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8. George Salvin (Birkhead) to Richard Baker (Smith) (11 April 1610) (AAW A IX, no. 33, pp. 85–8. Holograph. Dated 12 April in AAW A catalogs)

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my Good Sr, I have in effect alredie answered both yow letters of the 29 of lanuarie and of the 20 of feb. and have adventured to send it by my old frend unto yow, with the inclosed copie of Cardinal bianch. Letter to me. I was the bolder to do it because it conteineth nothinge but what I care not yf he see. for sith that paul hath made this resolution, and that both yow and I are willinge to obey it, I write not any thinge therin, but which may insinuate so much, and I hope albeit my said frend should see it, he could take no great exceptions therat. and it may be a furtherance to increase frendship betwene him and yow which I am not much against, die case standinge with us as it doth, we must have patience and be content with the first clause of not beinge bound to deale with the fathers in our Goverment. As in that letter I sent yow a coppie of bianch. letter to me, so in this I send yow another copie of my answere to him, that yow may see how I proceed.

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Royal Historical Society Camden Fifth Series , Volume 12 , July 1998 , pp. 73 - 75
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Copyright © Royal Historical Society 1998

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References

197 Robert Persons SJ. The letter is AAW A IX, no. 32.

198 This letter is AAW A IX, no. 22, dated 26 February 1610 (NS). It instructs Birkhead that he must send the names of those who defend the oath of allegiance so that they may be proceeded against canonically. Secondly, he is to keep strictly to the breves and faculties accorded to his predecessor. The third section of the letter, while dealing with Smith's presentation of petitions, exhorts matters in England to be conducted in peace and charity. The cardinal says that this letter is written in place of a letter to Birkhead the previous summer which he thought had miscarried. (For Hicks's clarification of the dating of these letters, CRS 41, 68.)

199 The confirmation by Paul V of Clement VIII's breve of 5 October 1602 (NS) forbidding the involvement of SJ in secular clergy affairs in England.

200 This letter of 23 February 1610 is AAW A IX, no. 20, printed in TD V, pp. xciii–vi.

201 A copy of this letter is AAW A IX, no. 21 (23 February 1610, printed in TD V, pp. xcii–iii).

202 Geoffrey Pole.

203 Not identified.

204 Probably the secular priest John Muttlebury alias Mallet who was ordained in 1601. After banishment in 1607 he returned to England in April 1608 and entered OSB in 1609 or 1610, Anstr. I, 242. However, a layman called Mallet was a substantial financial donor to SJ between 1607 and 1609, McCoog, 251.

205 AAW A IX, no. 23, dated 3 March 1610 (a list of names of twenty priests, mostly in South Wales, who favour the appointment of a bishop).

206 On 3 April 1610 Birkhead wrote to Smith that Worthington had ‘honored…[Blackwell] next unto me with a present of one of his babies [sic] in English’, AAW A IX, no. 31 (pp. 77–8); see ARCR II, no. 171.

207 The priests in the Clink prison who favoured the oath of allegiance.

208 John Smyth had seceded from the Church of England and emigrated with his congregation to the Netherlands, Acheson, R.J., Radical Puritans in England 1550–1660 (1990), 19–22Google Scholar. Cf. White, B. R., The English Separatist Tradition (Oxford, 1971)Google Scholar, ch. 6; Brachlow, S., The Communion of Saints (Oxford, 1988)Google Scholar, passim.

209 Thomas Fitzherbert.

210 Smith, , Prudentiall Ballance.Google Scholar

211 Smith, Richard, Vita Illustrisamae, ac Piissimae Dominot Magdalenat Montis-acuti in Anglia Vicecomitissae (Rome, 1609)Google Scholar. It was dedicated to Cardinal Edward Farnese. On 7 December 1610 (NS) Smith reported to More that James I was greatly offended with this ‘litle booke’ which the Venetian ambassador was said to have presented to him, AAW A IX, no. 103 (p. 337).

212 See Letter 7. In July 1610 William (Gabriel) Gifford OSB thanked Smith for ‘the life and death of that woorthie ladie which trulie I red over verbatim not without teares’, and said he had delivered a copy to Matthew Kellison, AAW A IX, no. 54 (p. 151).

213 Ralph Buckland, secular priest. Buckland acted as a letter carrier. In October 1611 he lost ‘a greate packett of letters’ when he was robbed while going to the Continent, AAW A X, no. 135 (p. 387).

214 John Redman had written to Smith on 24 November 1609 (NS) that he had tried to persuade William Cape to be a ‘partenour’ with the merchant John Fowler in an arrangement to sell Smith's books in England but ‘we could not find out the price of eche copie for that he [Cape] knew not what monie mr Bucland and mr Archpriest had layed out so I requested him to enquire heerof at his arrival and then to thinke of my offre and requeste and to ioine with fouler in the hazard telling him to my iudgement that thei wil be no lousers’, AAW A VIII, no. 183 (p. 693). For Cape, see Allison, A.F., ‘Franciscan Books in English, 1559–1640’, Biographical Studies 3 (1955), 16–65Google Scholar, at pp. 46–7; ARCR II, nos 117–20.