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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 October 2009
my Good Sr I have received yoars of the 7 and 29 of Aug and 7 of 7b, and am vene glad yow have received all myne. I am sorie yow have so soone promoted the suit for dowaie, because upon your last letters that yow wold first heare from me, I supposed yow old not begin that suit so speedily, and therfor I was of mind to have sent one of purpose to the president, who now staggereth, thinkinge to draw him to concurre with us. but now I am affeard he will take the matter ill and be verie hardly drawen. but yow must do as well as yow may, yet my desire is that yow wold not prosecute the matter hotely until I send yow word what I have don with the said partie. I have conferred this sommer with some of our brethren, and neither they nor I can tell how to releive the said Colledge.
73 See CRS 41, 146–50; Edwards, , Robert Persons, 385.Google Scholar
74 Thomas Worthington, secular priest, President of Douai College.
75 See Edwards, , Robert Persons, 381–2.Google Scholar
76 John Bavant was a Marian priest, and formerly tutor and close friend of Edmund Campion. He had been one of the arbitrators appointed in the mid-1590s to resolve the quarrels among the Catholic clergy imprisoned in Wisbech Castle, CRS 51, passim. See CRS 41, 75–101; Letter 5.
77 One of the principal aims of the secular priests who promoted the agency was to limit the number of newly ordained seminary priests who were being sent to England each year, CRS 41, 145.
78 Thomas Fitzherbert.
79 Robert Persons SJ.
80 John Colleton, secular priest. For Colleton's ambiguous relationship with the regime, see Renold, P., ‘The Wisbech Stirs, 1595–1598’ (unpubl. M.A. thesis, London, 1959), 72–86.Google Scholar
81 William Bishop, secular priest. Robert Persons had written to Birkhead in May 1608 alleging that both Bishop and Colleton allowed the taking of the oath of allegiance, TD V, p. xxx.
82 John Mush, secular priest.
83 Thomas Leek, secular priest. Richard Blount SJ regarded Leek as a favourer of the Jacobean oath of allegiance, AAW A VIII, no. 186. William Bishop wrote on 1 May 1610 ‘that m’ leake with whom we were uniustly slandered, being taken before Christmas last & put the oath did constantly refused [sic] it’, AAW A DC, no. 38 (p. 102). He was allowed into exile in July 1610. Birkhead noted his departure for Rome with Thomas Wright: ‘in some sense there iorney may be to good purpose’, because they might ‘purge themselves of reportes given out, yf they be obiected unto them’, AAW A IX, no. 53 (p. 149); cf. Foley VII, 1019. Leek, however, returned, was arrested again (Letter 19) and by December 1612 was in consultation with the leading Catholic defenders of the regime's stance on allegiance – Roger Widdrington, Roland (Thomas) Preston OSB and William Barrett (the former opponent of the Calvinists in Cambridge in the 15905), AAW A XI, no. 220.
84 Thomas Worthington.
85 Henry Pratt, secular priest. See Anstr. II, 255.
86 According to Anthony Champney, the Capuchin John Chrysostom Campbell was betrayed by someone who knew him in France, AAW A VIII, no. 165. The Capuchins were regarded as allies by the seculars. William Singleton had noted in April 1609 that as Smith and More were travelling to Rome through France, one who was travelling with them, presumably Thomas Heath (see Letters I, 6), diverted to Rouen to see the Capuchin William Fitch (Benet of Canfield) ‘to draw him to their bend’, AAW A VIII, no. 100 (p. 483), cf. VIII, no. 164; TD V, p. lviii. In December 1609 and March 1610 Champney was sending letters to Smith in Rome via the Capuchins in Paris, AAW A VIII, no. 189, DC, no. 26.
87 On 25 June 1609 Birkhead had noted that two priests, coming from Dunkirk, had been taken, with their breviaries, faculties and various letters, but the earl of Salisbury ordered their release, AAW A VIII, no. 121. They had probably taken the oath of allegiance.
88 These letters were sent enclosed with Birkhead's letter to Smith of 30 July 1609, AAW A VIII, no. 133. No copies survive in AAW.
89 Francis Brian. In a letter of December 1611 Smith noted Brian's death, AAW A X, no. 162.
90 Birkhead signed using his own name, then crossed it out and substituted ‘George Salvine’.
91 Robert Shirley, see DNB, sub Shirley.
92 Before 1607 Shirley married Teresia, daughter of Ismael Khan. He left Persia with his wife on 12 February 1608 (NS), was received in Prague in June 1609, where he left her, and proceeded via Florence to Rome (entering the city on 27 September 1609 (NS)), DNB, sub Shirley; Conway AH 23, 85, 138Google Scholar. In late September 1611 Birkhead informed More that Shirley and his ‘persian wife are heare in England and Conforme themselves wholly to the tyme, goinge to the Church as freely as any other’, AAW A X, no. 128 (p. 368).
93 Edward Bennett.
94 The seculars relied on OSB (both the Cassinese and Spanish congregations) for the carriage of their letters, Lunn, EB, 99.Google Scholar