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30. [Benjamin Norton] to George West (Thomas More) (9 July 1612 (AAW A XI, no. 118, pp. 321–4.)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 October 2009
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My deare sr I am butt yesterdaye come home from my sr sib: 811 to my dames wheare I founde to lettres of yours sente thither for mee vz one of the 23 of May the other of the 6 of Iune. & at my sisters I receaved to others from yow one of the 7 of Aprill which came unto mee very speedilye & for in Iune I receaved an other of the 28 of februarye for all which lettres I thanke yow. & I assure yow that I have writtne unto yow everye monethe this newe yeare Maye excepted & that I omitted bicause at the place where I then laye theare had beene watche & warde to staye recusantes & I durste not ve [n] ture to sende by any of them that weare knowen to bee suche. In thease of yours I understood that myne have not come to your handes which makethe mee to sende yow woorde againe & againe diat I have receaved xx8 in silver for your Ringe & woulde faine knowe what I shoulde doe with it. yow guesse right of matters for in deede I have omitted to wright of newes which Londoners might wright of bicause I thinke that they knowe the newes better then my selfe and mat it would bee stale newes eare it came unto yow. wherefore I sayed nothinge of the martirdomes of m.r Crayforde alias scot a benedictine monke & m.r Nuporte whoe had some tymes lived where mr Formallyes lived since whose deathes this is a certane newes & admirable too, that there is in the westerne seas a streame of bludd which many have seene & dipte theire handes in it & this newes I speake of [word obscured: ‘it’ (?)] bicause a lorde of the Counsale & a knight of my Acquaintance saye it is moste certane.
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811 Sybil, Norton's sister. See Letter 1.
812 Constance Lambe.
813 William (Maurus) Scott OSB.
814 Richard Newport. Viscount Montague and Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel attended the execution (30 May), McClure, , 355.Google Scholar
815 Unidentified. In September 1612 Norton wrote to More that the priest Thomas Manger's host had mistaken the approaching ‘mr Formality’ for the pursuivant Anthony Rouse, and forced Manger to depart in haste, AAW A XI, no. 170 (p. 500).
816 See Letters 31, 34. Although the secular priests looked enthusiastically on Scott's martyrdom, he had been on good terms with SJ, and, shortly before his execution, he affirmed his goodwill towards the Society, Stonyhurst MSS, Collectanea N II, no. 14.
817 See Letter 34.
818 Edward Gage of Bentley in Framfield was one of six Sussex recusants who were to be required at this time to take the oath of allegiance, PRO, SP 14/70/9, fo. 25V. In August 1606 he had been granted a licence to go abroad with his family, CSPD Addenda 1580–1625, 486Google Scholar, and was at Liège in June 1612 from where he wrote to the exchequer official Henry Spiller concerning the oath of allegiance, BL, Lansdowne MS 153, fos 81r, 83r.
819 This may be William Webster alias Ward, secular priest, who was banished in August 1613 and travelled to Rome in September 1614, Anstr. II, 344; AAW A XIII, no. 210.
820 Edward Bennett reported that, during this search, George Tias was arrested and Edward Weston only just escaped, Letter 31. The Tiases were closely attached to the Mores of Barnburgh, Thomas More's family, and had followed them from Barnburgh to Low Leyton in Essex in the early 1580s, Shanahan, D., ‘The Family of St. Thomas More in Essex 1581–1640’, Essex Recusant 3 (1961), 71–80, at p. 74Google Scholar. (In April 1614 Tias's mother was resident at Michelgrove in Sussex with Sir John Shelley, AAW A XIII, no. 72.) In October 1613, according to Birkhead, Tias, imprisoned in the Clink, was opposing the priests there who favoured the oath of allegiance, AAW A XII, no. 187.
821 Robert Creighton, eighth Baron Sanquhair.
822 See Letters 28, 29.
823 See Letter 37 for John Jackson's information that John Colleton (not a prisoner in the Gatehouse) was Sanquhair's ‘cheif & I may say soole helper’, i.e. principally responsible for Sanquhair's reconciliation to the Church of Rome.
824 See Letter 1.
825 In Newgate prison.
826 See also Foley VII, 1065.
827 Cf. Letter 35.
828 Alice Cornes and Henry, her husband, and one Mercie [or Mary] Terrie, a widow, all of Battle, were presented for recusancy in July 1605, Cockburn, , Calendar of Assize Records: Sussex Indictments: James I, 18, 19Google Scholar. The Battle parish register records the burial on 15 November 1611 of Margaret, daughter of one Mrs Cornes, ESRO, PAR 236 1/1/1 (for which reference I am grateful to Christopher Whittick).
829 For the Warnford family of Portsmouth, Warblington and Southwick, Hampshire, see Mott, fos 465r–8r.
830 Not identified.
831 Benjamin Norton reported to More in August 1612 that, at the summer assizes at Winchester, , ‘three were condemned in a premunire for refusinge the othe’Google Scholar including ‘one of your acquaintaunce Dr. Ushers father’, AAW A XI, no. 133 (p. 358).