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25. George Salvin (Birkhead) to [Thomas More] (31 March 1612) (AAW A XI, no. 50, pp. 131–2.)

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Rev. S.r in my last, which I think was of the 22 of march or therabout I told yow of a bruite raised against mr preston for beinge the maker of widderintons booke, which holdeth still, but himselfe denieth it. and some are redie to beleve him. whether the Archp hath any autoritie to looke in to such defectes amongst the religiouse or no yet the wordes of his commission are ut admoneret omnes et singulos sacerdotes Anglos etc. now whether religiouse prestes be comprehended as well as the secular, it is to me uncerten. at the least it were necessarie that some should have an eye therunto, when as there verie superiors are deamed so much to halt in that respect.

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Royal Historical Society Camden Fifth Series , Volume 12 , July 1998 , pp. 147 - 151
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660 On 21 March 1612 Birkhead had narrated to More that Edward Vaux, fourth Baron Vaux, had been ordered to discuss the oath of allegiance with Roland (Thomas) Preston OSB, and Preston ‘wold neither persuade nor disswade him, but rather wished him not to take it. at his returne to the b [George Abbot] he asked whether he wold take it or no. he denied it. the b demanded what mr preston said unto him, he told him as before, then the b raged and was much offended against him, & said in the hearinge of the said lord vaux and of a great nomber of people that preston was a traytor both to the kinge, and the pope, because he made the booke [Apologia Cardinalis Bellamini] which he fathered upon widderington’, AAW A XI, no. 46 (p. 123) (cited by Lunn, , EB, 42Google Scholar). Later, according to Anthony Champney in August 1612, Preston gave out a rumour that William Bishop ‘had approoved his book [perhaps referring to Preston's new book, Rogeri Widdringtoni Catholici Angli Responsio Apologetica, which had appeared by July 1612] before yt was printed’. This was, apparently, Preston's revenge for Bishop's presumed part in spreading George Abbot's ‘careless’ outburst that Preston wrote under Widdrington's name. Bishop had, according to the Jesuits, been trying to create a rift between Preston and the other Cassinese Benedictines, particularly Robert (Anselm) Beech. In reply Bishop wrote ‘true it is that I did speake of such a matter, but was far to short of being the…divulger of it’, because it was already common knowledge in London; in fact, Bishop claimed, he had done as much to hinder the rumour as to spread it, AAW A XI, nos 141 (p. 391), 149 (p. 409).

661 On 20 April 1612 Birkhead was still saying that Preston's authorship was denied, and that Blackwell was believed by some to be the author, AAW A XI, no. 62.

661 i.e. Birkhead.

663 See Letter 24.

664 Chamberlain noted that ‘some lawiers are of opinion that we have no law to execute heretikes, and that whatsoever was don in that kinde in Queen Elizabeths time was don de facto and not de jure, yet the King sayes yf he be so desperate to denie Christ to be God he will adventure to burne him with a good conscience’, McClure, , 337.Google Scholar

665 Birkhead repeated this request to More on 23 April 1612, AAW A XI, no. 63. See also Letter 37.

666 See AAW A XI, no. 12, for Birkhead's letters to Cardinals Sfondrata, Bellarmine and Aldobrandini, to Don Francisco de Castro, the Spanish ambassador in Rome, and to John Baptist Vives. For this attempt to raise support in Rome, see TD V, 53–4.

667 See Letter 18.

668 John Almond.

669 Not identified.

670 Not identified.

671 Identity uncertain. In December 1610 one William Cook of St Andrew's parish in Holborn was indicted for recusancy, CRS 34, 54.

671 See CRS 53, 174.

673 See Letter 34.

674 Thomas Worthington.

675 George Abbot.

676 Birkhead had already reported to More on 21 March 1612 that John Copley had ‘bewrayed what he knew to the Lord of Canturb who obiected to d bish that he knew how many voices, everie man had’, AAW A XI, no. 46 (p. 123).

677 Paul Green.

678 Don Pedro de Zúñiga Palomeque y Cabeza de Vaca, created Marquis of Floresdavila in April 1612; see CRS 64, 48. Zúñiga's embassy was to announce the conclusion of the Franco-Spanish matches and to patch up Anglo-Spanish diplomatic relations, and also to offer a match between Henry, Prince of Wales and Maria, the second infanta of Spain, CSPV 1610–13, 324, 342, 413; CRS 64, 199; cf. Downshm MSS III, 263, 265.Google Scholar

679 Henri de la Tour, Duke of Bouillon. At the beginning of March 1612, Bouillon was despatched to assure James that the double dynastic match between France and Spain would not ‘disturb…friendly relations’ with the English Crown, and also to offer a marriage between Christine, Princess and Henry, Prince, CSPV 1610–13, 299, 302Google Scholar, a marriage originally projected in August/September 1611, Downshire MSS III, 133Google Scholar. Antonio Foscarini thought that Bouillon would also negotiate for the Elector Palatine to marry Elizabeth, Princess, CSPV 1610–13, 318Google Scholar, a project in which he had been involved in 1611, Downshire MSS III, 151Google Scholar, cf. 249. After considerable delay, he arrived in London on 6 May 1612 (NS), going ‘to the cowrte with 100 coches’, CSPV 1610–13, 348Google Scholar; AAW A XI, no. 69 (p. 203); cf. Downshire MSS III, 286Google Scholar. For Bouillon's career, see Adams, passim.

680 CSPV 1610–13, 332, 342, 350.Google Scholar

681 William Percy.

682 Nicholas Fitzherbert.