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49. George Salvin (Birkhead) to Thomas More (20 November 1613) (AAW A XII, no. 206, pp. 461–2.)

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my good Sr, albeit I find my selfe wearied, because of the Little good we doe, yet I thanke god my couradge faileth not to do any thinge without preiudice to the state, that may sett forward our cause. I have said enough in diverse Letters about mr Pett. I suppose he will to spaine, and I have gotten him leave to prosecute his busines there, yow have no more to do but to helpe him to some good frendes. I am sure yow have hard before this of one Carier a minister of great sufficiencie Lately converted, yf he seeke to yow for acquaintance, I could wish yow to give him the best comfort yow can. lest for waunt of such courtesie he fall againe as diverse have don; and namely now of Late one Rontree a minister, first offeringe him selfe to the benedictins, and after to the Iesuites, for Lack of kyndnes became discontented and is now returned to his vomitt with much offence and scandall to others, one of thes daies I meane to send yow a Letter to the protector and one to his auditor, who yow say is our frend. my letters come slowly unto yow I confesse, but diey come with the best speed that I can use.

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Royal Historical Society Camden Fifth Series , Volume 12 , July 1998 , pp. 249 - 251
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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1998

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References

1298 See Letter 47.

1299 Mozzenega. Birkhead wrote to Mozzenega on 3 December 1613 concerning the urgency of the suit about appointing a bishop and asked him to intercede with Cardinal Edward Farnese, AAW A XIII, no. 73 (pp. 182–3).

1300 See Letter 5.

1301 Seminary priests.

1302 Thomas Worthington.

1303 Jesuits.

1304 Birkhead had already assured More in July 1613, when he appointed Richard Broughton to replace the recently deceased John Bavant, that Broughton was now ‘of another humor, and most willinge to do anythinge for the helpe of the Clergie’. He is ‘nothinge the man he was’, AAW A XII, no. 132 (p. 291).

1305 Edward Bennett. In April 1613 Bennett told More that Bavant (a consistent opponent of the suit for a bishop) had recommended Broughton as his successor, which meant Broughton must be suspect, AAW A XII, no. 85. But by September Bennett was satisfied because it emerged that Broughton had ‘fownd owt a great legacy which 6 yeare agoe was left by (in deed) a Iesuited Gentlman to the disposition of mr Arch [Birkhead]’, AAW A XII, no. 169 (p. 375).

1306 Cardinal Edward Farnese.