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ABRAHAMUS AURELIUS, eccles. Gall. Londini pastor, Æt. 43, 1618; Voerst f. 1631; 4to. · "Vivos Aureli vultus exsculpsit in ære;

Mores haud potuit sculpere chalcographus ;
Neve opus æternis dictis, factisque, librisque,
Jampridem Mores sculpserat ipse suos."

PRIESTS OF THE CHURCH OF ROME.

"The portraiture of the Jesuits and priests, as they use to sit at council in England, to further the Catholic cause. Dr. Bishop, Dr. Bristow, Dr. Wright, F. Palmer, F. Wood, F. Lurtice, F. Maxfield, F. Higham, F. Sweete, F. Ployden (or Plowden), D. Smith, F. Lovet, F. Anineur, F. Worthington, F. Porter, F. Pateson." No engraver's name. The print is in the second part of" Vox populi," towards the end.

The persons represented are said in this pamphlet to have held. intelligence with Gondamor, and to have met at the house of one Lovet, a goldsmith, in Fetter-lane, who had a printing-press in his house for popish books. They are called Jesuits, and jesuited priests.

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William Bishop, who was born at Brayles, in Warwickshire, studied at Oxford, and in several foreign universities. He was employed in England as a missionary, in the reigns of Elizabeth and James I. in both which he suffered imprisonment for acting in that capacity. He was consecrated bishop of Chalcedon at Paris, the 4th of June, 1623, and invested with ordinary power to govern the Catholic church in England. He was esteemed a man of abilities, and was a very active and useful instrument to his party. He wrote several pieces of controversy against Mr. Perkins and Dr. Robert Abbot, and published Pits's book "De illustribus Angliæ Scripto

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ribus." His gentle and amiable manners gained him esteem with men of all persuasions. He was the first of the church of Rome that, after the reformation, was sent into England in an episcopal character, and died the 16th of April, 1624.

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Dr. BRISTOW.

Richard Bristow, who was born at Worcester, was educated in the university of Oxford, where he and Campian entertained Queen Elizabeth with a public disputation, and acquitted themselves with applause. He shortly after conformed to the church of Rome, and was invited by the famous Allen, afterward cardinal, to Douay, where he distinguished himself in the English college, as he did afterward in that of Rheims, in both of which he held considerable employments. The following character of him was found by Dod among the records in the former of these colleges: "He might rival Allen in prudence, Stapleton in acuteness, Campian in eloquence, Wright in theology, and Martin in languages." His death was occasioned by severe application to his studies.

Dr. WRIGHT.

Dr. Wright, in the list of the names of Romish priests and Jesuits, resident about the city of London, 1624,† is said to have been a grave ancient man, treasurer to the priests, and very rich. He was probably a different person from Dr. Thomas Wright, who was reader of divinity in the English college at Douay, and author of the book, "De Passionibus Anime," and several noted pieces of controversy. The latter, who, according to Dod, does not appear to have been a missionary here since the reign of Elizabeth, died about the year 1623.

Father PALMER

was a Jesuit.

Father LURTICE

was a Jesuit.

This and the following short account of priests and Jesuits are chiefly extracted from Dod's History.

↑ See "Phoenix Britannicus," 4to. p. 435.

Father MAXFIELD.

Dod mentions a person, whose name was Thomas Maxfield, that studied at Douay, where he was ordained priest, and sent upon a mission into England in 1615, and executed the 11th of July the following year, on account of his sacerdotal character. Quære, if the person represented in the print?

F. HIGHAM.

John Higham, who, for the most part, lived abroad, employed himself chiefly in translating religious books from the Spanish. The last of his works, mentioned by Dod, is the "Exposition of the Mass," which is dated 1622. Ant. Wood says he was a bookseller at St. Omer's. See Athen. Oxon.

F. SWEET.

John Sweet, a native of Devonshire, studied at Rome, where he entered into the society of Jesus in 1608. He was sent on a mission from Rome to England, in this reign, and died at St. Omer's, the 26th of February, 1632. He is said to have been the author of "A Manifestation of the Apostacy of M. Ant. de Dominis," printed at St. Omer's, 1617, in 4to. Dr. Daniel Featley, who was his opponent in a disputation, has introduced him in his "Romish Fisher caught, or a Conference between Sweet and Fisher," Lond. 1624.

F. PLOYDEN (or PLOWDEN),

a Jesuit, was probably a relation of the famous Plowden, author of the "Reports," who was a Roman Catholic.

Dr. SMITH.

Dr. Richard Smith, bishop of Chalcedon, appears, according to Dod's account of him, not to have borne any ecclesiastical character in England before the year 1625. It is therefore very probable, that another Dr. Smith is here meant, and especially as the two following persons of the name are mentioned in the list of Romish priests and Jesuits resident about the city of London in 1624. "Dr. Smith, senior, some time of the college of Rome, and author of divers pestilent books; and Dr. Smith, junior, author of divers

other books no less dangerous." A strong party was raised against the bishop of Chalcedon, by the regular clergy, who loudly accused him of infringing their privileges. This forced him to

abscond.

Father LOVET

was brother to three goldsmiths in London, who were all papists.

Father ANIEUR,*

who was esteemed an enterprising and dangerous zealot, was a Frenchman.

Father WORTHINGTON.

Thomas Worthington, who was born at Blainscoe, near Wigan, in Lancashire, studied at Oxford and Douay, where he was president of the English college. He was afterward several years at Rome, and was some time apostolic notary. Being desirous of seeing England again, where he had formerly been an active missionary, he obtained leave to return thither, and shortly after died, in 1626. He wrote annotations for the Douay Bible, in the translation of which he had a principal share, and was author of several books mentioned by Dod. His "Catalogus Martyrum in Anglia,” &c. was sold at the high price of 11s. 6d. at the sale of Mr. Richard Smith's library, 1682. The original price of this pamphlet was no more than 6d.

was a Jesuit.

Father PORTER

Father PATESON

was also a Jesuit. I know nothing of Father Wood, who was probably of the same fraternity. He is the fifth person mentioned in the description of the print.

HENRICUS GARNETUS, Anglus, e Societate Jesu; passus 3 Maii, 1606. Joh. Wierix exc. 12mo.

* The name should be thus spelt, and not Anincur.

HENRICUS GARNETUS; in an ornamented oval; two Latin lines, "Si quid patimini," &c. scarce. Copied by

W. Richardson.

HENRICUS GARNETUS. R. Sadeler.

HENRICUS GARNETUS; small folio.

"In the gallery of the English Jesuits," says Dr. Burnet, "among the pictures of their martyrs, I did not meet with Garnet; for, perhaps, that name is so well known, that they would not expose a picture with such a name on it, to all strangers: yet Oldcorn, being a name less known, is hung there among their martyrs, though he was as clearly convicted of the gunpowder treason, as the other was.'

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Henry Garnet, who was born in Nottinghamshire, received his education at Rome, where he entered into the society of Jesus when he was twenty years of age. He was a man of various learning, and was professor of philosophy and Hebrew in the Italian college at Rome; and was so well skilled in the mathematics, that he there supplied the place of the celebrated Clavius, when by his age and infirmities he was incapacitated to attend the schools. It does not appear that he was active in the gunpowder-plot; and he declared, just before his execution, that he was only privy to it, and concealed what was revealed to him in confession. He was executed the 3d of May, 1606.†

Ven. P. F. BENEDICTUS, Anglus, Capucinus, Prædicator, &c. Obiit 1611, Et. 49, &c. J. Picart incidit. From the same book with the next print.

Burnet's Letter from Rome. Mr. Addison, in his Travels, saw the pictures of of the two Garnets, Oldcorn, &c. at Loretto.

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"That the Jesuit Garnet was honoured as a martyr (though he disclaimed all pretensions to it himself, in his own remarkable apostrophe, Me Martyrem! O qualem Martyrem!') we have the authority of a brother of this order, EudæmoJohannes, a Cretan Jesuit, who wrote his 'Apology,' and published it at Cologn, in 1610, with a very curious frontispiece, Garnet's face pourtrayed in the centre of a wheat straw (such as it appeared to one of his disciples, who kept it as a relic), encircled with this legend, Miraculosa Effigies R. P. H. Garnet, Soc. Jes. Martyris Anglicani, 3 Maii, 1606.'" Note to Benj. Pye's third Letter.

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