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Antony Munday in Rome
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 September 2015
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Antony Munday, in his book The English Romayne Life, described the customs of the English College in Rome and narrated the mutiny of the English scholars against their first Rector, the Welshman Dr. Morus Clynnog. He claimed to base his account on his own stay in the College, as ‘the Pope's scholar,’ during the troubles. However, in all the records of this over-documented squabble, no trace has hitherto been found of his name: it is absent, for example, from the earliest published list of English College scholars in the Liber Ruber or College diary. For this reason, it has sometimes been doubted whether Munday was ever in the College at all.
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1. List B, which contains the names of the superiors, must have been written between the departure of Fr. John Paul Navarola (early January) and the dismissal of Clynnog (19 March). List A, from its composition, must be contemporary with List B. Neither list contains any of the scholars who left Rheims on 16 February 1579. (Cf. C.R.S. ii, 144ff; Tierney's Dodd, ii. ccclxxii.)
2. List A contains nos. 1-40 of the Liber Ruber list (with the name ‘Gu. Foster’ instead of William Tedder) plus John Pascal, the convictor who is no. 50 in L.R. List B contains nos. 1-40 plus Pascal minus Robinson (no. 26). Nos. 1-50 of the Liber Ruber are the fifty students to whom the missionary oath was tendered on 23 April 1579; of these, nos. 41-48 left Douai on 16 February 1579 and cannot have arrived in Rome before the middle of March. The list is in C.R.S. xxxvii, 9ff.
3. Vat. Lat. 12159,152. [“ I request that your Eminence give instruction that Thomas, a Welsh boy of seventeen years, of very promising character and more learned (as I hear) than those two grammarians who lately intruded themselves into the register of students to make up the number in the presence of his Holiness, be admitted as a student of the seminary. He has lived here for a long time without being on the strength of the students in the hostel or partaking of their board, because up till now he has not learned logic, and now, I think, he will be excluded unless your Eminence orders that he be admitted.”]
4. All page references are to the Bodley Head edition.
5. C.R.S. xxxix, 22-23.
6. Nowell is no. 51 in the Liber Ruber, entered April 29.
6a. Douay Diaries I & II, ed. T. E. Knox, p.154. [“ There returned from Rome by way of Paris Mr. Askew, priest, a certain young man called Lovel, and with them another young man called Antony, and the last-named proceeded to England after a few days ”.]
7. Foley, vi, 67. Lovell is one of the three scholars who refused the missionary oath (Liber Ruber no. 40). Munday was the only Antony in the College at this time, with the exception of Antony Tyrell, who remainedin Rome untila later period.