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The Jesuits and Devotion to our Lady in the England of Elizabeth I and James I
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 September 2015
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The attitude of the Jesuits, as of all Catholic recusants at this time, was conditioned by being a persecuted minority. Maintaining their faith, they were also concerned to win over the persecutors. So Jesuit writings combine counter-attack and apologetic in ways not contradictory but certainly complex. Theirs was a special difficulty. They avoided politics, but many of their confrères on the continent, notably Robert Persons, favoured a military solution since the prevailing régime in England had from the outset rejected any peaceful overture. They relied on the Spaniards for a successful invasion. This never happened. Treason not prospering remained treason. But from about 1601 and the abortive Spanish effort at Kinsale, even the Catholics on the continent realised that there could be no forceful answer to the recusant dilemma.
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1 Two editions are used here. The earliest, undated, although a date may have been included in the cut-off bottom line of the titlepage, was probably printed at St Omer about 1593; now in the British Province Archives. The second edition, printed at St Omer in 1624, was reprinted by the Scolar Press in 1972 from the copy at Ushaw, with the original additions and omissions.
2 1593, pp. 1, 2; 1624, pp. 34, 35.
3 1593, pp. A2v, A3r; 1624, pp. 4, 5.
4 From ‘A briefe discourse of the devotion of our Lady’: 1593 no pagination; 1624, pp. 12, 13.
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13 1593, B3r/v: 1624, Blv, B2r, pp. 26, 27.
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16 1593, pp. 20,21. The 1593 edition included ‘The maner of distribution of the life of our Saviour and ofour Lady for the Corone of 63 Aves’, pp. 60–66, and other ways of arranging the prayers.
17 1593, pp. 24, 25.
18 1593, p. 115.
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25 1599 edn., Sig. A2.