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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 October 2009
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to yours of the last of Februarie I say I will not forgett to signify your mynd to Thomas Heathe att the first commoditie. The matche with France goethe still forward and ys sayd to be accorded also in England [.] think wzth your self howe you may doe anie good and soe shale we for others doe not sleepe therein. Doct. Kellison dothe alwayes continue his good desire to bringe althinges into good order but he differethe in way of proceedinge from us. He hathe geven a procuratione to Father Anthonie in spayne for his business there which I doe not knowe what effect yt may have[.] mr pett will goe thither yf he be advised by other his frendes [.] And for my [word deleted] part I think well of his iorney thoughe he have not yet procuratione to deale for the colledge [.] For he may have yt in tyme and his presence will further the matter as I suppose and he may folowe in die meane while his owne affayre[.] I feare yf nothinge be resolved diere to Doct Kell contentment in competent tyme he will leave his place to whome will take yt: therefore as you can yt would doe well to solicit die graunt of his iust demandes lest all be brought to former despeyre. of mr maine I have writen long since.
1473 Wrongly assigned in AAW A catalogue to 26 March.
1474 Anthony Hoskins SJ.
1475 Hoskins had arrived in Spain in mid-1613 to succeed Joseph Creswell SJ as vice-prefect of the English SJ mission, Downshire MSS IV, 149Google Scholar; Allison, , ‘Later Life’, 79–80.Google Scholar
1476 i.e. for Douai. See Letter 40.
1477 i.e. the suit against Gabriel Colford. See Letter 35.
1478 In September 1613 Kellison had complained to More how he had come ‘to this troublesome place, from a place [Rheims] where I was so well beloved, and am still desired importunately, where I had a quiet and honest condition, and was promised, under the bishop's hand and seal, the prebend and dignity of the great church, after the decease of one who is almost fourscore years old’, TD V, p. cxci.
1479 See AAW A XIII, nos 4, 23. It is not clear whether this indicates John Mayney. 1480 Griffin Floyd. See Letter 26. In mid-December 1612 Birkhead had notified More that Floyd was ‘most redie to helpe us, and I have in part alredie begonne to employ him. he hath the languages and is much addicted to serve us in our cause’, AAW A XI, no. 228 (p. 657). It seems this was partly to make up for the loss of Thomas Heath, see Letter 17, and partly for the purpose of communicating safely with foreign ambassadors in London. See AAW A XI, no. 252 (p. 737), a memorandum specifying among other things the need for someone ‘to reside at london bothe practicall & skilfull in langwages to moove the Imbassadores to affecte us & our cause’. But Birkhead informed More in April 1613 that Floyd, ‘not being able to shew his face, is not fitt for me to use’, AAW A XII, no. 78 (p. 168), and shortly after, that since Floyd had ‘disgusted a frend of ours’ it was better to have no more to do with him, AAW A XII, no. 86 (p. 187). Floyd later offered his services to the regime in England, PRO, SP 14/81/59. ii, 60, 61, 70. There are several letters from Floyd to More in AAW A.
1481 For the priests released in August 1613 to go abroad with the Spanish ambassador Alonso de Velasco, see APC 1613–14, 179Google Scholar. They included Richard Cooper alias Henry Cooper alias Palmer.
1482 Livorno.
1483 Lewis Vaughan. See Letters 15, 16. Birkhead reported on 20 May 1612 that ‘about michaelmas’ Vaughan would come to Rome ‘for devotion’, and intended to stay for three or four years, AAW A XI, no. 83 (p. 237). See AAW A XII no. 245, a draft petition from Vaughan, who had already spent six months studying in Rome, asking for an augmentation of his papal pension of twenty-five ducats. By April 1614 Vaughan was writing to More asking for financial help, though he had not surrendered his place at Livorno, AAW A XIII, no. 81. The anti-Jesuit Vaughan was clearly intended to strengthen the seculars' number and influence in Italy, AAW A XIII, no. 78. On 12 May 1614 (NS) Vaughan wrote to More that one ‘mr palmer hath bene heare of late and staied heare 14 daies[.] I used him kindly and for his sake did his brother some good turnes’ but now, according to English Catholics at Livorno, Palmer ‘hath sought to supplant me and to geat my place frome me. it is saide that hee hath prevailed and that he is to come downe shortly’, AAW A XIII, no. 100 (pp. 255–6). It is not clear whether ‘Palmer’ is the priest Richard Cooper alias Henry Cooper alias Palmer who was listed for banishment in August 1613.
1484 Birkhead had reported to More on 26 July 1613 that, in England as much as in Rome, some people were giving out ‘false rumors against us’, including the slanders that More had returned to England and ‘offered your selfe to the magistrate’, and that Birkhead was ‘in great favour with the state because’ Archbishop Abbot, ‘gessinge where I am, causeth me not to be apprehended’. Birkhead did, however, inform More that Birkhead's ‘greatest frend’ (i.e. Viscount Montague) was summoned by Abbot who questioned him about the archpriest, but unaggressively, and so, clearly, ‘they have no great tooth’ against the archpriest, AAW A XII, no. 132 (pp. 291, 293).
1485 Letter 55.
1486 Richard Ireland, formerly of Christ Church, Oxford, and headmaster of Westminster school since 1598. In 1610 he had left the country for France where he was subsequently reconciled to the Church of Rome and was ordained a Catholic priest, Anstr. II, 167; Questier, , ‘Crypto-Catholicism’, 60.Google Scholar
1487 Foley, VII, p. xlvi.Google Scholar
1488 Champney informed More in a letter of 22 October 1613 (NS) that Henry Constable, ‘departinge…long since towardes the Spawe [Spa] to meete there therle of Southampton and cominge short of him’ went to Liège ‘to meete with Doct Carrier’ but ‘was seased with a hot feaver and dissenterie and dispatched in 7 or 8 dayes’, AAW A XII, no. 190 (p. 421).
1489 John Fixer. See Anstr. I, 118.
1490 John (Augustine) Bradshaw OSB.
1491 William (Gabriel) Gifford OSB.
1492 Thomas and John Roper.
1493 John Baptist Vives.
1494 Virgin.
1495 Griffin Floyd.