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  OPSI - UK Legislation
John Bond's estate: vesting the manor of Hendon, and other estates, in other trustees, to be sold, enfranchising copyholders, and applying the proceeds to the trusts of his will.
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John Logan's estate: vesting estates in trustees, to be sold for the payment of debts and provisions to children, and purchase of other lands from the residue, to be settled in lieu.
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  Margaret Clitherow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Saint Margaret Clitherow (1556 – 1586) is a martyr of the Roman Catholic Church.
She was born the daughter of a Sheriff of York in Middleton after Henry VIII of England split the Church of England from the Roman Catholic Church.
She married John Clitherow, a butcher, in 1571 (at the age of 15) and bore him two children.
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 THE STARSMORES
JOHN HECTOR was born in 1755 in BRIGSTOCK, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE.
JOHN HECTOR was born in 1797 in STANION, NORTHANTS.
JOHN HECTOR was born in 1803 in STANION, NORTHANTS.
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 Dictionary of Canadian Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Durham insisted, however, that were Clitherow or the other military men to withdraw, he would be unable to carry on and, under those circumstances, Clitherow sat on the council from 9 July until 2 Nov. 1838, the day after Durham’s departure for England.
Clitherow’s brigade, consisting of the 15th and 24th Foot, converged on the village on the morning of 10 November at the same time as a second brigade commanded by Macdonell.
In January 1809 he married Sarah Burton, and John Christie Clitherow of the Coldstream Guards, who appears to have been the only child of this marriage, served as his father’s aide-de-camp when the latter was stationed in the Canadas.
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 Saint Margaret Clitherow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Clitherow, for a later note in the margin read, "in prison." She was twenty years old at the time.
At about the age of fifteen she had married John Clitherow, a prominent butcher, and took up her duties of keeping house and tending the butcher shop that was part of it, as was customary.
Saint Margaret Clitherow, 'the pearl of York,' was canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1970.
www.sspx.ca /Angelus/1978_June/Saint_Margaret_Clitherow.htm   (1452 words)

  
 John Clitherow - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Major General John Clitherow (December 13, 1782 – October 14, 1852) was an army officer, politician and was briefly Lieutenant Governor of Canada West and Canada East (1841).
John Clitherow enlisted in the British Army in 1799 and served in the Egyptian campaign of 1801 and in the Peninsular War among other assignments.
He served as an advisor to Lord Durham in the military government that followed the rebellion.
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 St Wilfrids Catholic Church York Yorkshire England
In 1571 Margaret, only 15 years of age, married widower John Clitherow who was a prosperous butcher with two sons.
John Clitherow's butchers shop was in the Shambles, a narrow street of butchers and abattoirs.
John was also a Bridge Master (member of a committee who were responsible for the maintenance of Ouse Bridge).
www.stwilfridsyork.org.uk /st_margaret_clitherow.html   (539 words)

  
 St Margaret Clitherow Primary School - [ The Story ]
When Margaret married John Clitherow she was a beautiful young woman with a mass of light brown hair and a clear skin.
John was a wealthy butcher, the one Protestant out of three brothers.Men like John Clitherow were known as "schismatic" or "church Papists".
John Clitherow would not hear a word against her saying "she is the best wife in England, and the best Catholic also." She received her death sentence calmly.
www.millenniumschools.co.uk /pub/brent/stmargaret/bd.html?1083253086   (1281 words)

  
 CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: St. Margaret Clitherow
Her sons Henry and William became priests, and her daughter Anne a nun at St.
John Morris, S.J., in his "Troubles of our Catholic Forefathers", third series (London, 1877).
Convent, was published by W. Nicholson, of Thelwall Hall, Cheshire (London, Derby, 1849), with portrait: "Life and Death of Margaret Clitherow the martyr of
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When Margaret was 18, her mother arranged that she marry a Protestant, John Clitherow, who owned his own meat business and became one of the wealthiest men in the city.
Throughout their marriage, John paid her fines for not attending church services, even allowed his wife to bring up their children as Catholics and was very careful not to know if the forbidden Popish Mass was being celebrated in his house.
In 1970, Pope Paul VI canonized St. Margaret Clitherow under the charming title of "The Pearl of York." Her home at #36 The Shambles is on one of the most beautiful streets in her native city.
library.catholic.org /mary/mary153.txt   (2170 words)

  
 St Columba's HomePages: St Margaret Clitherow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Margaret Clitherow was born in 1556, Tudor times which were very confusing and dangerous because as the monarchs came and went, the fortunes of Catholics and Protestants alike changed, and followers of both religions were put to death as heretics.
She had a happy family life in York, and as was the custom in those days married young, at 15 becoming the wife of John Clitherow, a widower with two young children, and they lived in the Shambles in York, where she looked after the house and family, and served in her husband's butchers shop.
A door was laid upon her, but so reluctant were the authorities to impose the full sentence that after hearing her first cries they put a sharp stone, the size of a man's fist, under her back, and laid 7 to 8 hundredweight on her.
www.stcolumba.org.uk /JUBILEE/SAINTS/margclth.htm   (476 words)

  
 The Catholic - St Margaret Clitherow, the Pearl of York
Though John Clitherow belonged to the Established Church, he had a brother who was a priest, and Margaret provided two chambers, one adjoining her house and a second in another part of the city, where she kept priests hidden and had Mass continually celebrated through the thick of the persecution.
Her children, the servants, and poor John Clitherow himself were divided among various prisons, and little Anne Clitherow, a child of 10, was ill-treated for refusing to disclose anything of her mother’s affairs, and not ceasing to pray as her mother had taught her.
The ‘Pearl of York’, St Margaret Clitherow, mother and martyr, was beatified by Pius XI in 1929 and canonised in 1970 by Paul VI as one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales.†
www.thecatholic.org /2004_July-August/Saint_Margaret_Clitherow.htm   (1051 words)

  
 Clitherow.html
Thus, when Margaret Clitherow was seen hurrying to assist a woman in labour, it was thought, she was in reality on her way to meet and receive the spiritual ministrations of a hunted priest, most frequently, it appears, a seminary priest.
William Clitherow, John's son from his first marriage, though about seventeen, was already apprenticed to a draper and could not substitute for Margaret at their butcher's shop in the Shambles.
John Clitherow, though in no way parsimonious about her use of money, was indeed a materialistically-minded man whose life it seems was bent on the accumulation of wealth and property.
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 The Proceedings of the Old Bailey, London 1674 to 1834
John Jones and John Lloyd, of Clerkenwell, were Indicted, for that they, with Joseph Kemp, and Thomas Page, (not yet taken,) did assault Richard Cade in an open Field near the Highway, put him in Fear, and take from him a Peruke, value 3 l.
John Saunders, Drawer at the Three Tuns in Chandos-street, deposed, that between 9 and 10 at Night, the Prisoner and the Deceased came in to drink.
John Carmichel, (a little Boy) of S. Martin's in the Fields, was indicted for stealing a Table Cloth, a Sheet, two Pair of Stockings, and an Apron, the Goods of Matth.ias Acton, on the 13th of Febr.
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 St Margaret Clitherow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
She was married to John Clitherow, a widower with two young children, when she was only fifteen, and had two children herself, Henry in 1572 and Ann in 1574
John Clitherow continued as a protestant, but loyally supported his wife and paid her fines.
A hiding place for priests had been constructed in the Clitherow attic and when Margaret was arrested again in 1586 a young boy staying in the house revealed where it was.
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 Heroic virtue during English Persecution - St Margaret Clitherow martyr - model for wives mothers
When Margaret Clitherow married, she left the house in the Davygate where she had been born and went to live in her husband's house in the butchers' quarter of York; for in those days men practicing the same trade lived in the same part of the town.
John Clitherow was not a bad sort of man, but he had no idea of bringing unpleasantness on himself for the sake of his religion.
John Clitherow was a wholesale butcher and not merely a retailer, and since the wholesale business brought them in a very good income, Margaret wished to give up the shop; she did not like too great eagerness to make money.
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 St Wilfrids Catholic Church York Yorkshire England
John Clitherow had a brother, William who was a catholic and later became a priest.
It is thought that William may have influenced her to convert.
Margaret's friends and relatives in a desperate effort to save her announced she was pregnant.
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 GENUKI: North Cave Parish information from Bulmers' 1892.
Colonel Edward John Stracey-Clitherow, J.P., of Hotham Hall, and Boston House, Brentford, Middlesex, who is lord of the manor, and the Governors of Giggleswick Grammar School, are the principal landowners.
In the floor of the nave is a granite slab to the memory of the Rev. Canon John Jarratt, M.A., who died in 1890, at the age of 91, having been for 60 years vicar of this parish, and of Elizabeth, his wife, who died in 1889 at the age of 96.
The schools are endowed with 2 roods 32 perches of land, allotted at the enclosure of the common, and with 2 roods 19 perches given by Sir George Montgomery Metham.
www.genuki.org.uk /big/eng/YKS/ERY/Northcave/Northcave92.html   (1790 words)

  
 Daniel F. McSheffery
Throughout their marriage, John paid her fines for not attending church services, even allowed his wife to bring up their children as Catholics and was very careful not to know if the forbidden Popish Mass was being celebrated in his house.
The Clitherows had three children: Henry, Anne, and the third child William born when she was in prison for failure to attend services at the established church.
In 1970, Pope Paul VI canonized St. Margaret Clitherow under the charming title of "The Pearl of York." Her home at #36 The Shambles is on one of the most beautiful streets in her native city.
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 Eucharist and Priesthood born during Last Supper, Holy Thursday homily, St Margaret of York, Eucharistic Martyr
Margaret married a Protestant, John Clitherow, at the age of 18, and at the age of 21 Margaret once again became Catholic and professed her faith and allegiance to the Pope.
John said that he could wish for no better wife and she had only two faults, β€œshe fasted too much and would not go with him to church.” Her home became one of the most important hiding places for Catholic priests in all of England.
By now the Clitherows had three children, the oldest was studying in France to be a priest, and when Margaret was taken away from her home that day and thrown into prison her two younger children never saw her again.
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 St. Margaret Clitherow
She was born Margaret Middleton, and she was a native of Yorkshire, where Catholicism long remained stronger than the government of Queen Elizabeth I desired.
In 1571, Margaret wed John Clitherow, a stock raiser and butcher, and a man of civic prominence.
John had been raised a Catholic, but since he could not be a Catholic and hold public office, he conformed to the established Anglican church.
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 Margaret Clitherow Shrine - York, England
John Clitherow was summoned and asked about the whereabouts of his son, who was studying abroad to become a Catholic priest.
The Clitherow home was searched, but, as usual, the priest had left through a window and the authorities found only a small group of children at ordinary lessons.
The elaborate memorial of Sir John Clenche, the judge who sentenced Margaret to death, is in the Church of All Saints in Holbrook, Suffolk.
www.sacred-destinations.com /england/york-margaret-clitherow-shrine.htm   (970 words)

  
 St. Margaret Clitherow
She was a daughter of Thomas Middleton, Sheriff of York (1564-5), a wax-chandler; married John Clitherow, a wealthy butcher and a chamberlain of the city, in St. Martin's church, Coney St., 8 July, 1571, and lived in the Shambles, a street still unaltered.
Converted to the Faith about three years later, she became most fervent, continually risking her life by harbouring and maintaining priests, was frequently imprisoned, sometimes for two years at a time, yet never daunted, and was a model of all virtues.
The later manuscript, now at York Convent, was published by W. Nicholson, of Thelwall Hall, Cheshire (London, Derby, 1849), with portrait: "Life and Death of Margaret Clitherow the martyr of York".
www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/m/margaret_clitherow,saint.html   (593 words)

  
 our_patron_saint   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Margaret Clitherow, nee Middleton, was born in York, her parents had conformed to the newly established Church of England and Margaret was brought up as a Protestant.
A raid took place and, although the priest escaped, Mass vestments were found, thus providing proof that "she had harboured and maintained Jesuits and Seminary", a crime punishable by death.
In the English College in Rome, where English priests are trained, there is a statue to Margaret Clitherow, a reminder to all of the great sacrifice she made to ensure that Mass continued to be said in England.
www.catholicwomensleague.org.uk /our_patron_saint.htm   (273 words)

  
 The Pearl of York   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
At 15 she married John Clitherow, a widower with several children.
She was described by Father John Mush, her confessor and first biographer, as good-looking, witty and popular.
When John Clitherow heard of the sentence, he said, “Let them take all I have and save my wife, for she is the best wife in all England and the best Catholic also.”
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 Today's Saint   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Born as Margaret Middleton around 1556 in York, England, Margaret Clitherow is also known as the "Pearl of York." She is one of the Forty Martyrs of the persecution in England and Wales.
Margaret was born to Thomas and Jane Middleton and raised in the Church of England.
Margaret married John Clitherow, a wealthy butcher and chamberlain of the city of York, on July 8, 1571.
catholicexchange.com /church_today/message.asp?message_id=1537&sec_id=4   (438 words)

  
 Story of St Margaret Clitherow   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
Margaret Clitherow was born to Thomas and Jane Middleton in 1556, during the reign of Mary Tudor.
John was a successful butcher and was the one Protestant out of three brothers.
He was a well known public figure in York, becoming a "bridge master" (responsible for the upkeep of one of the bridges over the Ouse), and later a chamberlain.
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 wcr:03/17/2003 -- Ted Fitzgerald - In search of Saint Margaret Clitherow
Four years later she married John Clitherow, a prosperous butcher and a Protestant.
Her son was preparing for the seminary in France and she soon became notorious for sheltering priests and attending secret Masses in her Shambles home.
Margaret Clitherow was canonized in 1970 by Pope Paul VI and her statue graces a small shrine in St. Wilfrid's, main York Catholic parish.
www.wcr.ab.ca /columns/tedfitzgerald/2003/fitzgerald031703.shtml   (580 words)

  
 thePeerage.com - nil and others
He was the son of John Cecil, 5th Earl of Exeter and Anne Cavendish.
She married John Cecil, 6th Earl of Exeter, son of John Cecil, 5th Earl of Exeter and Anne Cavendish, on 9 February 1697.
She married John Cecil, 6th Earl of Exeter, son of John Cecil, 5th Earl of Exeter and Anne Cavendish, on 19 September 1699.
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 CatholicIreland.net
Paul Hurley, SVD writes the story of St Margaret Clitherow, a young English martyr and mother, who was among the forty English martyrs canonised by Pope Paul VI in 1970.
She was described by Father John Mush, her confessor and first biographer, as good-looking, witty and popular.
When John Clitherow heard of the sentence, he said, “Let them take all I have and save my wife, for she is the best wife in all England and the best Catholic also.”
www.catholicireland.net /pages/index.php?nd=68&art=791   (797 words)

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