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43. John Nelson (Jackson) to Anthony Champney (9 May 1613) (AAW A XII, no. 95, pp. 207–8.

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I beseech yow remember my best love to Mr More, and if yow thinke it will bee a gratefull office [acqu]aint him with such occurrances as I shall sett downe: because the time is soe short that I writ[e] both to yow and him. Upon the 7th of Maii there were certaine convented att the Starchamber for speeches given out against the Earle of Northampton and upon occasion therof, they did all speake against Religion but especiallie & purposelie against [to]leracion therof: because of a bruite that hee should have made such a motion to the kinge. The Lo. Cooke made it noe lesse then treason to speake of anie such matter, or if anie should saie that the kinge had anie such intention, the Archbishopp of Canterbury inveyhed bitterly against it, and amonge other wordes, I saie (said hee) & I saie it boldlie that if [the] k. should goe about to give a tolleracion hee shold not bee the defendour of the faith but the betrayer of the faith. The Bishopp of London made manie imprecacions against it, & amongst the rest, that his eyes should sincke into his head, rather then see such a day, and the like did the Earle of Shrewesbury, which I was sorie to here, and should bee much more, If I thought hee spake it from his hart, and the rest had every one a vye against it.

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Royal Historical Society Camden Fifth Series , Volume 12 , July 1998 , pp. 224 - 226
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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1998

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References

1111 Henry Howard.

1112 For Henry Howard's attempt in 1604 to secure concessions for Catholics, see Peck, L.L., Northampton (1982), 81Google Scholar; Loomie, , Toleration and Diplomacy, 55–6Google Scholar. For an account of the Star Chamber case in November 1612 when Howard proceeded against courtiers and others for libelling him (that during his lord wardenry of the Cinque Ports more priests had passed through the ports than before, and that he had written to Cardinal Bellarmine to ask him to ignore his denunciation of Henry Garnet SJ at the Jesuit's trial in 1606), see Peck, , Northampton, 81–3, 235Google Scholar. of this earlier case Birkhead noted on 5 December 1612 that Northampton was ‘cleared of all suspicion’, but ‘the contrivers [as opposed to the actual defendants] were thought to be preistes and Iesuites which was much exaggerated by the Lordes’, AAW A XI, no. 220 (p. 625).

1113 Sir Edward Coke.

1114 George Abbot.

1115 This word is inserted in Anthony Champney's hand.

1116 John King.

1117 Gilbert Talbot, tenth Earl of Shrewsbury.

1118 McClure, , 453Google Scholar: John Chamberlain describes him as an ‘under customer’ of Rochester.

1119 Sir Thomas Waller, Lieutenant of Dover Castle.

1120 Sir Henry Wotton and Sir John Throckmorton reported that the accuser's name was in fact Sir Peter Buck, a naval officer, Smith, , Life, II, 22–3Google Scholar; Downshire MSS IV, 104Google Scholar; Peck, , Northampton, 235.Google Scholar

1121 Robert Buck SJ, Anstr. I, 57; cf. CRS 74, 130; Foley IV, 674–5.

1122 Edward Zouch, eleventh Baron Zouch.

1113 McClure, , 453.Google Scholar

1124 Sir Robert Killigrew.

1125 McClure, , 451–2.Google Scholar

1126 Lieutenant of the Tower.

1127 Sir Gervase Elwes or Helwys.

1128 Henry Constable.

1129 Henry Mayler, secular priest, recently appointed to the staff at Douai, Anstr. I, 224.

1130 Identity uncertain.