one of the first conspirators 53,
his early life 59,
shot 109,
taken to Westminster Hall for trial 191.
YELVERTON, SIR CHRISTOPHER;
his sister converted xxvi,
one of Fr. Garnett’s judges 226.
Yorke;
his treason 234, 249.
Yorke, Sir John;
brief for his prosecution cclvii.
Young, Richard;
examines John Frank xl,
William Wiseman l,
Fr. Gerard lxi, lxvii,
Brother Emerson ccliv,
takes a bribe lxix,
forswears himself lxvii, ccxviii,
dies miserably lxxix.
ZUNIGA, DON PEDRO DE;
Flemish Ambassador clxxxiv, cxciii, cclvii,
Donna Maria de cxciv.
FOOTNOTES
1 “William Gerard, son of William who died at Eton-hall in 26 Edward
III. [1352], by his marriage with Joan, daughter and heiress of Sir
Peter Bryn de Brynhill, convertible into Sir Peter Brynhill de Bryn,
became possessed of Bryn, Ashton, and other estates, which have
remained in the Gerards of Bryn ever since.” ... “This family have
had four seats within the township of Ashton, viz., Old Bryn,
abandoned five centuries ago; New Bryn, erected in the reign of
Edward VI.; Garswood, taken down at the beginning of the present
century; and the New Hall, the present residence of the family,
built by the Launders about the year 1692, and purchased by the
Gerards forty years ago” (Baines, _Hist. of Lancaster_, 1836, vol.
iii., pp. 637, 639).
_ 2 Infra_ p. 27.
3 Tutbury is in Staffordshire, on the borders of Derbyshire, near to
Etwal.
4 Public Record Office, _Domestic, Elizabeth_, vol. 215, n. 19.
“Return of Prisoners in the Tower,” endorsed in Lord Burghley’s
hand, “2 Julii, 1588” [an error for August]. “April 1, 1585.
_Imprimis_, the Earl of Arundel, prisoner three years four
months.... August 23, 1586. Sir Thomas Gerard, Knight, prisoner one
year eleven months: indicted for treason.” At the end of the list
are the names of five Priests “committed for religion.” From the
Tower Sir Thomas Gerard was removed to the Counter in Wood-street
(_Domestic, Eliz._, vol. 217, n. 27).
5 Sir Gilbert Gerard was of the family of the Gerards of Ince, a
younger branch of the Gerards of Bryn. His eldest son, Sir Thomas,
was the first Lord Gerard of Gerards Bromley.
_ 6 Domestic, Eliz._, vol. 187, n. 48, viii.
7 P. R. O., _Domestic, Eliz._, vol. 251, n. 14. Feb. 3, 1595.
8 Probably Edmund Lewckener, who appears in the College books as one
of the new fellows on Sir W. Petre’s foundation in 1566.
9 Prece vel pretio (MS.).
10 John Elmer, Bishop of London from 1576 to 1588.
11 There were 47 Catholics in the prison, of whom 11 were Priests,
amongst whom were William Hartley and John Adams, future martyrs,
and William Bishop, the first Vicar Apostolic (P. R. O., _Domestic,
Eliz._, vol. 170, n. 11).
12 In a letter dated October 3, 1614 (Stonyhurst MSS., _Angl. A._, iv.,
24), Father Gerard says that “7 florins of Liége make but 6 of
Brabant, 12s. English.” So we may turn his florins into pounds by
taking off the last cypher.
13 Another occasion may present itself for placing before the reader
the many anecdotes of the English Martyrs related in the
Autobiography, that are now passed over.
14 Father Gerard was present, he says, at the martyrdom of William
Thomson, who suffered at Tyburn, April 20, 1586. Father Holt became
Rector of the English College at Rome, October 24, 1586; and the
name of John Gerard is the first entry for 1587 in the College
Catalogue.
15 When Father Gerard has occasion, in his Narrative of the Powder
Plot, to relate what he knows of Father Ouldcorne’s history, he
gives an account of this journey (_infr._ p. 279).
16 P. R. O., _Domestic, Eliz._ vol. 217, n. 81.
17 P. R. O., _Domestic, Eliz._, vol. 199, nn. 95, 96.
_ 18 Ibid_, vol. 217, n. 3. The Calendar gives for its date Oct. 1,
1588. The postscript of the letter bears the date “8 Septembris.”
19 They both suffered in Fleet Street; Christopher Bales on March 4,
1590, and George Beesley on July 2, 1591. They were condemned under
the statute 27 Elizabeth, for being made Priests beyond the seas and
exercising their functions in England.
20 Ad subcuratorem pacis, et ad censorem (MS.). The above are
conjectural renderings. These seem to have been only village
officials.
21 Irenarchâ aut curatore pacis (MS.).
22 Ut vanitas veritatem occultet (MS.).
23 Father William Weston, commonly called Father Edmonds.
24 The name “Yelverton” is added in the margin. Sir Christopher
Yelverton was at this time Queen’s Serjeant, and subsequently
Speaker of the House of Commons, and Puisne Judge of the King’s
Bench. He died in 1607. His son, Sir Henry Yelverton, Judge of the
Court of Common Pleas, condemned Father Edmund Arrowsmith in 1628,
and died in the January following.
25 Dr. Andrew Perne, Master of Peter-house, Cambridge, and second Dean
of Ely. He is incidentally mentioned by Miss Strickland as having
changed his religion four times (_Lives of the Queens of England_,
vol. vii., p. 208).
26 “It [Braddocks] seems to have been formerly moated round, and two
sides of the moat remain at present” (Morant, _History of Essex_,
London, 1768, vol ii., p. 559).
27 Their names appear in 1580, among the signatures of the thirty Nuns
of Sion, then at Rouen, in a petition to the Catholics of England,
praying them not to allow “the only Religious Convent remaining of
our country” to perish for want of support (Public Record Office,
_Domestic, Eliz._, vol. 146, n. 114). The convent reached Lisbon in
1594, and in 1863 returned to England and settled at Spetisbury,
near Blandford. It is the only Religious House in England that can
trace an unbroken descent from a foundation made before the
Reformation. Sion House was founded by Henry V. in 1413.
28 William is said to have been knighted at a later date. Three
baronetcies were conferred on various branches of the family,
William of Canfield (1628), Richard of Thundersley (1628), and Sir
William Wiseman, Knight, of Riverhall (1660). The two last mentioned
are extinct. The Wisemans of Braddocks were descended from John
Wiseman, Esq., ancestor of the present baronet, who purchased the
estate in Northend about 1430, and was the first of the family who
lived in Essex.
29 P. R. O., _Domestic, Eliz._, vol. 247, n. 3.
30 “While the house at Sawston was erecting, Sir Edmund resided on his
estates in Essex, and served the office of Sheriff for that county
in 20, 21, [1578-9] and 30 Elizabeth” [1588] (Burke’s _Landed
Gentry_, 1850, vol. i., p. 602).
31 The relationship is by affinity and half-blood. Jane, daughter of
Sir William Dormer, by his first wife, Mary Sidney, married Don
Gomez Suarez, Count of Feria; and Dorothy’s father, Robert Lord
Dormer, was a son of Sir William, by his second wife, Dorothy
Catesby (Burke’s _Peerage_).
32 Lady Penelope Devereux, daughter of Walter first Earl of Essex, wife
of Robert third Lord Rich, afterwards Earl of Warwick.
33 Charles Blount, eighth Baron Mountjoy, who in 1603 was created Earl
of Devonshire. He was married December 26, 1605, to Lady Rich, after
her divorce, and in the lifetime of her husband, by William Laud,
afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury. The Earl of Devonshire died in
a few months after this marriage, April 3, 1606.
34 William Wiseman, Richard Fulwood, and Ralph Willis were with Father
Gerard at Lady Gerard’s house before Michaelmas, 1592 (P. R. O.,
_Domestic, Eliz._, vol. 248, n. 103).
35 Thomas Percy, Earl of Northumberland, was beheaded at York, in 1572.
He had four daughters: Elizabeth, wife of Richard Woodroff; Lucy,
wife of Sir Edward Stanley; Jane, wife of Lord Henry Seymour; and
Mary, the second Abbess of the English Benedictine Convent at
Brussels.
36 This venerable Community was transferred in 1794 to Winchester, and
in 1857 to East Bergholt, in Suffolk. This was the first English
Convent founded after the Reformation, and the first to come to
England at the French Revolution.
37 When this was written, the strict laws of Urban VIII. had not yet
been made, which forbid the introduction of any public religious
veneration except by the authority of the Holy See.
38 Defecerunt scrutantes scrutinio (MS.).
39 P. R. O., _Domestic, Eliz._, vol. 248, n. 103.
40 P. R. O., _Domestic, Eliz._, vol. 247, n. 3.
41 “Robert Wiseman, her other son, is also an obstinate recusant and
will by no means take the oath. He is prisoner in the Clink.”
(Young, Apr. 14, 1594. P. R. O., _Dom. Eliz._, vol. 248, n. 68).
42 The Lady Mary Percy, of whom mention has been previously made. She
“was a devout Catholic, and had come to London a little before my
imprisonment, to get my help in passing over to Belgium, there to
consecrate herself to God. She was staying at the house of her
sister,” who had lost the faith, Jane, the wife of Lord Henry
Seymour, with whose Protestant servants Father Gerard was confronted
later on. “I dined with them on the day the witnesses mentioned. It
was Lent; and they told how their mistress ate meat, while the Lady
Mary and I ate nothing but fish ” (_infr._ p. lxviii.).
43 He had previously said that “between Midsummer and Michaelmas last,
Scudamore the Priest was there by the name of John Wiseman and
stayed there one night.” John was apparently the name of the younger
Jesuit, who died in the Novitiate at Rome.
44 Amongst the letters seized at Braddocks in a search apparently in
1592, was one “sent by Dolman the Priest to Mrs. Wiseman, dated 28
die Jun., advertizing her of her son Thomas and her son John their
healths, and of his going to Wisbech, and that he was sorry her
daughter Jane had no warning whereby she might have wrote an epistle
in Latin to the Priests at Wisbech, that they might have understood
her zeal” (P. R. O., _Dom. Eliz._, vol. 243, n. 95).
45 P. R. O., _Dom. Eliz._, vol. 248, n. 68.
46 Young adds, “Mr. Wiseman and his mother had many more servants, both
men and maids, all which were recusants, and none of them would come
to church, to the great offence and scandal of all Her Majesty’s
good subjects in that country.”
47 Stonyhurst MSS. _P._, ii., p. 550.
48 Mr. “Homulus” is Ralph Emerson, the Lay-brother, of whom Father
Campion wrote to the General, “Homulus meus et ego” (_infr._ p.
lxx). It was of the greatest consequence that no names to strike the
eye should appear in letters, in case they were intercepted.
49 Probably White Webbs in Enfield Chase, called “Dr. Hewick’s house”
(P. R. O., _Gunpowder Plot Book_, n. 70).
50 P. R. O., _Dom. Eliz._, vol. 248, n. 36.
51 In the original the words “is Richard Fulwood” are interlined, and
“he will not tell” underlined or erased.
52 Being learned. _Erased in Orig._
53 It was of the last importance for the friends of a prisoner to know,
if possible, what replies he had really given, not only that they
might take measures, if necessary, for their own safety, but also
that they might know how far to go in their own answers when
summoned. The persecutors were constantly in the habit of publishing
all sorts of pretended replies which they said had been given by
prisoners in their secret examinations, so that prisoners seized
every possible opportunity of communicating the truth to their
friends, often, as we shall see, in the most ingenious way.
54 It will be noticed, both from this passage and many others, that the
persecuted Catholics followed that common doctrine of theologians,
maintained also by many Protestant moralists, that an unjust
oppressor has no right, by the law of God, to exact or expect true
answers from his victims, if such true answers would help his unjust
designs, except where the question is of the faith of the prisoner.
It is quite likely that many will be startled now-a-days at such
direct denials, owing to our present freedom from those extreme
circumstances in which such denials were then made. Their own lives
were at stake, or those of other innocent persons, whom it would
have been a sin to betray; and for those persons’ sake, if they held
such denials to be lawful, they were bound to make them. The English
law, with a tenderness then unknown, would now protect a man from
all efforts to make him criminate himself. The persecutors
themselves, who showed so great indignation at their victims’
falsehoods, told lies systematically _in order to ensnare the
Catholics_; a thing which no code of morality ever countenanced,
whether Catholic or Protestant. We propose to discuss this subject
more fully in the sequel.
55 This was the unfortunate Countess of Arundel, whose husband, Philip
Howard, Earl of Arundel, was at this time (1594) in the tenth year
of his imprisonment in the Tower. He died the following year in the
same prison, the noblest victim to the jealous and suspicious
tyranny of Elizabeth, _non sine veneni suspicione_, as his epitaph
still testifies.
56 This holy martyr’s true name was Nicholas Owen. Father Gerard gives
an interesting account of him in the Narrative of the Powder Plot
(_infra_ p. 182).
57 We learn from Frank that it was called Middleton’s.
58 Sir Thomas Egerton, afterwards Lord Ellesmere and Viscount Brackley,
was Attorney General at this date, 1594, and Lord Chancellor in
1609, when this was written. His having been a Catholic is not
mentioned by his biographers.
59 Father Gerard was first confined in the Counter, as he tells us
later. Father Garnett in one of his letters speaks of the Counter as
“a very evil prison and without comfort.” There were in London three
prisons of this name: the Counter, a part of the parish church of
St. Margaret in Southwark; the Counter in the Poultry, “some four
houses west from the parish church of St. Mildred”; and the new
Counter in Wood-street, removed from Bread-street in 1555 (Stow’s
_Survey of London_, ed. Thoms, pp. 99, 131).
60 Even the gentle Father Southwell could not but show his estimate of
this reprobate man. We translate the following from Father More’s
_History of the English Province_, l. v., n. 15. “Though he readily
answered the questions of others, yet if Topcliffe interposed he
never deigned him a reply; and when asked the cause of this, he
answered: ‘Because I have found by experience that the man is not
open to reason.’ ”
61 Stonyhurst MSS., _Angl. A._, vol. ii., n. 27; _P._, vol. ii., f.
604.
62 This was a prison in Southwark, adjoining the palace of the Bishops
of Winchester. In Father More’s Latin Narrative it appears as
_Atrium Wintoniense_. “It was a small place of confinement on the
Bankside, called the Clink from being the prison of the ‘Clink
liberty or manor of Southwark,’ belonging to the Bishops of
Winchester” (Brayley, _History of Surrey_, vol. 5, p. 348).
63 Father Garnett writes, Nov. 19, 1594: “Sir Thomas Wilks goeth into
Flanders, as it is thought for peace; whereupon the arraignment of
the three Jesuits, Southwell, Walpole, and Gerard, is stayed. Gerard
is in the Clink, somewhat free; the other two so close in the Tower
that none can hear from them” (Stonyhurst MSS., _P._, ii., p. 550).
64 “There is a little fellow called Ralph, who is in England for Father
Persons, is a great dealer for all the Papists; he is a very
slender, brown little fellow” (Confession of Ralph Miller. P. R. O.,
_Domestic, Eliz._, vol. 173, n. 64).
65 John Rigby suffered at St. Thomas’ Watering, June 21, 1600, for
having been reconciled by a Catholic Priest.
66 Ann Line executed at Tyburn, Feb. 27, 1601, for harbouring a
Catholic Priest. “She told her confessor, some years before her
death, that Mr. Thomson (Blackburn), a former confessor of hers, who
ended his days by martyrdom in 1586, had promised her, that if God
should make him worthy of that glorious end he would pray for her,
that she might obtain the like happiness” (Challoner, from
Champney’s MS. History).
67 Francis Page, S.J., suffered at Tyburn, April 20, 1602, for his
Priesthood.
68 These words are given in the MS. in English.
69 Roger Filcock, S.J., _alias_ Arthur, executed for his Priesthood,
with Mark Barkworth, _alias_ Lambert, O.S.B., and Ann Line, at
Tyburn, Feb. 27, 1601.
70 John Jones, _alias_ Buckley, suffered at St. Thomas’ Watering, July
12, 1598; and Robert Drury at Tyburn, Feb. 26, 1607, for being
Priests in England.
71 Tres valedictiones mundo datæ a tribus in diverso statu morientibus
(MS.).
72 Qualis vita, finis ita (MS.).
73 “Morbum regium” (MS.). Consumption is a form of scrofula, or King’s
evil, and seems to be the form most likely to be brought on by the
causes here mentioned. In classical Latin, however, _morbus regius_
signifies _jaundice_; and this may be the meaning here.
74 Father Bartoli, in his _Inghilterra_ (bk. v., ch. 13), has the
following passage about Father Gerard, whom he knew personally at
Rome: “At his first entrance into this prison (the Clink) he
procured himself a habit of the Society, and continued to wear it
from that time forward, even in the face of all London when he was
being taken to his different examinations; so that the people
crowded to see a Jesuit in his habit, while the preachers were all
the more exasperated at what they thought an open defiance of them.”
Father Weston in his Narrative (Father Laurenson’s copy, p. 93)
gives it as one of the signs that warned Catholics that Anthony
Tyrrel was wavering in his faith, that without any necessity, in the
Clink prison, he would wear secular dress. His own clerical costume
in prison he mentions as a matter of course. “Egressus sum sequenti
die, mutato habitu in sæcularem” (p. 98).
75 The Gatehouse prison, near the west end of the Abbey, “is so called
of two gates, the one out of the College court towards the north, on
the east side whereof was the Bishop of London’s prison for clerks
convict; and the other gate, adjoining the first, but towards the
west, is a gaol or prison for offenders thither committed” (Stow, p.
176).
76 The celebrated theologian and controversialist, Dr. Sanders, was
sent as Papal Legate into Ireland by Gregory XIII. in 1579.
77 Gabriel Goodman, Dean of Westminster from 1561 to 1601.
78 William Atkinson, the apostate Priest, in a letter to Blackwell the
Archpriest, dated Apr. 9, 1602, said that he was in prison with
Father Gerard (Bartoli, _Inghilterra_, p. 416). This man dared to
offer to poison the Earl of Tyrone in a host (P. R. O., _Domestic,
Eliz._, vol. 251, n. 49).
79 Henry Walpole, S.J., was executed at York, April 7, 1595, for his
Priesthood.
80 It was Father Walpole’s custom to make notes of his conferences with
ministers. In the Public Record Office (_Domestic, Eliz._, vol.
248., n. 51) there is an interesting record in his own hand of his
discussions while he was in the custody of Outlaw, the pursuivant.
81 Edmund Campion, S.J., suffered at Tyburn, Dec. 1, 1581, for a
pretended conspiracy at Rome and Rhemes. The Act of 27 Elizabeth
(1585), which made the mere presence of a Priest in England high
treason, had not yet been passed.
82 This was said, of course, because it was dangerous to mention the
names of any friends who were still at liberty. It could do no harm
to mention those already in prison.
_ 83 Domestic, Eliz._, vol. 262, n. 123.
84 As he supposed. _Erased._
85 Denieth that. _Erased._
86 Denieth that. _Erased._
87 Thinketh that some _substituted for_ knoweth who.
88 Care _substituted for_ charge.
89 Maintenance of, &c, _interlined_.
90 The name ... person _interlined in place of_ to whom.
91 By what name _substituted for_ to whom.
92 The spelling in those days was simply reckless. Father Gerard signs
this Examination “Jhon Gerrard;” it is endorsed “Jo. Jerrard;” and
Sir Edward Coke’s note on it is “Jarrard.” It becomes difficult to
know how to print proper names; _e.g._, Campion or Campian, Persons
or Parsons, Garnet or Garnett, Ouldcorne or Oldcorn. In the
Narrative of the Gunpowder Plot the form of name is adopted that is
most prevalent in the autograph from which it is printed.
93 On the back of a playing card (the seven of spades), which is
attached to the original document, is written in Sir Edward Coke’s
handwriting:
“Polewhele 1
Walpole 1
PatCullen 1
Annias 31
Willms 1
Squier
Jarrard 1.”
Polewhele, Patrick Cullen or O’Collun, Williams, and Squire were all
executed for high treason, the latter on the accusation of having,
at Father Walpole’s instigation, poisoned the pommel of Elizabeth’s
saddle. Annias apostatized after two years’ imprisonment.
94 Scirpicula quaedam duo vel tria ex juncis facta (MS.). It is not
easy to understand exactly what these were.
95 Father Gerard’s great stature could not be more clearly indicated.
This would of course involve a greater weight of body, and
consequently greater severity in this mode of torture. “Erat enim,”
says Father More, in his History, “pleno et procero corpore.”
96 Stonyhurst MSS., _P._, vol. ii., f. 547.
_ 97 Ibid._, _Angl. A._, vol. ii., n. 27; P., vol. ii., f. 604.
_ 98 Ibid._, _P._, vol. ii., f. 548.
99 Stonyhurst MSS., _P._, vol. ii., f. 601.
100 These arguments are purposely omitted in this place, and they are
reserved for insertion later, when we propose to examine into the
morality of the answers made by Father Gerard and others in their
judicial interrogations.
101 We find from an extract of one of Father Garnett’s letters in the
Stonyhurst MSS. that this gentleman’s name was Arden. “Oct. 8, 1597.
Upon St. Francis’ day at night broke out of the Tower one Arden and
Mr. Gerard the Jesuit. There is yet no inquiry after him” (_P._,
vol. ii., f. 548). Father Bartoli, also, and Father More mention
Arden as the name of Father Gerard’s companion. Francis Arden was
committed to the Tower, Feb. 22, 1584. He was probably a relation of
Edward Arden, who was hanged Dec. 23, 1583, “protesting his
innocence of every charge, and declaring that his only crime was the
profession of the Catholic religion” (Rishton’s _Diary in the
Tower_).
102 The number of piers in Old London Bridge was so large, and offered
so great an obstruction to the water, that it was always a service
of danger to pass under the arches while the tide was running, and
often the river formed a regular cataract at this part.
103 The distance would be something over half a mile.
104 Our readers will remember that at this time each side of the bridge
was lined with houses, which looked sheer down into the river.
105 Oct. 4, 1597, says Father Bartoli (_Inghilterra_, p. 426) quoting
Father Garnett’s letter of Oct. 8.
106 Quod differtur, non aufertur (MS.).
107 This may very likely be White Webbs in Enfield Chase.
108 Atkinson was not always so unsuccessful. Sir Robert Cecil endorsed
the letter quoted in a former note, “Atkinson’s letter, the Priest
that discovered Tychburn and was brought me by Mr. Fouler.” Thomas
Tichburn suffered at Tyburn, April 20, 1601, for his Priesthood.
109 The Knight Marshal had jurisdiction within the precincts of the
Court, that is, twelve miles from the lodging of the Sovereign, even
on a progress, though not a chase. The Marshalsea was the prison
originally attached to the King’s house, and at first was intended
only for the committal of persons accused of offences within the
jurisdiction of the Knight Marshal. It stood in High-street,
Southwark, on the south side, between King-street and Mermaid-court,
over against Union-street (Cunningham’s _Handbook of London_, p.
316). Queen Elizabeth’s Knight Marshal was Sir Thomas Gerard,
already mentioned as created by King James Lord Gerard of Gerard’s
Bromley.
110 About this time Father Garnett thought of sending Father Gerard out
of England, evidently from fear lest, owing to his zeal, he should
be recaptured and be still more hardly dealt with, for on March 31,
1598, he wrote to Rome, probably to Father Persons: “Father Gerard
is much dismayed this day when I wrote to him to prepare himself to
go. He came to me of purpose. Indeed he is very profitable to me,
and his going would be wondered at. I hope he will walk warily
enough.... You know my mind; if you think it good, I desire his
stay. All the rest are well” (Stonyhurst MSS., _P._, vol. ii., f.
551).
111 P. R. O., _Domestic, Eliz._, vol. 233, n. 3.
112 “He was sent to Tournay for his Noviceship in 1594, and towards the
end of his second year over-application had so injured his head that
he had to be forbidden to use any kind of prayer. Sent to recruit in
his native air, he passed through Holland on his way to England. At
Flushing he was taken by some English soldiers. The letter he was
carrying showing who he was, they threatened him with torture unless
he would say who had brought him over from Rotterdam. He was ready
to confess anything about himself, but he would say nothing of any
one else; so, instead of offering, as he had hoped to do that day,
the Sacrifice of the Body of Christ, he offered that of his own, to
undergo anything rather than injure others. They hung him up by the
hands to a pulley, and then tortured him by twisting a sailor’s rope
round his head. During the torture he fixed his mind on the eternity
of either pain or joy, and uttered nothing but ‘O eternity!’ The
harm the soldiers tried to do him turned out a remedy; for the
head-ache and singing in the head, from which he had suffered in the
Noviceship, diminished from that time and gradually ceased. He was
taken to London in custody and committed to Bridewell, where his
cell was an utterly unfurnished turret. He bed was the brick floor
and a little straw, till he was helped by the care and charity of
his Catholic fellow-prisoners, and of our Father Gerard. The latter,
who was in the Clink, kept up a secret correspondence with him, and
came to his help both with his advice and money. After about seven
months he succeeded in making his escape through the tiling,
together with two other Priests and seven laymen” (Father More,
_Historia Provinciæ_, l. viii., c. 23).
113 The confession of Ralph Myller (9 Oct. 1584) gives us an insight
into the late Lord Vaux’s London house: “This examinant did
afterwards meet one Robert Browne, who hath an uncle a Priest with
the Lord Vaux, who is a little man with white head, and a little
brown hair on his face, goeth in an ash-colour doublet coat and a
gown faced with cony, and he was made Priest long sithence at
Cambray as this examinate thinketh. This examinant spoke with the
Lord Vaux and with his lady at Hackney, after that his son, Mr.
George, and the said Robert Browne had told him that this examinant
was a tailor of Rhemes; and on Sunday was fortnight this examinant
did hear Mass there, whereat were present about xviii. persons,
being my lord’s household, and the Priest last before named said the
Mass. The said Priest lieth in a chamber beyond the hall, on the
left hand the stair that leadeth to the chambers, and the Mass is
said in the chapel, being right over the port entering into the
hall; and the way into it is up the stair aforesaid, on the left
hand, at the further end of the gallery: and there is a very fair
crucifix of silver” (P. R. O., _Domestic, Eliz._, vol. 173, n. 64).
114 Anne Vaux and Eleanor, widow of Edward Brooksby, daughters of
William third Lord Vaux, by his first wife, Elizabeth, daughter of
John Beaumont of Gracedieu, in Leicestershire, Esq. The mother of
George Vaux was Mary, sister of Sir Thomas Tresham, of Rushton, in
Northamptonshire, Knight.
115 Sir Christopher Hatton, who died childless, November 21, 1591, had
built a country house at Stoke Pogis, Bucks (Campbell’s _Lives of
the Chancellors_, 3rd edit., vol. ii., p. 180).
116 Patrem Pulvium (MS.). We give the English form of the name on the
authority of Dr. Oliver, in his _Collectanea_, s.v. Pullen.
117 In the Public Record Office there is a letter, dated July 22, 1599,
purporting to be from Francis Cordale to his partner Balthasar
Gybels, at Antwerp, which says, “I wrote to you of one Mr. Heywood’s
house searched and a man there taken. I have learned his name since
to be John Lilly. He is sent to the Tower upon suspicion of helping
Gerard the Jesuit out of the same place” (_Domestic, Eliz._, vol.
271, n. 107).
118 Tali loco qui vocatur _Spitell_ (MS). Spitalfields, a district
without Bishopsgate, once belonged to the Priory and Hospital of St.
Mary Spital, founded in 1197, in the parish of St. Botolph
(Cunningham’s _Handbook of London_, p. 463).
119 John Lilly entered the Society Feb. 2, 1602, æt. 37 (Bartoli,
_Inghilterra_, p. 429).
120 In the margin of the MS. is written “Digbæus,” in the same hand as
the text.
121 George Abbot was appointed Dean of Winton in 1559, in 1609 Bishop of
Lichfield and Coventry, from which in about a month he was
translated to London, and thence in 1611 to Canterbury. In July,
1621, as he was shooting at a deer with a cross-bow, he shot the
keeper, for which King James gave him a dispensation. In 1627 he was
sequestered from his office, and his metropolitan jurisdiction put
into commission, but about a year after he was restored. He died at
Croydon, Aug. 4, 1633, æt. 71.
122 Richard de Burgh, commonly called Richard of Kinsale, from his
conduct at that place, Baron of Dunkellin, succeeded his father as
fourth Earl of Clanricarde, May 20, 1601. He was subsequently made
Earl of St. Albans, and died Nov. 12, 1635. He married Frances,
daughter and heiress of Sir Francis Walsyngham, Knight, widow of
Robert second Earl of Essex. She died in 1632. Thus Walsyngham’s
only child became a Catholic.
123 Qui nunc in rure est (MS.). An evident mistake of the copyist for
“in turre,” as is clear from a former passage, where Father Gerard
says, “Father Thomas Strange is at present suffering imprisonment in
the Tower of London, where he has had to undergo many grievous
tortures, and a long solitary confinement. This solitude indeed, if
we look only to his natural disposition, cannot but be very irksome
and oppressive to him; but _he_ is not solitary who has God always
present with him, consoling him, and supplying in an eminent degree
and full abundance all those comforts which we are wont to go
begging for from creatures.”
124 Sir Ambrose Vaux, Prior of St. John of Jerusalem.
125 This name is written “Lathuilli” in the MS. English names frequently
suffer at the hands of this copyist. We have restored the true name
by the aid of Dr. Oliver’s _Collectanea_.
126 Father Gerard here gives a summary of his Narrative of the Gunpowder
Plot.
127 In a letter addressed by Father Ouldcorne to the Council, dated
March 25, 1606, in which he relates all that had passed in the Tower
between Father Garnett and himself, but in a way that could not be
hurtful to either, the following passage occurs. “Also Mr. Garnett
told me that while he was in the Gatehouse he received a note
written in orange (but he told me not from whom) whereby he
understood that Father Tesimond was gone over sea, and that Father
Gerard would presently follow him after he had recovered a little
more strength: ‘whereby’ (said Garnett) ‘I gather he hath been
lately in some secret place, as we were; but by this I hope he hath
recovered his strength, and is also past over the sea’ ” (P. R. O.,
_Gunpowder Plot Book_, n. 214).
128 Both Father Bartoli and Father More remark that Father Gerard was
admitted to the solemn vows of a Professed Father by a special
favour, as his learning, owing to the short course of study through
which he had passed, fell short of that which the Society requires
as a condition of Profession. Father Bartoli says that this “most
rare but most just privilege” was conferred on him, “as virtue, in
which he exceeded the standard, supplied for the studies in which he
fell short of it” (_Inghilterra_, p. 586).
129 Bartoli, _Inghilterra_, pp. 586, 592.
130 Stonyhurst MSS., _Angl. A._, vol. iii., n. 111.
131 P. R. O., _Domestic, James I._, vol. 68, n. 67, and vol. 71, n. 24;
Chamberlain to Carleton.
132 P. R. O., _Domestic, James I._, vol. 70, nn. 25, 46, 55; dated
August 3, 12, and 20, 1612.
133 P. R. O., _Sign. Man._, vol. iii., n. 6.
134 Rymer’s _Fœdera_, t. xviii., f. 44.
135 P. R. O., _Proclamation Book_, p. 121.
136 P. R. O., _Domestic, Eliz._, vol. 165, n. 21.
137 P. R. O., _Domestic, James I._, vol. 18, n. 19.
138 P. R. O., _Domestic, James I._, vol. 47, n. 96.
139 P. R. O., _Domestic, James I._, vol. 16, n. 88; vol. 18, n. 4.
140 P. R. O., _Domestic, James I._, vol. 18, n. 19.
141 Bartoli, _Inghilterra_, p. 586.
_ 142 Hist. Prov._, lib. vii., n. 43, p. 339.
143 Archives of the English College at Rome, _Scritture_, vol. 30; 1632.
144 Stonyhurst MSS., Father Grene’s _Miscell. de Coll. Angl._, p. 19.
145 Stonyhurst MSS., _Angl. A._, vol. iii., n. 70.
146 More, _Hist. Prov._, lib. vii., cap. 3, p. 291.
147 More, _Hist. Prov._, lib. viii., n. 8, p. 355.
148 Stonyhurst MSS., _Angl. A._, vol. iv., n. 5.
149 This is Father Thomas Laithwaite, also called Kensington (More,
_Hist. Prov._, lib. ix., n. 1, p. 391; _supra_ p. clxxvi).
150 In 1617, Sir Thomas Leeds was Prefect and Sir Ralph Babthorpe
Secretary of the Congregation of the Blessed Virgin at Louvain
(Stonyhurst MSS., _Angl. A._, vol. iv., n. 47). A considerable
number of Catholic families had settled in Louvain, and in 1614 they
were disturbed by a summons to appear in England under pain of
losing their possessions. On a remonstrance being made by the
Spanish Ambassador, King James disclaimed the summons, on which the
magistrates of Louvain expelled the pursuivant from the town (More,
_Hist. Prov._, lib. ix., n. 10, p. 406).
151 Stonyhurst MSS., _Angl. A._, vol. iv., n. 6.
152 The Archduke Albert, Governor of Flanders.
153 Stonyhurst MSS., _Angl. A._, vol. iv., n. 7.
154 Stonyhurst MSS., _Angl. A._, vol. iv., n. 17.
_ 155 Ibid._, n. 22.
156 Father Gerard bought a house and ten acres of land; and the price
was less than “200_l._ in present money and the rent of 30_l._ with
which the house and grounds are already charged, which then we may
redeem by little and little, as we get friends to buy it out”
(Stonyhurst MSS., _Angl. A._, vol. iv., n. 23). As the rent could be
redeemed at fifteen years’ purchase, the whole price was thus under
650_l._
157 More, _Hist. Prov._, lib. ix., n. II, p. 406.
158 “Sir Basil Brooke telleth that our German friend is very well at his
house, and in protection of the King, that Canterbury has used him
very kindly, and entreated him, as one whose scholarship is famous,
to make use of his library [as] it shall please him.” Father
Silisdon to Father Owen, August 25, 1614. Endorsed by Father
Owen—“Sir Geo. Talbott well entertained by K. and Cant.” (Stonyhurst
MSS., _Angl. A._, vol. iv., n. 17).
159 More, _Hist. Prov._, lib. ix., n. 15, p. 414.
_ 160 Ibid._, pp. 415, 424. Maximilian had two sons by his second wife,
Mary Anne of Austria, when he was over 60 years of age, and the
eldest he named Ignatius.
161 The Priory of Watten, with its revenue of 3000 florins of Brabant,
was transferred to the Society in 1611 by James Blase, O. S. F.,
Bishop of St. Omers. The proposal had been approved of by the King
of Spain in 1604, and by Pope Paul V. in 1607, but the jealousy of
the English felt by the Archduke Albert delayed the establishment of
an English Novitiate there till his death in 1622 (More, _Hist.
Prov._, lib. vii., nn. 5-7, lib. ix., n. 17, pp. 294-298, 416).
162 Stonyhurst MSS., _Angl. A._, vol. iv., n. 20.
163 They soon increased in numbers, for in 1617 Father More says there
was a Community at Liége of 45, of whom 30 were Novices (p. 424).
164 Stonyhurst MSS., _Angl. A._, vol. iv., n. 29.
_ 165 Ibid._, n. 23.
_ 166 Infra_ p. 110.
167 Stonyhurst, MSS., _Angl. A._, vol. iv., n. 29.
_ 168 Ibid._, n. 31.
_ 169 Ibid._, vol. iii., n. 107.
170 This would appear to be a mention of the death of the “son and
brother of an Earl,” Sir Everard Digby’s great friend, who was
converted when holding some office in personal attendance on King
James, and, after his conversion, received the King’s leave to go to
Italy (_supra_ p. clxvi.). The intermediate link is furnished in
Father Gerard’s letter to Father Aquaviva, Louvain, August 17, 1612
(Stonyhurst MSS., Angl. A., vol. iii., n. 111). “Now at length our
friend Oliver has passed over from Paris to England, for the
Treasurer is gone, his and all good men’s enemy.” [Robert Cecil,
Earl of Salisbury, died May 24, 1612] “and others are about to
succeed him, who, as we hope, entertain for Oliver an ancient and
particular affection. Besides, his eldest brother is dead, and the
second brother left inheritor of all the honours and wealth, so that
a manifold occasion is offered to this our friend of helping himself
in temporal affairs, and others to some extent in spiritual and
greater goods. Summoned by his family he has left in haste, humbly
asking your Paternity’s benediction; in the efficacy of which he
disregards all that heretical fury or perverse malice can invent
against him. The King is going this summer to his brother the new
Earl’s castle, to remain there awhile for hunting. Perhaps Oliver
will take that occasion of presenting himself to the King, who liked
him when he was in his service before he entered the service of God,
and whom he has never offended in anything, except in choosing to be
an abject in the House of God, rather than to dwell in the
tabernacles of men.” We have here the necessary data for determining
that the convert in question was Sir Oliver Manners, fourth son of
John fourth Earl of Rutland, knighted at Belvoir Castle, April 22,
1603, by James I. on his coming from Scotland. The eldest brother
Roger, fifth Earl, married Elizabeth, daughter of Sir Philip Sidney,
and died without issue, June 26, 1612, when he was succeeded by his
brother Francis.
171 Father Edward Coffin was Confessor of the English College for nearly
twenty years. He was succeeded by Father Gerard, who held the same
office for the last fifteen years of his life.
172 Dr. Oliver has misread this date 1611. Cardinal Bellarmine was born
October 4, 1542, so that he would be in his seventy-seventh year in
1618-9.
173 Dr. Oliver says that Father Silisdon succeeded Father Gerard as
Rector and Master of Novices in 1620, and transferred the Novitiate
to Watten in 1622. Father More (_Hist. Prov._, p. 416) may certainly
so be understood, but it is clear from the _Florus Anglo-Bavaricus_
(p. 11) that Father Gerard was Rector in March, 1622, and that the
transfer to Watten took place in 1625. And in the Archives of the
English College at Rome (_Scritture_, vol. 30), in a notice of him
written in 1632, he is said to have been Rector of the English
Noviceship at Liége for eight years.
174 Stonyhurst MSS., _P._, vol. ii., f. 532.
175 Fiat in me, de me et per me, et circa me, sanctissima et dulcissima
voluntas Tua, in omnibus et per omnia, nunc et semper ac in æternum.
Amen (MS.).
176 An allusion, no doubt, to one of the Belgian Sanctuaries of our
Blessed Lady, perhaps that at Montaigu.
177 Stonyhurst MSS., Father Grene’s _Miscell. de Coll. Angl._, p. 19,
quoting “Baines his diary.”
_ 178 Supra_ p. xxi.
_ 179 Supra_ p. cxl.
_ 180 Infra_ p. 244.
_ 181 Apologia pro Vita sua_, by John Henry Newman, D.D. London, 1864, p.
418. The reader’s attention is earnestly called to Dr. Newman’s
treatment of this subject, both at the page quoted, and in the
Appendix, p. 72. To the Protestant authors quoted above may be added
Mr. Froude (_History of England_, vol. ii., ch. vi., p. 57, note).
“It seems obvious that a falsehood of this sort is different in kind
from what we commonly mean by unveracity, and has no affinity with
it.... Rahab of Jericho did the same thing which Dalaber did” [a
Protestant, who gave false answers and swore to them, to save
Garret, his fellow] “and on that very ground was placed in the
catalogue of Saints.”
_ 182 Supra_ p. li.
_ 183 Supra_ p. lxviii.
_ 184 Supra_ p. lxxxii.
_ 185 Supra_ p. cxiv.
186 Ostendi non esse hoc falsum dicere (MS.).
187 This was the wretched Anne Bellamy, a young Catholic gentlewoman,
who for some overbold denunciation of the persecutors was given into
the custody of the ruffian Topcliffe, and was so deeply depraved by
him, as to be brought to the almost incredible infamy of serving as
his tool to inveigle and betray Priests.
188 In subornatâ gubernatione Reipublicæ (MS.). There is clearly some
blunder here. Probably we ought to read “subordinatâ;” yet, even so,
the phrase is not very intelligible. We have judged of the sense
intended, by the context.
189 Sir Walter Scott’s words have been often quoted, and they are fair
specimens of what an honourable man considers lawful. As they were
no hasty and unconsidered expressions, they are deserving of
insertion in this place. Lockhart calls them “a style of equivoque
which could never seriously be misunderstood.” To John Murray Scott
wrote: “I give you heartily joy of the success of the Tales,
although I do not claim that paternal interest in them which my
friends do me the credit to assign me. I assure you I have never
read a volume of them until they were printed, and can only join
with the rest of the world in applauding the true and striking
portraits which they present of old Scottish manners. I do not
expect implicit reliance to be placed on my disavowal, because I
know very well that he who is disposed not to own a work must
necessarily deny it, and that otherwise his secret would be at the
mercy of all who choose to ask the question, since silence in such a
case must always pass for consent, or rather assent. But I have a
mode of convincing you that I am perfectly serious in my
denial—pretty similar to that by which Solomon distinguished the
fictitious from the real mother—and that is, by reviewing the work,
which I take to be an operation equal to that of quartering the
child.” And, in a letter written two years later, he says: “I own I
did mystify Mrs. —— a little about the report you mention; and I am
glad to hear the finesse succeeded. She came up to me with a great
overflow of gratitude for the delight and pleasure, and so forth,
which she owed to me on account of these books. Now, as she knew
very well that I had never owned myself the author, this was not
_polite_ politeness, and she had no right to force me up into a
corner and compel me to tell her a word more than I chose, upon a
subject which concerned no one but myself—and I have no notion of
being pumped by any old dowager Lady of Session, male or female. So
I gave in dilatory defences, under protestation to add and eik; for
I trust, in learning a new slang, you have not forgot the old. In
plain words, I denied the charge, and as she insisted to know who
else _could_ write these novels, I suggested Adam Fergusson as a
person having all the information and capacity necessary for that
purpose. But the inference that he _was_ the author was of her own
deducing; and thus ended her attempt, notwithstanding her having
primed the pump with a good dose of flattery” (Lockhart’s _Memoirs
of Sir Walter Scott_, 1844, pp. 338, 389).
190 We translate partly from Bartoli, _Inghilterra_, lib. v., c. 9, and
partly from More, _Hist. Prov._, lib. v., c. 29.
191 Father Bartoli here asks us to contrast the pious horror expressed
by the officials at Father Southwell’s doctrine with the fact
related by Father Gerard (_supra_ p. lxvii.) of the magistrate Young
swearing on the Scriptures to what he knew to be false, that Father
Southwell had expressed a desire to confer with a Protestant
minister with the view of abandoning the Catholic faith.
192 This last consideration applies, of course, not to the general
question of equivocation (for in that case it would involve a
_petitio principii_), but to the sub-question whether supposing a
simple equivocation lawful (_i.e._, allowing it to be no violation
of veracity in some cases), it could ever be lawful to add to it the
confirmation of an oath. Father Southwell maintains reasonably, that
whatever it is lawful to say, it is lawful also to swear to,
provided the other conditions for an oath are present.
_ 193 Infra_ p. 244.
_ 194 Gunpowder Plot Book_, n. 217A.
195 Cowetry (MS.). If this word is read thus correctly, it is a curious
proof of the antiquity of the phrase “being sent to Coventry.”
196 “One necessary condition,” says Father Garnett in another paper (P.
R. O., _Domestic, James I._, vol. 20, n. 2), “required in every law
is that it be just. For if this condition be wanting, that the law
be unjust, then is it _ipso facto_ void and of no force, neither
hath it any power to oblige any. And this is a maxim, not only of
divines, but of Aristotle and all philosophers. Hereupon ensueth
that no power on earth can forbid or punish any action which we are
bound unto by the law of God, which is the true pattern of all
justice. So that the laws against recusants, against receiving of
Priests, against confession, against Mass, or other rites of
Catholic religion, are to be esteemed as no laws by such as
steadfastly believe these to be necessary observances of the true
religion.
“Likewise Almighty God hath absolute right for to send His preachers
of His Gospel to any place in the world. ‘Euntes decete omnes
gentes.’ So that the law against Priests coming into the realm
sincerely to preach, is no law, and those that are put to death by
virtue of that decree are verily martyrs because they die for the
preaching of true religion.
“Being asked what I meant by true treason, I answer that that is a
true treason which is made treason by any just law, and that is no
treason at all which is made treason by an unjust law.”
197 Dodd’s _Church History_, ed. Tierney, vol. iv., p. 44, note.
_ 198 History of England_, ed. 1849, vol. vii., p. 44.
_ 199 Supra_ p. clxii.
_ 200 Supra_ pp. clxxiv., clxxvii.
_ 201 Supra_ p. clxxvi.
202 Faulks’ confession, P. R. O., _Gunpowder Plot Book_, n. 54.
_ 203 Infra_ p. 59.
204 In the King’s own hand. P. R. O., _Gunpowder Plot Book_, n. 17.
_ 205 Calendar of State Papers_, by M. E. Green. James I., 1603-10, p.
247.
206 P. R. O., _Gunpowder Plot Book_, n. 164.
207 Dodd’s _Church History_, by Tierney, vol. iv., p. cii.
208 Vol. viii., p. 543.
209 Tierney’s _Dodd_, vol. iv., p. cv. The original letter is now in the
archives of the Archbishop of Westminster.
210 Vol. iii., p. 37, note.
211 Tierney’s Dodd, vol. iv., p. cvi.
212 Vol. vii., p. 542.
213 See Narrative, _infra_ p. 79.
_ 214 Domestic, James I._, vol. xviii., n. 35.
_ 215 Supra_ p. clxxix; _infra_ p. 208
216 Here the paper is torn, and three or four words are consequently
illegible.
_ 217 Inghilterra_, lib. vi., cap. 6, p. 513.
218 He was then Confessor in the English College at Rome.
219 Lib. vii., n. 44, p. 339.
_ 220 Angl. A._, vol. iv., n. 92.
_ 221 Inghilterra_, pp. 510, 512.
222 Bartoli, _Inghilterra_, lib. vi., c. 6, p. 510.
_ 223 History of England_, ed. 1849, vol. vii., p. 549.
224 There is a letter extant from Father Blount, the Provincial, to the
General, dated Feb. 10, 1632, which has been understood to relate to
the accusation against Father Gerard, or to a similar accusation
against some other member of the Society. It must, however, relate
to some other matter, as it says, “Vivit enim adhuc author ipse
criminis,” and that the alleged offence took place five years before
the entrance into the Society of the Father in question.
225 Oliver’s _Collectanea S. J._
226 Father Martin Grene wrote a letter (Stonyhurst MSS., _Angl. A._,
vol. v., n. 69) to his brother, January 1, 1665, addressed, “for Mr.
Christopher Grene, at Hilton” [Hilton, _i.e._, Hill-town, meant
Rome, as in the same language _customer_ was the Archpriest,
_physicians_ were Priests, _workmen_, secular Priests, _journeymen_,
Jesuits, &c.]. His brother had asked him to give what help he could
to Father Bartoli. Speaking of the Gunpowder Plot, he says, “I had
once occasion to inform myself of that history, and I found none
better than the two books of Eudæmon Johannes, the one _Ad actionem
Edouardi Coqui Apologia pro P. Hen. Garnetto_, the other,
_Parallelus Torti ac Tortoris_. Though the things be there spread
and scattered, yet they are (if collected) very pertinent to clear
Father Garnett and ours; for example, among other things this is
one, that the traitors had among themselves made an oath that they
would never speak of their designs to any Priests, because they knew
they would not allow of it; also, that they were specially offended
with the Jesuits for preaching patience and submission. There are
divers other circumstances which manifestly excuse ours. I had a
relation made me by one of ours who had it in Civil [Seville], which
clearly shows that the whole Plot was of Cecil’s making; but it
being only told by an old man, who forgot both times and persons, I
believe I shall never make use of it. Yet I have heard strange
things, which, if ever I can make out, will be very pertinent. For
certain the late Bishop of Armagh, Usher, was divers times heard to
say that if Papists knew what he knew, the blame of the Gunpowder
Treason would not lie on them. And other things I have heard, which,
if I can find grounded, I hope to make good use of. It may be if you
write Civil to my brother Frank, he will, or somebody else there,
give you some light in this business.”
227 This Philip Beaumont was Father Oswald Tesimond, _alias_ Greenway,
(More, _Hist. Prov._, l. vii., n. 40, p. 336).
228 For our translation we are indebted to the pen of Father Kingdon.
Portions of it have appeared in the _Month_, and, rendered into
French by Father Forbes, in the _Etudes Théologiques_ at Paris.
_ 229 Collectanea M_, f. 52 h.
230 “For whom He foreknew, He also predestinated to be made conformable
to the image of His Son” (Rom. viii. 29).
231 “If we be dead with Him, we shall also live with him: if we suffer,
we shall also reign with Him” (2 Tim. ii. 11).
232 “As you are partakers of the sufferings, so shall you be also of the
consolation” (2 Cor. i. 7).
233 “The flesh of Thy saints and the blood of them they have shed round
about Jerusalem, and there was none to bury them” (1 Mach. vii. 17).
234 “They were stoned, they were cut asunder, ... they were put to death
by the sword, they wandered about in sheep-skins,” &c. (Heb. xi.
37).
235 “No man cometh to the Father but by Me” (St. John xiv. 6).
236 “Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and so to enter
into His glory?” (St. Luke xxiv. 26).
237 “You shall lament and weep, but the world shall rejoice, and you
shall be made sorrowful.... In the world you shall have distress”
(St. John xvi. 20, 33).
238 “And your joy no man shall take from you” (St. John xvi. 22).
239 “The gates of hell shall not prevail” (St. Matt. xvi. 18).
240 “A great tempest arose in the sea, so that the boat was covered with
waves” (St. Matt. viii. 24).
241 “There came down a storm of wind upon the lake, and they were filled
and were in danger” (St. Luke viii. 23).
242 “I sleep and My Heart watcheth” (Cant. v. 2).
243 “Stones, polished smooth by blow and pressure, are fitted together
each in place by workman’s hand, and set in order, ever to abide in
the sacred fane.”
244 The passages in this Preface enclosed in brackets are alterations in
the original MS. made in another but contemporary handwriting. The
erasures in the original are given in the footnotes.—ED.
245 I say. _Orig._
246 Such a Lord and so true and liberal a paymaster. _Orig._
247 Whip. _Orig._
248 To be inflamed. _Orig._
249 “For I mean not that others should be eased and you burthened, but
by an equality. In this present time let your abundance supply their
want, that their abundance also may supply your want” (2 Cor. viii.
13, 14).
250 “Take unto you the armour of God, that you may be able to resist in
the evil day and to stand in all things perfect” (Ephes. vi. 13).
251 Catholics. _Orig._
252 For. _Orig._
253 Contrary party. _Orig._
M1 Sir Everard Digby in clearing the Society.
254 Actors. _Orig._
255 Until the whole matter was plotted and prepared and had been without
doubt. _Orig._
256 This discourse following. _Orig._
257 But the contrary from. _Orig._
258 But. _Orig._
259 “True justice hath compassion, but that which is false indignation.”
260 Should. _Orig._
261 No impatience but zeal. _Orig._
262 Desperate. _Orig._
263 “Let us all die in our innocency, and heaven and earth shall be
witnesses for us that you put us to death wrongfully.” “If we shall
all do as our brethren have done, and not fight against the heathen
for our lives and our justifications, they will now quickly root us
out of the earth.” 1 Mach. ii. 37, 40.
264 But said one to another. _Orig._
265 This might seem to have come into their minds if we shall judge.
_Orig._
266 That they will follow the rule of the Apostle, saying, “Fratres, si
præoccupatus fuerit homo in aliquo delicto, vos qui spirituales
estis hujusmodi instruite in spiritu lenitatis.” This is not to
condemn them severely, to cry out against them, to inveigh bitterly
against the men and their minds and intentions whatsoever: oh no,
“in spiritu lenitatis,” saith the Apostle. We that be Catholics in
England do all with one voice grant the fact to be evil, we neither
did nor would for a world have concurred with the action; but we
pity the persons whom we knew to be otherwise wise and circumspect
as any they left behind them; yea, devout and zealous men as any one
shall see in a kingdom, and divers of them of so tender consciences
that they would not to save their life have deceived their neighbour
of a penny, or wittingly have admitted the least offence to God.
_Orig._
267 Not only “in the sun and dust” but “in blood” also and “many
wounds.”
268 “Bear ye one another’s burdens, and so you shall fulfil the law of
Christ” Gal. vi. 2.
269 “The abomination of desolation standing in the holy place” (St.
Matt. xxiv. 15).
270 “Cæsar’s friend” (St. John xix. 12).
271 “I wished myself to be an anathema from Christ for my brethren”
(Rom. ix. 3).
272 “Of whom the world was not worthy” (Heb. xi. 31).
273 “Lift up your heads because your redemption is at hand” (St. Luke
xxi. 25).
274 “The son of such great merits could not perish.”
275 The passage within brackets is erased in the original.
276 Sir Thomas Gerard. _Erased in orig._
277 Sir Thomas Gerard. _Erased in orig._
278 Underlined _in orig._ probably for erasure.
279 This whole paragraph is marked in the original.
280 Were first beat till they cried, and then beaten for crying. _Erased
in orig._
M2 Execution of penal laws upon Catholics.
_ 281 Interlined_ 80 crowns _and in another hand_ 88 at least.
M3 The violent manner of searches.
282 “I will search Jerusalem with lamps” (Soph. i. 12).
283 “For if in the green wood they do these things, what shall be done
in the dry?” (St. Luke xxiii. 31).
284 “For the time is that judgment should begin at the house of God. And
if first at us, what shall be the end of them that believe not the
Gospel of God?” (1 St. Peter iv. 17).
285 “They have searched after iniquities: they have failed in their
search ... and God shall be exalted: the arrows of children are
their wounds” (Psalm lxiii. 7, 8).
286 “For how can he otherwise appease his master, but with our heads?”
(1 Kings xxix. 4).
M4 The L. Chancellor, his speech in the Star Chamber.
M5 Sir Edward Coke, now L. Chief, in his 5th part of Reports.
287 “Knowest thou not that it is dangerous to drive people to despair?”
(2 Kings ii. 28).
288 “The whole head is sick and the whole heart is sad” (Isaias i. 5).
289 “Who hath not forsaken them that hope in Him” (Judith xiii. 17).
290 “Who will not suffer you to be tempted above that which you are
able, but will make also with temptation issue, that you may be able
to bear it” (1 Cor. x. 13).
291 “Who after you have suffered a little, will Himself perfect you and
confirm you and establish you” (1 St. Peter v. 10).
292 “She reacheth from end to end mightily and ordereth all things
sweetly” (Wisd. viii. 1).
293 “We must not do evil that good may come.”
294 Where this kind of mark ¶ is found, my meaning is to have a new line
begin. _Orig. in marg._
295 “Eructare verbum malum.” _Orig._
296 “That, as the right of hand to hand defence is of the Natural Law,
the Superior cannot take it away, or enjoin the contrary.”
297 “For they that will become rich, fall into temptation, and into the
snare of the devil” (1 Tim. vi. 9).
298 “Though we be cast into bonds as evil doers, and be brought before
Kings and rulers as not being Cæsar’s friends.”
299 “Can peace be hurtful to religion?”
300 “We have received your letters and accept them with all the
reverence due to His Holiness and your Paternity. For my part four
times up to the present I have hindered disturbances. Nor is there
any doubt that we can prevent all public taking up of arms, as it is
certain that many Catholics would never attempt anything of this
sort without our consent, except under the pressure of a great
necessity. But two things make us very anxious. The first is lest
some in some one province should fly to arms, and that then very
necessity should compel others to like courses. For there are not a
few who will not be kept back by a mere prohibition of His Holiness.
There were some who dared to ask, when Pope Clement was alive,
whether the Pope could prohibit their defending their lives. They
further say that no Priest shall know their secrets; and of us by
name even some friends complain that we put an obstacle in the way
of their plans. Now to soften these in some way, and at least to
gain time, that by delay some fitting remedy may be applied, we have
advised them that by common consent they should send some one to the
Holy Father, which they have done, and I have sent him into Flanders
to the Nuncio, that he may commend him to His Holiness, and I have
sent by him letters explaining their opinions and the reasons on
both sides. These letters are written at some length, as they will
be carried very safely. And this for the first danger. The other is
somewhat worse, for the danger is lest secretly some treason or
violence be shown to the King, and so all Catholics may be compelled
to take arms. Wherefore, in my judgment, two things are necessary:
first, that His Holiness should prescribe what in any case is to be
done; and then, that he should forbid any force of arms to the
Catholics under censures, and by Brief publicly promulgated, an
occasion for which can be taken from the disturbance lately raised
in Wales, which has at length come to nothing. It remains that as
all things are daily becoming worse, we should beseech His Holiness
soon to give a necessary remedy for these great dangers, and we ask
his blessing and that of your Paternity.”
301 This date is an interlineation. Father Gerard has not noticed that
the passage “I have a letter from Field,” &c., is taken from the PS.
of this letter, and that the PS. bears date 21 Octobris. For this
omission he has been severely blamed by Mr. Tierney.—ED.
302 “Hitherto thou shalt come, and shalt go no further, and here thou
shalt break thy swelling waves” (Job xxxviii. 11).
303 “All that take the sword, shall perish with the sword” (St. Matt.
xxvi. 52).
304 “Lest perhaps gathering up the cockle, you root up the wheat also
together with it” (St. Matt. xiii. 29).
M6 The letter sent to the Lord Mounteagle.
305 “Every best gift and every perfect is from above” (St. James i. 17).
306 Is above 60. _Erased in Orig._
307 Neither friends to their persons, nor friends to their religion.
_Erased in Orig._
308 But this bruit, indeed, had been the likeliest way to increase their
number by the resort of other Catholics from other countries, if the
fact itself had not disliked other Catholics, and their minds had
not been well prepared beforehand to refuse all such attempts by the
persuasion of Father Garnett and others by his direction, according
to the order sent from His Holiness and the like commandment also
from Father General and Father Persons, as before hath been
declared. _Erased in Orig._
309 But expecting belike that divers Catholic gentlemen of those
countries (where there be very many, and some of great worth and
large estates) should have come unto them. And Mr. Thomas Winter was
sent unto one of the greatest (whose daughter Mr. Robert Winter
aforesaid had married), but he caused his gates to be shut against
him and would not so much as hear him speak. And yet the said
gentleman was afterward in great trouble and had like to have lost
all his estate, as bearing good-will unto them. _Erased in Orig. The
lines of erasure extend over the following sentence also._
310 This must be in. _Orig. in marg._
311 Compare the German “Lohe,” a flame. Some English dictionaries give
“Low,” a local and obsolete word, with the same meaning.—ED.
312 He also protested there was no more the conspiracy than those who
had there published themselves by that public rising in arms.
_Erased in Orig._ This is not good to be in, because of Mr. Tresham,
who was one, and not with them. _In marg. in another hand._
313 If he lived so many days, he should have carried from that place and
examined, etc. _In marg. in yet another hand._
314 And got to some friends’ houses, where they lived safe for a month
or more, but afterwards were discovered and taken. _Erased in Orig._
315 Let all this be in and stand for the end of this chapter, until you
come to that which is blotted out. _Orig. in marg._
316 This must be in. _Orig. in marg._
317 All unto this place must be in. _Orig. in marg._ They affirmed
constantly there were no other conspirators than were taken. And as
for Priests, they did both then and at their death protest there was
none in the action, insomuch that it was generally voiced and
believed through England that there was no Priest accused or could
be touched with the treason, which gave generally great satisfaction
both to Catholics and others. And so in right it should still have
continued; but the Puritans did much envy that they should be free
from blame, upon whom they wished rather that all might light. And
therefore they began to practise and work the contrary opinion,
first in the King, and afterwards in public show unto the country,
as shall afterwards appear. _Erased in Orig._
318 Who had much laboured to possess the King with that opinion as being
most for their advantage. _Erased in Orig._
319 By which we may gather that their grief and motives were chiefly for
the common cause, as was gathered before out of their own words and
protestations. _Erased in Orig._
M7 The Puritans so ready to execute severity upon all Catholics that
they were restrained by the King.
M8 The first chief point of the King’s speech.
320 Concerning his opinion of his Catholic subjects. _Erased in Orig._
321 Upon this occasion of the disobedience in these few gentlemen.
_Erased in Orig._
M9 The second chief point of the King’s speech.
322 “Without faith it is impossible to please God” (Hebr. xi. 6).
323 “For other foundation no man can lay but that which is laid” (1 Cor.
iii. 11).
324 “Which unless every one shall believe faithfully and firmly, he
cannot be saved: and unless a man shall keep it whole and inviolate,
without doubt he will perish for ever.”
325 “The pillar and ground of the truth” (1 Tim. iii. 15).
326 “My people have been silent because they had no knowledge; because
thou hast rejected knowledge, I will reject thee” (Osee iv. 6).
327 “Open thy mouth wide and I will fill it” (Ps. lxxx. 11).
328 “A good tree cannot bring forth evil fruit, neither can an evil tree
bring forth good fruit” (St. Matt. vii. 18).
329 “Not serving to the eye ... but ... as to the Lord” (Col. iii. 22,
23; Eph. vi. 6).
330 “The pride of them that hate Thee ascendeth continually” (Ps.
lxxiii. 23).
331 Father William Weston was known by this name.—ED.
332 To be lions within when they seem lambs without. _Erased in Orig._
333 Bates was a very honest and devout man. _Orig. in marg. in another
hand._
334 Poor. _Erased in Orig._
335 Earl of Suffolk. _Erased in Orig._
336 Of his ordinary abode. _Erased in Orig._
337 So that you are now in the King’s mercy. _Erased in Orig._
338 And searching they will fail in their search.
339 Whensoever it should please God to permit it. _Erased in Orig._
340 “Horribly and speedily will He appear to you, for a most severe
judgment shall be for them that bear rule” (Wisd. vi. 6).
341 One thing was observed by many at that time as markable in respect
of the event, although the foresight were but casual, which was a
prediction by one of their kind of prophets, one Gresham, a man of
special fame amongst them for skill in astrology and making of
almanacs, with certain predictions of events, not only of the
weather, but of other accidental matters depending of man’s
free-will, and therefore far past his skill to divine of. Yet this
man, in an almanac which he had set forth for that year of 1605, had
assigned for every particular day some special event of things that
should then happen. Amongst the rest, the mark which was set upon
the day of the date of this proclamation, and in which it was
published in London, was this, “Might against right;” which, seeing
it was prepared and printed before the proclamation was thought of,
it gave many cause to think that the pen of this man was guided by a
better foresight than his own, and directed to set down the truth by
the same power that could make the beast that Balaam rode upon to
reprehend his master, and afterwards caused that covetous Prophet to
bless the people of God and to foretell the truth, much against his
own inclination and the intention of his coming. _Erased in Orig._
342 “For the anger of man worketh not the justice of God” (St. James i.
20).
343 “No one can snatch them out of the hand of My Father” (St John i.
29).
344 They are “delivered out of the hand of Herod, and from all the
expectation of the people of the Jews” (Acts xii. 11).
345 But his hour was come.
346 “What will you give me?” (St. Matt. xxvi. 15).
347 “What accusation bring you against” these men? (St. John xviii. 29).
348 “For envy they had delivered” them (St. Matt. xxvii. 18).
349 If they were not malefactors, the royal power would not have
delivered them up.
350 Greenway. _Erased in Orig._
351 “Perverting our nation, and forbidding to give tribute to Cæsar”
(St. Luke xxiii. 2).
352 “It is enough for the disciple that he be as his Master” (St. Matt.
x. 25).
353 Which was their “hour and the power of darkness” (St. Luke xxii.
53).
354 If this be particularly set down in the former chapter, it may be
here left out. _Orig. in marg. in another hand._
355 “With swords and clubs” (St. Matt. xxvi. 47).
356 Into the hands of those that sought their life.
357 Fed “with bread of affliction and water of distress” (3 Kings xxii.
27).
358 That they may suffer together in this world, who are to reign
together in the world to come.
359 We “have fought a good fight,” we “have finished the course,” we
“have kept the faith” (2 Tim. iv. 7).
360 The crown of justice which was laid up for them, and for those also
who love the coming of Christ.
361 From this delation and accusation of his brother.
362 Who must needs have a fling at it, because his place was not to
speak much before, when the Council did examine him. _Erased in
Orig._
363 “Their feet are swift to shed blood” (Psalm xiii. 3).
364 According to the measure they have meted.
365 As Job to the accusing enemy, to persecute by bloody interrogations
and other vexations also, as they should find it needful, reserving
his life. _Erased in Orig._
366 And God infatuated “the counsel of Achitophel” (2 Kings xv. 31).
367 “I was in prison and you came to Me” (St. Matt. xxv. 36).
368 “Which believeth all things, hopeth all things” (1 Cor. xiii. 7).
369 This letter was so cunningly counterfeited that it could not be
distinguished from Fr. Garnett his own hand, and it was signed also
and so licensed to pass with the lieutenant his brand unto it. Yet
all such necessaries as the Father writ for and the other sent were
seized upon by the Lieutenant, and the Priest himself brought after
in great trouble for returning this charitable answer. _Erased in
Orig._
370 “Who had followed Jesus from Galilee, ministering unto Him” (St.
Matt. xxvii. 55).
M10 The hole in the wall where the FFrs. were overheard.
371 “The world shall rejoice and you shall be made sorrowful, but your
sorrow shall be turned into joy ... and your joy no man shall take
from you” (St. John xvi. 20, 22).
372 “Woe to you that now laugh, for you shall mourn and weep” (St. Luke
vi. 25).
M11 The trouble of Mrs. Ann Vaux.
373 “The sensual man perceiveth not these things that are of the Spirit
of God” (1 Cor. ii. 14).
374 Which no man knoweth but he who receiveth it.
375 But the time we cannot certainly learn. _Erased in Orig._
376 In so great a cloud of witnesses.
377 To enlarge or restrain the seal of the secret.
378 Being no causer of it himself, he should not have left them to
themselves without seeking to divert them from their purpose; not
knowing whether. _Erased in Orig._
379 And the confession being only of his knowledge what others had
opened unto him of their intentions so long time after they had
begun the practice. _Erased in Orig._
380 Of his knowledge thereof from him, and. _Erased in Orig._
M12 All others of the Society apparently cleared from any knowledge of
the Plot.
381 The seal of the secret of confession.
382 Ralph Ashley, for eight years Father Ouldcorne’s servant, is
believed, like Nicholas Owen, to have been a Lay-brother of the
Society.—ED.
383 18 or 19. _Erased in Orig._
384 “The beginnings of sorrows” (St. Matt. xxiv. 8).
385 But God “will bring to light the hidden things of darkness, and will
make manifest the counsels of the hearts” (1 Cor. iv. 5).
386 Now I must set down their proceedings by course of law against the
gentlemen that were the conspirators in the treason (of which I
formerly treated), and this I will do in this chapter following.
_Erased in Orig._
387 This great diligence and often iterated examinations of Father
Garnett continued so long that it was almost the end of March before
they could bring matters to that pass which hath been declared, and
so that they might have any little show to prove the Father guilty
against the laws of the realm for his only concealing of that which
by the laws of God he could not reveal. _Erased in Orig._
388 The 27th.—ED.
389 Greeneway. _Erased in Orig._
390 As in the last chapter hath been declared. _Erased in Orig._
391 And with divers others. _Erased in Orig._
392 For with the same measure with which they shall have meted, it shall
be measured to them again.
M13 The Attorney his Speech.
M14 Father Gerard false accused and fully cleared.
393 And namely Fr. Gerard. _Erased in Orig._
394 Related in that discourse set forth by His Majesty, as I said
before, was concluded of amongst themselves and. _Erased in Orig._
395 And that after they went into another chamber to confess and to
receive the Blessed Sacrament: so that it appears most evidently by
His Majesty’s own narration of the conspirators their confessions
that Mr. Attorney did that public audience speak _or_ deliver, &c.
_Erased in Orig. The following passage in the text from_ For these
be the words _to_ he doth not know _are in the margin of the Orig._
M15 The speech of the prisoners at the bar.
396 The sixth.—ED.
397 The ninth.—_Ed._
398 The ninth.—ED.
399 When he meant to publish those foresaid letters he had sent unto the
Council, and did withal. _Erased in Orig._
400 That the craftsmen of death should perish by their own craft.
401 As the Earl of Salisbury now is placed in. _Erased in Orig._
402 Of his knowledge touching Father Gerard his innocency. _Erased in
Orig._
403 This clause may be omitted in this place, and serve better to be
alleged in the last chapter. _Orig. in marg._
M16 Sir Everard Digby his death.
404 Who returned from the execution full of pity towards so worthy a
man, yea, so full of admiration of his fortitude and great opinion
of his devotion that they could talk almost of nothing else all that
day. _Erased in Orig._
405 Here wants something. _In another hand, erased in Orig._
M17 Mr Robert Winter his death.
M18 Mr. Thomas Winter his death.
406 This sentence in the original is underlined, and marked with crosses
in the margin.
M19 Mr. Rookwood his death.
407 Impugn the known truth.
408 In hatred of the Catholic faith.
409 But the Commission was not read, which was expected as needful.
_Erased in Orig._
M20 The speech of Mr. Crooke, the King’s Serjeant.
410 “There is nothing hid, that shall not be revealed; nor secret that
shall not be known” (St. Matt. x. 26).
411 God “disappointeth the counsel of the wicked” (Job v. 13).
412 Of many names but of no good name.
413 Speaking signs, the testimonies of circumstances, and the confession
of the accused.
M21 The speech of the Attorney-General.
414 For that can never be said too often which cannot be sufficiently
well learnt.
415 Public praise is private blame.
416 It is a mistake to use many means when a few will suffice.
417 The author of an evil is more guilty than the actual perpetrator.
418 The Ninth.—ED.
419 (So the Attorney, and truly it is a grief to pass forward in this
narration and not to refute such absurd speeches as a man findeth
therein, but if I should do so this chapter would be much too long,
and it is already sufficiently done by others. He proceedeth:).
_Erased in Orig._ The passage is in a different hand.
420 “With the mouth confession is made unto salvation” (Rom. x. 10).
421 While circumstances should remain as they were, and until it should
be fitting to carry out the Bull.
422 O well beloved of God, for whom the very air fights, and the winds
conspire to come to the trumpet call.
423 Prefect. _Erased in Orig._
424 To the Catholic Princes and Nobles of the whole Kingdom of England.
425 When it shall happen that that miserable woman shall depart this
life.
426 Whatsoever be the nearness of blood on which his claim rests.
427 Unexceptionable.
428 Of a cunning and subtle wit and profound perfidy.
429 Take away the faithless people from the boundaries of the Faithful,
that we may joyfully give due praises unto Christ.
430 This was the hymn of that time, being the Feast of All Saints, and
so applied by Father Garnett to the hindrance of heretics in making
heretical laws intended against Catholics. _Erased in Orig._
431 Thus he. But he did not know that my Lord of Salisbury would
afterwards tell the case truly that it was done of policy. So we see
that Mr. Attorney can add and diminish like a cunning orator.
_Erased in Orig._
432 (Either mistaking or misreporting the state of the question).
_Erased in Orig._
433 Loses the right of reigning.
434 Dreamed of. _Erased in Orig._
M22 Father Garnett his speech.
435 His long discourse. _Erased in Orig._
M23 1. Concerning Catholic doctrine in general.
436 “Of that day or hour no man knoweth, neither the Angels in heaven,
nor the Son, but the Father” (St. Mark xiii. 32; Cf. St. Matt. xxiv.
36).
437 “Go you up to this festival-day: but I go not up to this
festival-day” (St. John vii. 8).
438 “Then He also went up to the feast, not publicly, but as it were in
private” (St. John vii. 10).
M24 2. Concerning recusants in general.
439 In divinis. _Erased in Orig._
M25 3. The Jesuits in general.
M26 4. Father Garnett in particular.
440 Albeit I must acknowledge. _Erased in Orig._
441 Long since. _Erased in Orig._
442 “Thou shalt gain thy brother” (St. Matt. xviii. 15).
443 Upon means made unto me. _Erased in Orig._
444 This part may be omitted. _In marg. against this sentence._
M27 The case concerning innocents, answered by Father Garnett.
M28 The prayer objected to Father Garnett answered by him.
445 Agreeing together against the anointed of the Lord (_Vid._ Psalm ii.
2).
446 Indirect. _Erased in Orig._
447 Not to prohibit when possible, is to order.
448 This may be left out. _In marg._
449 Which was indeed. _Erased in Orig._
450 In every place. _Erased in Orig._
451 That they might be crowned with mercies and compassion (Cf. Ps. iii.
4).
452 Ralph Ashley, for eight years Father Ouldcorne’s servant, is
believed, like Nicholas Owen, to have been a Lay-brother of the
Society.—ED.
453 The Lord Mounteagle’s sister. _Erased in Orig._
454 As you might read in the beginning. _Erased in Orig._
455 Where it is ever found by those that seek it with a penitent heart,
which he did, and acknowledged his fault to be exceeding great in
betraying those Fathers. And both there publicly in the Shire Hall
did ask Father Ouldcorne publicly forgiveness and again at the time
of his execution, acknowledging that he had done both them and all
the Catholics of England great wrong in being cause of their
apprehension. _Erased in Orig._
456 I am uncertain whether he was condemned of felony or treason,
because of harbouring a proclaimed traitor. _In marg. in another
hand._
457 And the Bishops of Worcester in particular (whose prisoner he had
been before that). _Erased in Orig._
458 But none of these causes could they prove, the Father showing that
he had not sinned in anything, either against the law or against the
King.
459 In which case the gravest casuists of this time. _Erased in Orig._
460 But God, in Whom we can do all things, does not forsake them that
hope in Him (Cf. Jud. xiii. 17).
461 Being under the same condemnation, and not as yet fearing God (Cf.
St. Luke xxii. 40).
462 Blinded soul. _Erased in Orig._
463 The great blindness of heart. _Erased in Orig._
464 Are elected and. _Erased in Orig._
465 Believe and. _Erased in Orig._
466 Must needs be very. _Erased in Orig._
467 In the same place and. _Erased in Orig._
468 After the old account. _Erased in Orig._
469 Choosing rather without offence to fall into the hands of men than
to sin in God’s sight, and dying for justice’s sake, they have
gained the Kingdom of Heaven.
470 Father Ouldcorne suffered April 7, 1606, æt. 45. So Dr. Oliver.
Father Gerard, _infra._ p. 285, says that he was “near fifty years
old.”—ED.
471 Seven, according to Father Henry More.—ED.
472 Shippers. _Erased in Orig._
473 And finding it so in two or three trials. _Erased in Orig._
474 Father Southwell was executed February 21, 1595, æt. 34.—ED.
475 Father Weston was apprehended in 1586, and, after imprisonment in
the Clink, was sent to Wisbech Castle in 1587. In 1598 he was
prisoner in the Tower of London, and he was banished in 1603.—ED.
476 The place where he remained. _Erased in Orig._
477 Her name is given by Father More as Dorothy Abington.—ED.
478 He founded and governed nearly all the domestic churches in those
parts.
479 (As himself did constantly affirm unto me). _Erased in Orig._
480 And his head full of grey hairs, the rather occasioned by his much
loss of blood before mentioned. _Erased in Orig._
481 Our Lord doing the will of those who fear Him.
482 “I am come to send fire on the earth, and what will I but that it be
kindled?” (St. Luke xii. 49).
483 How “God is wonderful in His Saints” (Ps. xxii. 36).
484 And of the signs by which it hath pleased God to show his innocency
and martyrdom. _Erased in Orig._
485 To draw some other great person into. _Erased in Orig._
486 This may be considered whether it be convenient to be left out. _In
marg. in another hand._
487 And he gloried in the Cross of our Lord Jesus Christ, in Whom is his
salvation, life, and resurrection, by Whom he is saved and
delivered.
488 Dinner. _Erased in Orig._
489 Side. _Erased in Orig._
490 Dr. John Overal, afterwards Bishop of Lichfield and Coventry, and
Dr. George Abbot, afterwards Archbishop of Canterbury.—ED.
491 Staying for him. _Erased in Orig._
492 And perceiving that there was no place of retiring, he began to
speak of the present festivity of the Cross. _Erased in Orig._
493 In the matter. _Erased in Orig._
494 Further to be touched than he is. _Erased in Orig._
495 Went to the side of the scaffold. _Erased in Orig._
496 “We adore Thee, O Christ, and we bless Thee, because by Thy holy
Cross Thou hast redeemed the world.”
497 “Mary, Mother of grace, Mother of mercy, protect us from the enemy,
and receive us at the hour of death.”
498 “Into Thy hands, O Lord, I commend my spirit.”
499 Again, “Maria mater gratiæ, Mater misericordiæ, tu nos,” etc.
_Erased in Orig._
500 “By this sign of the Cross, may all that is wicked fly far away. Fix
Thy Cross in my heart, O Lord.”
501 (Unto which he was so much devoted). _Erased in Orig._
502 With a happy death. _Erased in Orig._
503 The chapter is unfinished.—ED.
504 And makes “with the temptation issue, that” we “may be able to bear
it” (1 Cor. x. 13), bringing forth for us “water out of the rock”
(Ps. lxxvii. 16), “and oil out of the hardest stone” (Deut. xxxii.
13).
505 Making “the yoke” to “putrefy at the presence of the oil” (Is. xi.
27).
506 The memory of the prisoner. _Erased in Orig._
507 Whosoever but he. _Erased in Orig._
508 Which “was a burning and a shining light” (St. John v. 35).
509 “Saying, Indeed this was a just man” (St. Luke xxiii. 47).
510 “We suffer tribulation, but are not distressed: we are straitened,
but are not destitute: we suffer persecution, but are not forsaken:
we are cast down, but we perish not” (2 Cor. iv. 8, 9).
M29 Of the miraculous straw.
511 This was John Wilkinson, who afterwards became a student at St
Omers, and on his death-bed in that College dictated a narrative of
Father Garnett’s execution and the finding of the straw, which is
given by Father More, _Hist. Prov. Angl. S. J._, lib. vii., n.
35.—ED.
512 Is now a scholar in the English College at St. Omers. _Erased in
Orig._
513 In such sort as it might not be espied. _Erased in Orig._
514 Her name was Griffin.—ED.
515 Two or three months. _Interlined in Orig_. Wilkinson himself says,
“Paucis post diebus.”
516 Father More says it was the Spanish Ambassador, and he gives an
attestation of the Baron de Hobocque, dated in 1625, attesting that
he had seen it in 1606, when he was in London as Ambassador of the
Princes of the Netherlands.—ED.
517 Dr. Richard Bancroft.—ED.
518 The gentlewoman’s. _Erased in Orig._
519 “Was one of them that were at table” (St. John xii. 2).
520 Father Richard Blount, in a letter dated Nov. 8, 1606, says—“A
Catholic person in London having kept, since the execution of Mr.
Garnett, a straw that was embued in his blood, now these days past,
being viewed again by the party and others, they espy in the ear of
the straw a perfect face of a man dead, his eyes, nose, beard, and
neck so lively representing Mr. Garnett, as not only in my eyes, but
in the eyes of others which knew him, it doth lively represent him.
This hath been seen by Catholics and Protestants of the best sort
and divers others, who much admire it, &c. This you may boldly
report, for, besides ourselves, a thousand others are witnesses of
it.” And in another letter, dated March, 1607, “It cannot be a thing
natural or artificial. The sprinkling of blood hath made so plain a
face, so well proportioned, so lively shadowed, as no art in such a
manner is able to counterfeit the like.” Father More, whose history
was published in 1660, says that the straw was kept in the Jesuit
College at Liége. The last mention we have met of it is by the Abbé
Feller, in his _Dictionnaire Historique_, which was published at
Liége in 1797, and therefore after the suppression of the Society,
“L’épi est aujourdhui entre les mains d’un de mes amis, qui le
conserve soigneusement” (Art. Garnett).
521 Our. _Erased in Orig._
522 Who is “the Father of mercies and the God of all comfort, Who
comforteth us in all our tribulation” (2 Cor. i. 3, 4).
523 “A wall for the house of Israel” (Ezech. xiii. 5).
524 Party. _Erased in Orig._
525 He desired “conditions of peace” (St. Luke xiv. 32).
526 “All that” saw it began “to mock him” (St. Luke xiv. 29).
527 But could he deceive or escape God?
528 He who would save his life, lost it (Cf. St. Luke ix. 24).
529 And in his folly did not foresee that that night they would require
his soul of him (Cf. St. Luke xii. 20).
530 Enjoying. _Erased in Orig._
531 Worthy. _Erased in Orig._
532 Supra. _Erased in Orig._
533 He “will not suffer” us “to be tempted above that which” we “are
able; but will make also with temptation issue, that” we “may be
able to bear it” (1 Cor. x. 13).
534 Secret and. _Erased in Orig._
535 “Out of the abundance of the heart” (St. Matt. xii. 34).
536 Beholding St. Stephen’s conflict.—_Erased in Orig._
537 Nor even the gates of hell shall prevail (Cf. St. Matt. xvi. 18).
538 Woe unto those who are chosen for the works of the strong, and are
not fed with the food of the strong.
539 Who remembered Daniel in the lions’ den, and feeds even “the young
ravens that call upon Him” (Ps. cxlvi. 9).
540 Whose very hairs are numbered (Cf. St. Matt. x. 30).
541 Here must be added the oath, and some few words after, to bring in
the other chapter. _In marg._
542 Establish and. _Erased in Orig._
543 Usually. _Erased in Orig._
544 “We have found” these men “perverting our nation” (St. Luke xxiii.
2).
545 “And forbidding to give tribute to Cæsar” (_Ibid_).
546 In Roma. _Erased in Orig._
547 And saying that they have another Christ and King.
548 Which Himself denied not to Pilate to be in the world, though it
were not a kingdom of the world. _Erased in Orig._
549 To speak “against Cæsar” (St. John xix. 12).
550 “Cæsar’s friend” (_Ibid_).
551 “Crucify, crucify” (St. Luke xxiii. 21).
552 Our Prince. _Erased in Orig._
553 By. _Erased in Orig._
554 Cite. _Erased in Orig._
555 Heresy. _Erased in Orig._
556 As by the contents of that book, &c. _Erased in Orig._ Elizab. cap.
1°.
557 And abettors. _Erased in Orig._
M30 Month’s Recusance.
558 So keeping. _Erased in Orig._
559 According to. _Erased in Orig._
560 Foreign countries. _Erased in Orig._
M31 The Statute of confinement.
561 Authority. _Erased in Orig._
562 This. _Erased in Orig._
563 “My little finger is thicker than the back of my father. And now my
father put a heavy yoke upon you, but I will add to your yoke: my
father beat you with whips, but I will beat you with scorpions” (3
Kings xii. 10, 11).
564 Here must be added the chief laws made in the third year of the
King’s reign. And after that some few lines to show how much
Catholics must needs suffer under so heavy a yoke, more than they do
under the Turk or any other Government, and how hard it is for
Catholics to live in such trials, being so barred the Sacraments and
helps, according to that of St. Bernard, “Væ illis qui assumuntur in
fortium et non aluntur fortium.” _In marg._