Pedigree of Fenwick of Fenwick, Wallington, and Meldon From Bp. Cosin to the same From Edward Arden to the same PREFACE. This volume of Northumbrian Documents of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries was intended primarily to make accessible a series of documents preserved at the Moot Hall at Newcastle, in the custody of the Clerk of the Peace of Northumberland, dealing with the landed estates of Roman Catholics from the beginning of the reign of George I and extending to the year 1787. Abstracts of these registers or certificates, as printed in Part I, will be found to contain matter interesting to genealogists, to topographical writers, and to students of contemporary economical conditions. Part II comprises a series of Letters from the collections of the late Dr. Greenwell-whose death a year ago, though not unanticipated, makes a great loss to the Surtees Society-which originally formed part of the official and family correspondence of Miles Stapylton, auditor, commissioner, and librarian of Dr. John Cosin, Bishop of Durham. The Editor offers his grateful thanks to Mr. C. D. Forster, Clerk of the Peace of Northumberland, for permitting the abstracts of the registers to be made, for giving access to other documents in his official custody, and for the facilities given him for collating the proofs with the original documents. He is also under great obligations to Mr. William Brown and Mr. H. M. Wood for reading the proofs and for welcome emendation to the same. |