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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 February 2015
The late lamented Antony F. Allison published in Recusant History, May 1995, a characteristically richly researched article, ‘An English Gallican: Henry Holden, (1596/7–1662), Part I (to 1648)’, but alas did not live to produce the sequel which he planned, a draft of which does not seem to have survived. Shortly after the appearance of the article I wrote to congratulate him on the recent publication of the second (multilingual) edition of what is now commonly called A&R2, and to tell him that the Articles proposed to the Catholics of England, signed T. H., Paris, 2 April 1648, of which the authorship he convincingly attributed to Holden, said by the latter to have been printed by 13 September 1648, and extant in a single imperfect copy dated by George Thomason 2 April, otherwise only known from contemporaneous manuscript and later printed summaries, had been re-published in 1946, without identification of the author, by the late Professor C. E. Whiting of Durham University. Whiting reported that the manuscript he copied was from the library of the late Canon Whitley of Bedlington (Northumberland) and had been made available to him by Major J. D. Cowen, F.S.A. In 1947 Cowen gave it to Ushaw College Library, as coming from his late aunt, Miss A. J. Thompson of Whickham (Co. Durham). In the 1950s or 1960s I was shown it by the then Librarian of Ushaw, Fr. Bernard Payne, and recognised an inscription at the beginning as in the distinctive hand of John Cosin, the eminent Anglican divine who, after being a canon of Durham Cathedral, Master of Peterhouse, Cambridge, Dean of Peterborough, and exile in France 1644–60, finally became Bishop of Durham, 1660–72.
1 Vol. 21, no. 31, pp. 319–49.
2 Allison, A. F. & Rogers, D. M., The Contemporary Printed Literature of the English Counter-Reformation Between 1558 and 1640: an Annotated Catalogue, 2 vols (Aldershot, 1989–94).Google Scholar
3 British Library, E458(9), George Thomason's, with his note that it was printed in Paris and lacks the first sheet in Latin (a letter from a doctor of Paris in the Gage manuscript cited by Allison). Cf. Robert Pugh (compiler), Blacklo's Cabal [facsimile reprint of ‘Second edition’, 1680], with introduction by T. A. Birrell (Farnborough, 1970), pp. 57–58.
4 Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle, 4th series, vol. 10 (1947), pp. 324–32.
5 Fr. (Monsignor 1977) Bernard Payne, Librarian of Ushaw 1930–77, honorary M.A. of Durham University 1972 (for his services to learning through the library): Durham University Gazette, July 1972, pp. 28–29; Ushaw Magazine vol. 240 (1972), portrait frontispiece and Speech by the Public Orator, pp. 1–2; ibid., no. 261 (1983), pp. 2–14.
6 See Osmond, P. H., Life of John Cosin (London, 1913);Google Scholar Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, by Milton, A.; Dictionary of Literary Biography, vol. 213 (Detroit, 1999), by Doyle, A. I., pp. 51–56.Google Scholar
7 Doyle, A. I., ‘John Cosin as a library maker’, The Book Collector, vol. 40 (1991), pp. 335–47.Google Scholar
8 Clancy, T. H., ‘The Jesuits and the Independents’, Archivum Historicum Societatis Iesu, vol. 40(1941), pp. 67–90.Google Scholar
9 Correspondence, ed. Ornsby, G., Publications of the Surtees Society 52, 55, 2 vols (Durham, 1869–72), II, 213, 215, 217, 218, 225;Google Scholar and Cosin's Library MS Letter-Book 5A, no. 58.
10 Catalogi Librorum Ecclesiae Cathedralis Dunelm… And of the MSS. preserved in the Library of Bishop Cosin at Durham, pref. by B[otfield], B., ed. Raine, J., Surtees Society 7 (London, 1838), p. 89;Google Scholar punctuation there amended from the transcript (which is on early 18th-century Dutch paper); I keep the transcript's, which is ambiguous whether the first or second title was in Cosin's hand. The first is as in Flower's catalogue and what Cosin expected; the second is the wording of UCH 408 and the Thomason copy. Rud's original catalogue is lost, unlike the original of his catalogue of the Cathedral's medieval manuscripts: see ODNB article revised by A. I. Doyle.
11 Obituary, Morpeth Herald & Reporter, 27 April 1895.
12 The tendency of some scholars to hoard findings is also exemplified by the 18th-century catalogue of Bishop Cosin's Library. MS. B.I.25, kept by the Rev. Joseph Stevenson (whose special interest in Cosin's writings is thanked in vol. 1 of the Correspondence), only recovered from the Farm Street Jesuit house long after his death there in 1895. For his remarkable career see Fr. Francis Edwards in Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (2004, revised 2009).
