The secular name of Father Benedict was William Fich (Fytche), of Camfield, in Essex. There is a very ancient and opulent family of the name, seated at Danbury Place, near Chelmsford, in that county.

V. P. ARCHANGELUS, Scotus, Capucinus, Prædicator, &c. Obiit 1606, Æt. 36. conversion. 13, die 2 Aug. J. Picart incidit. From the History of his Life, written first in French, and now translated into English by R. R. a Catholic priest; published at Douay, 1623.

It appears, by this account, that his secular name was John Forbes; and that he was son of the Lord Forbes, by Margaret Gordon, daughter of the Marquis of Huntley.

SIR TOBIE MATTHEW, son of T. Matthew, archbishop of York, was a Jesuit, † but I believe no missionary; an employment to which he seems not to have been very well adapted, as he was rather of an unclerical character. See the next reign.

ROBERT PARSONS; fol. Neeffs.

ROBERT PARSONS; 12mo. Wierix.

ROBERT PARSONS; in Freherus, p. 274.

ROBERT PARSONS, with Campian, Garnet, and R. Blond, in a title.

ROBERT PARSONS, Jesuit; 12mo. Evans exc.

* According to Douglas's " Peerage," her name was Christian.

+ See the "Biog. Brit." vi. p. 4048.

+ Arthur Wilson informs us, that a new order called Jesuitrices, was set on foot in Flanders, in this reign, by Mrs. Ward, and Mrs. Twittie, English ladies, who assumed the Ignatian habit; and that they were patronised by Father Gerard, rector of the English college of Jesuits, at Liege; but that they were discountenanced by others of that fraternity. Soon after, Mrs. Ward was, by the pope, appointed mother-general of two hundred ladies of some distinction, whom she commissioned to preach," &c.-Wilson, in Kennet's Hist. vol. ii. p. 729.

Reuerendus Pater Archangelus a Pembroh Anglus Capucinus Pradicator et Definitor prouincia Parisiensis qui obijt anno Domini 1631.12 D.Augusti ætatis. Vero sua 67.et a conuersione ad Religionem Seraphicam.ubi cum summa laude uicit.45.

From a Scarce Print in the Collection. of Sir John S. Aubyn.