^{page 267 note 1} The other main eds. are 1857, 1876, 1911 and 1964. Baker was responsible for much of Apostolatus Benedictinorum in Anglia, ed. C. Reyner, Douai 1626; his Ideots Devotions and Life of Gertrude More were published posthumously at Paris 1657, 1658; and McCann, Justin edited his Confessions, London 1922Google Scholar, part of his commentary on The Cloud of Unknowing, London 1924Google Scholar and fragments of history and autobiography in vol. 33 of the Catholic Record Society publications (1933).

^{page 267 note 2} Low, Anthony, Augustine Baker, New York 1970Google Scholar. See the catalogue of MSS. in Catholic Record Society 33, no. vi; and McCann, P. J., ‘Ten more Baker MSS.’, The Ampleforth Journal, 53 (1958), 77–83.Google Scholar

^{page 267 note 3} See his Religio Religiosi, Stanbrook 1916.Google Scholar

^{page 268 note 1} Knowles, M. D., ‘Father Augustine Baker’, in English Spiritual Writers, ed. Davis, Charles, London 1961, 99.Google Scholar

^{page 268 note 2} Knowles, M. D., The English Mystical Tradition, London 1961.Google Scholar

^{page 268 note 3} Except perhaps William Peryn, whose Spiritual Exercises (London 1557) contains mystical elements.

^{page 268 note 4} Durrant, C. S., A Link between Flemish Mystics and English Martyrs, London 1925.Google Scholar

^{page 268 note 5} Rouen, 1609. See Veghel, O. de, Benoît de Canfield (1562–1610): sa vie, sa doctrine et son influence, Rome 1949, 22.Google Scholar

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^{page 269 note 1} On the convent at Cambrai: Benedictines of Stanbrook, In a Great Tradition, London 1956.Google Scholar

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^{page 270 note 1} Low, op. cit., 131–4. See also Denis Granville, dean of Durham, in Surtees Society 47, 67.

^{page 270 note 2} Birrell, T. A., review of Low, Augustine Baker, in Yearbook of English Studies, February 1972, 259–60; and Bodleian, Rawlinson MS. D. 142, fols. 111–268.Google Scholar

^{page 270 note 3} Low, op. cit., 53.

^{page 270 note 4} Sancta Sophia, frontispiece. (Cited hereafter as SS.) All references are to the 1657 edition.

^{page 270 note 5} Downside Abbey MS. 6, ‘A Treatise of Confession’, esp. 69–70.

^{page 270 note 6} Low, op. cit., 26.

^{page 271 note 1} Prichard's Life, 107.

^{page 272 note 1} Low, op. cit., 53.

^{page 272 note 2} Downside Abbey MS., Acts of General Chapter, 1, 238 (1653).

^{page 272 note 3} Lunn, D. M., ‘William Rudesind Barlow, O.S.B., 1585–1656’, The Downside Review, 86 (1968), 234–49.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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^{page 273 note 1} The Life of Father Augustine Baker, ed. McCann, 182.

^{page 274 note 1} Compare Downside MS. 3 and SS. 3. 3. 6. 1–23.

^{page 274 note 2} Cf. MS. 3, 2, and SS. 3. 3. 6. 1.

^{page 274 note 3} Cf. Downside MS. 1, ‘A. B. C.’, 128–79, and SS. 3. 3. 4. 1–24; also MS. 23, ‘Mirror’, and SS. 2. 2. 4. 12–14.

^{page 274 note 4} Knowles, in Davis, op. cit., 103.

^{page 274 note 5} Downside MS. 23, ‘All Virtues’, 18, 31.

^{page 274 note 6} MS. 3, ‘Discretion’, 34, 42, 88, 91, 116, 129. Low (op. cit., 65) is thus wrong to attribute to Baker the absence of imagery in SS.

^{page 275 note 1} MS. 3, 8 ff; SS. 3. 3. 6. 17.

^{page 275 note 2} MS. 6, ‘Confession’, 3.

^{page 275 note 3} MS. 3, 160; SS.3. 3. 6. 9.

^{page 275 note 4} MS. 3, 114; MS. 6, 7.

^{page 275 note 5} E. Maihew, Congregationis Anglicanae Ordinis Sanctissimi Patriarchae Benedicti Trophaea, Rheims 1619–25; Apostolatus Benedictinorum in Anglia, Douai 1626. To these ought to be added the works of Leander Jones and John Barnes. Gregory Sayer and Thomas Preston, though considerable authors, were not members of the congregation.

^{page 276 note 1} MS. 3, preface.

^{page 276 note 2} Cf. MS. 23, ‘All Virtues’, and SS. 2. 2. 15. 6.

^{page 276 note 3} Cf. Downside MS. 22, ‘Remains’, and SS. 3. 4. 1. 12.

^{page 277 note 1} Salvin, ed. McCann, 16.

^{page 277 note 2} See for example MS. 6, 73.