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Nicholas Owen
Saint Nicholas Owen Born: Oxfordshire The son of a carpenter, Nicholas was raised in a family dedicated to the Catholic Church and followed his father’s trade. One of his brothers became a printer of Catholic literature and two were ordained priests. Nicholas worked with Edmund Campion, Father John Gerard and Father Henry Garnet, Superior of the English Jesuits from 1587 – 1594. Sometimes using the pseudonym John Owen; his short stature led to the nickname Little John. He spent over twenty-five years using his skills in the construction of ‘priest- holes’, escape-routes and some annexes for Mass. In order to keep his building-work secret, most was carried out at night, his presence explained by the daylight role as carpenter and mason. Early examples of his work exist at Oxburgh in East Anglia, Braddocks and Sawston. There are over a hundred examples of his work throughout central England. He built around a dozen hiding-places for Thomas Habington’s household at Hindlip Hall, Worcestershire; including that which Owen himself used prior to his capture. The authorities were aware the hiding- places existed, but neither their extent nor who constructed them. Nicholas did not have a formal novitiate, but having received instruction, he became a Jesuit Brother in 1577. In 1581, when Father Edmund Campion was executed, Nicholas remonstrated with the authorities and was imprisoned but later released. He was re-arrested on 23 April 1594 with John Gerard and held in the Tower of London, from where managed to free himself. It is said that he later orchestrated the escape of Father Gerard. -
Parish Extra
AMDG PARISH EXTRA NEWS, VIEWS AND INFORMATION FOR ST PETER’S, ST JOSEPH’S AND THE STONYHURST COMMUNITY You can contact Father Curtis directly by telephone 01254 826268 or email [email protected] ISSUE Number Eleven Christmas 2019 EDITORIAL Welcome to this year’s Comfort and Challenge bumper issue of the Parish There is a carol where we wish each other Extra, a round up of what Comfort and Joy at the birth of Jesus. My has been happening over wish this year is for Comfort and Chal- the last year and a cheeky lenge. The Christmas story is so familiar, look forward to our plans for it gives us comfort to hear the message the year to come. once more through readings and song. We know the characters, the Shepherds, A special welcome to those the Kings, the Inn Keeper with Mary and who have moved into the Joseph and the infant Jesus. The story of how Jesus came to this earth village over the last year. I is one that allows us to feel the love of the Lord each year in a familiar hope you feel at home in the way. community. You are most welcome to come to our But the story is also a challenge. How is it that the ever living, almighty church services and other and all powerful God has chosen to become a human being just like the parish activities. rest of the human race? What is my place in the story? I cannot be just a passive observer looking in from the outside. -
Stonyhurst Association Newsletter 306 July 2013
am dg Ston y hurSt GES RU 1762 . B .L 3 I 9 E 5 G 1 E S 1 R 7 7 E 3 M . O 4 T S 9 . 7 S 1 T O ST association news N YHUR STONYHURST newsletter 306 ASSOjulyC 2013IATION 1 GES RU 1762 . B .L 3 I 9 E G StonyhurSt association 5 1 E S 1 R 7 7 E 3 M . O 4 francis xavier scholarships T S 9 newsletter . 7 S 1 T O ST N YHUR The St Francis Xavier Award is a scholarship being awarded for entry to newSlet ter 306 a mdg july 2013 Stonyhurst. These awards are available at 11+ and 13+ for up to 10 students who, in the opinion of the selection panel, are most likely to benefitS from,T andO NYHURST contribute to, life as full boarders in a Catholic boarding school. Assessments for contentS the awards comprise written examinations and one or more interviews. diary of events 4 Applicants for the award are expected to be bright pupils who will fully participate in all aspects of boarding school life here at Stonyhurst. St Francis In memoriam 4 Xavier Award holders will automatically benefit from a fee remissionA of 20%S andS OCIATION thereafter may also apply for a means-tested bursary, worth up to a further 50% Congratulations 5 off the full boarding fees. 50 years ago 6 The award is intended to foster the virtues of belief, ambition and hard work which Francis Xavier exemplified in pushing out the boundaries of the Christian reunions 7 faith. -
College Martyrs
TUTOR GROUP MARTYRS Class A – Ashley Blessed Ralph Ashley Ralph Ashley served as a cook at Douai College France. He went to Spain in 1590 and became a Jesuit Lay Brother. He returned to England in 1598 and served with Father Edward Oldcorne. He was captured in 1604 and was terribly tortured and executed. Class C – Clitherow Saint Margaret Clitherow Margaret Clitherow was a butcher’s wife in York. In 1574 Margaret became a Catholic and an active helper of the Douai priests. She also ran a Catholic school for her children and neighbours. Officers found vestments worn by priests in her house and so on 25th March 1586 she was crushed to death. She took a quarter of an hour to die. Her two sons became priests. Class J – Jones Saint John Jones John Jones was a Welshman. He appears in 1587 as a priest working among the Catholics in a Prison. This work was cut short when his disguise was discovered, and he was arrested and imprisoned at Wisbech Castle. However he did escape and made his way to the continent. He returned to England in 1592, and two years later was a prisoner once more at Wisbech. He was martyred on 12th July 1598. There was an hour’s delay in his execution because the hangman had forgotten his rope. Father Jones made use of time in prayer and addressing the crowd. Class L – Line Saint Anne Line Anne Line and her husband were both converts and though both were disinherited because of their faith they managed to live quite comfortably until 1586 when a priest was arrested whilst saying Mass in their house. -
Portrait of a Bowbearer
PORTRAIT OF A BOWBEARER William Bowland Richard Eastwood, the butcher’s son who became Bowbearer of the Forest of Bowland There have been Bowbearers of the Forest of Bowland since the twelfth century. Perhaps the most notorious of these being Nicholas Tempest who was hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn in 1537 for his part in the ill-fated Pilgrimage of Grace, the Catholic revolt against Henry VIII. Thomas Lister Parker (b. 1797) was among the more colourful. His lavish re- modelling of Browsholme Hall led to ruin and bankruptcy while he exploited local history, through his patronage of Thomas Dunham Whitaker, to inflate the glories of his ancestral line. To Lister Parker, we owe the myth of the hereditary Bowbearer – a right he claimed proudly and disingenuously right up to the time of his death in 1858 (his cousin having legally assumed the Bowbearership in 1820 at the time he purchased the Browsholme estate). 1 However, for much of its long history, the Bowbearership – an ancient ceremonial office bestowed upon an official who accompanied the Lord of Bowland hunting and literally bore his bow – has been a quiet affair, held by the heads of worthy local families and sometimes their sons: the Rawlinsons, the Listers, the Fenwicks. On two occasions only in nine hundred years do we see the office retained within families and across generations for any period of time: by the de Boltons in the twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth centuries; and by the Parkers in the three centuries after the Restoration. Early Bowbearers appear to have been foresters in fee , holders of their own feudal lands within the Forest. -
Relics Tour Show
Freedom Fortnight 2016 The Relics of St Thomas More and St John Fisher Supported by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, The Knights of Columbus and The Christian Heritage Centre at Stonyhurst St John Fisher’s Ring and a Reliquary containing a bone and tooth of St Thomas More The Reformation in England was sparked by Henry VIII’s desire to end his twenty-three year marriage to Catherine of Aragon (above) in order to marry Anne Boleyn. Thomas More was Henry VIII’s Chancellor. John Fisher was Bishop of Rochester. They both resisted Henry’s attempts to divorce his wife and to take away the rights of the Catholic Church. As the Pope consistently refused to allow Henry to end his marriage, the King made his Bishops swear an oath of allegiance to himself as Supreme Head of the Church in England. The only Bishop to refuse was John Fisher. More and Fisher were imprisoned in the Tower of London in 1534 for their opposition to the King’s will. Fisher’s treatment in prison was particularly harsh, and he was forced to rely on the generosity of friends for food and drink as none was supplied to him. Westminster Hall, in the Houses of Parliament. John Fisher and Thomas More were tried and convicted of treason in this hall. Their judges included Anne Boleyn’s father. Thomas More’s cell in the Tower of London can still be seen today. He spent fourteen months in prison, writing, praying and fasting. This embroidered cap of red linen, gold and silver thread and spangles was made for Thomas More in his last years of life, probably by one of his daughters. -
Lancashirewalks.Com - Bolton by Bowland
LancashireWalks.com - Bolton by Bowland Bolton by Bowland Winter weather can be very restricting - especially for those who enjoy walking on the high Introduction fells. Here's a walk that will give you sublime views across the Ribble Valley towards Pendle Hill, without a great deal of ascent. Moreover it starts in one of Lancashire's most beautiful The Dotcom Pub of the Year villages - which is a bonus; providing you can get there of course. Our Blog Start: Information Centre and car park Bolton by Bowland. Walk of the week New Year 2012 Kevan Thompson's Lancashire Malcolm's Kilimanjaro Climb Matt's CWT Adventure Balderstone Barley Beacon Fell Blackpool Black Lane Ends From Junction 31 M6 follow the A59 towards Clitheroe. After passing the town take a left turn to Sawley. Bolton by Bowland At Sawley cross the River Ribble and turn right. Bolton by Bowland is 2 ½ miles further along. The car park is on the right as you enter the village. Burscough Factfile: Distance: 8k 5 miles Time: 2 - 3 hours Burscough and Martin Mere Summary: Mainly easy. At this time of year some sections will be very muddy. There is an ascent of 100m (300ft) in the middle section of the walk Cartmel - Across the water Map: OS OL 41 The Forest of Bowland Catforth Map by kind permission of the Blackpool Gazette Clow Bridge Cobble Hey Colne Croston to Mawdesley Cuerden Valley Park Downham Dunsop Bridge Dunsop Bridge and Whitewell http://www.lancashirewalks.com/page13.htm[31/12/2011 19:20:52] LancashireWalks.com - Bolton by Bowland Entwistle Farleton Fell Goosnargh Hareden Hodder at Stonyhurst Hoghton and Samlesbury Bottoms Directions: From the car park turn left over Skirden Bridge and then immediately right onto a footpath Holme Chapel to Todmorden besides Kirk Beck. -
Review of the Borough of Ribble Valley
Boundary Review Review of The Borough of Ribble Valley Ribble Valley Borough Council - Warding Proposal To the Local Government Boundary Commission for England January 2017 Ribble Valley Borough Council set up a cross‐party working group to consider proposals on the warding patterns with support from officers. The group recognised that changes were required in order to gain electoral equality across the borough. Some wards are already outside the +/- 10% variance and other wards will be by 2022 following expected development. The electoral forecast for 2022 is 48,027 which equates to 1,201 electors per Councillor (currently 1136). The working group worked on a number of options. The working groups preferred option was submitted to Policy and Finance Committee on 24 January and the committee approved the option being submitted as the Council’s proposals. The Council has followed the principle of trying to keep parishes as a whole, however it was considered it was impossible to make the numbers up (retaining 40 members) without splitting two parishes. Please find below the Council’s proposals: The Proposals Having considered the forecast electorate and warding it is recommended that remaining with 40 Councillors would provide efficient and effective representation to the public and best enable appropriate warding proposals. Calculations based on alternative numbers of Councillors, for example 41, didn’t work across the borough and in some wards created even bigger variances. The review started by looking at the wards at the outermost edges of the borough in the north east and south west of the borough - as there is less scope for changes to boundaries in these areas due to being surrounded by other boroughs. -
Stonyhurst College, Hurst Green
STONYHURST COLLEGE, HURST GREEN LANCASHIRE Archaeological Survey Report Oxford Archaeology North April 2015 Architectural History Practice Ltd Issue No: 2013-14/1496 OA North Job No L10663 NGR: SD 691 382 (centred) Stonyhurst College, near Hurst Green, Lancashire: Archaeological Survey 1 CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS .............................................................................................................. 2 1. INTRODUCTION .................................................................................................................... 3 1.1 Archaeology of the Landscape............................................................................................ 3 2. D OCUMENTED LANDSCAPE DEVELOPMENT ..................................................................... 4 2.1 Map Regression................................................................................................................... 4 2.2 LiDAR Mapping ............................................................................................................... 13 2.3 Aerial Photography ........................................................................................................... 13 3. A RCHAEOLOGICAL EVIDENCE BY CHARACTER AREA .................................................... 15 3.1 The Character Areas.......................................................................................................... 15 4. A RCHAEOLOGICAL OVERVIEW......................................................................................... 45 4.1 -
Chipping Heritage Assessment
Chipping, Lancashire: Heritage Assessment 1 CONTENTS SUMMARY .....................................................................................................................3 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.................................................................................................5 1. INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................6 1.1 Background to the Heritage Appraisal ...........................................................6 1.2 The Setting......................................................................................................7 1.3 Legislative Framework ...................................................................................8 1.4 Conservation Areas.......................................................................................10 2. METHODOLOGY .....................................................................................................12 2.1 Objectives .....................................................................................................12 2.2 Defining Significance ...................................................................................12 3. BACKGROUND ........................................................................................................14 3.1 Introduction...................................................................................................14 3.2 Background to Chipping...............................................................................14 3.3 -
Gunpowder, Treason and York
Gunpowder, treason and York Marianka Swain explores the birthplace of Guy Fawkes, and separates fact from enduring myth MAP ILLUSTRATION: REBECCA LEA WILLIAMS LEA REBECCA ILLUSTRATION: MAP discoverbritainmag.com 37 York Clockwise, from left: The Shambles hide a violent past; All Saints Pavement; the street’s overhanging design protected the meat traded there; the Guy Fawkes Inn; St Michael le Belfry; the plot is discovered Previous page: A 19th-century wood engraving of Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators ALAMY/PORTRAIT ESSENTIALS/CW IMAGES/CLEARVIEW/MSP TRAVEL IMAGES/TOMMY (LOUTH)/ HERITAGE IMAGE PARTNERSHIP LTD/VISITBRITAIN/ANDREW PICKETT LTD/VISITBRITAIN/ANDREW PARTNERSHIP IMAGE HERITAGE (LOUTH)/ IMAGES/TOMMY TRAVEL ALAMY/PORTRAIT IMAGES/CLEARVIEW/MSP ESSENTIALS/CW emember, remember, the fifth immediate family were Protestants: he and Pulleyn and Percy families in Scotton. From sympathies: his home city was teeming with “Contrary to of November” rings out across his sisters were baptised in the 16th-century 1582, he attended St Peter’s School in York gruesome tales. York’s All Saints Pavement Britain, as notorious plotter Guy St Michael le Belfrey Church, which today with brothers John and Christopher “Kit” church houses the replicas of the helmet, popular opinion, Fawkes is burned in effigy on features a facsimile of his baptismal entry. Wright, who later joined the Gunpowder sword and gauntlets of Thomas Percy, the conspiracy was RBonfire Night. His part in the failed 1605 His father was a proctor and advocate at Plot, and future priests Oswald Tesimond, 7th Earl of Northumberland, who led the Gunpowder Plot still echoes through history, the Archbishop’s consistory court, and died Edward Oldcorne and Robert Middleton. -
Local Accommodation List
LOCAL ACCOMMODATION LIST **The Shireburn Arms Hotel Whalley Road, Hurst Green, BB7 9QJ Tel: 01254 826518 E-mail: [email protected] W: www.shireburnarmshotel.com (17th century family-owned country hotel: ‘Small Hotel of the Year 2008’). **The Fold (Bed & Breakfast) 15 Smithy Row, Hurst Green, BB7 9QA Tel: 01254 826252 E-mail: [email protected] (In the village of Hurst Green close to Stonyhurst College). **The Bayley Arms Avenue Road, Hurst Green, Clitheroe, BB7 9QB Tel: 01254 826478 E-mail: [email protected] W: www.bayleyarms.com The Inn at Whitewell Clitheroe, Forest of Bowland, Lancashire BB7 3AT Tel 01200 448222 E-mail: [email protected] W: www.innatwhitewell.com Luxury en suite B&B rooms in a 17th-century inn with period features, plus upscale dining and bar. The Inn is surrounded by stunning countryside. Alden Cottage Kemple End, Birdy Brow, Stonyhurst, BB7 9QY Tel: 01254 826468 E-mail: [email protected] W: www.aldencottage.co.uk (17th Century beamed cottage). Moorhead House Farm Thornley Road, Chaigley, BB7 3LY Tel: 01995 61108 (Family run farmhouse). Mitton Hall Mitton Road (B6246), Mitton, BB7 9PQ Tel: 01254 826544 E-mail: [email protected] W: www.mittonhallhotel.co.uk (Former 15th century manor house). The Gibbon Bridge Hotel (30 bedrooms) Green Lane, Chipping, PR3 2TQ Tel: 01995 61456 E-mail: [email protected] W: www.gibbon-bridge.co.uk (Privately owned luxury hotel). Clark House Farm Chipping, PR3 2GQ Tel: 01995 61209 E-mail: [email protected] W:www.clarkhousefarm.com (Working dairy farm: Chipping awarded Best Medium Village in Lancashire 2008).