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7. George West (Thomas More)154 to Richard Baker (Smith) (No date) (AAW A IX, no. 78, pp. 265–8.)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 October 2009
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Though endorsed 11 October 1609, this letter is dated 2 October 1610 in the AAW catalogue but (from internal evidence) was written at some time after 7 January 1610 but before More's arrival in Rome on 20 March 1610 (NS) (see Letter 9). The reference to Coeffeteau's book may indicate that the letter was written in Paris.
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155 In October 1609 Birkhead tried to forward this sum to Smith via Gabriel Colford at Brussels; Colford refused to forward it. Via bills of exchange directed to Nicholas Fitzherbert, this money, with at least one further sum of £65, eventually reached Smith partly by Thomas More's and partly by OSB's means, AAW A VIII, nos 161, 166, 168, 180, 187, 191, IX, nos 42, 43, 49, 53. It was clearly difficult and expensive to arrange bills of exchange but the reasons for the chronic underfunding of Smith and More in Rome are still something of a puzzle.
156 Edward Bennett.
157 Elizabeth, wife of Sir Robert Dormer, and daughter of Anthony Browne, first Viscount Montague.
158 According to Edward Bennett's letter to Smith of 12 November 1609, John Colleton was arrested on 11 November and was sent by Archbishop Richard Bancroft to Newgate, AAW A VIII, no. 179. Colleton had, just previously, been arrested and released on payment of a bribe, Foley VII, 1005; AAW A VIII, no. 186. The Jesuits said that he was imprisoned first in the Gatehouse and then transferred to the more commodious Clink prison because he only ‘appeared’ to refuse the oath of allegiance when required by Bancroft to take it, Foley VII, 1005.
159 Michael Walpole SJ's arrest, according to Birkhead, was on 30 November, AAW A VIII, no. 191. See Letter 9.
160 Cuthbert Johnson, secular priest. Johnson was sent into exile after this arrest but returned to become chaplain to Margaret Dormer, the wife of Sir Henry Constable of Burton Constable, Anstr. I, 190.
161 John (Thomas) Button OSB. See Lunn, , EB, 155.Google Scholar
162 Richard Cholmeley of Brandsby; Morris, , Troubles, III, 464–5.Google Scholar
163 Birkhead wrote to Smith on 14 December 1609 that Johnson and Hutton were arrested on 1 November 1609, AAW A VIII, no. 191. On 28 March 1610 Richard Cholmeley and his wife were called to the assizes, and the minister of the parish and Thomas Masterman, one of Cholmeley's servants, were bound to give evidence against them, John Hutton and ‘Pearcye als Dorrell’ [i.e. Cuthbert Johnson]. On 29 March Cholmeley and his wife ‘pleaded our pardons’ (obtained in December 1609, CSPD 1603–10, 570Google Scholar) before Sir James Altham, the exchequer baron, Cholmeley, Richard, ‘The Memorandum Book of Richard Cholmeley of Brandsby 1602–1623’, North Yorkshire County Record Office Publications 44 (1988), 29.Google Scholar
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165 Sylvester Norris SJ.
166 Reginald Bates, secular priest. On 29 May 1611 William Bishop recorded Bates's release from Newgate, AAW A X, no. 48.
167 Cf. Harris, , ‘Reports’, 239, 266–7.Google Scholar
168 John Berington, secular priest.
169 John Scudamore, renegade secular priest, was resident in the household of Archbishop Richard Bancroft. For Scudamore, see Questier, , Conversion, Politics and Religion, 47, 52, 53, 118, 119, 160.Google Scholar
170 Archbishop Richard Bancroft.
171 Richard Button, a Staffordshire secular priest, had been expelled from the English College in Rome in 1596. He then travelled to England with Sylvester Norris, Anstr. I, 60. On 6 July 1609 Birkhead had reported that Button ‘was stated’ by Bancroft's order while he was visiting the priest William Warmington in the Clink prison, AAW A VIII, no. 125 (pp. 543–4). Birkhead thought Button, the future renegade priest Edward Collier and even the priest John Jackson were unreliable on the question of the oath of allegiance because they all had the privilege of a ‘protection’ to go out of the Clink prison at their pleasure. Birkhead thought Bancroft and George Abbot were using them to divide the secular clergy, AAW A VIII, no. 132 (p. 559).
172 Simon Fennell, secular priest.
173 Cf. Letter 49.
174 William Hanse.
175 Thomas Worthington.
176 Cardinal Edward Farnese.
177 Jesuits.
178 Richard Banks SJ.
179 Lewis Owen, high commission pursuivant. Owen compiled a list in July 1610 of the seven priests he had arrested since he came to England in May 1609, AAW A IX, no. 52 (p. 146).
180 Thomas Cornforth SJ. See Foley, IV, 583–9.Google Scholar
181 Robert Persons SJ.
182 Not certainly identified, but this may refer to either one of the priests George or Richard Grisold, one of whom may have used the alias ‘Vaughan’, AAW A X, no. 3. The Welsh priest Lewis Vaughan (not in Anstr.) was a supporter of the agency's aims, AAW A XI, no. 140.
183 Smith, Richard, The Prudentiall Ballance of Religion (St Omer, 1609)Google Scholar; ARCR II, no. 709.
184 For the four copies, see Letter 8. See also AAW A VIII, no. 183.
185 Elizabeth Dacres.
186 Cardinal Bellarmine's reply to Lancelot Andrewes's Tortura Torti and to James's ‘Praefatio Monitoria’ in his Apologia pro luramento Fidelitatis was issued at Rome in late autumun 1609, Cardinal Robert Bellarmine SJ, Apologia Roberti S.R.E. Cardinalis Bellarmini, pro Responsione sua aa librum lacobi Magnae Britanniae Regis (Rome, 1609)Google Scholar; ARCR I, no. 1491; Brodrick, J., The Life and Work of Blessed Robert Francis Cardinal Bellarmine, S.J. 1542–1621 (2 vols, 1928), II, 217.Google Scholar
187 Andrewes replied with Responsio ad Apologiam Cardinalis Bellarmini (1610).Google Scholar
188 For Andrewes's reported low opinion of Bellarmine's book, see McClure, , 295.Google Scholar
189 Nicolas Coeffeteau OP, Bishop of Marseilles, Responce à l'Advertissement, addressé par le Serenissime Roy de la Grande Bretagne, lacques I. à tous les Princes & Potentats de la Chrestienté (Paris, 1609)Google Scholar. The Jesuits said that apparently James I did ‘not dislike’ this book because of its ‘moderation’, Foley VII, 1006, but John Chamberlain wrote that James took it in no ‘better part then yf…he shold have bid a T. in his teeth and then crie sir reverence’, McClure, , 294.Google Scholar
190 Wellingborough, Northamptonshire.
191 Elizabeth Orper, a widow, was buried on 14 January 1610, Parish register of All Hallows, Wellingborough (microfiche copy, Society of Genealogists, reference NH/Reg/7967A). Unfortunately the ecclesiastical court records for the southern division of the Northampton deanery are lacking for this period so these events cannot be checked, Allen, E.J.I., ‘The State of the Church in the Diocese of Peterborough, 1601–1642’ (unpubl. B. Litt, thesis, Oxford, 1972), 163–4.Google Scholar
192 Edmund Thornell.
193 Robert (Anselm) Beech OSB.
194 Not identified.
195 Nicholas Fitzherbert.
196 William Percy.