^{page 88 note a} Notwithstanding the endorsement, this letter is evidently addressed not to Bagshaw but to Colleton. “Yo maistership proceeded not from universitie” could scarcely refer to Bagshaw, who took his master's degree at Oxford and his doctor's cap at Padua. The advice to read the warning of St. Denys, the Carthusian, against those who should leave his order could have meaning only for Colleton, who, for reasons which he fully explains in his Just Defence, had left that order before completing his noviciate. Colleton, indeed, seems to allude to this letter of Blackwell when he asks (p. 300), “What cause hath father Parsons or our archpriest to twite me with leaving the Carthusians?”

^{page 88 note b} The “Olim dicebamur” was the letter addressed to the Pope (8 Nov., 1598) in thanksgiving for the institution of the new hierarchy of archpriest and assistants. It was printed by Bagshaw in his Relatio Compendiosa (pp. 33–35.). A copy in the Petyt MSS. (xlvii. f. 119) is signed by four Jesuits and seven secular priests.