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14. Benjamin Norton to Thomas More (12 April 1611) (AAW A X, no. 33, pp. 81–4.)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 October 2009
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My good frende, if heeretofore for wante of meanes of sendinge imediatelye to your selfe I have ben thought remisse nowe I hope I paye yow whome & I wright the moore bicause I have promised our Archpr. that if I have libertye I will not faile to wright unto yow for a quarter of a yeare but afterwards I bidd him & his Rabbies [?] doe what theye will them selves & expecte noe moore at my handes, nowe therefore to beegin my lettres I tell yow that yours of the 26th of Febru: came safe to my handes the 7 of Aprill & revived my feeble spirits for I had travailed the too dayes beefore very harde on foote & comminge to my dames thinkinge to have reste newes came the nexte morninge that the knaves weare in the towne which made me flee to the place wheare I laste lefte yow & so spende 4 dayes with my frende Leptye Tipt etcetera[.] my Cosin Thomas presentlye offered to sende my lettres if I woulde wright. & judge yow when I have donne whether I accepted off his offer or noe[.] In my beeinge abroad I understoode of the takinge of a cople of pp. the one was M.r Henrye Mayhewe at widdowe Cables in Wilteshire, the other one Mr Frauncis & as I suspecte it is M.r Kannion at Mr Edwarde Keynes his howse in summersetshire, the first was taken on Easter daye the 2de the frydaye after, soe that yow maye see that in the cheefeste feastes & solemnityes bee ower greatest daingers soe all thinges goe the contrarie waie in our miserable cunntrye.
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References
389 Constance Lambe.
390 Presumably this refers to Cowdray, Viscount Montague's Sussex residence.
391 AAW A X no. 29 (Benjamin Norton to Thomas More, 26 March 1611) identifies ‘Leptye’ as Richard Smith, who had temporarily returned to England from Paris, see Letter 17.
392 Not identified.
393 Thomas Heath.
394 Henry Mayhew, secular priest. See Anstr. I, 223; TD IV, p. clxx. Mayhew was from Dinton in Wiltshire.
335 Presumably this is Joan Cable of Whiteparish in Wiltshire, CRS 60, 125.
396 Edward Kenion, secular priest. See Letter 16.
397 Edward Keynes, recusant, of Compton Pauncefoot in Somerset, CRS 61, 211–12; CRS 54, 193.
398 Bocardo: both the name for the prison in Oxford's city walls and a mnemonic word in logic (OED), a conclusion which is inescapable (hence the use of the word as a name for the prison).
399 Geoffrey Pole.
400 George Birkhead.
401 Not identified. William Newman, an anti-Jesuit secular priest, used the alias of Slyfield, but he was permanently based at Lisbon at this time, Anstr. II, 230–1.
402 Christopher Thules, secular priest.
403 See Letter 12a.
404 See Letter 12a. Henry Smith is recorded as bailiff of Seaford in 1608, ESRO, SEA 104 (for which reference I am grateful to Christopher Whittick).
405 Edward Goldwyer. An exchequer commission in October 1610 had already sequestrated property worth 5 marks belonging to him at Battle, PRO, E 368/539, mem. 147d. In February 1611 another commission, led by Sir Barnard Whetstones and John Langworth, seized moveables of his valued at £4 including a horse ‘with a partie white face & two white feete’, PRO, E 368/541, mem. 124a. Richard Broughton reported this sequestration in April 1611, AAW A X, no. 36.
406 Richard Vincent of Catsfield. He held property by lease from Anthony Browne, second Viscount Montague, PRO, E 368/541, mem. 124a–b.
407 The exchequer commission sitting at Lewes on 6 October 1610 found that John Cape had goods at Battle worth eight pounds, thirteen shillings and four pence, PRO, E 368/539, mem. 14yd.
408 David Lomer. He held property at Battle worth five marks (according to the exchequer commission's inquisition at Lewes on 6 October 1610 [see previous note]).
409 See Letter 30.
410 Constance Lambe.
411 Norton frequently stressed that Constance Lambe was not physically attractive, AAW A X, no. 29 (p. 70) (relaying her request to More that her son Anthony Lambe should be educated at Rome, ‘who is likelye to prove a hansommer man’ than ‘ever shee was woman’), XI, no. 170 (p. 499) (that Anthony Lambe ‘is sayed to have robd his mother of a greate deale of her bewtye (for shurelye shee hathe scarse any lefte)’).
412 Richard Lambe.
413 Norton wrote to More in June 1611 to say that the pope could assure himself that unless ‘hee have true newes of…matters from Notaryes or men of creditt’, he would be ‘to muche abused’, AAW A X, no. 61 (p. 167).
414 Jesuits.
415 Robert (Anselm) Beech OSB.
416 Thomas Owen SJ.