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According to an 18th-century Latin inscription pasted to the inside cover of the manuscript, the St Cuthbert Gospel was given by 3rd Earl of Lichfield ( 1718 – 1772 ) to the Jesuit priest Thomas Phillips S. J.

( 1708 – 1774 ) who donated it to the English Jesuit College at Liège on 20 June 1769.

Lichfield was an Anglican, but knew Phillips as the latter was chaplain to his neighbour in Oxfordshire, the recusant George Talbot, 14th Earl of Shrewsbury ( 1719 – 1787 ).

The manuscript was owned between 1769 and 2012 by the British Province of the Society of Jesus, and for most of this period was in the library of Stonyhurst College, Lancashire, successor to the Liège college.