Chapter XVII: A Catalogue Of The Laws Against Catholics Made By Queen (2)

Percy, Lady Mary;
her life in England xxxvi,
her vocation xxxvii,
her sisters xxxvi, xliii, lxviii.

Percy, Thomas;
one of the first conspirators 53,
connection of Earl of Northumberland 57, 100,
married John Wright’s sister 57,
his early life 57,
converted 58,
a Gentleman Pensioner 58,
hires house by the river 63,
and cellar for fuel 71,
his office in the Plot 63, 91,
shot 110.

Perkises and his man executed at Worcester 277.

Perne, Andrew;
his religion xxvi.

Persons, Robert, S.J.;
his _Christian Directory_ xii,
forbids state affairs 76, 81,
effects of his coming to England 131,
Prefect of the English Mission xv, cxciii, cclix, 280,
admits Fr. Gerard into the Novitiate xvi,
praises Father Gerard’s behaviour after the Powder Plot cclxi.

Phelips, Sir Edward;
opens Powder Plot indictment 196,
his papers cclvi.

Philips the decipherer;
committed to Tower for correspondence with Mr. Owen cclviii.

Pilgrims’ Register at Rome;
entry of Fr. Gerard’s name ccliv.

Polewhele;
his treason xcv.

Pollen, Joseph, S.J.;
in hiding cxl, cclv.

Popham, Sir John, Chief Justice;
execution of penal laws intrusted to 33,
examines Fr. Garnett 164,
one of his judges 226,
pronounces sentence 263.

Port, Sir John;
his three daughters cliii.

Priests;
cleared by the Conspirators 128,
Queen Mary’s xxvii, xxx, 133, 231.

Puckering, Lord Keeper;
report made to xxxi, xli, xliv.

Puente, Luis de la, S.J.;
his two letters to Fr. Gerard ccv.

Puritans in Parliament 29,
and in authority 31.

QUEENHITHE, Conspiracy laid in, in Fr. Garnett’s indictment 226, 238.

RECUSANTS given over to enrich courtiers 34,
three degrees of, according to King James, 41.

Richard, _see_ Mansel.

Richardson, Richard;
in Gatehouse cxc,
his examination cclvi.

Rich, Lord;
his house xli.

Rich, Penelope Lady;
her story xxxiii.

Rigby, John;
martyr, converted in the Clink by Fr. Gerard lxxii.

Rookwood, Ambrose;
his family 85,
joins the conspiracy 86,
scorched with powder 108,
wounded and taken 109,
tried in Westminster Hall 191,
farewell to his wife 219,
his death 221,
when at Lord Vaux’s cclvi.

Roulston;
took part with Mary Queen of Scots, betrayed by his son 26.

Rouse;
at Mechlin cxcvi.

Rydgeley, Mary;
marries John Wiseman cclv.

SACCHINI, FRANCIS, S.J.;
had the original of Fr. Gerard’s Autobiography cclii.

Salesberie, Mr.;
in Babington’s plot, 26.

Salisbury, Earl of;
discloses the Plot 97,
examines Fr. Gerard 173,
his book _An Answer to certain Scandalous Papers_ 199, 212,
speech in answer to Sir Everard Digby 215,
one of Fr. Garnett’s judges 226,
Fr. Gerard’s letter to ccxxxiii,
correspondence with Lady Markham clxxxix.

Savage, Samuel;
Mrs. Wiseman’s servant xlii.

Savage, William;
tailor, crosses to Middleborough xliv.

Schondonch, Giles, S.J.;
Rector of St. Omers cclviii, extract of letter ccxlv.

Scott, _see_ Laithwaite.

Scott, Sir Walter;
equivocation ccxvii.

Scudamore _alias_ John Wiseman;
at Northend xliii,
crosses to Middleborough xliv.

Searches;
at Fr. Garnett’s xxxix,
at Golding-lane xlv,
at Northend xli,
at Braddocks lii,
house in London cxxxvi,
at Harrowden for nine days clxxv, 138,
at Henlip 151,
at Mrs. Jenison’s ccliii,
manner of in general 35,
Lady Nevill’s death caused by 39.

Seymour, Lady Jane;
daughter of Thomas, Earl of Northumberland xxxvi,
a Protestant xliii, lxviii.

Shefford, _see_ Stratford.

Sheldon, Hugh, S.J.;
makes hiding-places cxlv,
caught, sent to Wisbech and banished cxlvi.

Shelley, Owen _alias_ Titchborn;
Novice S.J. cci,
Rector of Liége cci.

Sherwin, Ralph;
martyr 17.

Sherwood, Father; 234,
none such in the Society 249.

Sherwood, John, S.J.;
died before he came to be a Priest 249.

Shrewsbury, the Lady;
her zeal praised cclviii.

Shurley;
Mistress of Novices at St. Monica’s, Louvain cxcvi.

Silisdon, Henry, S.J.;
Rector at Louvain cxcv,
Master of Novices at Liége cc, ccv,
his opinion of Fr. Gerard’s talent for government ccii.

Silvester, Novice S.J.; cci.

Singleton, Dr.; cciv.

Sion House; Nuns of xxx.

Smith, Anthony;
affidavit respecting Fr. Gerard ccxlvii.

Smith, William, Bishop of Chalcedon;
Fr. Fitzherbert’s letter to cclxii,
Fr. Gerard’s letter to ccxxxviii, ccxlvi.

Southwell, Robert, S.J.; xxiv,
his journeys with Fr. Gerard xxiii,
his instructions xxv,
surprised at Mass xxxix,
lived with Countess of Arundel lvii,
maligned by Young lxvii,
tortured by Topcliffe 18,
invoked by Fr. Gerard cxxiii,
his spiritual books 132,
date of his martyrdom 282, ccli,
betrayed by Anne Bellamy ccxiv, ccxvii,
on equivocation ccxiv, ccxviii.

Southworth, John;
Fr. Gerard’s bailiff, xi.

Squire;
his treason 234, 249, xcv.

Standish;
Fr. Gerard’s pseudonym taken by John Wiseman, S.J. xxx.

Stanhope, Sir Thomas;
his wife Father Gerard’s aunt ccliii.

Stanley, Sir William; lxii,
his wife’s death cxcviii,
calls Fr. Gerard cousin cxcix,
buys the Liége property cxcix,
his forces 236.

Stanley, Sir Thomas;
took part with Mary Queen of Scots 26.

Stanny, Thomas, S.J.; xl.

Starkie;
Fr. Gerard’s pseudonym taken by Thomas Wiseman, S.J., xxx.

Staunton, _see_ Gerard.

St. Germain, Marquis of; cclviii.

Stoke Pogis;
house at cxxxv,
searched cxlvi.

Stone, Marmaduke, S.J.;
Father Gerard’s MS. received by ccxlix.

Strand;
Fr. Gerard’s house near clxii, ccxxiii.

Strange, Thomas, S.J.;
tortured in the Tower clxxiv,
with Fr. Gerard clxxiv, ccxxix,
taken in Warwickshire clxxvii,
Mrs. Vaux asks his release clxxxii, 140.

Stratford, Arthur _alias_ Shefford; xvii, ccliv.

Stratforde, John;
found in Mr. Wiseman’s house xliv.
Stuart Papers at Rome ccxlix.

Suffield, William;
William Wiseman’s man, xli, xliv.

Suffolk, Earl of, Lord Chamberlain;
marriage proposed between his daughter and Lord Vaux 137,
reads the letter 97,
searches the vaults 99,
examines Fr. Garnett, 173,
one of Father Garnett’s judges 226.

Sutton, John; lxvi.

Sutton, William, S.J.;
Fr. Gerard’s tutor xii.

Swetnam, Francis;
servant to Mrs. Vaux, examined cclvi.

TALBOT, SIR GEORGE, of Grafton, _alias_ Morton;
Fr. Gerard calls him cousin cxcix,
friend of Maximilian Duke of Bavaria cc,
well received by King James and Archbishop Abbot cc,
afterwards ninth Earl of Shrewsbury cc.

Talbot, Thomas, S.J.;
Novice Master at Louvain cxcv, cclix.

Tanfield, _see_ Gerard.

Taylor, Jeremy;
quotation from, on equivocation ccxi.

Tesimond, Oswald _alias_ Greenway _alias_ Philip Beaumont, S.J.; ccxlviii,
Bates’ evidence against 136, 211,
accused in Proclamation 143,
proposed for attainder 165,
named by Fr. Garnett 175,
cleared by Thomas Winter 220,
crossed the sea clxxxii,
his narrative cxxvi, ccxlviii, cclv.

Thomson _alias_ Blackburn, Wm.;
martyr xv, lxxiii.

Thorpe, John, S.J.;
letter to Lord Arundell ccxlix,
letter to Father Stone ccli.

Tichburn, Thomas;
martyr, betrayed by Atkinson cxxx.

Tierney, Mark Anthony, Canon;
on the Communion of the conspirators ccxxiii,
on the date of a quoted letter ccxxv.

Titchborn, _see_ Shelley.

Tomson, _see_ Gerard.

Topcliffe, Richard;
examinations by lxi, lxxxii, lxxxiv,
imprisoned lxxxvi,
a prophet lxxxvi,
tortures Fr. Southwell 18,
describes Fr. Gerard clxxxvii.

Torture in the Tower;
manner of xcvii,
effects of cv, 189.

Tower;
Sir Thomas Stanley, Sir Thomas Gerard and Mr. Roulston in 26,
Sir Thomas Gerard in the second time x, 27,
Father Gerard removed to xc,
Fr. Henry Walpole’s cell in xc,
torture in xcvii,
beasts in cxii,
Mass in cxv,
Fr. Gerard escapes from cxvii,
Fr. Garnett and Fr. Ouldcorne sent to 160,
Anne Vaux taken to 172,
Ralph Ashley and John Grissold tortured in 181,
Nicholas Owen killed by torture in 182.

Tregian, Thomas;
condemned for having an Agnus Dei 39.

Tresham, Francis;
his family 90,
out with Lord Essex 91,
joins the Plot 91,
suspected of betraying it 102,
taken. 112,
when dying retracts what he had said against Fr. Garnett 260,
when at Lord Vaux’s cclvi.

Trumbol;
English Agent in Belgium cxcviii.

Tutbury Castle;
Mary Queen of Scots confined there x, ccliii, 26.

Tyrrel, Anthony;
in the Clink lxxxi.

USHER, Bishop of Armagh;
his opinion of Powder Plot ccxlviii.

VAUX, ANNE; visits Mrs. Heywood cxxxviii,
returns to Lord Vaux’s from a long journey 137,
her friendly offices to Father Garnett 167,
defended by him at his death 293,
deceived by the keeper 168,
taken to the Tower 172,
her confession 259.

Vaux, Edward Lord; cxxxi, 136,
marriage proposed with Earl of Suffolk’s daughter 137,
has two houses three miles apart 138,
imprisoned clxxxv, cclv,
examined by Lord Salisbury 140.

Vaux, Elizabeth; cxxxi,
her courage before the Council clxxxii, 140,
imprisoned and found at Mass clxxxv.

Vaux, George;
marries Elizabeth Roper cxxxii,
at Hackney cxxxiv,
his mother cxxxv.

Vaux, Sir Ambrose; clxxiv.

Villa Mediana, Conde de;
Spanish Ambassador, cxciii, cclvii,
had Father Garnett’s straw in his keeping 303.

Vitelleschi, Mutius, General S.J.;
sends to the Bishop of Chalcedon to clear Fr. Gerard cclxii.

WADE, SIR WILLIAM;
Secretary to Privy Council lxxx,
examines Fr. Gerard xciii, ccxvi,
while under torture c,
professes to bring message from the Queen ci,
shows his knowledge of Fr. Garnett’s house in Spital cxliii,
reviles Fr. Garnett 162,
brings him for trial 225,
takes Mr. Tresham’s man 261.

Wales, Prince of; 63, 85, 91.

Walley, _see_ Garnett.

Wallis, Richard and Wm.;
found in Mr. Wiseman’s house xliv.

Walpole, Henry, S.J.;
martyr 18, xcv,
his cell in Tower xc,
invoked by Fr. Gerard cxxiii, his constancy 132.

Walpole, Michael, S.J.;
serves Fr. Gerard lxv,
reconciles a knight clxvi,
extract of a letter from ccxlv.

Walpole, Richard, S.J.;
at Valladolid, Vice-prefect of the English mission cxciv.

Walsyngham, Sir Francis;
his daughter marries Lord Dunkellin and is converted clix, clxi,
examines Br. Emerson ccliv.

Waltham, Great;
Northend in xxxi.

Watson’s;
his treason hindered by Jesuits 73,
specially by Fr. Gerard 74,
and by Fr. Garnett 250,
he begs pardon of the Society at his death 132,
James’ promises to him 214.

West;
a messenger between Priests ccliii.

Westmoreland;
no such of the Society 165.

Weston, William _alias_ Edmunds, S.J.;
wears clerical dress in prison lxxxi, in Wisbech xxiv, 282,
his virtue 132.

Whitmore, Novice, S.J.; cci.

Whyneyard, Keeper of Wardrobe;
lets the vaults 99.

Whyte, Andrew, S.J.;
writes to Fr. Gerard for Green cxciii.

Wilkinson, John;
finds Father Garnett’s straw 302.

Williams, _see_ Ellis.

Williams; his treason 234, 249, xcv.

Williamson, Ralph;
found in Mr. Wiseman’s house xliv.

Willis, Ralph;
goes to Lady Gerard’s xxxv,
attends on Fr. Gerard xlii, xliii,
made Priest at Rome lxv.

Wilson;
author of _English Martyrology_ ccxlix.

Wimbish;
Braddocks in, xxx.

Winchester Nuns; xxxvii.

Winifred’s (St.) Well;
Fr. Garnett’s journey 78, 240, 258, cclxii,
Fr. Ouldcorne cured 284.

Winsor, the Lord;
his armoury at Warwick 107.

Winter John;
tried in Westminster Hall 191,
sent to Worcester 266,
converts a felon in prison 271,
execution 276.

Winter, Robert;
his estate and marriage 70,
joins the Plot 71,
escapes for a time 110,
taken 112,
tried in Westminster Hall 191,
his death 216.

Winter, Thomas;
one of the first conspirators 53,
of Huddington 58,
his scholarship 58,
a friend of Catesby 59,
is sent to the Constable of Spain 61, 236, 251,
wounded and taken 109,
his confession ccxxiv, 112, 200, and _passim_,
taken to Westminster Hall for trial 191,
his death 220,
not at Lord Vaux’s cclvi.

Wisbech;
prisoners at famished 79.

Wiseman, Anne;
a Nun of Sion xxx.

Wiseman, Anne;
a widow xlii.

Wiseman, Barbara;
Abbess of Sion xxxi.

Wiseman, Bridget;
an Augustinianess at Louvain xxxi,
crosses the sea xliv.

Wiseman, George;
of Upminster, Justice of Peace xlii.

Wiseman, Jane;
an Augustinianess at Louvain xxxi,
crosses the sea xliv.

Wiseman, Jane;
daughter of Sir Edmund Huddleston xxxi,
her character lxxviii.

Wiseman, Jane;
the widow xxx,
her house at Northend xxxi,
her pilgrimage to Wisbech xxxi,
condemned to _peine forte et dure_ xxxii,
her house searched xli,
in the Gatehouse lxxxii,
confronted with Fr. Gerard lxxxii.

Wiseman, John, S.J.;
entered the Society in Rome and died there xxx,
pseudonym of Scudamore a Priest xliii.

Wiseman, Mary;
daughter of Anne, a recusant xlii.

Wiseman, Mary;
daughter of George, a recusant xlii.

Wiseman, Robert;
in the Clink xlii,
died in battle in Belgium xxxi.

Wiseman, Thomas, S.J.;
entered the Society in Rome and died at St. Omers xxx.

Wiseman, William;
his house, Braddocks, in Wimbish, xxx,
knighted xxxi,
his descendants cclv,
visits Lady Gerard xxxv,
his arrest xlvii,
his examination xlviii,
Braddocks searched lii,
his book written in prison lxxvii,
released for money, lives near the Clink, returns to Braddocks lxxviii.

Woodroff, Lady Elizabeth; xxxvi.

Woodward;
a Priest cxxviii.

Worcester, Earl of;
one of Fr. Garnett’s judges 226.

Worsley;
a pursuivant xli.

Wright,
Christopher; enters the conspiracy 70,
entrusts money to Bates 210,
sent to Flanders 236,
shot 109.

Wright, John;
one of the first conspirators 53,
his early life 59,
shot 109,
taken to Westminster Hall for trial 191.

YELVERTON, SIR CHRISTOPHER;
his sister converted xxvi,
one of Fr. Garnett’s judges 226.

Yorke;
his treason 234, 249.

Yorke, Sir John;
brief for his prosecution cclvii.

Young, Richard;
examines John Frank xl,
William Wiseman l,
Fr. Gerard lxi, lxvii,
Brother Emerson ccliv,
takes a bribe lxix,
forswears himself lxvii, ccxviii,
dies miserably lxxix.

ZUNIGA, DON PEDRO DE;
Flemish Ambassador clxxxiv, cxciii, cclvii,
Donna Maria de cxciv.

FOOTNOTES

1 “William Gerard, son of William who died at Eton-hall in 26 Edward
III. [1352], by his marriage with Joan, daughter and heiress of Sir
Peter Bryn de Brynhill, convertible into Sir Peter Brynhill de Bryn,
became possessed of Bryn, Ashton, and other estates, which have
remained in the Gerards of Bryn ever since.” ... “This family have
had four seats within the township of Ashton, viz., Old Bryn,
abandoned five centuries ago; New Bryn, erected in the reign of
Edward VI.; Garswood, taken down at the beginning of the present
century; and the New Hall, the present residence of the family,
built by the Launders about the year 1692, and purchased by the
Gerards forty years ago” (Baines, _Hist. of Lancaster_, 1836, vol.
iii., pp. 637, 639).

_ 2 Infra_ p. 27.

3 Tutbury is in Staffordshire, on the borders of Derbyshire, near to
Etwal.

4 Public Record Office, _Domestic, Elizabeth_, vol. 215, n. 19.
“Return of Prisoners in the Tower,” endorsed in Lord Burghley’s
hand, “2 Julii, 1588” [an error for August]. “April 1, 1585.
_Imprimis_, the Earl of Arundel, prisoner three years four
months.... August 23, 1586. Sir Thomas Gerard, Knight, prisoner one
year eleven months: indicted for treason.” At the end of the list
are the names of five Priests “committed for religion.” From the
Tower Sir Thomas Gerard was removed to the Counter in Wood-street
(_Domestic, Eliz._, vol. 217, n. 27).

5 Sir Gilbert Gerard was of the family of the Gerards of Ince, a
younger branch of the Gerards of Bryn. His eldest son, Sir Thomas,
was the first Lord Gerard of Gerards Bromley.

_ 6 Domestic, Eliz._, vol. 187, n. 48, viii.

7 P. R. O., _Domestic, Eliz._, vol. 251, n. 14. Feb. 3, 1595.

8 Probably Edmund Lewckener, who appears in the College books as one
of the new fellows on Sir W. Petre’s foundation in 1566.

9 Prece vel pretio (MS.).

10 John Elmer, Bishop of London from 1576 to 1588.

11 There were 47 Catholics in the prison, of whom 11 were Priests,
amongst whom were William Hartley and John Adams, future martyrs,
and William Bishop, the first Vicar Apostolic (P. R. O., _Domestic,
Eliz._, vol. 170, n. 11).

12 In a letter dated October 3, 1614 (Stonyhurst MSS., _Angl. A._, iv.,
24), Father Gerard says that “7 florins of Liége make but 6 of
Brabant, 12s. English.” So we may turn his florins into pounds by
taking off the last cypher.

13 Another occasion may present itself for placing before the reader
the many anecdotes of the English Martyrs related in the
Autobiography, that are now passed over.

14 Father Gerard was present, he says, at the martyrdom of William
Thomson, who suffered at Tyburn, April 20, 1586. Father Holt became
Rector of the English College at Rome, October 24, 1586; and the
name of John Gerard is the first entry for 1587 in the College
Catalogue.

15 When Father Gerard has occasion, in his Narrative of the Powder
Plot, to relate what he knows of Father Ouldcorne’s history, he
gives an account of this journey (_infr._ p. 279).

16 P. R. O., _Domestic, Eliz._ vol. 217, n. 81.

17 P. R. O., _Domestic, Eliz._, vol. 199, nn. 95, 96.

_ 18 Ibid_, vol. 217, n. 3. The Calendar gives for its date Oct. 1,
1588. The postscript of the letter bears the date “8 Septembris.”

19 They both suffered in Fleet Street; Christopher Bales on March 4,
1590, and George Beesley on July 2, 1591. They were condemned under
the statute 27 Elizabeth, for being made Priests beyond the seas and
exercising their functions in England.

20 Ad subcuratorem pacis, et ad censorem (MS.). The above are
conjectural renderings. These seem to have been only village
officials.

21 Irenarchâ aut curatore pacis (MS.).

22 Ut vanitas veritatem occultet (MS.).

23 Father William Weston, commonly called Father Edmonds.

24 The name “Yelverton” is added in the margin. Sir Christopher
Yelverton was at this time Queen’s Serjeant, and subsequently
Speaker of the House of Commons, and Puisne Judge of the King’s
Bench. He died in 1607. His son, Sir Henry Yelverton, Judge of the
Court of Common Pleas, condemned Father Edmund Arrowsmith in 1628,
and died in the January following.

25 Dr. Andrew Perne, Master of Peter-house, Cambridge, and second Dean
of Ely. He is incidentally mentioned by Miss Strickland as having
changed his religion four times (_Lives of the Queens of England_,
vol. vii., p. 208).

26 “It [Braddocks] seems to have been formerly moated round, and two
sides of the moat remain at present” (Morant, _History of Essex_,
London, 1768, vol ii., p. 559).

27 Their names appear in 1580, among the signatures of the thirty Nuns
of Sion, then at Rouen, in a petition to the Catholics of England,
praying them not to allow “the only Religious Convent remaining of
our country” to perish for want of support (Public Record Office,
_Domestic, Eliz._, vol. 146, n. 114). The convent reached Lisbon in
1594, and in 1863 returned to England and settled at Spetisbury,
near Blandford. It is the only Religious House in England that can
trace an unbroken descent from a foundation made before the
Reformation. Sion House was founded by Henry V. in 1413.

28 William is said to have been knighted at a later date. Three
baronetcies were conferred on various branches of the family,
William of Canfield (1628), Richard of Thundersley (1628), and Sir
William Wiseman, Knight, of Riverhall (1660). The two last mentioned
are extinct. The Wisemans of Braddocks were descended from John
Wiseman, Esq., ancestor of the present baronet, who purchased the
estate in Northend about 1430, and was the first of the family who
lived in Essex.

29 P. R. O., _Domestic, Eliz._, vol. 247, n. 3.

30 “While the house at Sawston was erecting, Sir Edmund resided on his
estates in Essex, and served the office of Sheriff for that county
in 20, 21, [1578-9] and 30 Elizabeth” [1588] (Burke’s _Landed
Gentry_, 1850, vol. i., p. 602).

31 The relationship is by affinity and half-blood. Jane, daughter of
Sir William Dormer, by his first wife, Mary Sidney, married Don
Gomez Suarez, Count of Feria; and Dorothy’s father, Robert Lord
Dormer, was a son of Sir William, by his second wife, Dorothy
Catesby (Burke’s _Peerage_).

32 Lady Penelope Devereux, daughter of Walter first Earl of Essex, wife
of Robert third Lord Rich, afterwards Earl of Warwick.

33 Charles Blount, eighth Baron Mountjoy, who in 1603 was created Earl
of Devonshire. He was married December 26, 1605, to Lady Rich, after
her divorce, and in the lifetime of her husband, by William Laud,
afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury. The Earl of Devonshire died in
a few months after this marriage, April 3, 1606.

34 William Wiseman, Richard Fulwood, and Ralph Willis were with Father
Gerard at Lady Gerard’s house before Michaelmas, 1592 (P. R. O.,
_Domestic, Eliz._, vol. 248, n. 103).

35 Thomas Percy, Earl of Northumberland, was beheaded at York, in 1572.
He had four daughters: Elizabeth, wife of Richard Woodroff; Lucy,
wife of Sir Edward Stanley; Jane, wife of Lord Henry Seymour; and
Mary, the second Abbess of the English Benedictine Convent at
Brussels.

36 This venerable Community was transferred in 1794 to Winchester, and
in 1857 to East Bergholt, in Suffolk. This was the first English
Convent founded after the Reformation, and the first to come to
England at the French Revolution.

37 When this was written, the strict laws of Urban VIII. had not yet
been made, which forbid the introduction of any public religious
veneration except by the authority of the Holy See.

38 Defecerunt scrutantes scrutinio (MS.).

39 P. R. O., _Domestic, Eliz._, vol. 248, n. 103.

40 P. R. O., _Domestic, Eliz._, vol. 247, n. 3.

41 “Robert Wiseman, her other son, is also an obstinate recusant and
will by no means take the oath. He is prisoner in the Clink.”
(Young, Apr. 14, 1594. P. R. O., _Dom. Eliz._, vol. 248, n. 68).

42 The Lady Mary Percy, of whom mention has been previously made. She
“was a devout Catholic, and had come to London a little before my
imprisonment, to get my help in passing over to Belgium, there to
consecrate herself to God. She was staying at the house of her
sister,” who had lost the faith, Jane, the wife of Lord Henry
Seymour, with whose Protestant servants Father Gerard was confronted
later on. “I dined with them on the day the witnesses mentioned. It
was Lent; and they told how their mistress ate meat, while the Lady
Mary and I ate nothing but fish ” (_infr._ p. lxviii.).

43 He had previously said that “between Midsummer and Michaelmas last,
Scudamore the Priest was there by the name of John Wiseman and
stayed there one night.” John was apparently the name of the younger
Jesuit, who died in the Novitiate at Rome.

44 Amongst the letters seized at Braddocks in a search apparently in
1592, was one “sent by Dolman the Priest to Mrs. Wiseman, dated 28
die Jun., advertizing her of her son Thomas and her son John their
healths, and of his going to Wisbech, and that he was sorry her
daughter Jane had no warning whereby she might have wrote an epistle
in Latin to the Priests at Wisbech, that they might have understood
her zeal” (P. R. O., _Dom. Eliz._, vol. 243, n. 95).

45 P. R. O., _Dom. Eliz._, vol. 248, n. 68.

46 Young adds, “Mr. Wiseman and his mother had many more servants, both
men and maids, all which were recusants, and none of them would come
to church, to the great offence and scandal of all Her Majesty’s
good subjects in that country.”

47 Stonyhurst MSS. _P._, ii., p. 550.

48 Mr. “Homulus” is Ralph Emerson, the Lay-brother, of whom Father
Campion wrote to the General, “Homulus meus et ego” (_infr._ p.
lxx). It was of the greatest consequence that no names to strike the
eye should appear in letters, in case they were intercepted.

49 Probably White Webbs in Enfield Chase, called “Dr. Hewick’s house”
(P. R. O., _Gunpowder Plot Book_, n. 70).

50 P. R. O., _Dom. Eliz._, vol. 248, n. 36.

51 In the original the words “is Richard Fulwood” are interlined, and
“he will not tell” underlined or erased.

52 Being learned. _Erased in Orig._

53 It was of the last importance for the friends of a prisoner to know,
if possible, what replies he had really given, not only that they
might take measures, if necessary, for their own safety, but also
that they might know how far to go in their own answers when
summoned. The persecutors were constantly in the habit of publishing
all sorts of pretended replies which they said had been given by
prisoners in their secret examinations, so that prisoners seized
every possible opportunity of communicating the truth to their
friends, often, as we shall see, in the most ingenious way.

54 It will be noticed, both from this passage and many others, that the
persecuted Catholics followed that common doctrine of theologians,
maintained also by many Protestant moralists, that an unjust
oppressor has no right, by the law of God, to exact or expect true
answers from his victims, if such true answers would help his unjust
designs, except where the question is of the faith of the prisoner.
It is quite likely that many will be startled now-a-days at such
direct denials, owing to our present freedom from those extreme
circumstances in which such denials were then made. Their own lives
were at stake, or those of other innocent persons, whom it would
have been a sin to betray; and for those persons’ sake, if they held
such denials to be lawful, they were bound to make them. The English
law, with a tenderness then unknown, would now protect a man from
all efforts to make him criminate himself. The persecutors
themselves, who showed so great indignation at their victims’
falsehoods, told lies systematically _in order to ensnare the
Catholics_; a thing which no code of morality ever countenanced,
whether Catholic or Protestant. We propose to discuss this subject
more fully in the sequel.

55 This was the unfortunate Countess of Arundel, whose husband, Philip
Howard, Earl of Arundel, was at this time (1594) in the tenth year
of his imprisonment in the Tower. He died the following year in the
same prison, the noblest victim to the jealous and suspicious
tyranny of Elizabeth, _non sine veneni suspicione_, as his epitaph
still testifies.

56 This holy martyr’s true name was Nicholas Owen. Father Gerard gives
an interesting account of him in the Narrative of the Powder Plot
(_infra_ p. 182).

57 We learn from Frank that it was called Middleton’s.

58 Sir Thomas Egerton, afterwards Lord Ellesmere and Viscount Brackley,
was Attorney General at this date, 1594, and Lord Chancellor in
1609, when this was written. His having been a Catholic is not
mentioned by his biographers.

59 Father Gerard was first confined in the Counter, as he tells us
later. Father Garnett in one of his letters speaks of the Counter as
“a very evil prison and without comfort.” There were in London three
prisons of this name: the Counter, a part of the parish church of
St. Margaret in Southwark; the Counter in the Poultry, “some four
houses west from the parish church of St. Mildred”; and the new
Counter in Wood-street, removed from Bread-street in 1555 (Stow’s
_Survey of London_, ed. Thoms, pp. 99, 131).

60 Even the gentle Father Southwell could not but show his estimate of
this reprobate man. We translate the following from Father More’s
_History of the English Province_, l. v., n. 15. “Though he readily
answered the questions of others, yet if Topcliffe interposed he
never deigned him a reply; and when asked the cause of this, he
answered: ‘Because I have found by experience that the man is not
open to reason.’ ”

61 Stonyhurst MSS., _Angl. A._, vol. ii., n. 27; _P._, vol. ii., f.
604.

62 This was a prison in Southwark, adjoining the palace of the Bishops
of Winchester. In Father More’s Latin Narrative it appears as
_Atrium Wintoniense_. “It was a small place of confinement on the
Bankside, called the Clink from being the prison of the ‘Clink
liberty or manor of Southwark,’ belonging to the Bishops of
Winchester” (Brayley, _History of Surrey_, vol. 5, p. 348).

63 Father Garnett writes, Nov. 19, 1594: “Sir Thomas Wilks goeth into
Flanders, as it is thought for peace; whereupon the arraignment of
the three Jesuits, Southwell, Walpole, and Gerard, is stayed. Gerard
is in the Clink, somewhat free; the other two so close in the Tower
that none can hear from them” (Stonyhurst MSS., _P._, ii., p. 550).

64 “There is a little fellow called Ralph, who is in England for Father
Persons, is a great dealer for all the Papists; he is a very
slender, brown little fellow” (Confession of Ralph Miller. P. R. O.,
_Domestic, Eliz._, vol. 173, n. 64).

65 John Rigby suffered at St. Thomas’ Watering, June 21, 1600, for
having been reconciled by a Catholic Priest.

66 Ann Line executed at Tyburn, Feb. 27, 1601, for harbouring a
Catholic Priest. “She told her confessor, some years before her
death, that Mr. Thomson (Blackburn), a former confessor of hers, who
ended his days by martyrdom in 1586, had promised her, that if God
should make him worthy of that glorious end he would pray for her,
that she might obtain the like happiness” (Challoner, from
Champney’s MS. History).

67 Francis Page, S.J., suffered at Tyburn, April 20, 1602, for his
Priesthood.

68 These words are given in the MS. in English.

69 Roger Filcock, S.J., _alias_ Arthur, executed for his Priesthood,
with Mark Barkworth, _alias_ Lambert, O.S.B., and Ann Line, at
Tyburn, Feb. 27, 1601.

70 John Jones, _alias_ Buckley, suffered at St. Thomas’ Watering, July
12, 1598; and Robert Drury at Tyburn, Feb. 26, 1607, for being
Priests in England.

71 Tres valedictiones mundo datæ a tribus in diverso statu morientibus
(MS.).

72 Qualis vita, finis ita (MS.).

73 “Morbum regium” (MS.). Consumption is a form of scrofula, or King’s
evil, and seems to be the form most likely to be brought on by the
causes here mentioned. In classical Latin, however, _morbus regius_
signifies _jaundice_; and this may be the meaning here.

74 Father Bartoli, in his _Inghilterra_ (bk. v., ch. 13), has the
following passage about Father Gerard, whom he knew personally at
Rome: “At his first entrance into this prison (the Clink) he
procured himself a habit of the Society, and continued to wear it
from that time forward, even in the face of all London when he was
being taken to his different examinations; so that the people
crowded to see a Jesuit in his habit, while the preachers were all
the more exasperated at what they thought an open defiance of them.”

Father Weston in his Narrative (Father Laurenson’s copy, p. 93)
gives it as one of the signs that warned Catholics that Anthony
Tyrrel was wavering in his faith, that without any necessity, in the
Clink prison, he would wear secular dress. His own clerical costume
in prison he mentions as a matter of course. “Egressus sum sequenti
die, mutato habitu in sæcularem” (p. 98).

75 The Gatehouse prison, near the west end of the Abbey, “is so called
of two gates, the one out of the College court towards the north, on
the east side whereof was the Bishop of London’s prison for clerks
convict; and the other gate, adjoining the first, but towards the
west, is a gaol or prison for offenders thither committed” (Stow, p.
176).

76 The celebrated theologian and controversialist, Dr. Sanders, was
sent as Papal Legate into Ireland by Gregory XIII. in 1579.

77 Gabriel Goodman, Dean of Westminster from 1561 to 1601.

78 William Atkinson, the apostate Priest, in a letter to Blackwell the
Archpriest, dated Apr. 9, 1602, said that he was in prison with
Father Gerard (Bartoli, _Inghilterra_, p. 416). This man dared to
offer to poison the Earl of Tyrone in a host (P. R. O., _Domestic,
Eliz._, vol. 251, n. 49).

79 Henry Walpole, S.J., was executed at York, April 7, 1595, for his
Priesthood.

80 It was Father Walpole’s custom to make notes of his conferences with
ministers. In the Public Record Office (_Domestic, Eliz._, vol.
248., n. 51) there is an interesting record in his own hand of his
discussions while he was in the custody of Outlaw, the pursuivant.

81 Edmund Campion, S.J., suffered at Tyburn, Dec. 1, 1581, for a
pretended conspiracy at Rome and Rhemes. The Act of 27 Elizabeth
(1585), which made the mere presence of a Priest in England high
treason, had not yet been passed.

82 This was said, of course, because it was dangerous to mention the
names of any friends who were still at liberty. It could do no harm
to mention those already in prison.

_ 83 Domestic, Eliz._, vol. 262, n. 123.

84 As he supposed. _Erased._

85 Denieth that. _Erased._

86 Denieth that. _Erased._

87 Thinketh that some _substituted for_ knoweth who.

88 Care _substituted for_ charge.

89 Maintenance of, &c, _interlined_.

90 The name ... person _interlined in place of_ to whom.

91 By what name _substituted for_ to whom.

92 The spelling in those days was simply reckless. Father Gerard signs
this Examination “Jhon Gerrard;” it is endorsed “Jo. Jerrard;” and
Sir Edward Coke’s note on it is “Jarrard.” It becomes difficult to
know how to print proper names; _e.g._, Campion or Campian, Persons
or Parsons, Garnet or Garnett, Ouldcorne or Oldcorn. In the
Narrative of the Gunpowder Plot the form of name is adopted that is
most prevalent in the autograph from which it is printed.

93 On the back of a playing card (the seven of spades), which is
attached to the original document, is written in Sir Edward Coke’s
handwriting:

“Polewhele 1
Walpole 1
PatCullen 1
Annias 31
Willms 1
Squier
Jarrard 1.”

Polewhele, Patrick Cullen or O’Collun, Williams, and Squire were all
executed for high treason, the latter on the accusation of having,
at Father Walpole’s instigation, poisoned the pommel of Elizabeth’s
saddle. Annias apostatized after two years’ imprisonment.

94 Scirpicula quaedam duo vel tria ex juncis facta (MS.). It is not
easy to understand exactly what these were.

95 Father Gerard’s great stature could not be more clearly indicated.
This would of course involve a greater weight of body, and
consequently greater severity in this mode of torture. “Erat enim,”
says Father More, in his History, “pleno et procero corpore.”

96 Stonyhurst MSS., _P._, vol. ii., f. 547.

_ 97 Ibid._, _Angl. A._, vol. ii., n. 27; P., vol. ii., f. 604.

_ 98 Ibid._, _P._, vol. ii., f. 548.

99 Stonyhurst MSS., _P._, vol. ii., f. 601.

100 These arguments are purposely omitted in this place, and they are
reserved for insertion later, when we propose to examine into the
morality of the answers made by Father Gerard and others in their
judicial interrogations.

101 We find from an extract of one of Father Garnett’s letters in the
Stonyhurst MSS. that this gentleman’s name was Arden. “Oct. 8, 1597.
Upon St. Francis’ day at night broke out of the Tower one Arden and
Mr. Gerard the Jesuit. There is yet no inquiry after him” (_P._,
vol. ii., f. 548). Father Bartoli, also, and Father More mention
Arden as the name of Father Gerard’s companion. Francis Arden was
committed to the Tower, Feb. 22, 1584. He was probably a relation of
Edward Arden, who was hanged Dec. 23, 1583, “protesting his
innocence of every charge, and declaring that his only crime was the
profession of the Catholic religion” (Rishton’s _Diary in the
Tower_).

102 The number of piers in Old London Bridge was so large, and offered
so great an obstruction to the water, that it was always a service
of danger to pass under the arches while the tide was running, and
often the river formed a regular cataract at this part.

103 The distance would be something over half a mile.

104 Our readers will remember that at this time each side of the bridge
was lined with houses, which looked sheer down into the river.

105 Oct. 4, 1597, says Father Bartoli (_Inghilterra_, p. 426) quoting
Father Garnett’s letter of Oct. 8.

106 Quod differtur, non aufertur (MS.).

107 This may very likely be White Webbs in Enfield Chase.

108 Atkinson was not always so unsuccessful. Sir Robert Cecil endorsed
the letter quoted in a former note, “Atkinson’s letter, the Priest
that discovered Tychburn and was brought me by Mr. Fouler.” Thomas
Tichburn suffered at Tyburn, April 20, 1601, for his Priesthood.

109 The Knight Marshal had jurisdiction within the precincts of the
Court, that is, twelve miles from the lodging of the Sovereign, even
on a progress, though not a chase. The Marshalsea was the prison
originally attached to the King’s house, and at first was intended
only for the committal of persons accused of offences within the
jurisdiction of the Knight Marshal. It stood in High-street,
Southwark, on the south side, between King-street and Mermaid-court,
over against Union-street (Cunningham’s _Handbook of London_, p.
316). Queen Elizabeth’s Knight Marshal was Sir Thomas Gerard,
already mentioned as created by King James Lord Gerard of Gerard’s
Bromley.

110 About this time Father Garnett thought of sending Father Gerard out
of England, evidently from fear lest, owing to his zeal, he should
be recaptured and be still more hardly dealt with, for on March 31,
1598, he wrote to Rome, probably to Father Persons: “Father Gerard
is much dismayed this day when I wrote to him to prepare himself to
go. He came to me of purpose. Indeed he is very profitable to me,
and his going would be wondered at. I hope he will walk warily
enough.... You know my mind; if you think it good, I desire his
stay. All the rest are well” (Stonyhurst MSS., _P._, vol. ii., f.
551).

111 P. R. O., _Domestic, Eliz._, vol. 233, n. 3.

112 “He was sent to Tournay for his Noviceship in 1594, and towards the
end of his second year over-application had so injured his head that
he had to be forbidden to use any kind of prayer. Sent to recruit in
his native air, he passed through Holland on his way to England. At
Flushing he was taken by some English soldiers. The letter he was
carrying showing who he was, they threatened him with torture unless
he would say who had brought him over from Rotterdam. He was ready
to confess anything about himself, but he would say nothing of any
one else; so, instead of offering, as he had hoped to do that day,
the Sacrifice of the Body of Christ, he offered that of his own, to
undergo anything rather than injure others. They hung him up by the
hands to a pulley, and then tortured him by twisting a sailor’s rope
round his head. During the torture he fixed his mind on the eternity
of either pain or joy, and uttered nothing but ‘O eternity!’ The
harm the soldiers tried to do him turned out a remedy; for the
head-ache and singing in the head, from which he had suffered in the
Noviceship, diminished from that time and gradually ceased. He was
taken to London in custody and committed to Bridewell, where his
cell was an utterly unfurnished turret. He bed was the brick floor
and a little straw, till he was helped by the care and charity of
his Catholic fellow-prisoners, and of our Father Gerard. The latter,
who was in the Clink, kept up a secret correspondence with him, and
came to his help both with his advice and money. After about seven
months he succeeded in making his escape through the tiling,
together with two other Priests and seven laymen” (Father More,
_Historia Provinciæ_, l. viii., c. 23).

113 The confession of Ralph Myller (9 Oct. 1584) gives us an insight
into the late Lord Vaux’s London house: “This examinant did
afterwards meet one Robert Browne, who hath an uncle a Priest with
the Lord Vaux, who is a little man with white head, and a little
brown hair on his face, goeth in an ash-colour doublet coat and a
gown faced with cony, and he was made Priest long sithence at
Cambray as this examinate thinketh. This examinant spoke with the
Lord Vaux and with his lady at Hackney, after that his son, Mr.
George, and the said Robert Browne had told him that this examinant
was a tailor of Rhemes; and on Sunday was fortnight this examinant
did hear Mass there, whereat were present about xviii. persons,
being my lord’s household, and the Priest last before named said the
Mass. The said Priest lieth in a chamber beyond the hall, on the
left hand the stair that leadeth to the chambers, and the Mass is
said in the chapel, being right over the port entering into the
hall; and the way into it is up the stair aforesaid, on the left
hand, at the further end of the gallery: and there is a very fair
crucifix of silver” (P. R. O., _Domestic, Eliz._, vol. 173, n. 64).

114 Anne Vaux and Eleanor, widow of Edward Brooksby, daughters of
William third Lord Vaux, by his first wife, Elizabeth, daughter of
John Beaumont of Gracedieu, in Leicestershire, Esq. The mother of
George Vaux was Mary, sister of Sir Thomas Tresham, of Rushton, in
Northamptonshire, Knight.

115 Sir Christopher Hatton, who died childless, November 21, 1591, had
built a country house at Stoke Pogis, Bucks (Campbell’s _Lives of
the Chancellors_, 3rd edit., vol. ii., p. 180).

116 Patrem Pulvium (MS.). We give the English form of the name on the
authority of Dr. Oliver, in his _Collectanea_, s.v. Pullen.

117 In the Public Record Office there is a letter, dated July 22, 1599,
purporting to be from Francis Cordale to his partner Balthasar
Gybels, at Antwerp, which says, “I wrote to you of one Mr. Heywood’s
house searched and a man there taken. I have learned his name since
to be John Lilly. He is sent to the Tower upon suspicion of helping
Gerard the Jesuit out of the same place” (_Domestic, Eliz._, vol.
271, n. 107).

118 Tali loco qui vocatur _Spitell_ (MS). Spitalfields, a district
without Bishopsgate, once belonged to the Priory and Hospital of St.
Mary Spital, founded in 1197, in the parish of St. Botolph
(Cunningham’s _Handbook of London_, p. 463).

119 John Lilly entered the Society Feb. 2, 1602, æt. 37 (Bartoli,
_Inghilterra_, p. 429).

120 In the margin of the MS. is written “Digbæus,” in the same hand as
the text.

121 George Abbot was appointed Dean of Winton in 1559, in 1609 Bishop of
Lichfield and Coventry, from which in about a month he was
translated to London, and thence in 1611 to Canterbury. In July,
1621, as he was shooting at a deer with a cross-bow, he shot the
keeper, for which King James gave him a dispensation. In 1627 he was
sequestered from his office, and his metropolitan jurisdiction put
into commission, but about a year after he was restored. He died at
Croydon, Aug. 4, 1633, æt. 71.

122 Richard de Burgh, commonly called Richard of Kinsale, from his
conduct at that place, Baron of Dunkellin, succeeded his father as
fourth Earl of Clanricarde, May 20, 1601. He was subsequently made
Earl of St. Albans, and died Nov. 12, 1635. He married Frances,
daughter and heiress of Sir Francis Walsyngham, Knight, widow of
Robert second Earl of Essex. She died in 1632. Thus Walsyngham’s
only child became a Catholic.

123 Qui nunc in rure est (MS.). An evident mistake of the copyist for
“in turre,” as is clear from a former passage, where Father Gerard
says, “Father Thomas Strange is at present suffering imprisonment in
the Tower of London, where he has had to undergo many grievous
tortures, and a long solitary confinement. This solitude indeed, if
we look only to his natural disposition, cannot but be very irksome
and oppressive to him; but _he_ is not solitary who has God always
present with him, consoling him, and supplying in an eminent degree
and full abundance all those comforts which we are wont to go
begging for from creatures.”

124 Sir Ambrose Vaux, Prior of St. John of Jerusalem.

125 This name is written “Lathuilli” in the MS. English names frequently
suffer at the hands of this copyist. We have restored the true name
by the aid of Dr. Oliver’s _Collectanea_.

126 Father Gerard here gives a summary of his Narrative of the Gunpowder
Plot.

127 In a letter addressed by Father Ouldcorne to the Council, dated
March 25, 1606, in which he relates all that had passed in the Tower
between Father Garnett and himself, but in a way that could not be
hurtful to either, the following passage occurs. “Also Mr. Garnett
told me that while he was in the Gatehouse he received a note
written in orange (but he told me not from whom) whereby he
understood that Father Tesimond was gone over sea, and that Father
Gerard would presently follow him after he had recovered a little
more strength: ‘whereby’ (said Garnett) ‘I gather he hath been
lately in some secret place, as we were; but by this I hope he hath
recovered his strength, and is also past over the sea’ ” (P. R. O.,
_Gunpowder Plot Book_, n. 214).

128 Both Father Bartoli and Father More remark that Father Gerard was
admitted to the solemn vows of a Professed Father by a special
favour, as his learning, owing to the short course of study through
which he had passed, fell short of that which the Society requires
as a condition of Profession. Father Bartoli says that this “most
rare but most just privilege” was conferred on him, “as virtue, in
which he exceeded the standard, supplied for the studies in which he
fell short of it” (_Inghilterra_, p. 586).

129 Bartoli, _Inghilterra_, pp. 586, 592.

130 Stonyhurst MSS., _Angl. A._, vol. iii., n. 111.

131 P. R. O., _Domestic, James I._, vol. 68, n. 67, and vol. 71, n. 24;
Chamberlain to Carleton.

132 P. R. O., _Domestic, James I._, vol. 70, nn. 25, 46, 55; dated
August 3, 12, and 20, 1612.

133 P. R. O., _Sign. Man._, vol. iii., n. 6.

134 Rymer’s _Fœdera_, t. xviii., f. 44.

135 P. R. O., _Proclamation Book_, p. 121.

136 P. R. O., _Domestic, Eliz._, vol. 165, n. 21.

137 P. R. O., _Domestic, James I._, vol. 18, n. 19.

138 P. R. O., _Domestic, James I._, vol. 47, n. 96.

139 P. R. O., _Domestic, James I._, vol. 16, n. 88; vol. 18, n. 4.

140 P. R. O., _Domestic, James I._, vol. 18, n. 19.

141 Bartoli, _Inghilterra_, p. 586.

_ 142 Hist. Prov._, lib. vii., n. 43, p. 339.

143 Archives of the English College at Rome, _Scritture_, vol. 30; 1632.

144 Stonyhurst MSS., Father Grene’s _Miscell. de Coll. Angl._, p. 19.

145 Stonyhurst MSS., _Angl. A._, vol. iii., n. 70.

146 More, _Hist. Prov._, lib. vii., cap. 3, p. 291.

147 More, _Hist. Prov._, lib. viii., n. 8, p. 355.

148 Stonyhurst MSS., _Angl. A._, vol. iv., n. 5.

149 This is Father Thomas Laithwaite, also called Kensington (More,
_Hist. Prov._, lib. ix., n. 1, p. 391; _supra_ p. clxxvi).

150 In 1617, Sir Thomas Leeds was Prefect and Sir Ralph Babthorpe
Secretary of the Congregation of the Blessed Virgin at Louvain
(Stonyhurst MSS., _Angl. A._, vol. iv., n. 47). A considerable
number of Catholic families had settled in Louvain, and in 1614 they
were disturbed by a summons to appear in England under pain of
losing their possessions. On a remonstrance being made by the
Spanish Ambassador, King James disclaimed the summons, on which the
magistrates of Louvain expelled the pursuivant from the town (More,
_Hist. Prov._, lib. ix., n. 10, p. 406).

151 Stonyhurst MSS., _Angl. A._, vol. iv., n. 6.

152 The Archduke Albert, Governor of Flanders.

153 Stonyhurst MSS., _Angl. A._, vol. iv., n. 7.

154 Stonyhurst MSS., _Angl. A._, vol. iv., n. 17.

_ 155 Ibid._, n. 22.

156 Father Gerard bought a house and ten acres of land; and the price
was less than “200_l._ in present money and the rent of 30_l._ with
which the house and grounds are already charged, which then we may
redeem by little and little, as we get friends to buy it out”
(Stonyhurst MSS., _Angl. A._, vol. iv., n. 23). As the rent could be
redeemed at fifteen years’ purchase, the whole price was thus under
650_l._

157 More, _Hist. Prov._, lib. ix., n. II, p. 406.

158 “Sir Basil Brooke telleth that our German friend is very well at his
house, and in protection of the King, that Canterbury has used him
very kindly, and entreated him, as one whose scholarship is famous,
to make use of his library [as] it shall please him.” Father
Silisdon to Father Owen, August 25, 1614. Endorsed by Father
Owen—“Sir Geo. Talbott well entertained by K. and Cant.” (Stonyhurst
MSS., _Angl. A._, vol. iv., n. 17).

159 More, _Hist. Prov._, lib. ix., n. 15, p. 414.

_ 160 Ibid._, pp. 415, 424. Maximilian had two sons by his second wife,
Mary Anne of Austria, when he was over 60 years of age, and the
eldest he named Ignatius.

161 The Priory of Watten, with its revenue of 3000 florins of Brabant,
was transferred to the Society in 1611 by James Blase, O. S. F.,
Bishop of St. Omers. The proposal had been approved of by the King
of Spain in 1604, and by Pope Paul V. in 1607, but the jealousy of
the English felt by the Archduke Albert delayed the establishment of
an English Novitiate there till his death in 1622 (More, _Hist.
Prov._, lib. vii., nn. 5-7, lib. ix., n. 17, pp. 294-298, 416).

162 Stonyhurst MSS., _Angl. A._, vol. iv., n. 20.

163 They soon increased in numbers, for in 1617 Father More says there
was a Community at Liége of 45, of whom 30 were Novices (p. 424).

164 Stonyhurst MSS., _Angl. A._, vol. iv., n. 29.

_ 165 Ibid._, n. 23.

_ 166 Infra_ p. 110.

167 Stonyhurst, MSS., _Angl. A._, vol. iv., n. 29.

_ 168 Ibid._, n. 31.

_ 169 Ibid._, vol. iii., n. 107.

170 This would appear to be a mention of the death of the “son and
brother of an Earl,” Sir Everard Digby’s great friend, who was
converted when holding some office in personal attendance on King
James, and, after his conversion, received the King’s leave to go to
Italy (_supra_ p. clxvi.). The intermediate link is furnished in
Father Gerard’s letter to Father Aquaviva, Louvain, August 17, 1612
(Stonyhurst MSS., Angl. A., vol. iii., n. 111). “Now at length our
friend Oliver has passed over from Paris to England, for the
Treasurer is gone, his and all good men’s enemy.” [Robert Cecil,
Earl of Salisbury, died May 24, 1612] “and others are about to
succeed him, who, as we hope, entertain for Oliver an ancient and
particular affection. Besides, his eldest brother is dead, and the
second brother left inheritor of all the honours and wealth, so that
a manifold occasion is offered to this our friend of helping himself
in temporal affairs, and others to some extent in spiritual and
greater goods. Summoned by his family he has left in haste, humbly
asking your Paternity’s benediction; in the efficacy of which he
disregards all that heretical fury or perverse malice can invent
against him. The King is going this summer to his brother the new
Earl’s castle, to remain there awhile for hunting. Perhaps Oliver
will take that occasion of presenting himself to the King, who liked
him when he was in his service before he entered the service of God,
and whom he has never offended in anything, except in choosing to be
an abject in the House of God, rather than to dwell in the
tabernacles of men.” We have here the necessary data for determining
that the convert in question was Sir Oliver Manners, fourth son of
John fourth Earl of Rutland, knighted at Belvoir Castle, April 22,
1603, by James I. on his coming from Scotland. The eldest brother
Roger, fifth Earl, married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Philip Sidney,
and died without issue, June 26, 1612, when he was succeeded by his
brother Francis.

171 Father Edward Coffin was Confessor of the English College for nearly
twenty years. He was succeeded by Father Gerard, who held the same
office for the last fifteen years of his life.

172 Dr. Oliver has misread this date 1611. Cardinal Bellarmine was born
October 4, 1542, so that he would be in his seventy-seventh year in
1618-9.

173 Dr. Oliver says that Father Silisdon succeeded Father Gerard as
Rector and Master of Novices in 1620, and transferred the Novitiate
to Watten in 1622. Father More (_Hist. Prov._, p. 416) may certainly
so be understood, but it is clear from the _Florus Anglo-Bavaricus_
(p. 11) that Father Gerard was Rector in March, 1622, and that the
transfer to Watten took place in 1625. And in the Archives of the
English College at Rome (_Scritture_, vol. 30), in a notice of him
written in 1632, he is said to have been Rector of the English
Noviceship at Liége for eight years.

174 Stonyhurst MSS., _P._, vol. ii., f. 532.

175 Fiat in me, de me et per me, et circa me, sanctissima et dulcissima
voluntas Tua, in omnibus et per omnia, nunc et semper ac in æternum.
Amen (MS.).

176 An allusion, no doubt, to one of the Belgian Sanctuaries of our
Blessed Lady, perhaps that at Montaigu.

177 Stonyhurst MSS., Father Grene’s _Miscell. de Coll. Angl._, p. 19,
quoting “Baines his diary.”

_ 178 Supra_ p. xxi.

_ 179 Supra_ p. cxl.

_ 180 Infra_ p. 244.

_ 181 Apologia pro Vita sua_, by John Henry Newman, D.D. London, 1864, p.
418. The reader’s attention is earnestly called to Dr. Newman’s
treatment of this subject, both at the page quoted, and in the
Appendix, p. 72. To the Protestant authors quoted above may be added
Mr. Froude (_History of England_, vol. ii., ch. vi., p. 57, note).
“It seems obvious that a falsehood of this sort is different in kind
from what we commonly mean by unveracity, and has no affinity with
it.... Rahab of Jericho did the same thing which Dalaber did” [a
Protestant, who gave false answers and swore to them, to save
Garret, his fellow] “and on that very ground was placed in the
catalogue of Saints.”

_ 182 Supra_ p. li.

_ 183 Supra_ p. lxviii.

_ 184 Supra_ p. lxxxii.

_ 185 Supra_ p. cxiv.

186 Ostendi non esse hoc falsum dicere (MS.).