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39. Benjamin Norton to George West (Thomas More) (31 January 1613) (AAWA XII, no. 26, pp. 59–62.)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 October 2009
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Beeloved & muche respected S.r
your lettres any tyme this halfe yeare have miste theire waye in comminge unto mee. for some I feare mee come not at all, & othersome come with soe stale a date as that theye bee in that respecte the lesse welcome unto mee. for example yours of the laste of Iune came not to mee untill the 9th of December, & those of the 3 of November which are the laste I receaved (none of October beinge yett come) came unto mee the 26 of Ianuarye by which as alsoe by the former of Iune I understande your meaninge concerninge your ringe, which I coulde have wisht I had understode sooner, for gatheringe (rather then perfectlye knowinge year minde) owte of your letters of september I thought it to bee to have the 20s beestowedd in pios usus for the good of your Patronesse which made mee within 24 howres after the receipte thereof to beestowe it accordinglye uppon such as promised to praye for her & I hope theye have soe donne. In verye deede when I perceaved that ytt was an usuall trike for my lettres (which I make noe doubte but thatt theye weare sente in the same packett with my neighbours) to [s]tagger [?] in theire iorney I thought theire was some falsehoode in fellowshipp (never for all that any whitt mistrustinge your good selfe) & I halfe purposed not to have writtne any moore unto yow untill mr Godfredo weare come unto yow & shoulde by his lettres unto mee insinuate & directe mee howe to wright unto him butt notwithstandinge this determination, I have once moore writtne by the other meanes cheefelye thatt yow maye understande my minde & not mistake mee if my lettres comme not as heeretofore owte of order unto yow.
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1015 See Letter 30.
1016 Magdalen, dowager Viscountess Montague (d. 1608).
1017 Geoffrey Pole.
1018 Katherine Pole, resident in Midhurst.
1019 Constance Lambe, who was, in fact, Katherine Pole's first cousin.
1020 Blanche Arundell, daughter of Edward Somerset, fourth Earl of Worcester.
1021 Geoffrey Pole's four other sisters were Jane, Constance, Martha and Mary.
1022 John Bullaker was a central figure in Sussex recusant Catholicism, and relied from time to time on Viscount Montague's protection. He had received his degree of Doctor of Medicine from the University of Caen in October 1612, McCann, T.J., ‘The Catholic Recusancy of Dr. John Bullaker of Chichester, 1574–1627’, RH 11 (1971–1972), 75–85, at pp. 78–9.Google Scholar
1023 See CSPV 1610–1613, 538Google Scholar; Downshire MSS IV, 16, 19, 34.Google Scholar
1024 i.e. lay people who support Jesuits.
1025 i.e. lay people who support (anti-Jesuit) secular clergy.
1026 Pope Paul V.
1027 See Letter 22.
1028 Coqueau, Léonard, Examen Praefationis Monitoriae, Iacobi I. Magnae Britanniae et Hiberniae Regis, Praemissae Apologiae suae pro Iuramento Fidelitatis (Fribourg, 1610)Google Scholar; Sheldon, , MotivesGoogle Scholar, sig. Kv; cf. Sommerville, J.P., ‘Jacobean Political Thought and the Controversy over the Oath of Allegiance’ (unpubl. Ph. D. thesis, Cambridge, 1981), 63Google Scholar. Coqueau's book against James I attracted unfavourable attention in France as well, Downshire MSS III, 65, 69.Google Scholar
1029 Birkhead observed on 2 February 1613 that ‘the catholiques are falsly thought to be enemies’ to the Palatine match, ‘and the common people are persuaded that the Spaniardes and turke ioyne together to hinder yt’, and ‘therfor the iustices in everie shyre repaire to chathol, houses to take there armour from them’, AAW A XII, no. 29 (p. 68). Norton wrote again to More on 21 February 1613 that the Palatine match had sparked anti-Catholic rumours ‘namelye that Catholiques woulde burne Chichester Winchester, and suche Cityes’, that the Spaniards with the earl of Tyrone had landed in Ireland, ‘& some of our Company together with my selfe have run upp & downe from place to place for feare of the Iustices which weare to come to all places to take a waye all armor & weapons from Catholiques, leaste wee might meete with them or they with us and tender the oathe of alleageance unto us as they have donne in some places when they seemed to come for armor onelye’, AAW A XII, no. 40 (p. 85). For copies of the privy council letters ordering the disarming of papists, see AAW A XI, no. 27 (28 February 1613) [misdated in AAW A catalogue to 1612] incorporating an earlier letter to the same effect of 10 January 1613 [printed in TD IV, p. clxxxviii]. AAW A XI, no. 28 (29 February 1613) [misdated in AAW catalogue to 1612] is a privy council letter explaining who is to be disarmed and exactly what constitutes being ‘ill affected’ in religion. Robert Pett reported that ‘in [the absent] Sir william Ropers house was found armor sufficient to furnish 300 men’, AAW A XII, no. 41 (p. 87). See also Letter 43. John Chamberlain linked the proclamation issued on 16 January 1613 against the carrying and possession of ‘Pocket-Dags’ with the disarming of papists, McClure, , 410Google Scholar; Larkin, and Hughes, , 284–5Google Scholar; cf. Downshire MSS IV, 23Google Scholar; Salisbury MSS XXI, 221Google Scholar). Champney informed More on 18 June 1613 (NS) that Richard Bourke, fourth earl of Clanricard (presented as a recusant in March 1613, but not proceeded against, Cockburn, , Calendar of Assize Records: Kent Indictments: James IGoogle Scholar, no. 761) was disarmed; and Champney in error claimed that Clanricard ‘died for the disgrace and sorowe’, AAW A XII, no. 112 (p. 245). For the attempt to disarm Catholics in early 1613, see Quintrell, B.W., ‘The Practice and Problems of Recusant Disarming, 1585–1641’, RH 17 (1985), 208–22, at pp. 208, 210–11.Google Scholar
1030 Princess Elizabeth.
1031 McClure, 399.
1032 Norton's sister, Sybil. See Letter 1.
1033 Great Chart.
1034 Thomas Dekker (attrib.), The Windie Yeare (1613) contains a section (sig. C3r) entitled ‘Certaine hurts done at Great Chart in Kent, the Sunday after Christmas-day last [27 December], by the Tempest of Windes’, but does not mention the story of the devil. (Nor did John Thorys's account of 7 January 1613 sent to Trumbull, William, Downshire MSS IV, 8Google Scholar, though Thorys said that thirty persons were hurt as well as the one who was killed. Trumbull was sent a detailed report of the apparition by Sir John Throckmorton, Downshire MSS IV, 19, who said that the minister of the parish (possibly Adrian Saravia) had written a narrative of it which he sent to Sir Francis Barnham.) The Wonders of this windie winter (1613)Google Scholar, sig. C2v, makes the demon at Great Chart a punishment for the people's inattentiveness and bad behaviour at service time. John Chamberlain attributed the injuries and death at Great Chart to lightning, McClure, , 412Google Scholar; DNB, sub Saravia, Hadrian à. See also The Last terrible Tempestious windes and weather (1613)Google Scholar; Lamentable Newes (1613).Google Scholar
1035 See Letter 1.
1036 Robert (Anselm) Beech OSB.
1037 Constance and Richard Lambe.
1038 See Letter 12.