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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 October 2009
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Yt is even nowe erkesome to mee to wright suche dainger I apprehende in sendinge & receavinge lettres for but yesterdaye a lettre which a brother of myne wrought unto mee beeinge t[ake]n by the purs[evan]tes beefore hee came to my handes muste coste either the wrighter or the receaver xili to free [t]he car[r]ier which was my Cosin Tho: H. from dainger. I perceave that yow keepe a fixte order in sending unto mee yett did not yours of Maye & Iune come to my handes untill the 17 of september & I verrelye feared that some dainger might have come by them through the indiscretion of my man Rich: whoe contrarye to my appointemente sente them upp & downe the countrye after mee. butt god bee thanked I receeved them & have torne them & halfe forgotten the contentes of them. I [am] sorye to heere that my good frende mr Godf. shoulde by reason of his lamenes leave the coorte & come downe into F: for I knowe thatt if hee live where & with whome hee desirethe theare will arise an inconvenience, his sister Cather: & I live in one howse & I take suche comforte in her companye thatt I woulde bee lothe to leave her to any butt your Kitt. to which purpose I have writtne to yow & daylye expecte your answeare. I praye yow to thanke m.r Godfreye for his kinde offer in offeringe mee to live with him.
1186 Thomas Heath.
1187 Geoffrey Pole.
1188 Benjamin Norton had mentioned in September that an accident had befallen Geoffrey Pole, AAW A XII, no. 164.
1189 i.e. in Rome.
1190 France.
1191 Katherine Pole.
1192 Christopher Cresacre More, Thomas More's brother.
1193 The letter is AAW A XII, no. 164 (10 September 1613), in which Norton asked for ‘an answere from’ Thomas More ‘concerninge my Kate & your Kitt’ (p. 365).
1194 Richard Sackville, third Earl of Dorset.
1195 See Letter 47.
1196 Sir Thomas Fleming.
1197 Robert Rich, third Baron Rich, created earl of Warwick in 1618. (His son had been in Sir Henry Wotton's suite in Turin in June 1612 while Wotton negotiated the Savoyard match. The Venetian ambassador in Savoy described the son as behaving there in an explicitly Catholic fashion, CSPV 1610–13, 368.)Google Scholar
1198 John Harrington, first Baron Harrington of Exton. See McClure, , 476.Google Scholar
1199 John Petre, first Baron Petre. See McClure, , 479.Google Scholar
1200 Henry Grey, fifth Earl of Kent did not die until January 1615.
1201 Edward Russell, third Earl of Bedford had recendy been involved in, but had survived, a riding accident, McClure, , 470.Google Scholar
1202 Thomas Howard, second Earl of Arundel.
1203 Robert Devereux, third Earl of Essex.
1204 Frances Howard, daughter of Thomas Howard, first Earl of Suffolk.
1205 The lord chief baron, appointed in 1612, was Sir William Methold, a strong opponent of Catholic recusancy, Ball, F.E., The Judges in Ireland (2 vols, New York, 1927), I, 243, 310Google Scholar. It is not clear what gave rise to this false rumour. Richard Broughton reported (also erroneously) that it was the lord chief justice of Ireland, Sir John Denham, who had been killed, see Letter 47.
1206 Thomas Bilson. Bilson had been ordered in February 1612 to take the priest William Warmington into his household, PRO, SO 3/5 (February 1612).
1207 On 16 March 1612, an order had been transmitted through the Signet Office to George Abbot that he and other ‘Cleargy of the best liability’ around London should make a collection for Warmington, PRO, SO 3/5; Salisbury MSS XXI, 343.Google Scholar
1208 Roland, (Thomas) Preston OSB, Disputatio Theologica de Iuramento Fidelitatis Sancissimo Pain Paolo Pupae Quinto Dedicata (1613)Google Scholar. John Colleton wrote to More on 17 October 1613 that the English translation (A Theologicall Disputation concerning the Oath of Allegiance (1613)Google Scholar) ‘is expected to come forth in print som eight or ten daies hence’, AAW A XII, no. 186 (p. 411). Colleton was, on and off, a prisoner in the Clink with Preston, and much of the seculars’ information about Preston came from Colleton, Conway, AH 23, 45.Google Scholar
1209 Constance Lambe.
1210 Constance's son, Anthony Lambe.
1211 Mary and Constance Pole. Champney reported to More on 18 December 1613 (NS) that Mary and Constance were remaining in Paris while the other prospective nuns for the abortive Cassinese foundation there had gone to Rheims, AAW A XI, no. 230.
1212 Robert (Anselm) Beech OSB.
1213 Sir Henry Hobart.
1214 Ludovic Stuart, second Duke of Lennox, created first Earl of Richmond on 6 October 1613.
1215 See McClure, , 485Google Scholar. Ker was created baron of Branspeth at the same time as being made earl of Somerset, though it had been rumoured he would be made earl of Westmorland, ibid., 480. See also Tilbrook, M.J., ‘Aspects of the Government and Society of County Durham, 1558–1642’ (unpubl. Ph. D. thesis, Liverpool, 1981), 188–90, 648Google Scholar, for Ker s influence in the north of England at this time.
1216 George Abbot.
1217 John King.
1218 Richard Neile.
1219 Norton means Lancelot Andrewes.
1220 John Buckeridge.
1221 See CSPV 1617–19, 135.Google Scholar
1222 See Letter 1.