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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 October 2009
worthely esteemed and beloved sr yours of the 1 of August gave us good contentment in that yt mentioned the arrivall of D Kellisones to the protectoure hopeinge that yt with ours unto him also will sett forward some good resolutione for Doway wherein I feare delay may be hurtfull[.] Therefore doe we wishe that as you can with anie conveniencie you should solicit and sett forwarde Doct Kell[i]son his establishement wzth all speede for yf there were no feare of other inconvenient [sic] the only deferringe of sendinge or thinkinge of sendinge some one into spayne ys cause enoughe to solicit that matter which untill yt be resolved upon will ever hinder the executione of thother to our great hinderance. I have writen to Doct Kell and have sent him your owne wordes bothe aswell in this of the 1 of august as of the 18 of Iuly and have urged him with all the reasones I cowld to write unto you playnly his mynd, & his desire, and to entreat you to solicit for him those thinges he proposethe which what they are in particuler we knowe no more then that we did by mr Harley his letter, we expect everie day to heare of his resolutione in this poynt but peradventure you shale heare frome him by mr pett his meanes sooner.
1163 Cardinal Edward Farnese.
1164 Thomas Harley, Provost of Cambrai.
1165 Jesuits.
1166 George Birkhead.
1167 John Jackson.
1168 William Bishop.
1169 Armand-Jean du Plessis, Bishop of Luçon.
1170 Smith had assured More in early July 1613 that, though many people ‘misconstrue’ his ‘abode’ with the bishop of Luçon, he was not thinking primarily of himself: the Collège d'Arras would not, for at least two years, have sufficient books for him to exercise his scholarly talents; Luçon was paying him a pension; and, moreover, the bishop had sworn that Smith's residing with him would benefit England as well as France, AAW A XII, no. 125 (p. 277). In 1616, as grand aumonier of Anne of Austria, Luçon obtained a grant of royal patronage for the Collège d'Arras, AAW A XV, no. 114.
1171 William Rayner.
1172 Benjamin Carier. See Letter 49.
1173 John Southcote. He had been ordained in April 1612 and had left the English College in Rome in April 1613, Anstr. II, 305; CRS 1, 97. He joined the Collège d'Arras in 1617 but left in 1621, Allison, , ‘Richard Smith's Gallican Backers’, part II, 259.Google Scholar
1174 Thomas Owen SJ. See Letter 14; Mott, fo. 364v. Owen's sister Elizabeth married John Shelley, father of Thomas who entered SJ in November 1619, CRS 75, 293.
1175 Robert Venner. He had been in prison in Exeter since about November 1609, Anstr. II, 328. He left with the departing Savoyard ambassador, the Marchese di Villa, APC 1613–14, 94–6Google Scholar. He entered OSB at Dieulouard in 1614.
1176 In May 1613 Champney had written to More to procure from Robert (Anselm) Beech OSB ‘a copie of mr Harpesfeeld his historie [i.e. the manuscript of Nicholas Harpsfield's book, eventually published at Douai in 1622, Historia Anglicana Ecclesiastica] whereof he hathe one exemplare by Doct Smithes meanes whoe as I remember saythe he holpe him unto yt upon conditione he showld have permissione and libertie to copie yt out’, AAW A XII, no. 101 (p. 223). (According to William Bishop, Smith had helped Beech make a copy of it while Smith was in Rome in 1609–10, AAW A XII, no. 121.) In June 1613 Bishop advised More to demand from Thomas Worthington ‘as president of the Colledg of doway…the ecclesiasticall history of mr Harpesfild, which my lord Cardinall [William] Allen left unto that Colledg. and if it were lent out to f. persons before his time, let him help to recall it backe agayne [from Rome] to the Colledg’, AAW A XII, no. 106 (p. 234). In August 1613 Bishop told More that the Collège d'Arras would pay for copying out Harpsfield's book ‘though it cost ten pound as you write’. Either Geoffrey Pole or Tobie Matthew (who, despite his affection for SJ, was regarded as moderate and ‘iudicious’ by Champney, AAW A XII, no. 230 (p. 667); cf. Belvederi, 193) would bring it to Paris, or a French man coming from Rome would carry it, AAW A XII, no. 157 (p. 351). But, in October, Champney was still procrastinating about it, ‘seeinge yt will amount to so great a somm’, AAW XII, no. 190 (p. 423). By November 1613 Champney had heard that Richard Gibbons SJ (who finally published the work, ARCR I, no. 639) had a manuscript copy and was planning to print it, while the seculars simply could not afford to, AAW A XII, no. 205.
1177 For Harpsfield's ‘Historia Haeresis Wicleffianae’ (incorporated in the published version of Harpsfield's Historia Anglicana Ecclesiastica), see ARCR I, no. 639.
1178 John Pitts, a secular priest, had substantially completed this work by September 1613. It was eventually published in 1619 (seen through the press by William Bishop) as Ioannis Pitsei…Relationum Historicarum de Rebus Anglicis Tomus Primus (Paris, 1619)Google Scholar; ARCR I, no. 907. Pitts's mother was the historian Nicholas Sander's sister.
1179 Sander, Nicholas, Doctissimi Viri Nicolai Sanderi, De Origine ac Progressu Schismatis Anglicani (Rheims, 1585)Google Scholar. An enlarged edition in 1586 included substantial additions by Robert Persons SJ, ARCR I, no. 973.
1180 Ludovic Stuart, second Duke of Lennox.
1181 Princess Christine.
1182 Prince Charles. For the negotiations in July and August, see CSPV 1613–15, 4–5, 11–12, 14–15, 18, 22, 23, 28Google Scholar. Champney wrote to More on 10 September 1613 (NS) that Lennox's embassy was not ‘of muche moment’ since ‘he hadd noe comisione to deale for anie matter of marriage unless yt came to him the day before he departed as some think there did for haveinge taken his leave of the kinge and queene he folowed the court beinge out of towne to communicate some thinge which he freshely receaved which some think to have beene the matter of mariage which ys so fair from bringinge us tolleratione that some of our frendes think yt wilbe worse for us then otherwayes howe soever there ys nowe a speeche that the Duke ys to come agayne and to treat thereof in deede which we shale see whether yt be soe or noe’, AAW A XII, no. 163 (p. 363).
1183 Cardinal François de la Rochefoucauld. He had returned to France from Rome only a few weeks before this letter was written. (I am grateful to Joseph Bergin for his help with this point.)
1184 Luçon had written in late January 1613 to Rochefoucauld (in Rome) on the secular clergy's behalf, AAW A XII, no. 30.
1185 Lewis Vaughan.