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The Lisbonian Magazine

English College Lisbon

July 2010 The Lisbonian – The magazine of the Lisbonian Society All correspondence should be addressed to: The Editor Kevin Hartley 8 Hanbury Hill Stourbridge DY8 1BE

The Lisbonian is the bi-annual magazine of the Lisbonian Society, appearing in January and July, and covers a wide range of topics of current and historical interest. The magazine is distributed to all members of the Society and to those who have expressed an interest in the College. Articles relating in any way to Lisbon past or present and especially to former students of the College are always very welcome. Anyone wishing to submit an article for consideration should in the �rst instance contact Kevin Hartley as above or by email: [email protected] Lisbonian Society

Correspondence relating to the Lisbonian Society should be addressed to Hon Secretary Lisbonian Society V Rev Canon Gerard Hetherington, KHS The Presbytery 12 Station Road Peters�eld GU32 2ED

2 | The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 | 3 Contents

Editorial ...... 5 The Lisbonian – Redivivus ...... 5 Letters to the Editor ...... 9 A Quinta dos Inglesinhos… ...... 13 Jersey’s Honorary Lisbonian ...... 15 Olla Podrida, or Odds and Ends ...... 18 The Lisbonian Meeting 2009 ...... 19 Re�ections – Anglicanorum Coetibus ...... 22 Christos Anesti ek Nekron ...... 23 Corpo Santo – Lisbon ...... 28 The Minho ...... 33 Where Are They Now? ...... 38 The Organ of the Inglesinhos… ...... 39

2 | The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 | 3 Editorial The Lisbonian on-line! In the earliest days, a magazine qualify for entry in the January edited by the students of the edition of The Lisbonian. Lisbon College was cyclostyled. The end of the Abbey of Pershore How large a circulation it had is came about many years before unknown, but it developed into the foundation of the Lisbon The Lisbonian that most of us College was even dreamed of but remember, circulated in the College the article about John Stonywell, and distributed to members of the the last Abbot, illustrates the Society and beyond. Now, for those relentless policies executed under of us with access to the Internet, Thomas Cromwell and brings into The Lisbonian can be read on-line. human perspective something Just enter iRecusant into your of the predicament presented by Google or other search engine and those whose whole way of life look for the magazine among the had been moulded by centuries- other items on display. For those old tradition. The establishment of you who wouldn’t know a of the Lisbon College was a search engine from a Castle Class later part of the response to that locomotive, rest reassured that the predicament. magazine is not going paperless Kevin Hartley – your copy will still be brought to you through the post!

Just Testing the Translators Letters Those who still treasure their The Lisbonian welcomes your e- command of Portuguese are mails and letters. Correspondence presented with a challenge by should be addressed to the Editor the Fado printed in this issue. at the address on page 2. Translations should be submitted by the end of October in order to

Kevin Hartley your editor welcomes feedback and articles!

4 | The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 | 5 Letters to the Editor An invitation to write in The Lisbonian. Letters relating to articles that have appeared in a previous issue or which draw the readers’ attention to items of interest are very welcome. re. The Jersey Honorary Re: Re�ections Lisbonian I have no wish to fall out with Congratulations on your latest a fellow Lisbonian but your Lisbonian. I enjoyed it immensely. contributor to Re�ections (January Nick France (Jersey’s Honorary 2010) seems to denigrate the Lisbonian, January 2010) was Holy Father’s generous offer of a interesting, though there are a place within the Roman Catholic couple of funnies in my comment Church for those Anglicans who on page 18. I might be responsible wish to remain faithful to the 2000 for them but I don’t know. ‘The year old tradition of respecting Bishop said Mass’ should read the intentions of Our Blessed Peter said Mass… Then in the next Lord in establishing the sacred paragraph: ‘She also eventually priesthood at the Last Supper. built up a Saturday group. The Much has been made of the place Portuguese Chaplain from London of Mary Magdalene and the other came over a couple of times and women followers of Jesus, but the President…’ there is no getting away from the Your note about the silver ewer fact that at the Last Supper Our was very interesting. I presume it is Lord commanded only his (male) the one from the sacristy; I wonder apostles to act as Alter Christus in what happened to its basin? And the celebration of the Eucharist, how much the College actually so those of our Anglican brethren made from the original sale. The who respect the tradition and article on the Minho brought back who accept the Holy Father as memories of a similar journey I Vicar of Christ on earth should be made �ve or six years ago. I must welcomed openheartedly. make contact with Portugal again Name and address supplied before it is too late. Gerry Hetherington [email protected]

Opinions and views expressed in The Lisbonian are deemed to be those of the contributors and do not necessarily reﬂect those of the Editors or the Lisbonian Society.

4 | The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 | 5 Departed Brethran

Fr Ronald George Aylward RIP 1924-2010 Ronald George Aylward died on and as the Second World War Friday, 19 February 2010, five progressed and the community months short of his Diamond in Lisbon dwindled to a handful Jubilee. He was eighty-�ve years of students it was decided that of age and had been a priest for those remaining should return �fty-nine years. He was born in home to complete their studies. Ipswich on 3 August 1924, one of He transferred to Allen Hall where �ve children of William and Rose he was ordained priest for the Aylward. The family moved to Westminster Archdiocese in July London, �rst to Brixton and then 1950. Harlesden where Ron attended the local Grammar School, until the Pastoral Appointment age of fourteen when he was sent His first appointment was to to Lisbon in September 1938. He Westminster Cathedral. In those was among the last of the junior days of unconcelebrated masses seminarians to enter Lisbon, and multiple side-chapels the Cathedral served as a convenient calling place for itinerant priests en route to, or returning from, a Continental holiday. On one such occasion, either Ronnie or another of our Westminster classmates, Charlie Mercer, gave me an extensive tour of the Cathedral, including the roof. At one point a door was opened and I was invited to take a look. There followed on my part the briefest of vertiginous glimpses of the sanctuary far below! That particular eyrie became a favourite vantage-point for TV producers during their coverage of solemn ceremonies. © EAH 2009 – Westminster Cathedral After his first appointment to

6 | The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 | 7 Westminster Cathedral, where as well as being a Chaplain he A streetwise kid, managed to also taught in the Choir School, make an entry into the lions’ hospital chaplaincies played a large and continuous part in his enclosure… Ronnie climbed over parish ministry – from 1953-1963 the fence and warded off the he was Assistant at Commercial beast…! Road. From 1963-1965 he was Assistant and hospital chaplain wartime shortages in the theatrical at Islington. From 1965-1970 supply trade or a cunning ploy he was Assistant at Northwood to conceal a lack of feminine and chaplain at Mount Vernon daintiness. Hospital. In 1970 he was appointed the �rst Diocesan Parish Priest of The One that Got Away! Cirencester Street, Paddington. One thing which did not find In 1975 he was appointed as its way into the of�cial obituary Parish Priest of Ashford where concerned the time when Ronnie he remained until he retired in took a party, probably of altar-boys, 2000. to the zoo. One of the company, Fluent Portugese Speaker possibly a supposedly streetwise kid, managed to make an entry He was probably the most assiduous into the lions’ enclosure. Showing of our class in maintaining his a commendable solidarity with the Portuguese connections over the boy Ronnie climbed over the fence years, and hence was the most and warded off the beast until the �uent in the language. I last saw intruder had been rescued and him when in the final year of calm restored. As one who might the Alvor Villa I was celebrating have contented himself with the Saturday evening Mass. recourse to the Short Form and a John Stillwell told me somebody deprecatory wave of the hand, I wanted to see me without giving could only salute Ronnie’s bravery. me a name. I had difficulty in The incident was reported in the recognising Ronnie who looked national press. quite frail. The Westminster Diocesan obituary notice to I am now the last surviving the Clergy made mention of member of our class. As I breathe Ronnie’s playing his Lady to Victor a valedictory Requiescas in pace to Guazzelli’s Macbeth but lacked Ronnie, I can imagine a whispered an ancient photograph of Ronnie reply Carpe diem, amice! complete with anachronistic Bill Dalton crinoline, the result of either

6 | The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 | 7 Canon Pat Davies RIP and was then named Assistant 1938-2010 Relations Canon Patrick Davies would not College Council Business be known to many Inglesinhos although he was numbered among When Victor Guazzelli set up our Honorary Members. Patrick his Council for the affairs of the was born in Shef�eld in 1938 but College, Basil Hume put Pat in his family moved to Beacons�eld as Burser and it was by virtue after the Second World War. of this appointment that Victor asked for him to be made an After Military Service he read Honorary Member of the Society. Economics at University College Pat continued his work for the London, quali�ed as a chartered College until CaTEW replaced accountant and joined the the Council on Victor’s death. Burmah Oil Company, eventually Through Gerry Hetherington and becoming Finance Director and The Lisbonian magazine Pat kept Company Secretary of their in contact with the fortunes of Australian branch. It was from the Society. Pat was also associated Australia that Pat offered himself with Denis Thatcher; they used to as a candidate for the priesthood meet for lunch at least once a year for the diocese of Westminster. and Pat read the lesson at Denis’ And So to Priesthood funeral. A man of many parts. His personal integrity and his Pat was ordained at Douai Abbey passion for what is right were on 19 November 1977. After a perhaps belied by his gentle and curacy at Waltham Cross he was respectful approach to people in appointed Chaplain to London the parishes he served. He was a University. A spell in South Africa man of the Diocese through and brought home to him the need to through, and was delighted to work for justice and solidarity with have been appointed a Canon the poor and downtrodden. He of the Chapter. As Treasurer of become chaplain to the Catholic the Chapter and parish priest, Institute for International Relations administration came easily to his capacity to see beyond the surface Pat’s capacity to see into the into the heart of issues and the heart of issues and the courage courage and strength he showed in the passion and compassion …he showed in the passion and of the many causes came as a gift compassion of many causes from God. came as a gift from God… May his gentle and passionate soul rest in peace.

8 | The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 | 9 Thoughts on Retirement by David Crabb

A Personal Challenge I think retirement presents both is of course dependent on many a huge challenge and a gold factors, such as general health, opportunity for everyone. as true �nancial situation, and so on. for us clergy as for anyone else. There are though some differences. On Your Own The priesthood involves a unique I live in one of four flats in a way of living, of life-style. So large Edwardian house situated retirement does present us with in what I have discovered to be some different challenges and in what the estate agents call ‘a opportunities. much sought-after location.’ It is To state the obvious, there is no a few minutes walk from the four one way for us on how to live in miles of seafront in Hove. I love retirement, no oughts or musts having members of my family and about it. We are all very different friends coming to visit me and I in our abilities, needs, hopes, enjoy going to visit and stay with desires and our fears. them. I was very blessed in preparation for For most of my life I have lived my retirement in having the loving alone in a presbytery (my last support, guidance and practical one had three bedrooms and help of my friends. I also had the bathrooms) so living alone comes care and guidance of someone naturally to me. with expert understanding of the effects of ageing and of retirement. Never Busier So I did a lot of spade work on I had often heard people living my approaching retirement well in retirement say that they were beforehand. Two years on this busier than ever, with never have proved to have been hugely bene�cial: I am very happy and I enjoyed their company and the content with my lot. challenge of writing an essay Support from Diocese… every week. To my great surprise, Fortunately in my diocese it is entirely up to the individual as to I now have a growing folder of where you choose to retire. This stories for children…

8 | The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 | 9 enough time. I used to �nd that on the other evening, which is hard to believe but now I am art, including watercolour, pen saying the same thing myself: the and wash. This I find totally big difference is that now I am free absorbing and relaxing. So far to choose how I use all this time. three masterpieces of my work Soon after moving here I signed have been on exhibition. on at the local adult education Both courses have been completely centre and joined two courses, one new experiences for me and bring of them for writers. This involved their own rewards. I am very glad an evening class, studying with a I heeded the encouragement of group of students, all about one my friends to have a go! To my third my age! I enjoyed their fellow retirees, I hope this �nds company and the challenge of you happy and content. For those writing an essay every week, set facing the prospect of retirement, I by the tutor. To my great surprise, hope you preparations go well. I now have a growing folder of PS I strongly recommend: stories for children, pieces of ‘The Gift of Years – Growing Older poetry. Gracefull’ DLT, a book on ageing I am now in my second year and retirement by Joan Chittister Universal Symbol – a poem

Caveman’s aid, proof on the walls Its glow enabling Comforting, reassuring, dispelling fear. Inner expressions of hope, searchlight of faith. ‘Lighten our darkness.’ Valentine tables enticingly glowing, cavemen still. In demonstrations, silent conversations, Temples, shrines and churches glowing. Advent circle in preparation, excited anticipation, Easter’s Lumen Christi splits inky darkness Piercing light out of the tomb. Shindler’s List �rst frame satanic evil overcame. Numbers on the cake, inescapable, Snuffed out, thin spiral of white smoke, Soul escaping. Universal light. David Crabb

10 | The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 | 11 The College Organ The Truth Revealed Music in the Air! 1858. Gray & Davison Ledger 06. In the July 1961 edition of The page 232, November 30th Lisbonian, Michael Finlan wrote Drawn to – The Rev. W Browne. an article about the College organ, English College, Lisbon New organ as per contract – £300/0/0d On the evidence of the style of construction he attributed its 1163ft of strong packing – £38/15/4d origin to the late eighteenth century. Fortuitously, he gave the Shipping charges – £2/12/6d name and address of the builders Paid Rev. Browne’s expenses of the instrument, Gray and – £11/0/0d Davison, of New Road, Fitzroy Mens time loading and cartage to Square, London. docks – £4/14/0d Insurance on – £370 £1/18/1d Readers will recall that the January issue of The Lisbonian included an Freight – £35/15/3d edited translation of an article that Postage – 8/2d had appeared in a local newspaper, referring to the refurbishment of the College chapel in 1858. In the Records Research into the collection of the British Institute of Organ Studies [BIOS] made by the Archivist Chris Kearl has revealed that the new organ was indeed installed at that time. BIOS hold not only the original drawings and speci�cations but also the order for the organ, made by the Reverend W Browne. Unfortunately, nothing seems to be known about that gentleman – the Procurator of the time? Agent for the College? For organ a�cionados we reproduce the details of that order.

10 | The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 | 11 Hull-based firm, Forster & Wear and tear by generations of Andrews, carried out what was willing, enthusiastic organists… by then probably fairly essential maintenance work on the organ. Tuning tools left by Tunell Presumably the twenty two guineas – £/12/6d on the bill included the cost of the Mens time and expenses- men’s transport to Lisbon. £13/16/9d 1907.Forster & Andrews Order Book Sub total – £111/5/1d 05 page103 – English College, Lisbon. Total – £411/5/1d To cleaning the organ, taking out all pipes, cleaning and returning The details of the invoice indicate them, freeing the interior from that people were sent to the College dust and grit, lubricating centres to carry out the construction work, then regulating mechanically and and a nice touch is added by an musically and tuning through. additional charge for the tools (22 days at £1/1/-) Cost – £23/2/- carelessly left behind by Mr Tunell! Completed – April 1907. One wonders why the Reverend Knobs and Ivory Labels W Browne was paid expenses – perhaps he had to travel to By 1924 the wear and tear worked by England to place the order. generations of willing, enthusiastic but not necessarily well quali�ed The Renovation 1907 organists necessitated further Fifty years later, a prominent work. This time the London �rm of Hill Norman & Beard – who only ceased trading at the end of the last century – were called upon to supply a variety of items. There is no indication that anyone was sent out to Portugal with the parts so someone in Lisbon knew exactly what was required and was capable of carrying out the work. It’s interesting to reflect that, in the midst of the political and economic turmoil raging in Portugal, the English College was tranquilly engaged on ensuring that the Chapel organ was up to scratch. © Hugo Neves – College Organ Console

12 | The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 | 13 1924 Hill Norman & Beard Order Book 05 page 103 So the instrument stands still Small order 4053 in the chapel, silently awaiting Sundries – English College, Lisbon. its fate or, rather, the fate of the The following to be sent to the Rector: chapel itself which at least, it 7 Ivory drawstop labels for knobs to enclosed pattern engraved as: appears, has been saved from Open Diapason 8ft; being turning into a night club… Dulciana 8ft; Stop Diapason treble 8ft; 30 screw eyes for pedal keys; Principal 4ft; 2 sets of felts for manual keys; Mixture; Trumpet 8ft; felts for pedal keys; Swell to Great; 2 sets of manual springs 5”; 300 eye wire pins 1 3⁄4 “ long; 30 pedal springs as manuals; 70 Tap wires from 2 1⁄2” to 10 “ long; 2 sets of front board screws and washers; 200 feet of eye wires or copper wire for end of trackers; And so the instrument stands still 12 short roller arms for wood rollers. in the chapel, silently awaiting its 10 sets of tapped wires; fate or, rather, the fate of the chapel itself which at least, it appears, has 12 skeins of thread; been saved from being turning 12 sets of buttons; into a night club, which was on 16 sets of cloths; the cards at one time.

12 | The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 | 13 Invasion of Portugal! An edited translation of an article published in ‘Publico’ 25 October 2009

Iberian Ambitions This invasion was not intended as an isolated event but as a In 1940 Franco was preparing a key element in Franco’s overall plan to attack Portugal, occupy ambition to declare war on England Lisbon and the take control of the At a time, when France had already entire Atlantic coast. For seventy fallen under the domination of years this grand project, hatched in Nazi Germany, Spain, although the early days of the Second World enjoying the status of a non- War, lay unnoticed in the archives belligerent, was dreaming of a of the Francisco Franco Foundation. North African Empire. Neither Axis War on Britain Hitler nor Mussolini fell in with this dream but that didn’t put an In 2005 the Spanish historian end to the expansionist ideas of Manuel Agudo was the first to the Caudillo. get hold of the 100 pages that constitute the plan for the invasion Gibraltar in Sight of Portugal, put together by the War against England would begin Spanish General Staff in the middle with laying siege to Gibraltar, of 1940. The Spanish High Command

14 | The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 | 15 reckoned that the British response would be a landing in Portugal The Treaty of Friendship and with the intention of mounting Non-Aggression, signed by the a bridgehead for the invasion of the peninsular. For this reason two countries in March 1939, it was reckoned essential to take no longer appeared to be a the ‘necessary means’ to defeat document of any importance… the Portuguese Army, occupy the country and take control of its countries in March 1939, no longer coastline. appeared to be a document of any importance as far as Franco was A Most Secret Operation concerned, but it was on the basis All this was to be undertaken of that accord that the Francoists without reference to Hitler or intensified diplomatic pressure Mussolini. Franco wanted to through Nicolau Franco, the maintain the secret character of the dictator’s brother and Ambassador operation so as to have freedom to in Lisbon, that Portugal should no manoeuvre and also for reasons longer abide by the conditions of of national pride. After the initial the historic Luso-British Alliance, a assault on Gibraltar however, policy supported by the Portuguese Spain was hoping to be able to rely Ambassador in Madrid, Pedro on the assistance of the Luftwaffe Teotónio Pereira. bombers and �ghters which would be indispensable in the face of What Are Old Friends For? Luso-British air superiority In these annexation plans, Spain At sea, the Spanish High Command was not only ignoring the non- envisaged submarine action to cut aggression pact but also the active off enemy lines of communication assistance provided by the Salazar and to protect sea lanes between regime during the Civil War. the mainland and Morocco and Between three and �ve thousand the Balearic Islands by the laying ‘comrades’ fought in the ranks of of mines. the Falangist militia, the Army and the Spanish Legion, most of them The Invasion Is On! In December 1940 when he wrote Under a New European Order that ‘I have decided to prepare following a fascist victory and for the invasion of Portugal with the objective of occupying Lisbon the defeat of Great Britain Franco and the rest of the Portuguese would have permitted Portugal coast’ the Treaty of Friendship and Non-Aggression, signed by the two to continue as a puppet state…

14 | The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 | 15 Suñer, Spanish Foreign Minister to Franco put the military on his German counterpart, Joachim alert, but the necessary political von Ribbentrop, in September 1940 makes it clear that the occupation conditions were lacking… of the country was not intended recruited by means of newspaper to be a temporary matter. ‘No advertisements paid for by the one can fail to take account, on Portuguese State. Portuguese radio looking at the map of Europe, that broadcast propaganda in support geographically speaking Portugal, of Franco and, of course, Salazar’s in reality, has no right to exist. New State was vigorously anti- The only moral and political communist. justi�cation for its independence is the historical fact of its nearly What would become of the 800 years of existence.’ Aguda Portuguese Dictator in the event thinks that this approach was of these plans being realised? dictated by Franco in an attempt The documents unearthed by to discover Hitler’s reaction to the Agudo deal only with purely idea of a ‘Greater Iberian State’ but, military matters and don’t touch the historian notes, Hitler was not on the fate of the President of the prepared to make any commitment Counsel but Agudo suggests two on the matter. possible scenarios. In the event of Portugal not being able to resist New Facist European Order invasion, Salazar and his Cabinet might have re-located to one of the Despite Suñer’s declaration to colonies, Angola or Mozambique, Ribbentrop, Agudo doesn’t believe or they might have been able to that Franco was envisaging a set up a government in exile in total integration of Portugal London, as did other countries into an Iberian State because occupied by the Axis. this would have entailed several problems. It is possible that under Portugal No Right ot Exist a New European Order following a fascist victory and the defeat of As for the future of Portugal itself, Great Britain Franco would have the comment made by Serrano permitted Portugal to continue as a ‘I have decided to prepare for the puppet state, fascist and harmless. If Russia had been eliminated by invasion of Portugal with the Hitler the great stand-off would objective of occupying Lisbon have been between the USA and and the rest of the Portuguese a huge Euro-African fascist block which would have included Spain- coast…’ Portugal.

16 | The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 | 17 In the closing months of 1940 the plan of campaign was close to realisation and Franco put the military on alert, but the necessary political conditions were lacking – above all, the assistance of the Germans and Italians. The plans were put into the archives and there remained unnoticed for nearly seventy years. The meeting marked Franco’s refusal to Editorial Note: On 23 October 1940 join the Axis powers in the light of Francisco Franco and Adolf Hitler Hitler’s lack of support his demand met at the railway station in Hendaye for rule over French Moroccan and on the Spanish/French frontier, possibly in�uenced by the warning attended by the Spanish Foreign given to the Caudillo by Wilhelm Affairs minister Ramón Serrano Canaris, head of the Abwehr, that Suñer and his German counterpart the likelihood was that Germany Joachim von Ribbentrop. would ultimately lose the war. Mass Dials in Staffordshire by John Shand A Recent Discovery At the parish church of St James the stonework upon which a bride Great, Longdon, near Lich�eld, a would place her own hand. discovery has been made recently of an archaeological feature that, Of Hagioscope and Mass Dials although by no means unique, is Other features of interest are faint unusual in Staffordshire and more traces of mediaeval wall paintings northerly counties; a set of three over the chancel arch and remains mass dials. The church dates back to 1150 One of the capitals bears an when the nave was built. It retains image of a green man with an its Norman chancel arch, and doorway from the south porch, adjacent fertility symbol in the where one of the capitals bears form of a hand carved into the an image of a green man with an stonework upon which a bride adjacent fertility symbol in the form of a hand carved into the would place her own hand.…

16 | The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 | 17 according to local tradition, he lived in the hamlet of Stoneywell (as it is now spelt) some two miles south of the church, until his death in 1553. Excavations Revealed In the 1930s archaeological excavations of Bishop’s Meadow, part of the prebendal glebe land at Stoneywell, revealed traces of © 2009 John Shand – Mass Dial a garden and foundations of a St James’ Church, Langdon building that, perhaps without of a blocked off rood stairway and historical rigour, is said to indicate of a hagioscope in the thirteenth the place of his retirement. He century chancel. More relevant to lived to see the banning of the the recent discovery, however, is use of his chapel as a chantry the Stonywell chapel now leading by Edward VI’s Act of 1547. He off the south of the nave. was buried beneath the chapel, A chantry chapel had existed on having bequeathed to the use of this site from 1309. In 1520 it was the chapel and the parish all his rebuilt in the Perpendicular style books, his two chalices, his cruets, by Bishop John Stonywell. The holy water stoop, vestments, albs, sixteenth century timber roof and altar cloths, ‘with other things a stone arch boss depicting Our belonging to his private chapel Lady still survive. in Longdon’. The Bishop had been brought up in For over four hundred years Longdon and enjoyed a successful following the Reformation the ecclesiastical career, becoming chapel was blocked off from the Episcopus Poletensis and the last main church with access directly Abbot of Pershore before Henry from outside by the door in the VIII dissolved the monasteries. He south external wall, as can be returned to Longdon in 1539, and seen from a photograph taken in the 1940s. It was used as a Having bequeathed to the use of private chapel by a succession of the chapel and the parish all his local families; the Forsters, Ormes and Negus’ of Lysways Hall and books, his two chalices, his cruets, Hanch Hall. Their Georgian holy water stoop, vestments, albs, pews and memorials survive, notably a large tomb that is now altar cloths… located in the north transept

18 | The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 | 19 but had been used as an altar in the Stonywell chapel next to the An indication to the parish original piscina. priest, at a time when clocks and The use of the chapel was restored watches were not available, of to the church in 1944 and in 1947 it was dedicated as a memorial when to celebrate Mass or other to those who died in the Second Ofﬁces.… World War, complementing the First World War memorial pulpit. Praying the Hours The Three Mass Dials The position of the two lower dials The three mass dials, sometimes is consistent with the purpose of called ‘scratch dials’, are lightly mass dials. They were intended carved into the stonework of the not so much as general timepieces exterior wall of the former chantry but as an indication to the parish chapel; one at parapet level and the priest, at a time when clocks and other two either side of where the watches were not available, of door used to be. The higher one when to celebrate Mass or other probably was located elsewhere Of�ces. As such they were typically but was put in its present position located by the door then used by when the stones upon which it is the priest to enter the church. inscribed were recycled.

18 | The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 | 19 edge of the arc at Longdon were One can easily picture the ousted carved in the late �fteenth or early abbot, now performing the sixteenth centuries. If so, they coincide with Bishop Stonywell’s role of a humble parish priest, rebuilding of the chapel in 1520. checking the dials as he arrived from his walk across the ﬁelds… Historical Graf�ti At the risk of straying from historical discipline into speculative whimsy, Just a Matter of Time one can easily picture the ousted They would have incorporated a abbot, now performing the role of gnomon that was parallel to the a humble parish priest, checking earth’s axis. Traces of the holes the dials as he arrived from his walk where the gnomon was inserted across the �elds from Stoneywell are still visible. The sun would to celebrate the Mass so soon to cast its shadow downwards and be outlawed. the time could be read from the Bishop John Stonywell would Latin numerals inscribed in a have been shocked to see dates semi circle below the gnomon. It is and initialled graf�ti carved into thought that they were introduced the wall near the dials by later to England from France at the time generations. We, at least, can be of the Norman Conquest. Such consoled that such vandalism dials in other churches have been occurred in the eighteenth dated between 1100 and 1600. It century! is thought that the (comparatively rare) Latin numerals round the

All Together Now! Una voce concinamus, Una �de sociati, Una stirpe proditi Una spe con�dimus – Matrem Fratres salutamus Filiorum pietati Quamvis longe dissiti Debitis honoribus, Pulchram piam, acclamamus Matri et Fraternitati, Vi amoris �lii. Crescat laus ex omnibus.

20 | The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 | 21 Royal Scots’ College Salamanca by Denis Carlin and Charles O’Farrell Refugees in Iberia The Englishmen who found their rooted on its Bairro Alto hill top way to Lisbon in the early years for the entire duration: the Scots of the seventeenth century were were much more peripatetic. not the only inhabitants of our The following article has been Atlantic Islands to seek religious made possible with the kind refuge in the Iberian Peninsula. assistance of Mgr Denis Carlin and The last issue of The Lisbonian Fr Charles O’Farrell of the Royal carried an article about the Irish Scots’ College. Dominicans of Corpo Santo. Now we turn our attention to the The Scots’ Question Scottish Catholics who studied A question often asked, in Spain in Spain before returning to help and in Scotland, is: Why is there keep the faith alive in their native a Scots College in Salamanca… or land. The Lisbon College remained even in Spain? The answer begins

20 | The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 | 21 monasteries of Regensburg and Scottish by birth, preferably those Würzburg which also provided of superior character and virtue priests for Scotland in those and those who promise more dif�cult times. fruit in the welfare of souls… Foundations in Spain Colonel William Semple of in 1560 when the Scots Parliament Lochwinnoch, after a life spent outlawed the practice of the in the military and diplomatic Catholic religion in Scotland. To service of the Spanish crown, ensure a supply of priests for the founded (with his wife, Doña Scottish Mission, seminaries were María de Ledesma) a college in founded at Tournai (later moved Madrid in 1627, entrusting its to Douai), Rome, Paris and Madrid. running to the Jesuits. Their deed Honourable mention should of foundation stipulated that the also be made of the Benedictine college was for students: ‘Scottish by birth, preferably those of superior character and virtue and those who promise more fruit in the welfare of souls, and they have to spend whatever time may be necessary in studying Grammar and Philosophy, Theology, Controversies and Sacred Scripture, so that when they are well versed in all of these, they may proceed to the said Kingdom of Scotland to preach the Gospel and convert heretics... when they leave the said seminary for this purpose, others are to be received in their place having the same end, and thus the matter will continue for as long as the aforesaid conversion may require.’ For various reasons too complex to © 2009 Denis Carlin – Saint Andrew Royal treat here, the College in Madrid Scots’ College Salamanca

22 | The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 | 23 did not produce very many priests for the mission in Scotland and at From its new base in Valladolid, times was almost on the verge of the Royal Scots College sent extinction. a steady stream of priests to A Change of Fortune Scotland… Such was the case when in 1771 John Geddes (later to be Vicar War and Revolution Apostolic of the Lowland District in From its new base in Valladolid, the Scotland) obtained from Carlos III Royal Scots College sent a steady the use of the former Jesuit Colégio stream of priests to Scotland, de San Ambrosio in Valladolid. achieving one of its �nest hours Luckily, for the Scots at least, in when by 1798 it remained the 1767 the king had suppressed only Scots seminary on the the Society of Jesus in his realm Continent functioning when the and many of the former Jesuit other colleges were suppressed in buildings lay empty. The original the turmoil which followed the Cédula Real (Royal Charter) of 1771 French Revolution and the rise of granting them part of the building Napoleon, although it was forced was followed in the same decade by to close its doors briefly from others which gave them the use of 1808-1816 due to the Peninsular more of the building and granted War. In 1812 the country house, them similar constitutions and built in the village of Boecillo less rights as had the English Colégio than twenty years previously, de San Albano – a �ve minute walk twice played host to the Duke of away on the Don Sancho – founded Wellington and his army in the in Valladolid in 1589. course of his campaigns against

22 | The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 | 23 and pastoral contacts there, the Priests trained in Valladolid decision was taken to move to went as chaplains with the Scots the beautiful University city of Salamanca in 1988 – this was who were driven from their done principally to give students highland homes to seek refuge in the possibility of attending the Canada… Ponti�cal University (established by Pius XII in 1940, restoring the the French. It is also worth noting ancient Salmantino tradition of that in the early 19th century teaching Theology and Canon a number of priests trained in Law to the highest level), thus Valladolid went as chaplains with allowing them access to S.T.L. and the Scots who were driven from J.C.L. degrees. their highland homes to seek refuge in Canada; some of these Plumbers Galore! priests became founding bishops For some years after arrival in the of dioceses there. ‘City by the Tormes’ a building was at �rst rented and then bought And So To Salamanca from the Marist Brothers. This While the College had a long building, while in a very pleasant and fruitful stay of more than site, bore all the hallmarks of a two hundred years in Valladolid, Spanish ‘rush job’ of the mid 60’s; occupied a distinguished building these hallmarks were exacerbated in that city and had many friends in 1992 when the building was

24 | The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 | 25 linked up for the �rst time with the city mains water supply… and the Given the present shortage of plumbing system could not cope. vocations to the priesthood… The virtually continuous presence of plumbers and electricians the College has been able e to proved that drastic measures were widen its scope of activities in the needed… and were taken! service of the Catholic Church in Having taken architectural advice Scotland… from Scotland and from Spain, the great adventure of la reforma was undertaken; a process which, The Mission to Scotland painful though it sometimes was, For almost four hundred years the has given the building which was Royal Scots College in Spain has solemnly blessed in October 1996 been receiving men from Scotland, and is now occupied with pride training them to serve as priests (and comfort). And why are is the and then sending them back to College still here? Read again the serve in dioceses and parishes the quote from the deed of foundation length and breadth of Scotland. (making ecumenical changes Given the present shortage of where necessary) that students vocations to the priesthood, no trained here: ordinations are now taking place ‘…may proceed to Scotland and but the College has been able e Preach the Gospel.’ to widen its scope of activities in the service of the Catholic

24 | The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 | 25 room with seating for 45 people, a The College also houses many seminar room that accommodates paintings, works of art and 12–15, various libraries with a wide range of reading material. objects of historical interest television and computer rooms, collected over past centuries.… with broadband internet access, a bar with adjoining snooker Church in Scotland. In addition room. to the College’s involvement in SAY (Seminary Applicants’ Year) Take a Holiday Retreat and in the training of Scotland’s The College also houses many seminarians opportunities for paintings, works of art and objects retreats, courses and conferences of historical interest collected over are also offered. From the end of past centuries. In the grounds we March to the end of October the have an all-weather tennis court College will be well used, most and an outdoor swimming pool, signi�cantly by those who are to which is in use from the end of begin their seminary formation in May until the end of September; October and who will spend four there is a golf course close by, weeks in Salamanca (mid August to with reasonable rates for guests mid September). Other than that of the College. The walk to the there are a number of priest groups centre of Salamanca takes about coming out for ongoing formation twenty minutes, but there is also (retreat and courses) and a number an excellent local bus service and of parishes who come out on taxis to and from the centre are pilgrimage – visiting the sights of very reasonable. the Spanish Mystics (Santa Teresa and San Juan de la Cruz). Conditions and Terms Half-board – breakfast and one En Suite Accommodation meal per day (either lunch or The College has twenty seven evening meal) – is in the basic daily rooms with en suite facilities – 18 package. Full board can be offered, with twin beds, 3 with double especially for those doing retreats beds, and 6 singles. There is and courses. In principle these another room with three beds facilities are open to any group that (a bunk bed and a single) with respects the aims and objectives of a toilet and shower next to it. the College. We are also available In this area also washing and to individuals or families looking drying machines are available for for accommodation in this part of visitors’ use. The College has a Spain, if our group commitments chapel and an oratory, a lecture make this possible.

26 | The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 | 27 Reﬂections On Being On a Pedestal Angery and Ashamed The request to write for this Bishop Walsh is not comfortable column came as the groundswell with authoritarianism, or titles or of revelations about paedophilia episcopal robes: ‘I do believe that reached a new high across the they’re a remnant of medieval world, with victims and their times, out of keeping with a whole supporters outspoken in their sense of democratisation and a condemnation and Church leaders recognition of the dignity and desperately attempting to defend equality of all the baptised,’ he the institutions at the same time says. Whether the bishop’s wish as offering humble apologies for for simplicity is widespread among the crimes of so many of its of�cial the episcopacy is a moot point. ministers. ‘Institutions can be oppressive,’ he I am both angry and ashamed. says mildly. ‘You follow what has Angry that some of my so-called always been done or, in some ways, ‘brethren’ did such horrible things; you become an outsider.’ ashamed that I am part of an Democracy and the Church institution whose �rst very human instinct is to draw in on itself to I remember Archbishop Jack protect, as far as may be, its own Murphy saying at a Lisbonian dignity and authority in the face meeting, ‘Thank God the Church of opposition – we have moved is not a democracy.’ I don’t know a long way from the spirit of the what he understood by ‘democracy’ gospel. but his relief that the Church didn’t have that quality might A Degree of Death have had something to do with In a recent homily, the bishop of his appreciation of the authority Killaloe, Willie Walsh, said plainly: that came with his rank. ‘I do believe that our Irish Church at this time is experiencing a degree Bishop Walsh is not comfortable of death.’ Maybe it would not be such a bad thing if the whole with authoritarianism, or titles Church experienced a degree of or episcopal robes: ‘I do believe death, a death to the things that that they’re a remnant of have evolved to promote respectful subservience from the ‘other ranks’. medieval times.…

26 | The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 | 27 us, makes me nervous, making it We have been celebrating the sound as though we, the clerics, Year of the Priest and God knows are the real Church, and they, the we all need praying for, but laity, are the outsiders. some of the language makes Some Good May Come of It me nervous, making it sound as Condemnation is a futile exercise in itself. Even putting in place though we, the clerics, are the real draconian measures to deal with Church, and they, the laity, are the allegations of abuse doesn’t really address the core issue, which is outsiders… far wider than the evil of sexual I once had a housekeeper who was abuse. It may be that some good intensely loyal to ‘the Fathers’. will come out of all this: a greater She liked to tell me that she ‘put degree of openness, of sharing her priests on a pedestal’. Which problems not hiding them away; has been our part of our problem: of humility in dealing with people we were told so often that we who have been hurt. I �nd it easy were ‘set apart’ that we believed to blame the bureaucrats in the it, and not always for the good Vatican for the system of secrecy of either ourselves or others. I am that �ourishes in its corridors, and beginning to think I am guilty of I believe they deserve criticism, institutional clericalism. Like the but I should be looking to myself policeman who talks about ‘Pakis’ first to make sure I really have and ‘Coloureds’, without meaning come down from that pedestal. any harm, perhaps I am guilty of thinking of ‘the laity’ as different Contributors from me. Are always welcome to the Lisbonian magazine. Send your The Year of the Priest story, article and pictures to the We have been celebrating the Year of the Priest and God knows we all Contributions to Reflections are need praying for, but some of the invited, on condition of strict language that is still used about anonymity, from any member of the Society. The subject is entirely at the choice of the contributor and They deserve criticism, but I should be of approximately 500 should be looking to myself ﬁrst words in length. the views of the contributor do not necessarily to make sure I really have come re�ect the editorial policy of down from that pedestal.… The Lisbonian. Ed

28 | The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 | 29 Reﬂections On Tieing Up On Vocation! Blending In or Out? Attending last evening the Annual given this, one might ask why Dinner of a ‘secular’ Club of on earth would anyone wish to which I am a member I decided commit their lives to God in the I would ‘blend in’ and wear a consecrated priesthood. But that. white shirt and tie mindful of I think, is the point, vocation is Jim’s one time advice not to make not from the earth, it’s the call oneself singular. In the course from heaven, superior to earthly of the meal I was disconcerted goings on and hostile attitudes to be asked, respectfully, why I from media or wherever. Thanks was not wearing clerical collar. be to God that the call is still On my return home I turned on being answered despite all the the late evening news only to bad publicity, and the response be disconcerted again; the lead of faith is winning through. The item was the Holy Father again power of the Cross, be it mocked making headlines but for quite an or glori�ed, dominates. unexpected reason, that British It is a great inspiration, to be sure, Foreign Office so-called ‘pope’ to meet our recently ordained memo. Disrespectful towards the priests full of youthful enthusiasm church this time! This caused me and vision. Day to day work at the to ponder on the wide variety of parish face does not make news, responses the Church can elicit. but when the present crises transfer Called to Service to the history books it will be to this new generation that we look It is now the morning after, forward in hope to the regaining Vocations Sunday, the time when of respect for the Church and its many interested parties from priesthood. May it be a time when the Pope down are calling for a the Church through the witness response from our young, and of its ministers and people makes maybe not so young, to consider good news and elicits respect akin dedicating their lives to the service to that from she who prompted of Christ and the Church: what that question to me at dinner. better image could there be put Oh yes, just in case you are before us than Jesus the Good wondering, my personal dress Shepherd, one of my favourites. Its code for the next Annual Dinner not a good climate for the Church is already decided! at the moment as we know and

28 | The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 | 29 A FADO TO SAVOUR A Challenge to Translators!

São tantas as palavras num fado é Sendo tudo ao acaso a verdade é uma língua diferente, como uma que o fado acontece-me assim é onda virada que se contorce no uma história escrita, um quadro mar ou uma estrela pousada no obra-prima é um sol deitado sob mesmo lugare um telhado perdido um telhado perdido na cidade na cidade que eu amo,continuo que eu amo, continuo a amar as a amar palavras num fado são a língua As palavras que eu canto no da rua, um alento, um amor, uma sussurro de um fado sonhadoras luz boa. perdidas peregrines promessas de Translations should be submitted antes… uma fatalidade by the end of October in order to qualify for entry in the January edition of The Lisbonian. Ed Can you Explain? Caxias, [Oeiras municipality, western Lisbon metropolitan area] as you probably know, is down the coast, on the way to Cascais. Pedro Ventura is a contact through Corpo Santo and he keeps sending me odds and ends, this one is intriguing. I’ve asked around but no one has any explanation why a street miles away from the College © 2010 Pedro Ventura - Praceta dos should be named after us! Inglesinhos

All Together Now!

O Roma Felix, quae duorum Principium Sit Trinitati sempiterna gloria, Honor, Es consecrata gloriouso sanguine! potestas atque jubilatio, Horum cruore purpurata ceteras Excellis In unitatae, quae gubernat omnia, Per orbis una pulchritudines. universa saeculorum saecula. Amen

30 | The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 | 31 They Also Served by Kevin Hartley

George Hartley (1769 – 1806) The coincidence of the name – my The succeeding generations of dad was a George – although there students whose names appear in is no family connection, intrigued the Lisbon College Register were a me and prompted me to enquire mixed bunch. One ran away to further. join a warship in the Tagus, ‘of the Duke of Hanover currently reigning Catholic Persecution Easing in England.’ Another ended up on When George Hartley was born in the gallows at Tyburn, not as a Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, on martyr but as a highwayman, ‘but 9 November 1769, son of Richard dy’d a Catholick.’ Blacklow found Hartley and Anne Ashness, the notoriety for the development active persecution of Catholics in of his Gallican views. Russell, England was drawling to a close engaged in diplomacy and ended but there were still some perils his days as Bishop of Viseu. Some to surmount. In 1767, a priest died as students: Thomas Hesketh named Malony had been tried was one such, buried in the chapel at Croydon for his priesthood, at the altar of Saint Thomas. and condemned to perpetual Another left the College to go imprisonment, which, at the and study medicine at Coimbra. end of two or three years, was William Lloyd, condemned to commuted, ‘by the mercy of the death at Brecon, died in prison a Government’ to banishment. In week before the day of execution. 1768, the Reverend James Webb John Lafee fell ill and died at Pera was tried in the Court of King’s ‘and was Berry’d in the Parish Bench for saying Mass but was Church of Nossa Snra do Monte.’ acquitted, the Chief Justice, Lord But most came, studied, were Mans�eld, ruling that there was ordained and routinely returned no evidence suf�cient to convict. as missioners to England. Little is As late as 1771, Dr. James Talbot, known about most of them. coadjutor to Bishop Challoner was tried for his life at the Old Bailey, Eye Spy A Hartley! on the charge of his priesthood George Hartley came to my and of saying Mass, but was attention quite by chance, on a acquitted on similar grounds. And visit to the little parish church there were others. Saint Mary at Harvington, between The ostensible intention of the Stourbridge and Kidderminster.

30 | The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 | 31 eventual resolution of a shortfall It absolved Catholics from taking of manpower. the religious oath when joining Encouraging Disloyalty the British Armed Forces… Predictably, the Act was opposed Recruitment of Catholics would by many in the country who be a signiﬁcant factor in the saw the concessions as providing encouragement to potentially shortfall of manpower.… disloyal subjects of the Protestant Crown. Lord George Gordon, Papists Act of 1778 was, as its an articulate and eccentric preamble states, to mitigate some propagandist, became President of the more extreme manifestations of the Protestant Association to of official discrimination. force the repeal of this legislation. Particularly, it absolved Catholics He was able to in�ame the London from taking the religious oath mob with fears of papism and a when joining the British Armed return to absolute monarchical Forces. There were good reasons rule. Catholics in the military for this: British military forces at would, he said, attempt to join the time were stretched very thinly forces with their co-religionists by the demands of the American on the Continent and attack War of Independence and by the Britain. He had several meetings on-going con�icts with France and with the King, George III, without Spain. Recruitment of Catholics persuading him of the dangers of would be a signi�cant factor in the the Act, but was more successful with the general populous. Gordon Riots On 29 May 1780, Gordon called a meeting of the Protestant Association, and his followers marched on the House of Commons to deliver a petition demanding the repeal of the Act. It has been suggested that Gordon’s success in rousing people to riot was more due to the parlous economic and political situation in the Rt Rev Richard Challoner ( Bishop of country than to Protestant feelings Derbra) against Catholics. Because voting from an engraving published in 1781 in parliamentary elections was

32 | The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 | 33 restricted by a property threshold, Thence to Douai most Londoners were unable From Sedgley Park George went on to vote and many hoped for to Douai in 1783, where he stayed reforms to make parliament more a couple of years, presumably representative of the people. to finish his education in the The riots put London into a humanities, and returned home to turmoil, whether they affected life England in 1785. Now aged sixteen in Chipping Norton is a matter of he might have been looking to conjecture but the young George enter university, had he not been Hartley, he was eleven years of barred by reason of his religion. age, must have heard about the He might have gone into trade commotion in the capital and or taken advantage of the Papists his parents must have wondered Act to become a soldier, buy a whether a new wave of persecution commission if his parents had was about to break upon them. been able to afford it. In fact, two years after leaving Douai he was Away to School admitted to the Lisbon College on We know nothing about the 7 February 1787. social standing of Mr and Mrs Hartley but they can’t have been Lisbon College Admission destitute. Two of his cousins, The entry in the Register is laconic Thomas and William became and Anstruther isn’t any more priests. When George was fourteen help so we can only assume that he was sent to Sedgley Park School perhaps his �rst year in Lisbon near Wolverhampton. The school was concerned with putting the had been founded by William �nishing touches to the education Errington who had been educated he had received at Douai – honing at Douai, where he had taught his Latin, perhaps – before briefly after ordination before embarking on six years of study returning to England and working for ordination as a priest. This with Bishop Challoner who, it is came, �nally, at Christmas 1794 reported ‘had a high opinion of and in the new year he set sail for Mr Errington both as an active England and life on the mission. and zealous missionary and as a man of business.’ By the time We can speculate that his duties George arrived the school was under the direction of the Rev there were to minister to the Hugh Kendal, Errington having family and their retainers and returned to London where he had the handful of Catholic families in been appointed archdeacon and treasurer of the Old Chapter. the area…

32 | The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 | 33 Harvington Hall… had been a Of�ciating Certi�ed Priests The Act provided that all assemblies centre for recusants… sheltering for religious worship should be Marian priests, then Jesuits certi�ed at Quarter Sessions and that only such person who names – often making use of the hides had been recorded by the local built by Nicholas Owen… Clerk of the Peace could of�ciate. The English Mission Curiously, although priests did officiate at the Hall, the first His first appointment was to registration under the Act was Spetchley Hall, the seat of the not made until 1796. It was this Berkeley family, a few miles to the chapel, its furnishing included East of Worcester. The Berkeley an oak altar, two chalices, silver family still own Spetchley but sadly cruets, a silver lamp and thurible, there appears to be no mention of and a silver monstrance. There was him in their family papers. We also a statue of Our Lady carved can speculate that his duties there ‘in sichem wood’ (Sichem, near were to minister to the family and Louvain had an ancient shrine to their retainers and the handful of Our Lady. An oak tree connected Catholic families in the area. to the shrine had been cut down George stayed seven years at at the end of the seventeenth Spetchley before moving some century and the timber partly used thirty miles north to Harvington in for the carving of small statures of the parish of Chaddesley Corbett the Virgin). Sadly, these objects where he remained until his death which would have been a familiar on 28 June 1806. sight to George, were lost twenty Harvington Hall, rebuilt on years after his death when a �re medieval foundations in the last destroyed much of the chapel. days of the sixteenth century, had been a centre for recusants A Rural Mission since being acquired by Humphrey The priests who lived at the Hall Pakington, sheltering Marian ministered to a wide area of about priests, then Jesuits – often making a hundred and forty square miles. use of the hides built by Nicholas Without precise figures for the Owen and one or other of the Catholic population of the area two chapels built at the top of the in George’s time at Harvington it house. In 1743 after the passage is necessary to make an educated of the 1791 Catholic Relief Act, guess. In 1767, thirty six years before a chapel was constructed by Irish his arrival the Returns of Papists for labourers out of the garrets of two the parish of Chaddesley Corbett cottages at the rear of the Hall. had listed eighty person, children

34 | The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 | 35 and adults. In three years between 1791 and 1793 only seven people John Wall, executed in Worcester are recorded as having taken the in 1678 is popularly associated Oath of Allegiance as prescribed by the Catholic Relief Act 1791. with Harvington… But in 1804 there were �fty-four Easter communicants. Bishop increase in numbers was due to John Milner, Vicar Apostolic of the the in�ux of Irish woolcombers Midlands District, came to confer who were coming to settle around the Sacrament of Confirmation Kidderminster). in 1805 though there is no John Wall, executed in Worcester record of how many candidates in 1678 is popularly associated there were. Twenty five years with Harvington: he was certainly after George’s death, when the working in the area although number of Easter communicants his presence at the Hall is not had topped a hundred, one of documented. He was arrested at his successors, John Brownlow, Rushock Court, less than three reckoned that the opening of a miles from the Hall. It is only new mission in Kidderminster since the nineteenth century had reduced his congregation by that his veneration as ‘Martyr two hundred and thirty (The great of Harvington’ developed. More

34 | The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 | 35 ‘Mr H probably succeeded to the Another, much more tenuous Breviaries and other books from link with the old Lisbon College, his uncles (Thomas and William).’ Corne adds, by way of excuse for he was in receipt of an annual the neglected state of the Library stipend of forty ﬁve pounds… that ‘Mr H had bad health, & nothing done in this time to clean securely historically, one of the Library etc.’ George’s most famous predecessors As well as Pickford’s writings for was Hugh Tootell, better known as George to mull over, there was Charles Dodd. another, much more tenuous link Well Bound Library Books with the old Lisbon College. He was in receipt of an annual stipend Dodd was at Harvington for thirty of forty �ve pounds from a fund years, during which time he wrote established a hundred and forty his Church History of England. years earlier by Mary Yate whose He died in 1743 but left behind a husband had held Harvington. large library of works, including One of the parties to the deed Pickord’s MS book of controversies that established the fund (there (see The Lisbonian July 2007 p 16). were other bene�ciaries) was John George must have added a number Perrot, Dean of the Chapter of works himself for when the library the English Secular Clergy. The was transferred to Old Oscott at Perrot family had property only the instigation of Bishop Milner a few miles from Harvington, at in 1810 John Corne, George’s Belbroughton and John was either successor at Harvington, referred born there or at their other house to ‘the Library books being sent off at Rotten Park in Birmingham. together with Mr Hartley’s, at his John Perrot’s name might have death. I understand at the Hall, that been familiar to George – he had Mr Hartley’s books were mostly new taught at Lisbon and had become and well bound books.’ However, President in 1662 before returning not all George’s books ended up at to England in 1671. Oscott. Gowers, a Kidderminster The ‘bad health’ that John Corne bookshop, admitted to having referred to, ensured that George’s sold ‘many books belonging to life at Harvington was brief. He Mr H’, including ‘two setts of died there on the 26 June 1806 lesser Breviaries.’ Some mystery and the Chaddesley Corbett parish surrounds the circumstances burial register notes that: ‘The because Gower later claimed that Revd Geo. Hartley, Catholic Priest’ all the books had been sent off was buried in the churchyard on to London, as the best market. 30 June 1806.

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Live forever, Alma Mater, be her sons for ever blest…

38 | The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 The Lisbonian magazine – July 2010 | 39 Contributors Are always welcome to the Lisbonian magazine. Send your story, article and pictures to the Editor.

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