^{page 4 note a} Edward Bennet, the Welshman of whom Dr. Barret wrote to Parsons (Sept., 1596): “This Benet is the greatest dissembler and most perilous fellow in a communitie that ever I knewe” (Douay Diaries, p. 386), was a ringleader of “the discontented” at Rome; and subsequently he and his brother John became active leaders of the Appellant clergy. Edward was proposed at one time for the episcopate, and on the death of John Colleton he was made dean of the English Chapter.