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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 October 2009
My very deare & true frend.
It doth much trouble me that since St Barnabas day wherof my letter was dated which you last receyved you have not receyved any more, so many moneth now expired; in August I wrot as I take it, wherin somethinge did particularly concerne a frend of myne, sendinge you therwith a bill of Atturney for the recovery of a certayne debt, wherof I stood in hope neare this time to have receaved an answere, since which time I have together with this writen five times, as you may gather by some of my former lettres, accordinge to my true account, though of the dates I do but make coniecture, reservinge no notes therof; I should be sorie that any of them should miscarrye for I did my endevour to satisfie your expectation,: [sic] in a whole yeare I have not written more oftener then within this halfe: and now I cannot tunne my pipes unto a more ioyfull note, then heertofore, but day by day more lamentable.
1416 AAW A XII, no. 105 (11 June 1613).
1417 AAW A XII, no. 152 (24 August 1613).
1418 In his letter to More of 24 August, AAW A XII, no. 152 (p. 341), Broughton said that he was enclosing a letter of attorney from the unidentified friend for the recovery of the debt. The friend ‘hath a brother yet lyvinge (I mean the dr) who by right is his heire, his wife is a Cath. & he in mind, though some esteeme him perverse in manners & neighberhood, his name is Henry’.
1419 Broughton's letters to More since August 1613 were written on 24 August 1613, AAW A XII, no. 152, 22 October 1613, Letter 47, 21 November 1613, AAW A XII, no. 209, and 31 December 1613, Letter 53. The reason for the late arrival of these letters is not clear.
1420 See Letter 48.
1421 Mary Banester, widow of Edward Banester snr. She was a sister of Robert Southwell SJ. She appears to have been assessed for her recusancy after her husband's death on 9 September 1606, PRO, C 142/292/177; PRO, E 368/533, mem. 153a. The inquisition, on 11 October 1608, was carried out under the direction of Sir George Gunter and Adrian Stoughton. The sums levied on her estate (in Compton, Stoughton, Trotton, Chithurst, Southampton and the Isle of Wight) were indeed trivial, perhaps not unrelated to the fact that she had Gunter relatives. Benjamin Norton reported to More on 19 November 1613, however, that her residence in Sussex had been searched on 1 November (as had her conformist son (Edward jnr)'s house in Hampshire), AAW A XII no. 204. (The Banester family had links with the secular priests' patrons – Viscount Montague and the Dormers. Mary Banester's daughter had married into the Dormer family, PRO, PROB 11/131, fo. 32r-v. Edward Banester snr had sat in the Commons early in Elizabeth's reign for Midhurst, effectively in the gift of the Browne family, Hasler I, 390–1.)
1422 From the records of receipts of recusancy fines in PRO, E 401 there appears to have been no increase in payments which Mary Banester made between this date and her death in 1617. Other recusants within the group of families regularly mentioned by the secular newsletter writers, for example Edward Wyborne, were subject to sharp increases in payments for their recusancy at this time, PRO, E 401/2303–5.
1423 Thomas Habington of Hindlip, Worcestershire.
1424 For the political situation in Ireland, see Clarke, A. with Edwards, R. Dudley, ‘Pacification, plantation and the catholic question, 1603–23’, in Moody, T.W., Martin, F.X., and Byrne, F.J., A New History of Ireland, vol. 3, Early Modern Ireland 1534–1691 (Oxford, 1976), 213–17.Google Scholar
1425 Sir James Gough. See Clarke, and Edwards, Dudley, ‘Plantation’, 216–17Google Scholar; CSP Ireland 1611–14, p. lv.Google Scholar
1426 Arthur Chichester, first Baron Chichester of Belfast.
1427 i.e. priests.
1428 According to Richard Broughton, writing to More on 27 February 1614, ‘Grey the Comis of fran: [Franciscans]…giveth no good edification for the keeper hath complayned that he is drunke allmost every day, & hath bad women comminge to him’. Gray had not been with the other priests ‘at any good exercise since Candl.’, AAW A XIII, no. 38 (p. 89).
1429 John Varder.
1430 Alexander Fairclough SJ.
1431 See Letter 51.
1432 For Hoby's activities as a JP and a recusancy commissioner, see Questier, , Conversion, Politics and Religion, 107, 140, 166.Google Scholar
1433 John Mordaunt, fifth Baron Mordaunt and future Earl of Peterborough was removed to the custody of Archbishop Abbot, Cokayne X, 496.
1434 20 December. Cf. Letter 52.
1435 CRS 68, 26.
1436 Matthew Kellison noted that she died on ‘Friday in the octaves of the Epiphanie’, i.e. 11 January 1614 (NS), AAW A XIII, no. 9 (p. 22).
1437 Prince Charles.
1438 Cf. Tilbrook, , ‘Aspects of the Government and Society of County Durham’, 188–90.Google Scholar
1439 Roland (Thomas) Preston OSB.
1440 According to Richard Broughton, in February 1614, ‘Widdrington of the South is up every day be foure of the cloocke & is gone abroad. Men iudge that he is printinge of bookes’, AAW A XIII, no. 38 (p. 89).
1441 See CRS 75, 323.
1442 John Chamberlain noted on 10 February 1614 the appointment of twelve commissioners to negotiate for a match with France, McClure, , 506.Google Scholar
1443 i.e. George Birkhead.
1444 The secular priests.
1445 Benjamin Norton.
1446 Birkhead noted on 31 January 1614 that he had urged Norton to become an assistant ‘but he refuseth it utterly, and giveth me leave to compleine against him’. Birkhead also said that another priest ‘mr vaughan’ [identity uncertain] in Staffordshire likewise would not accept the charge ‘though willinge of him selfe’, ‘because his patrone threatneth him to putt him out of the doores’, AAW A XIII, no. 15 (p. 34).
1447 Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Count of Bucquoi. Cf. Downshire MSS IV, 258, 262, 264, 296, 301–2, 319.Google Scholar
1448 CSPV 1613–15, 84Google Scholar, for Archduke Albert's illness (but not death) at this time.
1449 Matthew Kellison.