Yorkshire Convicted Papists, 1716 (Birdforth and Allertonshire Wapentakes)

A True and Perfect Return of All Papists Convicted in the North Riding of the County of York, 1716.

Birdforth and Allertonshire Wapentakes

William Pinkney Thirsk Gen.
William Dale Thirsk Grocer
John Dale Thornbrough Yeoman
Richard Briggs Upsall Yeoman
Cuthbert Tunstall Nether Silton Gen.
John Pinkney Nether Silton Gen.
Henry Dinmore Sowerby Gen.
Thomas Moor Angram Gen.
William Dale Coxwold Yeoman
Thomas Dale Newbrough Yeoman
William Mitchell Newbrough Gen.
John Smith Oulston Yeoman
Francis Kirke Kilbourne Yeoman
John Dale Keswick Yeoman
Edward Danby Barroby Yeoman
Thomas Danby, Sr. Barroby Yeoman
Thomas Danby, Jr. Barroby Yeoman
Christopher Danby Barroby Yeoman
Richard Burgess Barroby Yeoman
Henry Webster Knagton Yeoman
Peter Barker Knagton Yeoman
John Parvin Knagton Yeoman
Thomas Parvin Knagton Yeoman
John Bussey Knagton Yeoman
Christopher Pibus Knagton Yeoman
Robert Wood Knagton Yeoman
Roger Meynell Kilvington Esquire
Adam Dale Kilvington Yeoman
Thomas Sampson Kilvington Yeoman
Richard Gowland Kilvington Yeoman
Anthony Whitfield Kilvington Yeoman
Thomas Dale Thornton le Street   Yeoman
William Jackson Thornton le Street Yeoman
William Rowtless Thornton le Street Yeoman
Richard Coward Thornton le Street Yeoman
John Mayes Yarme Esquire
Francis Welfitt High Worsall Yeoman
Richard Dalton High Worsall Yeoman
Richard Bell High Worsall Yeoman
William Bell Girsby Yeoman
William Nesham Upper Dinsdale Yeoman
Marmaduke Palmer   Hutton Bonville Yeoman
Laurence Dalton High Worsall Yeoman

These persons before named were convicted as Popish recusants att the generall Quarter Sessions of the Peace holden at Thirske the tenth day of April in the second year of the reigne of his Soveraigne Lord King George in pursuance of an Act of Parliament passed in the first year of his Majestie’s reigne intitled an Act for the further security of his Majestie’s Person and Government and the Succession of the Crown in the heirs of the late Princess Sophia being Protestants and for extinguising the hopes of the pretended Prince of Wales and his open and secrett abettors.

Historical Manuscripts Commission, The Manuscripts of Sir William Fitzherbert, Bart., and Others (London: Historical Manuscripts Commission, 1893), pp. 179-185.

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