History of Newcastle and Gateshead . TENTH DECADE—isgi-i6oo. 1591. 33 and 34 Elizabeth. Bishop of Durham—Matthew Hutton. Mayor and Sheriff of Newcastle till Michaelmas:— Robert Atkinson, Mayor, and Ralph Jenison, Sheriff. Mayor and Sheriff elected at Michaelmas :—Mayor—George Farnaby. Arms : As in 1588. Sheriff—William Greenwell. The Carr MS. contains a blank shield facing the name of this sheriff. LTHOUGH the fires of Smithfield were notrelighted, the gallows had become a nationalinstitution, and men were put to death for theirreligion all the same. A native of the bishopric,who had been educ
History of Newcastle and Gateshead . TENTH DECADE—isgi-i6oo. 1591. 33 and 34 Elizabeth. Bishop of Durham—Matthew Hutton. Mayor and Sheriff of Newcastle till Michaelmas:— Robert Atkinson, Mayor, and Ralph Jenison, Sheriff. Mayor and Sheriff elected at Michaelmas :—Mayor—George Farnaby. Arms : As in 1588. Sheriff—William Greenwell. The Carr MS. contains a blank shield facing the name of this sheriff. LTHOUGH the fires of Smithfield were notrelighted, the gallows had become a nationalinstitution, and men were put to death for theirreligion all the same. A native of the bishopric,who had been educated at Rome and Rheims,and sent as priest upon the English mission, washung, bowelled, and quartered in London. Shipsarriving in the Tyne were carefully watched, and all persons known or suspected to be Catholics were placed under surveillance. 3—9. 66 NEWCASTLE AND GATESHEAD. [1591. In Father Grenes MSS., quoted by Foley in the Jesuit Records,occur the following entries, written at York:—1590. The i8th ofApril, Sir George Williams, a seminary priest, taken at Newcastle,and from thence brought to Durham and returned back again, andnot well liked of; with a subsequent entry that he made an escapeout of prison and so got away. 1591- Mr. Roger Ashton, gentle-man, and Mr. Oliver Cotton, gentleman, born in Lancashire, and Musgrave, gentleman, born in the North, attempted to takeship at Shields, or thereabout, near Newcastle, was by a contrarywind, after certain days sailing, brought back again to Shields, andthere apprehended on the 27th February, and brought back toDurham, and there committed. About the 2nd March after wasMrs. Ursula Taylor, a maid, taken for harbouring them, and com-mitted to Newcastle gaol close prisoner, as the rest were. Cottonwas sent to London and released on bond; Musgrave was liberated onbail befo
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