³⁰⁴ Thomas More.

³⁰⁵ Not identified.

³⁰⁶ The proclamation of 2 June 1610, Larkin and Hughes, 245.

³⁰⁷ Robert Bennett, Bishop of Hereford.

³⁰⁸ The disturbances in Herefordshire in 1605 over the funeral of Alice Wellington, Anstr. I, 237.

³⁰⁹ Henry Pett alias Hammond, secular priest and brother of the priest Robert Pert. He had recently been indicted and had taken the oath of allegiance with a qualifying protestation, and had then asked to be sent into exile, AAW A VIII, no. 25.

³¹⁰ He was still in Gloucester prison in April 1611, AAW A X, no. 36.

³¹¹ Thomas Lister SJ wrote the manuscript tract ‘Adversus Factiosos in Ecclesia’ of 1598 (a polemic against the appellants, condemning their appeal against the archpriest, George Blackwell, as schismatical). The text of it survives only in Bagshaw, Christopher, Relatio Compendiosa Turbaram (1601)Google Scholar; Milward, I, 117.Google Scholar

³¹² In March 1611 Birkhead repeated to More that Lister was advising Catholics to take the oath, AAW A X, no. 24. Cf. CRS 51, 277Google Scholar, suggesting that in the 1590s Lister was regarded as politically unreliable by the Jesuits themselves, and that he had been approached for support by the opponents of Robert Persons.

³¹³ Richard Sheldon, secular priest.

³¹⁴ The SJ's college at St Omer.

³¹⁵ Henry Cotton, Bishop of Salisbury.

³¹⁶ Chippenham (?).

³¹⁷ Chelsea College.

³¹⁸ Possibly Ursula (Norton), wife of Anthony Uvedale of Hambledon. See Mott, fo. 449v.

³¹⁹ For the Cope family of Bedhampton, see Mott, fos 115r–18r.

³²⁰ This may be the Richard White whose arrest was recorded by Birkhead in April 1610, see Letter 9. For the well-connected Catholic White family of Southwick and Havant, see Mott, fos 510r–14r.

³²¹ 27 October.

³²² Richard Lambe.

³²³ Eleanor Brenning, daughter of Anthony Uvedale.

³²⁴ Roger Woollascott of Chidham in Sussex (apparently the husband of Eleanor Brenning's aunt Susan) was subjected to an exchequer commission at this time on account of his recusancy, PRO, E 368/539, mem. 147d, E 368/540 mem. 55a, and property belonging to him and Christiana Bruen was assessed. He managed, however, to get the commission's findings reversed by the exchequer court in London.

³²⁵ John Colpis jnr of Stoughton. See PRO, C 142/223/69 (inquisition post martem of John Colpis snr (1591)). On 12 November 1610 Colpis (described as of Watergate in the parish of Upmarden) conformed in front of Samuel Harsnett at Lambeth Palace, having already taken the oath of allegiance before Thomas Brigham, mayor of Chichester, and William Thorne, Dean of Chichester Cathedral, and certified his conformity to the exchequer barons, PRO, E 368/539, mem. 140a–b (where an assessment of Colpis's property made on 6 October 1610 is recorded). Cf. AAW A X, no. 29.

³²⁶ John Ayling of the ‘Shiphouse’ in Stedham parish, who was subject to exchequer assessments for his recusancy in 1605, 1606 and 1607. He died on 1 March 1612, and his heir, William, was a conformist, PRO, E 368/521, mem. 280a, E 368/525, mem. 256a, E 368/528, mem. 231b, E 368/546, mem. 93a.

³⁸⁷ Edward Wyborne, brother of the prominent East Sussex/West Kent recusant William Wyborne who died on 31 January 1612, PRO, C 142/140/183 (and, perhaps, Benjamin Norton's brother-in-law, see Letter 1). Edward, described as of Battle, was assessed, for his recusancy, on the same day as John Colpis, 6 October 1610, on personal property held at Battle as well as on estates at Tonbridge and Pembury in Kent, though some of his property was already held by Thomas Pope under a crown grant made in March 1610, PRO, E 368/543, mem. 109a.

³²⁸ Anthony Williamson of Midhurst leased various estates in West Sussex from Anthony Browne, first Viscount Montague, BL, Additional MS 39415, fo. 26r. Elizabeth Williamson, Anthony's mother, was assessed for recusancy, like John Colpis and Edward Wyborne, on 6 October 1610, PRO, E368/539, mem. 147d.

³²⁹ Mary Pole.

³³⁰ William Lambe, brother of Anthony, and son of Benjamin Norton's patrons Richard and Constance. In August 1609 Birkhead wrote to Smith in Rome that he was glad ‘William applieth his singinge so well, his brother Iohn is now in flanders for the same end’, AAW A VIII, no. 140 (p. 584); see CRS 54, 252. By November 1610 he was being presented as a recusant in Midhurst, WSRO, Ep. 1/17/13, fo. 99v.

³³¹ Walter Robert (Vincent) Sadler OSB.

³³² Anthony Fletcher was a native of Westmorland but resided in Sussex where he served the Browne family at Cowdray. His son, Thomas Fletcher, was Birkhead's godson, Anstr. II, 114; AAW A XI, no. 62. Anthony entered the English College in Rome in 1609. Persons reported to Birkhead on 14 March 1609 (NS) that he had been welcomed at the college ‘to show the desire we have to serve his Good Patron [Montague]’, Milton House MSS (transcript at ABSI). He was ordained in December 1610 and was sent to England in September 1612, but was already being drawn into SJ, CRS 74, 171; see Letter 35.

³³³ Not identified (though a ‘Mr Buck’ was assisting the seculars with their finances in 1609, AAW A VIII, no. 102).

³³⁴ Thomas More.

³³⁵ Robert (Anselm) Beech OSB.

³³⁶ Edmund Thornell.