¹⁵⁵ In October 1609 Birkhead tried to forward this sum to Smith via Gabriel Colford at Brussels; Colford refused to forward it. Via bills of exchange directed to Nicholas Fitzherbert, this money, with at least one further sum of £65, eventually reached Smith partly by Thomas More's and partly by OSB's means, AAW A VIII, nos 161, 166, 168, 180, 187, 191, IX, nos 42, 43, 49, 53. It was clearly difficult and expensive to arrange bills of exchange but the reasons for the chronic underfunding of Smith and More in Rome are still something of a puzzle.

¹⁵⁶ Edward Bennett.

¹⁵⁷ Elizabeth, wife of Sir Robert Dormer, and daughter of Anthony Browne, first Viscount Montague.

¹⁵⁸ According to Edward Bennett's letter to Smith of 12 November 1609, John Colleton was arrested on 11 November and was sent by Archbishop Richard Bancroft to Newgate, AAW A VIII, no. 179. Colleton had, just previously, been arrested and released on payment of a bribe, Foley VII, 1005; AAW A VIII, no. 186. The Jesuits said that he was imprisoned first in the Gatehouse and then transferred to the more commodious Clink prison because he only ‘appeared’ to refuse the oath of allegiance when required by Bancroft to take it, Foley VII, 1005.

¹⁵⁹ Michael Walpole SJ's arrest, according to Birkhead, was on 30 November, AAW A VIII, no. 191. See Letter 9.

¹⁶⁰ Cuthbert Johnson, secular priest. Johnson was sent into exile after this arrest but returned to become chaplain to Margaret Dormer, the wife of Sir Henry Constable of Burton Constable, Anstr. I, 190.

¹⁶¹ John (Thomas) Button OSB. See Lunn, , EB, 155.Google Scholar

¹⁶² Richard Cholmeley of Brandsby; Morris, , Troubles, III, 464–5.Google Scholar

¹⁶³ Birkhead wrote to Smith on 14 December 1609 that Johnson and Hutton were arrested on 1 November 1609, AAW A VIII, no. 191. On 28 March 1610 Richard Cholmeley and his wife were called to the assizes, and the minister of the parish and Thomas Masterman, one of Cholmeley's servants, were bound to give evidence against them, John Hutton and ‘Pearcye als Dorrell’ [i.e. Cuthbert Johnson]. On 29 March Cholmeley and his wife ‘pleaded our pardons’ (obtained in December 1609, CSPD 1603–10, 570Google Scholar) before Sir James Altham, the exchequer baron, Cholmeley, Richard, ‘The Memorandum Book of Richard Cholmeley of Brandsby 1602–1623’, North Yorkshire County Record Office Publications 44 (1988), 29.Google Scholar

¹⁶⁴ Richard Cholmeley married Mary Hungate of Saxton, whose sister Elizabeth married first Sir Marmaduke Grimston who died in 1604, and then Sir Henry Browne of Kiddington, a younger son of Anthony Browne, first Viscount Montague, ‘The Memorandum Book of Richard Cholmeley of Brandsby’, 358Google Scholar. For the confusion over the genealogy, see Davidson, , 92.Google Scholar

¹⁶⁵ Sylvester Norris SJ.

¹⁶⁶ Reginald Bates, secular priest. On 29 May 1611 William Bishop recorded Bates's release from Newgate, AAW A X, no. 48.

¹⁶⁷ Cf. Harris, , ‘Reports’, 239, 266–7.Google Scholar

¹⁶⁸ John Berington, secular priest.

¹⁶⁹ John Scudamore, renegade secular priest, was resident in the household of Archbishop Richard Bancroft. For Scudamore, see Questier, , Conversion, Politics and Religion, 47, 52, 53, 118, 119, 160.Google Scholar

¹⁷⁰ Archbishop Richard Bancroft.

¹⁷¹ Richard Button, a Staffordshire secular priest, had been expelled from the English College in Rome in 1596. He then travelled to England with Sylvester Norris, Anstr. I, 60. On 6 July 1609 Birkhead had reported that Button ‘was stated’ by Bancroft's order while he was visiting the priest William Warmington in the Clink prison, AAW A VIII, no. 125 (pp. 543–4). Birkhead thought Button, the future renegade priest Edward Collier and even the priest John Jackson were unreliable on the question of the oath of allegiance because they all had the privilege of a ‘protection’ to go out of the Clink prison at their pleasure. Birkhead thought Bancroft and George Abbot were using them to divide the secular clergy, AAW A VIII, no. 132 (p. 559).

¹⁷² Simon Fennell, secular priest.

¹⁷³ Cf. Letter 49.

¹⁷⁴ William Hanse.

¹⁷⁵ Thomas Worthington.

¹⁷⁶ Cardinal Edward Farnese.

¹⁷⁷ Jesuits.

¹⁷⁸ Richard Banks SJ.

¹⁷⁹ Lewis Owen, high commission pursuivant. Owen compiled a list in July 1610 of the seven priests he had arrested since he came to England in May 1609, AAW A IX, no. 52 (p. 146).

¹⁸⁰ Thomas Cornforth SJ. See Foley, IV, 583–9.Google Scholar

¹⁸¹ Robert Persons SJ.

¹⁸² Not certainly identified, but this may refer to either one of the priests George or Richard Grisold, one of whom may have used the alias ‘Vaughan’, AAW A X, no. 3. The Welsh priest Lewis Vaughan (not in Anstr.) was a supporter of the agency's aims, AAW A XI, no. 140.

¹⁸³ Smith, Richard, The Prudentiall Ballance of Religion (St Omer, 1609)Google Scholar; ARCR II, no. 709.

¹⁸⁴ For the four copies, see Letter 8. See also AAW A VIII, no. 183.

¹⁸⁵ Elizabeth Dacres.

¹⁸⁶ Cardinal Bellarmine's reply to Lancelot Andrewes's Tortura Torti and to James's ‘Praefatio Monitoria’ in his Apologia pro luramento Fidelitatis was issued at Rome in late autumun 1609, Cardinal Robert Bellarmine SJ, Apologia Roberti S.R.E. Cardinalis Bellarmini, pro Responsione sua aa librum lacobi Magnae Britanniae Regis (Rome, 1609)Google Scholar; ARCR I, no. 1491; Brodrick, J., The Life and Work of Blessed Robert Francis Cardinal Bellarmine, S.J. 1542–1621 (2 vols, 1928), II, 217.Google Scholar

¹⁸⁷ Andrewes replied with Responsio ad Apologiam Cardinalis Bellarmini (1610).Google Scholar

¹⁸⁸ For Andrewes's reported low opinion of Bellarmine's book, see McClure, , 295.Google Scholar

¹⁸⁹ Nicolas Coeffeteau OP, Bishop of Marseilles, Responce à l'Advertissement, addressé par le Serenissime Roy de la Grande Bretagne, lacques I. à tous les Princes & Potentats de la Chrestienté (Paris, 1609)Google Scholar. The Jesuits said that apparently James I did ‘not dislike’ this book because of its ‘moderation’, Foley VII, 1006, but John Chamberlain wrote that James took it in no ‘better part then yf…he shold have bid a T. in his teeth and then crie sir reverence’, McClure, , 294.Google Scholar

¹⁹⁰ Wellingborough, Northamptonshire.

¹⁹¹ Elizabeth Orper, a widow, was buried on 14 January 1610, Parish register of All Hallows, Wellingborough (microfiche copy, Society of Genealogists, reference NH/Reg/7967A). Unfortunately the ecclesiastical court records for the southern division of the Northampton deanery are lacking for this period so these events cannot be checked, Allen, E.J.I., ‘The State of the Church in the Diocese of Peterborough, 1601–1642’ (unpubl. B. Litt, thesis, Oxford, 1972), 163–4.Google Scholar

¹⁹² Edmund Thornell.

¹⁹³ Robert (Anselm) Beech OSB.

¹⁹⁴ Not identified.

¹⁹⁵ Nicholas Fitzherbert.

¹⁹⁶ William Percy.