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26. Richard Sara (Edward Bennett) to Thomas West (More) (11 April 1612) (AAWA XI, no. 57, pp. 169–72.)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 October 2009
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very deere Syr. I have yours of the 14 of Ianuary havinge some 3 weekes a gon acknowledged & awnswerd yours of the 20th of the same. I thanck the gentleman that lay with us of chrismas was twelvemonenth for his kynd comendations, what curtesye was showed hime, (howsoever his affection were other wayes bestowed) was playn & sincere, some 4 monethes a gon I have been towld that he was departe [d] this life, wherupon I sayd a masse of requiem for his soule. but now I am very glad to understand of his good healthe wher with f. Griffyn had some senight a goe acquainted me who is saffly arived in these partes. I was on of the first that he came to: he is not dissmissd but with leave [‘is come’ deleted] (against the likinge of some) arived. he is a good religieuse, playn, & sincere honest man: if his brethern were of his dictamen in the managinge of Englishe affayers we should soone have peace with them. I heere nothinge of the dimission of those 6 you mention in yoar last. I marvaile you say nothing of 4 or 5 letters I sent you synce the begininge of winter. but I suppose it fareth with me, as it doth with your self, for I had yours of the 20 of Ianuary some 3 weekes or a moneth before the 14 of the same monenth came to my handes. I cowld wish mr Ratcliff wrth you, but our wantes be soe great for money that I fear me we shall not send hime.
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683 Griffin Floyd. Floyd had been dismissed from SJ in February 1612, CRS 74, 172, 184.
684 The four surviving letters from Edward Bennett to More since the beginning of November 1611 are AAW A X, nos 148, 166, XI, nos 17, 30.
685 John Mush.
686 George Abbot.
687 See Letter 25.
688 Mark Anthony Capello, who had published F.M. Antonii Capelli…Adversas praetensum ecclesiasticum Regis Angliae liber in quo Iacobi Regis & eius Eleemosynarii [Lancelot Andrewes] confatantur scripta (Bonn, 1610).Google Scholar
689 William Bishop.
690 John Almond.
691 Reginald Bates.
698 This must refer to Lessius, Leonardus, Defensio Potestatis Summi Pontificis, adversas Librum Regis Magnae Britanniae, Gulielmi Barclaii Scoti, & M. Georgii Blacuelli (St Omer, 1611)Google Scholar, though Rome had suppressed the book and it was not generally distributed. SJ, Anthony Hoskins wrote A Briefe and Clear Declaration (St Omer, 1611)Google Scholar, which is an abstract of Lessius's book, ARCR I, nos 1505, 1534, but this had been sent to England as soon as it was published, Allison, A.F., ‘Leonardus Lessius of Louvain and his English translator’, in S. Roach (ed.), Across the Narrow Seas (1991), 89–98, at p. 96Google Scholar. Anthony Champney noted in July 1612 that Preston's new book, Rogeri Widdringtoni Catholici Angli Responsio Apologetica ad Libellum cuiusdam Doctoris Theologi, qui eius pro iure Principum Apologiam tanquam fidei Catholicae aperte repugnantem…criminatur (1612)Google Scholar, not only refuted Edward Weston's views on the oath of allegiance (see Letter 32) but ‘shakethe up also an Inglishe treatise which mentionethe a larger discourse writen of the same subject by Lessius which discours as he [Preston] saythe ys delivered from hand to hand to frends only and not permitted to be scene by day light’, AAW A XI, no. 121 (p. 329). On 4 August 1612 (NS) Robert Pett also remarked that Lessius's own book had arrived in England, Allison, ‘Leonardus Lessius’, 96 (citing AAW A XI, no. 132).
693 Lady Elizabeth Dormer.
694 Anthony and Robert Dormer.
695 Bartholomew Legate.
696 Edward Wightman.
697 On 13 May 1612 Bennett notified More that Wightman had relapsed and ‘was caried agayne to the stake where feeling the heat of the fier again would have recanted, but for all his crieinge the sheriff tould hyme he showld cosen him no more & comanded faggottes to be sett to him whear roringe he was burned to ashes, whose dome alsoe I wish all heretickes that will never repent’, AAW A XI, no. 76 (p. 218).
698 Presumably Wightman is referring to the sectaries mentioned in Revelation 2: 6Google Scholar, Cross, F.L. (ed.), The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (1958), 958.Google Scholar
699 Deuteronomy 18: 18.
700 John 16: 7.
701 For another copy of the articles laid against Wightman, Bodleian Library, Oxford, Ashmolean MS 1521 (B), item 7, pp. 5–9. Bennett misses out one article: ‘That the place the fourth of Malachy, of Elias to come, is likewise meant of his person’, and combines two others. For copies of the articles against Legate, almost identical to Bennett's list, see BL, Lansdowne MS 255, fos 442r– 3r; Roberts, G. (ed.), Diary of Walter Yonge (Camden Society, Old Series 41, 1848), 25Google Scholar. I am very grateful to David Como for this information.