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27. George Salvin (Birkhead) to Thomas More (20 May 1612) (AAW A XI, no. 84, pp. 239–42.)
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 October 2009
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my verie good Sr, after my longe desyer to heare from yow I have now receyved two of yours (not missinge those yow have sent before), the one of the 16 of march, the other of the 28. so that I make account to have receyved all which yow have sent, as for answere to the first, be yow sure that albeit I begynne to grow dymme, yet when iust occasion forceth me, I will not omitt to visit yow with my letters, beinge not ignorant of the consolation that such correspondence bringeth widi it. for the sturre about the booke yow presented take yow no great thought, it can do yow no harme, neither need yow to prosecute that matter for your credit, for I do not conceyve yow have lost it by that means, the sturre about that point is not so great heare as I perceyve yow imagin, albeit one of Late of no small reputation hath once againe obiected the same unto me. but I am not moved ther with, but Lett such speeches passe, wherin I fynd much good, and therfor could wish yow wold also deale no more therwith. for I am told yt will but breed amongst us increase of combustions, your zeale against the oath giveth me great edification, and causeth me iustly to see what the generall opinion is in that place [word deleted], which by the grace of god I meane to hold so longe as I live. In that sense yow say yow are a frend to those of the Clinke, I am also a frend, and I thinke I have shewed the same in as good termes as any other of my brethren hath done.
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702 See Letter 20.
703 Birkhead wrote to More on 9 January 1612 enclosing a letter to the viceprotector Bianchetti certifying what he had done about Blackwell, AAW A XI, no. 3.
704 See Letter 21. In early January 1612 Birkhead had warned that More should ‘take heed what yow write to mr blackwell. he giveth out ill speeches, as though yow were wholly for them’, AAW A XI, no. 1 (p. 1); and that Blackwell ‘told a frend of the Iesuites…the intelligence yow send to me, is nothinge in respect of that which yow give to them’, AAW A XI, no. 2 (p. 5). In February 1612 Richard Smith also warned More that the oath-favouring priests in the Clink prison regarded More as a friend, AAW A XI, no. 20.
705 John Baptist Vives.
706 Thomas Doughty alias or vere Dawson.
707 Probably [Walpole, Michael ?, trans.’, The Lyf of the Mother Teresa of Iesus (Antwerp, 1611)Google Scholar, ARCR II, no. 783.
708 Cardinal Lawrence Bianchetti had just died. He was buried in the Church of the Gesù in Rome next to Ignatius of Loyola. I am grateful to Thomas McCoog for this information.
709 Cuthbert Crayford.
710 Samuel (Bartholomew) Kennett OSB.
711 Robert (Anselm) Beech OSB.
712 Copley made a point of his determined neutrality in this respect, Copley, John, Doctrinall and Morall Observations (1612)Google Scholar, sig. ¶4r–v.
713 John (Augustine) Bradshaw OSB.
714 Jesuits.
715 William Percy.
716 AAW A XI, no. 6.
717 See AAW A XI, nos 6, 12.
718 Don Francisco de Castro. See Letter 25.
719 Cardinal Charles Conti.
720 Cardinal Paul Emile Sfondrata, nephew of Pope Gregory XIV.
721 For the appointment of a bishop.
722 Giovanni Garzia Millini had been created cardinal in 1606 by Paul V. An influential figure in the curia, he was, however, as secretary of the Inquisition, a leading opponent of the project for appointing a bishop for England and, in 1623, when Gregory XV reversed the policy of Paul V in this respect, he still opposed any such episcopal appointment, Allison, , ‘Richard Smith’, 159–60.Google Scholar
723 Geoffrey Pole.
724 Perhaps Birkhead is referring to the (now badly damaged) letter to More of March 1612 (AAW A XI, no. 52) in the first part of which the writer deals extensively with the condition of the Catholic gentry in Dorset and Somerset and the shortage of residences for priests. T.F. Knox identified the writer as Edward Kenion.
725 Birkhead wrote to More on 20 April 1612 that a Catholic ‘gentleman’ who had written to Cardinal Bellarmine was intending to visit Rome; More should assist him since ‘his zeale is extraordinarie, and therfor I beleve, yf he may be hard, he will roundly describe the manner of our persecution (yf it may be) to paule himselfe’, AAW A XI, no. 62 (p. 182).
726 Cf. Loomie, AJ., ‘A Jacobean Crypto-Catholic: Lord Wotton’, Catholic Historical Review 53 (1967), 328–45Google Scholar. at pp. 333–6.
727 George Blackwell. See Letter 22.
728 Thomas Worthington.
729 Birkhead refers to the forthcoming conference at Douai.
730 A reference to the initial ruling communicated (24 September 1610 (NS)) by Cardinal Lawrence Bianchetti to Birkhead in reply to the two petitions for reform of Douai and the sending of priests to England, AAW A IX, no. 76.
731 William (Maurus) Taylor OSB. See Lunn, , ‘English Cassinese’, 63–4.Google Scholar