Official Documents and Decrees written in Latin, 1884-1919

Official documents, decrees, and permissions, written in Latin:

1) Document entitled "Decree of the Sacred Penitentiary, with regard to the Litany of Our Lady", in Latin, including an English translation, dated 21 July 1919.

2) File labelled "Beatissimo Padre" containing documents regarding apostolic blessings as well as a letter from Bishop Lacy, dated 5 January 1907. Also includes an English translation of the Pope's blessing for the Sisters' golden jubilee.

3) Document in Latin regarding the Stations of the Cross in the Whitby Convent, dated 22 August 1896.

4) Document in Latin regarding the Stations of the Cross in the Hull Convent, Dated 10 December 1884. 5) Document in Latin allowing for the blessed sacrament to be carried out on specified days at the North Ormesby Convent, dated 20 September 1935.

6) Document in Latin regarding Middlesbrough, Beverly South Bank, and Whitby Convents, dated 13 December 1899.

7) Handwritten document in Latin, not dated.

8) Document entitled "Tabella Missarum Fundatarum Quotannis Celebrandarum" being a list of masses to be celebrated in the chapel in the Endsleigh Convent, signed by A Bickerstaffe, dated 10 February 1965.

9) Document entitled "Actus Authenticus Fundationis Unius Missae" being acts of authentication of foundation of the one mission, dated 28 March 1926.

10) Document entitled "Expositio Sacramenti Licentia conceditur sequentibus diebus" being Bishop Thomas granting permission for the exposition of the Blessed Sacrament in the chapel of Endsleigh, Hull, dated 1 July 1936.

11) Document requesting permission for the exposition of the Blessed Sacrament in the chapel, dated 26 August 1930.

12) Map entitled "Eboracensis Comitatus pars Orientalis, vulgo East Riding" of East Riding, Yorkshire. Likely to be based on a map of Yorkshire featured in Christopher Saxton's atlas of 1579.

The verso features a handwritten list of the following place names: Eastriding Op.mer Headon Hull Howden Buerley Wighton Pocklington Kilham Bridlington [sic.]

Christopher Saxton (c.1540-c.1610) was a British estate surveyor and draughtsma, best known for his maps of English counties. Apprenticed to the cleric and cartographer John Rudd, Saxton developed the skills to become the man now known as 'the father of English cartography'. Under the patronage of Thomas Seckford, Saxton carried out an extensive topographical survey of England and Wales during the years 1573-1578. Thirty four county maps were based on the surveys were engraved between 1574 and 1578 by Remy Hogenberg, Lenart Terwoort, Cornelis de Hooghe, Augustine Ryther, Francis Scatte, and Nicholas Reynolds, forming the first atlas of England and Wales. The work was the basis of many later maps. The maps were issued by Saxton in untitled volimes from 1579, and subsequently reissued as The Shires of England and Wales, by William Web in 1645, by Philip Lea (with added maps) and in a French edition Atlas Anglois in 1693, by G Willdey in 1732, by T Jefferys in 1749, and finally as a wall map of England and Wales in 20 sheets in c.1770.