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19. John Jackson to [Thomas More] (No date (8 November in text) [1611]) (AAW A X, no. 177, pp. 485–6.)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 October 2009
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I am ashamed that we hold noe better correspondence with yow then wee doe, but yow know the difficulties we travayle in, and I am much afrayed wee shall have a sharp winter which is already begun with some stormes. mr [sic] vaux her howse surpriz'd, her alter taken and 2. Iesuites mr Io. Percy & one mr Hart. D. Bish. is in the Gatehowse, mr Martin & other 13 preists in Newgate, many in the Clink that are noe lurors as mr Coll. mr Leak, mr Kenian, mr Haynes [‘all’ deleted] mr Stamford as I take it an Assistant, much mischeef by pursuivants, in the citie and country, we greiv and groan to think that his hol. shewes soe lide compassion of owr afflictions as not to comforth us with the graunt of any one petition thowgh never soe just. but if we wear united wee shold have any thing, first it is a slaunder if any give owt that wee are at variance. 2ly wee have made some just suites which require neyther consent nor knowledge of any other bodie, as the repealing of that Breif against the proceeding of doctours, though they have the voyces of the universities whearin they have studied and done their acts. what a disgrace is this not only to us but to any universitie in christendome that if an Inglish preist banish'd his country or wearied by long persecution & willing to retyre himselfe awhile, or otherwise drawen to goe to some univreitye & thear live orderly & studiously, doe all his acts with applause and be thowght worthy by the whole universitye to proceed, yet must this man stay, expect, make freinds, and sute to R.
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524 See Letter 20.
525 Thomas Martin, secular priest. He had in June 1611 composed a memorial on the need to reform the secular clergy's low educational standards, AAW A X, nos 68, 69. Cuthbert Trollop alleged, without supporting evidence, that Martin was a ‘partaker’ of John Clinch's lax opinions (about the oath of allegiance and about occasional conformity), AAW A X, no. 130 (p. 376).
526 Thomas Leek had been arrested in Gray's Inn ‘by the benchers’ on 27 March 1611. He was taken to confer with Richard Sheldon in the Clink prison in the hope that Sheldon would persuade him to take the oath of allegiance, AAW A X, no. 31 (p. 73). His stance on the oath was doubtful. See Letter 4.
527 Joseph Haynes, secular priest, a close relative, possibly nephew, of John Bennett, Anstr. II, 153; AAW A XVI, no. 162.
528 Ralph Stamford was arrested in early October 1611, TD IV, p. clxxxiii. (Curiously, in June 1607, Stamford had been accused by Richard Blount SJ of allowing Catholics to take the oath of allegiance and to attend Protestant churches, ARSI, Anglia 37, fo. 102v; Foley VII, 1003.)
529 For the breve of Clement VIII of 19 September 1597 (NS) regulating whether and how the English missionary clergy should proceed to the degree of doctor in continental universities, see TD III, pp. cii–iv; CRS 51, 301–2; CRS 41, 53, 120–1. The degree of doctor could not be conferred without a licence from the cardinal protector and the approbation of the superior of the seminary. The removal of this restriction was one of the seculars' principal aims.
530 Presumably Jackson refers to the modification of the breve, made as a result of Richard Smith's petition, concerning the attestation to be granted by the superior of the seminary, CRS 41, 53 n. 5, 120 nn. 15–18. Anthony Champney, about to proceed doctor at the Sorbonne, gained a licence from the cardinal protector through Geoffrey Pole's and Robert Ubaldini's good offices, AAW A XI, nos 64, 65; Conway AH 23, 97.Google Scholar
531 Cardinal Lawrence Bianchetti.
532 Alabaster, William, Apparatus in Ravelationem Iesu Christi (Antwerp, 1607)Google Scholar. This book was declared heretical by the Roman Inquisition in January 1610, ARCR I, no. 5.
533 Claudio di Ruffia, Count of Cartignana.
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536 John Jackson had previously noted Isaac Casaubon's receipt of a Canterbury prebend at James's direction worth £100 annually. Also, Sir Henry Savile ‘who is setting forth S. Chrisost, in Greek sent his coach severall tymes for him (as I was told) to goe to windsour whear the bookes are in printing and whear D. [Andrew] Downes & the best grecians are togither’, AAW A IX, no. 125 (p. 395); cf. Milton, , Catholic and Reformed, 354 n. 121.Google Scholar
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538 Andreas Eudaemon Joannes SJ, who had defended Henry Garnet in R.P. Andnae Eudaemon-Ioannis…Apologia pro R.P. Henrico Garneto Anglo (Cologne, 1610)Google Scholar, replied to Casaubon with R.P. Andreae Eudaemon-Ioannis, Cydonii e Societate Iesu Responsio ad Epistolam Isaaci Casauboni (Cologne, 1613).Google Scholar
539 Cardinal Robert Bellarmine SJ.
540 Casaubon, , Isaaci Casauboni ad Frontonem Ducaeum, 171.Google Scholar
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