Matthew Gale

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Info from Jeremy Archer; Trained for the Priesthood at Douai 1629-32. Still alive in 1657.


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Despite their problems, the Gales persisted in their Catholicism. Matthew Gale, son of Francis and Barbara Gale, is recorded as a student at Douai College in 1629. He had been there earlier but had returned home for four years.

He was in trouble for not keeping up with his work and refusing to provide a 'discourse for the Ascension’. He was supposed to do a penance in the refectory, i.e., he was to spend an entire lunch time kneeling and also write an essay. He disappeared from the college at that point but returned later, did his penance, completed his studies and returned home having matriculated in logic.

He was recorded in Heworth in 1640 and was regularly presented as a recusant in Rufforth from 1657. He married Ann Thweng, a member of another staunch Catholic family.

Matthew married Anne Thweng.