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daughter of William Pennington, of Muncaster, the marriage settle ment being dated May 29, 32 Eliz. (1590).1

From this time the prosperity of the Catterick family kept declining. Anthony Catterick and his son, Anthony, disposed of the manor of Aldbrough in 1610; and Anthony the younger, who died in 1644, conjointly with his son, John, sold the manor of Stanwick in 14 Car. I. (1638-9), to Hugh Smithson, citizen and haberdasher of London, an ancestor of the Duke of Northumberland, the present This last-mentioned John Catterick had an only daughter, Mary, who was living in 1667, of whom nothing is known, and with whom the family seems to have died out."

owner.

John Catterick, of Stanwick. Died 1478. Lucy Borough.

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Anthony Catterick. Died 1585.=Elizabeth Tempest. Died 1591.

Thomas. Died without issue.

Margery=Roger Meynell.
Grace Robert Lambert.

Dorothy Francis Scrope.

George Catterick.

Died 1592. Margaret, dau. of Anthony Eltoft,
T of Farnhill in Craven.

Anthony Catterick. Aged 21 Joyce Pennington.

in 1585. Living in 1617.

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Anthony Catterick. Died 1644. Isabella, dau. of Sir Ralph Gray,
of Chillingham, knt.

John Catterick. Living in 1667.= Margaret.

Mary.

1 As the bride's father was dead, her mother, Bridget, then called Lady Bridget Askew, of Seaton, co. Cumberland, was one of the parties to the settlement (Plantagenet Harrison's History of Yorkshire, P. 497).

2 Ibid., pp. 498, 520. The following Catterick wills occur in the list of Richmondshire wills, but only one, that

of Francis Catterick, of Stanwick, gent., 1559, exists. It has been printed by the Surtees Society in Richmondshire Wills, p. 138. The others are Anthony Catterick, Esq., 1585; Edmund, 1558; Elizabeth, sequestration, 1590; George, Esq., Carleton, administration, 1593; George, Esq., sequestration, 1578.

The prayer for the dead, "Cujus animæ Deus misereatur," which has been added at the end of the inscription, deserves some special notice. Certainly, after the middle of the sixteenth century, inscriptions asking for prayers for the dead, which were universal during medieval times, become exceptional, although they are more numerous than is generally believed. They are still, however, continued in such services as the commemoration of benefactors in many colleges in the universities. The most notable post Reformation instance is that of Bishop Isaac Barrow, just outside the west door of the cathedral at St. Asaph, dated 1680, and composed by himself: "O vos transeuntes in domum Domini, domum orationis, orate pro conservo vestro, ut inveniat misericordiam in die Domini." "O ye, who pass by into the Lord's house, the house of prayer, pray for your fellow-servant, that he may find mercy in the day of the Lord."

It is suggestive of the period at which the Catterick inscription was erected, three years after the date of the Armada, that the prayer should have been added in a different hand to the rest of the text and placed in a corner. The mention of St. Pantaleon,' a saint not much known out of Italy, points to a close connection with Rome and probable intercourse with seminary priests. The North Riding Records do not go back to Elizabeth's time, but as we find Mrs. Anthony Catterick's daughter, Grace Lambert, presented as a recusant in 1616,2 another daughter, Dorothy Scroope, in 1614, when she was living at Calvis, in the parish of Thorton-le-Street, near Thirsk, her grandson, Thomas Meynell, and his wife, at the same date, and her nephew, Anthony Catterick, and Joyce, his wife, in 1614 and 1616,* besides other members of her family, there can be little doubt as to her religious views.

1 There seems to be an error in the inscription in making the 17th of July the day of St. Pantaleon. This saint appears in the York and Hereford Calendars on July 28, but not in the Sarum at all; in the Roman on July 27. Baring Gould says the Roman Martyrology, Greek Menæa, and Menology, place his feast on the 27th; Martyrologium Romanum and some copies of the Martyrdoms of St. Jerome, and also Ado and Notker, on the 28th; Hrabanus Maurus on April 23. "Acts" apocryphal, but it can scarcely be doubted that there

was a martyr named Pantaleon at Nicodemia (Nicomedia?) in Diocletian's persecution. A church, dedicated to him at Constantinople, was rebuilt by Justinian in 532. The York Breviary puts him off with only collects out of the Common of Martyrs, but there are some marvellous stories in Baring Gould about him and his relics. There are several bottles of his blood, which are said to liquefy. (J.T.F.) 2 North Riding Records, ii. 150.

3 Ibid., p. 72.

4 Ibid., pp. 78, 150,

Other instances of inscriptions of a similar character are found in this county. Thus, at Adlingfleet, in the epitaph of Francis Haldanbi (1589), these lines occur:

"Non petit hic avrvm, gemmas, avt mvnera magna.

Mente pater noster tv recitato pia;

Ave nec pigeat Maria te dicere pro me,

Sic mihi, crede mihi, maxima dona dabis."
"He seeks not here gold, gems, or great presents.
Thou must recite a pater noster with pious mind;
Nor must it weary thee to say an Ave Maria for me.
Thus, believe me, shalt thou give me very great gifts."

In the church at Dalby, in the North Riding, on the south wall of the nave is the following inscription :

1675

ALANVS ASCOVGH

AR. ET ANNA VXOR OBIIT
VTERQVE MENSE IAN. 1672
ANNO CONIVGII 63 ÆTATIS

VERO 85 QVORVM ANIMABVS
PROPITIETVR DEVS.1

In 1641 Allan Ascough, of Skewsby, gent., and Ann, his wife, were presented as recusants. His wife was a daughter of Thomas Brathwayt, of Burneshead, in Westmorland, and three of their daughters married into recusant families. His will, an abstract of which follows, gives no definite information as to his religious belief.

Jan. 22, 1672. Allan Ascough of Scuesby, sick in body but in perfect remembrance. First, I give my soull unto God, my maker, and to my Lord Jesus Christ, my creator and my redeemer, and my body to be buryed in the church of Dalby. To James Ascough, my sonne, and to his wife, either of them, 20s.; and to every of his children 20s. a peece. To my sonne, Thomas Ascough, and his wife, 20s. either of them, and to their children. To my daughter, Alice Barton, and to every one of her children, 20s. a peece. To my grandchild, Christopher Philipson, Esq., and his brothers, every one of them,

1A brass at Wraxall, Somerset, ends (1616), "Numerosam prolem genuit, quibus omnibus propitietur Deus" (Manual of English Ecclesiology (1847),

p. 256).

2 North Riding Records, iv. 188. There is a pedigree of Ayscough, or Ascough, in Dugdale's Visitation of Yorkshire, p. 342.

3

Reg. Test., liii. 436.

20s. To John Heskett 5li. To George Hodgson 5li. Wife and son Francis executors. Witnesses, Christopher Wilson, Francis Hornsey. Proved Jan. 31, 1672, by the son.1

APPENDIX.

The following entries on the Subsidy Rolls of Elizabeth and James I. relate to Stanwick and the Catterick family. For 1568 Anthony Kattericke, Esq., was rated for lands of the annual value of 13li. 6s. 8d. in Stanwycke, and in Aldburghe cum Carleton George Kattericke for lands of the value of 3li. 5s. 4d.; John Franklinge, 3li. 45.; Robert Wyclyff, 40s.; and Anthony Slinger and Henry Slinger, 26s. 8d.; and Thomas Manfeild for goods worth 3li. 2s. 6d. In 1599, 1600, 1607 and 1610, Anthony Cattericke was paid to the subsidies on the same basis.2

1 Sept. 5, 1677. Administration of the goods of William Ayscough, late of Osgoodby, par. Thirkleby, granted to

Anna Ayscough, of the city of York, the relict.

2 See Ex. Lay Subsidies, 13, 368, 268, 334, 313.

THE DISCIPLINE OF THE CHURCH.

By T. B. WHYTEHEAD.

I WONDER if those good people who conscientiously go through the Commination Service of the Church of England, understand what they say. I will quote the introduction to the service which is said by the officiating priest, in order that what I shall hereafter state may be clearly understood. It is as follows:

"Brethren, in the Primitive Church there was a godly discipline, that, at the beginning of Lent, such persons as stood convicted of notorious sin were put to open penance, and punished in this world, that their souls might be saved in the day of the Lord; and that others, admonished by their example, might be the more afraid to offend.

Instead whereof (until the said discipline may be restored again, which is much to be wished), it is thought good, that at this time (in the presence of you all) should be read the general sentences of God's cursing against impenitent sinners, gathered out of the seven and twentieth Chapter of Deuteronomy, and other places of Scripture; and that ye should answer to every sentence, Amen; To the intent that, being admonished of the great indignation of God against sinners, ye may the rather be moved to earnest and true repentance; and may walk more warily in these dangerous days; fleeing from such vices, for which ye affirm with your own mouths the curse of God to be due."

And now let me give specimens of the "Discipline," taken at random from the Archives of the Dean and Chapter of York, in order that it may be clearly understood what the word means.

A DECLARATION enjoined to be done by Bartholomew [blank] and Sarah his wife of the Parish of South Cave, in the Jurisdiction of the Dean & Chapter of York.

Dec. 17, 1730. They are to be present in the said Parish Church of South Cave upon Sunday, being the 20th or 27th of December instant, being in their accustomed apparel, where immediately before, or after Morning or Evening Prayer, they shall acknowledge and say after the Minister in the presence of the Church-Wardens as followeth :—

Whereas, We, good Neighbours, forgetting our Duties to Almighty God, have committed the Crime of FORNICATION together, before our Marriage; whereby We have offended Almighty

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