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Jaques Sterne (C 1695-1759) 2.0 2011-2019 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 Laurence Sterne, 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 England 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. 1 2.0 2011-2019 OUTLINE OF CAREER – CHURCH OF ENGLAND Curate of Washingborough, Lincolnshire September 1717 – April 1718 Curate of Holy Trinity King’s Court, York April 1718 – 1722 Rector of Rise, East Riding of Yorkshire 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 Archdeacon of Cleveland 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 Ripon 1744 - ? Justice of the Peace for the West Riding of Yorkshire c. 1746 2 2.0 2011-2019 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 – York Minster 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, Richard Sterne, of a lease of Mickle Ings in Otley, from the Archbishop of York. 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. 3 2.0 2011-2019 Sterne and his son, Simon Sterne, in 1671, for a fine of £20. The new fine was £90.3 29 June 1711 Cambridge - 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 University of Cambridge’, 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 Edmund Gibson, bishop 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. 4 2.0 2011-2019 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 1720-1729 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, bishops’ 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. 5 2.0 2011-2019 18 December 1720 Bishopthorpe – 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.
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