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Out of Mr. Docter Had[dock]s letters, novemb. 19

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 December 2009

Extract

The 11 of this present heare arrived one Mr Bishope and Mr Charnock and wer courtesly entertayned in the college vpon condicion they should not seeke to disturbe the same, being now in so good order & quiet, & so free from all thoughtes of such as these men bent theire busie braynes abowt as that none of them would vouchsaf to speak wth them saue one or to excepted, wch by appoyntment of theire superiours and wth one in theire companye were licensed to talk wth them for some acquaintance wth them in England, and this mortification hath ben no litle one vnto these men, who seeke to disquiet booth college & contrey, & contemn all order, wch to their grife they see so florish at this present in or college, god allmightie the author of peace and louer of concord and order be praysed.

Type
III. The Two Deputies at Rome Dec., 1598–April, 1599
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1896

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References

page 101 note a “Novemb.” is a clerical error for Decemb. The two priests arrived at Rome on the 11th Dec. (Parsons’ Briefe Apologie, f. 121; Relatio Compendiosa, p. 75.)

page 103 note a “Of this present” i.e. December. See preceding note. The Pope, in fact, returned from Ferrara on Dec. 20.

page 103 note b So it is written; perhaps, for the obsolete sicker, sure, safe.

page 104 note a He had entered the noviciate of the Carthusians, as has been said, but was found unsuited to the life.

page 104 note b Colleton was put on his trial with Campion in 1581 for an imaginary conspiracy said to have been hatched at Rheims, but was acquitted on its being clearly proved that he was in London at the time. He had, indeed, never been at Rheims.

page 106 note a The letter referred to (dated 10 Nov. 1598, and enquiring into the character and conduct of the priests in question) is printed in Tierney's Dodd, vol. iii., p. cxxv.