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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 October 2009
my very R. and much honored good sir. I receaved of late from mr clapham 2. lettres of yours to him, which did please me soe well (especially th'one which was very iudiciously written, & to good purpose) that I made a meting and presumed soe much of your allowance as to read it in the hearing of mr coll. and a knight a freind of myne and an other gentleman that is noe stranger to our affayres. it was noe less liked of them then of mee, and seemed for the present to put life in them, the effects wherof I was in hoope, yow shold have seen, but I doe in part excuse them, for besides the generall difficulties many men are soe puzled with diverse particuler buisinesses sometyme in regard of religion and sometyme for their private state of life as they can hardly (unles greater zeall then usually I finde now a dayes move them) find any tyme to attend to the generall buisines. especially having soe litle incouragement (as they finde wee have) from those that shold yeeld us more comforth then they doe. but I only now towch that point, least yow applye that unto mee. ridiculus citharaedus – chorda qui semper oberrat eadem. I saw a lettre written owt of Ireland, that reported that there bee arrived in waterford 3. Irish Iesuits of rank & place, who browght with them pardons (as the lettre said) from the beginning of the world to all those that opposed themselves to the parlament, and continued therin, and they have made known that they have comission from their superiours to preach 3. sermons (the party that did write the lettre was promised the texts and a draught of their discourse) and they incouraged that people to continew & assured them of succour in tyme of need.
1334 Richard Broughton.
1335 See O'Donoghue, F.M., ‘The Jesuit Mission in Ireland 1598–1651’ (unpubl. Ph. D. thesis, Catholic University of America, 1981), 119.Google Scholar
1336 See Letter 47; Ford, , Protestant Reformation in Ireland, 60.Google Scholar
1337 For Alexander Fairclough SJ, see CRS 74, 184 n. 88. John Blackfan SJ reported from Brussels on 4 January 1614 (NS) that Fairclough had been arrested ‘att Christmasse day’ coming ‘from the Dutch Embassador’, ARSI, Anglia 37, fo. 132v. He was regarded as one of the most dangerous of the clerical prisoners who were transferred to Wisbech Castle in April 1615, PRO, SP 14/80/77–84. But Fairclough, when interrogated in March 1615, though guarded in his replies, implied that he was a political moderate in the matter of the oath of allegiance. He would not take it but he said that he was ‘unwillinge to censure itt’, Foley FV, 592–5.
1338 On 1 November 1613, Edward Bennett had written to More that agents of the ‘hie commission’ were sent ‘into all cuntries to enquier of papistes Brownistes’ and all nonconformists, though they were particularly directed to search out Catholic recusants. He was informed that it was ‘after the maner of the Spanish inquisition’, AAW A XII, no. 195 (p. 435).
1339 Roland (Thomas) Preston OSB.
1340 See Letter 50.
1341 See Letter 53.
1342 See Patterson, , King James VI and IGoogle Scholar, ch. 2.
1343 ‘Smalman’ was the secular priest Emmanuel Johnson, Anstr. II, 173. He was the first priest recorded as living at Harvington Hall in Worcestershire. He was buried at Chaddesley Corbett, Hodgetts, M., Secret Hiding Places (Dublin, 1989), 83–4.Google Scholar