^{page 5 note a} “This long-bearded Thomas Hill, whose faculties were revoked three months later (as will be seen in the following document), is said to have been an Anglican clergyman. He went to Rheims in 1590, and was transferred in 1593 to the College at Rome, where he was ordained priest. He subsequently distinguished himself on the English mission, wrote the Quatron of Reasons, was condemned to death in 1612, but was reprieved and banished. He had been admitted while in prison into the Order of St. Benedict. He died at Douai in 1644.

^{page 5 note b} MS. mutilated.

^{page 5 note c} Octavius Mirto, bishop of Tricarico, 1592–1605.

^{page 6 note a} Edward Tempest had been at the head of an English faction at the college as Bennet was of the Welsh (Foley, Records, vi. 36). He was ordained priest March 19, 1594, and was sent into England Sept. 16, 1597.

^{page 6 note b} Robert Benson, alias Richardson, was sent from Rheims to Rome in January, 1593.