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10. George Salvin (Birkhead) to Richard Baker (Smith) (4 May 1610) (AAW A IX, no. 39, pp. 105–8.)

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my Reverend Good Sr, since the receit of your last, wherin yow sent me the duplicate of bianchettes Letter, I [word deleted] have written unto yow thereof by your meane att bruxels, which I trust will come to your handes. mr farington and the rest have ben with me of Late. I have shewed them all. they tell me your wauntes shalbe better supplied, but will not have yow returne in any case. I cannot yet gett them to take any thought for sendinge either money or Letters, but are content to Lett that burden still rest upon me. wherin surely I will do to my power, but I dare not give yow my worde for an absolute performance thereof, your six pound to mr heath I have alredie paid by meanes of will[ia]m cape; and now father preston and mr vincent beinge in prison, I have sent them vih xiiis iiiid yf they will take it, for dischardge of our Letters sent by mere helpe. I told my brethren thereof, but they made me no answere how I should be repaied againe. the imprisonment of the two foresaid frendes wilbe a great hinderance. I dare not come at London, because the bishops send out there pursivantes in such nomber that no man can escape, the tyme was never so hard in that respect, but that the Lower house standeth so stifly upon it, it is thought the kinge wold have all the penal Lawes against us in his owne handes, yow shall heare from our brethren as shortly as may be. yt greveth them that thinges go as they do.

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Royal Historical Society Camden Fifth Series , Volume 12 , July 1998 , pp. 80 - 84
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References

245 See Letter 8.

246 Edward Bennett.

247 Walter Robert (Vincent) Sadler OSB.

248 They had been arrested by Anthony Rouse and sent to Newgate, AAW A IX, no. 43. Anthony Champney remarked on 6 July 1610 (NS) that Preston had expected that he would be released on the same easy conditions as John Colleton, but news of the assassination of Henri IV had prevented this, AAW A IX, no. 51. See also Foley VII, 1011.

249 On 2 July 1610 Birkhead informed Smith that the superiors of the Cassinese congregation of OSB had again forbidden the English Cassinese Benedictines to carry the secular clergy's letters because of some ‘preiudicial information…against us. but I meane never to trouble them any more’, though he had recently sent Smith £65, by means of the Cassinese, to maintain him in Rome, AAW A IX, no. 49 (p. 132). See also Letter 16.

250 Robert Persons SJ.

251 Thomas Fitzherbert.

252 Cardinal Lawrence Bianchetti. See Letter 9.

253 i.e. Clement VIII's breve forbidding SJ interference in the secular clergy's affairs.

254 Benjamin Norton.

255 Robert Persons's letter to Birkhead written on Easter eve, 10 April 1610 (NS), Milton House MSS (transcript at ABSI), protesting that he departed ‘out of this world with the same desire of love peace, and union betweene all you emongst your selfes and with all our fathers which alwayes I have had’, and denying that SJ ever asserted superiority over the seculars in England. Champney wrote to Smith on 6 July 1610 (NS) that Christopher Bagshaw had told him ‘that father persones before his deathe [on 15 April 1610 (NS)] had changed his opinion and designe’, AAW A IX, no. 51 (p. 141).

256 Persons's letters to Birkhead of 6 and 20 March 1610 (NS) are both in the Milton House MSS and are printed in part in TD V, pp. xcvii–c.

257 i.e. Persons. John Colleton was not yet aware of Persons's death.

258 Letter 9.

259 George Blackwell.

260 Pope Paul V.

261 Thomas Worthington.

262 The Jesuits.

263 Birkhead admitted to Smith that the former appellant Trollop was a controversial choice because he was ‘guiltie of the Appele’, AAW A IX, no. 58 (p. 164). According to Benjamin Norton, Trollop was a cousin of the priest Richard Broughton, AAW A XII, no. 204.

264 James I, The Kings Majesties Speach to the Lords and Commons, xxi. March 1609 (1609)Google Scholar. See McIlwain, C.H., The Political Works of James I (New York, 1965), 306–25, at pp. 322–3.Google Scholar

265 Geoffrey Pole.