¹²²³ Broughton had recently succeeded the deceased John Bavant as assistant to the archpriest for the South-West, AAW A XII, no. 92.

¹²²⁴ The last letter from Broughton to More which More had received was dated 24 August 1613, AAW A XII, no. 152.

¹²²⁵ John Gerard SJ (who had reconciled Anthony Rouse to the Church of Rome in 1590) supervised this new change of heart and religion. Rouse's defection had been caused by his irritation at SJ's cavalier attitude to his own property, Bell, Thomas, The Anatomie of Popish Tyrannie (1603), 130Google Scholar; Watson, , Decacordon, 90Google Scholar; Lambeth Palace Library, MS 2014, fo. 95^r.

¹²²⁶ In July 1614 George Abbot wrote to William Trumbull concerning Rouse, now at Zichem, that ‘Our Lady’ of the miracle-working shrine there would ‘have work sufficient to clear him of the pox wherewith he was infected, before his going out of England’, Downshire MSS IV, 458.Google Scholar

¹²²⁷ Guido Bentivoglio.

¹²²⁸ Arthur Chichester, first Baron Chichester of Belfast, Lord Deputy of Ireland, was still rumoured to be on the point of dismissal in April 1614 but he continued in office, Downshire MSS IV, 362–3.Google Scholar

¹²²⁹ Cornwallis came to Ireland in 1613 with a commission to probe into the grievances arising from parliamentary elections there, Ford, A., The Protestant Reformation in Ireland, 1590–1641 (Dublin, 1997), 60Google Scholar; Downshire MSS IV, 193, 269Google Scholar; McClure, , 475–6.Google Scholar

¹²³⁰ See Letter 46.

¹²³¹ William Talbot, at the head of a group of Irish representatives, had come to London concerning the grievances generated by the recent Irish parliament.

¹²³² See Clarke, A., The Old English in Ireland, 1625–42 (1966), 45Google Scholar; CSP Ireland 1611–14, p. lliGoogle Scholar. Chichester had agreed to Irish Catholics' demands that commissioners should be sent to explain their grievances to James, McClure, , 462–3Google Scholar. The representatives refused to take the oath of allegiance. William Talbot ‘answered that it belonged not to them nor could extend to any one of ther cuntrye’. At a second interview they refused to state their views on the deposition of princes. Lord Chancellor Ellesmere and Archbishop Abbot secured their imprisonment, AAW A XII, no. 152 (p. 341). On 5 October 1613 (NS) Champney remarked that Abbot's harsh words to them had led them to complain to James, and that James rebuked Abbot for causing him to be labelled ‘tyrannicall’ and ‘bloodie’ amongst his ‘neighboure princes’, AAW A XII, no. 179 (p. 395).

¹²³³ Cf. McClure, , 509.Google Scholar

¹²³⁴ See CSPV 1613–15, 2, 19Google Scholar; McClure, , 459, 464, 466–7, 468.Google Scholar

¹²³⁵ Edward Bruce, second Baron Kinloss.

¹²³⁶ On 14 September 1613 (NS) Robert Pett relayed to More the now-circulating narrative of the duel: ‘the occation of this fray began betwene them in England many monethes past and was composed by the kinge and Counsel yet as is sayed in souch sorte as that the Scotishe Lord conceaved him self to receave therby some disgrace and therfore upon the departure of the Lady Elizabeths grace from England he obteined licence to travaile into france but before his departure m:^r Sackfeald as is reported found meanes to geve him a blow one the face with his fist and willed him to take that with him, which he did and after his beinge in france sent m^r Sackfeald a chalenge which he accepted and the place appoynted and agreed upon was neare unto Antwerp and this week past they came thether with ether of them a gentilman Copartener and a surgion and soe concluded to fight ther combatt with single curtelax but the Lord Brus would admitt noe partyes as standers by wherupon m:^r sackfeald as is sayd towld him that he well perceaved that he came with intent rather of murther then honorable fight and therfore towld him that he accordingly would soe account of him and take him yf he could at all advantages and soe willed him to doe the like which he aunswered he should be assuered of and soe one this accorde they two only with ther two surgions standinge apart far of went to the combate in ther shirtes wher first the L: Bruse wounded m:^r sackfeald in the upper parte of the [le]ft arme and soe up into his sholder, and then agayne in the right arme with which he heald his sword towards the wreest yet kept he styll his sword and fought valiently and perceavinge that he began to lose much blod determined to make the combate short and soe runninge full at his adversary missed his body and ra[n] his sword betwene his arme and his body and soe closed with him whe[r]upon each toke hould of others sword with ther left hands and soe standinge graplinge together m:^r sackefeald founde meanes to get his sword lose and soe haveinge the Lord Bruse at the vantage fowled [?] him to render his sword or els presently he should dye[.] the other would not render wherupon he presently persed him thoroug[h] the body and drawing his sword back thrust it forward agayn and made a duble wound wherof he dyed in short tyme after’, AAW A XII, no. 167 (pp. 371–2). Pett made no mention of the rumour that Bruce had converted to Catholicism. For copies of Sackville's account of the duel, see BL, Harleian MS 4761, no. 47; BL, Lansdowne MS 213, fos 72r–4r.

¹²³⁷ Henry Howard, third son of Thomas Howard, first Earl of Suffolk, and brother of Frances Howard, Countess of Essex. Cf. McClure, , 474–5Google Scholar; CSPD 1611–18, 200Google Scholar. The quarrel was over statements made by Howard about Essex in the matter of the divorce.

¹²³⁸ See McClure, , 478–9Google Scholar; AAW A XII, no. 177; Larkin and Hughes, 295. On 10 October 1613 (NS) Sir John Throckmorton wrote from Flushing to Trambull that ‘Essex and Mr. Henry Howard are by H.M. made friends’, Downshire MSS IV, 220.Google Scholar

¹²³⁹ Frances Howard.

¹²⁴⁰ George Abbot.

¹²⁴¹ John King.

¹²⁴² Thomas Bilson.

¹²⁴³ See McClure, , 469.Google Scholar

¹²⁴⁴ Cf. McClure, , 456, 458.Google Scholar

¹²⁴⁵ John Petre, first Baron Petre.

¹²⁴⁶ William Barlow died on 7 September 1613.

¹²⁴⁷ See Letter 46.

¹²⁴⁸ Robert Gray OFM. See Letters 35, 40.

¹²⁴⁹ Anne of Denmark.

¹²⁵⁰ Leonard Rountree, secular priest.

¹²⁵¹ Rountree had made his submission to George Abbot on 9 September 1613, Questier, , Conversion, Politics and Religion, 47, 48Google Scholar; Letters 49, 53; PRO, SO 3/5 (September 1613). Rountree was used by Abbot to try to entice Benjamin Carier back to the Church of England, AAW, OB I, i, no. 31.

¹²⁵² John Mush had noted in May 1612 that William Stillington of Kelfield was in prison at York and that he was involved in the factional divisions within the gaol. Mush said that Stillington had requested financial aid for the prisoners from Birkhead, and Birkhead's refusal had been badly taken, AAW A XI, no. 70. Stillington had visited Cowdray before travelling to Brussels via St Omer in late December/early January 1611, AAW A X, nos 7, 20. His ecclesiastical links seem to have been with SJ, CRS 54, 261–2, 287–8.

¹²⁵³ i.e. to Rountree. Richard Broughton reported on 27 February 1614 that William Harrison had written to Cardinal Edward Farnese that Stillington's own brother had given evidence against him and that he was now condemned in praemunire for refusing the oath, AAW A XIII, no. 38. See PRO, E 178/4864 and PRO, C 231/4, fo. 20v (a commission dated 26 May 1613 for assessing his estate, some of which was protected by trusts); PRO, SO 3/6 (August 1614).

¹²⁵⁴ Preston, , Disputatio Theologica.Google Scholar

¹²⁵⁵ The nuncio Robert Ubaldini.

¹²⁵⁶ Adolf Schulcken. For the authorship of the recently published Apologia Adolphi Schulckenii (Cologne, 1613)Google Scholar, see ARCR I, no. 1540; Milward II, 103; Lunn, , EB, 46Google Scholar. The book answered Preston's Apologia Cardinalis Bellarmini.

¹²⁵⁷ i.e. an assistant to the archpriest, possibly William Harrison.

¹²⁵⁸ Charles Howard, first Earl of Nottingham.

¹²⁵⁹ The future Viscount Dunbar, son of Sir Henry Constable (d. 1608) and Margaret Dormer. For the arbitration between Sir Henry Constable and the admiralty over this matter, see Bodleian Library, Eng. Misc. c. 855, fo. 125r (Lord Sheffield to Sir Henry Constable, 18 October 1613). I am grateful to Simon Healy for this reference.

¹²⁶⁰ This unidentified man is to be distinguished from the secular priest Joseph Haynes who went into exile in October 1612, Anstr. II, 153.

¹²⁶¹ Thomas Kighley, secular priest. George Abbot noted that he had crossed between England and Flanders often, acting as an intelligencer, Downshire MSS IV, 240, 291.Google Scholar

¹²⁶² Richard Bray.

¹²⁶³ Presumably this is John Green alias White, of Staffordshire, Anstr. I, 137. He had been one of the principal opponents of Christopher Bagshaw and the anti-Jesuits during the ‘Wisbech Stirs’ in the 1590s and in the Appellant controversy.

¹²⁶⁴ Katherine Pole.

¹²⁶⁵ Geoffrey Pole.

¹²⁶⁶ Benjamin Norton.

¹²⁶⁷ AAW A XII, no. 152.

¹²⁶⁸ William Percy. Thomas More had informed Anthony Champney of Percy's death in a letter of 10 May 1613, AAW A XII, no. 108.