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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 October 2009
My deare s.r yt is not longe since I sente yow a lettre of many matters the confirmation whereof I daylye expecte or if yow have none heereafter then I praye yow not to reckon of that that hathe beene writtne. Nowe I hasten theese lettres bicause I heere that if I can dispatche this lettre in any tyme I maye chance to have him sente & if I omitt this tyme I knowe not howe or when to sende partelye by reason of the difficulties theese tymes afforde but cheefelye bicause I was but yesterdaye in as weeke a case as almoste ever I was by reason of an ague which hangethe uppon mee & hathe brought mee lowe & drivethe mee daylye into many lothesome colde swetts & what will beecom of it & of mee by reason of it I knowe not but hopinge thatt yow will remember mee when I am dedd I intende to keepe tuche with yow whiles I live. & I assure yow that I have not fayled to wright to yow everye monthe this yere (Maye excepted) which I repeete in diverse lettres bicause I feare my lettres miskarry & I woulde fayne by one meanes or other yow shoulde knowe the care I have to satisfye yow in this kinde.
903 AAW A XI, no. 133.
904 Norton had reported to More on 5 August 1612 that he had already delayed writing for a week hoping to ascertain the truth of several providential portents during the year. At Chilgrove near Midhurst some harvesters saw a red cross in the moon. At Kingsland in Middlesex someone found an abandoned child who (before dying) prophesied approaching environmental disasters, which Norton found credible in the light of the present summer drought which was destroying the harvest and making pasture and water scarce. On 26 February at Chichester ‘there was an Eagle seene in the ayer & then a Lion was seene to encounter with him and goe awaye againe, & afterwarde come againe & goe againe & the Eagle keepe her place still’. He repeated that at Penzance, on the day that William (Mauras) Scott OSB and Richard Newport were executed, a ‘bluddye streame’ appeared in the sea, three miles in length and many miles long (a story which Norton had first narrated on 9 July 1612, Letter 30; see also Letter 31 (Edward Bennett's account)). On these stories Norton commented ‘in the necke of this there is greate expectation of warrs & commandemente is given for musteringe of souldiers & wrthall there is a rumor abroade (which I take to bee false) that there is some doinges in Irelande’. Norton expected that the visit of the Spanish ambassador Zúñiga (who had his first audience with the king on 5 July 1612, McClure, 366) would ‘leave wares beehinde him’, AAW A XI, no. 133 (p. 357).
905 Between 25 March and 16 August 1612 there are four extant letters in AAW A from Norton to More: 9 April (AAW A XI, no. 54), 6 June (AAW A XI, no. 95 [Letter 29]), 9 July (AAW A XI, no. 118 [Letter 30]), and 5 August (AAW A XI, no. 133).
906 Identity uncertain.
907 George Abbot.
908 Sir Francis Stonor was generally a conformist but was indicted for recusancy as a result of this search, CRS 60, 210.
909 Martha (Southcote), Sir Francis Stonor's wife, CRS 60, 209–10. On 17 August 1612 Henry Howard, Earl of Northampton, commented to Robert Ker, Viscount Rochester, on the ‘sharpe course of procedinge’ in Oxfordshire which had induced many to conform, and in particular that Lady Martha Stonor had taken the oath of allegiance, Davidson, 106–7.
910 Elizabeth (Stonor), the wife of Sir Edward Lenthall of Pyrton. Sir Edward was noncommmunicant in 1612. Alan Davidson speculates that he might have provided a London house for John Gerard SJ in 1599, Davidson, , 140, 396.Google Scholar
911 Cecily, the wife of Sir Richard Blount, and daughter of Sir Richard Baker of Sissinghurst. On 26 February 1613 (NS) Champney sent More ‘a breef narratione of the ladie Blunt her troble for her conscience’, and noted that she was William (Gabriel) Gifford OSB's niece, AAW A XII, nos 42 (p. 89), 65. For the complexity of the religious opinions of the Blounts of Mapledurham, see Davidson, 80–90.
912 ‘Mrs Poore’ may be Prudence the wife of Francis Poure, though there were several recusant members of this Oxfordshire family in this period, Davidson, 149; CRS 60, 230. Francis's son, Richard, was required to take the oath of allegiance in July 1612, Davidson, , 149.Google Scholar
913 Sir Henry Stonor of Blount's Court, Sir Francis Stonor's heir.
914 Elizabeth Wodehouse of Waxham, Norfolk, a convicted recusant.
915 See Letter 11.
916 Francis Bedingfield of Redlingfield. He had married Katherine, daughter of John Fortescue (nephew of the former chancellor of the exchequer, Sir John Fortescue) whose mother was Katherine Pole, daughter of Sir Geoffrey Pole of Lordington. Subsequently, Francis's son John would marry Susanna, a daughter of the Kentish recusant Edward Wyborne, CRS 7, 433; PRO, C 142/776/89.
917 This may be the Suffolk Jesuit Thomas Everard who left England in either 1611 or 1612, CRS 74, 163.
918 William Morgan.
919 Frances, daughter of Edward Somerset, fourth Earl of Worcester. She was converted to Catholicism by Robert Jones SJ, Foley V, 905.
920 Edward Morgan, William's father, offered his composition of £1,000 on 15 June 1612, BL, Lansdowne MS 153, fo. 85r. Possibly Norton is confusing the two.
921 John Howson, a canon of Christ Church, Oxford.
922 Robert Abbot, Master of Balliol College, Oxford, and brother of Archbishop George Abbot.
923 Henry Airay, fellow of Queen's College, Oxford.
924 For this controversy and the subsequent disputation between John Howson and George Abbot in front of James I in June 1615, see Cranfield, N. and Fincham, K. (eds), ‘John Howson’s answers to Archbishop Abbot's accusations at his “trial” before James I at Greenwich, 10 June 1615', Camden Miscellany XXIX (Camden Society, 4th series, 1987), 320–41Google Scholar, at pp. 321–31.
925 William Goodwin, Dean of Christ Church, Oxford.
926 John Chamberlain believed on 9 July 1612 that Sir Henry Wotton and Sir Thomas Lake would be appointed secretaries, but by 15 July Chamberlain was saying that Lake had ‘left of the canvasse’, McClure, , 367, 369Google Scholar. Wotton's candidacy was ended by the failure of the proposed Savoyard dynastic marriage alliance which he was promoting, Adams, 234.
927 Robert Ker, Viscount Rochester, created Earl of Somerset in November 1613.
928 For Sir Henry Neville's candidacy for the secretaryship, see Adams, 232–3.
929 SirCope, Walter wrote ‘An Apology for the late Lord Treasurer Sir Robert Cecil, Earl of Salisbury’, printed in Gutch, J. (ed.), Collectanea Curiosa (2 vols, Oxford, 1781), I, 119–33Google Scholar; CSPD 1611–18, 138.Google Scholar
930 See Croft, P., ‘Libels, Popular Literacy and Public Opinion in Early Modern England’, Historical Research 68 (1995), 266–85CrossRefGoogle Scholar, at pp. 275–6.
931 For John Chamberlain's version of this libel, see McClure, , 356.Google Scholar
932 Not listed in Jones, E.L., Porter, S. and Turner, M. (eds), A Gazetteer of English Urban Fire Disasters, 1500–1900 (Historical Geography Research Series no. 13, August 1984)Google Scholar.