M., Archbishop Drummond's Visitation Returns 1764: Yorkshire S-Y, Borthwick Texts and Calendars 26 (The University of York, 2001), p. 120. 168 Ibid. 169 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 170 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 171 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 172 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747.

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Samuel Berdmore and the chapter of Southwell.173 22 January 1736 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.174 23 January 1736 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.175 26 January 1736 York – Thomas Jubb writes to Thomas Hayter concerning his installation as prebendary of Strensall. He informs Hayter, that Sterne has received his proxy for his installation, as Dean Richard Osbaldeston was absent at the election in Scarborough.176 28 January 1736 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting, and as proxy for the installation of Thomas Hayter as prebendary of Strensall.177 29 January 1736 Thomas Farside writes to Sterne, informing him of rentals in Whitby, and the customary service of the chapel of Fylingdales. He accompanied the letter with nine fresh lobsters.178 31 January 1736 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.179 4 February 1736 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting. Is granted a leave of absence from his residence for two nights.180 8 February 1736 Thomas Farside writes to Thomas Hayter, relating information about tithes in Whitby, some of which he states, ‘I presume Mr Arch Deacon Sterne has already acquainted you with.’181 23 February 1736 Sterne writes to Thomas Hayter, informing him that Richard Osbaldeston, Dean of York, believes the tithes of Whitby to be worth around £500.182 22 March 1736 The Dean and Chapter’s petition concerning the Quaker Tithe’s Bill is read in chapter at York Minster. 24 March 1736 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting. Is granted a leave of absence from his residence for two nights on ‘urgent business’. 183 29 March 1736 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting. Is granted a leave of absence from his

173 BIHR. Bp C&P XVII/26, Copy letter from Thomas Hayter, to, Samuel Berdmore, 17 January 1736. 174 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 175 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 176 BIA. CC.P/Str 9, letter from Thomas Jubb, to, Thomas Hayter, 26 January 1736. 177 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 178 BIHR. CC Ab. 9. Letter from Thomas Farside, to, Jaques Sterne, 29 January 1736. 179 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 180 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 181 BIHR. CC Ab. 9. Letter from Thomas Farside, to, Thomas Hayter, 8 February 1736. 182 BIHR. CC Ab. 9. ‘Copys of part of several letters from Dr. Sterne concerning Tythes of Whitby &c., 1735’. 183 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747.

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residence for the 29 to 30 March.184 15 April 1736 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.185 24 April 1736 Rise – As Justice of the Peace, and with Hugh Bethell of Rise, conducts the examination of Benjamin Gibson, accused of non-payment of small tithes, and directs their judgement to the constable of North Frodingham.186 6 May 1736 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting. Is granted a leave of absence from his residence, ‘at several times pending this his Major Canonical Residence (…) that he had diverse times (as he asserted) been prevented makeing use of Such their Leave and Whereas his primary Archidiaconal Visitation for the Arch Deaconry of Cleveland in now appointed to begin at Malton on Monday next ensueing [etc.]’.187 10 May 1736 St. Michael’s Church, New Malton – Conducts the visitation of the Archdeacon of Cleveland for Ryedale Deanery alongside Dr Mark Braithwaite, Robert and Thomas Jubb. Henry Hird of Myton preached.188 Presents Henry Clarke to the vicarage of South Muskham, Nottinghamshire. 12 May 1736 Stokesley - Conducts the visitation of the Archdeacon of Cleveland for Cleveland Deanery. Joseph Storr, rector of Easington, preached.189 13 May 1736 Robert Taylor writes to Thomas Hayter, having just returned from Malton; ‘Mr Archdeacon Sterne entertain’d his Clergy with a most excellent Charge, and ye Vicar of Myton preach’d an honest Whig sermon’.190 14 May 1736 Thirsk - Conducts the visitation of the Archdeacon of Cleveland for Bulmer Deanery. John Wind, rector of Kirkby Knowle, preached.191 29 May 1736 York – As auditor of the archbishop’s estates, orders a summons for the presentation of accounts for the manor of Otley.192 17 June 1736 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting. Attests to the completion of his Major Canonical Residence.193

184 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 185 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 186 ERYAS. QSF/113/C/20, Examination of Benjamin Gibson of North Frodingham non-payment of £1.8s small tithes, upon complaint of Reverend Young, c1736. 187 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 188 BIHR. C.V/CB.8, Court Book, f. 68. 189 BIHR. C.V/CB.8, Court Book, f. 71. 190 BIHR. Bp C & P III/8/13, Letter from Robert Taylor, to, Thomas Hayter, 13 May 1736. 191 BIHR. C.V/CB.8, Court Book, f. 75. 192 BIHR. CC Ab. 9, Manor of Otley accounts, 1730s-1740s.

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12 July 1736 James Jackson, George Pinckney, Charles Oxley, and John Wilson write to Sterne inclosing a terrier of lands at Ripon, in hopes of renewing their lease.194 21 July 1736 London – replies to the letter of 12 July 1736, and states that the proposal for the Ripon lease is not fit to be put before the archbishop.195 13 August 1736 London - 9 September 1736 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.196 Upon the death of the registrar Thomas Jubb, a Chapter meeting was called at 9am in the Registry Office, consisting of the Dean, Richard Osbaldeston, Jaques Sterne, Thomas Lamplugh and John Bradley. The Chapter inspected the records and muniments of the Registrar and there were ‘some hours spent therein’. The meeting decided that a schedule should be drawn up of all the records held in the Office and that copies of the schedule should be retained by both the Registrar and the Dean and Chapter.197 15 September 1736 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.198 17 September 1736 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting. Installs Benjamin Wilson as the prebendary of Osbaldwick, and Robert Reynolds as prebendary of Apesthorpe.199 13-15 October 1736 Hugh Bethell of Rise advances payment for Sterne’s fee farm rents.200 23 October 1736 At a chapter meeting at Southwell, the residentiary agrees to ‘make himself accountable’ for Sterne’s £5.201 8 November 1736 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.202 Passes the accounts between the Dean and Chapter of York and Robert Jubb, as executor to his father, Thomas

193 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 194 BIA. CC. Ab. 9. Letter from James Jackson, George Pinckney, Charles Oxley, and John Wilson, to, Jaques Sterne, 12 July 1736. 195 BIA. CC. Ab. 9. Letter from Jaques Sterne, to, James Jackson, George Pinckney, Charles Oxley, and John Wilson, 21 July 1736. 196 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747.. 197 Longley, K.M., ‘Towards a history of archive-keeping in the Church of York: II the Capitular Muniments’, in, Borthwick Institute Bulletin, Vol. 1, Number 3 (Borthwick Institute of Historical Research, York, 1977). 198 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 199 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 200 ERYAS. DDRI/acc. 2980, Hugh Bethell of Rise Hall account book, 1725-1752. 201 NA. SC/2/2/2, Chapter Decree Book, 1727-1784. 202 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747.

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Jubb, late Deputy Registrar of the diocese, alongside John Bradley, Edward Finch, Thomas Lamplugh, and Richard Osbaldeston.203 11 November 1736 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.204 15 November 1736 Writes to Robert Newton concerning the tithes of Burton Agnes.205 19 November 1736 Robert Newton replies to Sterne’s letter of 15 November 1736, giving details of the renewal of a lease of the tithes of Burton Agnes.206 28 November 1736 Date of a letter from John Moyser of Beverley to an unspecified diocesan officer, annotated on the reverse by Sterne with the details on its contents.207 1737 Makes notes on the rental of the prebendal lands at North Newbald, amounting to £158 in total.208 7 January 1737 Matthew Bradford writes to Sterne about the Church lands at Kinalton. Bradford also states that he’ll remind Thomlinson about Sterne’s papers.209 20 January 1737 At a chapter meeting at Southwell, Sterne’s presentation of Henry Clark to vicarage of South Muskham is formally acknowledged.210 25 January 1737 James Borwick writes to Sterne (addressing him as Mr Precentor), giving him an account of the extent of the adherence to Catholicism in the district of Whitby in .211 11 February 1737 Named as an executor in the will of Sir Henry Goodricke alongside Goodricke’s wife, Dame Mary, Matthew Hutton and Francis Wanley.212 18 April 1737 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.213 29 April 1737 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting. The chapter held ‘a Consultation or Conference concerning a parochiall visitation in and throughout their whole Jurisdiction Then they ordered and Decreed that a parochiall visitation should be

203 YML. A4/2g/2, Accounts between Robert Jubb (as executor to Thomas Jubb), and the Dean and Chapter of York, 8 November 1736. 204 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 205 BIHR. CC Ab. 9. Letter from Robert Newton, to, Jaques Sterne, 19 November 1736. 206 BIHR. CC Ab. 9. Letter from Robert Newton, to, Jaques Sterne, 19 November 1736. 207 BIHR. Abp C & P XVIII/7, letter from John Moyser, 28 November 1736. 208 BIHR. Abp C & P XIX, a rental of the prebendal corpse at North Newbald, 1737. 209 BIHR. CC Ab. 9. Letter from Matthew Bradford, to, Jaques Sterne, 7 January 1737. 210 NA. SC/2/2/2, Chapter Decree Book, 1727-1784. 211 CRS, Miscellanea, pp. 379-381. 212 NYCRO. ZBL I/1/1/444, Administration with a copy of the will and codicil of Sir Henry Goodricke of Great Ribston, B, 11 Feb 1737. 213 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747.

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held and kept this present year for all the Churches and Chappels (…) that are situate within the severall and respective Deanerys of Harthill Dickering Buckrose and Holderness [other jurisdictions of the dignitaries to be inhibited]’. Jaques Sterne, Robert Reynolds, Edward Finch, Thomas Lamplugh, John Bradley, Samuel Baker, Charles Cowper, William Ward and Mark Braitwait to be commissioners.214 9 June 1737 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.215 28 July 1737 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.216 4 August 1737 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.217 5 August 1737 Writes letters inquiring into Quaker prosecutions within the Archdeaconry of Cleveland for delivery to certain clergymen at his next archdeacon’s visitation. These include Francis Day, vicar of Topcliffe, and Peter Dubourdieu, vicar of Kirkby Overblow.218 8 August 1737 St. Michael’s Church, New Malton - Conducts the visitation of the Archdeacon of Cleveland for Ryedale Deanery and delivers his address to the clergy of the Archdeaconry, described by Peter Dubourdieu as a ‘most Excellent charge’.219 Dr Samuel Baker, rector of Dunnington, preached.220 Sterne delivers his letter of the 5 August 1737 to Dubourdieu. 10 August 1737 Thirsk - Conducts the visitation of the Archdeacon of Cleveland for Bulmer Deanery. Francis Wanley of Thirkleby preached.221 12 August 1737 Stokesley - Conducts the visitation of the Archdeacon of Cleveland for Cleveland Deanery. James Borwick, curate of Whitby, preached.222 23 August 1737 Peter Dubourdieu, vicar of Kirkby Overblow writes to Sterne in response to the enquiries about the Quakers.223 26 August 1737 Is named in the will of Lancelot Blackburne, Archbishop of York, as having

214 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747.. 215 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 216 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 217 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 218 BIHR. Bp C & P III/7/12. Peter Dubourdieu, to, Jaques Sterne, Kirkby Overblow, 23 August 1737; BIHR. Abp C & P III/7/13. Francis Day, to, Jaques Sterne, Topcliffe, 23 August 1737. 219 BIHR. Bp C & P III/7/12. Peter Dubourdieu, to, Jaques Sterne, Kirkby Overblow, 23 August 1737. 220 BIHR. C.V/CB.8, Court Book, f. 100. 221 BIHR. C.V/CB.8, Court Book, f. 104. 222 BIHR. C.V/CB.8, Court Book, f. 108. 223 BIHR. Abp C & P III/7/12. Peter Dubourdieu, to, Jaques Sterne, 23 August 1737.

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responsibility for distributing £20 amongst the ‘Industrious Poor’ of Bishopthorpe. Also, to personally receive £20 as one of Blackburne’s ‘faithful chaplains’.224 30 August 1737 Francis Day of Topcliffe writes to Sterne in response to the enquiries about the Quakers.225 5 September 1737 Robert Potter of Stillingfleet writes to Sterne in response to the enquiries about The Quakers.226 10 September 1737 Thomas Mason of Thornton writes to Sterne in response to the enquiries about the Quakers.227 12 September 1737 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.228 12 October 1737 George Legh, vicar of Halifax, writes to Thomas Hayter and mentions that ‘Dr.Sterne was not here at ye Confirmation’. On 11 and 12 September, Martin Benson, , confirmed thousands of people at Halifax upon a commission from Lancelot Blackburne.229 11 November 1737 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.230 15 November 1737 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.231 Thomas Hayter writes letter to Sterne, directed to his house at York, concerning his response to the Quakers’ printed account of prosecutions in the diocese of York. Also mentions the details of the enclosure of lands at Driffield.232 16 November 1737 John Moyser of Beverley writes to archbishop Lancelot Blackburne, stating that he saw Sterne ‘about four days ago’ and provided him with details of the case of Beverley Minster to communicate to Blackburne. Sterne informed Moyser that the archbishop was in ‘perfect health’.233 23 November 1737 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.234

224 TNA. PROB/11/725, The will of Lancelot Blackburne, Archbishop of York. 225 BIHR. Abp C & P III/7/13. Francis Day, to, Jaques Sterne, 23 August 1737. 226 BIHR. Abp C & P III/7/15. Robert Potter, to, Jaques Sterne, 5 September 1737. 227 BIHR. Abp C & P III/7/15. Thomas Mason, to, Jaques Sterne, 10 September [1737] 228 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 229 BIHR. Bp. C & P. III/7/23. George Legh, to, Thomas Hayter, 12 October 1737. 230 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 231 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 232 BIHR. Bp C & P III/7/15. Thomas Hayter, to, Jaques Sterne, 15 November [1737]. 233 BIHR. Bp C & P XVIII/7. John Moyser, to, Lancelot Blackburne, 16 November 1737. 234 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747.

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25 November 1737 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting. Appears with Dorothy Fothergill, to settle a bequest of books from Marmaduke Fothergill.235 14 December 1737 Stephen Sutton, minister of Kirkby Irelyth in Lancashire, writes concerning the state of the peculiars of York in that county, and offers his own services, and those of a Mr Kirkby, to Sterne.236 23 December 1737 In a letter to Thomas Hayter concerning the lands of the prebend of Strensall, Sir Tancred Robinson states that he has given accounts of the demesne lands and tithes of the prebend to Sterne.237 29 December 1737 In a letter to Sir Tancred Robinson concerning the lands of the prebend of Strensall, Thomas Hayter acknowledges that Sterne informed him of the accounts of the prebend provided by Robinson.238 27 January 1738 James Borwick of Whitby comments in a letter to Thomas Hayter, that he received a letter from Sterne on this date. He had forgotten to tell Sterne to communicate information relating to the chapelry of Aislaby to Hayter. He makes his duty to Sterne and suggests that the Precentor and Hayter seal their letters with plenty of wax as he suspects ‘foul play’ at Whitby post-office.239 22 February 1738 In a letter to Thomas Hayter, James Borwick offers his duty and congratulations to Jaques Sterne for overcoming his recent ‘Confinement’.240 23 February 1738 In a letter to Sir Tancred Robinson concerning the lands of the prebend of Strensall, Thomas Hayter refers to an account of the rental of those lands delivered to Robinson by Sterne.241 3 April 1738 York - With John Bradley, signs settlement certificate of John Leng as a Justice for the Liberty of St. Peter’s, York.242 12 May 1738 The will of Ann Sterne, daughter of Richard Sterne of Elvington, dated 19 January 1733, is proven at the York registry. Ann died unmarried aged 31. She left twenty guineas to her uncle Jaques 18 May 1738 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.243

235 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 236 YML. C1/71, 1737, letter from Stephen Sutton, 14 December 1737. 237 BIHR. CC.P/Str 9, letter from Tancred Robinson, to, Thomas Hayter, 23 December 1737. 238 BIHR. CC.P/Str 9, draft letter from Thomas Hayter, to, Tancred Robinson, 29 December 1737. 239 BIHR. Abp C & P III/2. James Borwick, to, Thomas Hayter, 28 January 1738. 240 BIHR. CC Ab. 9. Letter from James Borwick, to, Thomas Hayter, 22 February 1738, 241 BIHR. CC.P/Str 9, copy letter from Thomas Hayter, to, Tancred Robinson, 23 February 1738. 242 ERYAS. PC7/6/6, Settlement certificate of John Leng, 3 Apr 1738.

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20 May 1738 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.244 26 May 1738 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.245 8 June 1738 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.246 24 June 1738 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.247 26 June 1738 St. Michael’s Church, New Malton - Conducts the visitation of the Archdeacon of Cleveland for Ryedale Deanery. Joseph Douthwaite of Whenby, preached.248 28 June 1738 Thirsk - Conducts the visitation of the Archdeacon of Cleveland for Bulmer Deanery. Isaac Wilson, vicar of Brafferton, preached.249 30 June 1738 Stokesley - Conducts the visitation of the Archdeacon of Cleveland for Cleveland Deanery. Henry Cooke of Stokesley preached. James Borwick was ‘especially appointed’ to hear the cases of the laity.250 6 July 1738 Robert Peirson, curate of Birdforth chapel, writes to Robert Jubb (presumably) requesting that he ‘acquaint Doctor Sterne’ that he was admitted to the chapel the previous Sunday, and conducted a service ‘without any Disturbance’. William Hick, a chapelwarden, had been threatened with excommunication for failing to admit Peirson to the chapel.251 13 July 1738 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.252 15 July 1738 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.253 21 July 1738 Provides Hugh Bethell of Rise with a copy of The Preservate Against Popery.254 24 July 1738 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.255 31 July 1738 York - Alongside Francis Wanley, proves the will of his brother-in-law, Sir Henry Goodricke of Ribston.256 8 August 1738 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.257

243 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 244 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 245 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 246 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 247 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 248 BIHR. C.V/CB.8, Court Book, f. 131. 249 BIHR. C.V/CB.8, Court Book, f. 136. 250 BIHR. C.V/CB.8, Court Book, f. 139. 251 BIHR. C.V/CB.8, Court Book, papers attached to f. 136-137. 252 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 253 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 254 DDRI/acc. 2980, Hugh Bethell of Rise Hall account book, 1725-1752, at ERYAS. 255 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 256 Dr Francis Wanley was married to Jane Goodricke, the niece of Katherine Sterne.

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15 August 1738 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.258 22 August 1738 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.259 6 September 1738 Undertakes the parochial visitation of the Dean and Chapter of York, visiting Market Weighton and Overton with Shipton, making several orders for improvements and repairs of the churches.260 7 September 1738 Preston Church - Undertook the parochial visitation of the Dean and Chapter of York.261 8 September 1738 Tunstall Church - Undertook the parochial visitation of the Dean and Chapter of York.262 9 October 1738 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.263 18 October 1738 York Minster – Acting on a Royal writ of 12 October, prorogued Convocation.264 10 November 1738 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.265 11 November 1738 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.266 14-15 November 1738 York Castle - Attended East Riding Sessions.267 21 November 1738 Rise - Makes agreement with Hugh Bethell regarding access rights after erecting new gates at the rectory.268 1739 Writes to John Snaith concerning his entrance to the livings of Holmpton and Welwick in the East Riding of Yorkshire.269 28 March 1739 As commissary to Archbishop Blackburne, institutes John Wind to the rectory of Kirkby Knowle.270 14 April 1739 York – Borrows ‘3 vol Religious Seremonys’ from York Minster Library, before

257 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 258 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 259 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 260 YML. C1/72, Visitation File, 1738; YML. C1/73, Visitation File, 1739. 261 PE123/3 [All Saints’ Church, Preston] Register of baptisms, marriages and burials, 1735-1804, at ERYAS. 262 PE42/2 [Tunstall, All Saints’], Register of baptisms marriages and burials, 1721-1868, at ERYAS. 263 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 264 Bray, Convocation. XV. York, p. 264. 265 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 266 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 267 QSV/1/3, Order Book B, 1731-1747, at ERYAS. 268 DDRI/26/51, Acknowledgement relating to property in Rise, 1738, at ERYAS. 269 Annesley, Cressida, and, Hoskin, Philippa, Archbishop Drummond’s Visitation Returns, III: Yorkshire S-Y, Borthwick Texts and Calendars 26 (York: The University of York, 2001), p. 110. 270 BIA. C. V/Exh. Bk. 3, Archdeaconry of Cleveland exhibition book, 1712-1779.

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passing them onto Jacob Costobadie.271 18 April 1739 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.272 18 May 1739 Named as a Justice in the Commission of the Peace for the Liberty of Southwell and Scrooby, qualifying as a prebendary of Southwell.273 21 May 1739 Stokesley - Conducts the visitation of the Archdeacon of Cleveland for Cleveland Deanery. Charles Cowper, rector of Oswaldkirk, preached.274 23 May 1739 Thirsk - Conducts the visitation of the Archdeacon of Cleveland for Bulmer Deanery. Jaques selects his young nephew, Laurence Sterne of Sutton on the Forest. to preach.275 25 May 1739 St. Michael’s Church, New Malton - Conducts the visitation of the Archdeacon of Cleveland for Ryedale Deanery. William Kay, rector of Nunnington, preached.276 21 July 1739 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.277 4 August 1739 York Minster – Acting on a Royal writ of 12 October, prorogued Convocation.278 28 September 1739 The vicar, churchwardens and parishioners of Burton Pidsea write to confirm that the decrees made by Sterne at the parochial visitation of their parish the previous year, have all been performed.279 29 September 1739 William Cookson of Leeds writes to Sterne.280 1 October 1739 The curate, churchwardens and parishioners of Tunstall write to confirm that the decrees made by Sterne at the parochial visitation of their parish the previous year, have all been performed.281

271 Brunskill, 18th Century Reading, p. 14. 272 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 273 BIHR. Bp C&P XX, Justices named in the Commission of the Peace for the Liberty of Southwell and Scrooby, 18 May 1739. 274 BIHR. C.V/CB.8, Court Book, f. 164. 275 BIHR. C.V/CB.8, Court Book, f. 168. 276 BIHR. C.V/CB.8, Court Book, f. 164. 277 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 278 Bray, Convocation. XV. York, p. 265. 279 YML. C1/73, Visitation File, 1739. 280 Howard, Joseph Jackson (ed.), Visitation of England and Wales. Vol. I-XIV (1893-1906). A facsimile of Cookson’s signature appears, but no further details are given. 281 YML. C1/73, Visitation File, 1739.

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15 October 1739 Acts as commissary to Archbishop Blackburne to certify Joseph Douthwaite’s resignation of the vicarage of Garforth.282 19 October 1739 York Minster – Acting on a Royal writ of 20 September, prorogued Convocation.283 December 1739 York Minster - Marries his niece Mary Sterne, to Thomas Pulleyn of Burley, West Riding of Yorkshire. 16 December 1739 York – As auditor of the archbishop’s estates, orders a summons for the presentation of accounts for the manor of Wistow.284 17 December 1739 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.285 Agrees to reduce Edward Snowden’s rent of his lands in Whitcliffe by twenty shillings after selling a barn he owned at Burrage.286 29 December 1739 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting. Install George Talbot as prebendary of Ulleskelf.287

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1740 Licenses Edward Moises to the assistant curacy of Bunny in Nottinghamshire, at a yearly salary of £28, acting as Commissary to Lancelot Blackburne.288 March 1740 Subscriptions are taken for Henry Travers’ second edition of his Poems. Sterne was a subscriber.289 12 April 1740 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.290 19 April 1740 York – Named in an order of the Justices of the Liberty of St. Peter to prevent disturbances in the time of divine service. Alongside, Samuel Baker, John Johnson, Thomas Lamplugh, and Richard Osbaldeston.291

282 BIA. Res. Resignation of Joseph Douthwaite of the vicarage of Garforth, 15 October 1739. 283 Bray, Convocation. XV. York, p. 265. 284 BIHR. CC Ab. 9, Manor of Wistow accounts, 1730s-1740s. 285 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 286 YML. Add MS 609, Lease between Snowden and Sterne, 1727. 287 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 288 Nottinghamshire Archives, Clergy listed in Exhibit Books, 1717-1810 (AN/EX). 289 ERYAS. DL/1/12, Marmaduke Constable's memoranda book, 1738-1749; Marmaduke Constable paid two shillings to subscribe in 5 March 1740. 290 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 291 YML, F2/4/1/1, Order of the Justices of the Liberty of St. Peter to prevent disturbances in times of divine service, 19 April 1740.

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30 April 1740 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.292 3 July 1740 As commissary to Archbishop Blackburne, licenses John Lindsey to the curacy of Lofthouse.293 4 July 1740 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.294 16 July 1740 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.295 18 July 1740 York Minster – Acting on a Royal writ of 3 July, prorogued Convocation to Wednesday 20 August 1740.296 21 July 1740 York – As auditor of the archbishop’s estates, orders a summons for the presentation of accounts for the manor of Wistow.297 22 August 1740 York Minster – Acting on a Royal writ of 14 August, prorogued Convocation to Wednesday 1 October 1740.298 3 October 1740 York Minster – Acting on a Royal writ of 25 September, prorogued Convocation to Wednesday 19 November 1740.299 24 October 1740 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.300 25 October 1740 Thomas Hayter writes letter to Sterne, concerning the details of a case against a Quaker in Hexhamshire. Sterne produces an extract of a paragraph from the letter in his own hand.301 29 October 1740 Signed the Articles of Agreement to the enclosure of Driffield.302 11 November 1740 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting. Licenses Richard Alleyne to serve the cure of Stanford-upon-Soar in Nottinghamshire at a stipend of £30, as Commissary to Lancelot Blackburne.303 14 November 1740 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.304 3 December 1740 Beverley - Attended East Riding Quarter Sessions.305

292 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 293 BIA. C. V/Exh. Bk. 3, Archdeaconry of Cleveland exhibition book, 1712-1779. 294 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 295 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 296 Bray, Convocation. XV. York, p. 266. 297 BIHR. CC Ab. 9, Manor of Wistow accounts, 1730-1740s. 298 Ibid. 299 Ibid. 300 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 301 BIHR. Bp C & P III. Thomas Hayter, to, Jaques Sterne, London, 15 November [1737]. 302 ERYAS. DDX128/9, Articles of agreement for enclosure of Great Driffield and Little Driffield, 29 Oct 1740. 303 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747.; Nottinghamshire Archives, Clergy listed in Exhibit Books, 1717-1810 (AN/EX). 304 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747.

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18 December 1740 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.306 22 December 1740 As Justice of the Peace, orders George Smith to view the high roads, for which he is paid 15s for riding.307 17 January 1741 Decreed in chapter at York Minster that Laurence Sterne is to be installed as prebendary of Givendale.308 19 January 1741 At York Minster, Laurence Sterne is installed as prebendary of Givendale, and Samuel Baker is installed as Chancellor.309 10 March 1741 The first issue of The York Gazetteer is published by John Jackson in Grape Lane, York.310 21 April 1741 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.311 6 May 1741 Samuel Pickering gives testimony in the Exchequer Court of York, stating that he questioned the wife of William Harrison, daughter of Leonard Conyers, about accusations made against Robert Halliday in 1738. She stated she had been ‘divers Times examined’ by ‘one Sterne of York’ who was ‘next to the Deane’.312 13 May 1741 York - Opening of the poll for the Election of two Members for the City of York.313 26 May 1741 The Dean and Chapter of Ripon pass an order to renew Sterne’s lease of the tithes at Whitcliffe for a fine of £8.314 2 July 1741 York Minster – Acting on a Royal writ of 18 July, Convocation having been Summoned by a writ dated 8 May 1741, prorogued Convocation to Wednesday 7 August, then again to Friday 28 August 1741.315

305 ERYAS. QSV/1/3, Older Book B, 1731-1747. 306 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 307 QSF/131/C/7, George Smith: - riding., c1740. 308 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 309 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 310 Wiles, R. M., Freshest Advices, Early Provincial Newspapers in England (Ohio State University Press, 1965), p. 517. 311 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 312 Besse, J., Vindication of a book intituled, A brief account of many of the prosecutions of the people called Quakers, &c.: in answer to a late Examination thereof [by T. Hayter] in defence of the clergy of the diocese of York (1741), pp. 78-83. 313 The Poll for the County of York, Begun at the Castle of York, on Wednesday the Thirteenth Day of January, One Thousand Seven Hundred and Forty-One (York: John Jackson). 314 Brotherton Library, University of Leeds. Ripon MS 43, Act Book. 315 Bray, Convocation. XV. York, p. 267.

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27 July 1741 As commissary to Archbishop Blackburne, admits John Willan to the curacy of Birdforth chapel.316 9 August 1741 Lord Morpeth, recently elected MP for the County of York, dies at Castle Howard, aged twenty three.317 11 August 1741 York Minster – Acting on a Royal writ of 4 August, prorogued Convocation to Wednesday Friday 11 September 1741, then again to Friday 25 September 1741.318 29 August 1741 The George, York - Attended a meeting of supporters of the Ministerial Party, announcing Cholmley Turner’s intention to stand as a candidate for election. His nephew Laurence was also present.319 3 October 1741 Hugh Bethell of Rise pays the freeholders of Hedon £3 to drink to the health of Cholmley Turner. An additional 10s 6d was given to the bellringers of the town.320 9 October 1741 York Minster – Acting on a Royal writ of 9 September, prorogued Convocation.321 21 April 1741 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.322 23-28 October 1741 Writes to Lord Irwin describing the paper battle between Laurence Sterne and ‘J.S.’. Revises Query upon Query.323 11 November 1741 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.324 2 December 1741 York Minster – Appeared at Convocation as the Archdeacon of Cleveland and proctor for John Kippax, Archdeacon of and Man, and prorogued the meeting alongside Thomas Lamplugh to 7 January 1742.325 7 December 1741 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.326 12 December 1741 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.327

316 BIA. C. V/Exh. Bk. 3, Archdeaconry of Cleveland exhibition book, 1712-1779. 317 Cash, EMY, p. 97. 318 Bray, Convocation. XV. York, p. 267. 319 London Evening Post, issue 2161 (London: September 15, 1741 - September 17, 1741). 320 ERYAS. DDRI/acc. 2980, Hugh Bethell of Rise Hall account book, 1725-1752. 321 Bray, Convocation. XV. York, p. 267. 322 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 323 Cited in, Monkman, Kenneth, ‘More of Sterne’s Politicks’, in, The Shandean (The Laurence Sterne Trust, 1990), p.64. 324 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 325 Bray, Convocation. XV. York, p. 269. 326 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747.

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19 December 1741 Acted as administrator for Walter Palliser in the sale of a close of land in Cattal, West Riding.328 30 December 1741 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.329 5 January 1742 Acts as witness to his nephew Laurence’s resignation of the prebend of Givendale alongside Robert Jubb.330 6 January 1742 Licenses John Holland to cure of Saundby in Nottinghamshire in the capacity of Commissary to Lancelot Blackburne.331 8 January 1742 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.332 Installs Robert Reynolds, proxy of Laurence Sterne, as the prebendary of North Newbald.333 13 January 1742 York Castle - Opening of the Poll for the Election of a Knight of the Shire for the County of York. 14 January 1742 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.334 Installs Hollis Pigot as prebendary of South Newbald. 21 January 1742 Hugh Bethell of Rise pays Mr. Maister £5 5s, which he had paid to Colonel Gee to bring William Todd, Ralph Coleman and Alex Newton into York from Preston so they could vote.335 22 January 1742 Cholmley Turner hosts a ball at The Assembly Rooms in York, on the eve of his election victory.336 26 January 1742 Katherine Sterne dies, aged 62.337 28 January 1742 Rise Church - Katherine Sterne is buried.338 2 February 1742 The York Courant reports the death of Katherine Sterne. ‘Last Tuesday died Mrs Sterne (...) a Lady remarkable for her piety, Meekness, Charity, and every qualification can adorn her Sex; which has render’d her Death regretted by all who had the Pleasure of her Acquaintance.’339

327 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 328 - 329 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 330 BIA. Res. Resignation of Laurence Sterne of the prebend of Givendale, 5 January 1742. 331 Nottinghamshire Archives, Clergy listed in Exhibit Books, 1717-1810 (AN/EX). 332 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 333 Curtis, Letters, p. 9n. 334 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 335 ERYAS. DDRI/acc. 2980, Hugh Bethell of Rise Hall account book, 1725-1752. 336 The York Gazetteer, No. 47, Tuesday, 26 January 1742. 337 Cash, EMY, p. 109. 338 ERYAS. PE80/3, [Rise, All Saints’ Church] Register of baptisms, marriages and burials, 1704-1807.

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28 February 1742 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.340 16 March 1742 The York Gazetteer names John Garbutt as being held at York Castle for the crime of ‘returning from Transportation before the Expiration of his Term’ and is due to be tried at the next Assizes.341 19 March 1742 Executes and decrees Dr Joseph Atwell’s resignation of the prebend of Normanton in Southwell Minster, as commissary to Lancelot Blackburne.342 23 March 1742 The York Gazetteer publishes a list of the Convocation of York, in emulation of a similar list published in London of the Convocation of Canterbury. Jaques features as the Archdeacon of Cleveland.343 12 June 1742 York - Certifies William Grimshaw’s subscription to the thirty-nine articles as a commissary of Archbishop Lancelot Blackburne in the consistory court.344 15 June 1742 John Olds of Rise draws a note for £200 to Will Smith, ‘via Dr Sterne.’345 23 June 1742 York – Presents William Grimshaw to the curacy of Haworth in the West Riding of Yorkshire in the same capacity as 12 June 1742.346 6 July 1742 Licenses Robert Stanley to cure of Papplewick in Nottinghamshire as Commissary to Archbishop Lancelot Blackburne.347 14 July 1742 Jaques is named alongside his fellow Justices of the Peace for the East Riding of Yorkshire in a lease between the Corporation of Beverley and the Justices of the Peace for use of the Guildhall and House of Correction for a period of 40 years at 18d per annum.348 15 July 1742 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.349 23 July 1742 Henry Waterland of Hedon, coroner for the Liberty of Holderness, holds an inquest at the school house in Rise, into the death of a ten year old boy, John Cresser. It is found that the boy was accidentally killed when a gun was

339 Cash, EMY, p. 109. 340 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 341 The York Gazetteer, No. 54, Tuesday 16 March 1742. 342 BIHR. Abp C & P XIX, Dean and Chapter papers. 343 The York Gazetteer, No. 55, Tuesday 23 March 1742. 344 Original documents held at the Bronte Parsonage Museum in Haworth, and transcribed in, Baker, Frank, William Grimshaw 1708-63 (London: Epworth Press, 1963), pp. 59-61. 345 ERYAS. DDRI/acc. 2980, Hugh Bethell of Rise Hall account book, 1725-1752. 346 As note n. 125. 347 Nottinghamshire Archives, Clergy listed in Exhibit Books, 1717-1810 (AN/EX). 348 ERYAS. DDBC/25, Volume assembled by Gillyatt Sumner. 349 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747.

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mistakenly discharged by a teenager. Richard North is amongst the local men taking oaths but there is no trace of Sterne.350 27 July 1742 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.351A letter from Laurence Sterne is published in the York Courant apologising for his involvement in writing the ‘abusive gazetteers’ which appeared during the election.352 30 July 1742 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.353 3 August 1742 George Colebatch acts as his surrogate in granting probate of the will of John Leason of Great Driffield, in the East Riding of Yorkshire.354 14 August 1742 As commissary to Archbishop Blackburne, institutes and licenses Edward Birbeck to the rectory of Elvington.355 16 August 1742 The wardens of Little Ouseburn make their presentment to the book of articles delivered to them at the visitation of the Precentor of York.356 14 September 1742 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.357 27 September 1742 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.358 13 October 1742 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.359 11 November 1742 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.360 12 November 1742 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.361 18 November 1742 He purchases the ‘Great House’, the northern wing of the Treasurer’s Mansion in York for £1200.362 24 November 1742 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.363

350 ERYAS. DDCC/138/1, Inquisitions, 1586-1742. 351 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 352 The York Courant, Tuesday 27 July 1742. In the month prior to this announcement, Edward Thompson, MP for the City of York, died suddenly on 4 July, allowing George Fox, the candidate who had been anathemised by the Whigs, to assume his position as member for the City. William Pulteney also ended his opposition of Walpole’s government to accept a position in the Upper House as Lord Bath. 353 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 354 ERYAS. DDX/1521/5/1, Probate of the will of John Leason of Great Driffield, yeoman, 31 Dec 1741. 355 BIA. C. V/Exh. Bk. 3, Archdeaconry of Cleveland exhibition book, 1712-1779. 356 YML. C1/75, records of peculiar visitation, 1742. 357 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 358 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 359 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 360 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 361 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 362 Forrester, ‘Uncle Jaques Sterne’. 363 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747.

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4 December 1742 At York Minster, a chapter signifies an alteration to the terms of residence, and Sterne goes out of residence that day.364 22 December 1742 Sterne finalises the mortgage of his prebendal lands of South Muskam, Nottinghamshire, to Jacob Costobadie for £1500, at 4 per cent interest. The sealing of the instruments was witnessed by Richard Yoward and Emanuel Gregson.365 30 December 1742 John Meek inspects the highways of Youlthorpe, Garrowby and Driffield, East Riding of Yorkshire, on the order of Sterne.366 2 March 1743 Issues order to the constable of the Bedern and Liberty of St. Peter to summon all Papists and reputed Papists to appear before the Justices of the Liberty. Alongside, Mark Braithwait and Thomas Lamplugh. 367 15 March 1743 Hugh Bethell of Rise gives Sterne £2 2s for the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts.368 19 March 1743 As Commissary to Archbishop Blackburne, Sterne receives and accepts Joseph Atwell’s resignation of the Prebend of Normanton at Southwell. Writes to Matthew Bradford, informing him that upon the order of the Archbishop he is to be collated to the Prebend of Normanton at Southwell, in the room of Joseph Atwell, who in turn was set to take the Prebend of Oxton at Southwell upon the death of Samuel Berdmore. He hopes to see Bradford the next day as Lancelot Blackburne is close to death.369 22 March 1743 Archbishop Lancelot Blackburne dies.370 28 March 1743 Named alongside Richard Osbaldeston, Thomas Lamplugh, Samuel Baker and Charles Cowper as residentiaries in the commission of the keepers of the spiritualties during the Vacancy of the See of York.371 3 June 1743 Named as a Justice for the second time on the Commission of the Peace for the Liberty of St. Peter in York, having been first named in 1728.372

364 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 365 University of Nottingham, Mi 4/131/5, Mortgage: Sterne to Custobadie; Location: Caunton, Nottinghamshire, 22 December 1742. 366 ERYAS. QSF/139/C/31, Account of John Meek: - riding., c1742. 367 YML, F2/3/4, Order to the Constable of the Liberty of St. Peter to summon Papists, 2 March 1743. 368 ERYAS. DDRI/acc. 2980, Hugh Bethell of Rise Hall account book, 1725-1752. 369 BIHR. Bp C & P XIX, Joseph Atwell’s Resignation of the Prebend of Normanton at Southwell, 19 March 1743. Curtis, Letters, p. 423. 370 Daily Gazetteer, issue 2419 (London: Thursday 24 March 1743). 371 BIHR. Bps. Conf. 45, proceedings in the Vacancy of the See of York, 1743, p. 4.

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13 June 1743 York - Borrowed Torre’s manuscripts about York Minster from the Minster Library.373 17 June 1743 York Minster – Acting on a Royal writ of 2 June, prorogued Convocation.374 15 July 1743 York Minster – Acting on a Royal writ of 30 June, prorogued Convocation.375 25 July 1743 St. Michael le Belfrey Church, York – Appeared at the primary visitation of archbishop and exhibited to the court the premonition issued to him as Archdeacon of Cleveland.376 26 August 1743 York Minster – Acting on a Royal writ of 2 June, prorogued Convocation to Friday 30 September, alongside Charles Cowper.377 31 August 1743 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.378 2 September 1743 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.379 24 September 1743 Lewis Stephens discusses Sterne in a letter to his friend, Francis Gregor. Stephens describes Sterne as a ‘creature’ of Archbishop Blackburne’s and a ‘Northern [Vinicombe]’, who beats people at elections and is ‘hated by the Gentlemen of the Country’. He also alludes to Sterne’s treatment of his wife, calls him a ‘diminutive Cossa’, in reference to his relationship with Lancelot Blackburne.380 11 October 1743 Becomes the lessee of a lease of demesne lands Whitcliffe in Ripon, as 27 November 1716, now alongside William Sterne, rector of Averham in Nottinghamshire, and Charles Cowper, son of the reverend Charles Cowper. The fine for the renewal was £150.381

372 YML, F2/1/5, Copy fiat for Commission of the Peace of the Liberty of St. Peter in York, 3 June 1743 373 Appears on page of the borrowings book reproduced to illustrate, Brunskill, Elizabeth, 18th Century Reading, Some notes on the people who frequented the Library of York Minster in the Eighteenth Century, and on the books they borrowed, Occasional Paper Number Six of the York Georgian Society (The Society, 1950). 374 Bray, Convocation. XV. York, p. 270. 375 Ibid. 376 BIHR. V. 1743, Court Book. 377 Ibid. 378 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 379 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 380 CRO. G/1968, letter from Lewis Stephens, to, Francis Gregor, 24 September 1743. 381 BIA. Bp. Dio. Bk. vol. 2, Archbishop Sharp’s MSS, c. 1700.

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2 December 1743 Sells his interest in the tithes of Whitcliffe in Ripon, described as ‘late in the Tenure of Occupation of Mary Sterne Widow or her Assigns’ to Randal Wilmer of Staple Inn, London.382 9 December 1743 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.383 1744 Named as Justice in the Commissions of the Peace for the Liberties of Cawood, Wistow, and Otley, and that of Ripon.384 20 January 1744 In a letter to archbishop Thomas Herring, Michael Bridges, rector of Crambe, vouches for his own character, being long known to and respected by Chief Baron Idle, ‘Our Archdeacon Dr Sterne’, Samuel Baker, rector of Settrington, and Heneage Dering.385 2 April 1743 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.386 16 April 1744 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.387 Issues order to the constable of Minster Yard and the Liberty of St. Peter to search for able-bodied men fit for His Majesty’s Service and to meet on 19 April 1744 at the house of Philemon Marsh. Alongside, Mark Braithwait and Richard Osbaldeston as Justices for the Liberty of St. Peter.388 19 April 1744 York – Summons Thomas Vavasour and George Southcoat to appear (being Papists) to take the oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance. Alongside, Thomas Lamplugh and Richard Osbaldeston as Justices for the Liberty of St. Peter.389 20 April 1744 York – George Southcoat appeared, but refused to take the oaths. Thomas Vavasour did not appear due to illness. Alongside, Richard Osbaldeston as Justices for the Liberty of St. Peter.390 4 June 1744 Named as a Justice for the East Riding in the Commission of the Peace.391 12 July 1744 Southwell – attends a chapter meeting of the collegiate church, alongside Thomas Hayter, and others.392

382 Forrester, ‘Uncle Jaques Sterne’. 383 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 384 BIHR. Bp C&P XX, Justices named in the Commission of the Peace for the Liberty of Cawood, Wistow and Otley, 1744; Justices named in the Commission of the Peace for the Liberty of Ripon, 1744. 385 BIHR. Bp. C & P IV/11. Letter from Michael Bridges, to, Thomas Herring, 20 January 1744. 386 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 387 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 388 YML, F2/3/4, Order to the Constable of the Liberty of St. Peter, 16 April 1744. 389 YML, F2/3/4, Summons to Thomas Vavasour and George Southcoat, 19 April 1744. 390 YML, F2/3/4, Summons to Thomas Vavasour and George Southcoat, 19 April 1744. 391 ERYAS. QJC/1/5, Commission of the Peace, 4 June 1744.

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20 July 1744 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.393 6 August 1744 The visitation of the Precentor of York was held in York.394 1 September 1744 Certifies that he pays Edward Chicken £26 a year (plus surplice fees) to act as curate in his churches of Hornsea and Riston, in support of Chicken’s ordination.395 3 September 1744 Hornsea - Attended East Riding Quarter Sessions.396 2 October 1744 Beverley - Attended East Riding Quarter Sessions. Alongside Hugh Bethell, James Moyser, James Gee, George Crowle, Richard Worsop, Ramsden Barnard and Francis Best, orders six poor houses to be built in the parish of Holme on Spalding Moor. 397 11 November 1744 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.398 20 November 1744 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.399 30 November 1744 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.400 10 December 1744 Writes to Archbishop Thomas Herring regarding a faculty for the living of Bransby.401 21 December 1744 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.402 15 January 1745 Beverley - Attended East Riding Quarter Sessions.403 15 February 1745 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.404 18 April 1745 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.405

392 NA. SC/2/2/2, Chapter Decree Book, 1727-1784. 393 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 394 YML. C1/77, presentment for Little Ouseburn, 1744. 395 BIHR. Ord/?, ordination papers, 1744. Edward Chicken (variously referred to in documents as ‘Chickin’ or ‘Chicking’ was involved in marriages (either officiating or by the issuing of licenses) in Leven and Long Riston in the East Riding. See, PE128/2 [Leven, Holy Trinity], Register of baptisms, marriages and burials, 1696-1802; PE89/2 [Long Riston, St. Margaret], Register of baptisms, marriages and burials, 8 May 1698-22 Nov 1812. 396 ERYAS. QSV/1/3, Order Book B, 1731-1747. 397 Ibid. Also, BL, Add MS. 40132, Holme Hall Papers, Vol. I, f. 113. 398 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 399 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 400 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 401 BIHR. Bp. C & P IV/11. Letter from Jaques Sterne, to, Thomas Herring, 10 December 1744. 402 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 403 ERYAS. QSF/147/A, Draft Minutes. 404 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 405 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747.

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20 April 1745 York – Robert Tatham of Settle writes to Sterne, addressing him as his ‘Old Schoolfellow’, requesting for his assistance in securing the position of master of Giggleswick School for William Paley.406 23 April 1745 Beverley - Attended East Riding Quarter Sessions. An order of Sterne and Bethell for the removal of John Burton and his wife from Brigham to Flamborough is affirmed.407 1 May 1745 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.408 Thomas Longstaff is inducted into the rectory of Normanby in the Archdeaconry of Cleveland on the mandate of Jaques Sterne.409 2 May 1745 Jaques is named as a party to the marriage settlement of his nephew George Fairfax, to Emma Loddington, alongside his sister, Frances Fairfax, nephew Cecil Jaques Fairfax with two others.410 4 May 1745 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.411 22 May 1745 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.412 16 July 1745 Beverley - Attended East Riding Quarter Sessions. The order made by Sterne and Samuel Baker for the removal of Mary Walker from Low Catton to Stamford Bridge was respited until the next Sessions. The case against Benjamin Rawson of Sutton relating to sewers was heard before the Justices. Also, acts as witness for the indictment of George Burton of East Cottingwith, ferryman, for refusing to take people across the ferry.413 20 July 1745 Beverley - Attended East Riding Quarter Sessions.414 16 August 1745 The wardens of Little Ouseburn make their presentment to the book of articles delivered to them at the visitation of the Precentor of York.415

406 BIA. Bp. Sch. 17, letter from Robert Tatham, to, Jaques Sterne, 20 April 1745. 407 ERYAS. QSV/1/3, Order Book B, 1731-1747. 408 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 409 Normanby parish register transcripts at http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/Misc/Transcriptions/NRY/NormanbyPRNotes.html [accessed 27 June 2013]. Sterne’s name is rendered as ‘James? Sterne’. 410 Nottinghamshire Archives. DD/S/51/14, Marriage Settlement, 2 May 1745. 411 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 412 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 413 ERYAS. QSV/1/3, Order Book B, 1731-1747, at ERYAS; CSR/20/41, Presentment at Quarter Sessions of Benjamin Rawson of Sutton; QSF/149/B/4, Indictment of George Burton of Cottingwith ferryman: - refusing to take people over the ferry at East Cottingwith, 1745. 414 ERYAS. QSV/1/3, Order Book B, 1731-1747. 415 YML. C1/79, records of peculiar visitation, 1745.

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16 September 1745 Hedon - Attended East Riding Quarter Sessions.416 22 September 1745 York Minster - Archbishop Thomas Herring preached a fiery sermon at York Minster in response to the Jacobite Rising. 24 September 1745 York Castle - Jaques Sterne signs the Yorkshire Association alongside a huge gathering of the clergy and gentry of Yorkshire. The list of signatories in the London Gazette for 28 September places his name directly after that of Hugh Bethell of Rise.417 26 October 1745 York – As a Justice for the Liberty of St. Peter, takes the examination of Pirsey Pattinson, who had travelled to Boroughbridge to deliver a letter from Lord Kingsland to Lieutenant Massey without license. Alongside, Samuel Baker, Charles Cowper, and Francis Topham.418 8 November 1745 Discussed in a letter from Stephen Thompson to Vice-Admiral Medley mentioning a ‘virulent advertizement’ presumed to be produced by ‘Parson Sterne’, circulated following Francis Drake’s refusal to take the oaths of allegiance.419 11 November 1745 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.420 30 November 1745 York - John Burton is examined by Sterne and Thomas Place as Justices for the West Riding of Yorkshire on suspicion of meeting with the Rebel Army and is sent to York Castle.421 2 December 1745 York – Jerom Dring writes about the latest developments in the case of John Burton. ‘Fresh accounts come of Burton’s having wore in his Hat a white Cockade and marching from Hornby Castle to Lancaster With Ld Elcho and 60 others; but Dr Sterne seems to have undertaken that youl therefrom easily imagine that it will want no Pains to have it proved.’422 3 December 1745 York Castle - Commits John Burton to imprisonment.423

416 Ibid. 417 London Gazette, Issue 8471 published on the 28 September 1745. Page 2 of 12 418 YML. F2/3/4/20, Copy of examination of Pirsey Pattison of Little Alice Lane, chandler, re carriage of a letter from Lord Kingsland, a reputed papist, to Lieutenant Massey, in camp at Boroughbridge, 12 miles away, without permission, 26 October 1745. Charles Cowper also active in other activities relating to Catholics. 419 ERYAS. DDGR/39/1 (89), Correspondence relating to Vice Admiral Henry Medley, 1721-1745. 420 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 421 Burton, John, British Liberty Endanger’d (1749). 422 Wright, John, ‘Out in the Forty-Five’, in, The Antiquary, 23 (January 1891), pp. 30-37. Jerom Dring to the Rev’d Mr Dring at Mr Peacock’s at High Street in Hull, 2 December 1745, York. 423 Derby Mercury, Monday 29 November 1745.

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7 December 1745 York - Writes a letter to Lord Irwin, Lord-Lieutenant of the East Riding. States his intent to examine Dr Burton and bring down the Jacobite interest in the City. He condemns the actions of the deputy lieutenants of the West Riding of Yorkshire.424 Receives reports on the movements of the rebel army from sources including his nephew, George Fairfax. A letter from Jerom Dring reports that Sterne has received intelligence that the Pretender’s son has been captured.425 [?] December 1745 Receives an address of William Everard Fawkner to the Magistracy of Liverpool to place in The York Journal, and prevent Caesar Ward from publishing it in the York Courant. The address appeared in the issue for Tuesday 10 December 1745.426 9 December 1745 Bishopthorpe – York Travels from Bishopthorpe to York and discusses the case of the Corporation and alderman Agar being denied entrance to the bars of the city with Jerom Dring, Dring reported that ‘his Zeal is pretty warm & his Resolution strong to shew from the most Authentic Authority how many people have acted in the City.’427 11 December 1745 York - Receives £2 2s from Hugh Bethell of Rise to encourage the printer John Gilfillan and the York Journal.428 12 December 1745 York – Receives a letter from Thomas Pulleyn from Sheffield, giving reports of the movements of the rebel army.429 14 December 1745 York - Sterne, Mark Braithwaite, Robert Oates and Joseph Stillington sign a warrant to the keepers of York Castle insisting that John Burton not be released as further charges are to be levelled against him. 1746 Undertakes the visitation of the Archdeaconry of Cleveland at Thirsk, Stokesley and Malton. 5 January 1746 York - Writes to Sir Rowland Winn, complaining about the leniency shown towards Papists.430

424 Curtis Letters, p. 424-5. 425 Wright, ‘Out in the Forty-Five’, in, The Antiquary, 23 (January 1891), pp. 30-37. Jerom Dring to the Rev’d Mr Dring at Mr Peacock’s at High Street in Hull, 7 December 1745, York 426 Ibid. Same to same, undated, York . 427 Ibid. Same to same, 9 December 1745, York. 428 ERYAS. DDRI/acc. 2980, Hugh Bethell of Rise Hall account book, 1725-1752. 429 Wright, ‘Out in the Forty-Five’, in, The Antiquary, 23 (February 1891), pp. 74-75. Jerom Dring, to, Unknown [pres. The Rev’d Mr Dring], 12 December 1745, York

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10 January 1746 York - Writes to Lord Irwin concerning Dr Burton’s guilt. 25 January 1746 Beverley - Attended East Riding Sessions. Took the qualification oath of a Justice of the Peace pursuant to an Act entitled, An Act to amend and render more effectual an Act, passed in the Fifth Year of His present Majesty’s Reign intituled, An Act for the further Qualification of Justices of the Peace’. Possibly retired to The White Horse pub at the close of sessions.431 6 February 1746 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.432 22 February 1746 York – Takes the information of Thomas Williams of Bedern, that his journey to Pocklington is necessary for the transaction of his business. Alongside, Samuel Baker as Justices for the Liberty of St. Peter.433 17 March 1746 York - Summoned to answer John and Mary Baird in relation to £1000 unpaid to them following the death of Richard Sterne.434 1 April 1746 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.435 2 April 1746 The George, York – Attends a meeting of the Subscribers to the County Fund to organise the monies still in the hands of the subscribers, and to give thanks to the archbishop and Lord Lieutenants of the Counties.436 12 April 1746 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.437 28 April 1746 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.438 George Fairfax, Sterne’s nephew, is presented to the vicarage of Sturton in Nottinghamshire. Sterne was one of three voting members of the Dean & Chapter.439

430 WYJS. WYL1352/A4/[1623]/3, Jaques Sterne, Precentor and Canon of York to Sir Rowland Winn. Complaining about leniency to Papists. 'The encouragement wch. the Papists meet with...wil make my nuns, I am afraid, refractory', 5 Jan 1746. 431 ERYAS. QSF/151/A, Draft minutes; QSF/151/D/3, Qualification oath of Jaques Sterne of Rise Doctor of Law as J P, c.1745; QSF/152/D/5, Account of Robert Appleton clerk of the peace, c.1746. The clerk’s account note two shillings ‘Spent with the Justices of the Peace at the White Horse at the Adjournment of the Sessions.’ Jaques presided alongside James Gee, Marmaduke Constable, Hugh Bethell, Ramsden Barnard and Francis Best in Beverley that day, but it is impossible to say with any certainty who attended the alehouse. 432 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 433 YML, F2/3/4, Information of Thomas Williams, 23 February 1745. 434 ERYAS. RDB/1/2/Book C, Register of memorials of judgements, statutes and recognizances, Book C, 15 Mar 1708-17 Nov 1884; RDB/1/7/2, Memorials of judgements, 1747-1773. 435 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 436 The York Journal or, Protestant Courant (York, England), Tuesday, 6 May 1746, No. 24. 437 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 438 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 439 Referenced in Cash, EMY, p. 64.

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29 April 1746 York – Reported in the York Journal that claims that Sterne and Thomas Pulleyn were in the anti-Jacobite crowd and encouraged the breaking of the windows of the house of Thomas Place and St Mary’s Convent in York are unfounded.440 11 June 1746 As Justice of the Peace alongside Sir Edmund Anderson, contracted with Andrew Reid of London for the transportation of Jacob Milner to America at a standard rate of £5 per felon.441 23 July 1746 York - Entertains the Duke of Cumberland at his home in Minster Yard.442 14 August 1746 Entry in the account book of Marmaduke Constable, ‘gave at Dr. Sterne’s’.443 24 August 1746 Alongside Francis Topham, acts as witness to a release from Henry Ibbetson, Sherriff of Yorkshire, to Thomas Herring, and others.444 26 August 1746 York Castle - Opening of the Commission against the Rebels. Jaques possibly present.445 26 September 1746 Hedon - Attended East Riding Quarter Sessions.446 29 September 1746 York - Thomas Metcalfe writes to Thomas Herring and gives his account of the commission against the rebel prisoners in York. ‘Doctor Stern, Dr. Baker, and Dr. Braithwaite were all the Commrs that appeared’.447 7 October 1746 York Castle - Trial of the Rebel Prisoners takes place.448 9 October 1746 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.449 24 October 1746 Receives £1 1s from Hugh Bethell of Rise to encourage the printer John Gilfillan and the York Journal.450 17 November 1746 Rise - Draws up his will, leaving Sarah f his sole executrix. Witnessed by

440 The York Journal, or, Protestant Courant, No.23 (York: Tuesday 29 April 1746). 441 ERYAS. QSF/153/C/7, Certificate of Justices that they have contracted with Andrew Reid of London merchant for transportation of Jacob Milner alias Nathan Milner alias William Johnson, c. 1746; QSF/153/C/8, Contract and Bond as QSF/153/C/7, c.1746; QSF/153/C/9, Contract and Bond as QSF/153/C/7, c. 1746; QCT/1, Account book (annual), 1731-1780, p.48. 442 Gray, Almira Vickers, Papers and Diaries of a York family 1764-1839 (1927), p.4 , cited in, Curtis, Letters, p. 425. 443 ERYAS. DL/1/12, Marmaduke Constable's memoranda book, 1738-1749. 444 BIHR Bp. C & P IV. Release, 24 August 1746. 445 General Advertiser (1744) (London, England), Saturday, August 30, 1746; Issue 3696. 446 ERYAS. QSV/1/3, Order Book B, 1731-1747, at ERYAS. 447 Raine, James, ‘Marske’, in, Archaeologica Aeliana, or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to Antiquity, Publications of the Society of Antiquities of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, New Series, Volume V (Newcastle: 1861), pp. 68-69 448 General Advertiser (1744) (London, England), Thursday, October 9, 1746; Issue 3728. 449 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 450 ERYAS. DDRI/acc. 2980, Hugh Bethell of Rise Hall account book, 1725-1752.

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Holderness men, John Segar Carter, John Olds and Richard North. 28 November 1746 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.451 2 December 1746 York - Writes to John Read, Lord Mayor of York, begging support for his wish to be admitted to the freedom of the City, in consideration of the gifts of 200 guineas and a portrait of the Duke of Cumberland. 5 January 1747 As Justice of the Peace, joined with Samuel Baker and Robert Oates to issue a warrant to William Johnson, chief constable of Ouse and Derwent Wapentake, to summon the lawyer Alexander Lockhart of Wheldrake to take the oath of allegiance before them at York Castle on 10 January.452 8 January 1747 Is named as a Justice of the Peace for the Liberty of St. Peter in York in the Commission of the Peace.453 10 January 1747 Among the Justices that note that Alexander Lockhart neglected or refused to appear at the time and place specified by the order made on 5 January 1747.454 13 January 1747 Beverley - Attended East Riding Quarter Sessions. The certificate of Baker, Oates and Sterne ‘was publickly read And the said Alexander Lockhart was called three several Times by the Cryer of this Court in open Session to appear make take and subscribe the Declaration and oaths aforementioned and required to be made taken and subscribed to by the Laws and statutes of this Realm. 455 20 January 1747 Hugh Bethell of Rise agrees to loan £1000 to Sterne at a rate of 4%.456 22 January 1747 Hugh Bethell of Rise pays £13 to John Olds to make up £250 for the mortgage on the prebendal lands of Driffield. Receives from Hugh Bethell via John Olds £837 for his mortgage.457 3 March 1747 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.458 20 May 1747 Receives 10s 6d from Hugh Bethell of Rise for a subscription to MacLaughlin’s [MacLaurin’s] Mathematicks.459 14 June 1747 Certified to having known Thomas Mosley for the space of three years, in support of his application for ordination. Alongside Charles Cowper.460

451 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 452 ERYAS. QSF/155/D/4-5, Papers relating to Alexander Lockhart. 453 YML, F2/1/9, Copy of the Commission of the Peace for the Liberty of St. Peter in York, 8 January 1747 454 ERYAS. QSF/155/D/4-5, Papers relating to Alexander Lockhart. 455 ERYAS. QSF/155/A, Draft minutes, c. 1746, at ERYAS. 456 ERYAS. DDRI/acc. 2980, Rise Estate Rent Book 1723 To 1771. 457 ERYAS. DDRI/acc. 2980, Hugh Bethell of Rise Hall account book, 1725-1752. 458 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 459 For MacLaughlin, read MacLaurin. DDRI/acc. 2980, Hugh Bethell of Rise Hall account book, 1725-1752.

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29 June 1747 Entry in the account book of Marmaduke Constable, ‘gave at Dr. Sterne’s’.461 14 July 1747 Beverley - Attended East Riding Quarter Sessions. The order of Sterne and Samuel Baker for the removal of Abigail Harewood from Howsham to Storthwood was vacated.462 17 July 1747 John Gilfillan received £2 5s 8d from Robert Appleton for the printing of 2060 certificates relating to the cattle plague.463 25 July 1747 Lord Irwin writes to the Duke of Newcastle in favour of Sterne obtaining the deanery of York, stating ‘no man in ye County has deserved better of his Majesty from his steady & resolute as well as prudent conduct in ye year 1745; & as ye Sphere of his activity chiefly lay in York, where his Majestys enimys are not a few, ye rewarding him wth ye Deanery wou’d have strengthened ye hands of his Majestys friends & have convinced ym that a steady attachment to his Majestys person & government wou’d never go unrewarded.’464 However, Newcastle had already informed Archbishop Thomas Herring that John Fountayne was to receive the deanery, (…) 5 August 1747 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.465 7 August 1747 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.466 11 August 1747 Named among the prebendaries of Southwell to choose a proctor for Convocation on 19 August 1747. Sterne was absent.467 19 August 1747 York Minster – Appeared at Convocation as the Archdeacon of Cleveland, and also as proctor for , , proctor for Samuel Peploe, Archdeacon of Richmond (alongside Samuel Baker) and substitute for Edward Moore proctor for the clergy of Sodor and Man.468

460 BIHR. Ord/?, ordination papers, 1747. Document damaged, missing around one third of the text. Signature of Jaques Sterne only partially survivies. 461 ERYAS. DL/1/12, Marmaduke Constable's memoranda book, 1738-1749, at ERYAS. 462 ERYAS. QSV/1/4, Order Book C, 1747-1759. 463 ERYAS. QSF/159/D/9-11, Accounts of John Gillsillan [sic], Dr. J. Sterne: - concerning distemper amongst horned cattle. c. 1757 [sic]. John Gilfillan advertised his printing services in relation to the cattle plague in his newspaper, the Protestant York Courant. This included the sale copies of An Act to continue several Laws for preventing the spreading of the Distemper which now rages amongst the Horned Cattle, and the printing of certificates for cattle. See, The Protestant York Courant, no. 266 (York: Tuesday 25 December 1750). 464 BL. Add MSS 32712, Newcastle papers, XXVII, letter from Lord Irwin, to, the Duke of Newcastle, 25 July 1747. 465 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 466 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 467 NA. SC/3/1/46, election of proctors, 11 August 1747. 468 Bray, Convocation. XV. York, p. 275.

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7 September 1747 Aldbrough – Attended East Riding Quarter Sessions.469 30 September 1747 York Minster – attends a chapter meeting.470 20 October 1747 John Gilfillan received 16s 8d for printing 100 small books for the use of the East Riding Justices of the Peace during the cattle plague.471 11 November 1747 York Minster – Appeared at Convocation as the Archdeacon of Cleveland, and also as proctor for Thomas Wilson, Bishop of Sodor and Man (exhibited his proxy), proctor for Samuel Peploe, Archdeacon of Richmond (alongside Dr Samuel Baker), proctor for John Kippax, Archdeacon of Sodor and Man, and substitute for Edward Moore proctor for the clergy of Sodor and Man.472 5 January 1748 York Minster - Acts as proxy for the installation of Matthew Hutton as Archbishop of York.473 12 January 1748 Made an acknowledgement that he had received from John Gilfillan several orders for watching the ferries during the cattle plague and notices in the newspapers, which was paid by Sterne during summer 1747.474 5 April 1748 York – Robert Jubb, the deputy registrar, writes to Archbishop Matthew Hutton informs him that, ‘Dr. Sterne told me to day, that Mr Charnley the Minister of Brayton and Selby died yesterday.’475 18 April 1748 William Herring writes to Archbishop Matthew Hutton and informs him that ‘by an intimation from Dr. Sterne’, he has put a halt to a presentation to the curacy of Selby and sequestered the living, because ‘one Jackson who has been under prosecution for not being in orders, but escaped by ye act of Grace, intended to serve ye cures by ye connivance of ye Church-wardens’.476 12 July 1748 Beverley - Attended East Riding Quarter Sessions. Named as a justice responsible for contracting the transportation of Peter Holmes to the colonies.477 1 September 1748 Aldbrough - Attended East Riding Quarter Sessions.478

469 ERYAS. QSV/1/3, Order Book B, 1731-1747, at ERYAS. 470 YML. Chapter Act Book, 1728-1747. 471 Ibid. 472 Bray, Convocation. XV. York, p. 276. 473 General Evening Post (London, England), January 7, 1748 - January 9, 1748; Issue 2224. 474 ERYAS. QSF/159/D/9-11, Accounts of John Gillsillan [sic], Dr. J. Sterne: - concerning distemper amongst horned cattle. c. 1757 [sic]. 475 BIHR, Bp. C & P V/Unlisted. Letter from Robert Jubb, to, Matthew Hutton, 5 April 1748. 476 BIHR, Bp. C & P V/Unlisted. Letter from William Herring, to, Matthew Hutton, 18 April 1748. 477 ERYAS. QSV/1/4, Order Book C, 1747-1759. 478 Ibid.

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23 January 1749 Receives a further £1000 from Hugh Bethell of Rise on his mortgage of the prebendal lands at Driffield.479 19 March 1749 York – As Justice of the Peace, petitioned by the debtor Thomas Andrew of South Cave, prisoner at York Castle, that he might be discharged.480 25 July 1749 Beverley - Attended East Riding Quarter Sessions.481 1 August 1749 Entry in the account book of Marmaduke Constable, ‘gave at Dr. Sterne’s’.482 9 August 1749 Alongside Robert Oates, arranged payment with Joseph Marsh for the transportation of prisoners to the colonies.483 31 August 1749 As Justice of the Peace, alongside Robert Oates, made a payment of £1 1s to Robert Appleton, for drawing up and engrossing the contracts for the transportation of felons convicted at the Assizes at York Castle.484 30 September 1749 York Minster - The cause between Sterne and the Bar Convent opens in the ecclesiastical court, the prosecution alleging that the ladies of the Bar had failed to report to their parish church for the period of a year.485 14 October 1749 York - Writes to the Duke of Newcastle, appealing for the position of prebend of Westminster upon the failing health of Dr Manningham.486 9 November 1749 Leonard Lowe conducts a survey of Sterne’s estate at South Muskham, Nottinghamshire, ahead of their assignment to Sir Francis Willoughby.487 5 December 1749 As Justice of the Peace, signed off receipts relating to York Castle, alongside Thomas Norcliffe.488 19 December 1749 Archbishop Matthew Hutton writes to Dean Fountayne, and informs him that he has sent Joseph Atwell’s remarks on the case to Sterne, and that Fountayne should peruse them.489

479 ERYAS. DDRI/acc. 2980, Hugh Bethell of Rise Hall account book, 1725-1752. 480 ERYAS. QSD/15, List of Insolvent Debtors at York Castle, and schedules of debts and papers, 1746-1748. 481 ERYAS. QSF/165/A, Draft minutes, c. 174. 482 ERYAS. DL/1/12, Marmaduke Constable's memoranda book, 1738-1749. 483 ERYAS. QST/7/5, Audited voucher of Jerom Dring for the use of John Close esquire: - transportation of felons, 9 Aug 1749; QST/7/6, Audited voucher of Joseph Marsh: - transportation of felons, 9 Aug 1749; QST/7/8, Audited voucher of Robert Appleton: - drawing up bond and contract for transportation of felons, 31 Aug 1749. 484 ERYAS. QST/7/8, Audited voucher of Robert Appleton: - drawing up bond and contract for transportation of felons, 31 Aug 1749. 485 Derby Mercury, Monday 6 October 1749. 486 Curtis, Letters, pp. 425-426. 487 The University of Nottingham. Mi 4/139/14/1-2, Survey of Dr Stern's estate; valuation of Mr Welby's land; Location: Muskham etc., Nottinghamshire, 9 November 1749. 488 ERYAS. QST/8/6-8, vouchers relating to York Castle, 5 December 1749.

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4 January 1750 Archbishop Matthew Hutton writes to Sterne concerning the dispute between himself and Dean John Fountayne concerning the Residentiaryship. Hutton thanks Sterne for his letters and concern for Francis Wanley, mentions the possibility of disposing of Archbishop Rotherham’s Constitution, and asks that Sterne will communicate the contents of the letter to Doctors Topham and Wanley.490 9 January 1750 Beverley - Attended East Riding Quarter Sessions. Named among justices responsible for organising the transportation of Elizabeth Thirsk to America, having been found guilty of ‘Stealing a petticoat a Child’s Mantle and several other things’.491 1 February 1750 York Minster – Acting on a Royal writ of 13 October 1748, alongside Dean John Fountayne, prorogued Convocation to 6 April 1750.492 30 March 1750 As Justice of the Peace, signed off receipts relating to York Castle, alongside Robert Oates.493 4 April 1750 At East Riding Quarter Sessions, the order made by Sterne and Nicholas Robinson for the removal of Anthony Olridge and his family from Kelfield to Hillam in the West Riding was vacated.494 10 April 1750 Newark – Arrives at 3pm to settle the assignment of his prebendal lands at South Muskham in Nottinghamshire with Robert Evans, agent of Lord Middleton. Evans describes Sterne as being ‘in good humour’ but would not give a farthing towards the costs of the payment for the transaction taking place in York. This was necessary, because of Sterne’s mortgage with Jacob Costobadie.495

489 YML. A2 (1)h, 1749/50 Correspondence between the Archbishop & Dean respecting the Appointment of a Residentiary, f. 31, copy letter from Matthew Hutton, to, John Fountayne, 10 December 1749. 490 YML. A2 (1)h, 1749/50 Correspondence between the Archbishop & Dean respecting the Appointment of a Residentiary, f. 31. 491 ERYAS. QSF/167/A, Draft minutes, c.1750. 492 Bray, Convocation. XV. York, p. 277. 493 ERYAS. QST/9/3, Audited voucher of Thomas Walker and Thomas Read: - bread delivered at York Castle, 30 Mar 1750. 494 ERYAS. QSV/1/4, Order Book C, 1747-1759. 495 The University of Nottingham, Mi E 18/11, Letter from Robert Evans to Lord Middleton, Concerns the purchase on 7/8 April of Dr Sterne's estate, which was in mortgage to a Mr Castabadie [sic] of York for £1500, 11 April 1750.

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20 April 1750 Is collated into the Archdeaconry of the East Riding.496 28 April 1750 London – Sterne was reported to be heading to London until this date, after which he would travel to Bath.497 30 April 1750 Installed by proxy of Dr Francis Wanley as Archdeacon of the East Riding in the room of Dr Dering.498 7 May 1750 Noted in the Beverley Corporation minutes, that the proposal of Ralph Featherston to be exempted from all offices in the town for the sum of £20 be considered if he prevails upon Marmaduke Constable and Sterne to discharge their indictment against the Corporation for their non-repair of Hull Bridge Road, made at the previous York Assizes.499 13 May 1750 Bath - Writes to the Duke of Newcastle alluding to his selection of Henry Goodricke for the recently vacated vicarage of Aldborough.500 18 June 1750 York – Sterne arranged for the monies for the assignment of his lands in Nottinghamshire to be paid on the 22 June, after his return from Bath. The transaction took place on 18 June.501 18 July 1750 Francis Blackburne is installed as Archdeacon of Cleveland, in the room of Jaques following his resignation of the post.502 1 September 1750 Borrows two sermons of John Whalley from the Minster Library.503

496 Horn & Smith, Fasti Ecclesiae Anglicanae, pp. 16-18. 497 The University of Nottingham, Mi E 18/11, Letter from Robert Evans to Lord Middleton, Concerns the purchase on 7/8 April of Dr Sterne's estate, which was in mortgage to a Mr Castabadie [sic] of York for £1500, 11 April 1750. 498 General Advertiser (1744) (London, England), Saturday, May 5, 1750; Issue 4848. 499 The Yorkshire Archaeological Society, Beverley Corporation Minute Books (1707-1835), Record Series Vol. CXXII (The Society, 1958), p.31. Full citation reads, ‘[236] 7 May 1750. (M.+10A.+12C.) Reciting that whereas Mr. Featherston this day has made a proposal to pay £20 to be exempted from all offices in the town, resolved that the proposal be accepted on condition that he prevail upon Marmaduke Constable Esq. to discharge the indictment preferred at the last York Assizes by him and Dr. Stern against the Corporation for not repairing Hull Bridge Road.’ 500 Curtis, Letters, p.426. 501 The University of Nottingham, Mi E 18/11, Letter from Robert Evans to Lord Middleton, Concerns the purchase on 7/8 April of Dr Sterne's estate, which was in mortgage to a Mr Castabadie [sic] of York for £1500, 11 April 1750; Mi 4/131/7, Assignment: Costobadie to Sterne to Willoughby; Location: Caunton, Nottinghamshire, 18 June 1750. 502 Fasti ecclesiae Anglicanae: or A calendar of the principal ecclesiastical dignitaries in England and Wales, and of the chief officers in the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, from the earliest time to year M.DCC.XV. (Google eBook) 503 YML. Add. MSS. 217, Minster Library Register, notes of Elizabeth Brunskill.

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3 September 1750 Aldbrough - Attended East Riding Quart Sessions. Named among justices responsible for organising the transportation of prisoners in York Castle to America.504 19 September 1750 Rise - As Justice of the Peace, heard the information of Ralph Blanchard, deputy constable of Hornsea in the East Riding of Yorkshire, against Mary Kane of Wolverhampton, for singing treasonable songs.505 24 October 1750 Borrows three volumes of ‘Religious Ceremonies’ from the Minster Library.506 10 November 1750 York - Writes to the Duke of Newcastle informing him that he has collated Henry Goodricke to the living of Aldborough.507 6 December 1750 York - Writes to Francis Blackburne, Archdeacon of Cleveland.508 12 December 1750 Hugh Bethell of Rise reduces the interest rate on Sterne’s mortgage from 4% to 3.5%.509 28 February 1751 His gardener, Alexander Thompson, is buried at Holy Trinity Church, Goodramgate, in York.510 2 March 1751 Named as Justice in the Commission of the Peace for the East Riding of Yorkshire.511 April 1751 Receives a letter from his nephew Laurence, dated 5 April 1751 from Sutton, principally regarding the relationship between himself, Laurence and Laurence’s mother, Agnes.512 5 April 1751 York – Alongside John Fountayne and William Berdmore examines and allows the Dean and Chapter’s account with Arthur Ricard for the Liberty of St. Peter, 1743-1751.513 3 July 1751 St. Mary’s Church, Beverley - Conducts the visitation of the Archdeacon

504 ERYAS. QSV/1/4, Order Book C, 1747-1759. 505 ERYAS. QSF/170/E/6, Information of Ralph Borehard constable of Hornsea: - he apprehended Mary Kane of Wolverhampton county Staffordshire "as a loose idle and disorderly person and for singing a song in which were several seditious and treasonable words and that she was guilty of other gross misbehaviour" at Hornsea. The words of the song are endorsed, c.1750, at ERYAS; QSF/178/D/7, Account of Robert Appleton clerk of the peace., c.1752. 506 YML. Add. MSS. 217, Minster Library Register, notes of Elizabeth Brunskill. 507 Curtis, Letters, p.426. 508 Curtis, Letters, p.427. 509 ERYAS. DDRI/acc. 2980, Hugh Bethell of Rise Hall account book, 1725-1752. 510 Cook, Robert Beilby (ed.) The Parish Registers of Holy Trinity Church, Goodramgate, York, 1573-1812, The Yorkshire Parish Register Society, vol. XLI (1911). 511 ERYAS. QJC/1/6, Commission of the Peace, 2 March 1751. 512 Curtis, Letters. 513 YML, F3/2, Vouchers, 1692-1789.

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of the East Riding for Harthill Deanery. Thomas Lowthwaite, minister of St. John’s in Beverley, preached.514 5 July 1751 All Saint’s Church, Hunmanby - Conducts the visitation of the Archdeacon of the East Riding for Buckrose Deanery. John Morfit, vicar of Scarborough, preached.515 2 September 1751 Aldbrough - Attended East Riding Quarter Sessions.516 8 October 1751 Beverley - Attended East Riding Quarter Sessions.517 15 October 1751 St. Mary’s Beverley - Conducted the visitation of the Archdeacon of the East Riding.518 26 January 1752 York - Dined with Richard Sykes, sheriff of Yorkshire.519 28 March 1752 Hugh Bethell dies at the age of 62. 5 April 1752 Hugh Bethell is buried in Rise churchyard.520 14 April 1753 All Saint’s Church, Hunmanby - Conducts the visitation of the Archdeacon of the East Riding for Buckrose Deanery. James Rudd, curate of Wold Newton, preached.521 16 April 1752 St. Mary’s Church, Beverley - Conducts the visitation of the Archdeacon of the East Riding for Buckrose Deanery. Arthur Robinson, curate of Sutton, preached.522 July 1752 The interest rate on Sterne’s mortgage is raised from 3.5% to 4% by William Bethell, to its initial rate.523 2 September 1752 Aldbrough - Attended East Riding Quarter Sessions.524

514 BIHR. ER.V/CB/17, Court Book, 1750-1759, f. 57. Catalogue description for an edition of ‘Articles to be enquired of in the visitation of... J. Sterne... archdeacon... of the East-Riding, etc.’ held by The University of York. This copy was originally issued by registrar Robert Jubb to the parish of North Ferriby, ahead of the visitation. 515 BIHR. ER.V/CB/17, Court Book, 1750-1759, f. 63. 516 ERYAS. QSV/1/4, Order Book C, 1747-1759. 517 ERYAS. QSF/174/A, Draft minutes, c.175. 518 ERYAS. PE1/47, Miscellaneous, 1325-1899. Provides details of sentences of excommunication delivered at the Archdeacon’s visitation. 519 HHC. DDSY/102/1, Diary [of Richard Sykes]. 520 ERYAS. PE80/3, Register of baptisms, marriages and burials, 1704-1807; PE77/1 [Brandesburton, St. Mary], Register of baptisms, marriages and burials, 1558-1756. This register contains the note, ‘Hugh Bethell Esq. buryed at Ryse April 5th 1752’. 521 BIHR. ER.V/CB/17, Court Book, 1750-1759, f. 99. 522 BIHR. ER.V/CB/17, Court Book, 1750-1759, f. 63; ERYAS. PE1/47. 523 ERYAS. DDRI/acc.2980, Rise Estate Rent Book 1723 To 1771. 524 ERYAS. QSV/1/4, Order Book C, 1747-1759.

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19 September 1752 Westminster - Writes to the Duke of Newcastle on his way to Bath acquainting the Duke with the news that Martin Benson, the bishop of Gloucester, had died, vacating the second stall at Durham. As this is nearer to his other preferments it would be ‘equally agreeable’ to Westminster, Windsor or Canterbury. He relates that he has ‘spent now upwards of Thirty five years in a faithful Service of the Crown, at an Expence I believe no Clergyman else has done’.525 24 November 1752 Writes to the Duke of Newcastle, stating that in accordance with the Duke’s wishes the previous day he has made out a list of his preferments and their values. Offers that upon the respective permissions of the Archbishop and Lord Chancellor, he would resign his ‘Prebend of Southwell’ and ‘best living’ if it would be preferable. He hopes to soon receive his Majesty’s favour. The values are, Southwell, £217 15s; Hornsea, £150; Rise, £90; Archdeaconry, £60; Residentiary and Precentorship, £300-400.526 22-23 January 1753 Hugh Bethell jr of Rise enters into a lease and release to his brother William of the prebendal lands in Driffield. William goes on to manage Sterne’s mortgage. The transaction was registered at Beverley on 14 April.527 5 April 1753 William Bethell of Rise formally takes control of Sterne’s mortgage as agreed by his father.528 9 June 1753 Writes to Lord Irwin.529 16 July 1753 The Assembly Rooms, York - Meeting for the representation for the 1753 election.530 18 September 1753 Sterne is visited by Archbishop Matthew Hutton concerning Lord Irwin’s leasehold properties in the cathedral close in York.531 19 September 1753 York – Writes to Lord Irwin regarding the latter’s leasehold properties in the cathedral close in York, and draws up a memorandum detailing Irwin’s interests

525 Appears in, Curtis, Letters, p. 428. 526 Ibid, p. 429. 527 ERYAS. RDB/1/2/Book W, Register of memorials, Book W, 14 Feb 1752-19 Mar 1754. 528 ERYAS. DDRI/acc. 2980, Hugh Bethell of Rise Hall account book, 1725-1752. 529 See reference to the Temple Newsam MS in, Collyer, Cedric, ‘The Rockinghams and Yorkshire Politics, 1742- 1761’, in, Miscellany, Publications of the Thoresby Society, Volume 12, Part 4 (1954), p. 380. 530 Public Advertiser (London, England), Saturday, July 21, 1753; Issue 5844. 531 BIA. CC. Ab. 9, copy letter from Jaques Sterne, to, Lord Irwin, 19 September 1753.

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in the case. Soon after, Irwin and Sterne visit Francis Topham on the same matter.532 4 December 1753 The George, York - At a meeting of interested party William Thornton announces his resignation from Parliament for the Whigs.533 12 December 1753 The Dean of York, John Fountayne, writes to the Marquess of Rockingham stating that ‘Here are yet workings amongst some who love to Fish in troubled Waters; & dayly meetings held at Sterne’s, topham’s &c, but let them please themselves with their Imaginations w’ch will prove as vain as they are evil.’534 1754 Receives the new marriage register book for the parish of Rise, paginates the pages and writes a title on its cover.535 13 April 1754 Erroneously announced in The Oxford Journal that Sterne is to have the prebend of Canterbury.536 22 April 1754 York Minster – Acting on a Royal writ of 8 April, alongside Charles Cowper and in the presence of Richard Mackley, notary, prorogued Convocation.537 9 May 1754 Named among the prebendaries of Southwell to choose a proctor for Convocation.538 5 June 1754 York Minster – Appeared at Convocation as the Archdeacon of the East Riding.539 25 June 1754 York Minster – Alongside Mr Cowper and Mr Berdmore, prorogued Convocation.540 30 June, 7 & 14 Rise Church - Announced the banns of marriage for Christopher Spencer of July 1754 Beverley and Susan Mainprize of Rise.541 8 August 1754 At the East Riding Quarter Sessions, named among justices responsible for organising the transportation of William Jewitson of Lund to America.542

532 BIA. CC. Ab. 9, copy letter from Jaques Sterne, to, Lord Irwin, 19 September 1753; letter from Francis Topham, to, Matthew Hutton, [c. 1753]. 533 Derby Mercury (Derby: Friday 7 December 1753) 534 MS at Sheffield Public Library referenced in, Cash, EMY. p. 238. 535 ERYAS. PE80/6 [All Saints’ Church, Rise], Register of marriages, 9 Sep 1754-23 Nov 1812. A printed copy of the 1753 Marriage Act is pasted into the rear of the register book. 536 Oxford Journal (Oxford: Saturday 20 April 1754). 537 Bray, Convocation. XV. York, p. 278. 538 NA. SC/3/1/447, election of proctors, 9 May 1754. 539 Bray, Convocation. XV. York, p. 280. 540 Bray, Convocation. XV. York, p. 281. 541 ERYAS. PE80/3, [Rise, All Saints’ Church] Register of baptisms, marriages and burials, 1704-1807.

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25 August 1754 Rise Church - First announcement of banns of marriage for Samuel Smales and Jane Ralah.543 1 September 1754 Rise Church - Second announcement of banns of marriage for Samuel Smales and Jane Ralah.544 2 September 1754 Aldbrough - Attended East Riding Quarter Sessions. Acted alongside Marmaduke Constable, Charles Pool and Nicholas Nichols in the granting of alehouse licenses.545 8 September 1754 Rise Church - Third announcement of banns of marriage for Samuel Smales and Jane Ralah.546 9 September 1754 Rise Church - Marries Samuel Smales and Jane Ralah of Rise and is witnessed by John Olds and .547 14 January 1755 Beverley - Attended East Riding Quarter Sessions.548 22-29 January 1755 Signed a number of East Riding Quarter Sessions orders.549 3 March 1755 Rise? – As Justice of the Peace, took the recognizance of George Pickwell in bastardy.550 15 March 1755 Writes a note to Sir Francis Willoughby requesting £8 12s 6d for the reserved rent of his lands at South Muskham, to be paid into the hands of Mr Oldfield.551 3 April 1755 Announced in the Oxford Journal that Sterne will have the prebend of Durham.552 6 April 1755 East Riding - As Justice of the Peace, passed the accounts of the overseers of Owthorne and Withernsea, alongside Marmaduke Constable.553

542 ERYAS. QSF/185/A, Draft minutes, c.1754 543 Ibid. 544 Ibid. 545 ERYAS. QSV/1/4, Order Book C, 1747-1759. 546 ERYAS. PE80/3, [Rise, All Saints’ Church] Register of baptisms, marriages and burials, 1704-1807. 547 Ibid. 548 ERYAS. QSF/190/A, Draft minutes. 549 ERYAS. QSF/187/C/18-23. 550 ERYAS. QSF/189/C/12, Recognizance of George Pickwell of Iram, Josiah Collinson of Moor Town parish Bransburton and John Doo of Lea Nook parish Nunkeeling yeomen: - G.P. in bastardy (Ann Dales of Withernwick singlewoman), c.1755. 551 The University of Nottingham, Mi 4/131/9, Demand note for rent: Sterne to Willoughby; Location: Caunton, Nottinghamshire, 15 March 1755. 552 Oxford Journal (Oxford: Saturday 6 April 1754). 553 HHC. PR/3, Owthorne. Overseers of the Poor Account Book, 1706 - 1785; PR/11, Withernsea. Overseers of the Poor Account Book, 1703 - 1837.

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8 April 1755 Beverley - Attended East Riding Quarter Sessions. Directed that Sterne should be responsible for arranging the assessment of Elvington Bridge for repairs.554 16 April 1755 East Riding - As Justice of the Peace, passed the accounts of the overseers of Hornsea, alongside Marmaduke Constable.555 17 May 1755 Is granted the golden stall at by the King.556 20 May 1755 Reported in The York Courant that ‘The King has granted to the Rev. Jacques [sic] Sterne LL.D. the Second Prebend of Durham, vacant by the Death of Bishop Benson’.557 21 May 1755 Writes to the Duke of Newcastle thanking him for his favour and pledging to ever be of assistance to his lordship. States that he would not have taken so long were he not confined to bed with an attack of gout.558 27 May 1755 Westminster - Resigns the prebend of South of Muskham in Southwell and the Archdeaconry of the East Riding at the house of Henry Parson, to be delivered to Archbishop Hutton by his proxies, Robert Jubb and Richard Mackley.559 30 May 1755 Archbishop Matthew Hutton accepts Sterne’s resignation of the Archdeaconry of the East Riding and the Prebend of South Muskham in Southwell.560 5 June 1755 Sterne’s resignation of the prebend of South Muskham is acknowledged at a chapter meeting at Southwell.561 11 August 1755 East Riding - As Justice of the Peace, takes the recognizance of Margaret Bentley of Everingham in bastardy, alongside Sir Edmund Anderson.562 1 September 1755 Aldbrough - Attended East Riding Quarter Sessions. Took recognizance of Phineas Hussey of Withernwick in bastardy. Also acted alongside Marmaduke Constable, Charles Pool and Robert Hildyard in the granting of alehouse licenses.563

554 ERYAS. QSF/187/A, 1755. 555 ERYAS. DDX173/3, Hornsea with Burton overseers' account book, 1709-1799. 556 Newcastle Courant, Saturday 24 May 1755. 557 The York Courant, Tuesday, 20 May 1755 [p.2.]. 558 Curtis, Letters, p. 431. 559 BIHR. Bp C & P XIX, Jaques Sterne’s resignation of the Prebend of South Muskham at Southwell, 27 May 1755; Jaques Sterne’s resignation of the Archdeaconry of the East Riding, 27 May 1755. 560 BIHR. Bp C & P XIX, Jaques Sterne’s resignation of the Prebend of South Muskham at Southwell, 27 May 1755; Jaques Sterne’s resignation of the Prebend of the Archdeaconry of the East Riding, 27 May 1755. 561 Nottinghamshire Archives. SC/2/2/2, Chapter Decree Book, 1727-1784. 562 ERYAS. QSF/189/D/12, Information and Bastardy Examination of Margaret Bentley of Everingham (Francis Walton of Everingham husbandman), c.1755.

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5 September 1755 Durham - Arrives in the City to attend his residence at Durham Cathedral, and commence his tenure as prebendary.564 9 September 1755 Durham – Presents to the Dean and Chapter of Durham his claim that he is entitled to the profits received from the rents of his stall from the time of Martin Benson’s death.565 11 September 1755 Durham – Spencer Cowper requests Thomas Sharp’s opinion on Sterne’s claim.566 16 September 1755 Durham – Thomas Sharp advises Spencer Cowper that Sterne should be given all satisfaction of an explanation of the Chapter’s reasons behind their decision.567 26 September 1755 Durham – Provides a ‘handsome Dinner, Liquor, &c. to the Prisoners in Goal [sic]’ at Durham.568 29 September 1755 Durham - Completes his twenty-five days residence, ending at Michaelmas.569 5 October 1755 Wrote to Richard Trevor, , regarding his rights as visitor of the Dean and Chapter.570 7 October 1755 Robert Appleton, in his capacity as solicitor for the inhabitants of Scrayingham, appeals for the reversal of the order made by Sterne and Robert Oates for the removal of Mary Barnard from Burnby to Scrayingham. At the East Riding Quarter Sessions on the same day, the appeal is respited until the next sessions.571 8 November 1755 As Justice of the Peace, signed off receipts of Matthew Hornsey, surgeon at York Castle, alongside Thomas Norcliffe.572 17 November 1755 York – Wrote to Richard Trevor, Bishop of Durham, expressing regret that he

563 ERYAS. QSF/192/C/1, Recognizance of Phineas Hussey of Withernwick yeoman: - in bastardy (Mary Cooke of Withernwick singlewoman), c. 1756.] 564 Newcastle Courant, Saturday 13 September 1755. 565 The Statutes Of The Cathedral Church Of Durham, The Publications of the Surtees Society, Vol. 143 (Andrews & Co, 1929), pp. 256 566 University of Durham. DCD/H/LP27/7-8, letter from Spencer Cowper, to, Thomas Sharp, 11 September 1755. 567 University of Durham. DCD/H/LP27/9-10, letter from Thomas Sharp, to, Spencer Cowper, 16 September 1755. 568 Newcastle Courant, Saturday 18 October 1755. 569 Ibid. 570 BM. Letter from Jaques Sterne, to, [Richard Trevor], 5 October 1755. 571 ERYAS. QSF/189/A, Draft Minutes. 572 ERYAS. QST/13/6, Audited voucher of Matthew Hornsey, surgeon at York Castle., 8 Nov 1755.

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will have to enter into litigation against the Dean and Chapter of Durham, stating that he ‘woud rather sit down with the Loss, than enter into any suit with my Brethren’.573 19 November 1755 York – Writes to Mother Elizabeth Stanfield of the Bar Convent expressing his regret at not having replied to her letter of the previous day more sooner. He refers to procuring the curacy of Mappleton for Matthew Topham.574 17 December 1755 As Justice of the Peace, signed off receipts relating to York Castle, alongside Thomas Norcliffe.575 13 January 1756 At East Riding Quarter Sessions, the order made by Sterne and Robert Oates for the removal of Mary Barnard from Burnby to Scrayingham is reversed.576 13 March 1756 Writes to John Johnson apologising for his delayed response as he had been at a friend’s house for some ‘country air’ whilst recovering from gout. States that his condition prevents him from attending a summons, travelling, or taking care of his duty in the church. Refers to the infirmities of Sir and Dr Knatchbull, and queries whether it would be wise for him to come into residence when he was unfit to perform the services required of him.577 27 April 1756 Beverley - Attended East Riding Quarter Sessions.578 10 May 1756 East Riding - As Justice of the Peace, passed the overseers accounts of Owthorne and Withernsea, in Holderness, alongside Nicholas Nichols and Charles Pool, respectively.579 12 May 1756 Borrows the Theodoreti Opera and Cyrilli Opera from the Minster Library.580 21 June 1756 Rise – Writes to Mother Elizabeth Stanfield of St. Mary’s Convent, York, offering his assistance in their dealings with Matthew Topham, incumbent of Mappleton, in relation to tithes.581

573 BM. Letter from Jaques Sterne, to, [Richard Trevor], 17 November 1755. 574 Curtis, Letters, p.431-432. 575 ERYAS. QST/14/3, Audited voucher of John Theakston: - work at York Castle., 17 Dec 1755; QST/14/25, Audited voucher of Thomas Walker and Thomas Reed: - bread delivered to York Castle., 17 Dec 1755. 576 ERYAS. QSV/1/4, Order Book C, 1747-1759. 577 BM. Letter from Jaques Sterne, to, John Johnson, 13 March 1756. 578 ERYAS. QSF/191/A, Draft minutes, c. 1756. 579 HHC. PR/3, Owthorne. Overseers of the Poor Account Book, 1706 - 1785; PR/11, Withernsea. Overseers of the Poor Account Book, 1703 - 1837. 580 YML. Add. MSS. 217, Minster Library Register, notes of Elizabeth Brunskill. 581 Coleridge, H. J. (ed.), St. Mary’s Convent, Micklegate Bar York (1686-1887) (London: Burns & Oates, 1887), p. 169.

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2 July 1756 Beverley - Attended East Riding Quarter Sessions.582 13 July 1756 East Riding – As Justice of the Peace, signed off the indictments against the inhabitants of Ganstead for non-repair of the highway from the village to Bilton and also against William Pape and Francis Pennock of Ulrome for neglecting their duty as overseers of Ulrome.583 1 September 1756 Aldbrough - Attended East Riding Quarter Sessions.584 Acted alongside Marmaduke Constable, Charles Pool, William Thompson and Nicholas Nichols in the granting of alehouse licenses.585 September 1756 Durham - Attends to his residency. c. September 1756 writes to Thomas Balguy of Cambridge relating that he had ‘assisted at our brother Stern’s Installation’. Warburton wrote disapprovingly that Sterne was of ‘great fame’ in the North for pursuing a suit against the Convent in York, and that the prebend had been a reward for his actions.586 28 October 1756 Joins with Joseph Spencer to request that Richard Trevor uses his visitorial powers as Bishop of Durham to examine Sterne’s case against the Dean and Chapter.587 30 October 1756 York – Writes to John Bowlby, Registrar to the Dean and Chapter of Durham. Refers to having seen Lady D’Arcy at prayers.588 November 1756 Boroughbridge - Waits on Richard Trevor, the bishop of Durham regarding his case against the Dean and Chapter.589 21 November 1756 Durham – Writes to Richard Trevor, Bishop of Durham, informing him that Sir John Dolben is dead. Also states that when inspecting the chapter accounts the

582 ERYAS. QSV/1/4, Order Book C, 1747-1759. 583 ERYAS. QSF/201/B/6, Indictment of inhabitants of Gamstead [Ganstead]: - non-repair of highway from Coniston Field through Gamstead Lanes to Bilton, 1756; QSF/192/B/30, Indictment of William Pape and Francis Pennock of Ulram yeomen: - neglecting office as overseers of Ulrome, 1756. 584 ERYAS. QDT/2/9/3, List of persons licensed to sell ale, 1756. 585 ERYAS. QSF/192/C/1, Recognizance of Phineas Hussey of Withernwick yeoman: - in bastardy (Mary Cooke of Withernwick singlewoman), c. 1756.] 586 The Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin. Letter from William Warburton, to, Thomas Balguy, c 1756. 587 BM. Letter from Jaques Sterne and Joseph Spencer, to, Richard Trevor, 28 October 1756 588 University of Durham. DCD/H/LP27/27-28, letter from Jaques Sterne, to, John Bowlby, 30 October 1756. 589 Statutes Of The Cathedral Church Of Durham, p.257.

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night before, he found evidence of expenses claimed in their suit against him, so he protested. Intends to return to York the next day.590 18 February 1757 Assigns the prebendal lands of Driffield over to Francis Topham for three lives, being; Edward Topham (6), Michael Barlow (16) and Thomas Alcock (28). Topham also took possession of the north-west wing of the present Treasurer’s House.591 10 March 1757 As Justice of the Peace, signed off receipts relating to York Castle, alongside Thomas Norcliffe.592 16 March 1757 As Justice of the Peace, signed off receipts of John Theakston, coroner, at York Castle, alongside Thomas Norcliffe.593 19 April 1757 Beverley - Attended East Riding Quarter Sessions.594 20 April 1757 East Riding - As Justice of the Peace, signed off the accounts of Ann Boynton of Stoneferry upon the death of her husband, alongside Charles Pool.595 2 May 1757 East Riding - As Justice of the Peace, passed the accounts of the overseers of Hornsea, Owthorne and Withernsea alongside Marmaduke Constable and Charles Pool.596 7 May 1757 As Justice of the Peace, took the Recognizance of Richard Johnson of Hatfield in bastardy.597 16 May 1757 Beverley - Attended East Riding Quarter Sessions.598 9 July 1757 As Justice of the Peace, took the Recognizance of Mary Rose and Thomas Anthony of Aldbrough.599 12 July 1757 Beverley - Attended East Riding Quarter Sessions. Signed off the indictment of

590 BM. Letter from Jaques Sterne, to, [Richard Trevor], 21 November 1756. 591 ERYAS. RDB/1/2/Book Z, Register of memorials, Book Z, 12 Jul 1756-19 May 1758; Forrester, ‘Uncle Jaques Sterne’. 592 ERYAS. QST/19/21, Audited voucher of Elizabeth Read: - bread delivered to York Castle., 10 Mar 1757. 593 ERYAS. QST/18/12, Audited voucher of John Theakston, coroner, 16 Mar 1757. 594 ERYAS. QSF/195/A, Draft minutes, c.1757. 595 ERYAS. QST/19/36, Audited voucher of Ann Boynton of Stoneferry, 20 April 1757. 596 ERYAS. DDX173/3, Hornsea with Burton overseers' account book, 1709-1799; HHC. PR/3, Owthorne. Overseers of the Poor Account Book, 1706 - 1785; PR/11, Withernsea. Overseers of the Poor Account Book, 1703 - 1837. 597 ERYAS. QSF/202/C/1, Recognizance of Richard Johnson senior of Great Hatfield yeoman: - Richard son of R.J. in bastardy (Mary Dales of Withernwick singlewoman), c.1758. 598 ERYAS. QSV/1/4, Order Book C, 1747-1759. 599 ERYAS. QSF/196/C/1, Recognizance of Mary Rose spinster and Thomas Anthony yeoman both of Awbrough: - appearance of M.R.

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the residents of Routh for the non-repair of the highway through the village.600 September 1757 The great West Window of York Minster is repaired by William Peckitt of York and the event is memorialised in an inscription, bearing the names of Dean Fountayne, Sterne, Dr Herring, Charles Cowper and William Berdmore.601 1 September 1757 Aldbrough - Attended East Riding Quarter Sessions.602 10 December 1757 York – Writes to Richard Trevor, Bishop of Durham, relating that he intends to take his case against the Deana and Chapter of Durham to the Kings Bench.603 14 December 1757 As Justice of the Peace, commits Joseph Beal, Robert Johnson, John Holliday and John Carr to York Castle alongside Thomas Norcliffe and Barnabas Legard for their roles in the Militia Riots..604 16-19 December 1757 East Riding - As Justice of the Peace, alongside Thomas Norcliffe and Barnabas Legard, took the evidence of Henry Egerton of Settrington, who was threatened by a large mob led by Matthew Bilton of Kilburn.605 19 December 1757 As Justice of the Peace, commits Matthew Bilton to York Castle for his role in the Militia riots, alongside Thomas Norcliffe and Barnabas Legard.606 22 December 1757 East Riding - As Justice of the Peace, took the information of John Reay of Lockington concerning the Militia Riots.607 8 January 1758 As Justice of the Peace, commits John Nottingham, gent, to York Castle for his role in the Militia riots, alongside Barnabas Legard.608 10 January 1758 Beverley - Attended East Riding Quarter Sessions. Certified in open court that the highway at Allerthorpe Lane near Pocklington was sufficiently repaired, thereby discharged the indictment of 19 April 1757 against the residents of Allerthorpe for the highway’s non-repair.609

600 ERYAS. QSF/196/A, Draft Minutes, c.1757; QSF/204/B/4, Indictment of inhabitants of Routh: - non-repair of highway through Routh, 1759. 601 Brighton, Trevor, & Sprakes, Brian, ‘Medieval And Georgian Stained Glass In Oxford And Yorkshire. The Work Of Thomas Of Oxford (1385-1427) And William Peckitt Of York (1731-1795) In New College Chapel, York Minster And St. James, High Melton, in, The Antiquaries Journal, Vol. 70, pt. 2, (Oxford: OUP, 1990), pp. 380- 416. 602 ERYAS. QSV/1/4, Order Book C, 1747-1759. 603 BM. Letter from Jaques Sterne, to, [Richard Trevor], 10 December 1757. 604 ERYAS. DDGR/34/34, York assizes, 13 Mar 1758. 605 Archives & Local Studies Service. AH 2161c, Information of Hon and Rev. Henry Egerton, Rector of Setterington, East Riding of York, 16th-19th December 1757. 606 ERYAS. DDGR/34/34, York assizes, 13 Mar 1758. 607 ERYAS. DDGR/34/52, Deposition for John Reay of Lockington, 22 Dec 1757. 608 Ibid.

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6 February 1758 As Justice of the Peace, commits John Storr and Abraham Pickwell to York Castle for their roles in the Militia riots.610 8 February 1758 York – Writes to Richard Trevor, Bishop of Durham, informing him of the progress of his case in the Kings Bench.611 10 February 1758 As Justice of the Peace, commits John Lotherington and George Fowler to York Castle for their roles in the Militia riots, alongside Thomas Norcliffe and Barnabas Legard. 13 February 1758 As Justice of the Peace, commits George Jefferson, Robert Wallis and Daniel Bower to York Castle for their roles in the Militia riots, alongside Timothy Foord.612 20 February 1758 Rise – (…)613 5 March 1758 Rise – Writes to Richard Trevor, Bishop of Durham, relating to his rights as visitor of the Dean and Chapter of Durham. Also refers to his health stating that he though himself ‘tolerably well the beginning of winter’, but that preaching at York Minster had ‘made the old Complaint in my Lungs return’. He had since let blood several times, and felt somewhat better.614 4 April 1758 Beverley - Attended East Riding Quarter Sessions.615 12 April 1758 East Riding - As Justice of the Peace, took the recognizance of William Jackson and Gabriel Taplady of Riston. Passed the accounts of the overseers of Hornsea alongside Marmaduke Constable.616 18 April 1758 East Riding - As Justice of the Peace, took the recognizance of William Heath of Benningholme, William Wilson and Edward Greenhead to keep the peace towards Sarah Clark.617

609 ERYAS. QSV/1/4, Order Book C, 1747-1759; QSF/202/B/7, Indictment of inhabitants of Allerthorpe: - non- repair of highway from the gate at the end of Pocklington Common and through Allerthorpe Lane, 1758. 610 Ibid. 611 BM. Letter from Jaques Sterne, to, [Richard Trevor], 8 February 1758. 612 Ibid. 613 BM. Letter from Jaques Sterne, to, [Richard Trevor], 20 February 1758. 614 BM. Letter from Jaques Sterne, to, [Richard Trevor], 5 March 1758. 615 ERYAS. QSV/1/4, Order Book C, 1747-1759. 616 ERYAS. QSF/200/C/7, Recognizance of William Jackson and Gabriel Taplady both of Riston yeomen: - W.J. to appear and keep peace towards John Maxwell, c.1758; DDX173/3, Hornsea with Burton overseers' account book, 1709-1799. An example of Sterne attending to two separate duties of a JP on the same day – issuing a recognizance to parties with the aim of keeping the peace, and signing off local overseers’ accounts. 617 ERYAS. QSF/200/C/9, Recognizance of William Heath of Benningholme yeoman and William Wilson and Edward Greenhead; - W.H. to appear and keep peace towards Sarah Clark, c. 1758.

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20 May 1758 East Riding - As Justice of the Peace, took recognizance of John Riby and William Batty of Withernwick regarding the non-repair of the highway.618 15 July 1758 Named as a Justice in the Commission of the Peace for the East Riding of Yorkshire.619 23 July 1758 York? – Writes out the sacrament certificates for Henry Willoughby and Nathaniel Cholmley, taken at St. Sampson’s Church in York, and attested to by Joseph Boyes, minister of that parish.620 25 July 1758 At the East Riding Quarter Sessions, named among other Justices to inspect the York Castle gaol in the light on the spread of disease. Also named among justices responsible for organising the transportation of prisoners in York Castle to America. 621 9 January 1759 At the East Riding Quarter Sessions, named among justices responsible for organising the transportation of Dawnay Richardson to America.622 30 March 1759 East Riding - As Justice of the Peace, took the information of Thomas Jackson of Preston against Ralph Coleman, stating that he threatened to shoot him.623 3 April 1759 East Riding - As Justice of the Peace, took the information of Edward Baron of Patrington, in the case of an assault on Baron by four other men of Easington and Wawne.624 1 May 1759 York - Sir George Montgomery Metham mortgages considerable amounts of land in the East Riding of Yorkshire, including the Manor of Drewton, to Sterne for £1000.625 9 June 1759 Jaques Sterne dies.626 12 June 1759 Rise Church - Jaques Sterne is interred in the churchyard alongside his wife,

618 ERYAS. QSF/200/C/8, Recognizance of John Riby and William Batty both of Witherwick yeomen: - inhabitants of Withernwick for non-repair of highway, c1758. 619 ERYAS. QJC/1/7, Commission of the Peace, 15 July 1758. 620 ERYAS. QSF/200/D/10 & D/11, 23 July 1758. 621 ERYAS. QSV/1/4, Order Book C, 1747-1759. 622 ERYAS. QSV/1/5, Order Book D, 1759-1771. 623 ERYAS. QSF/203/E/15, Information of Thomas Jackson of Preston labourer: - Ralph Coleman of Preston husbandman has threatened to shoot him, c.1759. 624 ERYAS. QSF/203/E/16, Information of Edward Baron of Patrington: - Robert and Michael Pattison of Easington, Richard Consit of Waghen and Robert Turner of ----- assault him at Patrington, c. 1759. 625 ERYAS. DDNA/314, Copy. Mortgage for £1000: Sir George Montgomery Metham of North Cave and Jerom Dring of York, gentleman, as /313, to Rev Jaques Sterne, Precenter [sic] of York Minster, 28 Jun 1758. 626 London Evening Post, issue 4932 (London, June 14, 1759 - June 16, 1759).

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Katherine.627 13 June 1759 Sarah Benson proves Sterne’s will in the prerogative court at York.628 19 June 1759 Francis Best of South Dalton discusses George Cayley’s preferment and Sterne’s death in a letter to Mr Grimston, declaring that the opening of Sterne’s will ‘opened many mouths’ when it was discovered he had left everything to Sarah Benson.629 18 September 1759 Laurence Sterne writes a note to , Master of Jesus College, Cambridge, directing that seven guineas be paid to Sarah Benson on sight.630 10 October 1759 George Montgomery Metham pays £1000 to Sarah Benson, to release her from the mortgage organised by Jaques prior to his death. The lands, including the Manor of Drewton, are re-assigned to Francis Meeke, for an enlarged consideration of £3000.631 17-22 November It is advertised in the Whitehall Evening Post or London Intelligencer that 1759 anyone with demands or debts upon the estate of Sterne do bring their account to the house of Sarah Benson in York prior to 25 December of that year.632

627 ERYAS. PE80/3, [Rise, All Saints’ Church] Register of baptisms, marriages and burials, 1704-1807. 628 Forrester, ‘Uncle Jaques Sterne’, p. 227. 629 ERYAS. DDX1502/1/5, Letter from Frank Best at South Dalton, 19 Jun 1759. 630 Jesus College, Cambridge. JCAD/2/29/1759/21, college audit vouchers, 1759. 631 ERYAS. DDNA/315, Copy. Assignment of mortgage, as /314, for £3000: to Francis Meeke of Beverley, gentleman, 10 Oct 1759. 632 Whitehall Evening Post or London Intelligencer (London, England), November 17, 1759 - November 20, 1759; Issue 2133; Whitehall Evening Post or London Intelligencer (London, England), November 20, 1759 - November 22, 1759; Issue 2134.

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