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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 October 2009
What shall I saye to yow Good s.r beeinge wearylye come whome from nedd & sybbs howse & findinge a copie of yours to bee answered? nothinge good s.r butt thatt theye are hartelye welcome unto mee & that I doe thanke yow for them as likewize for your Commendacions from m.r Godf: to whome I wright not bicause the gapp is not yett opened by which I holped that I shoulde have had meanes to send unto him. I praye yow thearefore to tell him soe muche & withall to thanke him for his kindenes in thatt in thease tymes wheare there is nothinge butt falsehoode in felloweshipp hee sticketh to his welmeaninge frendes & woulde weare it in his power not suffer them to bee oppressed.
1083 See Letter 1.
1084 Geoffrey Pole.
1085 According to Champney in August 1611 there had been friction between Pole and the promoters of the seculars' causes because of rumours in England that Pole and Cardinal Edward Farnese had fallen out, AAW A X, no. 103. And in October 1612 Champney told More that Pole (who set out for Rome from Paris on 3 October 1612 (NS)) gave Champney a ‘verie cowld answer’ when Champney asked him to lobby in Rome on their behalf, AAW A XI, no. 180 (p. 525).
1086 Jane Redish, sister of Geoffrey Pole.
1087 Constance Lambe.
1088 This word in the manuscript can be read either as ‘Lams’ (presumably a reference to Richard, the husband of Constance Lambe) or as ‘Lains’, i.e. the Lane family of Fishbourne (cousins of the recusant Bullaker family). But the passage implies both of the searched houses were in Midhurst, and therefore indicates the Lambe family. If the reference is to the Lambes, presumably Norton is concealing his residence with the family.
1089 Identity uncertain. There was a recusant/occasional conformist family at Midhurst called Percy, CRS 54, 320. Richard and Judith Percy were excommunicated as recusants in November 1610, WSRO, Ep. 1/17/13, fos 103r, 105r. On 13 August 1613 (NS) Anthony Champney sent a message to Geoffrey Pole in Rome that ‘his acquayntance Richarde percy’ had been buried in Paris (on 5 August), AAW A XII, no. 146 (p. 328).
1090 Stansted in Westbourne, West Sussex.
1091 The priest Augustine Lee alias Johnson acknowledged in a letter to More in February 1613 that More had lent him £6–11–0, AAW A XII, no. 33.
1092 Priesthawes in Westham parish in East Sussex was the residence of the Thatcher family. James Thatcher had conformed to the Church of England in 1589 (after his recusancy conviction in 1588), PRO, E 368/489, mem. 186a-b; CRS 71, 167. James's elder son, John Thatcher, aged 40 in 1613, had been brought up at Rome and was for a time a page to William Allen, CSPD 1598–1601, 380Google Scholar; Salisbury MSS IV, 328Google Scholar. James died in 1613 and his younger son William inherited Priesthawes, PRO, C 142/333/36. (Apparently he did not think his elder son John was actually his.) In March 1613 William Thatcher conformed shortly after the family estates were settled on him, PRO, E 368/550, mem. 118a-b; cf. Urquhart, M.J., ‘A Sussex Recusant Family’, Dublin Review 512 (1967), 162–70.Google Scholar
1093 i.e. for Thomas More, the clergy agent himself. He and Richard Smith had been chaplains to Magdalen, Viscountess Montague at Battle.
1094 Not identified.
1095 Bentley in Framfield.
1096 His death was certified to the assize judges in mid-1613, Cockburn, , Calendar of Assize Records: Sussex Indictments: James IGoogle Scholar, no. 280.
1097 John Mush.
1098 See Letter 35.
1099 See Letter 39. Cf. James Carre's letter to William Trumbull on 20 January 1613 recounting that there had been a ‘great terror’ among the Catholics ‘from a report that the king was determined, in one night, to cut all the Papists’ throats in England', Downshire MSS IV, 20Google Scholar, cf. p. 28.
1100 Jesuits.
1101 The secular clergy.
1102 Sir George Browne, second son of Anthony Browne, first Viscount Montague.
1103 Mary (Tyrwhit).
1104 Probably the recently widowed recusant Elizabeth Sayer of Easebourne, WSRO, Ep. 1/17/13, fo. 108r, Ep. I/17/14, fo. 40v.
1105 Identity uncertain.
1106 Constance Lambe.
1107 Geoffrey Pole.
1108 Elizabeth Dacres had entered a Benedictine house in Douai (Florence de Werguignoel's foundation), Lunn, , ‘English Cassinese’, 64Google Scholar. She had written to More on 7 March 1613 (NS) to ask his prayers on her entering religion, AAW A XII, no. 63.
1109 Edmund Thornell.