TAKING IT FURTHER
The registrations reported to the Forfeited Estates Commissioners are abstracted by:
• Estcourt, Edgar E., & Payne, John Orlebar, eds. The English Catholic Nonjurors of 1715, being a summary of the Register of their Estates. Burns & Oates, [1885]. This is digitised at https:// archive.org
This volume is particularly useful in tracking down details of Catholics who held lands in several different counties. The editors add much biographical information from other sources to their abstracts. However, the abstracts themselves are very brief, and do not mention all landowners (Mary Coffin, for example, is omitted). Tenants are almost totally ignored.
A number of record societies and others have published registrations in much greater detail:
Co. Durham
• Hudleston, C.R., ed. Durham Recusants Estates, 1717-1775. Surtees Society, v.173. 1962. Continued in Miscellanea 3. Surtees Society, 175. 1965
Kent
• Hart, W.H. A register of the Lands held by Catholics and Nonjurors in the County of Kent in the reign of George I. J.russell Smith, 1870. Reprinted British Library, 2011
Lancashire
• France, R.sharpe, ed. The Registers of Estates of Lancashire
Papists, 1717-1788. 3 vols. Lancashire & Cheshire Record Society, v.98, 108 & 117. 1945-77.
Northumberland
• Hodgson, J.C., ed. Northumbrian Documents of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, comprising the Register of the Estates of Roman Catholics in Northumberland, and the correspondence of Miles Stapylton. Surtees Society v.131. 1918
Wiltshire
• Papist Estates in Wiltshire in the 18th century
https://familytr.ee/wilts
Yorkshire
• ‘Registration of Papists Estates’, in Atkinson, J.C., ed. Quarter Sessions Records. North Riding Record Society, v.7. 1889, p.25191, & v.8, 1890, p.1-136. Digitised at https://archive.org
The Forfeited Estates Commission
This Commission was established to deal with estates forfeited for treason after the 1715 rebellion. In addition to the registrations of Catholic landowners, it also received the deeds and estate papers of forfeited estates, and kept minute books detailing its activities. It also compiled various lists of Roman Catholics, including a nation-wide listing of recusants convicted before the Rebellion. Its records are held by The National Archives, and are described in: • Barlow, D. The Records of the Forfeited Estates Commission.
Public Record Office handbooks 12. HMSO, 1968.