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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 October 2009
Rnd S.r having heertofor beinge prisoner presumed uppon no acquaintance to deliver you my pouer opinion concerning our English affaires in an imperfecte letter, which I then desired to conclude with some more leasurable oportunitie I make my selfe the more bould at this present allthough with the neglecte of that discurse to treble you with matter more impertinente, for my self [?] I latelie arrived at Paris where I intende godwillinge to make my abode [.] wee were [‘six’ deleted] 6 in number banished vz my self out of the Clinke. & out of Newgate Mr francis foster Mr Thomas wood. Mr Craford a moncke. Mr Green alias forscu. Mr Whright who in his passage from St Sebastians (where hee lived) in to flanders by misfortune was caste in at Portsmouth, the means of our banishmente was by the duke of Savois Embassadoure, but the Archbush changed tow of those whom he begged[.] Mr Blacwell died before my departure [.] he celebrated the same morninge, and the afternoone passinge over the courte to Mr heborne to be confessed tooke coulde comminge to his chamber fell in to a sounde, and within the space of tow howrs died, being demanded by Mr warmington his iudgmente of the oath he answered that if he hadd donne amisse hee cried god mercie but hee did (as he affirmed) accordinge to his conscience, hee departed before hee hadd extremeunctione.
578 This letter has not survived.
579 Not identified.
580 William (Maurus) Scott OSB. See Lunn, EB, 63.
581 Presumably Thomas Green OSB.
582 Richard Wright alias William Yarwell, secular priest, generally known as William Wright.
583 Claudio di Ruffia. See CSPD 1611–18, 112Google Scholar. On 3 February 1612 Birkhead had reported that the ambassador secured the release of ‘mr blunt, mr Craford a benedictine [William (Maurus) Scott OSB], mr Foster, mr warren, mr Wright, and out of the Clinck mr kenion’, AAW A XI, no. 13 (p. 35).
584 Blackwell died on 25 January 1612, AAW A XI, no. 7.
585 Birkhead had told More in August 1611 that Blackwell had no penitents, and ‘saieth masse, but never any with him save the partie that helpeth him. with secrecie he observeth for feare of Canturburie [George Abbot]’, AAW A X, no. 97 (p. 273).
586 Anthony Hebburn, secular priest.
587 Birkhead told More at the beginning of February that ‘it is thought by some that mr blac. called mr hebburne, and by others that he called for mr Colleton to be with him at his death’, AAW A XI, no. 13 (p. 38). Birkhead thought, however, that it was Hebburn he called for ‘in articulo mortis’, ‘whome he knew to have lost his faculties, havinge mr Colleton and others in that prison untowched in that kynd’, AAW A XI, no. 25 (p. 65). So he showed no real remorse. He was ‘conditionally penitent’ only for his defence of the oath, AAW A XI, no. 26 (p. 68). Edward Bennett on 11 February 1612 sent More a narrative rather different in tone: Blackwell [fell sick on the sodayn, mr collington [Colleton] & others beinge with hyme havinge newly been at confession with mr Hebbwrn: he desired mr Collington to forgive hym, and all the world besides he had offended, further he added for the book I have written I sayd nothing but what in my conscience I thought true: yeat if [?] have offended I am sorry for it, & desire to dye a child of the catholick church: withall [he] desired extreeme unction, they went presently to supper who were with hym, but before they came up agayn he was dead, he could never abyd Sheldon with the reste to come to his chamber, byddinge them avoid, ever calling of them columnas declinantes', AAW A XI, no. 17 (p. 45). In Paris, Anthony Champney also avoided harshness in narrating his death. Relying on Kenion and Francis Foster (a bitter opponent of SJ), he wrote that Blackwell died ‘upon the conversione of St paul’ and ‘asked mr Colleton pardon for those thinges which hadd passed betwixt them about and since the appell and beinge asked of his proceedinges in the matter of the oathe sayd that he had donn nothinge agaynst his conscience, wherein notwithstanding yf he had erred he desired pardon of god’. While Birkhead noted the providential suddenness of his death, Champney mentioned merely that ‘he died without anie great sickness’, AAW A XI, no. 29 (p. 75). For Roland (Thomas) Preston OSB's account of his death, see Preston, , A Theologicall Disputation concerning the Oath of Allegiance (1613), 252–3Google Scholar. George Abbot reluctantly allowed Blackwell to be buried in a London churchyard, because he had been a ‘frend to the state’, AAW A XI, no. 13 (p. 38).
588 Sheldon, Richard, The Motives of Richard Sheldon Pr. (1612)Google Scholar. He subsequently preached, on 29 March 1612, a Paul's Cross recantation sermon, published as The First Sermon of R. Sheldon Priest, after his Conversion from the Romish Church (1612).Google Scholar
589 John Copley, secular priest.
590 John Chamberlain had written on 29 January 1612 that Copley, a domestic chaplain to the second Viscount Montague, ‘falling in love with an auncient Catholike maide…that attended the children, they have both left theyre profession and fallen to mariage’, McClure, 331. According to Birkhead, ‘the woman that seduced mr Copley was comended’ by one ‘mr byrd to the place where she was to be interteyned, and by the Jesuit which reconciled her to mr Copley him selfe, who by her allurementes is become an heretique’, AAW A XI, no. 1 (p. 3).
591 Warmington, William, A Moderate Defence of the Oath of Allegiance (1612).Google Scholar
592 This may be a reference to the poet and doctor of medicine Thomas Lodge, who took the oath of allegiance on 1 January 1612, Harmsen, T.H.B.M., John Gee's Foot out of the Snare (1624) (Nijmegen, 1992), 295.Google Scholar
593 Evidently a reference to Edward Vaux, fourth Baron Vaux, who had returned from abroad after he received news of the search of Harrowden Hall, Anstruther, Vaux of Harrowden, 394–5Google Scholar; Letter 20.
594 i.e. with either George Abbot or John King.
595 As early as May 1611 Abbot had blocked an initiative to release William Bishop, AAW A X, no. 48. Bishop had been negotiating to be allowed to cross to France, AAW A X, no. 97.
596 Thomas Sackville.
597 John Colleton.
598 John Jackson.
599 Thomas Worthington.
600 John Knatchbull.
601 Preston, , Apologia Cardinalis Bellarmini.Google Scholar