[1] At Rome there was "The English Hospital," founded by two of the
kings of our Saxon Heptarchy; a thousand years had consecrated that
small domicile for the English native; but now the emigrants, and not
the pilgrims, of England claimed an abode beneath the papal eye. It
had been a refuge to the fugitives from the days of Henry the Eighth;
subsequently this English Hospital, under the auspices of Cardinal
Allen, assumed the higher title of "The English College at Rome," and
the Jesuit Parsons closed his days as its rector without attaining to
the cardinalship.
[2] The seminarists were universally revered as candidates of
martyrdom.--See Baronius, "Martyrol." Rome, 29 Dec. St. Philip Neri,
who lived in the neighbourhood of the English Seminary in Rome, would
frequently stand near the door of the house to view the students
going to the public schools. This saint used to bow to them, and
salute them with the words--"_Salvete flores martyrum._"--Plowden's
"Remarks on Missions of Gregorio Panzani," Liege, 1794, p. 97.
[3] As Roman Catholics usually interpolate history with miracles, so
we find one here; being assured that the judge, while passing
sentence on Campian, drawing off his glove, found his hand stained
with blood, which he could not wash away, as he showed to several
about him who can witness of it.--Lansdowne MSS., 982, fo. 21.
[4] "Hist. Soc. Jesu." Pars quinta, Tomus posterior. Auctore Jos.
Juvencio, 1710.
[5] This remarkable incident, in keeping with the rest, was
discovered by Dr. Bliss in a manuscript note on "Leicester's Ghost,"
as communicated by the page to the writer from his own personal
observations.--"Athenae Oxon.," ii. col. 74.
If this voracious Apicius did not die of a surfeit, the fever might
have been caught from the cordial. The marriage of the Master of the
Horse seems to wind up the story.
[6] See the subsequent article on "SPENSER."
[7] "There is," continues our author, "a point much to be noted,"
which is, "what men have commonly succeeded in the places of such as
have been deposed?" The successors of five of our deposed monarchs
have been all eminent princes; "John, Edward the Second, Richard the
Second, Henry the Sixth, and Richard the Third, have been succeeded
by the three Henries--the Third, Fourth, and Seventh; and two
Edwards--Third and Fourth."
[8] I have not seen this edition of "The Conference," or "Speeches,"
but it must assuredly have suffered some mutilations; for Parsons
often puts down some marginal notes which were not suitable to the
republicans of that day. Such, for instance, as these--"A Monarchy
the best Government;" "Miseries of Popular Governments." Mabbott, the
licenser, must have rescinded such unqualified axioms.
[9] Cole's MSS., xxx. 129. Cole adds, that Baker, in a manuscript
note upon Pitt's and Ribadeneira's silence, observes, "That's no
argument--the book was a libel, and libels are not mentioned in
catalogues by friends."
[10] Winwood's "Memorials," vol. i., p. 51.