Historical account of Lisbon college

HISTORICAL ACCOUNT

OF

LISBON COLLEGE

BY

THE VERY REV. CANON CROFT.

A REGISTER

COMPILED BY

JOSEPH G I L L O W, E s Q.

BARNET :

ST. ANDREW'S PRESS, UNION STREET.

PREFACE.

THE following sketch is largely a reprint, with some modifi
cations and additions, of certain papers which appeared in
the Catholic Magazine of 1834-5, giving a short history of
the English College at Lisbon, and which were written by
the Rev. JOHN KIKK, D.D., of Lichfield. This account,
however, has been supplemented and is now brought down
to the present time. The period thus covered, embraces some
seventy years, viz., from 1828, the date at which DOCTOR
WINSTANLEY became President.

In deciding to publish in a more permanent form the
History of Lisbon College, I was influenced by a desire to
make more widely known, the no small share which it took
in the maintenance and defence of the Catholic Faith in
England during the times of persecution.

From Lisbon came forth some of the most prominent
and remarkable men who, during the seventeenth and
eighteenth centuries, vindicated by their writings Catholic
teaching against the attacks and misrepresentations of the
keenest and most learned advocates of Protestantism ever
produced by the Anglican Establishment. Moreover, for
well nigh three centuries, Lisbon College has contributed to
the Mission a succession of laborious and devoted priests,
who have taken their share in building up again the fabric
of the Church in this country.

It is not unreasonable, then, to conclude that the History
of one of the Ancient Missionary Colleges will not be entirely
devoid of interest to others besides those who have been
prepared for and received the Priesthood within its vener
able walls.

A list of the Alumni of the College from its foundation
has been appended, taken from the College Register kindly

PREFACE.

lent by the President, MGK. HILTON for the purpose. This,
however, is not put forward as complete, for during the
eighteenth century the records of the College seem to have
been much neglected, and many documents lost. The names
of many students have been inserted in this list who, having
spent some years at Lisbon College, left for various reasons
without taking the oath, and therefore cannot strictly be
called Alumni, yet who always considered Lisbon to be
their Alma Mater. On the other hand, the names of
many students who left without taking Orders, and whose
subsequent history has not been traced or has been deemed
unimportant, have been purposely omitted.

I may be allowed to avail myself of this opportunity to
tender my thanks to the Superiors of the College and others
for the assistance which they have readily afforded me, es
pecially to the RIGHT REV. PRESIDENT, MONSIGNOR HILTON,
who most kindly gave me access to the Annals of the College,
thus enabling me to bring its history down to the present
time.

W. CROFT.

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ACCOUNT OF LISBON COLLEGE.

CHAPTER I.

FOR the total suppression of the Ancient Faith in Eng
land, Queen Elizabeth at first was content to trust to the
natural effect of the Oath of Supremacy which was
imposed upon the clergy and certain classes of the laity,
and to the substitution of the New Prayer Book for the
Mass, both of which were enforced by most severe penal
ties. Very many of the Marian priests had fled the
kingdom and many of them had been received into the
houses of the gentry who still adhered to the Old Faith,
and they do not seem to have suffered much molestation
from the authorities. It was felt that, in a few years,
death would have removed them, and that Catholicity
in England would die a natural death from lack of
pastors who might attend to the spiritual wants of the
flock. This inevitable result was forced upon the atten
tion of Dr. William, afterwards Cardinal, Allen, an Oxford
divine and a dignitary in Queen Mary's reign, who had
left his own country and was at that time residing in
Flanders.

In the year 1568, with the assistance of a friend, Dr.
Vendeville, who had invited him to Douay for the
purpose of completing his degrees, he was enabled to
carry out the project which had suggested itself to him
for preventing the total extinction of the Catholic Faith
in England. This was the establishment of a College
for the education and training of priests who should
devote their labours to the perpetuation and spread of
the faith in their own country.

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Means were found for the purchase of a house, and
invitations were sent to numerous members of Oxford
and Cambridge who, at that time, were scattered in the
various Universities throughout France and Flanders.
These were so readily responded to, that the College
thus commenced was increased so rapidly by the numbers
who nocked to it, that in a short time its members
amounted to nearly one hundred and fifty, of whom
eight or nine were eminent Doctors of Divinity, under
Dr. Allen who was the first President.

The success of this first undertaking being thus assured,
Douay became the Mother of other similar foundations
in various countries of Europe. From Douay went forth
bands of students to the newly-established Colleges at
Rome and Valladolid, and later on it was from Douay
that the College at Lisbon received its first contingent
of students.

The design of establishing a College at Lisbon for
Secular Priests who should serve on the English Mission,
originated with a priest named Nicholas Ashton. He
held a chaplaincy in the City, which had been instituted
for the purpose of ministering to the spiritual wants of
the English Catholics resident there, and was attached to
the church of the Jesuit Fathers, to whom belonged the
appointment of the chaplain. On his death he be
queathed to another priest, named William Newman, the
house which he had purchased some five years previously,
in trust for " the foundation of a seminary."

Father Newman, whose real name was Ralph Sliefield,
belonged to a gentleman's family in Staffordshire, and in
the early period of his life and towards the close of the
reign of Elizabeth, was imprisoned for his faith and
condemned to death. At the intercession, however, of
a lady of the Court, he obtained the commutation of
his sentence into that of perpetual banishment. He first
went to the College of Seville, at that time, like other
Continental Missionary Colleges, under the direction of
the Jesuit Fathers, where after completing his education
he was ordained priest. He was then sent to Lisbon by

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his Superiors who appointed him Rector of the English
Chaplaincy, or Residence, as it was called, in succession
to Father Ashton.

Here Newman formed an intimacy with a wealthy
Portuguese gentleman named Don Pedro Coutinho, to
whom he made known the contemplated design of es
tablishing the seminary, and acquainted him also with
the property which had been bequeathed by Father Ash-
ton for that purpose. Coutinho, who had destined his
own property for religious purposes, readily entered into
the project and offered to erect at his own expense a regu
lar College for the education of English Secular Priests.
Immediately on receiving this offer, Father Newman
communicated with his ecclesiastical Superiors in Eng
land, who at once nominated him their agent, with full
powers to forward and conclude the charitable work. As
soon as the main outline of the projected college was
settled between Don Pedro and Father Newman, the
latter repaired, in August, 1621, to Madrid, for the pur
pose of obtaining the necessary permission for its erection
from Philip IV, who then held the united crowns of
Spain and Portugal.

It was the desire and intention both of Newman and
Coutinho that the Lisbon College should be placed under
the direction of Secular Superiors. To this the Jesuits,
who at that time had the superintendance of all the
Continental Missionary Colleges, were, perhaps, natu
rally averse, and they offered strenuous opposition at the
Court of Madrid to the College as projected.*

Coutinho, however, persisted in his design, and posi
tively declared that if the Jesuit direction was insisted
upon, he would altogether abandon the undertaking.
Every opposition was eventually overcome, and Father
Newman returned to Lisbon. Very soon after, on the
application to the Holy See made by the Rev. John
Bennett who was agent in Pvome of the English ecclesi
astical authorities, a Brief, dated September 22, 1622, was

DODD, Ecclesiastical History, vol. iv., Appendix 51.

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obtained from Pope Gregory XV, conferring upon Lisbon
College all the privileges enjoyed by other establishments
of the same kind. One or two extracts from this Brief
may, perhaps, be interesting, and may be seen in Appen
dix No. I.

Though in this Brief the new foundation was con
sidered and called a College, in reality no College as yet
existed. The founder, old and whimsical, did not know
his own mind for two weeks together, and after holding
out prospects of the most flattering kind, limited his
benefaction to the purchase of the ground on which the
College now stands, with a few adjoining houses, to the
erection of a small and imperfectly built church, and to
a donation of ^150 a year in the public funds. This
establishment, such as it was, he formally made over to
the English clergy in the person of their agent, thus
constituting it British property, but at the same time
coupled the gifts with the perpetual and onerous obli
gation of three quotidian Masses. This obligation
remained in force until 1879, when a petition was drawn
up and presented to the Holy See by the Lisbonian
Society, in the name of the priests of the Lisbon College
at that time working on the Mission. Vid Appendix II.

The completion of the work was committed by Dr.
William Smith, Bishop of Chalcedon ; to the Rev. Joseph
Harvey (alias Hynes), the Archdeacon of the English
Chapter, who was sent out to Lisbon to co-operate with
Father Newman. As soon as matters were finally settled
and the buildings ready to receive inmates he returned
to England, was nominated first President of the College
and the same year, 1627, went to Douay for the purpose
of obtaining students. On November 14, 1628, he arrived
again in Lisbon with a body of ten students from Douay,
who were sent for the purpose of commencing the course
of their Theology in the College.

The following are their names :

Edward Daniel, alias Pickford, native of Cornwall.

Francis Oglethorpe, alias Pavier, Yorkshire.

Nicholas Fortescue, alias Foster, Worcestershire.

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REV. JOSEPH HARVEY.

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William Ellis, alias Edward Waring, Warwickshire.

Humphrey Ellis, alias Stephen Waring, Warwickshire.

Peter Nelson, alias Metcalf, Yorkshire.

Edward Stanley, alias Biddlecorn, Dorsetshire.

William Talbot, alias Day, Suffolk.

Antony Morgan, alias Saunders, Northampton.

Richard Arundel, alias Charnock, Bedfordshire.

These were accompanied by the Rev. Mark Harring
ton who held the Degree of Bachelor of Divinity in the
Sorbonne University, whose duty it would be to assist as
vespertine lecturer in delivering the Theological lectures.
The President had also solicited the services of a Dr.
Mayler, an old and intimate friend, as Theology Professor.
At this time Mayler was attached to the service of the
Prince of Metz, and was with him at the siege of Rochelle
but, on receiving this invitation, he immediately and
generously complied with it, notwithstanding the labours
and inconveniences with which it was attended. He
arrived at the College on the Eve of Christmas Day, 1628,
in spite of a quartan-ague which he had contracted in
his journey through Spain.

• Everything being thus in readiness, February 22,
1629, the Festival of the Chair of St. Peter at Antioch,
was fixed upon for publicly opening the schools. Every
heart exulted at the prospect of so auspicious an event.
The hopes, however, of the new Community were on
this occasion dashed by a severe and unexpected stroke.
On that very day, after a fortnight's illness the President,
Father Harvey, broken down by his exertions and
labours, departed this life, verifying in his own case, as
so often happens, our Lord's words: "It is one man that
soweth and it is another that reapeth." He lies buried
in the College church. He left about 800 crowns to be
divided between the College and Dr. Mayler, the first
Professor of Theology, who, however, as the Annals
remark, was obliged by the narrow circumstances in
which he found the establishment to surrender for its
use his own share of the legacy. Dr. Mayler opened the
schools on the Twenty-fifth of the following April, and

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during this and the succeeding year gave lectures in
Theology, in which he was assisted by the Rev. Mark
Harrington, who had accompanied Father Harvey and
the first ten students from Douayto Lisbon.

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CHAPTER II.

THE second President of the College was the celebrated
Thomas Blacklow, alias White. At the time of the
death of the late President he was in Rome, engaged in
transacting some of the affairs of the English clergy.
On his way from that city to Douay, he received the
letters nominating him President of the College, and an
injunction to proceed without delay to Lisbon, where he
arrived in May, 1630.

Though short, the period of his Presidency was not
unimportant, as it was he who drew up the Rules
which, though modified to meet the altered circumstances
of the times, are fundamentally those which still govern
the house. Moreover he was mainly instrumental by his
regulations in giving stability to and consolidating the
new establishment.

The Constitution given to the College by the Rules
drawn up by Blacklow, differs widely from that of Douay
and, probably, from that of any other similar establish
ment. By these Rules, the government of the Lisbon
House was vested in the Bishop of Chalcedon and his
successors in the Vicariate of London. To them was
given the nomination of the President whom they could
remove at pleasure, and the confirmation of the Vice-
President and the Confessarius. The President is not
absolute in his authority, but has a Council of the other
Superiors, to whom he is obliged to submit the consider
ation of all matters of importance and in which he has
only a casting vote.

With regard to the studies, the regulation first laid
down was, to have no other schools in the College but
those of Philosophy and Theology ; this, however, was
soon abandoned as impracticable, and the Classical Course

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has since been conducted on nearly the same system as
prevailed at Douay. Though a variety of select pieces
composed by the early Professors and students of the
College were lost in the confusion occasioned by the
French invasion early in the last century, there are still in
existence many Latin poems of a later date, which bear
testimony to the attention which was given at the
College to this department of Classical education.

At what time and by whom the uniform worn by the
students was introduced there seems to be no record. It
consists of a cassock of black lustrous material, a girdle
and biretta. On occasions of ceremony, and when in
public beyond the precincts of the College, over the
cassock is worn a loose habit without sleeves, to which
is attached a stripe of red cloth in the figure of an oar,
the extremities of which fall over the shoulders behind,
whilst the middle part is curved over the breast. This
ornament is emblematic of the occupation of St. Peter
the fisherman, under whose patronage, and that of his
co-apostle St. Paul, the College is placed. The dress of
the superiors was the same as that of the students, ex
cept that the cassock was of serge, and in place of the
habit, in public they wore a black full length cloak, or
ferraiolo, of the same material. •

During his term of office Blacklow was ably seconded
by the Rev. William Clifford, alias Mansel who, after ten
years labour on the Mission, was sent to Lisbon in
quality of Vice-President and arrived there in the same
year as Blacklow, 1630. The difficulties with which he
had to contend were very grave, both from the strange
humour of the Founder and the extreme poverty under
which" the College laboured, yet by his patience with the
one and his wise conduct and management of the other,
he so far overcame all, that soon he was able to leave the
College in a flourishing condition. He was next em
ployed in the government of Tournay College, which
Cardinal Richelieu granted to the Bishop of Chalcedon
for the education of the English clergy. After some
years he retired to the Hopital des Incurables in Paris,

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and there devoted his life to their service. He died after
a long illness in the hospital above-mentioned, April 30,
1670, and was, by his own request, buried in the adjoin
ing churchyard. Of him the Annals observe that he
conducted the domestic economy in the most able
manner ; that he won the affection of all by the sweetness
of his disposition ; and that during the interval which
preceded the drawing up of the regular Rules, he was
himself a rule and model of perfection to the whole
Community. During his Vice-Presidentship and whilst
the President was absent on business, at Madrid, the
new Community was in danger of extinction by sickness,
which prevailed to such an extent in the house, that the
number of those who were dangerously ill was greater
than of those in health. On this occasion the College
lost two of the number of its first students, Antony
Morgan and Richard Arundel, both remarkable for
talents and virtue, and equally deserving of a more
lengthened notice.

Morgan was a native of Northampton and member of
a gentleman's family. After completing his course of
Philosophy at Douay he came to England in 1625.
Two years afterwards he returned to the same Seminary,
not with the intention of embracing the ecclesiastical
state, but preparatory to making a tour on the Continent.
Here, however, finding many of his former friends and
companions preparing to depart with Father Harvey for
the new establishment at Lisbon, he changed his design
and joined their number. His abilities soon became
conspicuous in the Theological School and he was
selected, together with Mr. Daniel, to defend, under the
President, Blacklow, the first public Thesis held in the
College, with which it was intended to shed lustre on
the commencement of the new Seminary. But divine
Providence had otherwise disposed, for before the time
appointed for the public display of his talents, he was
called to a better life, August n, 1631.

A quarter of an hour before his death, while in his
perfect senses, he made an address partly in English and

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partly in Latin to those who stood around, expressive of
the lively faith, firm hope, and ardent chanty with which
he was animated ; and in these acts he continued until
his voice failed him in death. He bequeathed handsome
remembrances to every one in the house, and to the
College the important legacy of £24 a year ; thus he has
the honour of standing the first on the list of its English
benefactors.

Richard Arundel his companion, who died on the
same occasion, was a native of Bedfordshire, and also of
a gentleman's family. After completing his Classical
Course at Douay, he went to Rome in the beginning of
the Pontificate of Urban VIII, from motives of devotion.
Thence he returned a second time to Douay, for the
purpose of accompanying Mr. Morgan on his Continental
tour. Finding, however, that his friend had given up
his design and had formed the resolution of going to the
new foundation at Lisbon, he decided to follow his
example ; and abandoning all other prospects resolved to
dedicate his life to the English Mission. The exemplary
piety and uncommon application of Mr. Arundel are
highly extolled in the brief memoirs of his life contained
in the Annals. At his death, which happened one
month and fifteen days after that of Mr. Morgan, he
renewed the edifying spectacle which had been exhibited
to the Community by his friend and companion. uQuo-
modo in vita sua dilexerunt se, ita et in morte non
fuer unt separati."

From this short account we may gather what was the
character of those who were the foundation stones, so to
speak, of Lisbon College. Indeed small and very im
perfectly endowed as it was, it acquired from its very
commencement by the piety and learning of those whom
it fostered and gave to the Mission, such a reputation
that the celebrated Dr. Barnard, who came from Paris
about the year 1740 to the College to take the office of
Vice-President used to say: "That the College at Lisbon
never had a morning, but shone out at once in all the
splendour of meridian day."

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Blacklow after holding the office of President for two
years, came to England for the purpose of obtaining a
fresh supply of students, but principally to procure the
means to enable him to place the College in such a
position that it might be of greater utility to the Mission.
Not being able to succeed in this latter object he resigned
the Presidency.

The spirit which pervades an Institution is derived, in
great measure, from the Rules by which it is governed ;
they are the agencies by which its members are chiefly
moulded, he, therefore, who frames its rules infuses into
it his own spirit and imprints upon it, to a large extent,
his own indviduality. From this point of vie\v the sons
of Alma Mater are indebted, perhaps, more to Blacklow
than to any other single individual connected with the
College, and therefore some more detailed account of
this remarkable man may not be without interest.

Thomas Blacklow, alias White, was the second son of
Robert White of Hutton in Essex, and was born towards
the close of the sixteenth century. He was carefully
educated in the Catholic religion, and sent when still
very young to Douay, where he manifested an extra
ordinary capacity and genius for all kinds of learning.
He was ordained priest at Arras House in Paris,* March
25, 1617, and afterwards employed at Douay in teach
ing Classics, Philosophy and Theology. He visited
England on some private business in August, 1623,
returning, however, to Douay the following October, and
taking with him as a relic one of the ribs of Mr. Thomas
Maxfield, a priest, who had suffered a few years before
on account of his priesthood.

* " The House or College of Arras in the University of Paris,
had been founded partly as an Institution where the clergy
who had completed their course of studies in the Colleges,
might improve and perfect their acquirements ; and partly as
a residence where a certain number of writers might be main
tained for the defence of religion against the attacks of her
adversaries." — DODD, vol. iv. p. 133.

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In April, 1624, ne went to Paris for the purpose of
studying Canon Law, and after some time was deputed
by the clergy in England to manage some affairs at
Rome, where he was in 1626. In the year 1630, he was
sent as President of the English College to Lisbon, a
position which he resigned after two years, and returned
to England to take up the work of the Mission. His
name was sent to Rome in 1635 for the Episcopacy, in
place of Dr. Smith Bishop of Chalcedon, who was in
banishment. He was recommended by the clergy for
his " learning, prudence and regular behaviour."

In 1650 he was again at Douay as Professor of The
ology, but soon afterwards returned to England where
he devoted himself chiefly to the publication of works,
some of which created considerable stir in the religious
world.

The opinions broached in them seemed at variance with
orthodox teaching, and were repudiated by his fellow
clergy, and twenty-two propositions taken from one of
his works were condemned by the University of Douay.

In this connection, it may be interesting to note, that
while still in Lisbon, having on one occasion drawn up
some Theses, to be defended by one of his disciples in the
Theological school, and obtained for them the approba
tion of the Inquisition, he was by a sudden order of the
head Inquisitor forbidden to defend them, at the moment
when the persons invited were preparing to assemble,
and all things were in readiness for the exhibition.

Afterwards on a re-examination of the Theses, his
doctrine was declared orthodox, and permission was
given for them to be held.

The objection taken to his writings was carried to
Rome, which, however, remained passive ; "for though as
is stated by Dodd, he had wit and learning enough to
have occasioned a great disturbance in the Church, yet
he wanted interest to make any considerable party, and
they had the Charity to think he wanted the will."

One of the charges against him was for attacking the
personal Infallibility of the Pope.

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Another was for maintaining, in a pamphlet, that all
Governments as soon as established might be accepted as
accomplished facts.

This seems to have been written for Cromwell, in the
hope of gaining some measure of toleration for Catholics
from the Commonwealth.

Blacklow was not only a theologian, but a skilful
mathematician, and was an intimate friend both of
Descartes and Hobbes.

He died at his lodgings in Drury Lane, July 6, 1676,
aged 94, and was buried in St. Martin's Church, in the
Fields, near the pulpit. His portrait has been engraved
by Vertue.

u His learning and parts were universally acknow
ledged and his morals without a blemish." Dodd, vol.
iii. p. 285.

His lyatin works were thirty-five in number, dealing
chiefly with Philosophical and Theological subjects.
His English works — chiefly Theological, devotional or
controversial — numbered thirteen.

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CHAPTER III.

THE third President of the College was Rev. William
Hart, alias Holdcroft, a native of Lancashire, whose
administration, both in its immediate and subsequent
results, was very disastrous. He held the office for three
years, from 1634 to 1637, when he was deposed for mis
management and recalled to England.

Dodd says of him: "He was a person of singular
parts, learning and conduct."

During the period which elapsed until the Rev. Peter
Clarence, who had been educated at Seville, was nomi
nated to the dignity, Father Daniel, one of the original
students from Douay who at that time was Senior
Superior, supplied the place of President. Father
Clarence arrived in June, 1638, but did not enter upon
his duties till the following year. In the April previous
to his arrival the founder of the College, Don Pedro
Coutinho, died. His funeral obsequies were performed
with a degree of splendour, till then unexampled in
Portugal in the case of a private person. All the Relig
ious Communities in the city, together with the majority
of the Secular clergy attended, and great numbers of
the poor, to whom his purse had always been open, swelled
the procession. His body was interred in the Franciscan
Church of St. Joze de Ribamar, to which he had been a
benefactor. It is situated on the right bank of the
Tagus, about five miles below Lisbon, where his tomb
may be seen with the following epitaph inscribed upon
it.

Aquijaz quern foi Dom. Pedro Coutinho.
(Here lies he who was Dom. Pedro Coutinho.)

In assuming the government of the house, Father

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Clarence had many difficulties to contend with, owins: to
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the misconduct of his predecessor.

The affairs of the establishment were in utter disorder ;
domestic discipline was falling to decay, and a heavy
debt had been suffered to accumulate. In a short time,
however, he succeeded by prudence and firmness in
restoring the Community to its former flourishing condi
tion.

By the Rules, the domestic economy of the house in
its various branches is committed to the care and super
vision of Prefects chosen from the more advanced
students, a wise regulation which tends to produce in
their minds a consciousness of responsibility, and develop
an aptitude for management which, to some extent,
prepares them for the more weighty duties which after
wards they will be called upon to undertake on the
Mission. For the direction of these Prefects Father
Clarence drew up a variety of useful regulations calcu
lated to prove very beneficial to domestic economy. His
attention, however, was not confined to the mere material
interests of the College, he was also desirous to promote
its intellectual advancement, and, with this end in view,
he directed his efforts, and successfully, to obtaining the
necessary public permission from the Portuguese Author
ities, to carry into effect the privilege of conferring
degrees.

This right, both at the College and in England, was
always considered to belong to the establishment : and in
the course of the present sketch we shall meet with many
eminent individuals who received in it the Doctor's Cap,
and whose title to the distinction was never questioned.
The first person thus honoured was Father Edward
Daniel, whose name has already been several times men
tioned, and on whom the degrees of Bachelor and Doctor
of Divinity were conferred towards the close of the year
1640. It was during the short but flourishing rule of
Father Clarence that the College had to regret the loss
of Father Newman, one of its first and best friends, who
may fairly claim to be considered, with Coutinho, co-

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founder of the establishment. Though he never filled
any public office in the College, he successfully carried
through at the Court of Madrid the negotiations for its
foundation.

During his life-time the Residency, as it was called,
of which establishment he was the Rector, was made
over to the College, and at his death he left to it all the
property which he possessed, which in money amounted
to ^250. This venerable and truly pious ecclesiastic
contracted the fever of which he died by his generous
attendance on the hospital at a time when a virulent
contagious influence was raging within it. Besides the
office of Rector of the English Residence, he also held
those of Chaplain to St. George's Castle and Interpreter
to the Inquisition.

Father Clarence resigned the Presidency of the College
in 1642, and was succeeded in his office by the Rev.
Father Daniel who thus became the fourth President,
and, as the first of the sons of Alma Mater to receive
that honour, he is deserving of a more detailed notice.

He was a native of Cornwall, and after completing his
Philosophy and a year of Divinity at Douay, he was
chosen to be one of the number of those who were sent
to colonize the new establishment at Lisbon. Here he
distinguished himself so much by his talents and appli
cation that at the conclusion of his studies, he was
considered eminently qualified to take a leading part in
the schools, and he was appointed first to the Chair of
Philosophy and afterwards to that of Theology. His
abilities were universally known and acknowledged.
For seven successive . years, he, twice annually, presided
at the defence of public Theses, on which occasions the
most learned members of the numerous religious Orders
in Lisbon appeared as the antagonists of his pupils.
During part of this period he added to the occupation of
Professor those of Confessarius and Prefect of Studies.

At length after an absence from England of more than
twenty years, he formed the design of returning to his
native country. Such, however, was the high estimation
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in which he was held by all in the College, that the
most determined and persistent opposition was made to
its execution, every argument was resorted to, every
obstacle raised, to prevent its fulfilment, and so general
was the feeling, that he was at length compelled to
acquiesce and reluctantly deferred his departure.

After the death of Father Newman, Father Daniel
succeeded him as Interpreter of the Inquisition, and as
we have seen, in the year 1640 he received the degrees of
Bachelor and Doctor of Divinity in reward of his
eminent learning and virtue. Soon after this he was
permitted to return to England. After labouring one
year on the Mission he was appointed to the Presidency
of the College on the resignation of the Rev. Father
Clarence, and in that capacity arrived again in Lisbon in
1642. He continued in the office for six years, till 1648,
when he resigned, still, however, remaining in the House;
for in the following year we find him occupied in teach
ing Theology in consequence of the ill health of Father
Francis Victor the regular Professor.

In 1650 he visited Douay on his way, it would seem,
to England, but was detained at that College by his
intimate friend Dr. Hyde. At Douay he ascended once
more the Chair of Divinity, acted as Confessarius, and
on the death of Dr. Hyde, supplied the place of President
until a successor was appointed. Leaving Douay, where
he was much regretted, in 1653 he went to England to
spend his remaining years in the active labours of the
Apostolic life. Soon after his arrival he was made Vicar
General of North Wales, and was one of the four pro
posed to succeed Bishop Smith. He died in September,

About the commencement of the Presidentship of Dr.
Daniel, took place the remarkable conversion to the
Catholic Faith of Mr. Lawrence Skytts, the envoy of
Christina of Sweden to the Court of Lisbon. From
being the representative of one of the first Sovereigns of
Europe, he became a humble lay-brother in the Order of
St. Francis. This gentleman, before he entered religion,

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gave about ^64 to the College for the purchase of books.

About the same time an event took place more imme
diately connected with the House, and more interesting
to its members. It was the departure from the College,
in 1642, of two priests who became Confessors of the
Faith, and both died in prison.

These were Father William lyloyd and Father Thomas
Blount. The former, son of Walter L,loyd, Esq., was
born in the County of Carmarthen, Wales, in 1614,
he arrived in Lisbon on October i, 1635, when twenty-
one years of age, and entered the College as convictor.
Having already acquired a competent knowledge of the
lower branches of literature, he commenced his course of
Philosophy the year following under Father Humphrey
Ellis. The Annals represent him as a promising young
man, and distinguished for the abilities which he dis
played in the public defence of Theses in Philosophy and
Theology, but labouring under a severe indisposition
from weakness of stomach. He was ordained priest in
1639, but remained in the College till June 29, 1642,
when, having received the usual missionary faculties, he
went first to Paris and then returned to his native
country. In the year 1679, shortly after the alarm occa
sioned by Gates' Plot, he was apprehended, brought to
his trial at Brecknock and condemned to death for having
received Orders in the Catholic Church, and afterwards
remaining in Great Britain contrary to the Statute of the
27th of Elizabeth. The time was fixed for his execution,
but he died six days before it arrived.

The speech which he had prepared to deliver at the
gallows may be seen in Bishop Challoner's Missionary
Priests. In it he first proclaims his faith in which he had
lived and in which he was determined to die. "Which is
the only Holy Catholic and Apostolic faith and religion,
that is, the very same in all points as the Apostles them
selves lived and died in." He then gives the reason of
his faith : " For it is said in Holy Scripture that there is
but one faith, one lyord, one baptism ; and St. Paul in
another place saith that without faith it is impossible to

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please God ; and every man by natural reason may know
that without pleasing God 110 man can be saved ....
therefore, seeing none can be saved without pleasing
God and that none can please God without faith ; and
seeing that there is no faith but one, and that one is that
which our Saviour Christ taught His Apostles, it be-
hoveth every man to find it out and live and die in it
.... seeing that it is of no small importance to be saved
or damned for ever. And to find out the Apostolic faith
without which no man can please God nor consequently
be saved, we must find out the oldest faith amongst
Christians which was planted by our Saviour Himself
amongst His Apostles, which doth still last and will last
for ever ; for our Saviour promised to be with His
Church to the world's end and the gates of Hell should
not prevail against it."

He then proclaimed the reason for which he was
condemned. " I have been taken suspected to be a
Popish priest and have been committed to prison and
sentenced to die on that account, for serving God and
administering the Sacraments according to the rites and
ceremonies of the Roman Church and for nothing else
proved against me, .... I am heartily willing to suffer
death, hoping to be a saved soul by the goodness and
mercy of God and the merits and passion of our Saviour
Jesus Christ." He proclaims his sorrow for his many
and grievous sins : " And this not only for fear of being
punished for my sins, but out of the hearty love I bear
to my dear God, who hath created me and redeemed me
with His most bitter Passion in the person of our Saviour
true God and Man, and hath sanctified me with the
grace of the Holy Ghost in soul and body." He denied
ever having plotted against the Government or His
Majesty's life, as he hoped to be saved, and declared that
he was " daily wont to pray for His Majesty and his
royal consort .... begging of God to send His Majesty
a prosperous reign whilst he lives in this world and after
this miserable life, to grant them both eternal crowns in
everlasting bliss : and the same everlasting happiness I

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wish to my own soul, I wish also to my enemies, to
all that are here present, and to the rest of the world.
Amen."

He was aged about seventy years.

The other Confessor of his faith, Father Thomas
Blount, was the son of James Blount, Esq., and a native
of Shropshire. He arrived at the College in company
with Mr. Lloyd, October i, 1635, and having, like his
companion, a competent knowledge of Humanities, he
commenced with him his Course of Philosophy. At the
conclusion of his studies he returned to England, via
Holland, in 1642. His native county seems to have been
the chief theatre of his labours. After several years
spent in work and dangers undergone for God and his
neighbour, he was at length apprehended on account of
his faith and priestly character and confined in Shrews
bury Gaol. Without mentioning the time of his death,
the Annals merely state that it happened whilst he was
in bonds, like that of his fellow labourer and companion,
Father Lloyd.

With the two above mentioned illustrious Confessors
of the Faith, there arrived at the College Mr. John
Robinson, a native of Lancashire, 1635. Of him nothing
particular is mentioned in the records, except that after
finishing his studies and labouring for some time on the
Mission in England, he was sent to Lisbon in capacity
of Consul General of the British Government in that
city, an office which he held for five years. As to the
circumstances which led to this extraordinary appoint
ment, and how, while Catholic priests were suffering
imprisonment and death in England, it became the lot
of Father Robinson to hold for so long a time an office
under Government, nothing satisfactory is recorded in
the Annals. He afterwards returned upon the Mission.

Dr. Daniel, as already mentioned, resigned the Presi
dency in 1648, and was succeeded by the Rev. Humphrey
Ellis, who was the sixth President, and one of the origi
nal students who, in 1628, accompanied Father Harvey
from Douay. After completing his studies he succes-

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sively taught Philosophy and Theology, holding at the
same time the office of Vice-President. As President,
Father Ellis exhibited towards those confided to his
care a mildness and affection truly paternal ; at the end
of three years he obtained leave to resign, and, after
receiving the degree of Doctor of Divinity, together with
the Rev. Francis Clayton, he returned to England in
1652, where, on the death of the Bishop, he was made
Dean of the Chapter, 1664.

The Venerable Dean was greatly esteemed by his
brethren of the Chapter, but the position he held natu
rally raised him opponents in those who disapproved of
the aims and existence of the Chapter.

The Abbate Aggretti, who was commissioned by the
Holy See to examine into the Ecclesiastical affairs in
England, September, 1669, thus refers to Dr. Ellis in his
report dated December 14, following: " The Dean Ellis
is extremely anxious for the confirmation of the Chapter,
and is even willing that the Pope should create a new
Dean and Chapter, omitting all the existing members."
But Aggretti doubted whether they would assent to this
sacrifice. " Ellis is noble, esteemed, learned, and mod
erate, but with all tinged with Blackloism.*" DODD,
Church History, 3. viii.

* The following extract from Flanagan's Church History
explains the origin of this epithet : —

" Blacklow, or White, was a secular priest (the same who was
President of Lisbon College.) He was not only a Theologian
but a skilful mathematician, and was an intimate friend of
both Descartes and Hobbes. When Sir Kenelm Digby, well
known for his controversial correspondence with Laud, had
failed to induce the Holy See to appoint a successor to Bishop
Smith, he had not the humility to submit cheerfully to a
decision so much at variance with his own opinion. The
bitterness which he thus allowed to spring up within him
he expressed in his letters to Blacklow and to Holden the cele
brated author of the Analysis of Faith. This feeling instead of
endeavouring to soothe and moderate, they encouraged and
reciprocated, and for a time all three brooded over the adoption

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" The Chapter of which mention has been made, was
originated by Dr. Bishop, Bishop of Chalcedon and the
first Vicar- Apostolic of England, consecrated in March,
1623. Dr. Bishop had always considered himself to be
the Ordinary of England and Scotland, and knowing
that an Ordinary was usually aided by the advice of his
Canons, he had appointed a few months before his death,
December 10, 1624, a Cathedral Dean and Chapter, the
latter consisting of nineteen Canons, the Dean being
John Culleton, who without the name had for some time
exercised the authority of Arch-priest. In the docu
ment creating the new Chapter, Dr. Bishop inserted a
clause (saving the reverence and obedience due to the
Holy See) and declaring his intention to petition it to
supply in this act of creation or re-erection, whatever
deficiency there might be in his own powers. It does
not appear, however, that the Chapter was ever more
than indirectly recognized or confirmed by Rome.

"The person selected as successor to Dr. Bishop was
Dr. Richard Smith. He, like his predecessor, consider
ing himself the Ordinary of all England and Scotland,
continued the Chapter which his predecessor had founded.
He afterwards even added to its powers the unusual
privilege, that if after his death the See should long
remain vacant, then the Chapter should without further
ratification elect not only its own Canons, provided the

of a plan by which their disappointment seemed about to
revenge itself by an act of schism. They thought it possible
to induce one of the French Prelates to consecrate a Bishop
for England, quieting their consciences with the hope that
when the person had once received the Episcopal character, it
would be easy to obtain the sanction of the Holy See. Happily
however they shrunk from adopting such a measure, but too
late for their good repute, henceforth they became known as a
party under the name of Blackloism.

" If Blacklow at first failed by the ambiguity of his expres
sions to satisfy Dr. Leyburn the Vicar- Apostolic, he eventually
proved his entire obedience to the Holy See."

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number did not exceed thirty, but also the Dean, whose
appointment usually requires, at least, the co-operation
of the Bishop. January 8, 1645. The Chapter thus
constituted was to last, so the document stated, iintil
several Catholic Bishops with their respective Chapters
had been appointed. Dodd, vol. iii. This seems to have
been an exceeding of his powers, on the part of the
Bishop, whose procedure lacked confirmation by the
Holy See. However that may be, for thirty years after
Dr. Smith's decease, the Chapter appears to have exer
cised some portion, at least, of the jurisdiction thus
conferred. It was not until the appointment of the four
Vicars Apostolic in the time of James II, that the Holy
See interposed its authority. The moment that Dr.
L,eyburn, the first of these, announced from Rome that
he was to act independently of the Chapter, the latter
submitted, and although its members continued to meet
and administer certain funds, it fell into abeyance by
ceasing to exercise any sort of authority or jurisdiction."
—FLANAGAN, Church History.

The seventh President was Dr. Francis Clayton, alias
Whitaker, a native of lyancashire. He received his
education partly at St. Omers and partly at Rome, where
he seems to have been ordained priest. On his return to
England he was immediately sent to the College at
Lisbon in quality of Professor of Theology, which he
taught from 1642 to 1647, during which period he also
held the offices of Prefect of Studies and Confessarius.

Being obliged by ill health to lay aside these occupa
tions, he went first to England and then to Douay, where
we find him acting for some time in the same capacity
that he had exercised in La'sbon ; but again ill health
obliged him to resign. On his return to England he was
made Canon and Secretary of the Chapter. In 1650 he
once more went to Ivisbon and resumed his former offices
of Prefect of Studies and Confessarius, and on the depar
ture of Dr. Ellis, 1652, he was nominated by the Bishop
President of the College. He died towards the end of
1653, greatly regretted by all who knew him, but par-

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ticularly by the members of the College who had an
opportunity of witnessing his zeal and prudence in the
government of the House.

By the Bulls of Institution of the College, the privilege
had been granted to the Presidents of presenting their
subjects to Holy Orders without' any other examination
except that of the Superiors.

Some objection seems to have been made by the local
authorities to the exercise of this privilege, and it was
owing to the exertions of Dr. Clayton that permission for
its exercise was obtained from the Inquisitor and Chapter
of Lisbon, and this has been the practice ever since.

Those who have completed their Course at Lisbon,
will readily appreciate the benefit of this concession.

Dr. Clayton left a considerable sum of money to the
College and also all his books.

In the same year in which Dr. Clayton died, 1653, we
find recorded in the College Annals, a remarkable instance
of special Providence in the preservation of the life of the
Rev. Daniel Fitter who, after the completion of his
Course, having been ordained, was returning to England
via Holland, a route which for greater security in those
days of persecution, our missionaries not unfrequently
took. The Dutch vessel in which he sailed fell in on its
passage with a Spanish Privateer. As the two nations
were at war an action immediately ensued, in the course
of which the powder magazine onboard the Dutch vessel
caught fire and the vessel was blown up with a tremen
dous explosion. Father Fitter was carried a considerable
height into the air together with the ship's boat which,
luckily coming down into the water in its natural posi
tion, received him as he fell. One of his legs and three
of his ribs were broken, but his life was saved. The
Spaniards finding him to be a Catholic priest showed
him every attention and took him to Ostend, from which
place, after being healed of the fractures which he had
sustained, he made his way to England where he lived
many years in the service of the Mission.

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CHAPTER IV.

THE appointment on June 29, 1655, °f Dr. Godden to
the Presidency in succession to Dr. Clayton, marks the
commencement of the most glorious period in the
history of the College. He was one of the most
distinguished members it ever had, and in conjunction
with the famous Dr. Sergeant his contemporary, by their
brilliant writings in defence of the Church against the
attacks of the most learned and redoubtable controver
sialists ever produced by the Established Church, shed
the greatest lustre upon the College which claimed them
as its members.

Dr. Godden whose true name was Tylden was a native
of London, belonged to a family of good position, and
was born of Protestant parents about the year 1622. He
commenced his academical career in Queen's College,
Oxford, whence he was removed to Cambridge and after
five years application to Philosophy, took the degree of
Bachelor of Arts in the College of St. John.

During this period he first formed an intimacy with
Dr. John Sergeant, who, having himself discovered the
path of truth, lost no time in bringing his friend to the
same.

To remove the new converts from the danger to
which the society of their late friends would have ex
posed them, they were sent at their own request to the
College at Lisbon, where they arrived on November 4,
1643.

After eight months spent in devotional exercises, they
were on June 29, 1664, admitted alumni. Dr. Godden was
then in his twenty-third year, Dr. Sergeant in his twenty-
second. Even during the time of their preparatory studies,
their intellectual exertions greatly added to the reputation

HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF LISBON COLLEGE. 2J

of the College, whilst their eminent virtue did honour
to their mental acquirements. Dr. Godden before he
completed his course maintained three public Theses,
two in Philosophy and one in Theology, all of which
were attended with the most flattering success. Nature
had gifted him with powers of reasoning of the highest
order, and the laurels which he afterwards gained in his
many contests with the adversaries of the Faith, fully
justified the favourable presages, which were made thus
early of his abilities. He revisited England in 1650,
and the first happy fruit of his labours was the conver
sion of his mother to the Catholic Faith.

He returned however to the College in the same year,
where he commenced a Course of Philosophical Lectures
and continued in this employment till 1653. In the
February of the following year, he was appointed Pro
fessor of Theology and in that capacity gave lectures
till the month of May, when his disciples were by order
of the English Chapter transferred to a Seminary of the
Oratorians in France, a measure dictated by the im
poverished state of the College finances. Having
successively filled the offices of Prefect of Studies and
Vice-President, he undertook, on the death of Dr. Clayton,
the entire management of the House, acting at the
same time as Procurator. He was afterwards appointed
President by a regular diploma of Bishop Smith who
died the same year, 1654.

An accident however prevented Dr. Godden from
receiving this first Official Deed of his nomination, and
it was not until after the death of the above mentioned
Prelate that he was by official letter from the Chapter,
bearing date June 29, 1655, formally invested with the
Presidency.

From this period Dr. Godden applied himself with
redoubled assiduity to promote the interests of the
establishment entrusted to his care. The Annals of
the College record a number of improvements which the
charitable donations of his friends enabled him to carry
out. These occupations however did not hinder him

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from continuing his literary pursuits. His proficiency
in the Portuguese language enabled him to exercise his
zeal by public exhortations to the people, a practice
which has sometimes been imitated by his successors,
but of which he stands the first instance upon record.
In April, 1660, he was made Doctor of Divinity. But
a new field was now opening for the display of his
abilities.

In the year 1661, he was appointed Chaplain and Pre
ceptor to the Princess Catharine of Portugal, the
destined Consort of King Charles II, and the year
following he accompanied her to England. This
appointment is evidence of his singular merit, and the
high estimation in which he was held. The sufferings
and fidelity of the Catholics in the royal cause, had
earned for them a short suspension of that cruel and
violent persecution with which they had been so long
harassed. The clerical persons in the Queen's suite
met with every mark of respect, and Dr. Godden had
apartments allotted to him in the royal Palace of Somer
set House. Here he found abundant opportunities of
exercising his zeal and talents in religious and charitable
works, and the reputation which he enjoyed brought
him to the notice of the King.

It was during this period that he engaged in the cele
brated controversy with Dr. Stillingfleet, which perhaps,
owing to the great reputation of his opponent, has
contributed more than any other event to perpetuate his
memory. The occasion of this encounter was an asser
tion made by Stillingfleet, that though a person born
and educated in the Catholic Faith could be saved,
salvation was not attainable by those who should em
brace Catholicity in case they had been educated in the
doctrine of the Reformation. Dr. Godden's telling reply
which did not admit of any direct or satisfactory answer,
drew from the pen of Stillingfleet a volume of unjust
charges and abuse against the Catholic Church. Dr.
Godden, victorious in his first encounter, now stood forth
in vindication of the Doctrines of the Church in general,

HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF LISBON COLLEGE. 29

and wrote his "Just Discharge to Dr. Stillingfleet's unjust
charge against the Catholic Church," and so ably did he
acquit himself that he left his adversary no chance of
meeting him with a direct reply.

But the period of security which the Catholics en
joyed was of short duration. A storm was gathering
and Dr. Godden had only just time to shelter himself
from it. Public feeling had been excited to the utmost
against Catholics, by the rumours associated with Gates'
Plot, and the numerous calumnies and perjuries circu
lated by the infamous Prance, the ready abettor of Titus
Gates. This scoundrel, among a thousand perjuries
which he afterwards acknowledged, made oath that the
murdered body of Sir Edmondbury Godfrey, a Protes
tant Magistrate, had been concealed in Dr. Godden's
apartment. Though destitute of every degree of proba
bility this deposition easily gained credit among men,
whose passions had been roused by repeated tales of
Catholic plots, invasions and assassinations.

Dr. Godden, to avoid the fate that was preparing for
him, fled into France, but his servant Hill was seized
and executed.

After three years residence in Paris, during which
time popular fanaticism had considerably abated in
England, Dr. Godden returned to his former dwelling
and occupation in Somerset House. He died in the
year 1688, about the sixty-sixth year of his age, while
as Dodd remarks, the nation was struggling in the
pangs of a revolution. In his Will he bequeathed to
the College a sum of money on condition that a solemn
Office and Mass should be performed annually for him,
on the Thursday nearest the Festival of St. Andrew the
Apostle. By a clause, he manifests his affection towards
the Community over which he once presided, directing
that a second course should always be added on that
day, to the ordinary College fare. He was buried in a
vault under the chapel in Somerset House. — DODD,.
Ecclcs. History, Vol. 3.

His principal published works are the following :

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1. Catholics no Idolaters, or a full refutation of
Stillingfleefs unjust charge of Idolatry against the Church
of Rome. [London, 1671.]

2. A Just Discharge to Dr. Stilling fleets Unjust
Charge against the Church of Rome. [Paris, 1677.]

3. A Treatise concerning the Oath of Supremacy.

4. A Sermon on St. Peter, preached before Her Majesty
the Queen Dowager, on June 2<^th, 1686.

5. A relation of a Conference before His Majesty and
the Earl of Rochester concerning the Real Presence and
Transubstantiation.

6. A Sermon on the Nativity of Our Lord, preached
before the Queen Dowager, in her chapel, Somerset House,
Christmas Day, 1686.

Contemporary with Dr. Godden, his friend before his
conversion, and his companion in College, was Dr. John
Sergeant, to whom the reader has been already intro
duced. This bright ornament and devoted son of Lisbon
College was born about the commencement of 1623. At
an early age he was placed in St. John's College, Cam
bridge, where his superior talents soon drew upon him
notice and applause. After five years application to
Philosophy he took the degree of Bachelor of Arts, and
was received into the family of the celebrated champion
of Protestantism, Dr. Morton, Bishop of Durham, in
quality of secretary.

In this position he had an opportunity of becoming
acquainted with all the Controversies in which the Doctor
was engaged, and his attention was thus drawn to the
unjustifiable means of which his patron did not hesitate
to avail himself in defence of his principles and doc
trines. The unscrupulous use of spurious quotations
and garbled texts of which he was a witness, could not
fail to produce in a mind sincerely anxious for the
truth, a serious misgiving as to the cause, in support of
which they were employed. Sergeant, however, for
some time dissembled his uneasiness. Among his
companions at the table of the Bishop, was one Mat-

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thews, previously an alumnus of the English College of
Rome, but now an apostate from the Catholic Faith.
To him on one occasion Sergeant communicated his
doubts as to the truth of the Protestant Faith, and
disclosed to him the impression which the palpable
falsehoods contained in the Bishop's writings had made
upon his mind.

Matthews expressed no surprise at what he heard, but
smiling apparently at his friend's simplicity, replied,
that such artifices were common in the writings of those
who impugned the truth. This acknowledgement on
the part of an apostate influenced Sergeant even more
powerfully than the bad faith of his Patron, and he
became anxious to find some able and secure guide to
the truth. In this he succeeded, through the recom
mendation of this very Matthews, who directed him to
the Rev. Dr. Gage.

The result of the interview was his own conversion
and that of Dr. Godden to the true faith. "Thus,"
observe the College Annals, " did God by means of one
sheep which had determined to perish, conduct two
others to His Fold."

After completing his Theological studies, Dr. Sergeant
was ordained priest, March 12, 1650, and in the same
month of the following year was nominated Master of
Humanities. In April, 1652, he was appointed Procu
rator, an office he held for only six months, resigning it
for that of Prefect of Studies.

At the pressing instance of his friends and Superiors
he returned to England in 1653, and his missionary
labours were cfowned with wonderful success. In addi
tion to his own relatives he reconciled to the Church
innumerable others ; and during this period gave a
specimen of his controversial powers, which inspired his
opponents with a salutary dread of crossing swords with
him. The famed Dr. Hammond, Archdeacon of Chi-
chester, had lately published a bitter invective against
the Catholic Church, attempting to prove that the Bishop
of Rome was the real author of the schism. Sergeant

32 HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF LISBON COLLEGE.

undertook to reply, and acquitted himself to the entire
satisfaction of his brethren. Never was victory more
complete ; the friends of Dr. Hammond acknowledged
this, and shame and remorse are said to have shortened
the days of this adversary.

By order of the Chapter, Sergeant returned to Lisbon,
in August, 1654, where he resumed the offices of Procu
rator and Prefect of Studies till the following March,
when he was appointed Professor of Philosophy. About
three months after, news arrived of the death of Bishop
Smith, and Sergeant was deputed to assist at a new
election, in the name of the College, as also to attend to
some matters connected with the establishment. Imme
diately after his arrival in England, he was appointed
Canon and Secretary to the Chapter, and his discharge
of the duties connected with this position gave universal
satisfaction. About the same time, 1654, he published
his second controversial work entitled Schism Despatched,
which was a rejoinder to the reply which Dr. Hammond
and Bishop Bramhall had given to his first publication.
We may gather how great was the influence of Sergeant's
writings, from the fact that the most learned members of
the Established Church entered the lists against him.

It will suffice to mention the names of Piercy, Taylor,
Casaubon, Tenison, Stillingfleet, Whitby and Tillotson,
all of them antagonists practised in the field of contro
versy, to prove the intellectual calibre of him, who faced
successively each one of them in the contest, and bore
away from all the palm of victory. His publications,
which amount to no less than forty, are remarkable for
clear and conclusive argument, a style correct and, con
sidering the age in which he lived, not deficient in
elegance. The impetuosity of his genius, and his
fondness for the daring metaphysics of Dr. Blacklow,
sometimes unfortunately led him into modes of expres
sion which gave offence to his brethren, and three
propositions extracted from his works were censured in
an assembly of Parisian Theologians.

Dr. Sergeant urged in his defence that the propositions

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DR. JOHN SERGEANT.

HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF LISBON COLLEGE. 35

as explained by the context were free from error, and it
was unfair to judge of an author's sentiments by a few
isolated sentences. The plea, though deemed evasive by
some of his accusers, was admitted by the Archbishop
of Paris.

These contests and the troubles attending them, did
not interrupt Dr. Sergeant in his missionary labours, nor
prevent him from giving many proofs of his love for his
Mother College. For the trifling salary of ^10, he
transacted the College affairs in England during the
last forty years of his life, and by the liberal donations
he was instrumental in procuring for it, contributed not
a little to its support. After a long life of continual
labours and exertions in the cause of truth, death came
to him whilst holding his pen in his hand in 1707, in
the eighty-fourth year of his age, and the fifty-seventh
of his priesthood.

The College possesses his portrait with the following
motto :

" Sine fictione didici et sine invidia communico."

A comparative sketch of the two illustrious men whose
memoirs have just been given, drawn by the pen of Dr.
Russell, the Bishop of Vizeu in Portugal, who was their
contemporary at College and was therefore intimately
acquainted with them, will doubtless be of interest. A
copy of the original, in Latin, is inserted in the Annals
of the College, of which the following is a translation :

" In their temper and genius there was little resem
blance. In Sergeant appeared a lively imagination ; in
Godden, imagination tempered by an accurate judgement.
In Poetry and the Belles Lettres, in every kind of verse
as well as in prose, Sergeant displayed a peculiar and
happy dexterity. Godden with equal abilities for every
species of literature, was in his Humanity studies more
than a match for all his companions, in those of Philos
ophy and Theology decidedly their superior.

"Sergeant, dissatisfied with the beaten track of Aris-

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totelian Philosophy in which, with a multitude of occult
qualities, almost everything is problematically disputed
upon, anxiously sought after certainty, and gave to the
Philosophers of our own times the most assiduous
perusal. Godden observed a different conduct, and
humbly embracing that occupation which God gave to
man, rested in the opinion that Philosophical enquiries
should be pursued only as far as Christian Philosophy
ministers to true Theology and the Mysteries of Faith.
During their residence at College, nothing appeared in
the conduct of Sergeant that merited reproof; in Godden
nothing but what merited esteem, nothing but what
merited admiration. The virtues necessary to form the
Apostolic Missionary were not deficient in Sergeant ; in
Godden they were eminently conspicuous. After their ad
mission to Holy Orders and the Priesthood, in both was
observed the same tenor of conduct, the same piety, the
same obedience to Superiors ; unless, perhaps, the zeal of
Sergeant for the salvation of souls was distinguished
for its vehemence ; that of Godden for its prudence. The
temper of the former was sometimes warm and impetu
ous ; that of the latter ever mild and sedate."

Dr. Russell who penned the above sketch, is, himself,
one of the most famous of the sons of Alma Mater, and
one of whom the College may well be proud.

He was born of an obscure family of Berkshire, and
went to the College very young in the capacity of servant
to Dr. Daniel on his appointment to the Presidentship,
1642. During the period of five years that he continued
in this humble situation, he gave all his leisure time to
study, and such was the proficiency that he made, that
his patron at length judged him worthy to be admitted
into the Community, and gave him a place among the
students on August 14, in the year 1647, which was the
eighteenth of his age. In the schools young Russell
soon outstripped his companions, and bore away the first
prize in Humanities the year after his admission. Soon
after he had entered Divinitv, the rest of his class were

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sent to complete their Course in a College of Oratorians
in France, on which occasion it was proposed to Dr.
Russell to remain sometime longer at the College, then
to prepare himself to receive Holy Orders, and proceed
on to the Mission. Fearful, however, of undertaking the
weighty charge of the priesthood without being duly
qualified, he chose rather to try to gain admission into
Douay. He accordingly made his way thither in 1654,
and was received. He afterwards finished his Theology
in Paris where he was ordained priest. Having thus
obtained the end for which he left Lisbon, he returned
by direction of his Superiors in 1655, an(^ undertook the
office of Procurator to the College.

Whilst in this occupation he received an intimation
from the Chapter to return to England in 1657, in
obedience to which he embarked the same year in the
suite of Dom Francisco de Mello, Ambassador from
the Court of Lisbon to Charles II. During the voy
age the pious behaviour of Dr. Russell drew upon him
the notice of his fellow travellers, and in particular that
of the Ambassador, who on his arrival in England,
requested and obtained leave from the Chapter to retain
him in his family. During the three years and a half
that Dom Francisco remained in England, Dr. Russell,
from his perfect acquaintance with the Portuguese
tongue, was enabled to render the most important
services to the Embassy. He returned with the Am
bassador to Lisbon in 1660, and was presented to the
Queen Donna Louisa, who received him with the most
flattering distinction and grateful acknowledgment of
"his singular diligence and fidelity in promoting the
interests of her kingdom."

A gift of one thousand and eighty crowns and a
pension of twenty-five guineas a month, with the title
of Secretary to the Queen, was conferred upon him.
He returned to England the same year and, after being
chiefly instrumental in settling the marriage between
Charles and the Infanta Catharine, performed the nup
tial ceremony.

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On the return of the Embassy to Portugal, King
Charles made Dr. Russell the bearer of his own favour
able sentiments, in a letter to the Queen, who received
him with distinguished marks of honour.

To reward his services and at the same time to pre
serve for her kingdom a person of such talents and
worth, she nominated him Bishop of the Cape Verde
Islands, promising to promote him to the first See in
Portugal that should become vacant. This dignity Dr.
Russell declined, but still continued at Court in quality
of Preceptor to the Infanta, whom he soon after accom
panied to England.

In 1671 the Bishopric of Portalegre becoming vacant,
he was persuaded to accept it, and the year following
received his consecration in the church of the College.

During the ceremony a dove was seen to enter the
church, hover for some time over the head of the new
prelate and then fly away. The account of this fact is
preserved in a letter written by Dr. Godden, who was
present when it occurred, to a friend in England, soon
after the Bishop's consecration, of which letter a copy
exists in the College. "You have the fact," says the
Doctor at the conclusion of the letter, "make your own
comment."

In Jan. 1672, Bishop Russell made his first entrance
into Portalegre and took solemn possession of his Cathe
dral. An incident occurred at his enthronement which
tends to show the perfect knowledge which he had
acquired of the Portuguese tongue.

The Chapter of Portalegre somewhat piqued at the
idea of having a foreigner for their Bishop, had received
him with coldness, and on this occasion, when it was
customary for the Prelate to make an address, expecting
more amusement from his accent than edification from
his discourse, were with unbecoming levity intimating
their feelings to each other. The Bishop affecting not
to understand or notice them, rose unruffled, and turning
towards them, made so eloquent a discourse, and pro-

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THE RIGHT REV. DR. RUSSELL,

Bishop of Vizcu.

HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF LISBON COLLEGE. 41

nounced it with so perfect an accent, that they were
equally astonished and ashamed.

. The numerous improvements and pious foundations
which the pastoral zeal of this eminent Prelate projected
and executed during the ten years that he governed the
See of Portalegre scarcely belong to this sketch. Suffice
it to say, that while he exhausted his income in works
of piety and charity, he ceased not to labour, by means
of instructions, and exhortations, conferences and the
publication of pious books, for the spiritual improve
ment of his flock and he had at length the consolation
of beholding a complete reformation in the conduct of
the clergy and the laity of his Diocese. In 1682 by a
beneplacitum of Pedro II. he was transferred to the
the See of Yizeu, which church he governed during the
last eleven years of his life. He continued to exercise
the same episcopal zeal and vigilance which had marked
his conduct when Bishop of Portalegre. In a letter to
His Holiness Pope Innocent XI. he gave an account of
the various regulations which he had made in his Dio
cese, and of the manner in which he had employed his
revenues, and concluded his address in these words, " In
these and similar works I have spent and exhausted the
whole income of my church, so that after twenty-two
years of the episcopal charge, I am able truly to say (not
in pride but in the humility of a grateful heart be it
spoken) gold and silver I have not. Csetera dicant
Paduani."*

* " Caetera dicant Paduani."

This is quoted from a Responsary of St. Bernard in the
Office of St. Antony of Padua which commences : " Si quaeris
Miracula." The verse in which it is found is as follows :
Pereunt pericula
Cessat et necessitas
Narrent hi qui sentiunt
Dicant Paduani.

Dangers vanish — ceases likewise need —
Let those who have experienced such relate these facts
Let the Paduans declare them.

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His affection for his Mother College was ardent and
generous, and showed itself in the pious donations which
he either made himself or obtained from others in its
behalf.

During his Episcopacy he introduced into his house
hold as much as circumstances would permit, the
regularity and pious exercises followed at the College,
and "by knowing," say the Annals, "how to rule his
own house, proved himself qualified to take care of the
Church of God." He died in 1693.

To return to the History of the College.

It was in the year 1661, that Dr. Godden, as already
stated, was appointed Chaplain and Preceptor to the
Infanta, and this necessitated his resignation of the office
of President. He was succeeded by the Rev. John
Barnesley, alias Parott, a native of Worcestershire, and a
convert from Protestantism, who thus became the ninth
President. He went to the College in 1647, aild disting
uished himself by his abilities in the Philosophical and
Theological Schools. After completing his studies, he
successively filled the offices of Master of Humanities,
Procurator, Professor of Philosophy and Professor of
Theology. In 1659 he was appointed Vice-President,
and in 1662 received from the Chapter his nomination to
the Presidency. Some time after he was honoured with
the degree of Doctor of Divinity. Some of the questions
on which he stood Thesis on occasion of his receiving
his degree, give evident proof of his intellectual power,
and the boldness with which he entered into the contest.

The following are examples, from which it may be
gathered how severe was the ordeal which those had to
face who stood public Thesis, at which the religious and
secular clergy of the city were invited to enter the lists
as opponents, and they give an idea of the subjects upon
which the intellectual acumen of theological students
was, in those days, concentrated.

i. Utrum res omnes sint physice et realiter prsesentes
Deo ab seterno, in seternitate in quacumque differentia
temporis existentes ?

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2. An Deus summum bonum fuisset etiamsi creaturas
non produxisset ?

3. An voluntas antecedens formaliler inveniatur in
Deo?

4. An implicet in Beatis species impressa vel expressa
Dei ut in se est ?

5. An evidentia in attestante admitti possit stante
fide?

Dr. Barnesley's reputation stood very high, and in the
public disputations over which he presided, many of
which were on the most abstruse and difficult subjects of
Philosophy and Theology, he was always most successful.
But if his talents excited admiration in strangers, his
mildness and condescension, won the love and esteem of
all the members of the Community.

He held the Presidency till the year 1672, when he
returned to England, where he won from his brethren
the same high opinion which he had ever enjoyed at the
College. He was made Dean of the Chapter, and died
1714, at the advanced age of eighty- three.

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CHAPTER V.

THE tenth President was the Rev. Mathias Watkinson,
who succeeded Dr. Barnesley in 1672. His talents and
virtues were not less eminent than those of his prede
cessor, and he equally enjoyed the esteem of all who knew
him. He was born in London, and entered the College
at the close of the year 1647, when only thirteen years
and six months old. From that time to his death during
the long period of sixty-three years, he never quitted
the establishment. On the conclusion of his studies he
entered among the Superiors in quality of Procurator,
filled successively the Chairs of Philosophy and Theology
in both of which he gave several courses of lectures, was
made Confessarius, Vice-President, and eventually Presi
dent, succeeding on the return of Dr. Barnesley to
England. In this office he continued for thirty-four
years, until by an order of the three Vicars Apostolic
then residing in England, he resigned it into the hands
of the Rev. Edward Jones. In a life exclusively aca
demical there can occur but a few incidents of general
interest. All the particulars which the Annals afford
of Father Watkinson are confined to the accounts of
the success which he met with in frequent public Theses
over which he presided and to the high enconiums
which they bestow on his mild and paternal administra
tion. He died of a paralytic stroke in the year 1710,
three years after he had retired from the government of
the House. In his will he made the College heir to all
his property.

During the long Presidentship of Father Watkinson
and that of his predecessor Dr. Barnesley, the high repu
tation which the College had won for itself was
maintained by several distinguished members who

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were educated within its walls, and who were either
sent upon the Mission or continued in the service of the
College. Among others may be mentioned Hesketh,
Barlow, Goodin, Bromwich and Gother. A short
account of each of these sons of Alma Mater cannot but
prove interesting.

Roger Hesketh, a native of Lancashire, after complet
ing his course of studies, rendered important services
to the College in the various situations of Procurator,
Professor of Philosophy, Confessarius and Professor of
Theology. He also secured the distinction of the
Doctor's Cap. Returning to England in 1686 he
laboured assiduously in the conversion of souls till 1715,
when, to borrow the expression of the Annals, "full of
days he fell asleep in the Lord."

In a manuscript collection of Latin verses composed
by various students of the house, which fortunately
escaped the general wreck at the time of the French
invasion, there is one of Dr. Hesketh's juvenile perform
ances in praise of his native county.

Those who retrace their College days, will remember
with what warmth the merits of their respective counties
were, by the students, often canvassed and maintained.
Probably some dispute of this kind gave occasion to this
youthful effusion, which would do credit, however, to a
much more mature scholar. The following are the first
thirty lines of the composition, which is too long to be
inserted entire.

Urbes si quae olim nomenque decusque tulere
Vitrea quas placido recrearunt flumina lapsu,
Et quas umbra silens nemorum vestivit, et altis
Queis static portum tribuit benefida carinis,
Quasque ampli circum muri, foveseque profundae
Vallarunt fossa, quarum virtute decora
Laetantur cives, memores tolerantque dolores
Pro Patria, quorum simplex prudentia veram
Impendente fidem letho selegit, honestis
Moribus et vita populo documenta dedere :
Cur stupidus taceo ? Nobis quse causa silendi ?

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Cur non Lancastrum digno celebramus honore
Eloquioque pari meritis ! praestantia cujus
Splendidior Phoebo est, rutilo praestantior auro.
Quin libet, aggredior dignoque attollere cantu
Indignus, patriumque solum super astra referre
Conabor, cceptis precor aspirate faventes.
Terra potens veterum monumentis clara parentum,
Clara viris strenuis, et regum prole Celebris.
Non Canis exurit sitientes fervidus agnos
Nee madidus nimias diffundit aquarius undas
Florida sed tellus votis respondit avari
Fructibus agricoloe gregibusque ministrat obesis,
Pascua, pingue solum, fontes hie murmure grato
Dimanant, laetoque aspergunt ubere campos :
Hie nemorum sublime decus, semperque virentum
Pulcher honos pratorum, hie largi copia lactis.
Adsunt et tremuli fcecundo gramina rivi
Lapsu lambentes, hie dulcis ab illice mellis
Vis fluit, Hyblaeo dulcescunt nectare rami.

The two last lines of the piece are :

Quid opus est multis? melior nee justior ulla
Gens pietate manet, nee bello major et armis.

ROGER HESKETH, cecinit.

During the same period an incident happened, which
gave occasion to the composition by students of the
House of four Latin Epigrams, all of them, fortunately,
preserved. At the Convent of the Theatines of St.
Cajetan which stands in the immediate vicinity of the
main entrance of the College, an image of St. Andrew
Avellinus was reported to have shed tears. This state
ment so far gained credit, as to become, at the time,
the common subject of conversation, and a prize was at
length offered to the person who should celebrate the
fact in the best Latin epigram. Four of the students of
the College entered the lists, Richard Shirnall, John
Askew, James Skilton, and Thomas Hesketh. This last
is not the same as Dr. Hesketh, author of the poem
quoted above, but probably of the same family.

HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF LISBON COLLEGE. 47

Shirnall's performance was declared par with the best.
His competitor, happening to be a nobleman, carried off
the prize, but as an acknowledgement the successful but
plebeian candidate was presented with an elegant edition
of SponheinPs Numismata, which he afterwards gave to
the College, and which still exists in the College Library,
with the epigram and an account of the incident written
at the commencement. The epigram is as follows :

Mortuus Andreas vivit, quod monstrat Imago

Dum madidae rorant imbre fluente genae.

Mens pia nutrit aquas oculis, dumque inscius omnis

Paenae, vult sociis fletibus esse miser ;

Si videat miseros, oculis mox dulce liquescit

Pectus, et in jjemitus rumpere pronus amor ;

Si premeris premitur : gemis et simul gemit ille

Par tibi par illi corde gemente dolor :

Omnem hie pone fidem, pia votaque dirige supplex,

Crede, feret certam qui lachrymatur opem.

Mr. Edward Barlow, alias Booth, the second of the
names above mentioned, was born in 1638, and came to
the College in 1659. Though not mentioning the
precise period of his quitting the establishment, the
Annals bestow the highest enconiums on his talents and
virtues. The chief theatre of his labours was his native
County of Lancashire, and the principal objects of his
solicitude were the poor, whose dress and manner of
living he, by choice, adopted.

Abstemiousness, benevolence, and an unaffected sim
plicity in all his actions, were the virtues for which he
was remarkable. The endowments of his mind, were,
however, not less rare and conspicuous than the qualities
of his heart. " It is thought," says Dr. Dodd, "the age
he lived in could not show a person better qualified by
nature for the mathematical sciences. He has told me,"
continues the same writer, "that at his first perusal of
Euclid, that Author was as easy to him as a newspaper.
His name and fame are perpetuated for being the inventor
of the repeater watches, but according to the fate of most

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projectors, while others were great gainers by his inge
nuity, Barlow had never been considered on the occasion,
had not Mr. Tompion (accidentally made acquainted
with the inventor's name) made him a present of ^200."

His Meteorological Essays, published in 1715, was a
work of much merit considering the state of Science at
the time. Mr. Francis Nicholson of whom more par
ticular mention will subsequently be made, writes of
this work: " I return you Mr. Barlow's book with this
character that it is the most elegant and rational piece I
have seen written for a long time ; manifesting the
Author to be a master in style, in arguing in Philosophy
and in Mathematics, as well as his inventions do in
Mechanism. Really I wonder how anyone conversing
so long in mines with colliers only, could write so clearly,
so properly, so solidly on points so abstruse and before
him so unaccountable."

Barlow died in 1719, in the eighty-first year of his
age. In addition to his Meteorological Essays, he wrote
" An Exact Survey of Tide, explicating its production
and propagation, variety and anomaly, in all parts of the
world, especially near the coasts of Great Britain and
Ireland. With a preliminary treatise concerning the
Origin of Springs, Generation of Rain, and Production
of Wind." With twelve curious maps. 2 vols. Also a
Treatise of the Eucharist. He was a Master in Latin
and Greek, and had a competent knowledge of Hebrew.

The Rev. Peter Goodin, also a native of Lancashire,
companion at College with Barlow, went to Lisbon in
1 66 1. After going through his studies with great
applause, he was sent on the Mission in company with
Barlow, and was soon after nominated to the Chaplaincy
of the regiment of the Duke of Berwick. To eminent
mental endowments he united all those exterior accom
plishments, which so powerfully contribute to give them
effect. He was remarkable for the manner in which he
conducted the public controversies in which he was
engaged, and the success which ever attended his efforts
in these encounters. He repeatedly entered the lists

HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF LISBON COLLEGE. 49

with Stillingfleet, Clagget, and others among the most
celebrated Protestant champions of that period. Indeed
it is no small honour to L/isbon College that her sons, as
we have seen, bore so large a share in the conflict waged
in defence of the Church at that time, and bore away the
laurels of victory against the ablest and most learned
opponents the Established Church has ever produced.
" No man," says Dodd, " was better qualified to come off
with reputation in a personal conference than Mr. Goodiii.
He was naturally bold and intrepid ; had a strong voice,
a ready utterance, and generally made choice of such
topics, as afforded him matter to display his eloquence
and make an easy conquest." The Revolution of 1688,
obliged him to withdraw from the public advocacy of
his religion, but did not prevent him from continuing
assiduously to labour in the same sacred cause. He died
in Audcliffe in Lancashire, in the year 1695.

The Rev. Andrew Bromwich, a native of Oscott,
Staffordshire, was admitted into the College in 1668.
The Annals do not give the date of his departure on to
the Mission, but mention the following particulars con
cerning him: "that he was born of Catholic parents,
and went through his studies with success ; after taking
Holy Orders he returned to England, and laboured for
some years in the conversion of souls, until, in the reign
of Charles II, he was apprehended, and underwent a
long imprisonment in Staffordshire, before he was
brought to trial : he suffered much during his imprison
ment from hunger and thirst, and was finally condemned
to death for his religion by Sir William Scroggs. The
violence of the persecution soon after abating, he was
set at liberty. He then returned to his home and
property at Oscott, and took charge of a few Catholics
here and in the neighbourhood, until his death in 1702.
He was buried in the family vault at Handsworth. His
antique chair of very rude construction is still preserved
at Oscott. From this humble foundation and residence
of Andrew Bromwich, has been raised the present exten
sive College of St. Mary's, Oscott." — GILLOW.
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The speech which he had prepared for delivery at the
scaffold is worthy of record, and may be read in Dodd,
vol. iii. p. 359. The following is the substance of it :

"I am immediately to appear before God's tribunal . . .
I hope therefore yon will believe a dying man . . . and
believe that it is no ways lawful for me or any Roman
Catholic to sin that good may proceed from it ... I am
not to be executed for refusing any allegiance to my
gracious King. I have professed that fully by the oaths
before his Majesty's Justice of the Peace ... I have
professed that neither the Pope nor any foreign person
hath right to exercise any external power . . . without his
Majesty's authority, upon his subjects. I do not mean
that the King can exercise any power of the Keys or any
act of jurisdiction purely spiritual or internal ... I am
not to be executed for the plot . . . Nay I am cleared by
one of his Majesty's Secretaries of State ... I am
absolutely innocent of the plot . . . and detest from my
heart all such bloody and damnable designs ... I
beseech God to discover the truth ... But if there be
no plot, but innocent blood hath been and now is to be
spilt, Domine averte iram tuam, and impute it not to
the nation ... I am not to be executed for teaching
sedition or treason, or any fact or doctrine which is not
consistent with Monarchy, but for the only crime of
Priesthood . . . Anne Robinson was the only positive
witness against me, whom I never wronged in my life, I
pray God that malice and avarice did not more move her
to it, than truth. The other two witnesses, poor old people,
were forced, being severely treated, to accuse me, yet they
declared they did not know me . . . I beseech God my
life may not be laid to any man's charge. Every one,
the very worst of my enemies ... I forgive them from
my heart ... I humbly beseech' God to bless the King's
Majesty . . . God bless the whole nation, and not lay
my blood to the charge of it, or to any person in
particular, and bring all persons to the true Church, by
Faith, Hope and Charity."

An incident of his captivity is mentioned in his

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Address, viz., after the jury had found him guilty, Chief
Justice Scroggs sent Sir Henry Gough to him with an
offer of pardon if he would discover anything about the
plot, or any concerned in it.

Among all the sons of the College who flourished at
the close of the seventeenth century, and who, by their
great talents and zeal in the cause of religion, have
rightfully a claim to special notice, stands forth pre
eminently and conspicuously John Gother. He was
born of Presbyterian parents at Southampton in Hamp
shire, and was educated by them in sentiments of hostility
to the Catholic Faith. Of the immediate occasion of his
conversion there is no record, but soon after that event
he was sent, probably by Dr. Godden, to Lisbon College,
where he arrived on January 10, 1668. He was thus
contemporary with the remarkable individuals whose
short memoirs have just been given. The distinguished
talents which Mr. Gother displayed during his studies,
were united to a rare and exemplary virtue. He was
noted for his engaging and affectionate conduct towards
his fellow students ; and in conversation he was cheerful
without levity, grave and circumspect without affectation.

Towards his Superiors he always manifested great
docility and respect, and in the observance of the Rules
of the House he was a model of obedience. Whatever
was the occupation in which he was engaged, the first
toll of the bell calling him to any duty was obeyed by
him with as much deference and promptitude, as if it
had been the voice of an angel. That such a behaviour
during his College course should have drawn down upon
him the special blessing of heaven is not surprising. He
left L/isbon at the close of the year 1682, having pre
viously filled for a short period the office of Prefect of
Studies. At the commencement of his Missionary
career, his labours were principally directed to catechis
ing children and instructing the poor. In the garrets
and cellars of I/ondon, he found abundant opportunities
of exercising his zeal and charity.

At this period the many evident proofs of attachment

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given by James II, to the Catholic Faith, alarmed the
zealots of the Established Church, and the press daily
teemed with every species of invective against the errors
and the superstitions of the Church of Rome.

To the ecclesiastical Superiors of the Catholic body,
no one appeared better qualified than Gother to stem
the torrent. At their request he undertook the task of
Apologist of the Faith, and in 1685 he published his
inestimable work The Papist Misrepresented and Repre
sented, a book which, for upwards of two centuries, has
maintained its popularity, giving thus evidence of its
intrinsic value. This publication was followed by his
Niibcs Testium, and a variety of other controversial tracts
to the number of seventeen. In all of them Gother
preserves the dignified character which he had assumed
in his first work. To an invincible strength of reasoning
he unites a becoming and generous regard for his
adversaries personally, and never indulged, as did his
opponents, in those offensive reflections which may
embitter, but can never terminate religious controversy.

His style is agreeable and correct and not unfrequently
rises to a degree of elegance not found in writers of the
same period. Dryden, who was his contemporary, used
often to say that Gother was the only individual,
besides himself, who knew how to write the English
language. Of the fruits of his zeal, the conversion of the
venerable Bishop Challoner may be considered as an
illustrious instance.

After the Revolution of 1688, Gother employed
his pen in the production of several works of instruction
and piety. His spiritual writings contained in sixteen
volumes octavo, breathe that zealous and solid piety
which had characterized him throughout life, and for
generations were the bread which, in great measure,
supported the spiritual life of the Catholics of this
country. At length, after twenty-two years spent in his
native country in promoting the cause of God, the vener
able Missionary proposed to return to Lisbon. What
precise object prompted this journey is not known, all

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that the records of the College say is, that it was under
taken from a pure motive of zeal and Charity. He
embarked in the San Caetano, an Italian vessel, in com
pany, it appears, with another ecclesiastic. While on the
voyage he was seized with an illness, and, after receiving
all the rites of the Church, expired on October 13, 1704.
The captain of the ship, struck with the marks of
sanctity which he had sho\vn in his sickness, embalmed
his body and earned it with him to Lisbon. The second
night after its arrival at the port, it was transferred
privately to the College, and the following day, the
Feast of SS. Simon and Jude, after a solemn dirge had
been performed over it, was interred in the church near
the altar of St. Thomas of Canterbury.

The memory of this pleasing act of respect on the part
of the captain of the San Cactano is perpetuated in those
words of the College Song so familiar to all Lisbonians :

Remember, too, Gother, great champion of Faith,
Whose toils for religion ceased only with death ;

Remember how pity and honour would save
His hallow'd remains from a watery grave.

To the five illustrious names above mentioned yet
another should be added, that of John Brett who, if in a
humbler sphere, yet in a manner not less worthy of
record, gave for the space of forty-six years an unstinted
and faithful service to the College. He was born of a
respectable family in Lincolnshire, in the year 1627. At
the age of thirty-eight, when too old to commence the
Course of Studies necessary for receiving Holy Orders,
he came to the College and undertook the humble, yet
most serviceable, occupation of porter or doorkeeper, an
office which he discharged for that long period with the
greatest zeal and fidelity. He died from a stroke of
paralysis, full of days and greatly regretted by the Com
munity, leaving the arrears of his wages and all that he
had in the world to the College. In former days, previous
to the alterations made in the college church by the

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President Dr. Buckley, there might be seen his small
tombstone near the entrance, with the following epitaph :

Siste hospes ; saxum hoc Bretti premit ossa Joannis
Quern magnis meritis busta minora tegunt
Artubus in lapsis, mens Integra, longa lahorum
T(jedia pro Patribus lustra per octo tulit.

The period which closes with the Presidentship of
Father Watkiiison, 1707, may be said to constitute the
most brilliant portion of the history of the College. For
the space of eighty years from its commencement in 1628,
the services which it rendered to the cause of religion
were numerous and important. Its supplies of Mission
aries were frequent, and the reputation which its members
acquired for it in England, was not less than that which
the learning and abilities of its Professors maintained
amongst the Portuguese. These results become the more
remarkable when it is remembered that they were
accomplished in the face of difficulties of no ordinary
nature, arising from very limited means, and restricted
pecuniary resources. The building as originally erected
was wretchedly mean and unsightly ; the apartments few,
small and inconvenient, insomuch that for the first cen
tury after the foundation of the College, our ancestors
may be said to have lived in ruins rather than in a house.

The College fare seems to have been in keeping with
the wretched fabric. Except on Friday which then, as
in England, was observed out of Paschal time as a strict
fast, each individual in the house received for breakfast
three ounces of bread and one ounce of butter, which
might be washed down by draughts of cold water ad
libitum. For dinner, half a pound of meat was allotted
by the Rides to each person ; Rules alas, like so many
others, frequently " more honoured in the breach than
the observance," for often the resources of the Establish
ment could not provide so liberal an allowance ! The
same Rules, with equal generosity, allowed another half
pound of meat for supper, but it may be easily surmised

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that funds which could only with difficulty supply the
dinner, were not likely to be adequate for providing the
supper; and, indeed, we learn from a document preserved
in the archives of the House, that meat for supper was a
luxury in which our ancestors could only occasionally
indulge, and that two pounds of rice were often served
out as a meal for the whole Community.

If water was the beverage for breakfast, there was
allowed for dinner and supper a limited portion of weak
wine, left after its fermentation without any preparation
or addition of spirit, possibly a more exhilarating though,
probably, less palatable drink.

When we contemplate men like Daniel, Godden and
Sergeant contentedly sitting down to a boiled onion for
supper, and for their other meals partaking of that small
portion of the allotted food which the extreme poverty of
the establishment afforded, the words of Pope St. Leo
readily suggest themselves: "Semper eiiim virtuti cibus
jejunium fuit." The President and Superiors shared the
same food with the lowest student in the House, and the
poverty of the Establishment did not permit them to
receive any pecuniary recompense for the duties which
they performed. All rose at four o'clock, breakfasted at
eight, dined at eleven and supped at seven.

Such was the manner of living at the College till
long after the period of which we have been speaking ;
such its state when at a word from their Superiors our
Missionaries abandoned all their prospects, sometimes
their comforts in England, to fly to its assistance : such
the Establishment which even in the days of pinching
poverty, as now in pleasanter conditions, was able to
attach to itself the affections of its children in as great,
if not greater, degree than any other foreign College.
We need not be surprised, however, if, whilst great
numbers cheerfully submitted to these inconveniences
during the whole course of their studies, others were
found who took occasion from them, to attribute to the
mismanagement of the Superiors the hardships which
they had to endure. Hence charges and complaints

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were not tinfrequently laid before the Bishop and Chapter
in England, and many whose ecclesiastical spirit conld
not stand so severe a test, abandoned their undertaking.
It would be difficult indeed to imagine a discipline more
effective for preparing men to encounter the hardships
and privations of missionary life in those days, than the
severe regime to which the inmates of Lisbon College
were subjected. Indeed even in later and more pros
perous times, the very pronounced tinge of monastic
severity which marked the regime was preserved,
repressing any tendency to niceness or delicacy of self-
indulgence.

In the memory of many still living there will be, no
doubt, vivid recollections of the early rising at five in
the morning throughout the winter months, the half-
hour's meditation in the cold church, followed for the
younger ones, at least, by long study in the colder class
rooms, the heating of which seems never even to have
been dreamt of; the many hours spent in class and
previous preparation lasting, without a break, from half-
past eight in the morning till twelve, and from two
o'clock in the afternoon until seven or half-past seven ;
the rigorous and frequent fasts exacted from all whose
age subjected them to the Church's discipline, without
any relaxation of the close study, and above all the
severe Lent during which, even up to the early Forties,
no flesh meat was ever seen or tasted from Ash Wednes
day until Easter Sunday. To this must be added those
domestic duties which, in monastic houses, are usually
performed by the lay-brothers or hired servants, but
which each student from the highest to the lowest had
to fulfil each for himself.

If a more delicate age has introduced modifications of
the system, may it have been without detriment to those
sterling qualities which such discipline was calculated
to produce !

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CHAPTER VI.

THE Rev. Matthias Watkinson resigned the President
ship of the College in 1706, and was succeeded by the
Rev. Edward Jones, the eleventh President. He was
a native of Staffordshire, arrived in Lisbon in 1684,
was promoted to the priesthood in 1691, and in the
following year was appointed Professor of Philosophy.
He shortly afterwards paid a short visit to England for
the purpose of transacting some family affairs, and on his
return in 1699, was named Vice-President and Professor
of Theology. On the resignation of Father Watkinson,
the entire government of the House devolved upon him.

The first object which Father Jones proposed to
himself in his new dignity was the repairing, or rather
the rebuilding of the College. The edifice as originally
erected, had fallen into a most dilapidated state, and had
the appearance rather of a group of small houses than of
a College. By the Will of the Founder, the right of
patronage of the College had been committed to an
Institution called the Misericordia, to which the posses
sion of the buildings and whatever property might belong
to them, was to be made over in case the inmates were
withdrawn from Lisbon and returned to England.

This right of patronage both by Civil and Canon Law,
imposed upon the Misericordia the obligation of keeping
the College in a proper state of repair, with which, how
ever, it refused to comply. The Superiors had recourse
to the law and obtained a decision to the effect, that the
Misericordia should forfeit its right of patronage or
rebuild the College. At length both sides agreed to a
compromise, by which the Superiors took upon them
selves the onus of rebuilding and keeping in repair for
the future the fabric ; the Misericordia, on its part,

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yielding to them the half of its patronal rights. On the
termination of this suit, Father Jones proceeded to pull
down well nigh the whole of the existing buildings and
laid the foundations for the College as it now exists.
The funds necessary for this work, were partly supplied
from his own private resources, and in part received
from England, and collected principally from the British
residents in the City. The Inquisitor of that time also
contributed a sum which sufficed for the building two
rooms.

The zealous enterprise met with encouragement and
success, and in a short time a sufficient sum was collected
to justify the commencement of the work. The building
was begun on June 14, 1714. The ancient dilapidated
edifice was gradually removed, and on its site were laid
the new foundations. In procuring the means for so
serious an undertaking, Father Jones received consider
able assistance from Father John Shepperd the College
Agent in England. In spite, however, of the earnest
efforts made for raising contributions, the sums collected
were soon found inadequate to complete the \vork, and it
was owing to this circumstance that no less than thirteen
years were spent in raising the edifice to the elevation of
a single story, and when it was at last roofed, in 1727, the
interior was left in so rude and unfinished a state, that
for a considerable time the College rejoiced in the name
of the "Lisbon Barn."

While Father Jones was engaged in this meritorious
work, the number of students was, of necessity, limited.
The schools, however, seem never to have been entirely
interrupted; and it is not the least among the many
honourable testimonies recorded of this zealous and wor
thy President, that when no one was found to undertake
the teaching of the Classics, he condescended whilst
head of the Establishment, and though he had previous
ly occupied the Chairs of Philosophy and Theology,
to employ himself in teaching the first rudiments of
Grammar.

After holding- the Presidencv for twentv-three vears

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with such credit to himself and benefit to the College,
for some unexplained reason he was superseded in the
office by the Rev. Father Manley who was sent from
England for that purpose by Bishop GifFard in 1729.
Though thus deposed from the highest position in the
house Father Jones did not withdraw from the College,
but with admirable simplicity and humility was content
to occupy an inferior position amongst those whom, for
so many years, he had governed. Father Manley thus
became the twelfth President. He was a native of
Hampshire and son of a clergyman of the Established
Church. The Annals do not mention what circumstance
led to his being educated in the Catholic Faith, but that
he arrived at the College in 1692, when only twelve
years and one month old. After the completion of his
Classical Studies, he applied himself for three years to
Philosophy and four years to Theology.

At the conclusion of his studies he taught Classics
for four years, when it was proposed to him to undertake
the Professorship of Philosophy, but this he declined
unless he were permitted to have one who would share
the duties with him. As this condition was not acceded
to he continued for some time without any fixed occupa
tion in the schools, and though he repeatedly petitioned
to be sent on the Mission, the Superiors were reluctant
to deprive the College of a person so deserving and such
a model of exact discipline. In the meantime he usefully
employed himself in arranging the College Library, and
occasionally supplying the place of Classical Professor.
The Annals make special mention of his attention to the
sick, and his solicitude in seeing in cases of danger that
they were early provided with the succours of religion.
At length in the year 1711, he received the Ordinary
Missionary faculties and wras permitted to return to
England. During the eighteen years he laboured on the
Mission, he was chiefly occupied in the humble but
highly useful office of instructing children in the rudi
ments of knowledge and religion. It would seem from
this statement, that he was principally engaged in some

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educational establishment, or possibly himself instituted
some such establishment. Indeed humility of mind and
heart was the prevailing feature of his character through
life ; and it was with evident feelings of regret, that in
1729 he received the news of his promotion to the Presi
dency of the College at Lisbon. He lacked, however,
that vigour and firmness which are not less necessary in
the head of a College than piety and virtue. Aware that
abilities for government were possessed by his predecessor
to which he could lay no claim, he obtained the consent
of Bishop Giffard to resign his office into the hands of
him from whom he had received it, and thus at the end
of three years he gladly delivered over to his predecessor,
Father Jones, his letters of nomination. He returned to
England a second time in 1732, having previously been
elected by the clergy Canon of the Chapter.

From the time of Father Jones' second appointment
to the Presidency of the College until his death five years
later, 1737, he continued to display in the government of
the House those same qualifications which had previously
distinguished him, and if to have deserved well of the
College is an encomium merited by any President, it
certainly may be pronounced of Father Jones. Besides
the rebuilding of the College, another event of great and
permanent advantage happened during his tenure of
office, which will ever awake in the memory of every son
of the College the pleasantest and fondest recollections.

This was the donation by Mr. Francis Nicholson of a
country house, vineyard, and other lands, on a spot called
Pera on the south side of the Tapns, which is so familiarlv

o / -•

known as the Quinta. If the value of a gift may be
measured by the joy and delight which it imparts, then
may this donation be said to be priceless, for it is not
possible to estimate the intense pleasure of which it has
been the source to every succeeding generation of L/isbo-
niaiis not only whilst in the actual enjoyment of its
beauties and attractions, but perhaps even more by the
pleasing recollections which even the very name of the
Quinta brings crowding back to the memory in after

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years, and which never lose their zest by repetition. No
apology, therefore, is needed for inserting here a short
sketch of the life of the donor, whose name should ever
be a household word cherished by the sons of Alma
Mater.

Mr. Francis Nicholson was the son of Thomas Nichol
son, and was born in Manchester, in 1650. In his
sixteenth year he was sent to Oxford and continued
servitor to University College for three years, at the end
of which he received the degree of B.A. In 1673 he
took his M.A., received Orders, and performed duty first
near Oxford, and afterwards became Rector of a parish in
the neighbourhood of Canterbury. At the University
Mr. Nicholson had had for tutor the celebrated Obadiah
Walker, from whom he imbibed principles favourable to
Catholicity.

Even whilst he was at College the peculiarity of his
religious opinions did not escape observation ; but it was
not till 1680 that they subjected him to public censure.
In a sermon which he preached in that year on the text
" Surely there is a reward for the righteous," (Psalm Iviii.
ii.), the following passage appeared. " In consideration
of which eternal punishment, after repentance, Holy
Church imposes penances on penitents, not only to satisfy
other Christians, but also to appease divine displeasure,
and through the all-sufficient satisfaction of Jesus, to
escape sovereign judgments by suffering imposed or
voluntary austerities, &c." Dr. Wallis who was present
immediately communicated his suspicions concerning
the preacher's orthodoxy to Dr. Burry, and it was agreed
to report him to the Vice-Chancellor. Mr. Nicholson
was now ordered to produce a copy of the obnoxious
sermon. The doctrine which it contained was examined
by a body of Professors and Doctors of Divinity. As it
was judged to contain heterodox opinions, its author was
called upon to make a formal recantation, and on his
refusal his name was sent to the Bishops, with a view to
his exclusion from all further preferments.

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embraced the Catholic Faith. What were the immediate
results to him of this event does not appear, but shortly
after the revolution he retired to the Continent and took
the Carthusian habit in the English monastery of that
Order in Nieuport in Flanders. The austerities of the
Carthusian Order were soon found to be too great for
Mr. Nicholson's constitution, and he quitted the Order
about the year 1692. He then returned to England and,
after a short stay, embarked for Ivisbon in the service of
Queen Catharine the Consort of Charles II. After a
residence of some years at the Portuguese Court, during
which time he formed a close intimacy with the Superiors
of the College, Mr. Nicholson employed a considerable
portion of his property in the purchase of a country house,
vineyard, and other lands, on a spot called Pera, distant
about a mile and a half from the southern bank of the
Tagus. In this retreat he spent several years, dividing
his time between devotion, study, and agricultural pur
suits. About the year 1720 he came to the resolution of
making over the whole of his property to the College, on
condition that his debts, which were considerable, should
be paid, and that lodging, food, and an annual income of
about twelve pounds should be allowed him for life.

On these conditions he proposed to bestow on the
Establishment not only his landed property in Portugal,
but the whole of what he held in the funds. Mr. Nichol
son died, August 13, 1731, and splendid obsequies were
performed for the repose of his soul in the church of the
College. In the deed by which he made over his property,
there are two clauses not unworthy of notice. One is,
that if ever circumstances should render it necessary or
expedient for the College to alienate the villa of Pera,
the proceeds of the sale should be employed in the pur
chase of some other country residence : the other clause
requires, that a portion of the income which might be
derived from the property thus bestowed, should be spent
in the education of two students from Mr. Nicholson's
native County of Ivancashire.

The estate, or as it is called in the Portuguese language

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the Quinta, is situated in a part of the country which,
from its fertility, has received the name of Capa Rica or
Rich Cloak. This district forms a kind of peninsula or
tongue of land, jutting out towards the west, and lying
between the river Tagus on its northern side, and the
Atlantic on the south, which here forms the bay so
familiar to all Lisbonians, extending from the mouth of
the Tagus to Cape Espitchel.

The Quinta lies about a mile from the western extrem
ity of this tongue of land, and almost at an equal distance
from the Tagus and the Atlantic. The name of Pera
was given to it from the abundance of pears formerly
produced in its neighbourhood. The house was neither
handsome large nor commodious, but some twenty years
ago it was considerably enlarged by the addition of
another story, which was made by the late President,
the Right Rev. Monsignor Baines, and at present is
large enough to accommodate all the inmates of the
College under its roof. On the ground floor its consists
of a tolerably large cellar used for the storing of the
casks of wine, and remarkable for its coolness, and rooms
destined for the accommodation of the Cazeiro or Farmer
and his workmen. On the first floor there is a good
kitchen, a small chapel, and six rooms, one of which is
large and serves as a refectory when the Community is
there. On the upper story are rooms for the Superiors,
and sleeping accommodation for the rest of the estab
lishment. The out-houses consist of a new and neat
distillery, a wine cellar, wine press, and stable.

The plainness of the building is amply compensated
by the charming scenery which surrounds it. Running
east and west, it stands about half-way up the northern
slope of a beautiful valley, or rather basin about a mile
in diameter, having opposite gently inclined hills of
nearly equal height though of no great elevation, ex
tending in a westerly direction as far as the Atlantic
whose shores they overhang. The whole valley is clothed
from its base to its utmost rim with vineyards interspersed
here and there with cornfields. Innumerable white

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cottages are scattered on its gently inclining sides, whilst
on the summit of the hills may be seen to the south-west
a church and convent now, alas, in ruins and serving the
purposes of a barn, which until the suppression of the
religious houses was occupied by Friars of the Order of
St. Francis. On the south, in front of the Quinta, the
scene is varied by hamlets, wind mills, and small planta
tions of pine trees, whilst on the north and lying behind
the Quinta are the two villages of Pera, each with its
wind mill. Through the middle of the valley there runs
a narrow public road hedged with canes, which give it

HOUSE FORMERLY OF THE MARQUIS OF VALADA.

the appearance of a brook. At the western extremity
beyond the opening where it pierces the hills, and at the
distance of about a mile, a part of the Atlantic is dis-
cried, the hollow roar of whose waves beating on the
shore is incessantly heard.

Immediately below the Quinta stands the country
house, formerly belonging to the Marquis of Valada,
which, half concealed behind a tuft of ancient lofty trees,
forms a picturesque object, particularly on a summer
evening, when as in former times the cattle were let
loose to feed on the neighbouring fields. The valley is
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cooled during the heats of the summer by the sea breeze
which enters at the opening on the west, and the spot is
so salubrious that its inhabitants generally arrive at an
extreme old age. The lands of the College which consist
almost entirely of vineyards lie round the house, extend
ing from the summit of the northern hill, upon which it
stands, to the road on the south which runs through the
middle of the valley. From time to time as opportunities
offered additions of land by purchase have been made to
the original property.

Charming as is this spot from its natural beauty, the
love of the sons of Lisbon for the Quinta must be sought

LOOKING SOUTH FROM HOUSE.

in the happy days to which they can look back during
the " fortnight at Pera," which annually in September,
the Community spends there.

The absolute freedom from restraint, which the seclu
sion of the district in which the Quinta is situated,
makes possible, the relaxation of the strict College disci
pline, the delicious sensation of the "dolce far niente,"
succeeding to the severe mental strain of preparation for
examinations ; the soft yet pure and bracing atmosphere

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enriched by the breezes borne in from the broad expanse
of the Atlantic, of themselves impart a special charm to
the two or three weeks which are annually spent there,
and which are familiarly known as u Quinta time."

To these must be added the beanty of the landscape
with " Its vine clustered hills and its oft rambled vale,"
and the numerous points of interest and of surpassing
beauty which lie within reach of a pleasant evening
stroll.'

The mere mention of the ridge of precipitous heights
forming here the coast line, and looking out upon the
vast Atlantic, will suffice to bring back a host of pleasur
able reminiscences to each successive generation of Lisbon

LOOKING SOUTH EAST FROM QUINTA HOUSE.

students. To watch the sturdy fishermen draw in their
nets laden with the silvery tribute exacted from the
prolific waters, or to wander along the bleak shore and
gaze upon the heaving billows as they gradually approach
and curving their superb necks, as if impatient of
restraint, hurl themselves angrily against the hollow
sounding beach, were sources of enjoyment which re
peated visits never robbed of their freshness. Here the
grander aspects of nature presented themselves to view,

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and the mighty ocean could be studied in its ever varying
moods.

With this scene will be associated in their minds
another much favoured resort, to which the discriminat
ing taste of the inhabitants has given the name of Bella
Vista, or beautiful view. Here from the summit of the
vine-clad hills, which rise well nigh perpendicularly
from the bosom of the noble river, there lies spread out
to view a picture of surpassing beuaty. Far to the right
Ivisbon may be seen rising stately and beautiful from the
very margin of the magnificent Tagus, whilst on the
extreme left tower the rugged crags of Cintra crowned
by its beautiful convent and palace, and forming a back
ground to the receding tiers of hills, which stretch far
away to its base. The centre of the picture is formed
by the gently sloping hills of Alcantara, profusely studded
with villas, whose brilliant tints blending with the more
sober shades of the various coloured soils which form the
surface of the undulating country around, combine to
produce a scene fairy-like in its loveliness. In the fore
ground may be seen gracing the banks of the intervening
river the picturesque forms of the Castle of Belem, and
the beautiful gothic church and convent of the Jeroni-
mites, flanked on either side by numerous snow-white
villages which impart life and beauty to an exquisite
picture.

But the pleasurable memories associated with the
" Quinta time" will, probably, for the great majority,
centre round the delightful sea bathing, for which the
proximity of the Quinta to the mouth of the river offers
every facility. In such a climate as that of Portugal, in
which the summer heats usually linger far into Septem
ber, the delights of sea bathing, at least to English
youths, will scarcely admit of exaggeration ; and the
name of Portinho, or Little Port, where this bracing and
health giving exercise is each morning indulged in, will
ever awaken in Lisbon students the most pleasing recol
lections.

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derived, there is also acquired a perfect ease and self-
possession, in deep water, and an expertness and power
in swimming, which is always a permanent advantage
to those who possess them, and there are few who having
passed their Course in Lisbon, may not, when leaving it,
claim to be fairly expert swimmers. The present writer
attributes, humanly speaking, the saving of his life to
these qualities ; when on one occasion having uncon
sciously ventured upon weak ice it gave way under him,
and had it not been for the facility he had acquired of
getting into a boat from deep water, the accident might
easily have proved fatal.

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CHAPTER VII.

To return from this digression. On the death of Father
Jones, Father Manley once more succeeded him in
the office of President, which, as related above, on his
first appointment he had with such humility and self
diffidence resigned.

When after seven years of labour on the Mission he
was named by Bishop Petre successor to Father Jones,
the Chapter expressed its appreciation of his virtue and
high character by electing him, in a general assembly,
Archdeacon of the Counties of Essex, Hertfordshire, and
Bedfordshire. He arrived at the College on October 13,
1739, and entered on the exercise of his office on the
Twenty-eighth of the same month.

This second period of his Presidency was destined to
bring to him much trouble, pain and annoyance. For
some time previous to the death of Father Jones a spirit
of insubordination amongst the students had manifested
itself, and though it was occasionally repressed by the
energetic measures adopted by him towards offenders, it
did not fail to break forth afresh under the mild rule of
Father Manley in every form of disobedience, contumacy
and insult. No wonder that in his account to his friends,
he repeatedly complained of the outrages inflicted on his
feelings by those from whom he had reason to expect the
most cordial attachment. To add to his perplexities he
found the Establishment almost entirely destitute of pecun
iary resources, the School of Divinity without a Professor,
and no one of his subjects having the capacity or inclina
tion to undertake the office of Vice- President. To supply
this last deficiency he made application to the President
of Douay who, in compliance with his request, sent to
Ivisbon Dr. Gerard Barnard, a man of eminent learning

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and abilities, who had lately taken degrees in the
Sorbonne University. It was, however, particularly
unfortunate, that at the time when the spirit wThich
formerly had animated the Community was almost
extinct, the internal direction of it should have been
entrusted to a stranger. Ignorant of the peculiar mode
of discipline, of the feeling and wants of the College,
Dr. Barnard certainly did not meet with that success in
his administration which might have been expected
from his abilities, and the L/isbon Community still con
tinued to reflect a sad but faithful image of the unsightly
and half finished structure in which it resided.

Such was the state of the College when, in the year
1755, Father Manleyfell among the innumerable victims
of one of the most dreadful earthquakes recorded in
History. On all Saints Day, about ten o'clock in the
morning the hour at which High Mass was to begin, the
first shock was felt. The President had just been to
Confession and was taking a few turns under the arcade
near to the sacristy door. Occupied with his devotions
he had not perceived the first concussion, but observing
several of the students rushing forward in the direction
of the street, he immediately followed to ascertain the
cause of so unusual a proceeding. But before he had
time to reach the threshold the second shock, still more
violent than the first, had commenced. The ground
everywhere undulated in the most terrific manner.
Twice he fell, and whilst a second time he was attempting
to rise a turret, or belfry, which was the only part of the
old building which had been left standing when the new
one was erected, fell and buried him in its ruins. Such
of the Community as had fled into the street, after incur
ring a thousand dangers from falling houses, at length
reached the river in safety, and found means to be con
veyed to an English ship, on board of which they were
kindly received. Besides the turret just mentioned, the
wall of the church, against which stood the High Altar,
was thrown down and with it fell in the greater part of
the roof of the building. The other parts of the house.

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as they were strong and newly erected, withstood the
shocks, and none of those who remained within received
any serious injnry. As for the body of Father Manley,
it was extricated with great labour and difficulty three
days after, bruised and lifeless.

But a difficulty now occurred how to procure subsist
ence, in the general calamity and consternation, for so
great a number of persons. Besides, who would venture
to repose under the walls and dislocated beams of a
building which had lately experienced so rude a shock ?
It is true the edifice stood, but the frequent commotions
that succeeded the three great shocks seemed to indicate
that another still more dreadful concussion might be
expected. In this emergency the resolution was adopted
of sending the entire Community to the country residence,
or Quinta, on the south side of the Tagus, with the ex
ception of one or two of the Superiors who were to be
left in charge of the College. The expedient, however
well judged, involved a certain amount of peril. In the
midst of the general calamity, a mulitude of thieves from
all parts of the country were seen prowling amongst the
ruins and loading themselves with booty. To prevent
the escape of these inhuman plunderers, the Authorities
issued an order forbidding any boats to pass to the other
side of the river, without having first obtained their
express permission. The College fugitives, either ig
norant or in their haste to quit the scene of peril and
calamity, disregarded the decree and embarked without
the necessary permit. The boat which conveyed them
was no sooner observed from the land than the alarm
was given. The guns, which were kept ready loaded,
were directed upon them, and discharge after discharge
followed them as they proceeded. A single shot striking
the boat would have sent it to the bottom with its living
freight, but Providence watched over their preservation.
They reached the shore and arrived in safety at Pera.
Those who were left in charge of the College, following
the example of the other inhabitants, erected tents in the
open air at a convenient distance from the walls and

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building. One of these tents was set aside as a tem
porary church, in which leave was obtained to celebrate
Mass and perform the other duties of religion.

After some time the Community returned from the
country residence, and entered again on the regular
duties of the College, but without venturing for the
present to reside within its walls. In the meantime
many of the poor families of the neighbourhood who
had, by the late calamity, been deprived of shelter took
possession of the ground apartments, which were arched
and strong, of the deserted edifice, and after the lapse of
three quarters of a century there existed in the vicinity
many a venerable sire who owned for his birthplace the
lower corridor of the English College.

After the tragical end of Father Manley, Dr. Barnard,
as head Superior, undertook the government of the
House, and in the following year, 1756, received the
deed of his promotion to the Presidency, becoming thus
the thirteenth President. But if before the earthquake,
and under the rule of Father Manley, the prospects of the
Establishment were anything but cheering ; under his
successor they were still more gloomy. It has already
been hinted that the management of domestic discipline
and economy was not the province in which the talents of
Dr. Barnard were calculated to shine, and the late calam
ity had rendered indispensable the incurring of several
fresh and heavy monetary obligations.

The Catholics in England, indeed, occasionally came
forward with pecuniary assistance in favour of the
Establishment, yet even with this addition its means
were found barely sufficient to meet the current expen
diture of a very limited number of students.

In this emergency recourse was had to the ruinous
expedient of borrowing a very considerable sum at a high
rate of interest, and the consequence was, that without
any signal permanent advantage, a new and oppressive
burden was entailed upon the College. In this state of
depression affairs continued for the space of twenty
years, from 1757 to 1777, when new and brighter prospects

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began unexpectedly to open. I^ow as was the ebb of the
fortunes of the College during this period, yet it pro
duced two of L/isbon's most brilliant and devoted sons —
John Preston and Jerome Allen, names which deserve to
be perpetuated and their memory cherished and honoured
by all L/isbonians.

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CHAPTER VIII.

PRESTON was the son of an ironmonger of the City of
London, and was born October 28, 1712, of Protestant
parents. At an early age he was sent to the Merchant
Taylors' School, where he had for his master a clergy
man of the Established Church, a person as remarkable
for his animosity against Catholics, as for his attachment
to the declining Cause of the House of Stewart. In
quality of Head Master of the school he possessed the
right of nominating two students to the University of
Oxford, who were to receive a college education at the
expense of the school over which he presided. Among
all his pupils, the abilities and application of young
Preston eminently pointed him out as the fittest object
of his choice. Accordingly when a vacancy occurred,
which happened before Preston had completed his
Course of Rhetoric, he was one day unexpectedly
called aside by his master who, after passing the most
flattering encomiums upon his application and talents,
concluded by informing him of the resolution he had
taken of sending him to the University.

The young man, whose mind had been previously
agitated by serious doubts as to the truth of the Protest
ant faith, respectfully but positively declined the intended
favour alleging, in general terms, that conscientious
motives prevented him from accepting it.

The master taking for granted that the scruples of Mr.
Preston could only relate to the oath of allegiance to the
existing dynasty, that was tendered to those entering the
University, secretly exulted to find so exact a resemblance
between the political opinions of his pupil and his own.
He lamented, indeed, that the path to dignities and
preferment should be thus unjustly closed against him,
but at the same time warmly applauded his firmness in

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adhering to principle. After this event, Preston lost
no time in prosecuting his religious enquiries, and
having found means to be introduced to several Catholic
priests, he stated to them his doubts, which were all
satisfactorily solved and, after being fully instructed, he
was admitted a member of the Catholic Church.

His conversion could not be long kept a secret, it soon
became known to his master, and the consequence was
that he was at once, and for ever, excluded from his
house and society. He was then, in 1730, about eighteen
years of age. Deserted thus by his patron and but
ill-assisted by his friends, he found himself in the neces
sity of soliciting employment for his support. After
many unsuccessful applications, he was at length received
into Mr. Boyer's printing office, in quality of director of
the Greek press, an occupation for which his proficiency
in that language eminently qualified him. Here he
continued for two years, receiving for his labour a
considerable stipend. At the end of this period, feeling
himself called to the ecclesiastical state, he consulted
some of his clerical friends, and through the influence of
the College Agent in London, was at length sent to
Lisbon, where he arrived October 21, 1732, and where he
remained until his death in 1780.

On entering the College Preston no longer consid
ered himself master of his time, or the application of
his talents ; the good of the Mission and the will of his
Superiors became the sole end of his conduct. Ever
ready at his post where the necessities of the College
seemed to require his exertions, he thought no labour
too great which had for its ultimate object the advantage
of religion and the conversion of souls. At his first
arrival, and whilst engaged in the study of Philosophy
and Theology, he undertook the duties of Classical
Professor for which his previous training admirably
fitted him. Soon after his promotion to the priesthood,
in 1736, he commenced his first course of lectures on
Philosophy, and at the same time undertook the office of
Procurator. Without entering into the details of the

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various labours and researches in the different branches
of science in which from this period Preston was en
gaged, it will suffice to state that during the long period
of his residence in the College he never refused any
labour, nor shrunk from any occupation in which his
talents could be employed with advantage. Of his
ability in all the branches of Philosophy, the works
which he has left in manuscript are incontestible proofs,
and could they have been issued from the press, would
have, undoubtedly, widely spread his reputation in the
world at large. He was one of the first who, in spite of
great opposition, introduced the Newtonian Philosophy
into Portugal, and the treatise which he has left on the
subject, though intended merely as an elementary course
for his own scholars, shows him to have been well ac
quainted with the subject. Though he often, and for a
long time together, discharged the laborious part of the
duties of President and Vice-President, such was his char
acteristic aversion to honour and dignity, that he could
never be induced to accept either of those offices. The
Annals of the College allude with particular praise to the
manner in which he discharged the duties of the Procura-
torship which, owing to the financial difficulties to which
reference has been made, must have been of the most
harassing nature. This office he held for upwards of
sixteen years. It might be supposed that amidst so
many and so deversified occupations, Preston had little
leisure for Missionary duties, but besides attending to
the spiritual concerns of the Community he was in
strumental in the conversion of many Protestants to the
Catholic Faith.

The fatal earthquake of 1755, the financial difficulties
of the College, and the insubordinate spirit which had
crept in among the students, offered a wide field for the
exertions of all interested in the stability of the Estab
lishment. As for Preston, in proportion as the wants
of the College increased, his efforts and affection for it
seemed to redouble. His talents and virtues caused him
to be universally esteemed and beloved. The Portuguese

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nobility assiduously cultivated his acquaintance, and the
King not unfrequently testified his regard for him, both
by admitting him to private audience, and by large
contributions towards those objects, in favour of which
he appealed. The following anecdote will illustrate the
esteem in which he was held by Carvalho the celebrated
Prime Minister of Joseph I. On an occasion in which
that Minister was engaged in a contest of some moment,
after putting forward the various arguments which
suggested themselves to his mind, in proof of the matter
at issue, he wound up by saying : " and this is the opin
ion of the great Preston."

He was never known to abuse, in favour of any un
worthy object^ the influence which his familiarity with
the great enabled him to exercise, and though permitted
free access to the royal presence, he never presented a
petition wrhich was not directed to some religious or
charitable end. In the year 1775, Preston was ap
pointed preceptor to the young Prince of Brazil, an
honour which he could be induced to accept only from
the persuasion that he might thereby be the better en
abled to promote the interests of his beloved College.
This position of honour, however, he held only for a
short time. Soon after his nomination he was struck
with a fit of paralysis which, being repeated, carried him
off on February 8, 1780. He was interred in the College
Church, and the following epitaph is inscribed on his
tomb.

Hie jacet quod mortale fuit

Joannis Preston sacerdotis

Viri simplicis ac timentis Deum

Is in omni litterarum genere versatus

Acri judicio varia in hoc Collegio

Munia obeundo

Non sibi sed aliis vixit :

Instituendo regio Principi electus

Munus honorificum
Diu exequi non potuit

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Paralysi correptus

Flebilis omnibus

Ob: .Etat : An. LXVIII.

CEr: MDCCLXXX. VI. Id. Feb.

R. I. P.
Socii moer. pos :

The preceding account clearly indicates the leading
features of Preston's character. He was one of the
few who, with eminent talents, have been found to
unite the most profound humility. Courted by the
learned and respected by the great, he seemed to possess
no ambition but to hold the subordinate station of Pro
fessor in the College to whose welfare he dedicated his
talents and labours. His temper was mild, and his
conduct regulated with such uniform moderation, good
sense and benevolence, that not a single word of anger
or impatience was ever known to have fallen from his
lips. His piety was great, yet without ostentation, and
it seemed his only wish to pass through life, unknown
and unregarded by men. He was remarkable for a
strong memory, a clear understanding and a sound
judgment. Hence the extensive knowledge which he
possessed was always at his command, and so methodi
cally was it arranged, that he declared, that were he
immured without access to a single book, he could put
down on every subject which he had studied, a regularly
digested system.

After all perhaps the best encomium which could be
passed on him is that with which the Annals of the
College conclude the account of his labours. " Vir
summse doctrinse, fama commendabilis, simplex et rec-
tus ac timens Deum."

Father Jerome Allen, the contemporary and life-long
friend of Dr. Preston, was born in London, in the year
1730. His father was a Portuguese named Antony
Gomez who, at the time of the birth of his son, was
attached to the Portuguese Embassy in Condon. His
mother, Mary Allen, was born in London and, as Father

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Allen would jocosely observe, within the sound of Bow
Bells, a circumstance on which he not a little prided
himself, maintaining that from her he had learned the
most correct pronunciation of the English language
which those only are said to speak with a perfect accent
who are born within the sound of the bells of Bow
Church, to whom strictly belongs the vulgar name of
" Cockney."

He was admitted into the College in the year 1744, at
the age of fourteen. Here he showed early signs of those
abilities, quickness of apprehension, and accuracy of
judgment which afterwards distinguished him. He had
the good fortune to have for his instructors during his
studies Dr. Gerard Barnard and Preston, both men of
distinguished erudition. This advantage was to Allen)
at a later period, a frequent subject of self-congratula
tion, and to it he humbly attributed all the brilliant
success with which his literary exertions were uniformly
attended. His studies were interrupted for a short time
by the terrible earthquake of 1755. Soon after he was
ordained priest, and said his first Mass in a tent which,
in consequence of the damage sustained by the College
Church in the recent calamity, had been erected in the
garden for the purposes of divine worship.

Having finished his Course of Studies, Father Allen,
though not appointed to any particular office, was elected
into the body of Superiors. The Council was moved to
this choice as well by the consideration of his singular
talents, as on account of the influence which he, even
then, possessed amongst the first personages of the
country. Of Portuguese extraction and having spent
his childhood under the eye of the Portuguese Ambassa
dor the Conde de S. I^ourenco, he had from the time of
his first entrance into the College received much atten
tion from the family of that nobleman and its numerous
connections, and during his studies he had occasionally
been permitted to spend his vacations among them. His
pleasant manners, cheerful disposition, readiness of wit,
and fluency of expression made him a great favourite in

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the circles of the nobility. This intimacy, however,
never caused him to forget the dignity becoming his
character, nor to deviate in his conduct from what was
strictly ecclesiastical. By persistently pursuing this line
of conduct, he continued to the end to enjoy equally
their respect and cordial good will.

During the administration of the notorious Marquis of
Pombal, this intimacy with the nobility exposed him to
considerable danger, as some of the families with whom
he was on the closest terms of friendship, were singled
out by the Minister as special objects of persecution. To
avoid risk the Superiors thought it advisable that he
should leave the country for a time, and he accordingly
started for the English Mission, and arrived in London
about the middle of the year 1774.

For some time previous to this, Allen had begun to be
affected with religious scrupulosity, which at one period
seemed to threaten his reason, so much so that it was
found necessary to oblige him to lay aside all serious
occupation and to spend a considerable time in the
country. He retired to Serpa in Alentejo, with the
family of Mello Breyners, who possessed considerable
property in that locality, and remained there nearly a year,
deriving a decided improvement to his health. Whilst
on the Mission in L,ondon, he distinguished himself so
much by his preaching, that he was strongly urged to
publish his sermons. He was also greatly admired as a
Reader, and he used to relate to his scholars an incident
illustrative of the great importance of a good education.
One Sunday, after Vespers, a servant maid requested to
see him, and on being introduced made him a low cour
tesy and then presented him with a shilling, saying
" that she could not refrain from offering him that trifle,
as a token of the extreme delight she had often received
from his reading."

On the Mission he greatly endeared himself to Bishop

Challoner, who in intimate conversation usually gave him

the familiar appellation of " Friend Allen," though the

venerable prelate did not fail on occasions to remind him

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of his defects, especially of his loquaciousness. He
himself was far from being blind to this defect, and
many times he related the following anecdote.

One day after a dinner at which Dr. Challoner was
present, and a select party of priests, and during which
Father Allen had in a great measure engrossed the con
versation, the Bishop just as he was taking leave tapped
him on the shoulder and said, " Friend Allen, in multi-
loquio non deerit peccatum."

From London he went to the seat of Lord Dillon,
where, however, he did not remain long. Indeed Bishop
Challoner soon perceived that the difficulties arising from
his religious scrupulosity, rendered the performance of
Missionary duty too severe a task. He, therefore, kindly
recommended him to the Superiors of Douay College to
be received and treated by them as a guest, till circum
stances should permit him to return to Lisbon. At
Douay, Allen did not remain inactive. His literary
reputation which had preceded him induced several
young men to apply to him for instruction in that depart
ment of education, and this lead to the establishment in
the College, with the full consent of the President, of a
kind of Academy in which, in vacant hours, he gave
lectures on Rhetoric to several who afterwards became
highly distinguished members of the Mission.

In 1777 took place the death of Joseph I, King of
Portugal, which event was immediately followed by the
fall of the Marquis of Pombal, and a total change of
measures in the Government. The prisons were opened,
and some of Allen's principal friends were suddenly
transferred from a state of danger and disgrace, to the
first offices of trust and dignity in the Kingdom. On
this the Superiors of the College immediately invited
him to return, desiring him, however, previously to use
his influence with Dr. Challoner in order to obtain some
succour towards raising the College from the deplorable
state of poverty and debt in which it had so long lain.
The earnest appeal he made on this occasion, joined to
the great personal esteem entertained for him, induced

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his Lordship to make very considerable advances of
money in favour of the College. He at the same time
induced the Bishop to give his consent to a change of
President, for though he entertained the greatest respect
and esteem for Dr. Gerard Barnard, and considered him
entitled to the eternal gratitude of the College for the
services he had rendered, yet in its present circumstances
he saw that a President possessing businesss qualifica
tions was imperatively needed, rather than one eminent,
as was Dr. Barnard, for his literary and intellectual
acquirements.

The person selected by Bishop Challoner for the
Presidency was the Rev. James Barnard, who arrived in
Lisbon prior to Allen's return. The rapid improvements
and almost entire reconstruction of the edifice which
followed, were in a great measure brought about by
Allen's exertions. On his return to the College his
acquaintance was more than ever sought after. Peter
III, husband of the reigning Queen, bestowed on him
particular marks of favour. He often admitted him to
his private apartments and took great delight in his
conversation.

At the public Theses in Philosophy and Theology
which were occasionally held in presence of the Court,
Allen sometimes stood forth as one -of the disputants,
and whenever this was the case, he was ever received
with applause.

On one occasion of a public disputation, though not
held in the presence of the Court, the Thesis to be de
fended had, as was the custom, been distributed among
the various religious houses of Lisbon, each of which
generally sent two of its ablest members. On this occa
sion the College had been omitted in the distribution on
the ground, as was stated by the Professor, "that it was
too insignificant for notice." This remark reached, acci
dentally, the ears of the President who, jealous of the
honour of Alma Mater, instructed Allen to enter as one
of the disputants. Accordingly on the day appointed,
he repaired to the place of disputation with his friend

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Dr. Preston. As soon as the Professor, after going
through the usual routine of proofs and formalities, had
invited all present who were not satisfied with his reasons
to produce their objections, Allen stood forward. At
once the eyes of the whole assembly were fixed upon him
with the deepest attention, while he commenced his
attack upon the Thesis. Tradition which has preserved
this anecdote, does not say what was the subject of the
dispute, but it relates that the Professor found himself so
beset with difficulties, so pressed and straitened by the
logic of his adversary, that the only answer he was able
to give was " Mentiris," or the "lie direct." No sooner
had the word passed his lips than Allen bowed to the
Professor and assembly and, accompanied by his friend,
retired. This incident forms the subject of one of the
verses of the College Song.

Here Preston, immortal, fair Wisdom's fond son,
Commenced the bright course which so nobly was run ;
Here Allen, invincible, learned to defy
Every weapon of logic except " Sir, you lie."

Soon after the invention of balloons by Mongolfier in
1782, an attempt in the same direction was made by the
Professor of Philosophy at the Royal convent of Mafra.
The balloon had been constructed on a large and ex
pensive scale, the day was fixed for the ascent, and the
Court and an immense concourse of spectators from the
Capital had assembled at the place. To the indescribable
mortification of the artist, the balloon was found too
heavy and refused to rise from the earth. In consequence
of this failure, Father Allen was strongly urged to make
a trial, and with some reluctance he consented. The
projectors spared no expense in the construction of the
balloon. It was a Mongolfier inflated by burning within
it oat straw, and the inflation continued by inflamed
spirits of wine. The aeronaut was an immense baboon
dressed in the habit of a sailor, a most mischievous
creature, which in punishment of his misdeeds had been

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condemned to make this perilous voyage. He was
chained in the boat, but contrived to loosen the chain,
jumped out and was drowned in the Tagus. The bal
loon answered Allen's most sanguine expectations. It
ascended magnificently from the verandah of the Count
of Obidas in the direction of the Tagus. This was the
first balloon ever seen in Portugal.

Somewhat prior to this period, his friend the Marquis
of Poiite de Lima nominated him to a benefice in the
Province of the Minho near Ponte de Lima, of the value
of fifty pounds a year. As the care of souls was attached
to it, on account of his scrupulosity he obtained the
sanction of the Marquis to employ a substitute. About
the same time, as a token of the esteem in which he was
held by the Royal Family, he was assigned a pension as
Pen Maker to the Court. The remarkable elegance and
beauty of his handwriting may have first suggested the
appointment, but the office was by no means a sinecure,
for till the departure of the Royal Family, it was he who
made all the pens used by its members. By means of
these pensions Allen was enabled, during the remainder
of his life, to procure for himself whatever little extras
he required,, and for considerable periods to support
himself without being a burthen to the College.

About the year 1792 he undertook the lowest class of
Syntax. Later he took charge of a large class of more
advanced Humanists, whom he conducted through the
Courses of Poetry, Rhetoric, and Philosophy. Father
Allen acted towards his scholars more like a friend than
a master, and he strove to contribute, by every means in
his power, not only to their improvement, but even to
their comforts and amusements. After he had finished
the Course of Philosophy, he never held any official
situation in the College, though he was always considered
as one of the Superiors and, as such, was always admitted
to the Councils of the House. With a view to the erec
tion of the College Observatory, a project which he had
much at heart, he visited England for a few months in
1794, but without meeting with much encouragement.

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The work was commenced on his return, and was con
tinued with more or less activity till the French invasion,
when it was interrupted and has not since been resumed.

From this period till his death, the College continued
to be his principal place of residence, though he occa
sionally, and for considerable periods, lived at one or
other of the houses of his numerous friends. Fearing
to become in any way burdensome to the Mission, even
in his old age, and apprehensive lest his pensions, after
the deductions made from them by the heavy war taxes,
should prove inadequate to his full maintenance, he was
induced in the year 1810, at the pressing instance of Sir
Charles Stewart the British Ambassador, to undertake
the superintendance of the education of the two sons of
the Marquis of Fronteira at the seat of that family at
Convalescenza near Ivisbon.

The destitute condition of these two noblemen, whose
father was dead and whose mother had become insane,
was the motive of Sir Charles Stewart in applying to
Father Allen, as it was also that which principally
determined the latter to undertake the charge. In it he
continued till 1814, and though he had attained the
advanced age of eighty- two when he undertook this
employment, such was still the vigour of his mind, that
not content with merely superintending the education of
the youths, he himself gave them daily lessons in such
branches of knowledge as their age admitted. Having
in consequence of certain arrangements in the family
discontinued his instruction of the young noblemen, he
returned to the College, where he continued to enjoy his
usual health and vigour of mind.

In the following January, 1815, having caught a
heavy cold, a species of complaint from which he had
very seldom suffered, and refusing medical aid from the
conviction that he could be as usual his own doctor,
he became, in a few days, so ill as to make it evident
that his end was approaching. This intelligence being
announced to him, he did not manifest the least pertur
bation but to use his own expression, recorded in the

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epitaph which he had composed for Doctor Barnard:
" Mortem tanquam prsestitutum iter tranquillus aspexit."
When the moment came in which he was to receive
the last Sacraments, he would by no means consent to
receive them in bed. Rising, therefore, and with the
assistance of the Infirmarian clothing himself in his full
College dress and putting on a surplice and stole, he fell
on his knees, and in that posture most humbly and
devoutly received his Saviour. He expired about four
hours afterwards without a struggle, appearing during
his last sickness never to have been in the slightest
degree troubled by his habitual scruples. He wras buried
the next day in the College Church, where the following
epitaph, drawn up by Dr. Buckley, is inscribed on his
tomb :

Hie jacet

Hieronymus Allen,

Huj. Coll. Alum, et Presbyter

Litt : Human : et Philos :

Per plures annos

Professor Eximius

Amicis deditus cunctisque benevolus

Ingen. acumen : ac morum candore

Regis et Nobilium amicitiam

Sibi conciliavit

Quorum ope egenos tutatus est

Reditusque Collegii auxit

Anno MDCCCXV.

R. I. P.

Thou gh of a timid conscience he was possessed of
great natural intrepidity. This he manifested on the
occasion of the great earthquake of 1755 when, with the
utmost calmness, during the successive shocks, he went
to the College Church, a portion of which had already
fallen, in search of his sister whom he knew to be there,
quietly leading her out of the danger of being buried
under the ruins of the tottering edifice. On the occasions

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of the other earthquakes which happened in considerable
numbers during his long life, he made it a rule from
which he never deviated, to throw himself on his knees
at the first symptom of the convulsion and to repeat,
leisurely, the Lord's Prayer, before he betook himself to
a place of greater security.

An incident which happened during the occupation of
the College by the French, was quite in keeping with
this trait of his character. On one occasion at a banquet
to which the French officers had invited the Superiors,
a lieutenant forgetting the consideration due to the
guests, rose to propose the health of the Emperor Na
poleon, and called upon the Englishmen to honour the
toast. This, at first, Allen declined to do, upon which
the lieutenant observed, "that he had not much reason
to respect a country which had driven them forth to a
foreign land." " Let it be so," rejoined Allen, " yet
George the Third is our lawful King. I will drink your
Emperor's health on condition that you drink George
the Third's." All laughed heartily at the suggestion,
there was much clapping of hands and the King's and
Emperor's healths were drunk. Thus the whole passed
off as a joke, which otherwise might have had serious
results. The memory of this incident is perpetuated in
the following verse of the College Song :

Nor forget we when " Vive 1'Empereur " was the toast,
How the Briton, undaunted, defied the proud boast ;
How gallant the spirit that feared not to fling
In the teeth of the Frenchman his "God save the King."

The distinguishing feature, however, of Allen's char
acter was an unbending love of truth, which no respect
of persons nor hope of advantage could ever prevent him
from declaring. This he frequently carried to excess,
allowing nothing either false or even doubtful which
might be advanced to go uncontradicted or unchallenged.
He, however, always observed the greatest good humour
in his disputes, and the charm of his conversation was

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universally sought and admired. He was loved and
respected by all, and his Charity towards his neighbour
was ever most exemplary. He cautiously abstained from
the least word which could affect the reputation of others,
and if in the warmth of a discussion a harsh expression
escaped him, he was sure to ask pardon of the aggrieved
party however much his inferior, before he retired to
rest.

To return to the narrative. After twenty-one years
of office Dr. Barnard, at the request of Bishop Challoner,
resigned the Presidency in 1776, and was succeeded by
Father James Barnard. Finding the character of his
successor uncongenial, Dr. Barnard retired to the village
of Nossa Signora de Monte on a pension allowed him
by the College, where he remained until the departure of
the Rev. James Barnard on to the Mission. Father
Fryer, the succeeding President, kindly readmitted him
into the College, and until his death, in 1783, treated
him with the utmost consideration.

James Barnard was born in London in the year 1733,
and was educated a Protestant. At an early age he was
sent to Seville, and was employed for some time in a
mercantile house in that city. Whilst in this situation
he became convinced of the truth of the Catholic Relig
ion, and was in the most public manner received into
the Church. Soon after feeling a strong inclination to the
ecclesiastical state, he asked and obtained admission into
the English College in the same city, and was promoted to
the priesthood. In the year 1758 he left Seville, for what
reason it does not appear, and was received into Lisbon
College, where he twice defended public Theses. Having
finished his studies, he was sent on the English Mission
in 1761, and continued to labour in the London District
till his nomination to the Presidency in 1776. His
knowledge of business and characteristic love of order,
rendered him at this moment an invaluable acquisition
to the College. The earthquake and various other
causes, had contributed to throw the archives and the
affairs of the House into a state of almost inextricable

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confusion. A loose and vicious system of keeping ac
counts had been adopted, and innumerable abuses in the
domestic economy had begun to be authorized by pre
scription. To remedy all these evils Father Barnard
assiduously devoted himself to a complete revision of the
affairs of the College, from the time of its foundation.
With infinite toil and unabating industry, he examined
every document, caused many of the most important
ones which through time or accident were in danger of
becoming illegible to be recopied, and by redeeming the
archives from the confusion in which they had so long
lain, went far to repair the evil consequences of the neg
ligence of his predecessors. He also introduced a regular
mercantile method of keeping accounts, and strenuously
enforced the observance of discipline in every department.
While thus employed, Preston and Allen, as we have
seen from the preceding short sketches of their lives,
were making successful efforts to increase the pecuniary
resources of the College, and to improve and enlarge
the building. From the time of the great earthquake
until the period at which we have arrived, the portion of
the edifice which had suffered from that calamity still lay
in ruins, and the rest was in the imperfect state in which
it had been left by the President, Father Jones. The
house in most parts rose only to the height of one story ;
the ground floor had never been flagged, and the corridor
above still continued with no better ceiling than the tiles
and rafters.

By the exertions of the two above mentioned, the
ruined parts of the edifice were now restored, the whole
building put in a state of good repair, and a comfortable
residence provided for twenty-five students and the usual
number of Superiors. This improvement was effected
between the years 1777 and 1780, and it was on this
occasion, as previously stated, that the venerable Dr.
Challoner materially contributed to its renovation by a
large pecuniary remittance. This venerable Bishop had
always expressed the greatest interest in the welfare of
Lisbon College, which possibly was quickened by the

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remembrance that, under God, lie owed the grace of
conversion to the Faith to Father John Gother one of
Lisbon's sons.

In the year 1782, Father James Barnard, who was the
fourteenth President, resigned his office and was suc
ceeded by Rev. William Fryer. Coming to London, he
succeeded the Rev. Father Bolton in the spiritual charge
of the school at Brook Green, and also was appointed
the Vicar-General of the London District, in which
office he died September 12, 1803, aged seventy. His
Works were :

1. The Life of the Venerable and Right Rev. Richard
Challoner, Bishop of Debra and Vicar Apostolic.

2. A Catechism, or Collection of some points of Christian
Faith and Morality — composed in verse. To which is added,
an Invitation to a Method of making a Spiritual Retreat.

The Rev. William Fryer was born of an ancient
gentleman's family in Somersetshire, and when grown
up was sent to Douay, where he completed his studies,
but on account of the infirm state of his health, he did
not receive the Order of Priesthood till after his return to
England, when it was conferred upon him by the hands
of ^Bishop Challoner. Soon after, on occasion of the
Suppression of the Jesuits in Spain, the English Colleges
of Madrid, Seville and Valladolid, were restored to the
Secular Clergy, and Dr. Challoner, having united them
into one Seminary, fixed it at Valladolid, appointed Dr.
Perry, Graduate of the Sorbonne, the first Superior and,
at the same time, nominated Father Fryer Vice-President.
In this situation he continued for twelve years, at the
end of which period he was advised to take a journey to
Paris, for the purpose of undergoing a surgical operation
for a disorder which had appeared in his jaw. The
operation proving successful, he soon after proceeded to
London, and was immediately nominated President of
the Lisbon Establishment, where he arrived in the year
1782, accompanied bv the Rev. James Crosby who had
completed his studies under him, and whom he destined

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for the Vice-Presidency and Professorship of Philosophy.

In 1795 Father James Buckley was elected Superior
and appointed Professor of Philosophy, and at the same
time the Rev. James Dennet became Procurator. Mr.
Benjamin Smith a classmate of the two former, whose
remarkable gifts had strongly recommended him to
Father Fryer, had been long before destined by him to
the office of Superior to the College. He was, however,
unexpectedly seized with an illness which, after some
months, ended in death. A remarkable incident associ
ated with his death is worthy of record.

From his boyhood whilst at Sedgley Park, he was
remarkable for piety and an intense concentration of his
mind upon God in prayer. At College he endeared
himself to his companions and Superiors by his humility,
exact observance of the Rules, and fervour of devotion.
Almost to the end of his studies he had enjoyed good
health, but in 1795 he was suddenly seized with a faint
ing fit which proved to be the commencement of his last
illness. In spite of every attention he gradually grew
worse, but during all his sufferings ever manifested
marks of a wonderful love of God. When all hope of his
recovery had ceased, one day, October 18, a certain Sister
Barbara, a member of the Bridgittine English Commun
ity of nuns, then existing in Lisbon, was earnestly praying
for him, and suddenly seemed to see an altar upon
which a candle was burning, and at the side of which
stood an angel who, turning towards her, said " To
morrow at nine o'clock in the evening this light shall be
extinguished," when he had uttered these words the
whole vision vanished. The Sister begging of God that
He would deign to explain the meaning of what she had
seen, it was made known to her that the burning light
represented Benjamin Smith, and that at the hour
indicated he would pass out of this world. This was
communicated by letter to the Rev. M. Corbishley who
was the nun's confessor, and by him to the other Superi
ors. The prophecy was verified by the event. On the
following day, about six in the evening the agony com-

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menced, and his sorrowing companions were summoned
to assist him by their prayers. As soon as they had
assembled in his chamber he addressed to them in his
usual clear and earnest voice, these words " Pray for me,
my friends, for I am about to plunge into the gulf of
eternity." He suffered greatly during the two following
hours ; retaining, however, complete consciousness, and
frequently repeating the sweet names of Jesus and Mary.
At nine o'clock he suddenly raised his eyes to heaven, a
smile as if some pleasant vision had been presented to
him passed over his countenance, and he peacefully ex
pired. Even in death his countenance was most beautiful,
and his compressed lips still retained the pleasing smile.
To return from this digression.

This same year, 1795, the Rev. Samuel Corbishley
who, since 1790, had held the office of Procurator, became
Vice-President and Professor of Theology. Father James
Buckley was appointed Professor of Philosophy and the
Rev. Wm. Victor Fryer, Classical Master. The latter,
however, in the following year, 1796, went on to the
Mission, Father Dennet succeeding him, and the Procu-
ratorship was entrusted to the Rev. Edmund Winstanley,
at that time a deacon and having completed his third
year of Theology. In 1798 Father Dennet was sent on
to the Mission, and was succeeded as Teacher of Classics
by the Rev. Thomas Hurst who was in deacon's Orders,
but had not completed his fourth year of Theology.
The staff of Professors as thus constituted, continued
until May, 1801, when Father James Buckley voluntarily
resigned and went on to the Mission, leaving as Su
periors in the House the President, Father Fryer, who
taught Theology ; Edmund Winstanley, Procurator ;
and Thomas Hurst, the Classical Professor.

The President was desirous of availing himself of the
remarkable talents of the Rev. James Yorke Bramston
who had been ordained priest two years before, and
whom he considered well fitted to occupy the Chair of
Theology. To this, however, the other Superiors, sup
ported secretly by Father Allen, were opposed, as they

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considered him much more fitted for Missionary work
than for the duties of the College. Their reasons were,
that during his Course he had never attended the schools,
and consequently was unacquainted with the scholastic
method adopted in the College ; he had never been
subjected to the discipline of the House, and indeed had
always been treated as a guest, rather than a student,
and they feared he might thus entirely alter the method
and spirit of the House.

Finding that he could not overcome the opposition of
the Superiors, the President had recourse to the Pro
tector, by whose supreme authority he hoped to have
made him Superior. In this, however, he failed, and
accordingly in this year, 1801, Bramston departed for
the Mission.

" DR. BRAMSTON. — John Yorke Bramston, born in
March, 1753, was originally a Protestant and a lawyer.
After his conversion he went to the College at Lisbon,
where he supported himself, at his own cost, for eight
years and studied Theology. Returning to England he
served the Mission first in the Midland District, and
afterwards in L/ondon. In 1802, he was one of the
priests at St. George's-in-the-Fields, Southwark. Bishop
Poynter made him his Vicar General, and in 1812 he
accompanied the Bishop to Durham, where he was em
ployed as Theologian and Counsellor to Bishop William
Gibson, the Senior Vicar-Apostolic, at the Synodal
Meeting of the Bishops held there in that year.

"Bishop Poynter took him with him to Rome in 1814,
and on April 5, 1815, being then in Genoa, he applied to
the Pope to give him Dr. Bramston as his Coadjutor,
and in support of his request, adduced the testimony in
Bramston's favour of Bishops Gibson, Collingridge and
Smith, and of the two Scotch Vicars- Apostolic, Bishops
Cameron and Chisholm.

"They commend Dr. Bramston as a man who merited
the Episcopal dignity, not only by his knowledge, piety,
and zeal for religion, but also by his singular acquaint-

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DR. JOHN YORKE BRAMSTOX.

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ance with public affairs in England, and by his experience
and skill in business, and the excellent reputation he
bore amongst all ranks of people. His general knowledge
of men and manners, and of the laws and customs of the
country, rendered him peculiarly fitted to conduct the
affairs of the Catholics in those times especially.

11 He was recommended also by the London Clergy
and by the immense flock in London, of which he had
the charge for over thirteen years, ' which loved him for
zeal, prudence, and most tender charity.' He was es
teemed by his old Protestant friends and by those who
knew him from his infancy. He had lost much temporal
prosperity by his conversion to Catholicism.

"On the ayth of November, 1827, Dr. Bramston wrote
to Dr. Gradwell, at that time Rector of the English
College in Rome, announcing the death of Dr. Poynter
his predecessor, and takes occasion also to mention that
he himself was in his seventy-fourth year, in the March
past, and to tell Dr. Gradwell not to be surprised if he
were soon to apply for a Coadjutor. He said he had in
his mind for that office the Abbe Griffiths, Rector of St.
Edmund's Seminary, and the Rev. M. Kimball of
Moorfields.

" On the i Qth of May, 1828, Propaganda elected
Robert Gradwell to be Coadjutor to Dr. Bramston, with
the right of succession. Dr. Gradwell was consecrated,
June 24, 1828, and on the 3ist of August, 1828, he wrote
to the Cardinal Prefect of Propaganda, saying ' I arrived
in London on Saturday last and received a most kindly
welcome from Bishop Bramston who, although almost
always sick in body, is yet vigorous in mind.'

"Bishop Bramston, on the 25th of March, 1829, assisted
by the Right Rev. Thomas Weld, Bishop of Amycla,
and Coadjutor to the Bishop of Upper Canada, and by
Bishop Gradwell, consecrated Daniel McDonnell, to be
Bishop of Olympus, in partibus, and Vicar- Apostolic in
Trinidad, and other Islands ; and again on the 5th of
February, 1832, with the assistance of Bishops Baines
and Gradwell, he consecrated William Placid Morris, the

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newly-appointed Visitator Apostolicus, for the Island of
Mauritius.

" Dr. Bramston survived his Coadjutor, Dr. Gradwell,
who died March i5th, 1833 ; but himself died on July
n, 1836, at '35, Golden Square, L/ondon, aged eighty-
three, and was buried on the 2jth of July, in the clergy
vault in the Moorfields Chapel. Bishop Griffiths, his
successor, officiated at his obsequies."*

By the departure of Father Buckley, as above stated,
in May, 1801, the Chair of Philosophy was left vacant,
and though Father Allen offered himself for the office,
the President who resented his opposition in the affair of
Father Bramston, declined to accept the offer and did
not feel justified in imposing it on any of the Superiors,
and thus at the opening of the schools in September the
Philosophers were without a Professor. Father Win-
Stanley, to obviate the difficulty, proffered to combine
with the Procuratorship which he held, the duties of
Professor of Philosophy, an arrangement which lasted
during the two following years. In 1803, Father Cor-
bishley, who had given offence to the Superiors by his
conduct in a matter which, as it had no connection with
the College, need not be further noticed, was sent on to
the Mission, and the President proposed that the Rev.
Peter Wilcock, to whom he was much attached, should
be made Professor of Classics and General Prefect. To
this the other Superiors readily agreed, and Winstanley
became Professor of Theology resigning the Procurator-
ship into the hands of Father Thomas Hurst. The
concord amongst the Superiors which the Bramston
affair had broken was restored, and the affairs in the
College proceeded peacefully.

Under the guidance of Father Fryer, the improvements
in discipline and general domestic economy commenced
by his predecessor, James Barnard, were vigorously

* The above account of Dr. Bramston is taken from Annals
of the Catholic Hierarchy. — MAZIEBE BRADY.

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prosecuted and carried into full effect. Such of the
inmates as were judged unqualified for the ecclesiastical
state were dismissed, and several fresh batches of students
brought over from England. The effect of these mea
sures soon began to be felt on the Mission. A succession
of laborious and genuinely virtuous ecclesiastics was
supplied from Lisbon, whose learning and piety con
tinued to reflect honour on the Seminary in which they
had been reared.

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CHAPTER IX.

TOWARDS the close of the eighteenth century, the
College at Donay, and most of the other Continental
establishments, having been swallowed up in the vortex
of the French Revolution, the Superiors resolved to
make every exertion to enlarge the house in Lisbon
entrusted to their care, with the view to counteract, in
part at least, the evils which might accrue to Catholicity
from the suppression of the parent foundation. Divine
Providence seconded their efforts and enabled them,
without having recourse to contributions and entirely at
the expense of the Establishment, to give the House the
dimensions and form which it at present retains. More
than seven thousand pounds were expended in this
work, and accommodation was made for forty students
as well as Superiors and Masters.

Besides a considerable sum which, by his economy,
Father Fryer had been able to save, the funds for the
purpose were supplied by the Misericordia of Rio Janeiro,
lyong prior to this date, a Portuguese in subdeacon's
Orders, named John Dionysius d' Azevedo, unconnected
with the College it would seem by any ties of friendship,
but zealous for the propagation of the Faith in England,
by Will constituted the College his heir. Many years,
however, before his death he proceeded to Brazil where,
whilst suffering from insanity, he put an end to his own
life.

The Misericordia of Rio at once took possession of his
goods on the plea that his Will was not valid, and there
being no other claimant but the College, it was contended
that the property should be devoted to public charity.

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On being informed of this the Superiors at once
appealed to the law, but owing to the well known
dilatoriness of legal proceedings in Portugal, for upwards
of fifty years in spite of repeated judgments in its favour,
the College had received nothing. At last in 1788, Louis
de Vasconcellos, brother of the Marquis of Castello
Major, was appointed Viceroy of Brazil, and being most
friendly to Father Allen and well disposed towards the
College, he readily took up the cause, and by his influ
ence the Misericordia was compelled to refund the money
it had received from the sale of the effects of John
Dionysius d' Azevedo.

On this occasion was erected what is called k ' The
Observatory." This is an elevated sqtiare terrace formed
nearly in the centre of the building, and commanding one
of the most magnificent views in Europe. ' The object
proposed in its erection was to form an astronomical
observatory in the strict sense of the term. It was
intended, as soon as the work should be completed, to
establish a fund for the support of one of the members
of the House, who should be employed exclusively in
astronomical studies and observations, and who might
communicate with the various Astronomical Societies of
Europe. Circumstances, however, which were not fore
seen, rendered the design abortive, to the great chagrin
of Father Allen the principal projector, who ever after
testified his regret and disappointment by terming the
Observatory " Initium dolorum meorum."

From the terrace thus erected the view is truly mag
nificent As it stands in an elevated and central position
it presents a complete panorama of the circumjacent
city and its environs. On the south the majestic Tagus
may be seen winding along from the ocean, bounded on
one side by the buildings of the city, and on the other
by a line of regularly undulating hills which rise well
nigh perpendicularly from its surface. Where these
hills gradually slope to the plane, may be seen an im
mense tract of woodland reaching on the west to the
Atlantic, on the east as far as the eye can reach and

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VIEW SOUTH.

terminated on the south by the chain of the Arrabida
Mountains.

3. EAST VIEW.

The western prospect as seen from the Observatory

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embraces a view of the ocean, of the Bugio fort at the
mouth of the river, and a long1 range of hills which,
gradually ascending from the Valley of Alcantara, are
enlivened by rows of windmills which, formerly, were
incessantly plying. Steam, however, has robbed the

SOUTH WEST VIEW.

view of much of its life, as these mills, with few excep
tions, are now unused. On the east the view is more
confined, except towards the south, where the woods
on the opposite side of the river may be seen extending
into the province of Alentejo.

VIEW WEST.

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It is confined by the hill on which stands the Castle
of St George, and two others each of which is crowned

S. EAST VIEW AND S. GEORGE S CASTLE.

by a church in honour of the Blessed Virgin. On the
north the prospect varies, the view embracing a level

VIEW EAST.

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fertile country diversified by olive groves, vineyards and
cornfields, and is terminated by a distant ridge of hills

VIEW NORTH

which form a part of the famous lines of Torres Vedras
where, in 1810, Wellington effectually bade defiance to
the legions of France.

N. WEST VIEW.

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After governing successfully the College for the long-
period of twenty-three years, Father Fryer died on
August 15, 1805, of a scorbutic complaint, under which
he had laboured for several years. He was the fifteenth
President, and to him belongs the praise of having
deserved well of the College. During the last two years
prior to his death, his duties regarding the government
of the House, owing to ill health, had been performed by
the Rev. Peter Wilcock,* one of the Superiors.

Father Fryer was possessed of good, but not shining,
talents ; an extraordinary piety was the leading feature
in his character and this he incessantly laboured, both
by word and example, to instil into those entrusted to
his care. He was a strict economist and, notwith
standing the expensive improvements carried on during
his administration, he left the funds of the Establish
ment in a very flourishing condition.

* Subsequently on his leaving the College for the Mission,
Liverpool was the scene of Father Wilcock's labours, and the
large Church of St. Antony, in the Scotland Road, is a monu
ment of his zeal and labours.

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CHAPTER X.

Ox the death of Father Fryer, the Rev. Edmund Win-
stanley was called upon, as Senior Superior, to take
charge of the House until a successor to the late President
should be appointed. The choice fell upon the Rev.
James Buckley. Born in London, February 24, 1770,
he was admitted into the College in February, 1785.
He was gifted with great talents which he displayed
throughout his College Course, especially in poetry, in
which his compositions were of such beauty and excell
ence that Father Allen, his master, himself gifted with
a most refined taste, expressed his opinion that not even
Pope could have struck off more elegant verses in so
short a time. As we have seen he had been chosen
Superior in 1795, a position which he held until 1801,
when, at his own request, he came to England ; to
return again, however, as President in May, 1806.

In the following year France and Spain having agreed
to divide Portugal between them,* the reigning House
of Braganza fled from Lisbon to a refuge in Brazil. On
the very day of their departure the French entered
Lisbon, and one of their first acts was to incarcerate the
persons and confiscate the property of all British subjects
wrho had not anticipated the violence by a timely flight.
From these rigorous measures, however, some exception
was made in favour of the College and its inmates. At
the intercession of the Pope's Nuncio and other influen
tial persons the property of the house though nominally
confiscated, was left in the administration of the
Superiors, and though both they and the students were
declared prisoners of war, they enjoyed the liberty of

* History of English People. — GKEEN.

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DR. TAMKS BUCKLEY.

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walking out in the city, and had the second story of the
college, and church and garden assigned for their use.
The rest of the house was occupied by 280 soldiers all
new recruits and twelve veteran officers. The latter
though entirely destitute of religion, observed in general
the greatest politeness towards all the members of the
Community, and carefully restrained the soldiers within
the bounds prescribed them, or severely punished the
slightest transgression.

Among them however there were some who did not
deserve the encomium just passed. One in particular a
consequential little lieutenant, took every opportunity to
display his importance and once committed himself at
table to the utter disregard of all politeness in the
manner that has been described in the account of Father
Allen.

Another whose character was the reverse of that of
the last mentioned, was the caterer and chief cook of
the mess, an employment which he had voluntarily un
dertaken, being much more remarkable for his fondness
for good cheer, than for his military spirit. A rather ludi
crous scene occurred with respect to this individual in the
college kitchen which was common to the soldiers and
the Community. One day the cook in the service of
the House, who was a sturdy Gallego, happened in some
way or other to interfere with the Frenchman's cookery,
upon which the latter flew into a passion, uttered an
oath, and put his hand on his sword. Antonio, for such
was the name of the cook, no way terrified at the
menace, instantly grasped a spit and fiercely turning
round bade defiance to his enraged antagonist. This
was enough to cool the courage of the Frenchman who
was glad to extricate himself from his perilous situation
by declaring that what he had said and done was
merely a joke.

The French continued in the College for nearly nine

months, during which time four of the Students with

the tacit consent of the Superiors made their escape by

night to the English fleet which was cruising off the

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port and were conveyed home. The rest remained in
the house, and pursued as far as circumstances permitted
their usual duties. To the honour of the corps quar
tered in the College it should be said, that at their
departure they scrupulously restored the articles which
had been lent them during their stay, the only deficit
in the delivery being that of a single sheet.

Scarcely had the rejoicings for the departure of these
unwelcome guests ceased in Lisbon, when news arrived
that Soult at the head of a fresh army was preparing to
reoccupy the Portuguese territory. Prudence now
suggested to the Superiors, the necessity of taking
measures for the preservation of the College as well as
for the safety of the inmates, in case of success on the
part of the French. They therefore adopted the resolu
tion of sending the students to England, and with them
the library and the more valuable part of the effects,
and of forming in the House a temporary Academy
for the education of Seculars. Thus it was hoped that
not only might the Establishment be preserved, but its
means augmented, and by temporarily diverting it,
during the continuance of the war, from the great object
of its institution, it might at a more favourable con
juncture and with brighter prospects, be again employed
in the education of the peaceful members of religion.
The result corresponded to the expectations of the
Superiors.

The plan and terms of instruction were no sooner
made public, than applications for admission poured in
from every quarter. The system followed gave general
satisfaction, and in a few months the house was found
too small for the numbers who solicited admission. Dr.
Buckley, the President, undertook the general direction
of the schools, assisted by the Revv. Messrs. Colegate
and Spain while the spiritual instruction was assigned
to the Rev. Thomas Hurst.

In the meantime war continued to desolute the Penin
sula, and Lisbon was the grand depot of the combined
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and the hardships of the campaign contributed with the
sword in thinning the ranks. Upwards of twenty
hospitals were established in different parts of the city,
and they were all kept constantly filled by the crowds
of sick and wounded that daily poured in from the
army. As many of the regiments were almost ex
clusively composed of Catholics from Ireland, a most
laborious and extensive mission was thus created. The
task of administering the succours of religion to all
these distressed objects was assigned to the Rev.
Edmund Winstanley who for this purpose was retained
at the College and unremittingly continued to exert him
self in the discharge of these severe duties until the close
of the war. He was assisted in this charitable work by
the Rev. Thomas Hurst, who devoted to the hospitals,
or to the making private or public exhortations, what
ever time he could spare from his duties in the Academy.

In the year 1813, the Rev. John Paul Colegate who
during the past six years had devoted himself to the
duties which fell to him in the carrying on of the
Academy, died from an attack of European cholera,
and he deserves more than a passing mention.

He was born at Faversham in Kent. His parents
were members of the Established Church, and in the
early years of his life he was directly brought up in the
tenets and practice of Protestantism. The occasion of
his conversion to the Catholic Faith was remarkable.
During the course of his education which was carried
on under his father's roof, he had for a Master in the
French tongue, one of the numerous emigrant clergy,
who about this period, flying from the horrors of the
Revolution, found hospitality in England. The talents
and virtue of his Preceptor struck young Colegate with
admiration, and lamenting to see so much worth ob
scured by the gross delusions of Popery, he resolved to
attempt his conversion.

Accordingly one day when the good priest was not at
all expecting an attack on his faith, his scholar led him
into the garden where, instead of repeating his task, he

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opened a conference on religion and began by expressing
his astonishment that a man of such abilities, and so
much apparent candour, should give his assent to the
gross errors of the Church of Rome. He rehearsed the
usual charges of superstition, idolatry, &c., to which the
priest listened with the utmost composure, and then
contented himself with giving a fair and dispassionate
statement of the real doctrines of the Catholic Church.
Mr. Colegate, though far from assenting to all that
was alleged, discovered in what he said sufficient reason
for making further investigations. The study of French
was now laid aside, and religion became the sole subject
of his conferences with his French Preceptor. After a
diligent perusal of books of controversy and instruction
during some months, and most earnest prayer to be
guided to the truth, young Colegate found every doubt
removed, every difficulty cleared up, and his animosity
against the religion of his tutor changed into a fixed
conviction of its truth, and at once he resolved to become
a Catholic.

In order that his determination might not be thwarted
by his friends, he one night privately quitted home, and
having proceeded on foot to Canterbury, took his place
on the first coach to L/ondon where, on his arrival, he
directed his steps to the residence of Dr. Douglas. The
Bishop received the young and earnest convert with
every mark of kindness, caused his religious instruction
to be completed and then admitted him a member of the
Catholic Church. Soon after he was sent to the College
of Old Hall Green, but as this was a situation in which
he might be molested, he was thence removed to L/isbon,
where he arrived February 19, 1802. From Lisbon he
sent the first account to his friends of his change of
religion and of the motives by which it had been
wrought, and pleaded his cause so well, as to obtain
their forgiveness if not their approbation.

After completing his studies he was ordained priest,
and retained in the College as Prefect or Superintendent
of the Academy, in which office he continued till his

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death. In his last illness he was heard to declare that
nothing gave him so much concern as the thought that
his relatives were strangers to that faith from which, in
his dying hour, he received so much consolation. After
the death of Colegate the Rev. Thomas Hurst, in addi
tion to the other duties with which he was already
charged, undertook to fill the vacant offices of Master
and Prefect. The Rev. Edmund Winstanley being still
engaged in missionary duty among the British troops did
not then, though residing in the College, hold any office.
On the re-establishment of peace in 1814, the Superiors
began to take measures for the gradual closing of the
Academy and the restoration of the College to the
original purpose of its foundation. The same year eleven
new students for the Church arrived from England and
commenced their Course of Humanities, on the conclu
sion of the Peninsular War in 1815. The British army
having been recalled, Winstanley was again inscribed
amongst the regular Superiors of the House. On the
feast of SS. Peter and Paul, June 29, of this year, solemn
High Mass with elaborate music, the first time for four
years, was celebrated on the occasion of the reopening of
the church after the improvements and alterations which
had been made. The College Church had always en
joyed the reputation of being the worst and the meanest
in the city, and in 1814 had fallen into such a wretched
state, as to become even dangerous to those who fre
quented it for religious purposes. The first thought of
Father Buckley, after peace had been restored, was to
put the church into a fitting state of repair and render it
more becoming the purpose for which it was erected,
and in this he was seconded by Father Hurst who, at that
time, was the only other Superior. An entirely new roof
was placed upon it, the old altars replaced by those at
present existing, a wooden floor succeeded to the old tiles,
and the walls and ceiling were beautifully adorned. The
handsome doors now seen at the entrance, and the rails
dividing off the centre of the church, the movable throne
and canopy for exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, and

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many other things decided upon by Father Buckley were
completed after his departure. During these alterations
Mass was celebrated and the devotions performed in the
large room which opens from the south side of the
present arches. In this same year the glass partition
which separates the arches from the garden was erected-

After the completion of these works, Father Buckley
began to contemplate the resignation of his office of
President, which he had only accepted on account of the
solemn promise which the Alumni departing on the
Mission make to return to the College if recalled by the
Superiors. He accordingly applied to Dr. Poynter for
permission to resign his office. This was given, but only
with the view of his appointment as Vicar Apostolic of
Trinidad and the neighbouring islands, for which office
he had been recommended to the Pope by Dr. Poynter
as admirably fitted. He left the College in 1818.

His last act as President prior to his departure, was to
draw up and publish, with the consent of the Protector,
a new Code of Rules, which had been contemplated and
in a great measure prepared under the Presidency of
Father Fryer, but owing to the disturbed state of the
times had never been completed. A few days after their
publication he entrusted the government of the Estab
lishment, by the Bishop's desire, to the Rev. Edmund
Winstanley, and returned to England, there to learn for
the first time his appointment as Vicar-Apostolic of
Trinidad and the Dutch and Danish West Indies, which
he was only induced to accept by the express command
of the Pope. After a visit to Rome for the purpose of
giving an account of his Vicariate, and of obtaining the
sanction of the Holy See for some changes which he
thought necessary, he returned to his diocese having
been absent for two years, and in a few months succumbed
to the fever peculiar to the Island, on March 26, 1828.

In the year 1818, on the death of Father Joseph Glover,
an alumnus, the College received by his Will ^1000, and
in the following year an offer was made through the
Rev. William Fryer, the College Agent in London, by

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the Countess de Front of ^1000 on the condition that
during her life she should be allowed 10 % interest.
As she was already upwards of seventy, the Superiors
agreed to accept the offer. Half of this sum was spent
in the erection of tenements on the ground to the east of
the church which hitherto had served as a garden for the
Superiors, in hopes that they might prove a source of
income. Hopes, however, which the untoward circum
stances of the times prevented from being realized.

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CHAPTER XI.

BARLY in the year 1820, the Rev. Edmund Winstanley
received from Dr. Poynter formal letters appointing him
President of the College, and on January 17, took at the
hands of the Protector the oaths of office.

In the month of May in this year, the College Library
was largely increased by books bequeathed by Joseph
Maria de Mello, Bishop of Algarve. About the year
1785, he resigned his Bishopric, to become the Confessor
of the Queen and Inquisitor General, which latter office
he retained until the arrival of the French in 1807. He
died on January 10, 1820, leaving his large library to be
divided between the Bishopric of Algarve, the House of
the Oratorian Fathers de Spiritu Saiicto and the
College. Amongst the books received on this occasion
were Walton's Polygiotte and a very beautiful English
illuminated Manuscript. This accession of books,
necessitated the enlargement of the library, which was
done by removing the partition wall that had hitherto
divided the former small library from the large room,
which prior to the enlargement of the College had
served as a dormitory for the students. The condition
attached to this legacy was, that for twenty years an
annual Mass should be offered for the Soul of the
Testator. In this year also the Philosophers' Class
Room was fitted up with the necessary physical and
chemical instruments.

With the accession of Dr. Winstanley to the President
ship, may be said to have commenced the contemporary
history of Lisbon College, for there are still living those
who if not precisely at this period, only a few years
later entered upon their Collegiate course under his
administration, and many still survive, upon whose

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memories there remains vividly impressed the image of
his venerable and stately if somewhat stern and rugged
presence. The future prospects too of the Establish
ment were bright and hopeful. The fabric had been
enlarged to the dimensions which it at present retains,
providing accommodation for some fifty students and
Superiors, the wise administration of the last two
Presidents had freed it in a great measure from those
financial difficulties which formerly had much crippled
its usefulness, and the downfall of Napoleon restored to
Europe what seemed likely to prove a permanent peace.

The departure of Dr. Buckley to England, in 1818,
left Edmund Winstanley and Thomas Hurst the only
two Superiors, and upon them therefore devolved all
the professorial duties of the Establishment. The rapid
increase however of the number of students after the re-
constitution of the College, soon made it necessary for
them to seek assistants from among the inmates,
accordingly Father Le Clerc by virtue of a special dispen
sation owing to his being under the canonical age, was
ordained priest and elected Superior in 1822, and in 1829
was nominated Vice-President in succession to Father
Hurst who received the appointment of Confessarius.

In the year 1832, a resolution was adopted by the
Superiors, eminently conducive to the comfort, pleasure
and health of the students. It was decided to rent a
villa in Palma de Cima, some three miles out of the
city, in order that during the heat of the summer
months a division of the students might go thither in
alternate weeks, and thus whilst continuing their studies
derive the benefit of a change to the country. This
villa pleasantly situated in its own gardens and grounds,
from the locality in which it was placed, came to be
familiarly designated Palma, and for those Lisbonians
whose memories can carry them back to the early forties
and fifties, next to the Quinta there is no name round
which cluster so many pleasing reminiscences as that of
Palma.

Those only who have had experience of the close

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heated atmosphere of a southern city in the summer
months, can adequately appreciate the boon which this
decision conferred upon the inmates of the College. It
speaks well for the sturdy self-denying spirit of those
generations of students, who during all the years of their
course were contented to live within the narrow pre
cincts of the College grounds with no other break in the
monotony of their surroundings save what was afforded
by an occasional walk in the city or its suburbs, and the
recreation so keenly prized of " the fortnight at Pera."

But the pleasures and benefits of Palma were not con
fined to the summer months ; it offered facilities for a "day
in the country" on the Thursdays of each week which by
rule is alwrays a free day. On such occasions, with a liberty
not conceded as far as the writer is aware to the inmates
of any other ecclesiastical college, yet justified by the
absence of abuse, the students sallied forth not formed in
line two abreast like a young ladies' school out for a walk,
but in parties of two or three, with no rule limiting
their rambles either in city or country, except that of
meeting at the stated hour for dinner. The frequent
visits made in the season to the orange groves where
visions of the golden fruit either still hanging on the
branches or strewn in profusion on the ground whetted
the young appetite, which, at the cost of a few pence
only, might be indulged to satiety ; the free entrance
kindly conceded by the proprietors and often availed of,
to the grounds of the various villas in the neighbour
hood, afforded additional change and amusement, and
all returned home in the evening refreshed and invigora
ted for the close application of the ensuing week.

Nor would the pleasant reminiscences of Palma be
complete if mention were omitted of those occasional
afternoon teas with the accompaniment of sweet cake
and marmalade, not the modern concoction known
under that name, with which the different parties pro
vided themselves en route. These were the more enjoy
able because, if the truth must be told, surreptitiously
indulged in, and flavoured with the risk sometimes

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though rarely realized, of some one in authority suddenly
appearing on the scene, truly an unbidden and unwel
come guest. Thus was the poet's principle literally
illustrated: (u Omne tulit punctum qui miscuit utile
dulci.")

With Palma too are associated the pleasant recollec
tions of the Easter weeks spent there, when the strict
College regime was somewhat relaxed and as the result
of the students being allowed to cater for themselves, a
privilege only conceded at this festive season, such
luxuries as ham and eggs invariably appeared on the
breakfast table ! With the strength thence derived and
literally " with loins girt and staves in their hands," the
whole party would issue forth, bent upon breaking the
record of the pedestrian feats of their predecessors,
returning home in the evening having covered their
thirty miles or more, to dine and compare notes with
previous expeditions, but how many of them dead beat
and foot sore !

Details such as these, it may be said are trifling and
unworthy of record, and in truth they will fail to awaken
a response in the hearts of the more recent generations
of Lisbon's sons, yet there remains a goodly number,
few alas comparatively, to whom the memory of those
far-off days still continues to be a source of ever recurring
pleasure.

(" Claudite jam rivos pueri, sat prata biberunt")

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CHAPTER XII.

THE College suffered a great loss by the premature and
unexpected death in 1834 of the Vice-President, Father
Le Clerc. Born in 1799 of a French father and an Eng
lish mother in the county of York, he received his first
education at Sedgely Park, whence he passed to Lisbon
in 1814. From the time of his entrance into the College
he was remarkable for his talents and piety, and he
always manifested such gravity of demeanour that it
might be said of him that he had never been a boy. The
high estimation in which he was universally held,
warranted his appointment over the other students as
General Prefect at the early age of eighteen, and his
subsequent rapid promotion to the position of Vice-
President. From the time of his entering upon this
office, in 1829, ne na(^ always been of the greatest possible
assistance to the President in the difficult times, during
which the College was being reconstituted, after the
departure of the French from Lisbon. He was an assid
uous student especially of the natural sciences, and he
has left evidence of his power and unction as a preacher
in the sermons which he contributed to the Catholic
Pulpit, all of them most beautiful specimens of pulpit
oratory. During the dreadful scourge of cholera, which
in 1833 we^ nigh decimated Lisbon, with the greatest
zeal and unwearied self-sacrifice and devotion he attended
the sick in the hospitals, and it was while visiting the
Military Hospital that, in the following year, he caught
the fever of which he died. He was buried in the
cemetery attached to the college garden, and a monu
ment bearing the following epitaph was erected to his
memorv.

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Hie jacet

Corpus Carol! Le Clerc
Presbyt. huj. Coll. Alum.

Et Vice-Praeses.
Judicio et Moribus ipsa adolescentia senex

Virtutis et Laboris

Insignis exemplar efFulsit.

Mundi suique contemptor

Nil praeter Deum quaerens nil amore

Verbis parcus opere profusus.
Temporis accuratissimus oestimator
Correptus ex Nossocomiis Febre
Charitatis victima occubuit.
Die 6 Julii CEtatis 35 flentibus non solum
Coll. Incolis sed et quicumque
Olyssip. inhabitabant Britannis.
A.D. 1834.

The President in a letter addressed to the mother of
the deceased announcing his death, thns writes : " Great
as mnst be your affliction on this sad and unexpected
event, I cannot think it can much have exceeded that
which I myself experienced. I loved him and had reason
to love him, and when with streaming eyes I sang the
first Mass of Requiem over him, I could truly say with
David, ' I wept over thee, my brother,' I should rather
say, my son, ( As a mother loveth her only son, so did I
love thee.' I will not at present add to your regret, by
giving you the details of his admirable and saintly char
acter, I will only say now that I never knew a death to
cause so strong and universal a sorrow amongst the
British public here, and amongst all the Portuguese
that knew him as this has done.

u This College, in particular, deplores his loss as a
most grievous calamity. Never, I firmly believe, since
its foundation, did it possess a son so peculiarly qualified
in every sense and so zealously inclined to forward its
grand end, the formation of genuine ecclesiastics, as he
was.

" Consummatus in brevi implevit tempora multa."

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In the Catholic Magazine of 1834, mention is made of
the visit paid to the College, on January 21, of that year,
of Lord William Russell the British Ambassador Extra
ordinary, accompanied by Lady Russell. They went
through the various parts of the establishment, and
expressed their admiration at the magnificent prospect
presented from the Observatory. The next day the
students addessed to Lord William a Latin petition for
the purpose of obtaining two play-days, to which His
Lordship returned an elegant and gracious reply in the
same language. The students returned thanks in the
following Ode:

Nos tibi Russell generi decori
Muneris nobis memores peracti
Solvimus grates, hilarique laude

Corda resultant.

Illius sic, te generosa conjux
Dotibus famaque micans ubique,
Prcemio per te simili fruentis

Concelebramus.

En nitent horoe roseoe coronis,
En novo soles rutilant nitore,
En novi nobis veniunt honores

Numine vestro.

Pignus hoc ergo pia Musa profert
Vos decus nostrum studiosa poscens
Illud ut suavi et anime benigno

Accipiatis.

Admiral Parker, commanding the English Channel
Fleet which was stationed in the Tagus, also paid a visit
at the same time. It was, probably, on this occasion that
a somewhat amusing incident took place. The Admiral
was accompanied by some of the middies who, at the
conclusion of their visit, it seems suggested to him to ask
permission from the President for the students to visit
their vessel. Those who remember what a strict disci-

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plinarian Father Winstanley was and how anxiously he
guarded those under him from anything which he
thought might tend to weaken the ecclesiastical spirit,
can imagine how such a proposition was likely to be
received. Something, probably, in his look or manner
betrayed the state of his feelings, which the Admiral
readily detected. He, however, quickly turned the
difficulty by jocosely remarking: " You are right, Mr.
President, I quite see that if your fellows came on board,
the discipline of my ship would be absolutely upset.''
Thus the matter ended pleasantly.

On the death of Father Le Clerc the Rev. Joseph
Ilsley was appointed Vice-President and was succeeded
in the Procuratorship by the Rev. Peter Baines, and in
1837, the Rev. Peter Davies was elected Superior and
took charge of the Classical Studies completing again
the staff of Professors.

Besides the aid which the College was able to give to
the English Mission by the regular dispatch of numerous
zealous priests educated within its walls, the interests of
religion were in no small degree promoted by it in
Lisbon itself. It was a centre whence radiated the
light of good example. The exemplary conduct both of
priests and students, the staunch loyalty and devotion
it ever manifested towards the Holy See, the order
and reverence with which all the solemn services of
the Church were carried out and the active missionary
work which to some extent it was able to perform, were
a stay and encouragement to the religiously disposed,
and won the respect and good will of the public in
general. This influence came no doubt to be more
clearly recognized after the suppression of the Religious
Communities, one of the first acts of the Constitutional
or Liberal Government set up by Don Pedro in 1834.

The universal expression of regret elicited by the
death of the Rev. Father Le Clerc is abundant evidence
of what has been stated and it is further illustrated by a
work commenced at this time and for many years
zealously maintained by the Rev. Joseph Ilsley, for the

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benefit of the poorer classes of the inhabitants of the
city.

On the publication in the year 1834, of the Con
stitutional Charter, some English Protestants who
considered it an opportune moment, to initiate a
Protestant free school, backed up by abundant resources,
strove by unworthy means to draw to it the children of
the poorer classes, on the sole condition that they should
conform to the practice of the Protestant religion.

Many of the poor were induced by the advantages
offered to frequent this school. The grave danger to
which they were exposed of losing their faith, aroused the
zeal of many, and the President of the College earnestly
impressed upon Father Ilsley the urgent necessity of
counteracting these efforts. He accordingly vigorously
set to work, opened a free school and in a short time
saw his efforts crowned with such success, that almost
all the Catholic children were withdrawn from the
Protestant school. Nor was this all, for the school thus
established rapidly acquired such a reputation for ex
cellence of teaching and careful attention to the morality
of the pupils, that many of the well-to-do Portuguese
began to seek admission for their children. Such an
impetus was thus given to it, that its founder resolved
to separate the poor from the better-to-do children and
for the accommodation of these, he hired another house,
procured masters from England, and thus from the
profit accruing from the higher class institution, was
enabled to support the poor school.

From this period for some years, little worthy of note
happened, and the College pursued the even tenor of
its way, fulfilling peacefully and harmoniously the great
object of its foundation, but the increasing infirmities of
the President which threatened to incapacitate him for
his professorial duties, rendered it necessary to strengthen
the staff of Superiors, and in 1840, the Rev. Laurence
Richmond on the conclusion of his Course was appointed
as Assistant Classical Master. At this time, too, it was
decided to alter the rule which required the Master

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DR. EDMUND W1NSTANLEY

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of Humanities once or oftener in the year to compose a
L,atin oration to be delivered by his pupils on the
occasion of the Examinations. The present practice of
delivering speeches in English or other modern language
by the Classical students was substituted for it, a change
which if perhaps less academical was decidedly more
useful.

In the August of 1852, there came to an end the long
and in many respects the most important Presidency of
Dr. Winstanley. For years age and infirmity had weighed
upon him but in the July of this year, disease of the
heart developed itself, for which the physicians declared
there was no cure. He received this intimation with
calmness and devoted his attention to preparing himself
for the passage into eternity. He suffered at times great
anguish through the defective circulation of the blood,
and to his physical pain it pleased God to add severe
spiritual trials, thus purifying the soul of His servant
more perfectly, and opening to him a more speedy
reward, to which he was called on the Vigil of the
Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary. On the follow
ing day he was buried in the cemetery adjoining the
College garden as he had requested. He had lived in
the College for sixty-seven years during thirty-two of
which he held the office of President, dying in his
eightieth year.

Mention has already been made of the years of devoted
labour in the service of God and the salvation of souls
which, whilst still young, he spent in attending the sick
and wounded of the British army during the Peninsular
War. Ever forgetful of himself and regardless of the
personal sacrifice which it involved, he assiduously
attended upon the sick in the hospitals and by exhorta
tion and " instruction publicly and privately sought to
promote the spiritual interests of those in health, nor is
it on record that he ever received even the thanks of the
British Government for the years of devoted work which
he unstintedly gave to the religious needs of the Catholic

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troops, who were so heroically sacrificing their lives in
defence of England.

From the time he succeeded Dr. Buckley as President,
besides the duties of this office, he was ever ready to
assist in the schools, and though for many years he
presided over the higher classes of Philosophy and
Theology, he did not disdain to teach the rudiments of
lyatin and Greek to the boys engaged in their Classical
studies. An implacable enemy to idleness, his whole
time was divided between prayer, study and writing, and
no better evidence of this can be given than the fact
that when already worn out by his many cares and
labours, he mastered the rudiments of the Hebrew lang
uage that he might be in the position to teach them to
his disciples.

A memorable proof of his industry is the Civil and
Ecclesiastical History which, in the midst of his profes
sional duties he found time to write, a work novel in its'
method, and which elicited from the late Cardinal
Newman a public tribute of praise. Though unable to
finish it he brought it down to the Twelfth Century.
Above the medium stature he was remarkable both for
talent and virtue, incapable of meanness, either in
thought or act, and would have disdained to stoop to
anything unworthy or ungenerous. Having been edu
cated in the strict scholastic methods of the last century,
he could never be induced to adopt the modern and less
formal manner of reasoning, and while some perhaps may
consider that this savoured somewhat of narrowness of
view, to others it will present evidence of a stability of
mind not easily moved amidst the fluctuating opinions
of men.

Under a rugged and stern countenance he bore a kindly
heart, and if he possessed the power of inspiring fear, he
knew how to conciliate the love and affection of those
over whom he ruled. ' Nor was he deficient in a sense of
humour, as those will well remember, who ever heard
him relate, as occasionally he would do, his varied

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experiences. He was held in the greatest esteem by the
Papal Nuncio in Lisbon, Cardinal di Pietro, who in 1850
spontaneously asked and obtained for him from Pius IX
the degree of Doctor of Divinity, a title he well deserved
as a Theologian, but which his humility made him
hesitate to accept.

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CHAPTER XIII.

ON the death of Dr. Winstanley the Rev. Joseph Ilsley,
who from the year 1834 had held the office of Vice-
President, became Pro-Rector pending the appointment
of a President. The various changes which in recent
years had taken place, suggested to the Superiors grave
doubts regarding the nomination of the Protector of the
College, and also as to the authority to whom belonged
the appointment of the President. At the time of its
foundation the office of Protector had been vested by the
Sacred Propaganda in the Bishop Inquisitor General of
Portugal and his successors, but when the Constitutional
Government, as it was called, was established, the office
of Inquisitor had been suppressed throughout the King
dom. It is true the last Inquisitor General who held
office had, by the request of Dr. Winstanley, made
a solemn declaration, that at his death all his rights
regarding the College should devolve on the Vicar
Apostolic of the I^ondon District. To this declaration
Dr. Winstanley and Father Hurst had, in the presence
of a Public Notary, added their signatures, but by what
authority this transfer of Jurisdiction had been made did
not appear. As to the appointment to the Presidency
this had always belonged to and had been exercised by
the Vicar Apostolic of the Ivondon District, but on the
establishment of the Hierarchy in Bngland by Pius IX
in 1852, the ancient I^ondon Vicariate had been sup
pressed, and consequently this right of nomination had
lapsed. It \vas decided, therefore, by the Superiors, to
submit both these questions to the judgment of the Holy
See, and for this purpose they sought the aid and good
offices of Cardinal Wiseman.

They addressed a letter to His Eminence setting forth

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DR. JOSEPH ILSLEY.

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the reasons why they had doubted the validity of the act
by which the Vicar Apostolic had been constituted suc
cessor of the Inquisitor General, and pointing out that,
even though valid, it would be most inconvenient and by
no means advantageous to the interests of the College to
have a Protector resident in a distant country, and ignor
ant of the conditions and circumstances which obtained
in Portugal ; with whom, moreover, in cases of difficulty
easy and rapid communication could not be had. It
was also suggested that all these inconveniences would
be obviated, were the office of Protector vested in the
Apostolic Nuncio for the time being resident in Portugal.
The Rev. Peter Baines was sent to England as the
representative of the Superiors and bearer of this letter,
with instructions also to arrange with the Cardinal and
the recently appointed Bishops, a new distribution of the
students amongst the different Dioceses.

This he successfully accomplished and immediately
returned to the College. The Pro-Rector finding that
he was unable satisfactorily to perform the combined
duties of his office and those of Vice-President, the Rev-
Peter Baines, in April of this year, 1853, was appointed
to the Vice-Presidentship, having for upwards of nineteen
years fulfilled with great ability the varied duties of
Procurator. At the same time the Rev. Joseph Ilsley
handed over to the College the Secular School which
had been founded by him and for many years successfully
carried on, and the Rev. Laurence Richmond was placed
over it as Director. The flourishing state in which this
school was when taken over, gave promise that it would
prove of considerable financial advantage to the College;
hopes, however, which for various reasons were in the
sequel not realised. The Professorship of Theology, both
Moral and Dogmatic, which for many years had been
held by Dr. Winstanley, was assumed by the Pro-Rector,
while Ecclesiastical History and Canon Law were allotted
to the Rev. Laurence Richmond, and the Chair of Phil
osophy to the Vice-President, and at the same time the
Rev. William Hilton, who now for eighteen years has

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worthily held the position of President of the College,
became Procurator with the understanding, however,
that he should continue to teach Classics.

After an interval of two years during which the Rev.
Joseph Ilsley had acted as Pro-Rector, he was definitely
appointed President by Pius IX, in 1854, who also con
ferred upon him the degree of Doctor of Theology.
Moreover, in the Rescript by which his appointment was
made, His Holiness laid down that, in future, the nomi
nation of the President of the College should rest with
the Holy See after consultation with the English Bishops,
and furthermore declared that henceforward the Apostolic
Nuncio for the time being resident in Lisbon should
exercise the office of Protector of the College. Thus His
Eminence Cardinal Camillus di Pietro, who had always
manifested the most friendly dispositions towards the
College, became the first Protector under the new Con
stitution.

On March 31, 1855, it pleased God to call to his reward
the Rev. Thomas Hurst who, on the following day,
Palm Sunday, was committed to his last resting place in
the cemetery adjoining the college garden, near to his
old friend and companion throughout life, Dr. Win-
stanley. Entering the College about the same time,
1778, thenceforward for well-nigh seventy years, they
were inseparably associated during the course of their
studies, and after their ordination to the priesthood. A
bond of indissoluble friendship had united these two
men, both of them remarkable for piety, and for their
love for the College manifested in their unceasing efforts
to promote its prosperity. For upwards of thirty years
Father Hurst, either as Classical Professor, Prefect of the
Academy during the period of the occupation of Lisbon
by the French, or Procurator, had unstintedly given his
service to the College, finding time also as we have seen
to share with Dr. Winstanley his labours amongst the
British troops. On resigning the office of Vice-President
into the hands of Father Ive Clerc in 1829, ne had been
appointed Confessarius, an office which he held until the

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REV. THOMAS HURST.

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close of his life. For years prior to his death he suffered
from partial paralysis, which incapacitated him from any
considerable exertion either intellectual or physical, yet
to the end he interested himself in promoting the spirit
ual advancement of the students. He survived his old
friend for nearly three years

"Equal in virtue; in talent and disposition they
greatly differed. Dr. Winstanley endowed with an in
genuous and noble disposition attracted by the high
principles which ever regulated both his words and
actions, the esteem of the public in general, and the
love of those over whom he presided in the House.
Father Hurst by his simplicity and affability, drew
towards him the affection of all. In the one, dignity
was associated with humility ; in the other, cheerfulness
imparted a grace to piety : thus both left a bright ex
ample to those who should succeed them; the one of a
most worthy and venerated President, the other of a
constant friend and wise counsellor."

Such is the encomium passed in the Annals upon these
two notable sons of Lisbon College.

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CHAPTER XIV.

ACTING on the advice of the Protector, Cardinal di
Pietro, who having brought to a successful conclusion
the Concordat between Portugal and the Holy See, was
contemplating his departure for Rome, it was decided
by the Superiors, in 1855, to purchase the country house
with the vineyard attached, called Quinta de Ponte,
which His Eminence for several years had rented. The
limited accommodation afforded at Palma, would not
permit of the whole College being at one time transported
to the country, and it was thought that it would conduce
to the health of the students if, by the acquiring of larger
premises, they could all have the benefit of a sojourn in
the country during the summer months. It was hoped,
also, that it would prove a good investment of the money
spent in the ptirchase ; and it was considered that any
outlay upon property belonging to the College would be
preferable to spending money on the property of others,
as had been hitherto done at Palma. The wisdom of
this purchase was at once illustrated in a manner, so
remarkable as to make it appear to have been a special
interposition of Divine Providence in favour of the
College, for in this very year Lasbon was visited by a
virulent outbreak of yellow fever. It was confined prin
cipally to the lower and less cleanly portions of the city
which bordered on the river and, fortunately, never
passed beyond the boundaries ; and thus the students,
who on this occasion spent the entire year in their new
house at Iviiz, were preserved from the danger of conta
gion.

About this time, 1856, the finances of the College
became the source of considerable anxiety to the Supe
riors. It was found that they were no longer adequate

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CARDINAL CAMILLUS DI PIKTRO.

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to meet the current expenses. This deficiency had been
of gradual growth, and was attributable to three special
causes. First : the disease in the vines which for the
most part desolated the wine producing countries of
Europe had made its appearance, diminishing very con
siderably the profit accruing from the College vineyard,
and entailing considerable expense in the purchase of
wine for the daily iise of the Community. Secondly :
the purchasing power of gold had considerably dimin
ished and was followed by the consequent rise in the
prices of the commodities necessary for food and clothing.
This arose from the sudden accession of gold from the
newly-discovered gold mines of America and Australia.
Thirdly : the revenues of the College were greatly re
duced by the conversion of the English Funds in which
they were invested into issues bearing a less rate of
interest. To meet this latter difficulty it was decided,
after mature deliberation and with the approval of the
Ecclesiastical Authorities in England, to change the
investments of the College funds into the Securities of
different nations thus securing, instead of three, a return
of four or five per cent. The President proceeded to
England for the purpose of carrying out this conversion,
and on his return the Secular School which he had
handed over to the College in a flourishing state, and
which had for SDine time proved a source of income, was
returned to him as its numbers were found to be gradu
ally diminishing, and it seemed no longer to compensate
for the trouble it involved.

A project important from its bearing upon a matter
necessary to the more perfect and satisfactory training
for the Priesthood, was also carried out at this time. By
means of the ceremonial with which the Church accom
panies the more solemn performance of her central act
of worship and also gives, as it were, a kind of dramatic
representation to the various mysteries commemorated in
her Festivals throughout the year, she seeks to enlist the
aid of the senses in impressing these mysteries more
vividly on the mind, and thus intensifying the influence
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which they naturally tend to produce. This result will
be secured in proportion to the solemnity and dignity
with which this ceremonial is carried out, and hence it is
important that those destined for the priesthood should •
have a familiar acquaintance with the Church's cere
monies.

The very limited proportions of the College Church
it was felt, had always been a great obstacle to securing
this object, and some years previously it had been decided
to enlarge the church by the addition of a spacious choir.
The want of funds, however, had hitherto prevented the
project from being realized but, in the year 1857, Provi
dence sent to the College a benevolent friend and great
benefactress in the person of Donna Joanna d' Aratijo
Carneiro d' CEynhausen. This truly pious lady on being
made acquainted with the straitened state of the finances
which prevented the proposed alteration from being
undertaken, offered to make over to the College £1800
on the condition of receiving five per cent, during her
lifetime. This was readily agreed to, and the work
immediately commenced, the foundation stone being
laid by the Most Rev. Jeronymo de Matha, Bishop of
Macao, who was spending some days as a guest at the
College on his return home from his Diocese. The work
was vigorously pressed forward, and happily completed
in the following year, 1858, and on December 18, the
church was blessed and reopened. During the progress
of the works the opportunity was taken to transfer from
the college cemetery, and place under the pavement of
the choir, the bodies of Dr. Winstanley, Father Hurst,
and Father lye Clerc. Among other benefactions made
by this same lady to the College, it is worthy of record
that she established two burses for the education of
students for the priesthood, leaving the nomination to
them to the President and Superiors.

In the April of this year Dr. Laurence Richmond,
after a sojourn of thirty years at the College, re
signed his position as Superior and proceeded on to
the. English Mission. For eighteen years he had dis-

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THE COLLEGE CHOIR.

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charged with distinction the duties of various Professor
ships, which included the Classics, Scripture and Canon
lyaw, and he had received from Pius IX the degree of
Doctor of Divinity. In the following year, 1859, Card
inal di Pietro, the first Apostolic Nuncio who had acted
as Protector of the College, having successfully completed
his negotiations with the Portuguese Government, left
Lisbon for Rome. Prior to his departure he made over
to the College, under certain conditions, the country
house and vineyards known as Torre de Fato, adjoining
the property already acquired at Luz ; the Superiors
purchasing from him a small villa called De Romeiros
which stands at one corner of Torre de Fato.

It will have been noticed that the six years of Dr.
Ilsley's Presidentship, which had intervened from the
death of Dr. Winstanley, had been marked by various
changes conducive to the intellectual and material well-
being of the Establishment. By the introduction of
additional subjects in the curriculum, both of the lower
and higher departments of the House, the course of
studies throughout had been brought more abreast of the
requirements of the time, while the health of the students
had been consulted for, and their material comforts thus
greatly promoted. But at length the anxieties of a busy
and laborious life, began to tell upon his health. For
some years he had suffered from occasional slight epilep
tic attacks which did not, however, materially interfere
with the discharge of his duties, but in 1859 the disease
suddenly assumed a very grave character, and while
preaching in the College church he was seized for the
first time with a fit of such a violent nature that it
seemed to endanger his life. Rest from labour and
anxiety was recommended by the medical men whom
he consulted, and during the two following years he
was absent for considerable intervals from the College,
But in spite of all efforts the disease increased, and at
length finding himself quite unequal to his duties, he
petitioned the Holy See to be allowed to resign the
office of President, and in 1862 returned to England.

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Dr. Goss, the then Bishop of Liverpool, with a kind
ness and consideration which did him great honour,
recognizing what sometimes seems to be overlooked,
that those who devote their lives to preparing priests for
the Mission, are labouring for it, as much as those
actually engaged in Missionary work, and to show his
respect and esteem, as he expressed it, for the priests of
Lisbon College working in his Diocese, appointed Dr.
Ilsley to the Mission of Scorton, where for some time he
did Missionary duty. He soon however began to be
afflicted with an almost total loss of sight, and at length
worn out in body and mind he died on the 3oth of
August, 1868.

He was born at Maple Durham, on December 20,
1805, and he entered the College on June 29, 1819. In
1829, IIG was admitted amongst the Superiors, and
appointed Procurator, and on the death of Father Le
Clerc became Vice-President, an office which he held
until the death of Dr. Winstanley in 1852, whom he
succeeded as President in 1854. He was a man of
remarkable ability and activity and his devoted labours
during many years in favour of the children of the poor,
which have already been detailed, are evidence of the
eminent charity which actuated him. It was in con
sideration of his labours in the cause of the free education
of the poor that Queen Donna Maria Secunda conferred
iipon him the honour of Knight Commander of the
Order of Christ, and on one occasion at least she was
pleased to manifest her esteem, and to promote the good
work in which he was engaged, by graciously favouring
with her presence a grand concert which had been
organized for this purpose.

Another proof of the very high reputation which he
enjoyed was his selection by Stephanie, the Queen Con
sort of Don Pedro V, to be her Confessor, an office which
he continued to hold until his departure for England.
He taught successively for many years the Philosophical
and Theological Classes, and his chief efforts as Presi
dent were directed towards raising the standard of

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proficiency in all the branches of study throughout the
College. He was a devoted son of Alma Mater to whose
interests from the time of his appointment as Superior
he had devoted thirty-three years of his life, and by the
services he had rendered to all classes in Lisbon and by
his own personal high character, preserved for her that
esteem from the public in general which she had
hitherto enjoyed.

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RIGHT REV. MONSIGNOR PETER BAINES, D.D.

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CHAPTER XV.

ON the resignation of Dr. Ilsley the government of
the House devolved upon Dr. Peter Baines the Vice-
President, pending the definite appointment of a Presi
dent. For the first time, in accordance with the Rescript
of Pius IX, already mentioned, the selection of a name
to be recommended to Rome for the position rested with
the English Bishops. There seemed to exist a wide
spread feeling that one who by practical experience was
better acquainted with the requirements of the Mission,
than any who had passed their lives in the College could
possibly be, ought to be chosen for the Presidentship,
and after a protracted delay, the choice of the Bishops
fell upon the Rev. Thomas Barge, Rector of St. Patrick's,
Soho Square, London, who himself was an alumnus of
the College. After much hesitation he yielded to the
strong and unanimous opposition to his departure from
amongst them made by his parishioners, and begged
that he* might be permitted to decline the proffered
appointment. His request was acceded to, and after
further considerable delay, Dr. Peter Baines, in 1865^
was installed as President.

The departure to England at this time of two of the
Superiors, which had been preceded by that of a third in
the previous year, necessitated the reorganization of the
staff and on the invitation of the President, Dr. Laurence
Richmond after an absence of seven years returned to
the College as Vice-President, and the other vacancies
were filled up. For several years from this date, nothing
of interest deserving record took place, but in 1872, the
College sustained a serious loss by the death of Dr.
Richmond the Vice-President. For a considerable time
his health had been failing, so much so that in the

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previous year it had been found necessary to free him
both from the burthen of his office and the duties as
Professor of Theology. On February 7 in this year, his
illness, which had been protracted and very painful and
yet borne with exemplary patience, proved fatal at the
comparatively early age of fifty- nine.

Dr. Richmond deserves more than a passing notice.
He was born in Wyersdale in Lancashire, on January
26, 1813, and entered the College on January 27, 1828.
From this time, with the exception of the seven years
which he spent upon the English Mission, his whole
life had been passed in the College. Though not gifted
with remarkable talents, yet by his industry and appli
cation he was enabled to fill with credit and success
the various Professorships to which in succession he
was appointed. He was well versed in the Classics, a
proficient teacher of Humanities, and creditably dis
charged the duties of Professor of Theology and Sacred
Scripture. In addition to a competent knowledge of the
French and Portuguese languages, he had acquired a
very considerable acquaintance with Hebrew, in which
for a time he held from the Portuguese Government, the
appointment of Examiner. Nature had gifted him with
a remarkable musical taste to which his numerous com
positions, some of which he published, but especially the
beautiful Responsories for the Tenebrse Office in Holy
Week bear witness.

He was likewise of a kind and lovable nature which
attracted the affection and confidence of the students,
towards whom he ever displayed a truly paternal dispo
sition. He merited well of the College, and the great
and wide-spread regret evinced at his death, as well by
those within its walls as by the numerous friends with
out, is the best evidence of his worth. There are many
still living who will ever bear a grateful recollection
in their hearts of Dr. Laurence Richmond. He was
succeeded in the Vice-Presidentship by the Rev. Dr.
Duckett, at present a member of the Cathedral Chapter
of Northampton and Rector of the magnificent church of

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DR. LAURENCE RICHMOND.

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St. John, Norwich, raised by the munificence of his
Grace the Duke of Norfolk, E.M. of England.

The term during which Dr. Baines held the office of
President extended over seventeen years, from 1865 to
1882. Previous to his appointment as successor to Dr.
Ilsley, his long experience as Procurator had given him
a good business capacity, and even prior to his election
he had manifested in a variety of ways his solicitude for
the health and comfort of the students. During his
tenure of office, out of resources bequeathed to him by
friends in Portugal, he was enabled to make extensive
improvements in the country houses both at Euz and at
Pera. To the premises at L^uz he added several commo
dious rooms over which he erected a dormitory of ample
dimensions, and greatly improved by additions the
domestic chapel ; while at Pera he added two stories to
the original building, thus making it sufficiently large
to accommodate under the same roof the entire Commun
ity. In 1874 he was raised by Pius IX to the dignity of
Domestic Prelate. At length, after showing signs for a
considerable period of failing health, on August 6, 1882,
he was found dead in his bed at the Villa of lyiiz, having
succumbed to a stroke of apoplexy, in the seventy-second
year of his age. His body was transferred to L/isbon,
and a solemn Requiem celebrated for him in the College
Church, and he was laid to rest in the public cemetery of
the city, called the Prazeres. He was a native of Preston
in I^ancashire, born on September n, 1810, and entered
the College on August 10, 1824, in which, therefore, at
the time of his death he had passed fifty-eight years of
his life. He had filled the various offices of Procurator,
Vice-President and President, and the College, for which

o '

he always cherished the deepest affection, is much in
debted to him for many material improvements which he
was enabled to carry out. Amongst these should be
mentioned the improved entrance to the college.

The Rev. J. Bamber, who on his retirement from the
Mission in England some years before had been received
as Superior into the College, was authorized to exercise

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RIGHT REV. MONSIGNOR WILLIAM HILTON.

HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF LISBON COLLEGE. 159

the duties of President until a successor to Mgr. Baines
should have been appointed. The choice of Leo XIII
fell upon the Very Rev. William Hilton, then Provost
of the Chapter of the Diocese of Shrewsbury who entered
upon the duties of his office on September 6, 1883. In
the June of the following year intimation having been
conveyed to him by the Nuncio that His Holiness would
be pleased if he paid a visit to Rome, he proceeded
thither and was kindly received by the Pope and raised
to the dignity of Domestic Prelate, returning to Lisbon
on January n, 1885. Ever since his appointment he has
had to contend with difficulties arising from the dimin
ished resources of the College. The conversion of their
Public Debt by many of the countries in whose Securi
ties the funds of the Establishment had been invested,
has greatly diminished its revenue, and necessitated an
economy of expenditure much to be regretted. In 1896
it was discovered that very serious and expensive repairs
could no longer be delayed, as the roof both of the house
and church had become so far deteriorated, that mere
partial repairs were absolutely impracticable. A com
plete reroofing of the Establishment was accordingly
decided upon, and it is pleasing to record, as indicating
the affection of her sons for Alma Mater, that many
Lisbon priests on the Mission willingly came forward
with subscriptions to the object, and have thus very
materially aided in the completion of the work, which
has been carried out in the most thorough and satisfac
tory manner.

The redecoration of the interior of the College Church
which in the straitened state of the finances it had been
impossible to attempt was, in 1898, provided for by the
Right Rev. Monsignor James Lennon, Notary Apos
tolic, an alumnus of the College, who whilst on a visit
generously gave for this purpose the munificent donation
of ;£iooo. On the same occasion an additional burse for
the education of one student was established by the Very
Rev. William Canon Croft of Lincoln, who also is an
alumnus of the College.

l6o HISTORICAL ACCOUNT OF LISBON COLLEGE.

Here ends the sketch of this ancient College, whose
history from its establishment, in 1622, comprises a
period of two hundred and seventy-nine years. It
suffices to show that the College has not unworthily ful
filled the great end for which it was originally founded,
and that it may rightfully claim from the Church in
England a grateful recognition of the services which it
has rendered in the past to religion in this country.

APPENDIX

(161)

II

APPENDIX. 163

APPENDIX No. I.

Exponi siquidem nobis nuper fecit dilectus filius,
Joannes Bennettus, cleri Anglican! apnd Sedem Apos-
tolicam agens, quod dilectus etiam filius Petrus de
Coutinho Portugallensis, periclitanti apud Anglos fidei
Catholicse pro suis viribus succurrere cupiens in civitate
Ulyssiponensi Seminarium (in quo Anglicanse nationis
juvenes pietate et cloctrina instituerentur, ut maturi jam
et in Patriam reversi, fidei tuendse et propagandse sed-
ulam iiavarent operam) fundavit, dictoque seminario,
pro ejus dote ac alumiiorum pro tempore existentium
sustentatione, reditus annuos usque .ad summam quin-
gentorum scutorum auri ascendentes, et pro domibus
vel emendis vel extruendis quinque millia scutorum
similium assignavit, quibus et plura in posterum, in
operis hujus incrementum, additurum se spondet. Im-
mediatum vero regimen hujus Seminarii penes eumdem
clerum Anglicanum prsedictus Fundator esse voluit.

Nos igitur Joannis et Petri praedictorum votis

benigne annuere volentes iisdem Seminarii

Rectori et alumnis pro tempore existentibus, ut omnibus
et singulis privilegiis gratiis et indultis tain spiritualibus
quam temporalibus quibus alia hujusmodi seminaria
gaudent pari modo uti, frui gaudere libere et licite

valeant, concedimus et indul genius Volumus ant

ut ejusdem Seminarii alumni pro tempore existentes jura-
meiitum de redeundo in Angiiam suo tempore praestare
omnino teneantur. Datum Romse apud Sanctam
Mariam ]\lajorem sub annulo piscatoris die 22 Sep-
tembris 1622 pontificatus nostri anno secundo.

S. Cardinalis S. Suscenna.

164 APPENDIX.

APPENDIX No. II.

Copy of Petition to the Holy Sec, from tiic Lisboniati
Society, 1879.

BEATISSIME PATER!

Sacerdotes oliin alumni Venerabilis Collegii SS.
Apostolormn Petri et Pauli Ulyssiponensis, nuinero
circiter septuaginta, ad pedes Tuae Sanctitatis provoluti,
enixis precibus supplicant tain suo quam aliorum alum-
noruin nomine, qui vel praesenti tempore in supradicto
Collegio degunt, vel futuris temporibus in eodem suorum
studiorum curriculum sunt perfecturi, ut Beatitudo Tua
onus ipsis impositum unam singulis mensibus missam
pro fundatoribus offerendi relaxare dignetur.

Hsec obligatio sequenti modo ipsis fuit imposita :
anno 1778 Summits Pontifex, pise recordationis, Pius
papa VI, reductionem inissarum Rectori supralaudati
Collegii concedens, addidit ; " ut autem aliqua in ejus-
inodi reductione compensatio fiat, Sanctitas Sua mandavit
ut oinnes alumni, qui in dicto Seminario tain inprsesens
degunt, quam imposterum futuri sunt, postquam ex
praefato Collegio discesserint, inissae Sacrificium semel
singulis mensibus applicare teneantur pro animabus
illorum, qui reducta onera inissarum eidein Seminario
reliquerint."

Quidain ex Ordinariis nostris, Reverendissimis
Anglise Episcopis, de existentia supradicti oneris cer-
tiores facti, declaravere se magnopere desiderare ut,
quatenus justitia sinat, ac S. Sedi videatur, ab obligatione

APPENDIX NO. II. 165

tarn onerosa alumni praefati Collegii liberentur. Insuper
sequentia Oratores hiimillime veniam petunt subjun-
gendi argumenta.

i°* quod per centum jam annos hoc onus perduraverit,
et durante isto temporis spatio, (quantum judicare fas
est) missae imperatae semper fideliter fuerint exoneratae.

2°* quod plurimi in Anglia sacerdotes vitam ducant
pauperrimam, et proinde missarum eleemosynis valde
indigeant.

3°' quod iidem in Anglia sacerdotes quam plurimis
gravati sint missarum oneribus, pro quibus stipendium
nullum accipiunt, sc :

(a) applicandi missam, saltern ex caritate, singulis diebus

Dominicis et festis nunc vel olim de praecepto, pro
iis quorum cura ipsis est demandata.

(b) dicendi missam ad intentionem benefactorum earum,
quibus iiiserviunt, Ecclesiarum, quod frequentissime
accidit.

(c) offerendi S. Missae Sacrificium semel singulis mensi-
bus pro Sociis et Benefactoribus vivis atque defunctis
Societatis vulgo dictse " Sacerdotum saecularium ;"
quae quidem Societas ipsis in senectute vel confracta
valetudine existentibus sola spes est in hac vita,
siquidem ipsa tune est eis alimentum praebitura.

(d) applicandi semel missae Sacrificium pro singulis
ejusdem Societatis Sociis et benefactoribus recenter
defunctis.

(e) dicendi quoque missam pro singulis sacerdotibus
defunctis, qui ad hoc u Pacto Communi" se con-
strinxerunt, (Cone. Ill Westmon. app. III.)

4°* quod simili obligatione non teneantur alumni aliorum
Collegiorum.

5°' et maxime omnium, quod hocce tempore res sese
omnino aliter habeant quoad alumnorum educationem
et sustentationem in Collegio Ulyssiponensi, quam
tempore reductionis missarum; nunc enim alumni vel
omnes expensas solvunt per se vel per alios, vel saltern
medietatem vel partem earum ; cum econtra tempore

l66 APPENDIX NO. II.

reductionis alumni gratis sustentationem acciperent e
Collegii ipsins proventibus.

Supradicti Oratores his nixi rationibus preces snas
supplices porrigunt, et Sanctitatem Tuam rogant lit, si
forte quavis ex causa contigerit qiiempiam supradictae
obligation! defuisse, Sanctitas Tna plenam auctoritate
Apostolica condonationem largiri, et onus dicendi mis-
sam singulis mensibus extingtiere, et oratoribus Apostol-
icam Benedictionem impertiri, dignetur.

Et Dens etc.
Pro Societate Alnmnorum dicti Collegii,

GULIELMUS PR^EPOSITUS BROWNE,

Ejusdem Societatis Prseses.

HENRICUS BROWNE,

Secretarius.

Suprascriptam Alumnorum Collegii Ulyssiponensis
petitionem omnino approbans, Saiictae Sedis prudentiae
eamdem humillime commendo,

HENRICUS E. CARDINALIS MANNING,

Archiepiscopus Westmonasteriensis.
Londini, Die 28°' Maii 1879.

(The petition was sent to Propaganda by H. E.
Cardinal Manning, on May 28th, 1879.

Ex Audientia SSmi die, Jnnii, 1880.

S Smus Dominus Noster Leo Divina Providentia P.
P. XIII., referente infrascripto S. Congnis de Propaganda
Fide Secretario, benigne annuere dignatus est pro gratia
dispensatioiiis juxta petita, ea tamen condition e ut
Oratores, de qnibns in precibns, pro una vice tanttim
Missam celebrent.

Datum Romae ex and. S. Congnis die et anno ut supra.
Gratis quocumque titulo,

J. MAJOTTE, Secretarius.

APPENDIX No. III.

REGISTER

COMPILKD BY

JOSEPH GIIvLOW, ESQ

(167)

REGISTER. 169

REGISTER

Compiled from lists sent from tlie College at various
periods, extracts from the Annals, also from the old Register
now lost, and from other sources of information collected by
Joseph Gillcxv, Esq.

ABRAM, James Benedict, born Apr. 7, 1861, son of Thomas
Abram, of Ormskirk, co. Lancaster, and his wife Maria
Leonard, admitted Sept. 6, 1883, alumnus Feb. 18, 1888,
ord. priest Feb. 15, and left Apr. 7, 1891 ; at St. Wer-
burgh's, Chester, 1891-97 ; St. Laurence's, Birkenhead,
1897-8 ; Edgeley, 1898 to date.

ADAMS, Rowland, probably of the family seated at Marston-
Montgomery, co. Derby ; alumnus Nov. 9, 1692 ; ord.
SLibdeacon and deacon in May, 1693 ; sent English
mission, Dec. 22, 1702.

AIXSWORTH, Joseph, admitted June 23, 1732, on Revell's
Fund, became an alumnus Sept. 15, J737; died in the
College Jan. u, 1738.

AKERS, James, born Aug. 22, 1763, son of Thomas Akers
and his wife Catherine Lee, of Winton, co. Middlesex ;
bapt. by Rev. P. T. Savage ; went Sedgley Park
School ; admitted Feb. 16, 1782 ; ord. priest Dec. 20,
1788 ; left for English mission, Aug. 1791.

ALLAN, John, vide Woolfe.

ALLANSON, John, alias Reynolds, born 1642, son of John
Allanson and Marv Reynolds his wife, of Yorkshire,
admitted March 12, 1659 ; alumnus Sept. 5, 1663.

ALLEN, Jerome, son of Antonio Gome/- and Mary Allen his
wife, of London, born Nov. 23, 1730; bapt. by Rev. Jno.
Hardcastle and confirmed by Bp. Challoner ; admitted
May 16, 1/44, on the Thatcher Fund; appointed pro
fessor of philosophy July 7, 1755 ; ord. priest June 12,

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1756; became professor of theology May 14, 1774 ; at
Douay College, Nov. 3, 1776, till Apr. 23, 1777 ; returned
to Lisbon and continued in the chair of theology till
Aug. 7, 1780. Died in the College in 1814.

ap DAVID, Robert, vide Edwards.

ARKWRIGHT, James, born Sept. 10, 1868, son of William
Arkwright and his wife Elizabeth Spencer, of Ormskirk,
Lancashire; admitted Sept. n, 1889; ord. priest Dec.
22, 1894; left Apr. 25, 1895; at St. Laurence's, Birken-
head, 1895-8 ; Edgeley, 1898-1902 ; Middlewich.

ARNOLD, Henry, born May 6, 1742,5011 of John Arnold and
Winefred his wife, of Everton, co. Lancaster ; bapt. by
Fr. Win. Clifton, S.J., and confirmed May, 1755, by Bp.
Petre ; admitted Aug. 23, 1757, on the Triple Trust ;
alumnus Sept. 15, 1762 ; died in the College, Jan. 17,
1766.

ARROWSMITH, Roger, born at Inglewhite, Lancashire,
Dec. 30, 1823 ; went Stonyhurst College, 1836-41 ; ad
mitted June 27, 1843 ; ord. priest Dec. 21, 1850 ; left July
13, 1851 ; at Lytham, 1851-2 ; St. Nicholas', Liver
pool, 1852 ; St. Patrick's Liverpool, 1852-8 ; Hermeston
Grange, Oldcotes, co. Notts, 1858-9 ; Lytham, 1859-79 ;
Poulton-le-Fylde, 1879-85 ; died at Lytham, Feb. 27,
1886, aged 62.

ARUNDEL, Richard, vere Charnock, born at Hulcott, co.
Beds., eld. son of John Charnock or Chernocke, of
Hulcott, Esq., (descended from the Charnocks of Char
nock Richard, co. Lancaster), by Eliz. his wife, daughter
of Sir John Arundel, of Lanherne, co. Cornwall, Knt. ;
after completing humanities at Douay College, made a
pilgrimage to Rome early in pontificate of Urban VIII,
thence returned Douay, finished his course of philosophy
and visited England in 1625 ; returned a second time to
Douay in 1627, for the purpose of accompanying Anthony
Morgan in a continental tour, but both abandoned their
intention, and instead decided to join the new foundation
at Lisbon, and dedicate their lives to the mission.
Admitted Nov. 22, 1628, died a scholastic in the College,
a month and a half after his friend Morgan, Sept. 26,
1631. His only brother, Sir Robt. Chernocke, succeeded
to the estate, and by Agnes his wife, clau. of Oliver,
Lord St. John of Bletsho, and sister of the first earl of

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Bolingbroke, was father of Sir Robert Chernocke, created
bart. by Charles II. in 1661, whose wife Audrey Villiers,
was niece to the first duke of Buckingham.

ASHMALL, Ferdinand, born Jan. 9, 1695, son of Thomas
Ashmall, Esq., of Amerston, co. Durham. The family
name was originally Asmall, and was seated at Asmall,
near Ormskirk, co. Lancaster. Ferdinand's grandfather
was the first to settle at Amerston, his wife being Doro
thy, dau. of Ferdinand Huddleston, of Millom Castle, co.
Cumberland, Esq. Admitted Aug. 9, 1711 ; alumnus
May 23, 1715 ; ord. priest, and left for English mission
Apr. 25, 1723. For about four years was chaplain to
Miss Mary Salvin, in Old Elvet, Durham, but in conse
quence of ill health retired to his father's house at Amer
ston, and attended to wants of Catholics in that district.
There remained till 1744, when succeeded Mr. John
Debord alias Davison (who removed to Salwick Hall,
Lancashire) to the mission at Newhouse, Esh, near
Durham, where spent remainder of days, and died Feb. 5,
1698, aged 104. He was buried within the communion
rails of Esh chapel. One or two other members of his
family lived to be almost centenarians. T\vo of his
uncles were priests, Ferdinand and John, both educated
and ordained at the English College, at Rome. Ferdin
and, born 1651, was chaplain to the Earl of Derwentwater,
at Dilston, for many years, but died Apr. 12, 1712, at
Old Elvet, Durham, where he contributed largely to the
erection of the priest's house, and left the residue of his
property to the fund for the maintenance of the incum
bent. John, born 1653, lived several years as chaplain in
the Salvin family, and died in Durham about 1706.

ASHTOX, Charles, born March 8, 1769, son of Thomas
Ashton, of Dutton Lodge, co. Chester, Esq., (of the
ancient family of Ashton of Croston, co. Lancaster), by
Anne Massey, his wife ; confirmed by Bp. Matt. Gibson ;
went Sedgley Park School, 1785 ; admitted Oct. 10,
1792 ; ord. priest ; died in the College, July 22, 1797.

ASTOX, Nicholas, born Staffordshire, probably younger son
of Sir Walter Aston, of Tixall, arrived at the English
College, Rheims, Oct. 9, 1589, and assumed the alias of
Anthony Wahvyn, probably after some relative ; received
tonsure, Aug. 18, 1590 ; left for English Seminary at Valla-

172 REGISTP:R.

dolid, Sept. 29, and arr. Dec. 15, 1590 ; ord. priest ; joined
the College at Seville, upon its establishment, in 1592 ;
came to Lisbon in Apr. 1597, where became rector of the
English residence, projected foundation of College, pur
chased a house for the purpose, and dying, bequeathed it
to Ralph Sleighford, alias William Newman, q.r.

ASTON, William, fourth son of Walter, second Baron Aston
of Forfar, by Mary, second daughter of Richard, Lord
\Veston, high treasurer of England ; born at Tixall, co.
Stafford ; admit. Jan. 3, 1667 ; ob. s.p., possibly a
priest.

ATHERTON, Richard, admitted March 14, 1876; alumnus
Dec. 20, 1883 ; ord. priest, Jan. 29, 1887 ; appointed a
superior, and now procurator.

AYLIFFE, Anthony, vide Loveden.

AYLEWORTH, Matthew, son of John Ayleworth, of Liang-
oven, co. Monmouth, Esq., admitted Sept. 4, 1636 ; ord.
priest June 13, 1641 ; left for English mission Apr. 12, 1642.

BAINES, Peter, born at Carside, near Liverpool, nephew to
Bishop Peter Augustine Baines, O.S.B., V.A.-W.D. ;
admitted Aug. 13, 1824 ; ord. priest ; vice-president, D.D.,
and president ; died in the College, Aug. 6, 1882.

BAINES, W7illiam, born at Chorley, Lancashire, 1820 ; ad
mitted May 30, 1834 ; ord. priest ; left July 10, 1845 ;
at Warwick-street, London, 1846 ; afterwards served
St. Aloysius', Somers To\vn, for seven years, when
removed to Witham, Essex, where he remained for thirty-
six years, till obliged to retire from the mission owing to
ill health ; died at Barnet, Jan. 29, 1891, aged 70, and
buried at Witham.

BALDWIN, John, vide Langton.

BAMBER, John, born at Salford, Oct. 20, 1819, son of
Thomas Bamber of Preston, subsequently of Salford and
Manchester ; admitted Nov. 18, 1832 ; alymnus Nov. .16,
1839 ; ord. priest ; left Oct. 1843 ; at Sunderland, Durham,
1843-77 > Canon of Hexham 1856 to date ; returned to
Lisbon, 1877-87 ; retired to Windermere, 1887-90 ; Brent-
wood, 1890—3 ; Windermere, 1893 to date.

BANKES, Peter, vide Metcalfe.

BARGE, Thomas John, went to Old Hall, July 1831-9;
admitted March n, 1839; alumnus Dec. 13, 1844; ord.

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priest ; left July 6, 1847 ; at St. Patrick's, Soho, 1847,
till death, Oct. 13, 1885.

BARKER, Edward, ord. priest here, and died in London in
1684. Probably identical with Edward Barker, alias
Vernalty who was at Douay College, on the apostolic
pension, 1642-5 ; took the College oath, June 19, 1642,
and that of the profession of faith, May 20, 1644. He
was made archdeacon of the Chapter in 1649.

BARKER, Thomas, vide Kelly.

BARLOW, Edward, vide Booth.

BARNARD, James, born London, March 26, 1733, son of
James Barnard and his wife Margaret Brown, protestants,
was educated at the Bluecoat School, after which was
employed for some time in a mercantile house in Seville,
where became a Catholic, and was received into the
English College in that city. He was conditionally bap
tized by Fr. Hieronymo de Hercc, March 23, 1756, and
was confirmed by D. Dominico Perez de Rivera, Episcopo
Gadarensi, March 23, 1757. There he was ord. priest,
July 24, 1757 ; on July 19, 1758, he was admitted into
the English College at Lisbon, where he studied theology,
twice defending public theses, till July 17, 1761, when he
was sent to the English mission. For some time he was
chaplain at Cowdray, Sussex, where his first baptism is
dated T2th Jan., 1762. How long he stayed there is not
known, perhaps till the young protestant Viscount Mon
tague came into possession in 1767. His missionary labours
then seem to have been transferred to London, or vicinity,
until his presentation by bishops Challoner and James
Talbot to the presidency of the College at Lisbon, Aug.
5, 1776. He was formally installed Jan. 21, 1777, and
so continued till his resignation in 1782. Returning to
London, he succeeded the Rev. Joseph Bolton in the
spiritual charge of the convent school at Brook Green,
and also as Vicar General to Bishop Talbot, V.A.-L.D.,
in which office he died at his residence, 4, Castle-street,
Holborn, Sept. 12, 1803, aged 70. Mr. Barnard was a
member of the Old English Chapter. He published the
following works : (i) " Life of .... Richard Challoner,"
Lond., 1784 ; Dublin, 1793. (2) " Life of Ven. B.Joseph
Labre," Lond., Coghlan, 1785, 12°, a translation. (3)
"A Catechism," Lond., 1786, 12°, pp. 84. (4) "The

174 REGISTER.

Apostolical Missions," Lond., 1786. (5) "The Divinity
of our Lord Jesus Christ." Lond., 1789. (6) "Every
Families Assistant, at Complin, Benediction, Night
Prayers .... and other Devotions." Lond., Coghlan,
1789, 16°. (7) "A Dialogue." Lond., 1793. (8) "A
General View of the Arguments for the Divinity of
Christ." Lond., 1793.

BARNESLEY, John, vide Perrot.

BARNEY, Thomas Gilpin, admitted Nov. 27, 1895 ; ord.
priest Mar. 23, and left Apr. 10, 1901 ; now at Torquay.

BARRETT, George, alias Martin, son of Thomas Barrett, of
a good family in Warwickshire, at the age of fourteen
came to Lisbon, and admitted Mar. 8, 1652 ; alumnus
Oct. 10, 1655, and defended universal philosophy and
divinity under Mr. Barnesley ; ord. priest Mar. 7, 1661 ;
appointed prefect of studies and procurator, Aug. 24, 1664 ;
professor of philosophy, Sept. 20, 1667, and confessor,
Dec. 2, 1668. Soon after left College for England, and
Shropshire seems to have been the seat of his missionary
labours. Under the chapter-government was Archdeacon
of half of Hereford and Shropshire, his election taking
place on Sept. 10, 1673 ; and when Bishop Leyburne
became Vicar-Apostolic he appointed him rural dean of
Salop and Cheshire. It is probable that he succeeded the
Rev. William Wall at Longford, after that good priest's
murder, near Leicester, whilst travelling to see his friends
in Norfolk, in May, 1671. Longford Hall, near Newport,
Salop, was the seat of the Hon. Mr. Thomas Talbot, son
of John, Earl of Shrewsburv. Mr. Barrett was certainly
there in 1693, and died Aug. 15, 1699, aged 61, "a very
worthy person and sincere clergyman [i.e. chapter-man]
and lover of the public," says Mr. Ward, secretary to the
Old Chapter, adding, " This testimony is due to him
from me, and from all that knew him."

BARRY, Michael, admitted Oct. 31, 1875; alumnus Dec. 20,
1883 ; ord. priest Jan. 29, 1887, and sent to St. Mary's
College, Woolhampton ; now at Southampton.

BARRY, Richard, admitted Oct. 12, 1865 ; alumnus Dec. 10,
1869 ; ord. priest ; left Jan. 23, 1873 ; at Standish Hall,
1873-93 ; Chorley, 1894 to date.

BASKERVILLE, William, vide Bodenham.

BEAUMONT, John, vide Poyntz.

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BEGGAN, Michael, admitted Sept. 27, 1865 ; ord. priest Dec.
18, 1869 ; left May 29, 1870, for Liverpool ; now at
Bootle, and canon.

BENNET, John, vide Hanmer.

BENSON, John Henry, admitted Sept. 24, 1879 ; alumnus
Feb. 18, 1888 ; left Nov. 16, 1889 ; went to Salford Sem
inary, and ord. priest Aug. 10, 1890; Ashton-under-Lyne,
1891-2 ; retired to Plymouth, invalided, 1892 ; and died
Oct. 21, 1893.

BERNARD, Gerard, alias Woodbury, educated at Twyford
School, near Winchester, received his religious instruction
from Rev. Robert Berry, who induced Bishop Giffard to
recommend him to Dr. Ingleton, principal of St. Gregory's
Seminary at Paris. There he was received, Dec. 2, 1729,
but was placed for some years at Piapuse, which at that
time served as a nursery for St. Gregory's. Was ord.
priest Dec. 19, 1739, and took the doctor's cap at the Sor-
bonne, Mar. 8, 1742. In that year he came over to Lisbon,
" When the College," says Bishop Challoner, " must have
been lost without that seasonable supply." On Dec. 17,
following, he took the oath for the office of vice-president.
After the death of President John Manley, he was pre
sented as successor, Feb. 3, 1756, by bishops Petre and
Challoner, and was installed as rector of the English
Residence, Sept. 14, 1759. He governed "with great
wisdom and judgment," till his resignation Jan. 21, 1777.
Continued to reside in the College till his death Sept. 22,
1783. Elected a canon of the Old English Chapter, Mar.
26, 1760. Was a classic in Latin and Greek, and was
master of the French, Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
languages.

BETTS, John, born in London, son of John Betts, M.D.,
physician in ordinary to Charles II. and Queen Cathar
ine, probably came here from St. Omer's College ; was
ordained subdeacon May 25, deacon May 26, and priest
May 30, 1676, and left the College for the English mission
Oct. 18, 1681. His youngest brother, James, born in
1674, went from St. Omer's to Douay College, where he
became an alumnus in 1686, but when he had completed
his course of philosophy, he expressed a wish to join the
Carthusians. To this his father was strongly opposed,
and in consequence he returned to England, married

176 REGISTER.

Frances, daughter of Mr. Sergeant Trinder, of Berry
Court, near Bentley, Hants, who bore him two sons —
John Philip, a priest and licentiate in divinity, and Joseph,
who died a student at Douay — and three daughters,
all nuns, one at Dunkirk and the others at Rouen. After
the death of his wife in 1704, he provided for the educa
tion of his children, and retired to his old college at
Douay, whence he went to Nieuport, was professed under
the name of Joseph, and died prior of the English Car
thusian monastery, Oct. 31, 1729, aged 55.

BIDDLECORNE, or Biddlecombe, Edward, alias Stanley,
born in Dorsetshire, arrived from Douay College, Nov.
14, 1628 ; ord. priest July 17, 1633 ; left for Douay College,
Sept. 8, 1633. He is probably identical with Edward
Coffin, fourth son of Richard Coffin, of Portlinch, co.
Devon, Esq., by Eliz. dau. of Leonard Loveys, of Ogbeare,
co. Cornwall, Esq., who used the alias of Martin Biddle-
combe, became archdeacon of the Chapter and vicar
general of particular district in 1656, and died Feb. 22,

i677-8.

BIGGS, Samuel Seymour, admitted Oct. 26, 1864 ; alumnus
Dec. 10, 1869 ; left Nov. 12, ord. priest Dec. 22, 1872,
and placed at Birkenhead ; subsequently at Madeley
Market, Salop, and left in 1877 for America.

BILLINGTON, John, born Sept. i, 1763, and baptized at
Ladywell, son of James Billington, and Jane his wife, of
Durton-in-Broughton, co. Lancaster; followed his brother
Thomas to Sedgley Park, and was confirmed there by
Bishop Hornyold, May 16, 1776; admitted on the Triple
Trust, Nov. 5, 1777; alumnus March 12, 1781; left the
College for the mission Feb. n, 1784.

BIMSON, Michael, born Dec. 10, 1804, and baptized by
Rev. John Kaye, son of John Bimson and Mary Lea of
Upholland, Lancashire ; admitted Jan. 13, 1818 ; alumnus
Apr. i, 1823 ; ord. priest ; left for mission Apr. n, 1828 ;
assistant to Rev. Andrew Macartney at Sheffield, whence
removed to St. Mary's, Wigan, where died Aug. 9, 1830,
aged 25.

BIRD, Christopher, alias Mahon ; alumnus Sept. 7, 1686;
ord. priest ; sent to English mission, Dec. 23, 1689.

BIRTWISTLE, Richard, alias Halliwell, was no doubt a
scion of the ancient Catholic family of Birtwistle of

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Himcote, Co. Lancaster, which returned a pedigree at
Dugdale's Visitation in 1664. His mother was probably
a daughter of \Vm. Halliwell, of Liverpool, gent., whose
family was allied with those of Nelson of Fairhurst,
Molyneux of The Wood, and others of the Lancashire
squirearchy. Admitted Aug. 17, 1727, on Dr. Thos.
Godden's Fund ; ord. priest Feb. 17, 1737 ; appointed
prefect of studies Mar. 31, 1738 ; vice-president Oct. 31,
1739 ; and left the College for England Jan. 31, 1741.
For a brief period he was stationed at Bunbury and
Spurston, co. Chester, but left mission in the same year
for Claughton Hall, Lancashire, where he died Jan. 26,
1742-3. He used the alias of Halliwell on the mission.

BISHOP, Francis, vide Victor.

BISSAGER, Isaac, alias John, admitted March 28, 1764, on
Dr. Thos. Godden's Fund ; died in the College, May 26,
1769.

BIX, Nicholas, probably a near relative of the two English
Franciscans of his name ; alumnus Nov. 30, 1697 » orc^
priest ; sent England Dec. 22, 1702.

BLACKBURNE, Richard, vide Taylor.

BLACKLOE, Thomas, vide White!!

BLACOE, Christopher, vide Tootell.

BLACOE, Joseph, alias Walton, of Lancashire ; alumnus
March 30, 1697 » or<^' Priest '•> leit f°r mission Jan. 24,
1703 ; died in Bedfordshire, Apr. 2, 1740.

BLEASDALE, John I., admitted Mar. 22, 1836; alumnus
May 15, 1842 ; ord. priest ; left Apr. 7, 1843 > at Bishop's
House, Northampton, 1843-5 ' Weedon, 1845-7 » Ayles-
bury, 1847-8 ; Wolverton, 1848-50. Died in Australia.

BLEVIN, James, baptized by Rev. Robert Morgan, Sept. 18,
1732, son of Richard Blevin of London, and his wife
Jane Amerstone ; admitted on the Thatcher Fund, Aug.
n, 1745; alumnus Dec. 19, 1750; minor orders Sept. 19,
1755. His brother William became an alumnus of Douay
College at the age of 24, in his second year's philosphy,
Dec. 28, 1758. One of these brothers either succeeded
the Rev. Jas. Barnard at Cowdray, Sussex, or attended
to that mission from Easebourne for some years before
1779, when the Rev. Richard Antrobus recommenced
the register at Easebourne.

BLOUNT, Gilbert, born in Shropshire, son of James Blountr
12

178 REGISTER.

Esq., admitted July 7, 1640 ; ord. priest, July 30, 1645 ;
left for England, Apr. 3, 1647.

BLOUNT, James Walter, born 1622, in Staffordshire, son of
Francis Blount, Esq. ; admitted Apr. 27, 1643 » orc^' priest
Mar. 12, 1649; lefr for England Mayi, 1650, but entered
the English Bridgettine Monastery at Lisbon, and there
was professed under the religious name of Jerome ; died
at Syon Abbey, Aug. 17, 1694, aged 72.

BLOUNT, Thomas, born in Shropshire, son of James Blount,
Esq. ; admitted Oct. i, 1635, and commenced philosophy ;
ord. priest June 13, 1641 ; left for the English mission by
way of Holland, Apr. 12, 1642. His missionary life was
spent in his native county, where, after a few years, he
was apprehended, brought to the bar on account of his
priestly character, and died a confessor of the Faith
under sentence of death in Shrewsbury gaol.

BLUNDELL, James, born Aug. 21, 1768, and baptized at
Scarisbrick, co. Lancaster, by Fr. Raymond Harris, S.J.,
son of James Blundell and his wife Anne Gill ; educated at
Rev. Simon George Bordley's school at Newhouse, Augh-
ton, who sent him to the College ; admitted Oct. 10,
1787 ; ord. priest ; in 1799 was appointed to take charge
of the mission at Stockport, Cheshire, purchased a site at
Edgeley for a new chapel, the foundation of which was
laid in 1802, and the chapel, dedicated to SS. Philip and
James, opened May i, 1803 ; withdrew to Great Single
ton, in the Fylde, Lancashire, in 1825, an^ there died
Sept. 7, 1839, aged 71. A tablet to his memory at
Edgeley calls him founder of that chapel.

BODENHAM, William, rt/msBaskerville, born 1630, third son
of William Bodenham, Esq., of Bryngwyn, co. Hereford,
by Jane, dau. and heiress of Richard Wright of Swilley,
co. Derby, and relict of Thomas Fleet, of Hollow, co.
Worcester. His grandfather was Sir Roger Bodenham,
K.B. of Rotherwas, co. Hereford, and his grandmother
was Bridget, dau. of Sir Humphrey Baskerville, Knt., of
Erdisley Castle, co. Hereford. Admitted Apr. n, 1649;
oath Mar. 28, ord. subdeacon Apr. 12, and deacon June
7, 1653, but left for France May 29, 1654. He returned to
England, and marr. the dau. of John Dannett, of Bosbury.

BOLNEY, Robert, admitted Apr. 3, 1687, on Salvin's Fund,
which was afterwards given up ; alumnus Dec. 21, 1701 ;

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ord. priest ; became a superior May 24, 1705, and was
appointed prefect of studies Dec. I, 1714, which office he
seems to have held till Sept. 1719.

BOLTON, Richard, admitted Dec. 27, 1826 ; alumnus Dec. 8,
1834 ; ord. priest ; left July 30, 1837 ; at Leyburn, Bedale,
co. York, 1837, till death, Nov. 13, 1866.

BOND, Thomas, vide Pierce.

BOND, William Peter, born Aug. i, 1811, son of Wm. Vincent
and Nancy Bond, of St. Maugan's parish, Cornwall ; went
Sedgley Park, 1822-4 5 admitted Jan. 19, 1824 ; ord.
priest, Mar. 29, 1835 '•> ^e^ June 7' I^35 '•> at Swansea,
1835-9 '•> Marnhull, 1839-40 ; Chideock, 1840-4 ; accom
panied Bp. Willson to Van Dieman's Land, Jan. 29, 1844 ;
returned to England, and died May 26, 1888.

BONVILLE, Francis ; admitted July 30, 1676 ; alumnus Sept.
8, 1677 ; prefect of studies and procurator, Jan. 10, 1682 ;
left for English mission Nov. 8, 1684. He was probably
a nephew of Fr. Antony Bonville, S.J., son of Humphrey
Bonville, Esq., of Canford, co. Dorset.

BOOTH, Edward, alias Barlow, son of Richard Booth, bap
tized at Warrington, Dec. 15, 1639, had the venerable
martyr, Dom Ed\v. Ambrose Barlow, O.S.B., for his
godfather, and hence assumed the name of Barlow, on
admittance to the College, Sept. 28, 1659, by which he
passed throughout the remainder of his career ; ord.
priest Sept. 8, 1664 ; left Feb. 2, 1670 ; appointed chaplain
to Lord Langdale, at Holme Hall, Yorkshire, \vhence re
moved to the seat of the Hoghtons, Park Hall, in Charnock
Richard, Lancashire, in or about 1672. There his father,
Richard Booth, died in the following year. Mr. Barlow
was an excellent classical scholar, and is said to have had
a competent knowledge of Hebrew before his admittance
into the College. Dodd, who knew him well, says " that
few of his age were better qualified by nature for mathe
matical science," adding: " the whole system of natural
causes seeming to be lodged within him from his first
coming to the use of reason." He often assured Dodd
that his first perusal of Euclid was as easy to him as a
newspaper. His name and fame are perpetuated in his
invention of the pendulum watch, yet according to the
too frequent fate of inventors, whilst others were great
gainers by his ingenuity, Mr. Barlow would have reaped

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no benefit had not Mr. Tompion, accidentally informed
of the inventor's name, made him a present of £.200. But
Mr. Barlow's scientific invention was not confined to
clocks and watches. He constructed many most ingenious
water and other engines in various places in Lancashire,
which were eagerly copied and afterwards improved upon
by others.

For very many years before his death, Mr. Barlow was
grand-vicar (or vicar-general) for the Lancashire district,
and in this position was greatly respected. He was a zeal
ous missioner, and worked inestimable good in the neigh
bourhood of Park Hall, Strangeways, and Hindley. The
regularity of his life, his mortified appetite, and his com
passion for the poor — to whom he conformed in his dress
—were, indeed, truly apostolic. " Tho' always poor,"
says Dodd, " he always found means to relieve those that
were in necessity." He died at Park Hall, Sept. 19,
1719, aged 79. He published : "A Treatise of the origin
of Springs, Wind, and the flux and reflux of the Sea.
With Explanatory Maps." Lond. 1714, 8°. "Meteor
ological Essays." Lond. 1715, 8°. "An Exact Survey
of the Tide, explicating its production and propagation,
variety and anomaly in all parts of the. World," &c.
Lond. 1717, 2 vols. 8vo., with 12 curious maps. 2nd
edition, Lond. 1722, 8vo., in 2 parts. He also left in
MS., " A Treatise of the Eucharist," 3 vols. 4to.

BOOTH, John, alumnus July 12, 1693 ; ord. priest July I,
1696 ; sent England Dec. 4, 1697 ; for some years resided
at Cliffe Hall, near Stockton-on-Tees, a seat of the
Witham's, where died Oct. i, 1722.

BRADLEY, Peter, vide Winder.

BRADLEY, Thomas, vide Wright.

BRAILSEORD, Peter, admitted on John Woolfe's Fund ;
alumnus March 30, 1697 ; ord. priest and sent mission ;
died at Hampton, Middlesex, seat of Hon. Mrs. Porter,
Dec. 2, 1734.

BRAIN, Charles, admitted Sept. 28, 1881, left Jan. i, 1884;
went to Oscott, June 5, 1885, and ord. priest Dec. 21,
1890 ; now at Chasetown, Walsall.

BRANNIGAN, Martin, admitted Oct. 10, 1884 ; ord. priest
Dec. 22, 1894 ; left Apr. 25, 1895, for Harrow-road,
London ; now Walthamstow.

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BREERS, William, alias Harrison, probably allied to the
ancient family of Breers (or Bryers) of Walton Hall, in
Walton-cum-Fazakerley, co. Lancaster, of whom several
became priests and nuns; admitted Sept. n, 1716, on
the Radcliffe Fund ; alumnus Oct. 28, 1723 ; appointed
procurator April 23, 1727 ; left for the English mission
Dec. 19, 1728, and placed at Alston Lane, near Preston,
Lancashire, where died Oct. 23, 1741.

BRENNAN, John, admitted Oct. 12, 1874 ; left Mar. 7, 1879 ;
proceeded to U'chawr, and ord. priest July 25, 1
at Ripon. / ***** ^f 1 */ty

BRIDGES, Edward, alias Duvall, admitted April 17, and
alumnus Sept. 15, 1737; ord. priest March 8, 1744;
for mission Feb. 22, 1745 ; chaplain to the Manby family
of South Weald, Essex, for upwards of thirty years, and
so died, Dec. 25, 1778.

BRINDLE, Robert, born Liverpool, Nov. 4, 1837 ; admitted
Aug. i, 1851, and after a distinguished course ord. priest
Dec. 27, 1862 ; left Apr. 25, 1863 ; at Bishop's House,
Plymouth, 1863-4 ; Camborne, 1864-7 » Bishop's House,
Plymouth, 1867-74 ; appointed chaplain to the forces,
Jan. 12, ^74, and during the Egyptian war was present
at the battle of Tel el Kebir, being the only chaplain at
the front ; was in the midst of the fire during the cam
paigns of Suakim, the Nile, and Ginneas, 1884-6 ; having
spent ten years at Aldershot and Colchester, accompanied
Lord Kitchener's expedition, and was present at battles
of Atbara and Khartoum ; twice specially promoted for
service in the field ; received the first pension for dis
tinguished and meritorious service ever granted to a
Catholic chaplain ; companion of the Distinguished
Service Order ; medal with four clasps for Egypt, 1882 ;
Turkish Order of the Medijet, third class, and Egyptian
Order ; medal for service in the Soudan with three clasps,
and the Khedival bronze star, 1882 ; on retirement from
the army in 1899, received from His Holiness the dignity
of Domestic Prelate, and on the petition of Cardinal
Vaughan was appointed by the Papal See his assistant,
was consecrated bishop of Hermopolis in the church of
San Gregorio on the Coelian Hill, by Cardinal Sartolli,
March 12, 1899, and returned at once to England to take
up his duties ; on the resignation of the Rt. Rev. Bishop

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Bagshawe, received his brief to the See of Nottingham,
Dec. 16, 1901.

BRITTON, William, son of Dionysius Britton, of London ;
admitted July 4, 1633 ; left July 8, 1635. He may
possibly be indentified with the Father William Britton,
who, according to a report of the Jesuit Irish Mission,
1641-50, was serving in the Residence of Cashel, and
had been cruelly handled in the church there by a mob
of heretics.

BROCKHOLES, Roger, third son of Thomas Brockholes, of
Claughton Hall, co. Lancaster, Esq., by Mary dau. and
heiress of John Holden, of Chaighley Manor, in the same
county, Esq., was sent to Douay College, where he took
the oath Aug. 15, 1678. Having completed his course of
theology, he came to Lisbon, admitted June 15, 1683,
alumnus Jan. 15, 1684 ; ord. priest ; taught classics for
three years ; appointed professor of philosophy Apr. 3,
1687, prof, of theology Jan. 1690, and prefect of studies
Sept. 5, 1692 ; left for English mission June 29, 1695, and
appointed senior confessor at York Bar Convent, where he
died in 1700. Two years previously, on Oct. 10, 1698, he
had been elected an archdeacon of the Old Chapter ; an old
record says : " He was a laborious and zealous mission
ary, and died with great sentiments of piety."

BROMLEY, Stephen, admitted about the middle of the iSth
centurv. He is possibly identical with Dom Anselm
Bromley, O.S.B., a native of Liverpool, professed at St.
Lawrence's Monastery at Dieuhvard in 1766, sent to the
mission in the North Province, and died in Liverpool,
Nov. 27, 1779.

BROMWICH, Andrew, born in Shropshire, a member of an
ancient family, admitted Jan, 10, 1668, alumnus Jan. 9,
1672 ; ord. priest ; apprehended almost immediately upon
his arrival in England, one of the victims of the Oates
Plot of 1678, and committed to Stafford Gaol, tried at
the county assizes, Aug. 13, 1679, before Lord Chief
Justice Scroggs. The official report of the trial, printed by
appointment of Scroggs, reads more like a burlesque than
anvthino- else. It seems that Mr. Bromwich resided at

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Perry Barr, parish of Handsworth, co. Stafford, and that
he came over to England in 1678. It was asserted that
he had said Mass at The Hay, near Madeley, co. Salop,

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the seat of Mr. Purcell, and also at Mr. Birch's, but the
evidence was of the flimsiest character. He was con
demned to death under the Act of 2J Eliz., cap. 2, for
being a seminary priest and coming into this country, and
remitted back to gaol, where he lay for some time,
apparently forgotten, so that after the national ferment
raised by the Oates Plot had subsided he obtained his
release with connivance rather than by actual reprieve.
He then returned to his home and property at Oscott,
where he remained till his death, Oct. 21, 1702. He
thus established the mission at Oscott, settling his estate
for that purpose, and was succeeded by his uncle the
Rev. Francis Fitter. Subsequently it \vas made into the
episcopal residence of the Vicar-Apostolic of the Midland
District, and finally developed into Oscott College. Mr.
Bromwich was a member of The Institute.

BROOKE, John, vide Fitzherbert.

BROOKE, Thomas, admitted Jan. 21, 1743, on the Radcliffe
Fund, ord. Priest June 5, 1751 ; died in the College
May 3, 1756.

BROOKS, Thomas, vide Younge.

BROWN, John, vide Woolfe.

BROWNE, Edward, son of Edward Brown, yeo. by his second
wife Nancy, only dau. of John Hilton, was educated here,
and received minor orders, but leaving, settled in Black
burn, and married Nov. 25, 1814, Alice, dau. of John
Greenhalgh, of Blackburn, and sister of Henry Canon
Greenhalgh, of Weld Bank ; had six sons priests ; subse
quently resided in Preston and at Liverpool ; died Mar.
13, 1867.

BROWNE, Edward Francis, eld. son of Edw. Browne, of
Preston, q.r. ; went Seclgley Park, 1828-9 ; admitted Dec.
24, 1829; alumnus Dec. 7, 1836; ord. priest; left Aug.
6, 1839 ; Minster Acres, Northumberland, 1839-42 ; Great
Eccleston-in-the-Fylde, 1842-6 ; Birkenhead, and thence
to Wrexham, where he died July 17, 1872 ; was canon
of Shrewsbury, and in 1859 was made D.D.

BROWNE, Henry Francis, born Jan. 4, 1824, son of Edward
Browne, of Preston, q.r. ; admitted July 19, 1838, alumnus
Dec. 9, 1846, left Oct. 9, 1848 ; ord. priest at St.
Nicholas', Liverpool, 1849, and appointed curate at St.
Anthony's, Liverpool ; St. Mary's, Manchester, 1849-55 »

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rector of the Catholic Collegiate Institute, Manchester,
1855-8 ; Levenshulme, 1858-60 ; Stydd Lodge, Ribchester,
1860-7 » St. Edmund's, Bolton, 1867-80 ; SS. Peter and
Paul, Bolton, 1880-5 5 retired to Southport, and died
there Oct. 10, 1886, aged 62.

BROWNE, James William, admitted Aug. 24, 1877 ; pro
ceeded to the English College, Rome, but left through ill
health, and went to Oscott College, 1882-5, and ord.
priest at Oscott, Jan. 24, 1886, and was placed at the
Cathedral, Nottingham ; became canon of Nottingham,
1900 ; now at St. Joseph's, Derby.

BROWNE, John, born 1636, son of Thomas Browne, admitted
March 8, 1652, left Oct. 18, 1655.

BROWNE, John Francis, son of Edward Browne, q.v. ;
admitted Feb. 19, 1843 ; left Oct. 15, 1846 ; proceeded to
English Coll., Rome, where ord. priest ; at St. Chad's,
Manchester, 1853-7 » became military chaplain, 1857, and
at Gosport till 1868, Aldershot 1868-76, Portsmouth,
1876-86, Cairo, Egypt, 1886-7, Portsmouth, 1887-8, when
retired, at Portsmouth, 1888-92, Portchester, 1892-3,
Portsmouth, 1893 till death, Nov. 6, 1894.

BROWNE, Joseph Aloysius, born 1820, son of Edw. Browne,
of Preston, q.r. ; admitted July 19, 1838, alumnus Dec.
9, 1846 ; ord. priest ; left July 25, 1849 ; at Carlisle,
1849-51; St. Andrew's, Newcastle, 1851-6; Houghton-
le-Spring, 1856-89 ; Chiswick, London, 1889-90 ; Dart-
ford, Kent, 1890 till death, Mar. 23, 1897, aged 76 ; was
canon of Hexham and Newcastle for many years.

BROWNE, Richard Aloysius, born in Manchester, Nov. 16,
1817, son.of Edw. Browne, of Preston, q.r. ; went Sedgley
Park School, Jan. 1829; admitted Dec. 24, 1829, ord.
priest May 22, and left Aug. 9, 1842 ; at Everingham
Park, co. York, 1842-7 ; St. Anne's, Leeds, 1847, during
epidemic of typhus fever, and remains there ; canon of
Beverley, 1850, and in 1878, on establishment of Cathedral-
Chapter of Leeds, appointed provost, his church being
made the Pro-Cathedral.

BROWNE, William Francis, son of Edw. Browne, of Preston,
q.v. ; admitted Nov. 23, 1844, alumnus Mar. 15, 1852 ;
ord. priest, and retained as professor ; left July 8, 1864 ;
at Stamford, co. Lincoln, 1864-80 ; canon of Notts.,

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1869, subsequently provost and V.G. ; St. Wilfrid's,

York, 1881 till death, Jan. 5, 1887.
BUCKLEY, James, born Feb. 24, 1770, son of John and Ann

Buckley, of London, baptized by Rev. Gerard Robinson ;

admitted Feb. 22,- 1785 ; ord. priest Dec. 24, 1794, and

retained in the College as a superior till 1801 ; presented

to the presidency by Bishops Douglass and Poynter, Mar.

29, and formally installed, Dec. 15, 1806 ; resigned and

returned to the English mission, 1819.
BULLESBACH, Rudolph, admitted Nov. 29, 1880, ord. priest

Feb. 15, and left May 2, 1891 ; now at Tooting-Graveney,

London.
BUNCE, George, admitted Nov. TI, 1868, ord. priest, Dec.

22, 1877, and left May 8, 1878 ; now at Bilston, co.

Stafford.
BUTLER, James A., admitted Sept. 17, 1872, ord. priest

Dec. 22, 1877, left Mar. 8, 1878; now at Aiskew, Bedale,

co. York.

BYFLEET, John, vide Gildon.
BYRNE, Joseph, admitted Oct. 14, 1890, ord. priest Mar. 18,

and left Apr. 12, 1899 ; now at West Hartlepool.
BYRNE, Thomas, admitted July 13, 1881 ; alumnus, Feb. 28,

1889 ; ord. priest Apr. 2, and left March 4, 1892 ; now

at Derby.
BYRON, Thomas, probably a member of the recusant

family of his name settled at Sutton, Lancashire, an

offshoot from the Byrons of Byron Hall, in the same

county, who still retained the faith in the reign of James

I. ; alumnus Sept. 15, 1680 ; ord. priest ; appointed

procurator Nov. 4, 1684 ; left for England, Apr. 29, 1686.
CAFFREY, Edward, born Apr. 25, 1844, in parish of \Vilk-

enstown, Navan, co. Meath ; went diocesan semin. of

Navan ; admitted Sept. 30, 1865 ; ord. priest Dec. 18,

1869; left May 29, 1870; at Douglas, Widnes, and

Liverpool till went to Barrow, 1879, where died Oct. 10,

1899, a^ed 55-
CAHALAN, Wilfrid, admitted Apr. 9, 1890 ; ord. priest ; and

left Apr. 12, 1899; now at Rochdale.
CALLAGHAN, Michael, admitted March 15, 1837 ; alumnus

Dec. 13, 1844 ; left in deacon's orders, Mar. 17, 1846.
CALVERT, Philip, born at Danby Wiske, Yorkshire, son of

Sir George Calvert, first Baron of Baltimore, co. Longford,

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in Ireland, by Anne, dau. of George Wynne, of Herting-
fordbury, co. Herts, Esq. ; admitted June 9, 1642 ; pub
licly defended theses in philosophy, June 20, 1646 ; left
Apr. 7, 1647.

CAREW, Henry, son of Thomas Care%v, Esq., of Devonshire,
by Anne Clifford his wife, admitted as a convictor, Apr.
29/1659; left Jan. 14, 1660.

CAREY, Charles, vide Savage.

CAREY, Richard, ride Savage.

CARR, Edwin, admitted Sept. 12, 1875 ; left Eeb. 8, 1878 ;
proceeded to Ushaw and the seminary Leeds, and ord.
priest Aug. 25, 1889 ; now at Batley Carr, Dewsbury.

CARTER, John, probably son of Robert Carter, of Thistleton,
co. Lancaster, yeoman, a Catholic non-juror in 1717,
who died in 1721 ; admitted Aug. 17, 1727, on the Rad-
cliffe Fund ; ord. priest and sent to England, July 17,
1736; stationed at St. Laurence's, Ne\vhouse, near
Preston, in or before 1741, till death, Oct. 18, 1789. He
was assisted at Newhouse by his nephew, Rev. James
Carter, alias Mawdesley, from about 1762.

CARTMELL, Henry, admitted June 13, 1871 ; left July 28,
1876 ; proceeded to Ushaw College, where ord. priest,
Aug. 10, 1883 ; now at Whittingham, Northumberland.

CASSIN, Thomas, admitted June 16, 1866 ; alumnus May 17,
1875 ; died Aug. 16, 1875.

CASWELL, Joseph, born Apr. 16, 1802, son of Joseph and
Eleanor Caswell of Sedgley, Staffordshire ; went to
Sedgley Park School; admitted July n, 1816, but left
same year.

CATOX, Thomas, born Sept. 26, and baptized by Rev. Nic.
Skelton, Oct. 3, 1756, son of John Caton and his wife
Anne Gregson, of Lancaster ; admitted on Rev. Jno.
Shepperd's Fund, Oct. 30, 1768 ; ord. priest March u,
1780; left for the mission 1782 ; stationed at Alston Lane,
Lancashire, till 1785, where removed to Towneley Hall ;
Culcheth Hall, June n, 1791, till June 29, 1792, so to
Formby ; returned to Towneley Hall (Burnley mission)
in or before 1798 ; Cottam, July 24, 1812 till death, Aug.
14, 1826, aged almost 70.

CATON, William, born in London, June 5, 1782, son of
Robert Caton, of the old Lancashire family of that name,
by Mary Thornborough his wife, was baptized by the

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Rev. Rowland Davies, confirmed by Bishop Douglass ;
sent to Sedgley Park School, 1795 ; admitted Oct. 9, 1795 ;
left without taking orders.

CAWLEY, Thomas I., admitted Aug. 25, 1848 ; alumnus
Apr. 5, 1867 ; ord. priest Dec. 18, 1869 ; D.D. ; professor
to date.

CHALLONER, Edward, born May, 1640, son of Edward
Challoner and his wife Jane Harrison, of Speke, co.
Lancaster, admitted Nov. 9, 1660 ; died in the College,
Aug. 29, 1662. The family were staunch recusants, of
the yeomary class, and their names frequently appear in
Catholic, records.

CHARNOCK, Richard, vide Arundel.

CHARXOCK, Robert, son of Roger Charnock, Esq., of
Blacklach House, subsequently known as the Old Hall,
Ley land, co. Lancaster, by Anne dau. of Robert Man ley,,
of Sprotton, co. Northampton, and of Rosliston, co.
Derby, Esq. ; admitted Sept. i, 1633, under the alias of
Manley ; alumnus June 29, 1635 ; ord. priest Apr. 26,
1639; left for England, Apr. 14, 1640; inherited his
paternal estate after the death of his elder brother
William ; resided at Blacklach, in which was the chapel,
and served the Leyland mission ; was archdeacon of the
Chapter, pro notariu^, apostol tens, and grand vicar in
Lancashire ; died at Blacklach, Feb. 2, 1670-1.

CHRIMPSEY, John and William, vide Skinner.

CLARENCE, Peter, was nominated president by Bishop
Smith and Anthony Champney, dean of the Chapter,
Apr. 8, 1637 or 1638, but being at the time in prison or
under bond for appearance, he did not arrive at the
•College till June, 1638. He resigned and left for Eng
land, June 29, 1642. It is stated that he had been
educated at the English College at Seville. Presumably
he is identical with Peter Curtis, born at Andover, Hants,
1595, son of Thomas Curtis and his wife Jane Burton, of
Longparish, Hants. This gentleman belonged to an
ancient family of Curtis, of Enborne, near Nexvbury, co.
Berks, but being reduced in circumstances engaged in
business at Andover. Peter was one of the youngest of nine
sons. One of his two sisters was a Poor Clare at Rouen.
Four of his brothers joined the Society, and the eldest,
Fr. Thomas Curtis, S.J., sent him to St. Omer's College,

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in 1614. Thence he was sent to the English College at
Seville, returned to Belgium for a year's philosophy
under the Jesuits till, Sept. 29, 1621, he was admitted
into the English College at Rome, where he was ordained
priest June 24, and sent to England, Sept. 16, 1625. He
was discharged from prison under bond for his appear
ance in 1634, but again was apprehended and confined
in Newgate about 1637. If the identification is correct,
he prudently adopted the alias of Clarence upon assum
ing the position of president at Lisbon in 1638, and after
his return to England in 1642, used the alias of Peterson,
perhaps after his older namesake, Peter Peterson, who
matriculated at Douay in 1605, and was possibly a
relative. He became canon and treasurer of the Chapter,
and in that capacity took part in the controversy with
Dr. George Leyburne. On Jan. 4, 1660-1, he was
appointed vicar in solidum, and was secretarv, pro teni.
in 1667. He died in Holborn, London, July 5, 1673,
aged 78. He established a fund at the College called
the " Curtis Fund."

CLARKE, Augustine, born Coventry, 1871 ; went to St.
Wilfrid's College, Cheadle ; admitted Sept. 23, 1891 ;
orcl. priest Mar. 13, and left May 25, 1897 ; at Birkenhead
1897-8 ; Altrincham 1898-9 ; died at Gunnersbury House,
Isleworth, Oct. 7, 1899, aged 28.

CLARKE, Francis, admitted Sept. 6, 1883 ; left Sept. 21,
1884 ; ord. priest at St. Bernard's Seminary, Olton, Feb.
25, 1888 ; now at Miles Platting, Manchester.

CLARKE, Peter, admitted Sept. 15, 1863 ; alumnus Dec. 10,
1869 ; ord. priest ; left Jan. 23, 1873 ; at Ince, Wigan,

1873-7.
CLAYTON, Francis, vide Humphrey Whitaker.

CLEGG, George Benjamin, admitted Jan. 23, 1848 ; alumnus

Nov. 30, 1853 ; ord. priest ; superior ; left Apr. 9, 1858 ;

now atNeston, Cheshire, and provost of Shrewsbury.
CLEMENTS, Alfred William, admitted Aug. i, 1872;

crd. priest Dec. 23, 1882 ; left Apr. 3, 1883 ; now at

Barking.
CLIFFE, John, born at Preston, Lane., Sept., n, 1799, son of

Lawrence and Elizabeth Cliffe, bapt. by Rev. Robert

Blacoe ; admitted Oct. 20, 1817 ; alumnus Jan. 7, 1821 ;

died in the College Aug. 20, 1822.

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CLIFFORD, William, son of Henry Clifford, of Brackenbury,
co. Lincoln, Esq., by his wife Eliz., dau. of Richard
Thimelby, of Irnharn Hall, co. Lincoln, Esq., was heir to
the barony of Clifford ; ordained priest at Douay College,
after which spent ten years on the mission in England ;
came to Lisbon as vice-president in May, 1630, under the
alias of Mansell ; left Oct. 23, 1634. The preservation
of the College is said to have been largely owing to his
prudence, patience and piety. Next engaged in the
government of Tournay College, at Paris, and after some
years retired to the Hospital des Incurables, where he
died, Apr. 30, 1670. Author of Christian Rules, Paris,
1652, and other works — vide Bibl. Diet. Engl. Caths.
Vol. I.

CODY, George Elphege ; admitted Sept. 15, 1863; left May
13, 1865 ; joined the English Benedictine Congregation,
and ord. priest Dec. 20, 1873 ; died 1891.

COFFIN, Edward, vide Biddlecorne.

COLEGATE, John Paul, born May 14, 1783, son of William
Colegate and his wife Eliz. Perkins, of Feversham, Kent,
protestants ; bapt. conditionally by Rev. Wm. Poynter
(subsequently bishop), and confirmed by Bp. Douglass ;
went Old Hall, 1801 ; admitted Feb. 19, 1802 ; ord.
priest, and retained as a superior till death, 1813.

COLLINGRIDGE, Ignatius, born at Dover, Kent, July 2,
1807, son of William and Eliz. Collingriclge, and nephew
of Bishop Peter Bernardine Collingridge, V.A.-W.D. ;
went Sedgley Park, 1817-19 ; admitted June 29, 1818 ;
alumnus Dec. 3, 1826 ; left April, 1828 ; went Oscott
College, 1828, and ord. priest Dec. 6, 1831 ; stationed
for nearly 40 years at Winchester, whence retired to
Clifton Wood Convent, where he acted as chaplain, and
died June n, 1889, aged 81. Published various sermons.

COLLING\VOOD, William, son of Edwin Thos. Colling-
wood, of Corby, co. Lincoln, Esq. ; admitted May 4,
1885 ; left for the Eng. Coll., Rome, Oct. 7, 1891, where
took degree of D.D. ; ord. priest at St. John Lateran,
Dec. 21, 1895; at Nottingham, 1896-8; Glossop, 1898
to date.

COLSTON, \Villiam, son of Edward and Penelope Colston,
of London ; alumnus Oct. 30, and ordained priest Nov.
13, 1678 ; left for mission Sept. 22, 1680, and for several

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years was agent for the College in London ; elected
canon of the Chapter, June 2, 1690 ; died in London,
Dec. 4, 1695. He bequeathed £25 per annum for the
education of a student at the College.

CONSITT, Thomas, son of Thomas and Mary Consitt, of
Hull, bapt. by Rev. Thomas Gillow ; admitted Aug. 15,
1814; left 1816.

CONWAY, Richard, admitted Nov. 13, 1869 ; alumnus Dec.
20, 1875 ; left Oct. 5, 1880 ; ord. priest Aug. 28, iSSi ;
now at Parson's-green, London.

COOP, Thomas, born March 15, 1782, son of Thomas Coop,
of Prestwich, Lancashire, and his wife Elizabeth Brad-
shaw ; admitted July 17, 1795.

COOPER, William, son of Wm. and Anne Cooper ; born
April n, 1802 ; went to Sedgley Park School, 1815 ;
admitted July n, 1816 ; returned to England, and died
after a few months.

CORBISHLEY, Samuel, born March 24, 1759, son of John
Corbishley, of Goosnargh, co. Lancaster, and his wife
Grace Gornall ; educated at Sedgley Park School ;
admitted March 21, 1783 ; ord. priest Apr. 11, 1789,
and retained as a superior till 1808 ; died at Hardwick,
Oxon, Dec. 25, 1830.

COTTERELL, Charles, probably son of John Cotterell, a
convert, late of Solihull, co. Warwick ; born at Birming
ham, Apr., 1748, and baptized by Er. Felix Englefield,
O.S.F. ; confirmed by Bishop James Talbot in 1762 ;
admitted on Revell's Fund ; further particulars wanting.
He was brother to Fr. Thomas Cotterell, O.S.F., who
died at Osmotherley, Aug. 26, 1816.

COURTENAY, Thomas Nicholas, admitted ; proceeded to
Eng. Coll. Rome ; ord. priest June n, 1881, and took
degree of D.D. ; returned as a superior to Lisbon, 1883-
8 ; left for the mission, and at Barnstaple, 1888-9 ;
Penzance, 1889-94 ; made canon of Portsmouth, 1894,
and now V.G., and at Bishop's House, Portsmouth.

CRAVEN, William, born Feb. 27, 1799, son of John Craven,
of Clayton Green, co. Lancaster, gent., and his wife
Margt., dau. of Jaspar Gibson, of Hexham, attorney-at-
law, eld. son of Jaspar Gibson, of Stonecroft, Hexham,
Esq. ; went Sedgley Park School, 1811-14 ; admitted Ocf
12, 1814 ; left March, 1816. His brother, Jaspar Craven,

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who went to Sedgley Park in 1806, and afterwards to
Ushaw College, returned as a master to the Park, 1822-
38, subsequently came out to Lisbon to be master in the
school established by Dr. Ilsley, and died there in Sept.,
1862.

CRAWLEY, Michael, went to Sedgley Park School, 1854-61 ;
admitted Oct. 3, 1861 ; alumnus Feb. 18, 1864 ; left July
9, 1864 ; at Ushaw Coll., 1864-5 > orc^ priest at Stock-
port, Dec. 17, 1865 ; now at Sale, Cheshire, and canon
of Shrewsbury.

CRIMEN, John, admitted Oct. T, 1708 ; left June i, 1713.

CROFT, Thomas, born June 21, 1835, son of Henry Croft
and his wife Hannah Sudlow, of Liverpool ; admitted
with his brother William, Sept. 9, 1847 ; orcl. priest ;
left July 24, 1861, and placed at Swansea ; now invalided
at Lyme Regis.

CROFT, William, born Oct. 14, 1836, brother of Thomas,
q.v. ; admitted Sept., 9, 1847 > orc^ priest, and retained
as a superior ; left June i, 1865 ; now at Lincoln, and
canon of Nottingham, and V.G., 1902.

CROOK, WTilliam, born at Rishton, Lancashire ; admitted
Oct. 8, 1872 ; alumnus Dec. 3, 1880 ; left Oct. 2, 1882 ;
ord. priest at Salford, Dec. 23, 1882 ; at Barton-on-
Irwell, but died of consumption at his mother's house,
Brindle, June 21, 1886.

CROPPER, John, born in Lancashire, July 16, 1742, and
baptized by Rev. Wm. Grimbaldeston of Wrightington ;
admitted May 8, 1755 ; confirmed at Lisbon, June n, 1756.

CROSBY, James, went with his brother Charles to Sedgley
Park School, 1764, thence sent to Lisbon; ord. priest;
appointed vice-president, Oct. 1781 ; left for the mission,
1789, and died at Hales Place, Canterbury, seat of the
Hales family, Nov. 30, 1819.

CROSS, Andrew, admitted June 17, 1713 ; ran away, Jan.
16, 1716. He is probably identical with Andrew Cross,
•of Oulton, co. Stafford, gent., son of George Cross, who,
as a Catholic non-juror, returned in 1717 a fair estate at
Oulton and at Sutton. Andrew was probably younger
brother to Rowland and Thomas, below, and also to
Peter Cross ; Andrew and Peter were certainly nephews
of the Rev. Wm. Fitter who served the mission at Oulton
for some time.

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CROSS, Rowland, and his brother Thomas became alumni
Nov. 9 and Nov. 8, 1692, respectively.

CROUCHER, Christopher, born, and baptized by Rev.
Richard Kendal, Feb. 21, 1733, son of Ralph Croucher,
of Midhurst, Sussex ; admitted on the Godden Fund,
March 17, 1746; ord. priest March 20, 1757; became
vice-president by nomination of Bishops Benj. Petre and
Rich. Challoner, Nov. 27, 1759; died in the College,
Aug. 7, 1765.

CURTIS, Peter, vide Clarence.

CUTAJAR, Henry, admitted Nov. 13, 1869 ; alumnus April
5, 1878 ; left Jan. 1880 ; ord. priest Mar. 12, 1881 ; now
at Stoke Newington, London.

DANBY, John, a native of Yorkshire ; alumnus Apr. 17, 1688 ;
ord. priest, Dec. 21, 1689; sent England, Jan. 2, 1693;
living on the mission in Yorkshire in July, 1698.

DANIEL, Edward, vide Pickford.

DANIEL, George, born Apr. 23, 1802, son of Charles and
Elizabeth Daniel, was baptised at Aston, Staffordshire,
by Rev. Mr. Maraih ; went Sedgley Park School, 1814 ;
admitted July u, 1816 ; returned to England in ill-health,
and after a few days died piously in London.

DARCY, Francis, son of Francis Darcy, of Northamptonshire,
admitted Nov. 16, 1652.

DAVIES, Peter Augustine, born at Great Crosby, Lancashire,
1812 ; went Sedgley Park School ; admitted Nov. 9, 1826 ;
alumnus Dec. 8, 1834 ; ord. priest 1839, and retained as
professor ; left July 6, 1847, anc^ placed at Walsall till
1848 ; professor of theology at Oscott College, Nov. 1848-
Mid., 1849, thence Sedgley Park School till 1850; Stoke-
upon-Trent, 1850-1 ; SS. Peter & Paul, Wolverhampton,
1851-3 ; Bilston, 1853-63 ; Bloxwich, where erected new
church and schools, 1863-85 ; retired to his relatives at
Liverpool, and died at his sister's at Bootle, Nov. 16,
1891, aged 78.

DAVIS, George, born Jan. 6, 1786, son of Pranzelo and Jane
Davis, of London, and baptized conditionally by Rev.
Wm. Fryer ; went to Sedgley Park School, 1797 ; admit.
May i, 1809 ; left - — .

DAVIS, John, born Oct. 7, 1837 > went Sedgeley Park 1847-50 ;
admitted July 16, 1850 ; ord. priest Dec. 27, 1862 ; left
April 25, 1863; at Fitzroy-sq. 1863-4; at Ogle-street

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1864-7 ' Lincoln's-Inn-Fields 1867-81 ; Harwich, 1881-3 5
Sunbury-on-Thames, 1883 till death at Oporto \vhilst on
a visit to Lisbon, May 28, 1898, aged 60, and buried in
the College vault in the Praseres cemetery.

DAVIS, Thomas, born Dec. 8, 1839 ; went to Sedgley with
bro. John, q.v., 1847-52 ; admitted July 20, 1852 ; ord.
priest June 19, 1863; left July 31, 1864; at St. Anne's,
Blackburn, 1864-8 ; Longridge, 1868-71 ; Stratford, 1871-
2 ; Poplar, 1873-4 ; Ogle-street, 1874-7 ; Lincoln's-Inn-
Fields, London, 1877-81 ; Harwich, 1881-3 ; Sunbury-
on-Thames, 1883 to date.

DAWSON, Thomas G., admitted Oct. 8, 1867 ; alumnus Dec.
22, 1871 ; left Dec. 15, 1874 ; ord. priest at St. Edward's
College, Liverpool, Jan. 17, 1875 ; thence to Westby,
1877-82 ; Bootle, 1882-3 ; subsequently at Woolston;
and now at Ditton Hall.

DAY, William vide Talbot.

DENNETT, James, born Dec. 20, 1767, son of Win. Dennett,
of Eccleston, Lancashire, and his wife Mary Valentine ;
educated at Rev. Simon George Bordley's School ; ad
mitted Nov. 30, 1785 ; ord. priest, Dec. 25, 1794, and
retained as a superior ; left 1798, and succeeded his old
master, Rev. S. G. Bordley, at Aughton ; erected new
chapel at Aughton, 1823 ; and after serving that mission
for 47 years, retired to Ormskirk in 1845 ; where died
March 5, 1850 ; and was buried at Windleshaw.

DIAS SANTOS, Emanuel, born in London, Feb. 8, 1770,
and baptized by Rev. Henry Peach, son of Cajetan Dias
Santos, a Portuguese gentleman, who settled at Pilgrim
Hatch, Essex, and married Anne Tudor, an English lady ;
went, with his brother John, to Old Hall College, Feb.,
1776-July, 1780, thence to the English Dominican con
vent at Bornhem, Flanders, July 8, 1780—1792, and
finished his novitiate at Louvain, where he took the
religious name of Thomas ; upon the French revolution
came with his co-religious to London, and having been
secularized came to Lisbon, and admitted Sept. 9, 1797 ;
ord. priest Dec. 25, 1799, retained as superior, till sent
to England, March 24, 1802, and rejoined his old con
freres, the Dominicans, late of Bornhem, at their school
at Carshalton, Surrey, till after the demise of his father,
July 3, 1813, when he settled at Braganza Cottage,
Pilgrim Hatch, manor of Downsels, near South Weald,

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and died, on a visit to Margate, April 19, 1834, aged 64.

DOD, Francis, probably a native of Staffordshire ; alumnus
July 12, 1693 ; ord. subdeacon Apr. 24, 1696 ; ord. priest ;
sent to England, Apr. 29, 1698. Was at Chillington,
co. Stafford, 1702 ; said to have carried out Rev. Dan.
Fitter's bequest for an itinerant priest in Staffordshire ;
died May 12, 1734.

DODD, Robert, born Feb. 3, 1767, son of Echvard Dodd and
his wife Cath. Thomas, of the suburbs of London, in
Surrey ; admitted Oct. 29, 1779, expelled March 4, 1783.

DORAX, Bernard, admitted Dec. 22, 1850 ; alumnus Nov.
30, 1857; or<^' priest; left July 24, 1861; Gravesend,
1861-2; Portsea, 1862-88; Southampton, 1888-90;
Bootle, Liverpool, 1890-1 ; Woolstone, Southampton,
1891-2 ; Winchester, 1892-3 ; Southsea, 1893-5 "» retired,
Southsea, 1895-7, an^ at Southport, Lancashire, 1897
till death, Feb. 18, 1900.

DOWLING, John, born Aug. 27, 1780, son of Joseph Dow-
ling, and his wife, Kath. Dunn, of London ; baptized by
Rev. John Lee, conditionally, and confirmed by Bishop
Douglass ; admitted May i, 1801.

DOWLING, John, admitted Dec. 21, 1822 ; ord. priest May
26, 1828, retained as superior, left June 7, 1835.

DOWLING, William, admitted Jan 13, 1864 ; ord. priest,
May 22, and left July 13, 1875 ; Salforcl, 1875-6 ; St.
Patrick's, Manchester, 1876-7 ; Ancoats, 1877-82 ; St.
Augustine's, 1882-8 ; Heywood, 1888-9 > °^ mission,
1889 5 St. Joseph's, Stockport, 1890-3 ; Mold, 1893-7 ;
went to America.

DOWNES, James Francis, admitted Oct. 16, 1868 ; ord.
priest Dec. 21, 1872 ; left, June 5, 1873 ; now at St.
Patrick's Bradford.

DOYLE, Daniel, admitted Nov. 23, 1875 ; ord. priest Dec.
18, 1880; left May 12, 1881 ; Wavertree, 1881-8 ;
Barrow-in-Furness, 1888-9 5 joined the Franciscans.

DOYLE, William, admitted Sept. 27, 1864; left Dec. 15,
1874, and ord. priest Jan. 17, 1875 ; Barrow-in-Furness,
1875-80 ; Douglas, 1880— 6.

DRURY, Mark, vide Harrington.

DUCKETT, Richard, son, by his first wife, of Thomas Duck-
ett, of Preston, Lancashire, sculptor, descended from a
recusant family of long standing at Alston-cum-Hother-
sall, the name being originally spelt Duckworth but

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pronounced Ducket, which hitter form was adopted by
the family some time before its removal to Claughton in
the i8th century ; admitted Jan. 14, 1847 > alumnus
Nov. 30, 1853 ; ordained priest ; received the degree of
D.D., through the nuncio from Rome, and retained as a
professor till 1876, when came to St. John's, Norwich,
where still remains.

DUNFORD, John, admitted Dec. 13, 1881 ; alumnus Feb.
28, 1889 ; ord. priest, Dec. 17, 1892 ; left March 9, 1893 ;
now at Lincoln's-Inn-Fielels.

DUVALL, Edward, vide Bridges.

DYMOCK, Robert, vide Hey wood.

EDEN, James, of an ancient family seated at West Auckland,
co. Durham, after studying Latin and Greek classics in
England, was admitted under alias of Clare, 1683 ; took
the College oath and gown in his first year's divinity,
Sept. 7, 1686, but was afterwards expelled for misconduct.
Then went to Watten in Flanders, the novitiate of the
English Jesuits, who sent him to the English College at
Rome, where admitted by Father Ant. Lucas, S.J., the
rector, Jan. 10, 1689, and in March, 1690, was ord. priest.
Having taken the oath of Pope Alex. VII. at Lisbon,
a dispensation was obtained, and he entered the Society,
but was afterwards ejected. This is one of the many
names omitted from Bro. Foley's version of the Diarv of
the English College, Rome.

EDEN, William Martin, admitted Feb., 1865 ; alumnus Feb,
22, 1866; ord. priest, and a superior until death, Jan. 20,
1894.

EDWARDS, Robert, son of Edward ap David and his wife
Elizabeth Clough, of Denbigh ; admitted June 13, 1660 ;
ord. priest Sept. 8, 1664 ; became professor of philosophy
May i, 1670, and prefect of studies Jan. i, 1671 ; came
to the English mission ; elected by the Old Chapter
archdeacon of North Wales, Dec. 8, 1671 ; died 1685 in
Flintshire, probably at Upper Bettisfield Hall, parish of
Hanmer, a seat of the Fowlers.

EGERTON, John, of an ancient Cheshire family ; alumnus
Jan. 9, diaconate Jan. 10, 1672 ; ord. priest ; sent Eng
land, May 3, 1677.

ELLIS, Humphrey, vide Waring.

ELLIS, William, vide Edward Waring.

ERRINGTON, William, a native 'of Yorkshire, admitted

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July 15, 1684; alumnus Nov. 9, 1692 ; dedicated his
thesis of Universal philosophy to Queen Catharine ; ord.
priest May, 1693 ; sent England, Apr. 25, 1695, and
became chaplain to the Salvins at Croxdale Hall, co.
Durham, where he died Feb. 12, 1732-3, bequeathing his
effects for the benefit of the Croxdale mission.

EYRE, Robert, vide Fitzherbert.

EYRE, Thomas, admitted Oct. 5, 1859 ; alumnus Dec. u,
1861 ; left Apr. 27, 1863 ; ord. priest at Sheffield, May 21,
1864; now at St. Bede's, Rotherham.

FANNING, George, admitted Oct. 3, 1884; left Feb. 25,
1885 ; proceeded to Old Hall and S. Sulpice, Paris ; ord.
priest Sept. 23, 1893 ; now at Brighton.

FARRELL, Thomas, P . . . admitted Sept. 24, 1880 ; ord.
priest Feb. 15, and left May 2, 1891 ; now at Barrow-
in-Furness.

FENN, Thomas, W., went to Sedgley Park School ; admitted
Feb. 2, 1852 ; alumnus Nov. 30, 1853 ; left Aug. 14,
1856; ord. priest at Oscott, April n, 1857; Chepstow,
1857-8 ; Swansea, 1858-61 ; Llanarth, 1861-2 ; Tiverton,
1862-4 » Chidiock, 1865-8 ; Coxlodge, Newcastle-on-
Tyne, 1868-9 > Tewkesbury, 1870 to date.

FICKLING, Duncan, admitted Nov. 10, 1897 ; ord. priest
Mar. 23, and left Apr. 12, 1901 ; at Holy Family,
Manchester.

FIELDING, William I., admitted February 19, 1843 '•> il\um-
March 15, 1852 ; ord. priest ; left June 27, 1855 ; at New-
road, London, 1855—8 ; Bened. Convent, Hammersmith,
1858-9 ; Great Eccleston, Lancashire, 1859-60.

FINEGAN, Thomas, admitted Sept. 27, 1865 ; ord. priest
Dec. 18, 1869; left Mar. 8, 1870; at Liverpool, 1870-1 ;
Barrow-in-Furness, 1871-5 ; Appleton, Widnes, 1875 to
date.

FISHER, Daniel, vide Fitter.

FISHER, Daniel, alumnus July 5, 1667; ord. priest; ap
pointed professor of philosophy, May i, 1670; left for
England, April 9, 1675 ; died in London, 1685-6.

FISHER, Francis, vide Fitter.

FISHER, Richard, vide Stuttard.

FISHER, William, a native of Lancashire ; admitted Sept.
7, 1748; alumnus March 12, 1756; ord. priest, Dec. 20,
1760 ; left for England, July 14, 1761 ; stationed at

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197

Showley Hall, Lancashire, seat of the Walmesleys, with
Bishop Francis Petre ; removed to Stydd Lodge, Rib-
chester, when the chapel was erected there in 1789,
resigned charge of mission in 1805, but continued at
Stydd Lodge till death, Nov. i, 1813.

FITTER, Daniel, born in Worcestershire, 1628, son of
\Yilliam and Margaret Fitter, of Wolverhampton, co.
Stafford, gent. ; admitted Nov. 24, 1647, under alias of
Fisher ; alumnus Dec. 12, and ord. priest Dec. 24, 1651 ;
left March 23, 1654 ; chaplain to the Fowlers at St.
Thomas' Priory, near Stafford ; elected Vicar-general for
Staffordshire, Cheshire, and Salop, by the Chapter, April
18, 1687 ; opened school in Stafford temp. James II ;
first provincial president and procurator of The Institute,
dissolved after his death in 1702 ; died at St. Thomas'
Priory, Feb. 7, 1699-1700, aged 72, and buried with the
Fowlers at Baswick church.

FITTER, Francis, born 1622, brother of Daniel, q.v., made
his rudimentary studies at Wolverhampton ; admitted
under alias of Fisher, Dec. 7, 1640 ; alumnus July 25,
1641 ; ord. priest July 30, 1645 '•> ^e^ f°r England via
Holland, April 3, 1647 5 stationed at Oulton, Stafford
shire, seat of his brother-in-law, Mr. Cross ; elected
archdeacon of the Chapter, May 5, 1665, which he later
resigned; joined The Institute; died at Oulton, Oct. n,
1710, aged 88. Established "Johnson's Fund," for sick
and disabled clergy of the Midland District, with money
left by his brother Daniel to the Institute, but in which
he had a life interest.

FITZHERBERT, John, alias Brooke, born Oct. 31, 1645,
sixth son of William Fitzherbert, of Swynnerton Hall, co.
Stafford, Esq., by Anne, dau. of Sir Basil Brooke, of
Madeley, co. Salop, Knt. ; admitted Sept. 28, 1659, ran
away in 1662, but returned, and died in the College, Oct.
7, 1677, aged almost 32.

FITZHERBERT, Robert, born 1629, son of Francis Fitz
herbert, of Tissington Hall, co. Derby, Esq., ancestor o:r
the baronets of that name, after studying in England came
to Lisbon at the age of 18 ; admitted under the alias of
Eyre, Aug. 15, 1647 ' or<^- Priest» T3ec. 25, 1651, left for
England, March 14, 1652, and became chaplain to Mr.
Dravcott, of Pavnslev Hall, co. Stafford. He was a

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member of the Chapter, and was elected archdeacon of
Staffordshire, Derbyshire, and Cheshire, Aug. 5, 1682, and
was made rural dean of Staffordshire by Bp. Leyburne.
He was still living in Staffordshire in 1699, and died
there in 1701, aged 72. He was a member of The
Institute.

FLOOD, John C. . . . admitted Oct. 31, 1893 ; alumnus Mar.
19, 1896 : left Jan. 22, 1897.

FLOYD, John, or Lloyd, oath, Sept. 15, 1707 ; professor of
philosophy Apr. 20, and sent England, Sept. 23, 1711.
It is possible that he is identical with Father Sylvester
Lewis Lloyd, O.S.F., a Welshman, professed at the
English Franciscan convent at Douay, who published
" General Instructions," Lond. 1722.

FLOYD, William, or Lloyd, born in Carmathenshire, 1614,
son of Walter Floyd, Esq., admitted as a convictor, Oct.
i, 1635 ; oath, June 29, 1636 ; ord. priest Apr. 26, 1639 ;
left for Paris, June 21, 1642, and thence to the mission in
Wales ; apprehended and thrown into Brecon gaol early
in the Oates Plot ferment, tried, and condemned to death
for being a priest ordained abroad contrary to Statute of
2J El is. ; died a confessor of the faith in Brecon gaol,
1679, aged 65.

FOOTHEAD, Charles, born Feb. 25, 1766, son John Jonathan
Foothead and his wife Frances Hayles, of London, bapt.
by Fr. Bern. Baker, S.J. ; followed his brother John,
subsequently a priest, to Sedgley Park School in 1775 ;
admitted Aug. 23, 1779 ; left.

FORAN, William, admitted Sept. i, 1860 ; ord. priest Dec.
19, 1868 ; left Feb. 6, 1869 ; at Guernsey, 1869 to date ;
became canon of Portsmouth, 1888.

FORD, Thomas, went Sedgley Park School, 1863-4; admit
ted July 13, 1864 ; ord. priest May 22, and left July 13,
1875 ; now at Bromley, Kent.

FORTESCUE, Nicholas, of the ancient family of Fortescue,
of Cookehill, co. Worcester, came from Douay College,
Nov. 7, 1628, and admitted under alias of Foster. He
probably returned to Douay and is identical with the one
of his name who took the oath there Oct. 29, 1631.

FRANKLAND, John alias or rere Moyses, was living at
Boulogne in 1719, subsequently was much affected by a
sermon he heard at Lincoln's Inn chapel, in Nov., 1722,

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and became a convert ; admitted on the Thatcher Fund,
Jan. 22, and became alumnus Sept. 28, 1723 ; ord.
priest ; sent England, Sept. 6, 1727, and appointed
chaplain at Fithler's, Essex ; was missioner at Havant,
Hants, in 1734, and was exercising his functions, Apr. i,
1742, about which time he wrote "A Memorial of a
Clerical and a Missionary Life," MS. ; died in London,
July 16, 1752.

FRYER, James, born at Norton, Somersetshire, Sept., 1772,
brother to William Victor, q.v., went to Sedgley Park
School, 1782 ; admitted P^eb. 22, 1785, on John Woolfe's
Second Fund ; died a student in the College.

FRYER, William, born 1739, of an ancient family in Somer
setshire, arrived at Douay College, Mav 12, 1760, where
had been preceded by his brother John, on March 25,
and was followed by his brother Charles on June 23 ;
though grown up, the brothers were placed in third class
rudiments, the lowest school in the College ; on Aug. 14,
1766, William and Charles took the college oath, but
the former had to leave for a time on account of ill-
health ; he returned, and at end of his third year's
theology, being then in subdeacon's orders, left the
college Sept., 16, 17/0 ; first went to London, and was
ordained by Bp. Challoner, then proceeded to Valladolid
as Vice- president, an office which he held for twelve
years, when came via Paris and London to Lisbon, and
installed president, 1782. Died in the College, Aug. 15,
1805, aged 66.

FRYER, William Victor, born July 28, 1768, son of James
Fryer and his wife Mary Langley, of Bath, co. Somerset,
and nephew to President Fryer ; admitted June 8, 1782 ;
ord. priest, and left for England, 1796 ; many years first
chaplain at the Portuguese chapel, South-street, London,
and after its closure, acted as chaplain to the Comtesse
de Front ; died in his own house in South-street, Sept. 6,
1844, aged 76.

FUCHTER, William, admitted ; ord. priest Feb. 24, 1895 ;
left for Chatham ; now at Wandsworth, London.

GADD, Charles, Joseph, born May 17, 1838, son of Thomas
Gadd and his wife Anne Hill, of Salford ; admitted Aug.
i, 1851 ; alumnus Dec. 7, 1859; left Jan. 2, 1860; went
Ushaw College, ord. priest at the cathedral, Salford,

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Dec. 20, 1861, and became curate there; created Monsig-
nor, 1880 ; Canon of Salford, Mar. 30, 1884 ; V.G. and
protonotary apostolic ; now at Barton-on-Ir\vell.

GAHAGAN, Frederick C . . . admitted Apr. 26, 1893 ; ord.
priest March 18, and left Apr. 3, 1899 ; at Chelsea,
1899-1900 ; returned to the College as a superior, 1900.

GALLAGHER, Martin, native of Liverpool, studied at The
Institute; admitted Sept. i, 1860; ord. priest Jan. 31,
1869 ; left June n, 1870 ; rector of The Institute, Liver
pool, 1870-87 ; St. Michael's, and finally rector of St.
Oswald's, Old Swan, Liverpool, where died, Nov. n,
1898.

GARDNER, John, admitted March, 1865 ; ord. priest May
22, and left June 12, 1875 ; at Woolston, Warrington,
1875-84 ; Birkclale, Southport, 1884, to date.

GASCOIGNE, William, son of William Gascoigne, Esq., of
Yorkshire, admitted Aug. 12, 1647, under tilias of Mey-
nell ; went to Douay College, where took oath, July 22,
1651, ord. priest, and came to mission; died in York,
1683.

GERRARD, Richard, born, Liverpool, 1840 ; admitted June
7, 1854 ; left May 22, 1860 ; ord. priest 1863 ; at St.
Mary's, Manchester, 1863—70 ; Ashton-under-Lyne, 1870-
i ; Radcliffe, 1871-5 ; Samlesbury, 1875 till the Saturday
before his sudden death in his chair, Dec. 26, 1901, aged

61.

GIBBONS, Tobias, born at Tangiers, Africa, son of Walter
Gibbons and his wife Cecilia MacDaniel, natives of Ire
land ; alumnus Nov. 9, 1692 ; ord. priest ; left Oct. 28,
1696, in the train of Don Lewis de Cunha, ambassador
extraordinary to William III., and accompanied him
through Spain, Erance, and Holland. On arrival in
London, appointed head chaplain to the ambassador.
When De Cunha was recalled in 1718, and sent to
Madrid, Mr. Gibbons returned to Lisbon as a guest in
the College, where he died, Sept. 4, 1737.

GIBBONS, William, admitted May 29, 1885, alumnus Eeb.
18, 1888, ord. priest Feb. 15, and left May 2, 1891 ; at
Cardiff, 1891, to date.

GIFFARD, Peter, born 1629, son of Thomas Giffard, Esq.,
of White Ladies, co. Salop, by Margt., dau. and heir, of
Thos. Cresswell, of Wolverhampton, Esq. ; admitted

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Nov. 24, 1647 ' alumnus Dec. 12, 1651 ; taught classics ;
appointed procurator Oct. 8, 1652 ; ord. priest July i,
1653 ; went to prosecute studies in France owing to
pecuniary difficulties of the College, but returned Dec. 2,
1655 ; translated the first part of " Boscobel " into Portu
guese, and presented it to the Infanta, before her union
with Charles II. ; left for England Sept. 7, 1661 ; prob
ably went first to Boscobel, White Ladies, and thence as
chaplain to the Towneleys at Towneley Hall, Lancashire,
where spent remainder of life ; recommended in 1668 for
vice-presidency of Douay College, and in 1670 for presi
dency of the college at Lisbon, neither of which offices
could he be prevailed upon to accept ; secretary of Lan
cashire Infirm Clergy Fund, 1675 ; elected by Chapter
Vicar-General of Northumberland, Cumberland, West
moreland, Lancashire, Yorkshire, and Bishopric, May 29,
1682 ; died at Towneley Hall, 1689, aged 60.

Translated — (i) " The Instruction of Youth in Chris
tian Piety, taken out of the Sacred Scriptures and Holy
Fathers : divided into five parts. With a very profitable
Instruction for Meditation, or Mental Prayer. By Charles
Gobinet .... The last edition in French, now rendered
into English." Lond., Hen. Hills, 1687, 8vo, pp. 575,
besides Ded., Pref., &c., Ai-8. (2) " Instruction concern
ing Penance and Holy Communion ; The second part of
The Instruction of Youth, containing the Means how we
may return to God by Penance, and remain in His Grace
by good and frequent use of the Sacraments. By Charles
Gobinet .... The last edition in French, no\v rendered
into English." Lond., by J. B., and sold by Matt. Turner
and John Tootell, 1689, 8vo, pp. 396, besides Ded., &c.,
Ai-8, and at end errata if.

G1LDOX, John, son of Richard and Frances Gildon, of a
good family in Dorchester, from Caen in Normandy,
took the oath at Douay College, Dec. 21, 1650, com
pleted his classical, philosophical, and theological
course, also taught two courses of philosophy, and took
the degree of D.D., when he was dismissed by Dr.
George Leyburne, in 1661, under the pretence that
during the disputes with the English Chapter, Gildon
had been too favourable to the latter. He was then 24
years of age, but had not received even minor orders.

202 REGISTER.

Thus came to Lisbon, took college oath and gown Aug.
15, was ordained priest Oct. 24, and left for England
Dec. 1 8, 1661. On the mission he used the alias of
Byfleet ; elected canon of Chapter, Jan. 19, 1675-6 ;
died, Aug. 29, 1700, aged 63. Dodd places him in his
" Flores Cleri Anglicani."

GILDON, Joseph, son of Joseph Gildon, of Witham Friary,
co. Somerset, and of his wife, Jane, daughter of Walter
Barnes, Esq., of Rode in Gaspar, co. Somerset ; admitted
May, 1^693 ; alumnus Dec. 21, 1701 ; ord. priest ; ap
pointed professor of philosophy, Sept. 16, 1706 ; left for
England, Aug. 6, 1707. Was assistant master in the
school at Twyford, near Winchester, became head
master in 1732, and died in office, after a short illness,
July 26, 1736.

GILLOW, Robert, only son of Robert Gillow, Esq., of
London, and his wife Mary Godwin, was admitted and
died a student in the College in the early years of the
I9th century, prior to 1814, for which period records are
wanting. His only sister became a nun at the Franciscan
Convent at Taunton. His father, who died Sept. 22,
1795, aged 49, whilst on a visit to his relatives at Lan
caster, was a younger son of Robert Gillow, Esq., of
Lancaster, founder of the family seated at Leighton Hall.

GILFJLLAN, Henry, admitted Sept. 13, 1865 ; alumnus May
17, 1875 ; ord. priest ; left July 7, 1877 ; at Homerton,
London, 1877-81 ; Hammersmith, 1882-3 '•> died.

GIRLINGTON, John, born Thurland Castle, Lancashire ;
alumnus Sept. 15, 1680 ; ord. priest ; sent England, Apr.
2, 1684 ; resided some years at Dilston, seat of Earl of
Derwentwater ; in 1697 was at ^r' Witham's at Slad-
wish ; again at Dilston Hall in 1705 and for some years ;
finally at Sunderland Bridge, Durham, where died, Aug.
13, 1729.

GLASSBROOK, Roger, son of Edward Glassbrook, of Wigan,
canal shipwright ; admitted ; went to Ushaw College,
and ord. Dec. 17, 1836 ; placed at Esh Laude, Durham,
1837-40 ; St. Patrick's, Manchester, 1840-1 ; Bollington,
Cheshire, 1841-2 ; Great Singleton, Lancashire, 1842-4 ;
Stydd Lodge, Ribchester, 1844 till death, Sept. 10, 1862.

GLOSSOP, Samuel, went Sedgley Park School, 1860-5 J ad~
mitted Oct. 16, 1865 ; left 1868 ; proceeded to Oscott,

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Sept. 1868-72, and ordained priest there, March 30, 1872 ;
at Birmingham, 1872-3 ; Souldern, Banbury, 1873 to
date.

GLOVER, Joseph, born Nov. u, 1739, son of Edward and
Mary Glover, of Sutton, co. Lancaster ; admitted Nov.
23, 1752 ; alumnus June 23, 1761 ; ord. priest June 16,
1764 ; sent to England ; returned, and appointed vice-
president Apr. 23, 1777 ; left for England, Oct. 18, 1781.

GODDEN, Thomas, vide Tilden.

GODWIN, William, born Dec. 14, 1821, at Liverpool ;
admitted July 26, 1837 ; ord. priest Ember Week of
Advent, 1846, left July 6, 1847 ; placed at Gloucester,
Aug., i847-March, 1848 ; Stonehouse, Plymouth, 1848-
Jan., 1850 ; Fairford, 1850—2 ; St. Mary's, Bristol, 1852—
4; Macclesfield, 1855-6; St. Patrick's, Liverpool, 1857-
63 ; St. Anthony's, Liverpool, 1863 till death of typhus
fever, Feb. 15, 1864.

GOLTIER, Sam., vide Phillips, John.

GOMEZ, Jerome, vide Allen.

GOOD, John, alumnus, July 12, 1693 ; ord. priest ; sent
England Jan. 19, 1698.

GOOD, Thomas, alumnus Apr. 17, 1688 ; ord. priest, Dec.
21, 1689; sent to England Jan. 2, 1693; chaplain for
many years to the Lacons at Linley Hall, Salop, and
died there Dec. 3, 1732, bequeathing a legacy to his alma
mater, and £200 to the Common Purse of Staffordshire.

GOODEN, Peter, son of Peter Gooden, of the Old Hall,
Pendleton, co. Lancaster, gent. ; admitted 1661 ; alumnus
Aug. 6, 1666 ; ord. priest ; left for England, Feb, 2, 1670 ;
stationed at Leighton Hall, Lancashire, seat of Sir George
Middleton, Knt. and Bart. ; removed about 1680 to Ald-
cliffe Hall, near Lancaster, seat of the Misses Dalton,
where he kept a little seminary for the supply of ecclesi
astical students for the colleges abroad ; during reign of
James II., appointed chaplain to Duke of Berwick's
regiment ; obtained celebrity as a controversialist, vide
Nos. i & 4, Vol. II., pp. 527, Bibl. Diet. Engl. Catlis.
No. 2, referring to Edw. Coleman and Edw. Meredith, and
No. 3, to Dr. Thos. Godden, being inadvertently credited
to Peter Gooden. Died at Aldcliffe, Dec. 29, 1694.

GORNALL, Ralph, born Nov. n, 1755, son of Richard
Gornall and his wife Eli/. Johnson, of Elswick, Lan-

204 REGISTER.

cashire ; went to Sedgley Park School ; admitted Feb.
16, 1782 ; oath, May 20, 1784 ; died in the College.

GORTON, Thomas, admitted Aug. 13, 1878 ; alumnus Dec.
n, 1886, left June 30, 1888 ; ord. priest at Salford, Apr.
22, 1889; at Oldham, 1889-94; St. Wilfrid's, Manches
ter, 1894-5.

GOTHER, John, or Venables, born of presbyterian parents at
Southampton, Hants ; admitted Jan. 10, 1668 ; alumnus
Jan. 9, 1672 ; appointed professor of philosophy, Apr. 10,
1677, and prefect of studies, Nov. n, 1678 ; ord. priest
close of 1682, and sent to England ; elected canon of
Chapter, June 2, 1690 ; towards close of life became
chaplain to George Holman, of Warkworth Castle, co.
Northampton, Esq., whence set out to pay a visit to
the College at Lisbon, in connection with some of its
affairs, and died on the voyage, Oct. 13, 1704. For
works vide Bibl. Diet. Eugl. Caths. II. 541 seq.

GOWER, John, vide Hawkins.

GREEN, Henry Francis, admitted Aug. 24, 1896, ord.
deacon and left Nov. 19, 1900 ; ord. priest for the
diocese of Portsmouth, 1901 ; now at Woolston, South
ampton.

GREENWELL, Thomas, a native of Cornsay Row, near
Lanchester, Durham ; admitted Aug. 17, 1727, on the
Carlton Fund ; alumnus, Dec. 21, 1733 ; ord. priest,
July, 1736 ; left for England, July 15, 1736 ; chaplain at
Stella Hall, seat of Lord Widdrington, till 1748, when
removed to Blagdon, parish of Stannington, Northum
berland, till death, Aug. 23, 1753.

GRENE, Richard, alumnus Sept. 15, 1707; ord. priest;
appointed procurator, July 5, 1715 ; left for England
Mar. 30, 1727 ; died in London, Apr. 24, 1750.

GRENE, William, born in Staffordshire ; alumnus Dec. 30,
1682 ; ord. deacon, Sept. 5, 1683 ; priest ; appointed
procurator, May 5, 1686, and confessarius, Sept. 7, 1692 ;
left for England Nov. 30, 1698. He was stationed in
Staffordshire in 1702, but seems to have been transferred
to Nottinghamshire in or about that year. He died,
Oct. 3, 1727.

GRIFFIN, George, born 1621, son of Edward Griffin, of
Bickmersh, co. Warwick, Esq. ; admitted as a convictor,
Dec. 7, 1640, defended theses in theology, June 29, 1644 »

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left at end of third year's theology, Aug. 8, 1646 ; enlisted
into the Portuguese army, and served for some time ;
resumed his studies, joined the Bridgettines of Syon
Abbev at Lisbon, and became a zealous preacher ; died
at Syon Abbey, June 24, 1695, aged 73.

GRIFFIN, William, born 1639, son of John Griffin, of Bristol,
Somerset, admitted as a convictor Sept. 8, 1652 ; recalled
March, 26, 1655.

GRIFFITH, James, alumnus Sept. 7, 1686 ; ord. deacon Nov.
16, 1687 ; priest ; sent England, Dec. 23, 1689. Lived
many years with the Talbots at Longford Hall, Salop,
and in 1717, as a Catholic non-juror, registered property
at Rushhock, co. Worcester, perhaps his native place.
Died at Longford, Feb. 23, 1734.

GRIFFITHS, Gerald Prosser, admitted Nov. 12, 1889 ;
alumnus Feb. 9, 1894 ; ord. priest March 13, and left
May 25, 1897 ; at Cardiff, 1897-8 ; Usk, 1898-9 ; Ton-y-
Pand-y, 1899 to date.

GROSCH,' Henry I., admitted Aug. 28, 1878 ; ord. priest
Mar. 19, 1888 ; left May 21, 1889 ; at Isleworth, 1889-92 ;
Commercial-road, London, 1892-6 ; Homerton, 1896-
1900 ; Clarendon-square, London, 1900-1.

GUNNING, Luke, admitted May 22, 1850 ; alumnus Dec. 16,
1865; ord. priest; left Feb. 6, 1869; now at Winchester,
and canon of Portsmouth.

GWILLIMS, John, alias \Villiams, admitted Sept. 22, 1735 ;
alumnus Sept. 15, 1737 ; ord. priest June, 1739 ; sent
England, Aug. 2, 1743. Many years at The Cross Keys,
the secular mission at Holywell, Flint, apparently suc
ceeding to that charge upon the death of Rev. John
Roberts, Jan. 6, 1753 ; died there, Apr. 3, 1763.

HABBERTON, Charles, born March i, 1771, son of Charles
Habberton and his wife Catherine, converts, of Abel's
Court, London ; went to Sedgley Park School, 1782-4 ;
admitted Sept. 18, 1784.

HACKETT, James, possibly a son of Theobald Hackett, of
Golch, co. Flint, gent., a Catholic, non-juror in 1717, ad
mitted on T. Woolfe's Fund, 1710; alum. Dec. 21, 1711.
HALDANBY, Francis, son of Robert Haldanby, of Haldanby,
co. York, Esq., by Katherine Knollys, of Rollenfield
Greys, who died in 1707, aged 52, and was buried at
Grevs with the Knollys family ; admitted, with his brother

2O6 REGISTER.

Robert who did not persevere, Jan. 3, 1667 ; alumnus
Sept. 8, 1677 ; ord. priest Feb. 6, 1678 ; left for mission
Apr. 30, 1680, and living in Oxfordshire in 1702.

HALL, Henry, born March n, 1807, son of Richard Hall and
his wife Elizabeth Swarbrick, of Liverpool ; sent Sedgley
Park School ; admitted Jan. 13, 1819 ; confirmed by Bp.
of Lamego, Feb. n, 1820 ; transferred to Oscott College,
Aug. 1822-30 ; ord. priest June 5, 1830 ; stationed at
Louth, Lincolnshire, 1832 till death, having retired from
missionary duty two years previously, July 9, 1878,
aged 71.

HALL, Thomas, son of Thomas Hall, confectioner, of Ivy
Lane, near St. Paul's, London, admitted with his brother
William, q.v. ; alumnus Sept. 15, 1680 ; received diacon-
ate Sept. 8, 1683 ; left for Paris to study divinity, Apr. 2,
1684 ; admitted B.D., at the Sorbonne, and sent to teach
philosophy at Douay College, where arrived Oct. 22,
1688 ; ord. priest Sept. 24, 1689 ; left Aug. 21, 1690, to
proceed in divinity at the Sorbonne and took degree of
D.D. ; went with his brother to Nieuport in 1692, took
Carthusian habit, but finding the Order too severe for him
left ; returned to Lisbon, and assumed chair of divinity,
Apr. 23, 1695 ; finally died at Paris in 1719. Left various
works in MS., vide Bib. Diet. Engl. Caths., III. 95.

HALL, William, brother of Thomas, q.v. ; alumnus Sept. 15,
1680 ; ord. priest considerably under canonical age, and
sent to England April 2, 1684, where he became one of the
preachers in ordinary to James II., who esteemed him as
the best preacher among the Catholics. He was also
chaplain to Dean Massey, at Magdalen College. In 1688
followed his Majesty to France, and in 1690 accompanied
him to Ireland, where was taken prisoner by the Orange
men, but soon released , then sailed for France, and
during a storm made a vow to become a Carthusian. In
April, 1692, received habit of St. Bruno from Prior Bil-
cliffe at Nieuport ; in less than two years became novice-
master, and transferred with three novices to the charter
house at Brussels ; elected prior of Nieuport in 1696,
resigned in 1699, re-elected 1715 till 1718, when became
procurator, and died in 1719.

There was published " A Sermon preached before Her
Majesty, the Queen Dowager, in her Chapel at Somerset

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House, .... May 9, 1686. By William Hall, Preacher
in Ordinary, to His Majesty. Published by Her Majesty's
command." London, 1686, _(.to. He also left in MS. a
folio volume of " Collections of Historical Matters."

HALLAHAN, Daniel, admitted Jan. 13, 1864 ; ord. priest
May 22, 1875; superior; left Sept. 3, 1876; now at
Cardiff.

HALLIWELL, Richard, vide Birtwistle.

HAMERTON, Edward, a member of one of the ancient family
of his name seated at Hellifield Peel, and at Moiikswood,
near Pontefract, co. York ; admitted under the alias of
Shillet, June 18, 1640 ; alumnus March 31, 1641 ; left July
16, 1641.

HANMER, John, alias Bennet, born 1635, was the eldest son
of Sir Thomas Hanmer of Hanmer, co. Flint, Bart., by his
first wife, Elizabeth, dau. of Sir Thomas Baker and sister
and heiress of Thomas Baker, Esq. of \Yhittingham, co.
Suffolk. Admitted Apr. 10, 1649, defended theses in theol
ogy in 1651 and 1653, but left the College in March, 1654,
and entered the army. He succeeded his father as second
baronet in 1678, and in 1685 and 1688 he represented his
county in parliament. In 1687, when James II. sent
instructions to the lord lieutenants of counties to interro
gate the deputy lieutenants and justices of the peace as to
whether they would support His Majesty's declaration for
Liberty of Conscience and the repeal of the Penal Laws
and Tests, Sir John, Avho was a deputy lieutenant, was
returned as absent with his regiment, of which he was
major-general, but his name was marked with a cross
signifying that the King might rely upon him. Notwith
standing, at the Revolution, he sided with the Prince of
Orange, and led his regiment into action against his
lawful Sovereign at the battle of the Boyne. At this
time he would appear to have conformed, though his
family had generally been true to the faith, and had long
maintained a chapel in Hanmer Hall. He married Mary,
daughter and heiress of Joseph Alston, Esq., of Nether-
hall, co. Suffolk, but had no issue, and upon his death,
in 1701, the baronetcy and estates passed to his protestant
nephew (of the half blood) Sir Thomas Hanmer.

HANNE, Charles, born June 14, 1711, son of John Hanne, of
Deviock, Cardinham, Cornwall, gent., and his wif

208 REGISTER.

Dorothy, dau. of George Tattershall, of Berry-Pomeroy,
co. Devon, gent. ; admitted, but left, and entered the
Society of Jesus, Sept. 7, 1731 ; was Superior of the
Worcester District for some years, about 1759 was trans
ferred to the Durham District, and lived many years at
Haggerston Castle, Northumberland, the seat of the
Haggerstons, till his death, Apr. 27, 1799, aged 87. Being
incapable of performing the duties of the mission through
age and infirmities, he was given an assistant in 1790, in
the person of the Rev. Michael Tidyman, who succeeded
him in the chaplaincy.

HARDMAN, John, admitted Aug. 12, 1873 ; ord. priest for
Liverpool Diocese, Dec. 23, 1882 ; left Apr. 3, 1883 ;
subsequently changed to Salford diocese, and now at
Oldham.

HARGREAVES (Hartgreaves), William, bapt. Sept. 9, 1596,
son of William Hargreaves, alias Hart, and his second
wife Aloysia, of Burnley, both of good lineage, and allied
with the Townelevs, Banisters, and other ancient Lanca
shire families. He was probably grand-nephew to Sir
James Hargreaves, priest, instituted vicar of Blackburn
in O. Mary's reign, Oct. 24, 1555, deprived upon the
accession of Elizabeth for " papistry," reported in 1568
as having said Mass at Mr. Talbot's, of Salisbury Hall,
Mr. Towneley's, of Towneley Hall, and at Padiham, still
serving in the district in 1575, and hunted about till his
apprehension and commitment to Salford Gaol, where he
lay in Jan. 1584.

William Hargreaves was reconciled to the Church by
Fr. John Scroop alias Hart, who is probably identical
with Fr. Laurence Anderton, S.J., alias " John Brereley,
Priest" ; studied at St. Omer's College, whence sent to
the English College at Valladolid, where admitted under
the alias of Hart, Nov. i, 1616 ; thence proceeded to
Rome, where admitted into the English College, Oct. 8,
1617 ; ord. priest Dec. 21, 1622, and sent England, Apr.
29, 1623, a year before completion of his course of studies,
and there used the alias of Holcroft, possibly his mother's
name ; suffered persecution and imprisonment ; on presen
tation of Don Pedro Coutinho (the founder) and Bp.
Smith, appointed president of the College at Lisbon, Jan.
14, 1634 ; was said to be "a person of singular parts.

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learning and conduct," but his management of the
College was not successful, and in 1637 he was recalled ;
returned to Ron:e about 1647, where he died, Jan. 14,
1660-1, aged 64, and interred in the mortuary of the
English College under a stone bearing the following
inscription : — D. O. M. Rev. Dno. Gulielmo Harto, alias
Hargravio, Presbytero Anglo, patria Lancastrensi, sacra
theologian et philosophic variis in academiis professori,
postremo vero in pomificio Romanan Sapientiae studio,
quo in munere pest diuturnos ad Dei obsequium labores,
carceres etiam a^rumnas pro fide in Angli toleratas, pie
mortem obiit, xiiii Calendas Januarii MDCLX, aetatis
suae anno Ixiiii. Bonis omnibus pios in usus erogavit.
Curatores posuerunt.

In his declaration upon entering the college at Rome he
says that he had four brothers, one a Father of the Society,
and two sisters. According to the Burnley register, his
father was married to his first wife, Isabel Shackleton,
Feb. 20, i58r, and the only issue of this marriage,
recorded, was a son, James, baptized Dec. 9, 1584, the
mother being buried on the following Jan. 7. James was
reconciled to the Church in Framlingham prison by a
priest named Robt. Woodroffe, one of the Woodroffes of
Bank Top, near Burnley, who were allied with the
Hargreaves family. He went to Douay College, matric
ulated in the Douay University in 1602, and proceeded to
the English College at Rome, where he was admitted
Oct. 6, 1603, and received minor orders in Aug. and Nov.,
1604. He is not found in the Collectanea S.J. By the
second marriage with Aloysia, his father had four sons —
William, the subject of this notice; Robert, born May,
1600 ; John, born Dec. 1603 ; and Matthew, born March,
1605-6, and buried June 17, 1608 ; and two daughters —
Mary, bapt. Oct. 8, 1598 ; and Anne, bapt. Apr. 9, 1609.
Lady Eli/.. Hart, abbess of the Bridgettine nuns of Syon,
when the Community removed from Rouen to Lisbon,
and Sister Margerie Hart, who died at Syon, July 23,
1628, were probably aunts to William Hargeaves.

Fr. Wm. Shackleton, alias Stanton and Banister, S.J.,
who died in Lancashire in 1655, aged about 71, was most
probably a near relative.
HARKNESS, John Buller, admitted Oct. 20, 1828; ord.

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2IO REGISTER.

priest; left Aug. 6, ^39; at Derby, 1839-41; Wolver-
hampton, 1841-2 ; Uttoxeter, 1842-4 ; Swynnerton Park,
1844-57 ; Sutton Coldfield, 1857 ^ death, Sept. 3, 1882.

HARNAGE, Henry, bom in Oxfordshire, March, 1650, son of
Edward Harnage, Esq., of Belswardine, co. Salop, by
Mary, dau. of — Mynne, of Somerton, co. Oxon, Esq. ;
admitted Jan. 3, 1667 ; ord. priest ; appointed procurator,
April 10, 1677 ; sent to England, May 12, 1678, and was
stationed in Shropshire. 'For many years lived at Madeley
Court, seat of the Brooke family, with the Rev. Wm.
Pegge, the one as house-chaplain, and the other as
missioner to the Catholics of the neighbourhood, till Mr.
Pegge's removal to St. Thomas' Priory, in 1700, when
Mr. Harnage remained in sole charge ; elected by the
Chapter archdeacon of Shropshire and Herefordshire, Jan.
9, 1699-1700 ; died at Madeley, after a holy and devout
life, Jan. 7, 1736-7, aged 86. He left considerable
benefactions to the clergy. His younger brother, Thomas,
ord. priest at Douay, was serving in Middlesex in 1702,
and died in 1719, leaving his name commemorated in
Dodd's " F lores Cleri Anglicani."

HARRIES, Joseph, vide Harvey.

HARRINGTON, Henry, was with Mark Harrington (cj.v.) at
the opening of the College. On account of his health he
left July 8, and died in England, Nov. 1635.

HARRINGTON, Mark, alias or vere Drury, born 1591 ; ord.
priest at Douay College, Dec. 7, 1616, thence to Paris,
Apr. 16, 1619, and, having completed his degree of B.D.
at the Sorbonne, returned to Douay where successively
taught philosophy and divinity. In 1624 he is said to
have been sent to the mission, but apparently returned
till Aug. 25, 1628, when he was sent to Lisbon to teach
divinity in the new establishment. Arrived in Nov., and
on Apr. 28, 1629, formally appointed vespertine lecturer ;
left for England, Nov. I, 1633, anc^ was stationed in
Wiltshire. Bp. Smith made him one of his vicars-general,
conjointly with Dr. Geo. Leyburne ; at general assembly
of the Chapter in 1649, Harrington was appointed sub-
clean, being then vicar in solidum and archdeacon, with
power to act in the absence of the dean, Peter Biddulph,
alias Fytton, in Italy. In that position he died in July,
1657, aged 66.

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HARRINGTON, Thomas, born 1626, second son of John
Harrington, of Bishton, co. Salop, Esq., by his first wife
Elizabeth, dau. of John Crispe, of Ore, co. Sussex, Esq. ;
admitted Aug. 6, 1642, under alias of Johnson.

HARRISON, Francis, vide Milliard.

HARRISON, Francis, admitted Sept. 9, 1884 ; left Jan. 9,
1890, went Ushaw College and ord. priest Aug. 10, 1895 ;
at St. Bede's, Manchester, 1895—6 ; on sick leave since.

HARRISON, Joseph, born at Farnworth, Sept. 4, 1856 ;
admitted, and having passed through course, left 1880 ;
at Salford Seminary till ord. priest July 10, 1881 ; at St.
Bede's College, 1881-2 ; Miles Platting, 1882-3 5 Reddish,
1883-6 ; health failing returned to college at Lisbon,
1886-90 ; died at Lytham, July 3, 1891, aged 34.

HARRISON, William, vide Breers.

HARROLD, Daniel O'Connell, admitted Oct. 20, 1859 ; ord.
priest Dec. 21, 1867 ; left Mar. 22, 1868 ; at St. Anne's,
Leeds, 1868-74 ; Hunslet, 1875-8 ; St. Mary's, Sheffield,
1878-9, where he died.

HART, William, vide Hargreaves.

HARTLEY, George, born Nov. 9, 1769, son of Richard
Hartley, and his wife Anne Ashness, of Chipping
Norton, co. Oxon ; went Sedgley Park School, 1778-
1783; transferred to Douay College, Nov. 3, 1783, but
left July 21, 1785 ; admitted Feb. 7, 1787, on funds ; ord.
priest, Dec. 25, 1794, and sent to the mission 1795 ;
served Spetchley Hall, co. Worcester, seat of Robert
Berkeley, Esq., till removed in 1803 to Harvington Hall,
co. Warwick, where he died June 26, 1806, aged 36.
He was nephew to the Revv. Thomas and William
Hartley.

HARVEY, John, born 1698 or 1699, son of Henry Harvey,
Esq., by his wife Margaret Rivett, a member of the
ancient family of Harvey, of Beacham Well, co. Norfolk,
and probably a connection of the family of Monnoux, of
Wotton, co. Bedford, Baronets ; convert, about 1713, and
confirmed by Bp. Giffard ; admit. ; left, and subsequently
received into the English College at Rome, under alias
of Monnoux, March 23, 1724, aged 25, where ord. priest
by Benedict XIII., Sept. 18, 1728, and left for the English
mission, Apr. 6, 1729 ; opened a school in London soon
after his arrival ; subsequently, owing to persecution,

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probably aroused by the attention called to the school
and its energetic master in a little pamphlet, published
in 1733, entitled "The Present State of Popery in Eng
land," he removed to Ugthorpe, co. York, where he
reopened his school, and so continued till after the Stuart
rising of 1745 ; persecution was then renewed with great
er vigour, and Mr. Rivett, by which name he passed,
towards the close of 1745, was arrested at Ugthorpe,
under the Duke of Newcastle's warrant or detainer, for
suspicion of high treason, " brought before Mr. Robinson,
M. Consett, and Tho. Skottowe, justices, as a popish
priest and keeping a school for the education of children
in the popish religion, and on examination, confessing
the same and refusing to take the oaths, committed to
York castle." In the following March he was tried at
the Lenten assizes holden at York with Sir William
Anderson, a Vallaclolid priest, "for that, being popish
priests, and little regarding the laws and statutes of this
realm, and not fearing the pains and penalties therein
contained after the 25th of March, 1700, to wit, the
8th of Sept., in the igth year of George II (1745),
did say Mass at Craythorne and Ugthorpe, and that
office or function of a popish priest did use and exercise
in contempt of the said lord the King and his laws."
After sometime Mr. Harvey obtained his release, returned
to London to continue his labours, and died there Dec.
22, 1756, aged 57. Latterly he seems to have been
known by the name of Monnoux Harvey.

HARVEY, Joseph, of an ancient Essex family, was admitted
under the name of Haynes into the English College at
Valladolid, 1604, at the age of 23 ; ord. priest, and left
for the English mission, in Apr., 1609. He was serving
in or about London in 1623. Dodd says he passed some
times under the name of Harries, and became an arch
deacon of the Chapter. Came to Lisbon to co-operate
in foundation of College ; returned to England, 1627, and
nominated first president by Bp. Smith ; went to Douay
College same year to obtain students, where arrived June
12, 1627, left with colony, Aug. 25, 1628 ; arrived
Lisbon, Nov. 14, 1628 ; died on day appointed for public
opening of schools, Feb. 22, 1629, anc^ tmried m church
belonging to the College.

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HASSALL, William, born March 22, 1705-6, younger son of
William Hassall, of Berrington, co. Salop, gent. ; sent
Douay College, where ord. priest June n, 1730 ; appointed
prefect Oct. i, 1730 ; prof, of philosophy, Oct. i, 1731, and,
at request of Dr. Manby, left for Lisbon to be vice-president
and to teach theology, Jan. 21, 1732 ; installed prof, of
philosophy, Sept. 15, and vice-president, Nov. 4, 1732.
Elected member of Chapter, July 14, 1739 ; left, stationed
at Yeldersley Hall, co. Derby, seat of Pegge family, and
died at Burton-on-Trent, May 3, 1741, aged 35.

HATHORNTHWAITE, Robert', of the ancient Catholic
family seated at Hathornthwaite and Catshaw, in Upper
Wyresdale, co. Lancaster ; admitted and ordained priest ;
probably served Upper Wyresdale, and died in 1684.

PL-WARD, Lewis, son of Mr. Havard, of Brecon, South
Wales ; went Sedgley Park School, 1825-7 5 admitted
July 19, 1827 ; ord. priest ; left June, 1837 ; at Brecon,
1837-50 ; Wrexham, 1850-1 ; Carmarthen, 1851-64 ;
Brecon, 1864 till death, 1871. His uncle, the Rev. Lewis
Havard, resided with him at Brecon, till his death in 1858.

HAVARD, Michael, born Sept. 9, 1799, son of David Havard,
Esq., of Brecon, co. Brecnock ; went Sedgley Park
School, 1812-18 ; admitted Apr. 14, 1818 ; alumnus Jan.
7, 1821 ; ord. priest ; left for the mission, April, 1825 ;
died at Brecon, Jan. 22, 1831, aged 30.

HAWKINS, John, son of John Hawkins, of Essex, admitted
under alias of Gower, July 4, 1633 ; left May 10, 1634.

HAWKINS, William M., admitted Nov. 30, 1881 ; ord. priest
Nov. 4, and left Oct. 21, 1883 ; now at Leicester.

HAYDOCK, Thomas, born Feb. 21, 1772, second son of
George Hay dock, of The Tagg, Cottam, co. Lancaster,
gent., by his second wife, Anne, dau. of William Cottam,
of Bilsborrow, gent., and eventual heiress to her brother;
made his preliminary studies under Rev. Robt. Banister
at Mowbreck Hall, Kirkham ; taken by Dr. John Gillow
to Douay College, \vhere arrived Sept. 29, 1785 ; escaped
during the Revolution, being then in his second year's
philosophy, Aug. 5, 1793, and returned home ; thence
came to Lisbon, and admitted in Sept. 1794, but left
towards the close of 1795, his superiors coming to the
conclusion that he had no vocation for the Church ; went
with his brother George to the college at Crook Hall,

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Durham, Jan. 17, but left Nov. 5, 1796; became a noted
Catholic printer in Manchester and Dublin ; died at
Preston, Aug. 29, 1859, aged 87 ; for works vide Bill.
Diet. Eng. Caths. Vol. III.

HAYES, Joseph, native of Preston ; admitted Aug. 13, 1878 ;

ord. priest Mar. 19, and left May 21, 1889 ; now at

Prestwich.

HAYNES, Joseph, vide Harvey.
HEARSNEP, James John, admitted Aug. 15, 1824 ; alumnus

Feb. 10, 1833 ; left Aug., 1834 ; went to Old Hall Coll.,

Nov., 1834, ord. priest there, Apr. 2, and left July 1836;

at Poplar, London, 1836, till death, July 29, 1861.
HEXSHAW, Thomas, admitted April 9, 1890 ; left July 26,

1892 ; pursued his studies elsewhere ; ord. priest, and

now at Institut Catholique, Paris.
HERBERT, John, vide Vane.

HESKETH, George, born June n, 1641, 5th son of Gabriel
Hesketh, Esq., of Whitehill, Goosnargh, co. Lancaster,
by Ann, dau. of Robert Simpson, of Barker, in Goosnargh,
gent. ; admitted Nov. 9, 1660 ; ord. priest Aug. 12, 1665,
and died in the College, Oct. 30, 1666, aged 25.

HESKETH, Roger, born June n, 1643, ^th son of Gabriel
Hesketh, admitted with his brother George, Nov. 9, 1660 ;
alumnus Sept. 5, 1663 ; ord. priest ; appointed procurator,
July 18, 1667 ; confessarius, March 7, 1672 ; prof, of
philosophy, Jan. 12, 1676 ; prof, of theology, Sept. 14,
1677 ; vice-president, by letters patent of the dean and
Chapter, Apr. 25, and installed, Dec. 6, 1678 ; took
degree of D.D. ; recalled to England by Bishop Leyburne,
Apr. 29, 1686 ; appointed president of the College, when
Dr. M. Watkinson wished to resign, by letters patent
from the dean and Chapter, but did not take up the
office ; elected canon of the Chapter, July 9, 1694 ; was
stationed at Stonyhurst, Lancashire, seat of the Sher-
burnes ; transferred to Lincolnshire, probably to Hainton
Hall, the seat of the Heneage family, where he was in
1702 ; died, March 4, 1715, aged 73. Author of a
Treatise on Transubstantiation, 1688, which was answered
by Dr. Edw. Bernard, of Brightwell, Berks, Savilian
professor of astronomy at Oxford. He was also engaged
in the Surey demoniac controversy, in 1694, when at

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Stonyhurst. He has a place in Dodd's " Flores Cleri
Anglican!. "

HESKETH, Thomas, born March 15, 1695-6, 4th son of
Gabriel Hesketh, of Whitehill, in Goosnargh, co. Lan
caster, Esq., by Isabel, dau. of Richard Westby, gent.,
younger brother of Thomas Westby, Esq., of Mowbreck
Hall and Bourn Hall, co. Lancaster ; alumnus, May 23,
1715 ; ord. priest ; appointed prefect of studies, April 23,
1727; died in his father's life-time, before March 13,
1730-1.

HEYS, Ralph, born 1801, son of James and Helen Heys, of
Whittle-le-Springs, co. Lancaster ; went Sedgley Park
School 1811-14 5 admitted Oct. 12, 1814 ; left 1817.

HEYWOOD, Robert, son of John Heywood, of London,
born 1628 ; admitted under alias of Dymock, Nov. 24,
1647 ; left 1651.

HIGGINS, James, admitted Sept. 25, 1889 ; ord. priest, Mar.
13, and left May, 25, 1897; now at Good Shepherd
Convent, Blackley, Manchester.

HIGGINS, John I., admitted Nov. 29, 1881 ; ord. priest,
Sept. 21, 1888; superior ; left Aug. i, 1893 ; now at St.
Augustine's Priory, Newton Abbot, S. Devon.

HIGGS, Charles, probably a brother of Bro. Alexius Higgs,
O.S.B., a native of London, who was professed at St.
Gregory's, Douay, in 1699 ; alumnus March 30, 1697 ;
ord. priest ; left for England, Dec. 22, 1702 ; stationed
in Middlesex ; removed to Dorset, and was chaplain at
Chidiock early in iSth century; subsequently resided
with Mr. Church at St. Columbe Major's, Cornwall,
where he died, Sept. 24, 1736. He was a man of un
bending resolution.

HILL, John, alumnus, March 30, 1697 » or<^- priest, left for
English mission, and was in Middlesex in or about 1702 ;
died Sept. 3, 1723.

HILLIARD, Francis and Henry, the former using the alias
of Harrison, were admitted about the commencement of
the 1 8th century. They were probably brothers to Fr.
Thos. Hilliard (or Hildyard), S.J., of an old Lincolnshire
family settled in London, who died in 1746, aged 56.

HILTON, Robert, admitted Nov. 2T, 1847; ord. priest;
left May 21, 1859; at Edgeley, Stockport, 1859-63;

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Duckinfield, 1863-9; Wellington, 1871, till death, July
n, 1873 ; cousin to Mgr. William, q.v.

HILTON, William, admitted Dec. 18, 1840 ; ord. priest,
1850; left Dec. 5, 1856; at Talacre Hall, Flint, 1857-8;
Bollington, 1858-60 ; Stalybridge, 1860-7 » Canon of
Shrewsbury, 1864 ; Hooton, 1867-76 ; Wrexham, 1876-
83 ; V.G., 1876, and provost of Shrewsbury, 1878 ; re
turned to the College as president, 1883 to date ;
domestic prelate.

HILTON, William, born June 28, 1836, son of John Hilton,
master-builder, of Sedgley, co. Stafford, and his wife
Mary; went Sedgley Park School, 1845-50; admitted
Sept. 22, 1850; ord. priest; left July 24, 1861 ; at
Bishop's House, Birmingham, 1861-3 ; Brailes, co. War
wick, 1863-9 ' Nuneaton, 1869-77 procured a dispensa
tion and entered the Society at Manresa, Roehampton,
Sept. 7, 1877, and after repeating theology at St. Beuno's
College, 1878-80, placed at Liverpool, 1880, where died
of typhus fever, Dec. 31, 1881, aged 45.

HITCHINGS, Edward, admitted July 15, 1887 ; ord. priest
May 26, 1898 ; now at Birkenhead.

HODGSON, Christopher, born 1729, son of William and
Elizabeth Hodgson, of Ugthorpe, North Riding of York,
an old yeomary family of substance in Lythe and Ug
thorpe, which suffered much for recusancy ; admitted on
Edward Jones' Fund, June 2, 1745, alumnus Dec. 6, 1747,
ord. priest, April 7, 1753, appointed procurator, Aug. 3,
1754 ; left for England, 1762 ; stationed at Ugthorpe till
death, Dec. 25, 1765, aged 36.

HODGSON, Samuel, admitted Aug. 25, 1748 ; alumnus
March 13, 1756; ord. p/iest, Dec. 20, 1760; left for
mission, July 17, 1761 ; died near London, Feb. 7, 1766.

HOGAN, John P., admitted Sept. 26, 1876 ; left Nov., 1882 ;
ord. priest at St. Hugh's, Nottingham, March 21, 1885 ;
at Nottingham, 1885-91 ; unattached.

HOLCROFT, Wm., vide Hargreaves.

HOLDEN, James, went Sedgley Park School, 1828-35 ; ad
mitted Nov. 14, 1835 ; ord. priest, and left Mar. 17, 1843.

HOLFORD, Peter, born 1690, a younger son of Thomas
Holford, Esq., and his wife Mary Wrath, of Holford and
Lostock-Gralan, co. Chester, was brought up a protest-
ant, but quitting home, unknown to his parents, was

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received into the Church by the Rev. John Vane alias
Jones, the London agent of the College at Lisbon, whither
he was sent by Bp. Giffard. Admitted in Oct., 1708,
under alias of Lostock ; alumnus, Feb. 22, and appointed
professor of philosophy, Sept. 23, 1711 ; ord. priest, Oct.
30, 1712, and in same year appointed prefect of studies ;
left for Paris to pursue his studies at the Sorbonne, July
16, and admitted by Dr. Ingleton at St. Gregory's Semi
nary, Paris, Aug. 19, 1718, on recommendation of Bp.
Stonor ; became director of English Benedictine nuns at
Paris, 1722, where suddenly taken ill, and died, Aug. 31,
1722, aged 32. "He was a man," wrote Dr. Ingleton,
" of very eminent parts, accompanied with a great sweet
ness of temper, and an exemplary humility." He was the
author of " Paradoxa Physico Thomestica," 1716, 4to.,
a thesis ded. to Card. Nuro de Cunha, inquisitor-general
in Portugal ; also of " Via Civitatis Hobitaculi. Direc
tions for a Spiritual Pilgrimage to Jerusalem." MS.,
at Syon Abbey, Chudleigh, S. Devon, ded. "To the
Virtuous and Religious Sisters of the Order of St.
Bridget att Sion," signed P. Lostock.

HOLLAND, Daniel, admitted Feb. 22, 1889; left Apr. 3,
1898 ; ord. priest Mar. 18, 1889 ; now at Battersea Park-
road, London.

HOLLAND, George, of the diocese of Hereford, admitted in
June, and died in the College, Oct. 27, 1629.

HOLLAND, John, ride Sergeant.

HOLLINSHEAD, Thomas, born Sept. 13, 1765, son of
Joseph Hollinshead and his wife Eli/. Barnicle, of War
wickshire, admitted July 10, 1777, on the presentation of
Anne Peres ; left Feb. 3, 1782.

HOLMES, Francis, admitted Nov. 14, 1878 ; ord. priest May
19, and left May 21, 1889; now at Chester-le-Street,
Durham.

HOLYDAY, John, born March i, 1777, son of Charles Holy-
day and his wife Helen Baxinton, of Chester ; admitted
on John Sheppard's Fund, May 3, 1791 ; left.

HOSTAGE, James, of an old Chester family, went Sedgley
Park School; admitted Oct. 6, 1839; ord. priest; left
Oct. 15, 1846 ; at Hull till 1849 5 Halifax, 1849-55 5
York, 1855-8 ; Egton Bridge, 1858, till death, Aug. 17,
1859.

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HOTHERSALL, Edward, a native of Lancashire ; admitted
Mar. 22, 1836; ord. priest, and appointed superior; left
May 9, 1850 ; at Stockton-on-Tees, till 1852 ; Bellingham,
1852-8 ; spent many years at St. Bernard's Abbey,
Leicester, and died March 26, 1890.

HOUNSHILL, Martin, born March 8, 1718, son of Martin
Hounshill, of Ringwood, co. Southampton, brazier, and
Elizabeth Hunt his wife ; bapt. by Rev. Joseph Gildon ;
confirmed by Bp. Bona. Giffard ; educated at Twyford
Catholic School ; admitted June 6, 1736 ; alumnus, Sept.
15, 1737 ; ord. priest March 27, 1742 ; left for England,
Nov. 14, 1744, and succeeded Rev. Wm. Steel, at Round-
hay, Yorkshire, but was apprehended in following year,
after the Stuart rising, and committed a prisoner to York
Castle for not having attended the parish church and
received the sacrament during the preceding twelve
months, and also for refusing to take the oaths appointed
in the Act of i Win. and Mary ; remained a prisoner 13
months, and upon release returned to the South and was
stationed at Arundel Castle, Sussex ; subsequently re
turned to Lisbon, and became chaplain to the Bridgettine
nuns at Syon Abbey, but owing to ill health, returned
to England, and a few days after his arrival died
suddenly in London, Aug. 9, 1783, aged 65.

HOWE, George, born Oct. 4, 1771, son of George Howe and
his wife Winifred Herd, of Ipstones, co. Stafford ; went
to Sedgley Park School, July 15, 1783-1785 ; admitted
Feb. 22, 1785, on Thos. \Volfe's Fund ; ord. priest April
5, 1795, and left same month for the mission ; served New
port, Salop, 1806-22 ; Shrewsbury, June i6-Oct., 1822,
Newport again, 1822, till death, Nov. i, 1837, aged 66.

HOWES, John, admitted and ordained priest ; sent to Eng
lish mission, Apr. 29, 1674 ; was stationed in Lancashire
in 1697-8.
HUGHES, Denis, admitted Sept. 28, 1881 ; ord. priest Dec.

17, 1892 ; left Mar. 2, 1893 ; now at Stockton-on-Tees.
HUGHES, John F., admitted Jan. 4, 1893 ; ord. priest Mar.

18, 1899; left Apr. 12, 1899; now at Birmingham.
HULL, Joseph, born May 23, 1771, son of William Hull and

his wife Helen Hodgen, of Goosnargh, co. Lancaster ;
admitted Oct. 23, 1784.
HUNT, William, admitted Aug. 30, 1696 ; oath, Dec. 21,

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1701 ; ord. priest ; left for English mission, Aug. 6, 1707 ;
died, April 6, 1733.

HURST, Joseph, nephew to Revv. Thos. and Will. Hurst, q.v. ;
admitted Apr. 10, 1847 ; ord. priest, and left May 2Or
1859 ; at York, 1859-63 ; Sheffield, 1863-5 ' Middlesbo.ro',
1865-6 ; Attercliffe, Sheffield, 1866 to date.

HURST, Thomas, born Dec. 21, 1774, son of Joseph Hurst
and his wife Margt. Preston, of Ormskirk, co. Lancaster,
and nephew of the Revv. John and William Hurst ; went
Sedgley Park School ; admitted Sept. 25, 1788, on the
Carlton Fund ; ord. priest, and retained in the College as
a superior till death, March 31, 1855, aged 80.

HURST, William, born Apr. 8, 1776, brother to Thomas, q.v. ;
went Sedgley Park School ; admitted Sept. 25, 1788, on
the Radcliffe Fund ; ord. priest, and left ; resided for
several years at Westminster, and raised and opened St.
Mary's Chapel in Romney-terrace, Nov. 21, 1813 ; left St.
Mary's, 1817, and went out to the mission in the island
of Trinidad, where died, Aug. 10, 1823, aged 47. Pub-
Tlie Hist, of the Primitive Church of England, Loud. i8i^y
ride Bill. Diet. Engl. CatJis. Vol. IIL

HUTCHINSON, Samuel, born Feb. 7, 1764, son of Robert
Hutchinson and his wife Mary Person, of Oldborough, co.
York; bapt. by Rev. Henry Maire ; admitted May 19,
1775, on the Thatcher Fourth Fund ; confirmed May 24,
1777, and took the name of Simon ; left July 26, 1778.

ILSLEY, Joseph, born Dec. 20, 1805, son of Joseph and Jane
Ilsley, of Maple Durham, co. Oxon., admit. June 29, 1819 ;
ord. priest Dec. 3, 1826, and retained in the College, as
professor ; appointed president June 20, 1854, and received
degree of D.D. ; created a Knight of the Order of the
Immaculada Concei9ao ; resigned on account of failing
health, 1863 ; returned to England, and appointed rector
of Scorton, Lanes., where died, Aug. 30, 1868, aged 62.

IRELAND, James Bladworth, born Feb. 3, 1773, son of John
Ireland and his wife Eliz. Bladworth, of Exley, Essex ;
went Sedgley Park School, 1784-8 ; admit. Feb. 7, 1788.

IRELAND, Walter, admitted Oct. 16, 1865 ; left for Institut
E.ccl. Yvetot, and ord. priest Dec. 29, 1878 ; now presi
dent of St. Wilfrid's College, Staffordshire.

JARRETT, John, son of Mr. Jarrett, of London ; admitted
May 10, 1659; left Jan. 21, 1660.

220 REGISTER.

JEFFRIES, Clement, came from Sedgley Park School and
admitted Aug. 13, 1824 ; alumnus May 26, 1828 ; ord.
priest, and sent England, May, 1833 ; died at St. Peter's,
Birmingham, May 2, 1848, aged 38.

JENKINSON, Christopher, son of Richard Jenkinson, of
Brackenlea, in Nether Wyresdale, co. Lancaster, gent. ;
admitted May 20, 1693 ; defended his universal philo
sophy under Mr. George Slaughter, July 13, 1701 ; alum
nus Dec. 21, 1701 ; taught classics ; ord. priest, and
appointed procurator Sept. 22, 1711 ; sent England, June
12, 1713 ; settled at his father's house at Brackenlea,
whence he attended to the Catholics of Xether Wyres
dale ; also served Fox Houses in Scorton, and at Nateby
Hall, the seat of the Leyburnes. In 1716 proceedings
were taken against his father by the Commissioners for
Forfeited Estates on account of his alleged participation
in the Stuart rising of 1715. Mr. Jenkinson continued to
serve the mission till his death, Sept. 2, 1723, much
respected and regretted by his flock.

JENNYNS, Charles, 7th son of Anthony Jennyns, Esq., and
younger brother of Jerome Jennyns, q.v. ; admitted Aug.
15, 1647 '•> sent to Douay College, where he used the alias
of Newport, took the oaths July 22, 1651, and June 4,
1653 ; was. ord. priest, and sent to the mission ; there he
was " a good missioner for some years," but died at
Paris, Dec. 16, 1677, aged about 50.

JENNYNS, Charles, probably nephew of Charles and Jerome,
q.r. ; was admitted under the alias of Tillingham, Jan. 3,
1667; ord. priest ; left for England, June 18, 1681.

JENNYNS, Jerome, born Feb. 1621, 5th son of Anthony
Jennyns, of Dunmow, Essex, Esq., byEliz. dau. of Robt.
Brooke, of Barkway, co. Hertford, Esq. ; admitted Nov.
4, 1642 ; ord. priest March 12, 1649 ' appointed procura
tor, July 26, 1649 5 probably sent to England, Apr. 1652 ;
elected archdeacon of the Chapter, March 6, 1675-6.

JERNINGHAM, George, son of George Jerningham, Esq. ;
admitted under the alias of Wotton, Oct. i, 1636; left
Dec. 21, 1637.

JOHNSON, Charles, son of Henry Johnson, probably the
gentleman-volunteer who lost his life in the royal cause
during the civil wars ; admitted May i, 1659; recalled to
England, March 22, 1660.

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JOHNSON, John, ride Keelinge.

JOHNSON, Thomas, vide Harrington.

JONES, Edward, born Oct. 25, 1667, son °^ Francis and Anne
Jones, of Stafford ; admitted 1684 ; oath, Apr. 17, 1688 ;
ord. priest Nov. n, 1691 ; appointed professor of philos
ophy, Sept. i, 1692, and confessarius, Sept. 17, 1697;
paid brief visit to England on family affairs, and on
return appointed vice-president and professor of theology,
Oct. i, 1699 ; constituted regent to President Watkinson,
June i, 1706 ; presented to the presidency by Bp. Giffard,
Nov. 28, 1707, and promoted to the rectory of the English
residence, March 8, 1708; resigned April, 1729; resumed
the presidency, Sept. 1732 ; died in the College, Dec.

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JONES, Henry, born Liverpool, 1822 ; admitted Oct. 6, 1839 ;
alumnus May 18, 1847 ; ord. priest, and left May, 1849 '
served in the diocese of Clifton till 1851 ; St. Mary's,
Manchester, 1851-3 ; Peterborough, 1854-5 ; Blackrod,
Lancashire, 1855-8 ; founded the mission at Aspull, 1858—
71 ; Colne, 1871-3 ; Padiham, 1873, till death, Nov. 24,
1891 , aged 69. Was dean of St. Gregory's Deanery ;
erected the church at Padiham.

JONES, James Austin, born 1690, son of William Jones and
his wife Mary Langrack, of London, was converted to the
faith in 1713, and proceeding to Rome was received into
the English College, Dec. 22, 1716 ; ord. priest April 8,
1719 ; left Rome owing to ill-health before he had com
pleted his theological course, April 14, 1720 ; came to
Lisbon, and admitted July, 1720 ; returned to England,
and died, Aug. 6, 1737.

JONES, John, vide Vane.

JONES, Joseph, born in London, March 20, 1714, son of John
Jones and his wife Mary Redriffe, at the age of four years
was taken to Spain, and was brought up and confirmed
at Seville. Thence he was sent to the English College
at Rome, where he was admitted May 2, 1731 ; in due
course was ordained priest July 26, 1740, and left for
England with a letter from the Cardinal Protector, Sept.
9, following. Came to Lisbon as procurator, Sept. 7,
1742, till Sept. 1750, when returned to England, and
ultimately died in the Mad House in Surrey, Jan. 13,
1760, aged 45.

222 REGISTER.

JONES, William, born May 17, 1784, son of Samuel Jones
and his wife Anne Corbissor, of Chillington, Staffordshire ;
went Sedgley Park School, 1795-1802 ; admitted Oct. 7,
1802, on James Barnard's Fund ; transferred to Oscott
College, Feb. 1809, and there ord. priest, March, 1810.
Served Madeley, Salop, 1813-14 ; Mawley, Salop, 1815-
24 ; Longbirch, co. Stafford, 1824-30 ; became chaplain
to the Benedictine nuns at Caverswall Castle, in 1830,
and accompanied the community to Oulton Abbey, in
1853 ; left the Abbey, 1854, and returned to Caverswall
for a short time ; then retired in failing health, and
finally settled at Oulton Abbey, where he died, Aug. 21,
1868, aged 84.
JONES, William Ellis, admitted Sept. 13, 1887 ; ord. priest

Dec. 17, 1892 ; left Feb. 26, 1893 ; now at Stalybridge.
JORDAN, Andrew, admitted, but left for St. Joseph's, Up-
holland, where ord. priest July 31, 1898 ; now at Liver
pool.

KAVANAGH, Charles, went to Sedgley Park School, 1822-
5 ; admitted July 22, 1825 ; ord. priest Feb. 10, 1833 ;
left June, 1837 ; at Prior Park, Bath, till 1841 ; Swan
sea, 1841 till death, Oct. 20, 1856.

KAVANAGH, Hugo Laurence, admitted June 16, 1866 ; ord.
priest, and left June 23, 1873 ; now at Market Har-
borough.

KAYE, John Peter, native of Lancashire, went Sedgley Park
School, 1828-30 ; admitted Nov. 30, 1830 ; ord. priest,
and left Aug. 9, 1842 ; at Witham Place, Essex, 1842-5 ;
Colchester, 1845-8 ; Virginia-street, London, 1848-50 ;
Spanish Place, London, 1850-5 ; Hackney, 1855, till
death, March 7, 1884.

KAYE, Peter, of Lancashire ; alumnus July 12, 1693 ; minor
orders Apr. 22, 1696 ; ord. priest ; appointed professor of
philosophy, Feb. 26, 1703.

KAYE, Thomas, born Apr. 29, 1768, son of George Kaye and
his wife Anne Layton, of Broughton, co. York ; admitted
June 8, 1782 ; ord. priest ; sent to England, 1795, and
placed at Broughton Hall, co. York, the seat of the
Tempests, till Dec., 1797 ; subsequently became chaplain
to the Benedictine nuns at Orrell Mount, near Wigan,
Lancashire, where he died in 1838.
KEARNEY, James, admitted June 28, 1886 ; left June 23,

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1893 ; ord. priest at Oscott, Oct. 31, 1897 ' now at
Spetchley, co. Worcester.

KEEGAX, Gerald, admitted Dec. 28, 1872 ; left May 19,
1882 ; ord. priest Jan. 7, 1883 ; now at Birkenhead.

KEEL1NGE, John, son of John Keelinge, of the ancient
Staffordshire family of that name ; took oath at Douay
College under alias of Johnson, March 12, 1631 ; sent to
Lisbon, and admitted July 21, 1663 ; alumnus June 29,
1635 ; left Dec. 2, 1637.

KEENAN, John Graham, admitted Feb. u, 1870; left Dec.
21, 1879 ; ord. priest at St. Thomas' Seminary, London,
Sept. 18, 1880; army chaplain till 1891, when retired;
died, 1895.

KEENS, Cornelius James, admitted Feb. 6, 1845; ord. priest,
and left June 27, 1855 ; now at Chelsea, and canon of
Westminster.

KELLY, Thomas, alias Barker, was ordained priest at Douay
College in 1625, and in that year sent to the English
mission. He seems to have been sent over to Lisbon by
the Chapter in 1638, and on July 18, was installed procu
rator, and became confessor and vice-president, Sept. 15
of that year. He left the College for England, Nov. i,
1639. He became archdeacon of the Chapter, his patent
bearing date, April 29, 1657. He died in Berkshire, in
the beginning of June, 1673.

KENNEDY, Daniel, admitted Sept. 28, 1878 ; left Oct. 3,
1885 ; proceeded to English Coll., Rome, and ord. priest
Apr. 7, 1889 ; took degree of D.D. ; now at Bishop's
House, Plymouth.

KENRICK, Edward, admitted Sept. 18, 1831 ; ord. priest,
and left Aug. 9, 1842 ; at Bollington, Cheshire, 1842-5;
St. Anthony's, 1845-7, anc^ at St. Patrick's, Liverpool,
1847, till death, Apr. 25, 1860 ; made canon of Liverpool,
1855.

KITCHEN, Edward, probably born at Catforth Hall, Wood-
plumpton, co. Lancaster, and nephew of Rev. Edward
Kitchin, alias Smith, was educated at Douay College,
where he was ordained deacon in Nov., 1730, and left for
Lisbon, June, 27, 1731 ; appointed prefect of studies,
Sept. 17, 1731, but died in the College in 1732.

KNIGHT, Joseph, younger brother of Wm. Knight, q.v. ;
admitted Oct. 6, 1839 ; alumnus May 18, 1847 ; left Sept.

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9, 1850; went Old Hall Coll., and ord. priest 1851 ; died
at Hertford, Sept. 6, 1852, aged 26.

KNIGHT, William, born Dec. 22, 1808, son of William
Knight, of Hoghton Lane, Walton-le-Dale, Lancashire ;
admitted Dec. 21, 1822; alumnus May 26, 1828; ord.
priest ; sent England, May, 1833, and placed temporarily
at Weld Bank ; then at Poulton-le-Fylde, in his native
county ; and, finally, within a year of his ordination,
given the charge of the new mission at Hartlepool, co.
Durham, where he arrived, Jan. 18, 1834, and spent the
remainder of his career ; appointed canon of Hexham,
1852 ; died at Hartlepool, March 4, 1874, aged 65. He
was a composer of sacred music, some of which was
published in 1842.
LANCASTER, John, ride North.

LANGDON, Charles Ignatius, admitted Oct. i, 1862 ; alum.
Dec. 10, 1869; ord. priest 1874; superior; left 1877;
now at Hooton, Cheshire.

LANGLEY, Robert, admitted ; ord. priest ; sent to the
mission, July 17, 1680. Probably connected with the
Langleys of Mangotsfield, co. Gloucester.
LANGLEY, Stephen, admitted July 7, 1726, on Revell's

Fund.

LANGTON, John, alias Baldwin, probably a connection of the
Langtons of Lowe Hall, within Hindley, co. Lancaster ;
alum. Aug. 9, 1666 ; left for the English mission Feb. 2,
1670 ; for many years served Higher Shuttlingfields, in the
parish of Walton-le-dale, Lancashire, till his death in
1684. In 1718 the mission property at Higher Shuttling
fields was confiscated by the Commissioners for Forfeited
Estates, and transferred to the Lancashire Charity Com
missioners.

LAWLESS, James, went Sedgley Park School, 1859-60;
admitted Sept. 22, 1860 ; ord. priest Dec. 18, 1869 ; left
May 15, 1870 ; now at Poplar, London.

LAWS, James, admitted Feb. 6, 1845 ; alumnus Mar. 15,
1852 ; ord. priest, and left June 27, 1855, for Bermondsey,
London ; now at Dover, retired.

LEA, Henry, born July 17, 1807, son of William and Alice
Lea, of Liverpool ; went to St. Edmund's College, Old
Hall, Jan., 1816-1820 ; admitted Mar. 12, 1820 ; alum
nus Dec. 3, 1826 ; ord. priest ; left for the mission, June

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7, 1835, and placed at the Bavarian Chapel, in Warwick-
street, London, till 1839 ; secretary to Bp. Griffiths,
1839-43 ; at Islington, 1843-50 ; Sutton Place, Surrey,
1850-54 ; chaplain to the naval forces, Brompton, Chat
ham, 1854-6 ; Sheerness and Gravesend, 1856, till death,
July 25, 1881, aged 74.

LE CLERC, Charles, born Oct. 24, 1799, at Ferry-bridge,
co. York, son of Charles Le Clerc, steward to Lord Stour-
toii ; went to Sedgley Park School, 1807-1814; admitted
Aug. TI, 1814 ; alumnus Oct. 4, 1818 ; professor of
humanity for about six years ; ord. priest ; professor of
philosophy ; elected vice-president, 18^9 ; died in the
College of typhus fever, July 6, 1834, aged 34. Some of
his sermons were published in "The Catholic Pulpit,"
1839-40, 2 vols., Svo.

LEEM1XG, Thomas, born Jan. 3, 1801, son of Thomas
Leeming, timber merchant and builder, of Preston, by his
second wife Agnes, dau. of Miles Myres, of Preston, malt
ster ; admit. Oct. 12, 1814; left 1817; became a solicitor
in Manchester ; married ; resided at Barton-on-Irwell ;
died sine prole.

LEIGHTON, William, born in London, son of Thomas
Leighton, Esq., younger son of the family seated at
Feckenham, co. Worcester, and his wife Elizabeth, dau.
of Sir Wm. Eure, of Bradley, co. Durham, Knt., (3rd son
of William, Lord Eure) by Cath. dau. and sole heiress of
Sir Wm. Bowes, of Streatham, co. Durham, Knt. ; his
aunt, Margaret Eure, was the wife of Thomas Howard,
5th son of "Belted Will "—Lord William Howard, of
Naworth Castle ; admitted Aug. 26, 1654 ; ord. priest
June n, and left for the English mission under alias of
Stanley, Sept. 4, 1661 ; elected by the Chapter arch
deacon of Northumberland, Cumberland and Durham,
March 18, 1673-4 ; used the alias of Stevenson, in 1676 ;
died in the county of Salop, 1681.

LENNON, James, native of Liverpool ; admit. Oct. 2, 1860;
ord. priest June 19, 1863 J left July 9, 1864 ; at Newton-
le-Willows, Lancashire, with his brother John, 1864-5 J
Tyldesley, 1865-70 ; Newtori-le- Willows, 1870-98, when
retired, made protonotary Apostolic, now in Liverpool.

LENNON, John Joseph, native of Liverpool, spent some time
in lawyer's office in Liverpool ; admitted May 16, 1851 ;

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alum. Nov. 30, 1857 ; ord. priest, and left Mar. 4, 1861 ;
at Pro-Cathedral, Liverpool, 1861 ; Newton-le- Willows,
1861-70, and erected church in 1861 ; Weld Bank,
Chorley, 1870, till death, Oct. 12, 1897, agfid 67 ; rural
dean, 1893.

LE QUILBECQ, Aloysius S., admitted Nov. 28, 1877 ; alum.
Dec. 3, 1880 ; died in the College, Sept. 4, 1882.

LESTER, Francis, born in Wales, Nov. 2, 1704, son of Francis
Lester and his wife Rachel Taverner, protestants, was
converted at Lisbon through reading pious books ; ad
mitted as a convictor, Dec. 24, 1725 ; proceeded to Rome,
and entered English College, there, Apr. 16, 1728 ; con
firmed by Benedict XIII, June 6, and became alumnus
Nov. i, 1728 ; thence, under medical advice, went to
Flanders, July 19, 1729; entered the Society of Jesus at
Watten, 1730, and died a scholastic at Liege, May 8,
1732, aged 27.

LEWIS, Daniel, admitted Aug. i, 1851 ; alum. Dec. 7, 1859 ;
left May 22, 1860; went Old Hall Coll., and ord. priest
at Warwick-street, London, June 14, 1862 ; at Fit/roy-
square, 1862-4; Stratford, E., 1864-6; Poplar, 1 866-8 ;
Mile-End-road, 1861-73 ; Marylebone, 1873-4 ; Kings-
land, 1874-5 ; Grafton-street, Mile End, 1877-9 ; Bow,
1881-2 ; Stratford, E., 1882-8; Bow-road, i888-9T.

LIDDELL, Thomas, son of Henry Liddell, Esq., and his
wife Rebecca, of Farnacres, co. Durham ; alumnus July
12, 1693 ; ord. priest ; sent to the mission, Jan. 19, 1698 ;
returned and appointed confessor, 1719 ; died, 1724.

LIDDELL, Thomas, of Durham ; admitted Mar. 31, 1735, on
the Radcliffe Fund ; alumnus Sept. 15, 1737 ; ord. priest
Jan. 21, 1742 ; sent England, Jan. 16, 1743.

LIVESEY, Joseph, admitted Nov. 24, 1880 ; alumnus Feb. 18,
1888 ; left May 2, 1891 ; ord. priest Feb. 15, 1891 ; now
at Brighton.

LLOYD, John, vide Floyd.

LLOYD, William, vide Floyd.

LOCKE, Charles James, son of William Locke, of Manchester,
Esq., and nephew of Joseph Locke, Esq., the eminent
civil engineer, and M.P. for Honiton, co. Devon ; admit.
Apr. 3, 1853; alumnus Feb. i, 1856; ord. priest; left
May 21, 1859 ; now at Wath-upon-Dearne, Rotherham.

LOCKE, Richard, admitted March 16, on Revell's Fund, and

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alumnus Dec. 23, 1725 ; left for the English mission,
June i, 1726.

LOP^TUS, James, admitted Oct. 21, 1856; alumnus Dec. n,
1861 ; left in deacon's orders, Dec., 1863.

LOSTOCK, Peter, vide Holford.

LOVEDEX, Anthony, alias Ayliffe, son of Anthony Loveden,
of Hants, admitted March 20, 1648.

LUCAS, Laurence, admitted Oct. 6, 1839 ; alumnus May 18,
1847; left July 13, 1851.

LUCY, Edward, son of Henry Lucy, Esq., of Hertfordshire ;
admitted Aug. 15, 1647 ; left Oct. 22, 1650.

LYNCH, Henry Oswald, admitted Sept. 4, 1879 ; ord. priest
Mar. 19, and left May 21, 1889 ; now at Market Drayton.

McCARTHY, Daniel, admitted Oct. 26, 1892; left April 3,
1898, in deacon's orders ; ord. priest Mar. 18, 1899 ; now
at Walworth, London.

MACKWORTH, Thomas, born 1691, son of Thomas Mack-
worth and his wife Mary Pilkington, of London, became
page to the Duke of Norfolk, who sent him to college ;
admitted under alias of Pilkington, and after making his
classics left for the English College at Rome, where
received Apr. 5, 1712, n.s., ord. priest Apr. IT, 1716, and
left for England, Apr. 21, 1718. Succeeded Rev. Edw.
Coyney as chaplain to Lord Langdale, at Paynsley Hall,
co. Stafford, 1722-26 ; was much harassed and persecuted
by Roger Warner, on the score of his being a priest ;
died, Jan. n, 1733-34-

McLOUGHLIN, Thomas, admitted Jan. 14,1881; left Dec. i,
1887 ; ord. priest Nov. i, 1892 ; now at Llanelly.

McNEAL, Mark, probably son of Mark John McNeal, Esq.,
M.D., formerly a master at Sedgley Park School, who
died at Paris in 1823 ; admitted Oct. 17, 1825 ; alumnus
May 26, 1828 ; ord. priest, and left May, 1833 ; at the
Bavarian Chapel, London, 1833-6 ; St. John's Wood,
1836-60 ; Chelsea, 1860-7 ' Great Ormond-street, 1867-8 ;
Chelsea, 1868, till death, Dec. 20, 1886.

McSWEENEY, Edward, admitted Nov. 6, 1893 ; left Jan. 9,
and ord. priest for Southwark, Sept. 18, 1897.

McSWEENEY, Thomas, admitted Jan. 30, 1894 ; ord. priest
Mar. 18, and left Apr. 3, 1899 ; now at Brighton.

MAHON, Christopher, vide Bird.

MANLEY, John, born 1680, son of John Manley, of Hants ;

228 REGISTER.

admitted 1692, under alias of Thorpe ; alumnus Mar.
30, 1697 ; ord. priest Dec. 23, 1702 ; taught classics and
had charge of the infirmary till his appointment as pro
fessor of philosophy, Apr. 8, 1709 ; prefect of studies,
Sept. 30, 1710 ; left for the English mission, Sept. 22,
1711 ; elected an archdeacon of the Chapter, March 16,
1729—30 ; re-called to Lisbon to assume the presidency,
on the presentation of Bp. Bon. Giffard, Apr. 29, 1729;
resigned in favour of his predecessor, Edw. Jones, Sept. 8,
1732 ; resumed the presidency, on the presentation of Bp.
Benj. Petre, Aug. 14, 1739, and so continued till killed
during the great earthquake, Nov. i, 1755, aged 75. Mr.
Manley prepared for publication: "The Spiritual Exer
cises of St. Ignatius. Translated by John Thorpe, Priest
of the English College of Lisbon," 1707, MS.
MANLEY, Robert, vide Charnock.
MANSELL, William, vide Clifford.

MARSH, John, born June 12, 1802, son of James and Lydia
Marsh, of Hindley, co. Lancaster ; went to Sedgley Park
School, 1817 ; admitted Oct. 20, 1817 ; dismissed for
laziness, 1820 ; went to the English Benedictine College
at Douay, where professed, 1824 ; ordained priest 1826 ;
sent on the mission to the North Province ; was at Myd-
delton Lodge, Yorkshire, 1837-49 ; passed to the South
Province; was at Aston-le-Walls, 1849-52, and died at
Wappenbury, Feb. 8, 1852, aged 49.

MARSH, Joseph Bryan, born Sept. 4, 1783, son of Edward
Marsh, of Manchester, brazier, and his wife Mary White-
house, probably of Sheffield ; entered the Manchester
Grammar School, 1794, but shortly afterwards removed
to Rev. Simon Geo. Bordley's school at Ince Blundell,
then under the superintendence of Mr. Hewitt ; admitted
Mar. 27, 1798, on Mr. Bordley's Fund ; left, owing to
ill-health, and returned to England, 1803 ; went to Crook
Hall, Durham, July 30, 1803, accompanied the college to
Ushaw in 1808, and there ordained priest 1809 ; served
Lea, Lancashire, 1809-18 ; Newhouse, Newsham, 1818,
till 1854, when retired to a neighbouring cottage and
there died, July 20, 1857, aged 73. Author of "A Cate
chism of Christian Doctrine, in Three Sections." Preston,
241110. ; and of a prayer-book compiled for the use of his
congregation.

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MARSLAND, John, born about 1738, in Lancashire, admitted
Nov. 23, 1752 ; went to Douay College, where arrived
July 9, 1756 ; left for England in ill-health, July 10, but
returned Douay, Oct. 31, 1761 ; ord. priest 1763 ; was at
Scarborough in 1773 ; returned to Douay as a convictor,
Jan. 4, 17/5 ; left for England, Apr. 18, 1776 ; placed at
Ugthorpe, co. York ; died Aug. 9, 1817, aged about 78.
He was eminently distinguished, says " L'Ami de la
Religion," as a charitable and zealous ecclesiastic. He
hospitably received many of the French emigre clergy in
1792, and the following years, and his zeal in procuring
for them all the succour of which they stood in need will
never be forgotten.

MARTIN, George, vide Barrett,

MARTIN, Richard, born Feb. 14, 1746, probably a relative
of the baronets of his name seated at Long Melford, co.
Suffolk, of whom many were priests ; admitted June 12,
1761 ; alumnus Nov. i, 1763 ; left March 4, 1770.

MASON, Henry St. Leger, admitted July 19, 1888 ; ord. priest
Mar. 13, and left May 25, 1897 ; now at Southwold,
Suffolk.

MASON, Laurence, alumnus Sept. 8, 1677.

MASON, Thomas, admitted July 20, 1733, on the Colston
Fund ; alumnus Sept. 15, 1737 ; ord. priest June 12, 1745 ;
sent England, Dec. 17, 1746 ; placed at Alston Lane,
Lancashire, where died, June 16, 1751, and buried at
Preston.

MASSAM, James, admitted Nov. 9, 1826 ; ord. priest, and
left July 18, 1837 ; at St. Gregory's, Longton, Stafford
shire, 1837-49 ; Newcastle-under-Lyne, 1849-56 ; Long-
ton, again, as rector, 1856-82 ; retired 1882, but continued
to live at St. Gregory's till death, July 22, 1893.

MAWDESLEY, Henry, brother of Richard, q.v. ; alumnus
Sept. 8, 1677 ; ord. priest, and sent England, Sept. 22,
1680.

MAWDESLEY, Richard, son of Richard Mawdesley, of
Mawdesley, co. Lancaster, yeoman, and of his wife Margt.,
dau. of Henry Finche, of Mawdesley, gent. ; alum. Sept.
8, 1677 ; ord. priest ; appointed professor of philosophy,
Sept. 14, 1680; confessarius, Nov., 1681, and professor
of theology, Nov. 7, 1682.

MAWDESLEY, William, nephew of Henry and Richard, and

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probably son of Robert and Ellen Mawdesley, of Mawd-
eslev ; alumnus July 12, 1693 ; ord. priest July i, 1696 ;
sent English mission, Jan. 19, 1698 ; recalled to the
College to teach philosophy and to be confessarius, Sept.
15, 1710; appointed procurator, Jan. i, 1711; presented
to the vice-presidency, Apr. 13, 1718, and formally
installed, Sept. 15, 1719, when also became professor of
theology ; left to go to Goa, in the Indies, but died in
passage, in 1733.

MAY, Felix, admitted Aug. 13, 1883 ; ord. priest Sept. 29,
1884 ; left Feb. 27, 1888 ; now at Campden, Gloucester
shire.

MAYNARD, (Mayler, Maillour, or Maylard) Henry, born
about 1576, a younger son of Sir Henry Maynard, of
Estaines, co. Essex, Knt., M.P. for St. Alban's, and
secretary to the Lord-Treasurer Burghley, by Susan, dau.
and coh. of Thomas Person, gentleman-usher of the Star
Chamber ; went to Douay College ; matriculated at the
Douay University ; was ordained priest ; resumed his
studies in the University of Paris, and was created Doctor
of the Sorbonne ; returned to Douay as professor of
divinity ; became attached to the service of the Prince of
Metz, and was with him at the siege of Rochelle ; was
persuaded to join Mr. Harvey in his Lisbon undertaking,
and left Douay with him on Aug. 25, arrived at the
College, Dec. 24, 1628, and opened the schools, Apr. 25,
1629, himself occupying the chair of divinity during that
and the succeeding year ; returned to England, and was
labouring on the mission in 1636 ; was one of those
proposed for the mitre, when the clergy were endeavour
ing to re-establish the hierarchy in England. He was
a brilliant conversationist, highly esteemed at the courts
of France and Spain, and enjoyed a considerable benefice
in the former country. He resided at Blois for some
time. His brother William received the honour of
Knighthood, 1608; was created a baronet, 1611 ; was
elevated to the peerage of Ireland, 1620, and made a peer
of England as Baron Maynard of Estaines, in Essex, 1628.

MAYNE, Joseph S., admitted Aug. 13, 1880 ; left Mar. 22,
1890 ; ord. priest at St. Joseph's Seminary, Leeds, July
26, 1892 ; now at the Cathedral, Northampton.

MEAGER, Richard William, admitted Mar. 22, 1850 ; ord.

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priest, and left Dec. 7, 1860, for Plymouth ; now at
Clifton Wood, Bristol.

METCALFE, Charles, born Apr. 10, 1764, son of Leonard
Metcalfe, of the Mansion-house, Fulford, co. York, form
erly of Nuthill, in Holderness, by Anne, dau. of Mr.
Pinder, of Sproatley Hall, in Holderness, was baptized
by Rev. Thomas Daniel, at Fulford, Oct. 10, 1765 ; went
to Sedgley Park School, 1776-78 ; admitted Sept. 12,
1778 ; left July 13, 1783 ; studied surgery, and was a
surgeon in the militia ; married, but died without issue ;
his widow married Mr. Billings and was living in 1820.

METCALFE, Peter, of Yorkshire, was probably the third son
of Anthony Metcalfe, gent., of Stanwick parish, by Ellen,
dau. of Robert Lambert, of Oulton, Esq. ; went to
Douay College, under the alias of Bankes, whence left
with the first colony for Lisbon, Aug. 25, 1628 ; admitted,
under alias of Nelson, Nov. 14, 1628 ; ord. priest, July
17, 1633 ; left to return to Douay, Sept. 8, 1633 ; left
Douay Coll. for the Eng. Mission, 1634 ; died in Holborn,
London, Dec. 26, 1671.

MEYNELL, William, vide Gascoigne.

MIDDLEHURST, Thomas, born Sept. n, 1802, son of John
Middlehurst, of Parr, co. Lancaster, and his wire Jane
Clayton ; admitted Jan. 13, 1819 ; alumnus, April i,
1823 ; left July 6, 1824.

MILES, George H., admitted April 30, 1875 ; left July 12,
1878 ; went Oscott, and ord. priest Sept. 20, 1884 ; now
at Stoke-by-Nayland.

MILES, John, an Anglo-Portuguese, admitted as a convictor,
defended public thesis, April 28, 1642, left April 29, 1643.

MILLS, John, born April 16, 1759, son of George and Anne
Mills, of Yorkshire, went to Sedgley Park School, 1768-
73 ; admitted March 30, 1773, left June 20, 1778.

MILNER, John, admitted Dec. 12, 1746, alumnus, Dec. 6,
1747, ord. priest, May 31, 1749, left for the mission Jan.
28, 1750 ; succeeded Rev. John Shepherd at Cowdray,
Sussex, in or about 1757, was still there in Dec., 1758.

MITFORD, James, admitted July 18, 1821 ; alumnus May
26, but died in the College, Nov. 24, 1828.

MOLLOY, Nicholas, admitted April 5, 1849 ; ord. priest, and
left May 21, 1859 ; at St. Anthony's Liverpool, 1859-65 ;

232 REGISTER.

Chorley, 1865-8 ; Liverpool, 1868-72 ; Preston, 1872-3.

MONNOUX, John, vide Harvey.

MOORE, James B., admitted May 13, 1866 ; ord. priest,
Dec. 22, 1877 ; left May 8, 1878 ; now at Aberavon.

MORGAN, Anthony, of an ancient Northamptonshire family,
related to Ant. Morgan, of Heyford, co. Northampton,
Esq., whose dau. and h., Bridget, carried in marriage
that manor and other estates to Sir Wm. Morgan, Knt.,
the royalist ; went to Douay College, where assumed the
name of Sanders, and matriculated at Douay Univ., Apr.
i, 1605 ; became S. Th. L., and subsequently canon of
St. Martin's at Iprenses ; sent to colonize Lisbon, and
arrived Nov. 14, 1628 ; died in the College, Aug. 16,
1631. Wrote a curious work on the name "Anthony,"
approved in 1627, anc^ pub. at Douay, 1637, v'iae Bibl.
Diet. E<ng. Caths. V. 474.

MORGAN, David, admitted Dec. 9, 1734 ; alumnus Sept. 15,
1737 ; ord. priest March 4, 1742 ; left for England, Dec.
17, 1746 ; placed at Bedhampton, near Havant, Hants,
where he erected a chapel and presbytery, and died, Nov.
4, 1758. Mr. Thomas Talbot, subsequently Bishop,
succeeded him, and paid off the debt on the chapel and
house.

MORGAN, Thomas, son of John Morgan, of London, admit,
under the alias of Sugar, June 9, 1642 ; alumnus, June
29, 1644 ; minor orders, Nov. 30, 1646 ; publicly defend
ed theses, June n, 1645, and June 5, 1647 > orc^> priest ;
appointed procurator, Aug. 10, 1650.

MORLEY, James, born Feb. 18, 1777, son of James Morley
and his wife Margt. Hewitt of Ince, co. Lancaster ; went
to the English Dominican school at Bornhem, Nov. 18,
1783— May 30, 1787, thence went to- Rev. Simon George
Bordley's School at Newhouse, Aughton, and in 1789
was sent to Sedgley Park School ; admitted Oct. 13,
1790, on Mr. Bordley's Fund, and died in the College.

MOYNIHAN, Thomas, admitted Jan. 22, 1867 ; alumnus,
May 17, 1875; left Dec. 12, 1875; \vent Hammersmith,
and ord. priest July 29, 1877 ; at Blackheath Park,
London, 1877-8 ; Battersea Park-road, 1878-9 ; Gosport,
1879-80 ; Sheerness, 1880, till death, Sept. 20, 1890.

MOYSES, John, vide Frankland.

MULCAHY, John, admitted Oct. 29, 1895 ; ord. priest Mar.

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23, and left April 3, 1901 ; now at Tottenham, London.

MULLINS, James, admitted Aug. 13, 1880 ; orcl. priest
Mar. 19, and left May 21, 1889 ; now at Seacombe,
Birkenhead.

NANFAN, William, fourth son of William Nanfan, of Bruch
Morton, co. Worcester, Esq., by Jane Smyth, of Leices
tershire ; admitted Oct. i, 1645 > alumnus, Sept. 20,
1646; expelled, Jan. i, 1647.

NEEDHAM, John Turberville, born in London, Sept. 10,
1713, son of John Needham, barrister, and his wife
Margt. Lucas, went to Douay College, Oct. 10 , 1722,
ord. priest, May 31, 1738, taught rhetoric, left to assist
Rev. Jno. Phil. Betts at Twyford School, near Winches
ter, in 1740; thence was ordered to Lisbon to teach
philosophy, set out from England, Jan. 12, arrived Feb.
22, and formally installed professor, March 13, 1743-4;
left to return to England, June 19, 1745 ; obtained
European note as a physiologist ; canon of Dender-
monde, afterwards of Soignies ; died at Brussels, Dec. 30,
1781, aged 68. Author of many scientific works. Vide
Bibliog. Diet, of Engl. Caths. V. 157.

NELSON,' Peter, vide Metcalfe.

NEVILLE, Thomas, admitted Nov. 13, 1883 ; left 1887 ;
went St. Thomas' Seminary, Hammersmith, and ord.
priest Mar. 18, 1893 ; now at Eastbourne.

NEWMAN, William, vide Ralph Sliefild.

NEWPORT, Charles, vide Jennyns.

NEWTON, Robert, alumnus, March 25, 1747 ; ord. priest,
Dec. 31, 1747 ; left for England, Dec. 24, 1749 ; stationed
at Market Rasen, co. Lincoln ; succeeded Mr. James
Styche, alias Hawkins, at Sixhills Grange in 1764 ; so
continued till a new chapel was built at Sixhills to
accommodate the Hainton congregation, when he found
himself unable to do the duty of the two congregations,
and retired to Claxby, where he was living in a very in
firm state in Sept. 1799, and died soon after.

NTCHOLLS, Henry, born Feb. 4, 1724, son of Francis
Nicholls and his wife Mary Horsleigh ; admitted on the
Nicholson Fund, Sept. 9, 1739 ; alumnus, March 25,
1747 ; ord. priest, March 9, 1748 ; left for England, Aug.
20, 1751 ; died on the mission in London, Feb. n, 1774,
aged 50.

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NICHOLSON, Francis, baptized Oct. 27, 1650, son of Thos.
Nicholson, of Manchester, in 1666 became servitor at
University College, Oxford ; M.A., June 4, 1673 ; rector
of parish near Canterbury ; converted soon after accession
of James II ; took the Carthusian habit at Nieuport, but
austerities being too severe for his constitution returned
to England about 1692 ; thence proceeded to Lisbon in
service of the Dowager Queen Catharine ; resided some
years at Portuguese Court ; sunk a large portion of his
means in the purchase of an estate at Pera, where spent
several years ; about 1720 made over all his property
to the College, and came to reside here ; died in
the College, Aug. 13, 1731, aged 80. For works vide
Bibl. Diet, of the Eiig. CatJi. Vol. V., 178.

NICHOLSON, Francis Bernard, born Oct. 5, 1766, son of
Joseph Nicholson, and his wife Margaret Brown, of
London ; went Sedgley Park School, 1777-9 5 admitted
Aug. 23, 1779, on the Nicholson Fund, left April 4, 1784 ;
died Jan. 12, 1837, aged 70.
NIGHTINGALE, George, admitted ; ord. priest Aug. 16,

1897 ; now at Talacre Hall, Flint.

NORMANVILLE, William de, went Sedgley Park School,
1855-6; admitted Oct. 21, 1856; alumnus, Feb. 18,
and left April 21, 1864.

NORRIS, Edward, born April 9, 1781, son of Joseph Norris
and his wife H. An. Ravenhill, of London; went Sedgley
Park School, 1795-98 ; admitted on Triple Trust, Oct. 4,
1798 ; ord. priest, and sent to mission in London ; forty
vears pastor of St. Patrick's, Sutton-street, Soho, where
died, Sept. 16, 1852, aged 71.

NORTH, Joseph Edward, born at Bermondsey, 1808, young
er brother of Richard, q.r. ; studied at Old Hall, Ware,
April, i828-Jan., 1830 ; admitted 1830, left 1833 ; at
Oscott College, Aug., 1833-35 ; ord. priest, Sept. 19,
1835 ; became professor at Old Hall ; went to Stoke-by-
Nayland, Suffolk, 1838, and when Giffard Hall, within
his parish, was opened as a seminary by Bp. Wareing in
1842, Mr. North filled office of vice-president till the
establishment was transferred to Northampton in 1845 ;
missioner at Deptford, 1850, till death of his brother at
Croom's Hill, in 1860, when he succeeded him ; elected
canon of Southwark, 1864; died at Greenwich, Feb. 25,

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1885, aged 76. Author of some sermons in the " Catho
lic Pulpit"; and jointly with his brother of " A Brief
Account of the New Catholic Church at Greenwich."
Lond. 1850, 8°. Vide Bibl. Diet. Eng. Caths. V. 191.

NORTH, John, son of John North, of Docker, parish of
Whittington, co. Lancaster, Esq. ; took the oath at
Douay College, under the alias of Lancaster, Sept. 21,
1629 ; ord. priest April 5, 1631, and thence sent to Lisbon
and appointed prefect of studies ; left for England, and
was serving Thurnham Hall and vicinity, co. Lancaster,
in the last quarter of the ijth century.

NORTH, Richard, born Feb. 2, 1800, son of Nicholas and
Elizabeth North, of Bermondsey, London ; admitted
Aug. u, 1814 ; alumnus, Jan. 7, 1821 ; ord. priest ; left
April 26, 1826 ; placed at Greenwich, 1828, and in
1852 erected and opened, with assistance of his brother
Joseph, q.v., the church at Groom's Hill ; made canon of
Southwark, 1852, received honorary degree of D.D.,
1853, and died missionary rector of Greenwich, Feb. 5,
1860, aged 60. Vide Jos. E. North.

O'CONNELL, James, admitted Sept. 27, 1858 ; ord. priest,.
1868 ; superior ; left June n, 1870 ; at Stratford, London,
1870-1 ; Kensington, 1871-7 ; Brentford, 1877-9 ; Acton,
Middx., 1879, till death, Oct. 22, 1882.

OGLE, William, son of Thomas Ogle, of Distington, co.
Northumberland, Esq., by Eleanor, dau. of Thomas
Swinburne, of Capheaton, co. Northumberland, Esq. ;
admitted as a convictor under alias of Swinburne, Dec.
7, 1640 ; defended thesis publicly, Feb. 24, 1643 ; ord.
priest ; left for England, Feb. 8, 1644 5 became an arch
deacon of the Chapter.

OGLETHORPE, Francis, vide Paver.

O'HAGAN, Michael, admitted Nov. 20, 1893 ; ord. priest,
Mar. 18, and left April 24, 1899 ; now at Nechell's,.
Birmingham.

O'KELLY, Lionel Joseph, admitted Oct. 8, 1872 ; left Oct.
2, and ord. priest at Salford, Dec. 23, 1882 ; now at An-
coats, Manchester.

OLIVER, James, admitted Oct. 6, 1839 ; ord. priest, and
left July 13, 1851 ; at Birkenhead, 1851-3 ; Wellington,
1853-61 ; Brierly Hill, 1861-71 ; Brailes, co. Warwick,

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1871-89; retired at Preston, 1889-99, Southport, 1889-
1900, and now at Ormskirk.

O'LOUGHLIN, Andrew, admitted Oct. 3, 1884; left Sept.
18, 1889; went Engl. Coll., Rome, where ord. priest
Mar. 30, 1895, and took degree D.D. ; now at Dorches
ter.

O'SHEA, Michael T., admitted Sept. 28, 1891 ; alumnus
Mar. 19, and died in the College, Oct. 9, 1896.

O'SULLIVAN, Augustine, admitted Mar. 19, 1887 ; left June
22, 1892, and ord. priest for Northampton, June 24, 1893 ;
now at Daventry.

O'TOOLE, John, admitted Aug. 26, 1884; left May i, and
ord. priest at Birmingham, June 26, 1892 ; now at Haun-
ton, Tarn worth.

OWEN, Simon, son of Simon Owen, admitted as a con-
victor, March 20, 1650 ; left Aug. 13, 1653.

PADBURY, Joseph Frederick, of Staffordshire, went Sedgley
Park School, 1842-3 ; admitted Sept. 30, 1843 ; alumnus
May 18, ord. priest 1850, and left July 13, 1851 ; went
Old Hall ; Bridport, 1852-4 ; Poplar, London, 1854-60 ;
Commercial Road, London, 1860-83 '•> Hackney, 1883-5 '•>
Chelmsford, 1885, to date.

PALYART, Ignatius Paul, born at Lisbon, July 31, 1762, son
of Joachym Palyart and his wife Francis Brown ; admit
ted Jan. 5, 1775. '

PARKE, Joseph, went Sedgley Park School, 1827-30; admit
ted July 5, 1830 ; ord. priest, and left July 30, 1837 ; at
Aldenham Hall, Salop, seat of Acton family, 1837-41 ;
assistant to Dr. Kirk at Lichfield, 1841-51, and then
rector till 1856 ; Poole, Dorset, 1856-61 ; Syon Abbey,
Spetisbury, 1861, till death, Sept. i, 1866. Canon of
Plymouth, 1861,

PARKER, John, admitted Sept. 28, 1887 ; ord. priest in Feb.,
and left on 28th, 1893 ; at Pontypool, 1893-4 ; Cardiff,
1894, till death, Sept. 7, 1895.

PARKER, Joseph, went Sedgley Park School, 1863-6 ; admit.
May 13, 1866; ord. priest, May 22, and left July 13,
1875 ; at Bp's House, Birmingham, 1875-88 ; Oscott
College, 1888; Woodlane, Yoxall, 1888 to date.
PARKINSON, Henry, born Feb. 4, 1772, son of Thomas
Parkinson, of Weeton, in the Fylde, Lancashire, by
Margt. Hodgkinson his wife ; admitted on the Peres

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Fund, Oct. 23, 1784 ; alumnus March 25, 1791 ; ord.
priest, Apr. 5, 1795, and sent to the mission in the same
year ; stationed with Mr. Kris. Adam Cliffe at Great
Eccleston, whom he succeeded as pastor in Feb., 1799 ;
kept a boarding school at his house adjoining the old
chapel in the Raikes ; rebuilt the chapel in 1801, and
continued to serve it till his death, Jan. 3, 1832, aged
59 ; buried at The Willows, Kirkham.

PARKINSON, James, of Lancashire, admitted Sept. 7, 1748;
alumnus Dec. 19, 1750 ; ord. priest Apr. 2, and left for
the mission, May 13, 1758 ; stationed in the north, prob
ably went to Ugthorpe, co. York, in Nov. or Dec., 1761,
and died there, Jan. 26, 1766.

PARKINSON, Thomas, of Lancashire, born May 22, 1741,
and baptized by Fr. Eyston ; confirmed by Bp. Diccon-
son ; admitted on Shepperd's Fund, May 8, 1755; alum.
Sept. 7, 1767 ; ord. priest in Sept., and sent England,
Oct. 3, 1768 ; was at Roundhay, near Leeds, in 1773-81 ;
was in distress in 1783, when Bishop Talbot declared
that he was of such a dubious character that he dare not
venture to employ him.

PARRY, Edward, admitted and ord. priest ; left for England,
Feb. 2, 1670 ; wras stationed in Monmouth in 1702.

PARRY, Hugh, vide Wynne.

PARRY, John, son of John Parry, of Twyffog, co. Denbigh,
Esq. ; admitted Dec. 7, 1640 ; alumnus July 25, 1641 ;
ord. priest July 30, 1645 '•> made professor, Nov. 30, 1646 ;
sent England, May 30, 1650 ; elected by the Chapter
archdeacon of North \Vales, Jan. 14, 1660-61 ; was
serving in Shropshire in 1675 ; died, 1694.

PARRY, Philip, son of Rice Parry, of Monmouthshire ; ad
mitted under the alias of Ward, Oct. i, 1635 ; alumnus
June 29, 1636 ; ord. priest Apr. 6, 1638 ; appointed proc
urator, Dec. 18, 1640, and vice-president, July 26, 1649 5
left for England, 1652 ; died in Montgomeryshire, in the
beginning of Feb., 1677-8, aged about 72.

PARRY, Pierce, born 1716, son of John Parry, of Twyffog,
Esq., by Mary his wife ; received into the English Coll.,
at Rome, Sept. 17, 1736, and took the oath of Alexander
VII, in May, 1737 ; came to Lisbon, and became an
alumnus Dec. 13 ; ordained subdeacon Dec. 23, and
deacon Dec. 27, 1741, and priest Jan. 6, 1742 ; sent,

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England, Feb. 4, 1742 ; took charge of Claxby, co.
Lincoln, 1751 ; transferred toWalsall, and Oscott, 1762 ;
disabled by repeated paralytic attacks and retired from
Oscott to Aldridge in 1785, and there died, Dec. 30, 1792,
aged 76. Vide Bibl. Diet. Eugl. Caths. Vol. V., 244.

PAVER, Francis, 4th son of Richard Paver, Esq., of Braham,
co. York, by Jane, dau. of Robert Oglethorpe, of Rawden,
co. York, Esq. ; went to Douay College, whence came
with the first colony to Lisbon ; admitted Nov. 14, 1628,
under alias of Oglethorpe ; ord. priest, July 17, and left
for England, Sept. 8, 1633 ; slain at the battle of Marston
Moor, whilst attending to the wounded, July 2, 1644.

PEARSON, George C., admitted Oct. 20, 1884 ; left May 25,
and ord. priest at Liverpool, Aug. i, 1897 ; now at
Chorley.

PEARSON, John, probably of an old Yorkshire family;
alumnus Apr. 17, 1688 ; ord. priest Dec. 21, 1689 ; sent
England, Jan. 2, 1693 ; was stationed in Lancashire in
1697.

PEMBERTON, Richard, admitted June 16, 1866 ; left Mar.
20, and ord. priest Sept. 21, 1872 ; at St. Austin's, 1872-4,
and St. Joseph's, Preston, 1874, till death, Oct. 14, 1876.

PENRICE, Charles, of an ancient family seated in Worces
tershire, and at Penrice Castle, co. Glamorgan, was born
in the former county ; alumnus Jan. 9, 1672 ; ord. priest ;
sent to mission in his native county, Sept. 15, 1679, and
still there in 1702.

PERCY, Thomas, born July 6, 1787, son of Nathaniel Percy,
of Pimperne, near Blandford, co. Dorset, by Eliz. White-
head his wife ; went Sedgley Park School ; admitted on
Triple Trust, Feb. 7, 1803 ; left Feb., 1809 ; went to Old
Hall to finish his divinity, Feb. 24, 1809 ; ord. priest
there, Sept. 22, 1810 ; served in London, was at Sar
dinian Chapel ; took charge of Soddington and Mawley,
co. Salop, early in 1824, and was killed by falling from
his horse at Tything, co. Worcester, March 23, 1825,
aged 37.

PEREGRINE, Thomas, vide Short.

PERKINSON, Edward, of an ancient and well connected
Lancashire family, took the oath at Douay College. Aug.
15, 1680 ; came to Lisbon, and became alumnus in
1686 ; sent to the mission, and placed at York ; chaplain

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and secretary to Bp. James Smith ; upon Revolution of
1688, withdrew with the bishop to Wycliff, the seat of
Mr. Tunstall, where Mr. Perkinson spent the remainder
of his career ; recommended for the mitre by Bp. Wit-
ham to Cardinal Gualterio, the cardinal protector of
England, Feb. 27, 1724, and described as "a good old
missioner, of elegant manners, great eloquence, good
health though advanced in years " ; died at Wycliff,
April 7, 1735.

PERROT, John, alias Barnesley, born 1629, son °^ John
Perrot, of the family of Perrot of Bell Hall, co. Worcester,
by Judith Barnesley his wife, descended from the Barnes-
ley's of Barnesley Hall, co. Worcester ; convert ; admit.
Sept. 29, 1647 ' a^um- Mar. 28, 1653 ; ord. priest July i,
1653; appointed vice-president, Jan. i, 1659, and presi
dent, on the presentation of the Dean (Humphrey Ellis)
and canons of the Chapter, Dec. 16, 1661, and on March
16, 1662, was promoted to the rectory of the English resi
dency ; resigned and left the College 1671 ; elected arch
deacon of the Chapter, April 26, 1672, and installed sub-
dean, Dec. 13, 1675, vicar-general in solldiun to the Dean,
April 13, and Dean, Sept. 18, 1676 ; continued in office
till his death, May 27, 1714, aged 85. For works see
Bibl. Diet. Engl. Caths. Vol. V.

PETERSON, Peter, vide Clarence.

PETRE, Francis, son of John Petre, of Fithlers, co. Essex,
Esq., (grandson of the first Lord Petre), by his second
wife Elizabeth, dau. of John Pinchon, of Writtle, co.
Essex, Esq., and an older brother of Bishop Benjamin
Petre, V.A., of the London District ; admitted March,
r677 ; alumnus Sept. 7, 1686, and in the following
month dedicated his thesis of universal philosophy to
Bishop Leyburne, and defended with great applause
under his professor, Mr. Robert Smith ; ord. priest Nov.
29, 1689, by the Cardinal Protector, and appointed to
teach classics ; appointed professor of philosophy, Sept.
i, 1692, procurator July 2, 1695, and vice-president, on
the presentation of Bishops Leyburne and Giffard, May
27, and formally installed Sept. 17, 1697 ; introduced
many pious customs and wholesome regulations for the
discipline of the college ; died in the college of a malig
nant fever March 24, 1699, and interred within the rails

240 REGISTER.

and at the foot of the altar, dedicated to the Blessed
Virgin de Pace in the college church ; by will bequeath
ed 100,000 reals to the college, without any obligation
or condition whatsoever.

PETRE, John, probably the eldest son of Joseph, q.v., studied
here for some time ; if this identification be correct,
he was born 1690, married Anne, eldest dau. of Sir Robt.
Throckmorton, of Weston, co. Bucks, Bart., by whom he
had a son and t\vo daughters, and dying, Sept. n, 1721,
was buried at Writtle.

PETRE, Joseph, born 1664, second son of John Petre, of
Fithlers, by his wife Mary, dau. of Sir Francis Mannock,
of Gifford's Hall, co. Suffolk, Bart., after studying here
for some time was recalled home by his father to become
his heir upon his eldest son John joining the Society at
Watten. He succeeded to the estate, was twice married
— ist, to Cath. dau. of Sir Wm. Andrews, of Downham,
co. Essex, Bart., by whom he had six children, one of
whom was Bp. Fris. Petre, V.A.-N.D., and another,
Elena, a nun at Gravslines ; andly, to Dorothy, dau. of
Geo. Throckmorton, of Chesterfield, co. Herts, Esq.,
relict of Jno. Hurst, of Havergill, co. Essex, gent, by
whom he had no children. He died Jan. 21, 1721, aged
56, and was interred at Writtle.

PHILLIPS, John, alias or rcrc Samuel Goltier, alumnus,
Sept. 7, 1686; ord. priest; sent England, Oct. 19, 1689;
died, near Windsor, Sept. 13, 1727.

PHILLIPS, Joseph, admitted Nov. 6, 1893 ; left May 1897 '
ord. priest, July 17, 1898 ; now at Blackheath, London.
PICKERING, Francis, born in Portugal, where his father
was converted to the Faith, and suffered great losses on
that account ; admitted about 1696 ; went to Rome in
1701, where he continued his studies for about six years
in the Roman Seminary, and afterwards lived for two
years, from 1707-1709, in the Ecclesiastical Academy
for Nobles.

PICKERING, Francis, born 1737 ; admitted Feb. 17, 1750.
PICKFORD, Edward, a native of Exeter, Cornwall, was
probably son of William Pickford, a gentleman of
position in that city ; entered Douay College, Oct. 28,
1618, under alias of Daniel, which he used throughout
life, and ord. priest Sept. 26, 1627. Admitted Nov. 14,

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1628 ; appointed professor of philosophy, Oct. 4, 1633 ;
prof, of theology, July 21, and prefect of studies, Sept.
15, 1638, received degree of D.D., 1640 ; left for English
Mission Feb. 2, 1641 ; nominated president by Bishop
Smith, Apr. n, and returned Lisbon in June, 1642 ;
resigned presidency 1648 ; taught theology 1649, and left
for Douay College in that year. Taught theology at
Douay, Oct. i, 1649, t^^ July 4» J^53' when returned to
England, and acted as Dean of the Chapter in the
absence of Mr. Fitton, till death, Sept., 1657. He pub
lished "Meditations," 1649; an<^ ^t *n MS. a folio vol.
of controversies, 1643-1646.

PIERCE, Thomas, alias Bond, son of Thomas Pierce, of
Warwickshire, admitted Aug. 15, 1647 ' ^e^ through
ill-health in 1651.

PIERCE, William, took the oath Dec. 30, 1682 ; ordained
priest June 4, 1684 ; and sent to England, July i, 1685.
He died in 1687,

PILKINGTON, Henry, native of Preston, admitted Feb. 14,
1829 '•> alumnus Dec. 7, 1836 ; left 1839.

PILKINGTON, Thomas, vide Mackworth.

PINNINGTON, William, admitted Nov. 20, 1869; ord.
priest Dec. 18, 1880 ; superior ; left May i, 1883 ; now
at Liverpool.

POSTLETHWAITE, Thomas, born July 9, 1739, son of
Richard Postlethwaite and his \vife Anne Newsham, of
WTestby, co. Lancaster, yeoman ; admit. Nov. 23, 1752 ;
alumnus June 23, 1761 ; ord. priest Oct. 9, .1763 ; ap
pointed procurator, Aug. 6, 1764 ; died in the College,
July 4, 1776. He had three brothers, priests of Douay,
James, John, and Henry.

POTTS, Henry Joseph, born Aug. 16, 1772, son of John Potts,
and his wife Anne Story, of Dancing Hall, Northumber
land ; admitted Sept. 18, 1784.

POWELL, Thomas, son of Hugh Powell, Esq., of Brecon or
Monmouthshire ; admitted under the alias of Progers,
July 4, 1633 ; alumnus June 29, 1635 ; ord. priest Apr.
26, 1639 ; appointed professor of philosophy, July 23,
1640 ; left for England, Apr. 29, 1643 ; elected by the
Chapter, March 9, 1663, o.s., archdeacon of South Wales,
and vicar-general of Shropshire and North Wales, June
4, 1684 ; died, 1700.

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242 REGISTER.

POYNTZ, John, born July 2, 1709, son of Edward Poyntz, of
Arlington, co. Devon, gent., who died in Dec., 1732 ;
admitted on Revell's Fund, Apr. 24, 1723 ; ran away,
Dec. 5, 1726 ; was received by the Jesuits, and entered
the Society under the alias of Beaumont, Sept. 7, 1732 ;
professed in 1750 ; was for many years procurator of the
province in London ; chaplain to Mrs. Rowe, of Trevi-
thick, Cornwall ; retired to Liege, where died, May 21,
1789, aged 79. He often used the alias of Price.

PRENDERGAST, John, born June 6, 1768, son of Patrick
Prendergast and his wife Cath. Nowland, of London ;
went Sedgley Park School ; admitted Feb. 16, 1782.

PRESTON, John, born Oct. 29, 1712, son of John Preston,
of London, ironmonger, and his wife Mary Williams ;
educated at Merchant Taylors' School ; convert, and
confirmed byBp. Benj. Petre, in 1732 ; admitted Oct. 21,
1732 ; alumnus Dec. 21, 1733 ; taught classics during his
whole course of philosophy and divinity ; appointed
procurator, Sept. 16, 1736 ; ord. priest Nov. 4-, 1736 ;
appointed professor of theology, Apr. n, 1741 ; was one
of the first who, in opposition to the Jesuits, introduced
the Newtonian philosophy into Portugal ; frequently
discharged duties of president and vice-president, though
he never could be induced to accept the honour attached
to these offices ; held in high esteem by the Court of
Portugal, and in 1775 nominated tutor to the young
Prince of Brazil; died in the College, Feb. 8, 1780, and
buried in the college church, where his epitaph, in Latin,
was written by President Barnard.

PRICE, Francis L., admitted Aug. 25, '1887 ; ord. priest
March 13, 1897 ; now a superior.

PRICE, Humphrey, vide John Vaughan.

PRICE, John, vide Poyntz.

PRICE, Maurice, vide Pugh.

PRICHARD, William, probably son of William Prichard, of
Llantillio and Skenfrith, co. Monmouth, gent. ; admitted
May 9, 1720 ; alumnus Oct. 28, 1723 ; ord. priest ; ap
pointed procurator, July 2, 1733; sent England, Aug. 17,
and died at Kentish Town, London, Oct. 22, 1734.

PROGERS, Thomas, vide Powell.

PRYME, Jerome, admitted on Arthur's Fund ; alumnus Dec.
30, 1682 ; ord. priest; appointed professor of philosophy,

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Jan. 5, 1690 ; professor of theology, Aug. 30, 1692, and
prefect of studies, April 23, 1695 ; died in the College,
May 23, 1708.

PUGH, Andrew, admitted as a convictor, April 23, 1709;
left May, 1710.

PUGH, John, alumnus Aug. 6, 1666 ; ord. priest ; sent Eng
land, Feb. 2, 1670 ; died at his brother's house in North
Wales, July 3, 1673.

PUGH, Maurice, alias Price, alumnus Dec. 30, 1682 ; ord.
subdeacon and deacon, Feb. 24 and 25, 1685, and having
received priest's orders, left for England, April 29, 1686 ;
was living in the North, probably Yorkshire, in July, 1698.

PURCELL, Edward, son of Edward Purcell, of Stafford,
gent., by his wife Eliz. Langley ; admitted on Revell's
Fund, Nov. 5, 1730.

PURCELL, James, brother of Edward, q.v. ; admitted on
Revell's Fund, June 9, 1730.

PURCELL, Philip, son of John Purcell, of The Hay, Madeley,
co. Salop, Esq., and of his wife Catherine ; admitted
(1696?); ord. priest; was chaplain at Arunclel Castle,
in 1717.

PURDON, James, admitted Dec. 2, 1856 ; left Aug. 27, 1861 ;
ord. priest, 1864 ; at Deptford, 1864-5 '•> Woolwich, 1865-
6 ; Maidstone, 1866-70 ; Worthing, 1870 to date.

PURDON, Michael, born May 20, 1868, at Marlingstown,
near Mullingar ; studied at Seminary at Navan, thence
St. Edward's Coll., Liverpool, and St. Joseph's Coll.,
Upholland ; admitted Jan. 16, 1893 ; alumnus Feb. 9,
1894 ; left May 17, ord. priest at Maghull, near Liver
pool, Aug. 18, and died Nov. 30, 1895, aged 27.

QUAIFE, Wilfrid, went Sedgley Park School, 1860-4 ; admit.
Mar. 12, 1864 ; ord. priest May 22, and left July 13,
1875 ; now at St. John's Wood, London.

REAH, John, admitted June 12, 1835 ; ord. priest, and left
July 24, 1844 J at Liverpool, 1844-7 '•> St. Mary's, Man
chester, 1847-8 ; Hyde, Cheshire, 1848-54 ; Canon of
Shrewsbury, 1853 ; Wrexham, 1854-8 ; Poole, Dorset,
1858, till death, Dec. 19, 1859.

REDDING, James, admitted May 21, 1869 ; alumnus Dec.
22, 1871 ; left Aug., 1873 ; went to St. Sulpice, Paris,
and ord. priest May 22, 1875 ; at Sheffield, 1875-6 ;
Leeds,' 1876-7 ; Middlesbro', 1877-8 ; Stoke Farm, Slough,

244 REGISTER.

Bucks, 1878-9 ; Woolmer, Hants, 1880-1 ; Malton, 1881-
3 ; Guernsey, 1883—4 ; Winchester, 1884—5.

REGAN, Thomas, went Sedgley Park School, 1854-6 ; admit.
Oct. 21, 1856 ; alumnus Feb. 18, and left July 9, 1864 ;
went Old Hall Coll., and ord. priest Dec. 23, 1866 ;
Chelsea, 1867-71 ; Waltham Cross, 1871-3 ; Lincoln's-
Inn-Fields, 1873-9; Ogle Street, 1879-95; Watford,
Herts, 1895 ; died April 13, 1902.

REVELL, Thomas, son of Ronald Revell, of Revell Grange,
Stannington, Yorkshire, yeoman ; admitted on Revell's
Fund; alumnus March 31, 1697 ; ord. priest.

REYNOLDS, John, vide Allanson.

REYNOLDS, William, born 1647, younger son of William
Reynolds of Cassington, co. Oxford, Esq., by Alice, 3rd
dau. of Thomas Whitgreave, of Moseley, co. Stafford,
Esq. ; alumnus Aug. 6, 1666 ; ord. priest ; sent England,
March 9, 1675 ; elected by the Chapter archdeacon of
Oxford, Berks, and Bucks, March 6, 1692-3 ; was serving
in Oxfordshire, in 1702, as apparently he did throughout
his missionary career ; said to have died at Oxford, Feb.
23, 1717—18, aged 71, and was buried in the same grave
with his mother in Soulden churchyard, where an
inscribed stone records his memory.

RICHMOND, Laurence, son of Mr. Thomas Richmond, of
Walsall, co. Stafford ; admitted Jan. 27, 1828 ; alumnus
Dec. 7, 1836; ord. priest, took degree of D.D., and made
a superior; left Feb. 7, 1858; at Norwich, 1858-60;
Bp's. House, Northampton, 1861-5 ; canon of Northamp
ton, 1863 ; returned to the College as V.P., 1865, till
death, Feb. 7, 1872.

RILEY, William, son of Charles and Mary Riley, of London ;
went Sedgley Park School, 1781-8 ; admitted on Triple
Trust, July 26, 1788 ; died, in divinity, at the College.

RIMMER, Thomas, native of Lancashire, went Sedgley Park
School, 1823-9 ' admit. Dec. 28, 1829 ; ord. priest, and
left Aug. 6, 1839 ; at Nottingham, 1839-41 ; Lynn, Nor
folk, 1841-2 ; Coldham Hall, Suffolk, 1842-3 ; St. Aust
in's, Manchester, 1843-5 ' Rawtenstall, 1845 till death,
of typhus fever, Jan. 8, 1848, aged 33.

RINGROSE, John, admitted Nov. 25, 1823 ; ord. priest, and
left Mar. 9, 1833 ; at Woodley Lodge, Reading, Berks,
seat of Jas. Wheble, Esq., who died in July, 1840 ; opened

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the new chapel on site of the ancient abbey at Reading,

founded by Mr. Wheble, Aug. 5, 1840, till death, Oct. 28,

1874. Canon of Southwark, 1853.
RIVARA, Emmanuel, admitted April 30, 1875 ; left July 5,

1878 ; ord. priest from St. Thomas' Seminary, May 19,

1883 ; now at Jersey.
RIVETT, John, vide Harvey.
ROBERTS, Henry Bernard, admitted June 16, 1866; left

Nov. i, 1871, and ord. priest Sept. 21, 1872 ; now at

Great Eccleston, Lancashire.
ROBINSON, Francis, son of Thomas Robinson, of Lancashire,

and brother of John, the consul-general, admit. Dec. i,

165,.

ROBINSON, James, son of Mr. James Robinson, Oakingates,
Wellington, Salop ; went Sedgley Park School, 1855-6 ;
admitted Oct. 21, 1856; left Oct. 19, 1862 ; went Oscott
Coll., Feb., 1863-6 ; ord. priest at Birkenhead, July 15,
1866; at Edgeley, Stockport, 1 866-8 ; Nantwich, 1868-
71 ; St. Joseph's, Stockport, 1871-89 ; St. Alban's, Mac-
clesfield, till death, June 18, 1901. Twelve years member
of Macclesfield School Board, and latterly vice-chairman.

ROBINSON, John, son of John Robinson, of Lancashire,
admit. Oct. i, 1635 ; alumnus June 29, 1636 ; ord. priest
Apr. 10, 1640 ; sent England, Apr. 8, 1643 5 died ^bout
the middle of Aug., 1676.

ROBINSON, John, son of Thomas Robinson, of Lancashire,
admit. May 17, 1650, as a convictor ; left May 29, 1654 ;
became consul-general for the English Government at
Lisbon, an office which he held for five years.

ROBINSON, Peter, vide Whale.

ROCK, Samuel, born March 4, 1762, son of Samuel Rock, of
Calmore, co. Stafford, and his wife Eliz. Thornhill ; went
to Sedgley Park School, 1769-73 ; admitted on Thatcher's
Fund, March 30, 1773 ; left for Douay College, Aug. 8,
1779, where entered school of rhetoric ; called to England,
April 6, 1780, but returned to Douay, 1781 ; minor-
professor of Syntax, Oct., 1786; ord. priest, and left for
English mission, Oct. 14, 1787 ; at Kiddington, Oxon,
for many years, and died at Radford, April 28, 1839,
aged 76.

ROCK, Samuel, born Jan. 26, 1801, son of Joseph and Mary
Rock, of Bloxwich, co. Stafford ; went Sedgley Park

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School, 1813-16; admitted July n, 1816 ; ord. priest
Jan. 7, 1821 ; left for England, Apr. n, 1828 ; stationed
at Oxburgh Hall, Norfolk, 1828-32.

ROONEY, Robert A., admit. Sept. 24, 1893 ; left in deacon's
orders, July 9, 1897 ; ord. priest Mar. 25, 1899, and
placed at Brecon.

ROSE, Francis Pius, admitted Sept. 9, 1891 ; ord. priest Mar.
23, for Newport, and left Apr. 12, 1901 ; now at Cardiff.

ROSS, John, born May 4, 1800, son of James and Mary Ross,
of Mawley Hall, Shropshire ; went Sedgley Park School,
1814-16 ; admitted July 8, 1816 ; alumnus Jan. 7, 1821 ;
ord. priest ; left for England, May 27, 1825, and placed
at Cheadle, co. Stafford, till 1827 ; Husband's Bosworth,
co. Leicester, 1827-8 ; Moseley, co. Stafford, 1828-33 ;
Hathersage, co. Derby, 1833-47, when became deranged
in his mind, and sent to St. Ann's, Courtrai, where
died, Aug. 6, 1858, aged 58.

RUSSELL, James, ordained subdeacon, deacon, and priest,
in May, 1693.

RUSSELL, Richard, born 1630, son of Richard Russell, of
Berkshire ; though he appears to have been highly con
nected he came to Lisbon in capacity of servant, June,
1642 ; admitted as a student, Aug. 14, 1647 ; transferred to
Douay College, to finish his divinity, and took the oaths
there, June 4, 1653 ; proceeded to Paris, where ord. priest ;
returned to Lisbon, and made procurator, Dec. 10, 1655 ;
left for England, July 25, 1657, in the suite of the Portu
guese ambassador, with whom resided ; returned to
Lisbon in 1660 ; returned to England same year, and,
having been chiefly instrumental in settling the treaty of
marriage between Charles II. and the Infanta, assisted at
the nuptial ceremony ; appointed English preceptor to
the Infanta, whom he soon after accompanied to Eng
land ; elected a canon of the Chapter, June 26, 1661, and
assisted in the general assembly held in London, in 1667 ;
returned to Lisbon, and consecrated bishop of Portalegre,
Sept. 27, 1671, at the English College, where retained
apartments, till his solemn entry into Portalegre, in Jan.,
1671 ; translated in 1682, to the see of Vizen, where he
died, Nov. 15, 1693, aged 63.

RUSSELL, Thomas, born Jan. 18, 1645 ; admitted April 29,
1659.

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RYAN, Arthur Francis, admitted June 12, 1876 ; ord. priest
Dec. 21, 1886; left June 2, 1887 ; late of Brentford.

RYAN, Michael, admitted Oct. 18, 1873 ; ord. priest Dec.
22, and left same month, 1877 ; now at Whitecross,
Warrington.

RYDER, Christopher, admitted Mar. 12, 1873 ; left May 29,
1879 ; went Ushaw Coll. ; ord. priest Aug. 6, 1882 ; now
at St. Joseph's, Stockport.

RYLAND, James, admitted April 13, 1825 ; ord. priest, and
left June 7, 1835 » at St. Patrick's, Manchester, 1835-41 ;
Bolton-le-Moors, 1841-3 ; Sunnyside, Burnley, 1843, ^^
death, 1845.

SADLER, Thomas, born Oct. 13, 1779, son of John Sadler
and his wife Eliz. Parkinson, of Aintree, near Liverpool ;
went to Mr. Simon Geo. Bordley's school at Ince Blun-
dell ; admitted on Bordley's Fund, Oct. 10, 1792 ; alum
nus Dec. 8, 1801 ; ord. priest May 25, 1807, and left for
England ; stationed at Trafford House, Manchester, where
succeeded Mr. James Hayclock, in 1807 ; erected a school,
1822, and a new chapel at Barton-on-Irwell, 1827, to
replace the one at Trafford ; died at Barton, Oct. 4, 1830,
aged almost 51. For works see Bill. Diet. Engl. Catlis.
*Vol. V.

SALKELD, Thomas, a native of the diocese of York, but
probably allied to the Salkelds, of Whitehall, Cumber
land ; became an alumnus of Douay College, in 1688 ;
was dismissed, when in the beginning of divinity, for
joining with those who rebelled against Dr. Paston, and
applied for admittance into the English College at Rome,
but was refused. He then went to Paris and obtained a
recommendation from Dr. Thos. Hall to Dr. Watkinson,
of Lisbon, who admitted him ; completed his course of
theology ; dedicated his thesis to the Cardinal Protector,
and defended it with great applause, July 28, 1693 ; sent
to the English mission, Dec. 16, 1694, where he laboured
hard and successfully, and died in 1708.

SALVIN, William, son of William Salvin, of Newbiggin, co.
York, Esq., by Doro., dau. of John Girlington, of Thur-
lancl Castle, co. Lancaster, Esq. ; admitted Nov. 4, 1642 ;
left March 7, 1644.

SANDERSON, George, born Jan. 21, 1807, son of George
and Frances Sanderson, of Liverpool ; admitted Aug. T,

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1819 ; alumnus Dec. 3, 1826 ; left Mar., 1828, re infecta.

SAUNDERS, Anthony, vide Morgan.

SAVAGE, Charles, born in Suffolk, son of Thomas Savage,
and brother of Richard, below, admitted under alias of
Carey, probably his mother's name, Dec. 7, 1640 ; public
ly defended theses in philosophy, Mar. 7, 1642, and Mar.
28, 1643 ; was a convictor ; left for France, Apr. 29,
1643.

SAVAGE, Richard, born in London, son of Thomas Savage ;
admitted under the alias of Carey, Dec. 7, 1640 ; dis
missed Feb. 2, 1641. Possibly identical with Richard
Savage, of the diocese of London, who took the College
oath at Douay, May 30, 1650.

SCOTT, Alexander, went Cotton Hall ; admitted Oct. 8,
1872; left Jan. n, 1877; went Oscott College, 1877;
Northampton, and ord. priest Sept. 24, 1881 ; now at
Lowestoft.

SCOTT, Philip, born Feb. 25, 1801, son of Philip and Eliz.
Scott, of London ; went Sedgley Park School, 1810—
1814 ; admitted Oct. 12, 1814 ; left in ill-health 1817.

SEDDON, Peter, admitted Dec. 7, 1846 ; ord. priest, and left
May 2i, 1859; at Bristol, 1859-60; Birmingham, 1861-
3 ; Fairford, 1863—7 > Salisbury, 1867-9 ; Bridgewater,
1869-70 ; Bedminster, 1870-6 ; Bristol, 1876-80 ; Liver
pool, 1880-4 5 St. Mary's, Derby, 1884-5.

SEDDON, Thomas, admitted April 19, 1850 ; left May 7,

1861 ; went Old Hall College, and ord. priest, Jan. 19,

1862 ; at Soho, 1862-3 5 Commercial-road, East, 1863-7 »
York Place, 1867-72 ; Archbishop's House, Westminster,
1873 till death on his annual voyage with emigrant
children to Canada, Sept. 22, 1898. Was 32 years Sec.
to the Westminster Diocesan Education Fund.

SEED, Thomas, admitted Nov. 14, 1835 ; left July 6, 1847 ;
ord. priest ; at Peterborough, 1848-74 ; canon of North
ampton, 1853; Norwich, 1874-6; St. Mary's Abbey,
East Bergholt, 1876-82 ; Shefford, Beds., 1882, till death
June 7, 1883.

SERGEANT, John, born early in 1622-3, son °^ Wm. Ser
geant, of Barrow-upon-Humber, co. Lincoln, yeoman ;
educated under Mr. Rawrson at Barton, and at St. John's
College, Cambridge, where entered as subsizar in 1639 5
graduated 1642-3 ; became secretary to Thomas Morton,

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bp. of Durham ; converted 1643 ; admitted under alias
of Holland, Nov. 4, 1643 ; alumnus June 29, 1646 ; ord.
priest, Feb. 24, 1649, o.s. ; taught classics till appointed
procurator Apr. 5, 1652 ; prefect of studies, Oct. i, 1652 ;
recalled to England, 1653 ; returned in Aug., 1654, and
resumed offices of procurator and prefect of studies till
March 16, 1655, when appointed professor of philosophy ;
sent to England on affairs of the College in June, 1655,
when the Chapter decided to retain his services and
elected him their secretary, Dec. 19, 1655, an office
which he held till 1667 ; died in 1710, aged 87 ; occasion
ally used the alias of Smith on the mission. For his
numerous works vide Bibl. Diet, of Eugl. Caths. Vol. V.

SHARP, Matthew, born Nov. 9, 1756, son of Francis Sharp
and his wife Agnes Cooper, of Yorkshire ; entered Douay
College, Aug. 30, 1770, and having finished his third
year's theology, was appointed minor-professor, Oct. i,
1781, and was teaching rhetoric when he left Douay
for Lisbon, Nov. 26, 1784, to teach philosophy ; died on
the mission at Hexham, Dec. 22, 1826, aged 70.

SHARPLES, Robert S., admitted Aug. 1/1851; alumnus
Dec. 7, 1859; ord. priest Dec., 1862; left Apr. 25, 1863;
placed as curate to Mgr. Eyre, at St. Mary's Cathedral,
Newcastle-on-Tyne ; afterwards at Wellington Quay,
Lowick, and New Tunstall, at latter of which spent
last eighteen years of his life ; died, Aug. 12, 1891.

SHEEHAN, John, admitted Feb. 13, 1836 ; ord. priest, and
left July 10, 1845 ; at Slindon, Sussex, 1845, ^^ death,
October 14, 1869.

SHEEN, John, admitted Nov. 13, 1883 ; ord. priest Dec. 22,
1894 ; left July 19, 1845 ' now at Deptford, London.

SHEPHERD, Francis John, admitted Sept. 27, 1885 ; ord.
priest Dec. 17, 1892 ; left Jan. 5, 1893 ; now at Sher-
borne, Dorset.

SHEPHERD, John, born Jan. 7, 1678, was probably son of
Robert Shepherd, of Broughton, near Preston, co. Lan
caster, gent., and a near relative of the Tootells and
Charnleys ; admitted Aug. 30, 1694 ; alumnus Dec. 21,
1701 ; ord. priest ; sent England, June i, 1706, and was
stationed in Lancashire ; probably served Manchester for
some time after 1719; elected by the Chapter archdeacon
of Lancashire, Rutland, and Notts, Feb. 12, 1723-4;

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removed to London ; elected treasurer of the Chapter,
sub-dean in July, 1755, and dean, March 9, 1756, which
dignity he enjoyed till death, in London, Oct. 27, 1761,
aged 83. He established a Fund at the College, of which
he was appointed agent in England soon after he came
to the mission.

SHEPPARD, John, a native of the South, admitted on
Thatcher's Fund, March 25, 1733 ; alumnus Nov. 21,
1735 ; ord. priest ; sent England, July 16, 1737 ; sta
tioned at Cowdray, Sussex, seat of Lord Montagu, in
1745 ; probably removed to London, in 1757 ; elected
canon of the Chapter, Feb. 15, 1759 ; became secretary,
and subsequently archdeacon.

SHERBURNE, Richard, vide Taylor.

SHILLET, Edward, vide Hamerton.

SHIMELL, Richard, born in Shropshire, 1692, son of John
Shimell, and his wife Ellen Turner, was converted to the
faith by Mr. John Vane, alias Jones, agent for the
College in London ; admitted on the Curtis Fund, under
alias of Turner, Feb., 1710 ; alumnus May 23, 1715 ; ord.
priest, Dec. 31, 1716 ; acquired much honour by his
talents and close application to study ; sent England,
Dec. 10, 1719 ; died at Chidiock, co. Dorset, Nov. 18,
1763, aged 71, where his nephew, Charles Shimell, was
settled as chaplain. He was the author of " Epigramma
in honorem S. Aridreae Avellini."

SHIRLEY, Henry, probably connected with the ancient
family of Shirley, of Wiston, co. Sussex ; came from
Douay, and appointed procurator, Sept. 21, 1634 ; left
for the English mission, Aug. 4, 1636.

SHIRLEY, James, admitted on Thatcher's Fund, Oct. 10,
1719 ; alumnus, Oct. 28, 1723 ; left April 30, 1728.

SHOOLBRED, Cuthbert, admitted Nov. 3, 1896; left Dec.
14, 1898 ; went St. John's Seminary, Wonersh, and ord.
priest, July 15, 1900 ; now at Collegio Beda, Rome.

SHORT, Thomas, son of Thomas Short, Esq., a member of
a family long seated at Bury St. Edmund's, co. Suffolk,
and highlv distinguished in the medical profession ;
admitted P^eb. 23, 1636, under the alias of Peregrine, a
name frequently recurring in the family ; alumnus June
29, 1636 ; ord. priest June 13, 1641 ; sent England, Dec.
25, 1643.

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SILVEIRA, Joseph Maria, born March 30, 1794, son of Albert
Garcia de Silveira, and his wife Maria, of Lisbon ; went
Sedgley Park School, 1804-1815 ; admitted July 8, 1815 ;
left on account of ill-health, 1817 ; continued his studies
at Old Hall, Oct., iSiy-Nov., 1820 ; ord. priest, Aug. 6,
1822, and placed at the Sardinian chapel, Lincoln's-Inn-
Fields ; removed to Gosport, Hants, 1827-8 ; at Slindon
House, Sussex, 1829-45 ; withdrew from missionary
work, 1845-9 ; at Havant, Hants, 1849-56 ; at Newport,
Isle of Wight, 1856-7 ; and finally settled at Ryds in
1857, wnere resided till his death, Oct. 27, 1876, aged 82.

SIMPSON, Joseph, born April 13, 1764, son of John Simpson
and his wife Catherine Champ, of London ; went Sedgley
Park School, 1775-8 ; admitted Sept. 12, 1778 : expelled
Nov. 26, 1780.

SINGLETON, James, admitted June 16, 1866 ; ord. priest,
1874 ; appointed superior, and now V.P.

SINGLETON, Michael, born Oct. 10, 1792, son of Joseph
Singleton, and his wife Alice Bryers, of Goosnargh,.co.
Lancaster ; admitted Aug. 15, 1814 ; alumnus, Oct. 4,
1818 ; ord. priest; left for the mission, April 26, 1826;
stationed at the chapel in Cockshaw, Hexham, till death,
March 20, 1863, aged 70.

SKELTON, James, son of Richard Skelton, Esq., of Arma-
thwaite Castle, co. Cumberland, by Mary, dau. of George
Meynell, of Dalton-Royal, co. York, Esq. ; alumnus,
Dec. 21, 1711 ; ord. priest ; appointed prof, of philosophy
April 15, 1719-1722, prefect of studies, Sept. 15, 1719;
again prof, of philosophy Dec. 28, 1727 ; probably left
for England, 1732 ; stationed at Markington-with
Wallerth \vaite, parish of Ripon, and died at Raventofts,
co. York, March 28, 1760.

SKINNER, John, son of John Skinner, Esq., of Oxfordshire,
admitted under alias of Smith, July 4, 1633 ; alumnus,
June 29, 1635, ord. priest, April 20, 1636 : left for the
mission, Oct. 4, 1638 ; died Sept. i, 1674, in Norfolk,
" being aged, and having beene long infirme."

SKINNER, John, born 1638, son of George Skinner, of
Warwickshire, Esq. ; admitted as a convictor under the
alias of Chrimpsey, Mar. 8, 1652 ; left June 3, 1658 •
probably got ordained elsewhere and is identical with

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the John Skinner who was chaplain at Foxcote, co.
Warwick, the seat of the Cannings, and died in 1685.

SKINNER, William, born 1639, son of George Skinner, Esq. ;
admitted with his brother John, q.v., March 8, 1652,
under the alias of Chrimpsey ; alumnus, Oct. 10, 1655 »
left in ill-health Dec. 15, 1656; presumably got ordained
elsewhere and is identical with the William Skinner,
elected by the Chapter, June 4, 1684, archdeacon of Corn
wall, Devon and Dorset, who died in 1694. At Lanherne
were formerly relics of one "D [om] G [ul.] Skinner,"
called a martvr.

SLAUGHTER, George, 3rd son of Bellingham Slaughter, of
Cheyney's Court, co. Hereford, Esq., by Winifred, dau.
of John Berington, of Winsley, Esq.; admitted June,
1683; alumnus, April 17, 1688; ord. priest Nov. ii?
1691 ; taught classics for two years ; appointed professor
of philosophy, Sept. 16, 1695, in which chair he remain
ed for six years ; then taught theology with short inter
vals till his death ; returned to England on family affairs,
' and whilst there was presented by Bp. Gifford with a
patent for the vice-presidency, dated June 21, 1710;
formally installed at Lisbon, Sept. 15, 1710 ; regent to
the presidency, Dec. 28, 1738-Aug. 14, 1739 ; died in
the College, Sept. 10, 1741.

SLEIGHFORD, or Sliefild, Ralph, born in Staffordshire, of
a gentleman's family, probably of Surrey extraction,
was imprisoned and condemned to death on a charge of
liberating a priest harboured by Mrs. Ann Line in 1601,
but, obtaining a reprieve, was banished ; went to the
Eng. Coll., Seville, where he was ord. priest, and assum
ed the alias of William Newman ; went to Lisbon, in
1605, and was appointed rector of the English residency,
the term given to a house purchased some few years
earlier by Nicholas Aston, q.v. ; was made one of the
visitors of the Inquisition ; devoted his energies to the
establishment of an English College at Lisbon for the
education of secular priests ; with this object went to
Madrid in Aug., 1621, to obtain the necessary permission
for the foundation from Philip IV., but met with much
opposition from the Jesuits, who claimed that the govern
ment of the proposed college should be subjected to
them; at. length surmounted the opposition, returned to

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Lisbon, and obtained papal confirmation of the new
establishment by brief dated Sept. 22, 1622 ; after con
siderable further trouble over the question of government^
it was finally decided that the president should be nomi
nated by the English archpriest, and the founder, Dom
Pedro de Coutinho, purchased premises and erected a
small church ; two or three years were spent in fitting
the building, which was taken possession of by Mr.
Joseph Harvey, (/.?'., and a colony of students from Douay,
on Nov. 14, 1628 ; the date of Mr. Sleighford's death is
not recorded.

SMITH, Anthony, son of Thomas Smith, admitted under
alias of Martines, Feb. 23, 1636 ; alumnus June 29, 1639 ;
ord. priest, May 8, 1644 ; left for England, Dec. 10,
1646 ; died on the mission, July 8, 1685.

SMITH, Benjamin, born Nov. 10, 1769, son of Benjamin
Smith and his wife Mary Ward, of Witham, co. Essex ;
went to Sedgley Park School, 1780-4 ; admitted May 28,
1784 ; ord. priest Dec. 1794, and died in the College,
Oct. 19, 1795.

SMITH, Francis, alumnus, April 7, 1688 ; ord. priest ; sent
England, Feb. 16, 1692, and stationed in Devonshire ;
elected archdeacon of the Chapter, July n, 1743 ; died
at Mr. Chester's at Bearscombe, near Kingsbridge, co.
Devon, Feb. 25, 1747-8, very advanced in years.

SMITH, James, born June i, 1732, admitted Jan. 16, 1748 ;
alumnus, Dec. 19, 1750 ; ord. priest, Dec. 18, 1756 ; left
for the mission in London, Dec. 20, 1757. About 1776
he apostatized, was straightway given the rectory of
Eastbridge, and soon after the vicarage of Alkham with
the chapel le Ferme annexed to it. In vindication of his
conduct he published *' The Errors of the Church of Rome
Detected, in Ten Dialogues, between Benevolus and
Sincerus." Canterbury, 1777, 8vo. ; 2nd ed., Lond.,
1778, 8vo. This was probably his own version of the
private controversy he had after his fall with Mr. Jerome
Allen (q.v.). It was answered by " Popery vindicated
from divers vulgar aspersions in some letters occasioned
by the Dialogues of Rev. James Smith, a priest educated
at Lisbon. By Pacificus." Lond., 1777, 8vo. "Smith
of Dover," wrote Bishop Milner in the Postscript to
his Address to the Bishop of St. David's, " was one of

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those wretched priests, who, wanting the grace necessary
for living up to the strictness of their obligations, have
attempted to excuse their breach of them, by abusing
the Church which imposes them upon them. His
pungem-bryo was stifled in the birth, and he himself soon
after his fall met with that awful end which has been
the general fate, within our own memory, of this class of
converts. Smith dropped down dead in Canterbury
Cathedral about the year 1780."

SMITH, John, vide Sergeant.

SMITH, John, vide Warham ; also Skinner.

SMITH, Richard, born near London, Dec. 12, 1725, son of
John Smith and his wife Mary Jefferson ; admitted about
1737 ; left for the English College at Rome in Sept., and
arrived Oct. 16, 1741, and placed in lower schools ; ord.
priest Feb. i, and left Rome, April 13, 1750, for the
mission.

SMITH, Robert, vide Warham.

SMYTHE, William M., admitted Feb. n, 1870; left June 6,
went to Ushaw, and ord. priest Dec. 18, 1880 ; now at
Berwick-on-Tweed.

SPAIN, George, born Jan. 9, 1778, son of William Spain, and
his wife Eliz. Hertend, of Hainton, co. Lincoln, subse
quently of London ; admitted March 12, 1802 ; alumnus
Dec. 16, 1804 ; ord. priest ; left for England, Feb. 21,
1809 ; served Newport, Isle of Wight, July 5, iSio-Oct.
31, 1820 ; transferred to the Bavarian Chapel, Warwick-
street, Golden-square, London, where died, Dec. 9, 1838,
aged 60 ; an indefatigable missioner, and an eloquent
preacher.

SPARROW, Anthony, born Dec. 17, 1776, son of Anthony
Sparrow and his wife Anne Creven, of Harewood, co.
York ; admitted on Simon Geo. Bordley's Fund, Oct. 13^
1790 ; left.

SPLAINE, Austin William, born in Liverpool, Sept. 4, 1836 ;
educ. Catholic Institute, Liverpool, and St. Edmund's
Coll., Douay ; admitted Sept. 20, 1860 ; ord. priest June
19, 1863 ; left July 9, 1864 ; at Scorton, Lancashire,
assistant to Dr. Ilsley, whom he succeeded in 1868, and
so continued till death, Nov. 24, 1888, aged 52. Three
of his brothers joined the Society, and a fourth died an
ecclesiastical student.

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SPOONER, Samuel, born of protestant parents at Dartmouth,
Sept. 17, 1783, was in the employ of a wealthy merchant
at Lisbon, named Seely, when he became a Catholic ;
the pious old Marquis de Ponte de Lima became his
patron, stood godfather on the occasion of his reception
into the Church at the English College, provided for his
pension, and nominated him to a small benefice in the
church of Evora ; admitted Sept. 15, 1807 ; left for Eng
land, Feb. 24, 1809 ; went to Ushaw College, \vhere he
finished his divinity, but went to St. Edmund's College,
Old Hall, in Nov., and was ord. priest in Dec., 1810 ;
served at Torbay, Chepstow, and, on Dec. 10, 1815, wTent
to Plymouth, \vhence the bishop wras obliged to remove
him in 1820 ; returned to Portugal for the purpose of
arranging matters relative to his benefice, and w^as
detained there over a year by the revolution ; after a
rambling life, made a pious end in London, Aug. 8, 1839,
aged 56, and was interred at Moorfields ; thought by
many to have been better suited for an actor than a
missionary. He published a w7ork entitled " Letters on
Portugal."

STANLEY, Edward, vide Biddlecorne.

STANLEY, Henry, admitted Oct. 20, 1881 ; left Feb. 9,
1887 ; went to St. Joseph's Seminary, Leeds, and ord.
priest Sept. 22, 1888 ; now at Norwich.

STANLEY, William, vide Leighton.

STANTON, John, admitted Mar. 15, 1837 ; ord. priest, and
left July 6, 1847 » at Miletown, Sheerness, 1847-50 ;
Soho, 1850-1 ; Bedford-square, 1851-7 ; Commercial-
road, East, 1857-8 ; Great Saffron Hill, 1858-9 ; Poplar,
London, 1859-79 5 invalided till death, 1881.

STARKEY, Charles, son of Henry Starkey, of Darley, co.
Chester, Esq. ; admitted Feb. 23, 1636, under the alias
of Warburton, probably his mother's name ; alumnus
Feb. 23, 1638 ; ord. priest, April 6, 1638.

STARKIE, Francis, vide Humphrey and Thomas Whitaker.

STAY, Edward, born Nov. 13, 1803, son of Dionysius and
Hannah Stay, of Manchester ; admitted Aug. i, 1819 ;
alumnus Dec. 3, 1826 ; ord. priest April 27, and left May
12, 1830.

STEVENSON, William, vide Leighton.

STRICKLAND, Jarrard Edward, born at Si/erdi Castle,

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Westmoreland, Feb. 24, 1782, second son of Jarrard
Edward Strickland, Esq., of Willitoft, co. York, and his
wife Coecilia, only dau. of Wm. Towneley, of Towneley
Hall, Esq., (by Coecilia, dau. and sole heiress of Ralph
Standish, of Standish Hall, Esq.) and sister and heiress of
Edw. Towneley Standish, of Standish Hall, co. Lan
caster, Esq., and relict of Charles Strickland, of Sizergh
Castle, Esq. ; admitted Sept. 24, 1791 ; left ; married,
Aug. 18, 1814, Anne, 2nd dau. of Francis Cholmeley, of
Brandsby Hall, co. York, P^sq., by Teresa Anne, dau. of
Sir Henry Englefield, of White Knights, co. Berks, Bart. ;
resided at Hook, near Wardour, co. Wilts, and Lough-
glynn, co. Roscommon ; died, Aug. 7, 1844, aged 62,
and buried at Orotava, Teneriffe ; had six sons — Charles,
Fr. Wm., S.J., Sir Edward, K.C.B., Fr. Jarrard, S.J.,
Walter, of Malta, commander R.N. (whose son Gerard
Paul, Count Strickland Delia Catena, inherited through
his mother the Maltese titles of the Seebarras family),
and Thomas, — and four daughters.

STUTTARD, Richard, born Sept. i, 1769; son of John
Stuttard and his wife Cath. Colwin of Kington, co.
Middlesex ; went Sedgley Park School, 1778-1786 ; admit,
on Triple Trust under alias of Fisher, Sept. 29, 1786;
ord. priest ; left for England, 1795 ; succeeded Mr. Fromant
at Louth, co. Lincoln, and was himself succeeded by Mr.
Fris. Martyn about Jan., 1806.

STYCHE, James, probably son of John Styche, of Birming
ham, co. Warwick, and his wife, Miss Hawkins, of Bre-
wood, co. Stafford ; admitted on Thatcher's Fund, under
the alias of Hawkins, July 20, 1733; alumnus Sept. 15,
1737 ; ord. priest May 30, 1744 ; sent England, Aug. 24,
1744, and stationed at Hainton Hall, co. Lincoln, seat
of Thomas Heneage, Esq. ; subsequently removed to Six-
hills, Grange, where he died, March 9, 1764, and was
succeeded by Mr. Robert Newton.

SUBRA, John F., admit. Sept. 28, 1879; ord. priest Mar. 19,
1888 ; left May n, 1899 ; now at Maiden-lane, London.

SUGAR, Thos., vide Morgan.

SUMNER, John, born Feb. 25, 1765, at Newburn, North
Carolina, son of Edward Sumner, of Warrington, co.
Lancaster, and his wife Mary Haslam ; brought to Eng
land when about two years old ; sent to Sedgley Park

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School, Jan. 5, 1774-July 12, 1779 ; admitted Aug. 23,
1779; alumnus March 12, 1781; received minor orders ;
left, and returned to Sedgley Park as lay-master, in or
about 1790, but after some years went to live at Man
chester ; returned to Sedgley, 1798 ; left again in 1805 to
return to Manchester, where he kept a school ; returned
again to Sedgley, June, 1810, as procurator, and so con
tinued till his death at the Park, Apr. 24, 1834, aged 69.

SUTTOX, Robert, brother of William Sutton, q.v. ; admitted
under alias of Salisbury, March 24, 1655 ; alumnus Aug.
24, 1656; ord. priest Jan. 24, 1662; left for England,
March 9, 1662 ; died on the mission in or near York,
Aug. 19, 1675.

SUTTOX, Thomas, brother of William Sutton, q.v., born
1643 ' admitted under alias of Salisbury ; ord. priest, and
sent to England, Feb. 2, 1670 ; " a very hopefull and
vertuous person .... after haveing beene cutt for the
stone divers tymes about foure yeares before, and suffered
extreamly all that Tyme, but especially for the last ten
weekes," died, Oct. 20, 1674, about 4 p.m., at the Rose
in Holborn, aged 31, and was interred at Somerset House.

SUTTOX, William, born 1631, son of Stephen Sutton, gent.,
of Yorkshire ; admitted under the alias of Salisbury,
Aug. 3, 1648 ; alumnus Sept, 17, 1654 ; ord. priest Feb.
4, 1655 ; left Feb. 26, 1655 ; joined the Bridgettines at
Syon, Lisbon, of which monastery two of his sisters,
Ursula and Marianna, became abbesses ; died at Syon,
March 9, 1690, aged 70.

SWINBURNE, Thomas, probably of the county of Durham ;
admitted June 29, 1765 ; alumnus March 16, 1772.

SWINBURNE, Wm., vide Ogle.

TALBOT, William, a native of Suffolk, arrived with other
students from Douay College, Nov. 14, 1628, and admit,
under alias of Day ; ord. priest Apr. 20, 1636 ; left \vith
missionary faculties, March 10, 1637 ' returned to Douay
College, and died there in 1639.

TASBURGH, John, son of Charles Tasburgh, Esq., of Flix-
ton Hall, Suffolk ; admitted March 27, 1653.

TATTERSHALL, Peter, son of Lawrence Tattershall, of
Berry-Pomeroy, co. Devon, Esq., and of Penelope Con
stable, his wife ; alumnus Dec. 15, 1718.

TAYLOR, Richard, alias Blackburne, alumnus Dec. 30, 1682 ;

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father had a fair estate in Lancashire, and mother was a
daughter of John Blackburne, of Eccleston and Newton,
and lastly of Stockenbridge, in the Fylde, gent., a
Catholic family of antiquity ; ord. priest, and left May
19, 1685 ; placed with his uncle, the Rev. Edward Black
burne, at Claughton, near Garstang, where his family
owned property ; on the mission assumed the name of
Sherburne ; about 1700 joined with uncle in the purchase
of the site of present chapel house at Claughton, and
upon uncle's death in April, 1709, aged 75, succeeded to
the sole charge of the mission, which he retained till his
death, June 3, 1726.

TAYLOR, Robert, born in Lancashire, May 23, 1743 ; studied
at the school at Lady well, Fernyhalgh ; admitted on
Thatcher's Fund, June 12, 1761 ; alumnus Nov. i, 1763 ;
ord. priest April 2, 1768 ; died in the College, Feb., 1769.

TAYLOR, Thomas, born Aug. 5, 1770, son of Thomas Taylor,
and his wife Eliz. Walker, of Ilmington, co. Warwick ;
went Sedgley Park School, 1783-85 ; admit. Feb. 22, 1785.

TAYLOR, William, admitted May 13, 1866 ; left Nov. 28,
1875 ; ord. for Plymouth, May, 1876.

THORPE, John, vide Manley.

TIDYMAN, Philip, born July 20, 1781, son of John Tidyman
and his wife Hannah Boyes, of Gelizhead, Northumber
land ; admitted Oct. 9, 1795 ; left.

TILDEN, Thomas, alias Godden, born Dec. 25, 1622, son of
Thomas Tilden, of Canterbury; after one year at private
school in Holborn under Mr. Gill, entered commoner of
Queen's College, Oxford, July 3, 1638, tutor Randall
Sanderson, fellow of that college ; admitted pensioner of
St. John's College, Cambridge, July 3, 1639, tutor " Sir
Winterburne," and at Scholars' Election, Nov. 4, 1640,
admitted Billingsley Scholar, on recommendation of Dr.
Jno. Williams, Bp. of Lincoln subsequently Archbp. of
York; graduated B.A., 1641-2. Arrived Lisbon and
admitted Nov. 4, 1643 » alumnus June 29, 1644 ; ord.
priest March 12, 1649; appointed professor of philosophy,
March 3, 1650, and paid short visit to England same
year ; appointed prefect of studies, Jan. i, 1651, vice-
president, June 27, 1652, professor of theology, Feb.
16, 1653, rector of English residence, March 16, 1657*
president under nomination of vice-dean Mark Harrington

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and Chapter, June 29, 1655, received degree of D.D., April,
1660, elected archdeacon of Chapter, Jan. 19, 1660-1,
appointed chaplain and preceptor to Princess Catharine
of Portugal, destined consort of Charles II., and left to
accompany her to England, April 23, 1662, had apart
ments in Somerset House, and appointed chaplain and
preacher to Queen Catharine ; in Sept., 1676, was in
exile in France ; in 1678, during Gates Plot ferment,
again withdrew to Paris for several years ; died end of
Nov., (will dated Nov. 25), and buried under chapel at
Somerset House during throes of the revolution, Dec. i.
1688 ; established a Fund at Lisbon. See list of works
Bill. Diet. Engl. Catholics.

TILLEY, Henry J., went Sedgley Park School, 1856 ; admit.
March 12, 1866 ; ord. priest Dec. 18, 1869 ; left May 15,
1870 ; now at Romford.

TILLINGHAM, Charles, vide Jennyns.

TIMMINGS, John, born Jan. 2, 1788, son of Samuel Tim-
mi ngs and Eliz. Dodd his wife, of Weston Underwood,
co. Bucks ; admitted on John Shepherd's Fund, for the
London District, Aug. 9, 1802.

TOMMINS, George, born Apr. 23, 1782, son of George
Tommins and his wife Mary Fellows, of London, and
baptized by his uncle Rev. Robert Tommins, of London;
went Sedgley Park School, 1791-95 ; admitted Oct. 9,
1795 ; died in the College.

TOOTELL, Christopher, alias Blacoe, a member of the
ancient Catholic family of Tootell, of Lower Healey
Hall, Lancashire ; alumnus Dec. 30, 1682 ; ord. priest,
left Mar. 19, 1686 ; placed with Andrew Giffard and
James Dymock at the new chapel opened in Fishmonger's
Hall, Lime-street, London, but within a month, through
a calumnious charge of Jansenism, these secular priests
wrere turned out and the Jesuits installed in their place
at Whitsuntide, 1686 ; soon after, Mr. Tootell withdrew
to Lancashire, became chaplain at Wrightington Hall,
seat of the Dicconsons, and upon death of the Rev. Charles
Penketh, alias Rivers, in 1699, succeeded to the charge of
the mission at Ladywell, Fernyhalgh ; in same year
appointed rural dean of Amounderness, by Bishop Smith,
V.A.-N.D., and in 1719, if not sooner, grand-vicar for
Lancashire, Cheshire, Cumberland, and Westmoreland,

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when his nephew, the Rev. Edward Melling, his assistant
at Ladywell, succeeded him in the deanery ; suffered
much persecution under penal laws ; in 1700 vicar of
Preston procured warrant for his apprehension ; on Jan.
13, 1714, indicted at the Preston sessions, and convicted
of recusancy in the following April ; and in 1715, the
vicar of Preston again obtained warrant for his and Mr.
Melling's apprehension, and on Jan. 15, 1716, he was
convicted of recusancy at the Lancaster sessions ; escaped
arrest by going into hiding, and making no public
appearance till Aug. 15, 1717, from which time resumed
his usual public services at Ladywell chapel till June 29,
1718, when the return of the Commissioners for Estates
devoted to Superstitious Purposes to Preston caused
an interruption till Aug. 5, 1723 ; Mr. Tootell was twice
summoned to appear before them, but went into hiding
and did not comply ; remainder of life spent in peace at
Ladywell, where died Nov. 18, 1727, and buried in the
ground adjoining the chapel. Shortly before Feb. 6, 1726-
7, he was elected a member of the Old English Chapter.
Uncle to Hugh Tootell, alias Dodd, the Church Historian.
Mr. Tootell was a learned and zealous missionary.
Bishop Smith, whom he calls his best friend, held him in
great esteem. As grand-vicar he laboured hard to impress
upon the clergy the importance of catechetical instruc
tion, in conformity writh the bull of Clement XII. on that
subject. Author of many works, vide Bibl. Diet. Engl.
Caths. Vol. V.

TOWNESEND, Charles, alumnus Jan. 9, 1672.

TRAPLIN, John, admitted as a convictor, July n, 1709;
left Aug., 1711.

TREMBLE, Charles, admitted Sept. 27, 1885 ; ord. priest
Mar. 13, and left May 20, 1897 ; now at Bishop's House,
Portsmouth.

TURNER, Richard, vide Shimell.

TURNER, Richard, alumnus July 12, 1693 ; ord. priest April
24, 1696 ; left for England Apr. 29, 1698 ; died at Wooll-
er's Hill, co. Worcester, the seat of the Hanfords, June
20, 1744.

TWIST, Peter, born Sept. 10, 1800, son of John and Anne
Twist, of Lytham, co. Lane. ; admit. Aug. I, 1819; left,

UNDERHILL, James, son of John Underhill, gent., and his

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wife Dorothy, dau. and coheiress of Edward Persehouse,
of Gwarn Hall, in the parish of Sedgley, co. Stafford,
Esq. ; alumnus Sept. I, 1670 ; ord. priest ; sent English
mission Jan. 26, 1681.

VAN CAM, John, born Feb. 10, 1693, son of John Vancam
and his wife Winifred Beggs ; admitted 1708 ; left 1712 ;
went to Rome, where received at the English College,
March 23, 1712 ; alumnus Sept. 1712 ; ord. priest April
u, 1716; left Rome for the Eng. mission, Apr. 21, 1718.

VANE, John, alias Jones and Herbert, of an ancient family,
was educated at one of the Universities, and took orders
in the Church of England. At the revolution, "being
scandalized at the doctrine and practice of his Church,
which maintained it was lawful to depose a King," he
became a Catholic, and was received into the Church by
Bp. Giffarcl, who had been apprehended at the revolu
tion and was then confined in Newgate. Towards the
close of 1688 came over to Lisbon, and Nov. 9, 1692,
took college oath and cassock ; defended universal philo
sophy, 1693, and decl. his thesis to the dowager Queen
Catharine ; ord. priest May, 1693 , taught classics for
three years, and in July, 1694, defended theses in divinity
under Mr. Roger Brockholes ; left for England, April 13,
1699, and appointed agent of the College in London, where
he resided, and laboured hard in his missionary duties.
Elected archdeacon of the Chapter, June 7, 1703. About
1710, when the controversy concerning Jansenism in
England was at its height, Fr. Thos. Lewis, alias Smith,
S.J., reported that Mr. Vane had been a Jansenist, but
that he had caused him to retract his errors. Later Fr.
Lewis spread it abroad that Mr. Vane had relapsed into
Jansenism, and the Superioress of the convent at York
Bar was led to report that Mr. Vane was suspended from
his functions for the crime of Jansenism, all of which was
absolutely untrue. Moreover the Jesuit's relative, John
Lewis, the bookseller, in his controversy with Mr. Thos.
Mainwaring and Fr. Thos. Hunter, O. P., asserted, "That
Mr. Vane (a clergyman) was an ignorant nonsensical
fellow ; that the Jesuits having challenged him to dispute
he never durst ; that the same Mr. Vane performing the
buriall ceremony and Dirige for Dr. Short, said faciamus
nwdo Anglicano, but a religious man replied, and tould

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him he did not understand his modo Anglicano — no, but
faciamus modo Romano, said the religious man." There
was no truth whatever in this charge ; no such words
were spoken as faciamus modo Anglicano either by Mr.
Vane or anyone else, no religious man was present at the
funeral, and finally the burial ceremony was not performed
by Mr. Vane, but by Mr. Tobias Gibbons. " So," says
Mr. Andrew Giffard, " the \vhole story is a groundless
fiction." Mr. Vane was noted for his assiduous attention
to the wants of the poor throughout his missionary career,
which he ended in London, Oct. 22, 1733.

VAUGHAN, John, probably second son of John Vaughan, of
Welsh Bicknor, co. Monmouth, and of Clifford Park, co.
Hereford, Esq., by Anne, dau. of Richard Lyngen, Esq. ;
admitted under the alias of Humphrey Price, July 4,
1663 ; alumnus June 29, 1635 > orc^ priest Apr. 26, 1639 ,
sent to England, Apr. 14, 1640 ; chaplain to the Somerset
family at Raglan Castle during the civil wars.

VENABLES, John, vide Gother.

VERNALTY, Edward, vide Barker.

VICTOR, Francis, alias Bishop, who went by the name of
Williams on the mission, son of Edward Victor, of Corn
wall ; admitted Sept. i, 1633; took the oath of the
alumni June 29, 1635 ' orc^' Priest Apr. 20, 1636 ; ap
pointed professor of philosophy, Sept. 16, 1644 ; professor
of theology and confessor, Sept. 17, 1647, an<^ ^t, owing
to ill-health, for the mission, Eeb. 28, 1649. He was
elected archdeacon of Cornwall, Devon, and Dorsetshire
by the Chapter, Sept. 13, 1661. He died on the mission
in Devonshire, in 1683. His sister, Sr. Erances Victor,
was professed at the Briclgettine Abbey of Syon at Lisbon,
in 1652, and died there, June 30, 1681.

VERE, Langton George, admitted Oct. 22, 1861 ; left Aug.
9, 1865 ; went Old Hall Coll., and ord. priest Sept 19,
1868 ; now at St. Patrick's, Soho. Canon of Westminster.

WAGNER, Frederick, admitted ; left Dec. 12, 1746.

WAGNER, Thomas, alum. Dec. 6, 1747 ; left Apr. 27, 1749.

WAGSTAFFE, James, baptized July 18, 1762, son of Charles
Wagstaffe, and his \vife Sarah Denton, of Manchester ;
went Sedgley Park School, 1774-6 ; thence to Douay
College, where received Sept. 3, 1776; left Douay, June
3, 1780; admit. Dec. 24, 1781 ; alumnus May 20, 1784;

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ord. priest Dec. 20, 1788 ; left for England, Oct. 4, 1790 ;
succeeded Mr. Edward Daniel at Croston Hall, 1792—
1805 ; served Stydd Lodge, Ribchester, 1805 till Sept.,
1844 ; then retired to Lytham, where died, May 3, 1847,
aged 84, and interred at the Willows, Kirkham.

WAKE, William, admitted Apr. 17, 1751 ; left ; settled at
Worksop Manor, Notts ; married, and was father of
William, Bernard, Charles, and Henry, all of Sheffield.

WALDEGRAVE, Charles, born in Norfolk, son of Sir Henry
Walclegrave, of Chewton, co. Somerset, second baronet,
by his second wife, Cath., dau. of Richard Bacon, of
Stifcay, co. Norfolk, Esq. ; admitted under the alias of
Parker, June 9, 1642, as a convictor ; left May 2, 1650.
His nephew Sir Henry, son of his half-brother Sir Charles,
3rd Bart., married the Lady Henrietta Fitz-james,
natural dau. of King James II., by Mrs. Arabella Church-
hill, sister of John, Duke of Marlborough, and was created
Baron Waldegrave of Chewton, Jan. 20, 1685-6.

WALDEGRAVE, Charles and Richard, probably younger
sons of Lord Waldegrave, who died in 1689, were admit,
shortly after 1700.

WALDEGRAVE, Henry, born in Norfolk, brother of Charles,
q.v. ; admitted Aug. 15, 1647, under alias of Parker.

WALDEGRAVE, Nicholas, born in Norfolk, son of Nicholas
Waldegrave, who was a younger son of Nicholas Walde
grave of Beoley, co. Essex, Esq. ; his mother was a dau.
of Richard Russell, of Berkshire, and sister of the Bp., q.v.,
who sent him to Lisbon ; admit. May i, 1683 ; alum. Apr.
17, 1688 ; ord. priest ; went to Coimbra to study canon
law : returned to the College after the death of his uncle
Bp. Russell, who made him his heir ; appointed procura
tor, Oct. 3, 1697 ' died in tne College, Dec. 13, 1734.

WALL, Peter, born in Wicklow town, June 24, 1858 ; went
Engl. Coll., Valladolid, 1871-8 ; admit. Sept. 28, 1881 ;
left June i, 1884 ; went Sem. at Upholland, and ord.
priest Sept. 20, 1885 ; at St. Joseph's, Preston, till death
Oct. 24, 1894.

WALMSLEY, Joseph, born Dec. 28, 1802, son of William
and Elizabeth Walmsley, of Ribchester ; admitted Aug.
i, 1819 ; alum. Dec. 3, 1826 ; ord. priest ; left for England,
June, 1829 ; placed at Lytham, Lancashire, 1829, erected
a new chapel 1839, about 1850 built a school and pur-

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chased the presbytery, and died at Lytham, Dec. 16,
1873, aged 71.

WALTER, William Joseph, born July 2, 1786, son of Samuel
Walter, of Midhurst, Sussex, and his wife Mary Philip ;
admit, on Triple Trust for Lond. District, May 25, 1800 ;
left, and was at St. Edmund's College, Old Hall, March,
i8o6-Oct., 1807, and again from Jan., i8o8-Dec., 1809,
as a master ; subsequently devoted himself to literature,
and the following publications appear under his name :
(i) " The Two Martyrs ; or, The Triumph of the Christian
Religion. By F. R. de Chateaubriand. Transl. by W.
J. Walter." Lond., 1812, 2 vols., 8°. ; •/£., 1819, 8°.; /fc.,
1822, 2 vols. 8°.— (2) "The Mass; or, a Series of
Historical and Practical Instructions on the Prayers and
Ceremonies that compose the Holy Sacrifice of the Altar.
Translated from the French of M. J. D. Cochin." Lond.,
1814, 12°. ; /&., 1815, 2 vols. 12°. — (3) " Letter from
Rome, addressed to M. de Fontanes, by the Viscomte de
Chateaubriand. Translated." Lond., 1815, 8°. — (4) "An
Account of a MS. of Ancient English Poetry entitled
' Clavis Sciential ; or, Bretayn's Skyll-Kay of Knawing,'
by John de Wageby, Monk of Fountain's Abbey." Lond.,
1816, 8°. — (5) " St. Peter's Complaint, and other Poems,
by the Rev. Robert Southwell. Reprinted from the
edition of 1595, \vith Important Additions from an original
MS., and A Sketch of the Author's Life. By W. Jos.
Walter." Lond., Keating, Brown & Co., 1817, 8°., pp.
xxxii— 127. — (6) A translation of Zauberfloete's II Flauto
Magico. Lond., 1819, 12°. — (7) A translation of G. G.
de Rossi's II Tancredi. Lond., (1820?), 12°. — -(8)
" Othello, a Tragic Opera. Transl. from the Marquis
Berio." Lond., 1822, 12°. — (9) " Adelina." Translated.
Lond., 1825, 8°.— (10) "Medea in Corinth." Translated.
Lond., 1826, 12°.— (n) "The Prose Works of Robert
Southwell ; containing Mary Magdalen's Funeral Tears,
Triumphs over Death, and An Epistle of Comfort, &c.
Edited by W. Jos. Walter." Lond., 1828, 12°., forming
Part II. of " Select Beauties of Early Catholic Literature.
— (12) " Sir Thomas More ; His Life and Times, illustrated
from his own writings, and from contemporary docu
ments." Lond., Dolman, 1839, 8°., forming Vol. I. of
The Catholic Family Library ; 2nd edit., ib., 1840, sm.

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8°., pp. xi~402, with portrait of More. Transl. into
French by A. Savagner. Tours, 1847, $°. — (13) "A
Selection from the Writings of Sir Thomas More." Lond.,
1840, sm. 8°., forming Vol. II., Cath. Fam. Lib. — (14) A
Life of St. Chrysostom, with a Selection from his Writ
ings. Lond., 1840, sm. 8°., forming Vol. III., Cath.
Fam. Lib. — (15) " Mary Queen of Scots ; a Journal of
her Twenty Years' Captivity, Trial and Execution."
Philadelphia, 1840, 2 vols., 12°. — (16) The article on
"The Roman Catholic Church," in The Cyclopaedias of
Religious Denominations. 1853, 8°.

WALTON, William, born Jan. 6, 1778, son of William
Walton, (and his wife Anne Kaye), of Manchester, Esq.,
subsequently Spanish Consul at Liverpool, nephew of
Bp. Wm. Walton, V.A.-N.D. ; followed his brothers
Michael and Richard to Sedgley Park School, 1785-91 ;
admitted June 20, 1791, his father paying his pension ;
left 1796 ; spent some short time in Spain ; became per
fect master of Spanish, Portuguese, and French languages ;
settled as a merchant at Havannah, in the Island of Cuba,
and dealt in slaves amongst other goods ; subsequently
became British Resident at St. Domingo ; returned to
England, resided in London, and finally settled at Oxford,
where he died in 1857, aged 79 ; for his numerous publi
cations, see Bibl. Diet. Engl. Caths. Vol. V.

WALWYN, Anthony, vide Aston, Nicholas.

WAPSHOT, Benjamin, born Jan. 20, 1778, son of John
and Rebecca Wapshot, of London ; went Sedgley Park
School, 1788-91 ; admitted July 14, 1791 ; left.

WARBURTON, Charles, vide Starkey.

WARD, Philip, vide Parry.

WARDELL, George, went Sedgley Park, 1769; admitted
and left ; probably brother to John.

W7ARDELL, John, went Sedgley Park School, 1763 ; admit. ;
left ; settled at Plymouth ; married and was father of
Richard Wardell, Esq., who settled at Woodlands, Dun-
das, Upper Canada ; widow, Sarah, died with her son
in Canada, June 30, 1845, aged 77.

WAREING, Anthony, born July 19, 1780, son of William
Wareing, of Goosnargh, co. Lancaster, subsequently of
Manchester, and his wife Helen Lund, a relative of Mr.
Anthony Lund, priest at Lady well ; admitted July 17,

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1795 ; alumnus Dec. 16, 1804 ; ord. priest, and sent
England, May, 25, 1807 ; served Isleworth, was there in
1825, and died there, Feb. 28, 1854, aged 73.

WAREING, James, born July 25, 1787, son of David Ware-
ing, and his wife Mary Winter, of London ; went Sedgley
Park School, 1793-1801 ; admitted May i, 1801, for the
Middle District ; alum. Sept. 15, 1807 ; left and went to
Oscott Coll., Sept. 27, i8o8-March, 1809 ; thence to Old
Hall Coll., March, 1809, and ord. priest there, Dec. 14,
1812 ; returned to Lisbon as a superior, but left the College
for some reason, and settled in the city, where for years he
supported himself as tutor in the families of the nobility,
till his death at Lisbon, Sept. 25, 1852, aged 65. He was
an elder brother of William Wareing, the first Bishop of
Northampton.

WAREING, Thomas, born Sept. 18, 1774, brother of
Anthony, q.v. ; admitted on Revell's Fund for the
Northern District, May 20, 1789.

WAREING, Thomas, admitted Dec. 21, 1822 ; alum. May
22, 1828 ; died in the College, July 29, 1832.

WARHAM, John, of an ancient Dorsetshire family ; admit,
under alias of Smith, Sept. 30, 1665 ; alumnus, Sept. i,
1670 ; ord. priest ; appointed prof, of philosophy, Jan. 12,
1676 ; left for England, Apr. 18, 1681 ; when the presi
dent, Dr. Watkinson, became disabled in 1706, and the
College was in imminent danger of ruin, Air. Warham
was unanimously chosen, at a meeting of Lisbonians in
London, as the most deserving to fill the place, on
account of his learning, prudence, and piety ; Bp. Giffard
gave him his diploma, and presented him to the presi
dency, but after two fruitless attempts to proceed to his
destination, being driven back by storms, Mr. Warham
resigned his dignity, and could not be induced to go
over, so in 1707 Mr. Edw. Jones was appointed ; served
the mission at Cowdray, Sussex, seat of Lord Montagu,
where he died March 19, 1714.

\VARHAM, Robert, brother to John, t/.r., admitted under
alias of Smith ; alumnus Sept. 8, 1677 ; ord. priest, April
18, 1681, and taught classics for three years; appointed
professor of philosophy, Oct. 27, 1683, prefect of studies,
Nov. 4, 1684, prof, of theology, Apr. 2, and confessarious,

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Apr. 20, 1687 ; left for the mission, Jan. 2, 1693 ; died
Jan. 23, 1728-9.

WARING, Edward, alias William Ellis, born 1604, third son
of Charles Waring, Esq. ; arrived from Douay College
with his brother, Humphrey WTaring, q.v., and formally
admitted Nov. 22, 1628 ; ord. priest July 17, and left for
English mission, Sept. 8, 1633 ; became an archdeacon of
the Chapter. His eldest brother, Thomas Waring, Esq.,
married Winefrid, dau. of Robert Middlemore, of Edg-
baston, co. Warwick, Esq.

WARING, Humphrey, born in or about 1606, fourth son of
Charles Waring, Esq., of Berie Hall, in the parish of
Solihull, co. Warwick, by Letitia, daug. of John Hugford,
of Henwood, co. Warwick, Esq., and his wife Margt.,
dau. of Sir John Hugford, of Bindisleston, co. Gloucester ?
Knt. ; went to Douay College, and there finished his
course of philosophy ; thence left for Lisbon, Aug. 25,
arrived Nov. 14, and formally admitted Nov. 22, 1628,
under the alias of Ellis, which he retained throughout
life ; ord. priest Aug. 24, 1635 » made prof, of philosophy
and theology, July 21, 1638 ; received degree of D.D.,
1640 ; prefect of studies, Jan. 26, 1641 ; vice-president,
June 15, 1642 ; president, by nomination of Bp. Smith,
June 10, and rector of the English residence, Aug. 7, 1648 ;
resigned and left the College, 1652 ; but if he returned to
England on this occasion he would appear to have gone
abroad again — to Paris or Douay ; elected archdeacon,
Sept. 17, and then clean of the Chapter, Nov. 27, 1657,
but did not return to England for rather more than two
years, and was then sworn clean, Oct. 14, 1660 ; died
Aug. 9, 1676, aged 70.

WARMOLL, Francis James, admitted May 13, 1866 ; ord.
priest Mar. n, and left May i, 1876; at Shefford, Beds,
1876-80 ; Stowmarket, 1880 till death, July 9, 1894.

WARRINGTON, Henry, admitted Oct. 19, 1827 '•> alumnus
Feb. 10, 1833 ; ord. priest ; and left May 27, 1836.

WARWICK, James V., admitted Nov. 7, 1873 ; ord. priest
Sept. 24, 1882; appointed a superior; left May i, 1892;
now at Balham, London.

W ATKINSON, Matthias, born in London, July, 1634, son of
John Watkinson, who, after suffering much on account
of his religion, left England that he might attend to his

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spiritual and temporal concerns with more peace, and
settled at Lisbon, where he was joined by his son in 1647 ;
admitted Nov. 24, 1647 ; alumnus, Sept. u, 1653 ; ord.
priest Dec. 7, 1658 ; appointed procurator Aug. 10, 1661 ;
and on Oct. 16 of that year dedicated a theological thesis
to Queen Catharine, at which Dr. Godden presided ;
appointed professor of philosophy, Sept. i, and confes-
sarius, Dec. 20, 1664 ; the Dean and Chapter presented
him to the vice-presidency under date Nov. 17, and he
was formally installed, Dec. 2, 1668 ; presented to the
presidency by the Dean and Chapter, Nov. 2, 1671 ;
promoted to the rectory of the English residency, May 9,
1672 ; owing to failing health, given a regent in the
person of Edward Jones, June i, 1706 ; died in the College,
March 30, 1710, aged 75. The Chapter expecting that
he was about to return to England, elected him a member
and vicar-general, June 4, 1684.

WATKINSON, Robert, born 1803, admit. Jan. 22, 1824 ; alum.
May 26, 1828 ; left May, 1833 ; appointed to St. Anthony's,
Liverpool, where died June 17, 1837, aged 34.

WATSON, Alfred, admit. Nov. 2, 1858 ; alum. Dec. n, 1861 ;
left Oct. 7, 1862 ; went Ushaw Coll., and there ord. priest
Sept. 23, 1865 ; at Bradford, 1865-6; Sheffield, 1866-7 5
Dewsbury, 1867-9 ; Brough Hall, 1869-73 ; Whitewell,
1874-6 ; Brighouse, 1876-81 ; Bingley, 1881-9 ; Myddelton
Lodge, 1889-92 ; Ilkley, 1892 till death, Feb. 10, 1893.

WEBSTER, Isaac, admit. Mar. 23, 1860" ; ord. priest, Dec.
18, 1869 : left June n, 1870; now at Wigan.

WEBSTER, Thomas, baptized Oct. 23, 1757, son of Thomas
Webster, and his wife Doro. Bell, of London : went
Sedgley Park School ; admitted Oct. 13, 1771 ; alumnus,
Apr. 7, 1777 ; ord. priest Apr. 5, 1783 ; appointed su
perior ; left for the mission, Apr., 1792 ; died at Wolver-
hampton, July 7, 1828, aged 70.

WELCH, John, born Oct. 14, 1796, son of James and Sarah
Welch of London, protestants ; received into the Church
by Mr. John Jones, July 2, 1813, and confirmed by Bp.
Poynter, June u, 1814; admitted Oct. 18, 1816 ; left in
ill-health, 1817; received at Old Hall, Feb., 1818 ; ord.
priest July 16, 1826 ; appointed prefect July, i826-July,
1827 ; stationed at Portsea, 1827-41 ; at Weybridge,
1841 till death, Aug. 31, 1850, aged 53.

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WHALE, Peter, son of Peter Whale, of Catton, co. Norfolk,
Esq. ; admitted, under alias of Robinson, June 9, 1642 ;
alumnus June 29, 1644 ; dismissed, Sept. 6, 1646.

WHARTON, John, born May 26, 1772, son of Henry Whar-
ton, and his wife Anne Molyneux, of Little Crosby, co.
Lancaster ; went Mr. Simon Geo. Bordley's School, Ince
Bhjndell, sent by him to Lisbon ; admit. Oct. 10, 1787.

WHARTON, Michael, born 1733, near Kirby Stephen, co.
Westmoreland, being descended from the Whartons, of
Wharton and Kirkby Thore in Westmoreland, and of
Yorkshire, of whom Sir Michael Wharton, of Beverley,
Knt., was living in 1724 ; admitted on Revell's Fund,
Nov. 7, 1751 ; alumnus Mar. 13, 1756 ; ord. priest Dec.
20, 1760 ; left for England, July 18, 1761 ; chaplain at
Leighton Hall, Lancashire, whence removed the mission
to Yealand, where a church was subsequently erected by
Richard T. Gillow, Esq. ; there he died Dec. 10, 1809,
aged 76. Was rural dean of Lonsdale hundred.

WHELAN, Arthur, admitted Sept. 28, 1881 ; left Jan. 18,
1887 ; went St. Thomas' Sem., Hammersmith, and ord.
priest Sept. 20, 1890 ; now at Clarence Gardens, Regent's
Park.

WHITAKER, Humphrey, son of Thomas and Eleanor Whit-
aker, christened Aug. 10, 1614, at Burnley, Lancashire,
where his father was master of the grammar-school.
About 1626, through the influence of his mother who was
a Catholic, he was received into the Church by Dom
Robert Haydock, alias Benson, O.S.B. He continued his
studies under his father till he was sent to St. Omer's
College by a Jesuit known under the name of Edward
Squire, Nov. I, 1629. Thence he went to the English
College at Rome, where at the age of 18 he was admitted
under the alias of Francis Starkie (probably taken from
his mother's family surname) Oct. 22, 1631. There he
was ordained priest Aug. 25, 1638, and left, Sept. 21, for
Piacenza as procurator of the College, and assisted there
for two years. He then returned to England, whence he
was sent immediately to Lisbon to teach theology, and
assumed that chair Dec. 26, 1640. On June 25, 1642, he
was appointed prefect of studies and confessarins, and for
five years, till 1647, was Vespertine lecturer. Owing to
ill-health he left the College, Aug. n, 1647, ^Y waY °f

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France for England, and thence went to Douay College
as professor of divinity. Ill-health again compelled him
to resign this office, and returning to England he was
made canon and secretary of the Chapter, in 1649. ^n

1650, he returned to Lisbon as prefect of studies and con-
fessarius, and received the degree of D.D. On July n,

1651, he became president under the nomination o£ Bishop
Smith, and so continued till his death, Sept. 19, 1653,
aged 40.

At Lisbon, as in England, he was known by the alias
of Francis Clayton. His father became a Catholic before
his death in Jan., 1625-6. His brothers arid sister had
been brought up Catholics. One of his brothers, Thomas,
went to the English College at Valladolid in 1632, was
ordained priest and sent to England in 1638, and was
seized at Blackehall, Goosnargh, the seat of Edward
Midgeall, Esq., in 1643, committed to Lancaster Castle,
and there martyred Aug. 7, 1646, aged 32. He used the
alias of Starkie.

WHITAKER, Samuel, born Aug. 24, 1802, son of Samuel and
Frances Whitaker, of Ordsall, co. Notts, protestants ;
received into the Church by Mr. Samuel Corbishley, Dec.
25, 1817, and confirmed by Bp. Milner, May 10, 1819 ;
admitted June 29, 1819 ; alumnus Apr. i, 1823 ; ord.
priest; left for the mission, Nov. 12, 1829; at Louth,
co. Lincoln, 1830-1.

WHITE, Philip, baptized Apr. 3, 1748, son of John and Mary
White, of Beenham, co. Berks ; admitted on the Triple
Trust, Sept. 13, 1764 ; alum. Mar. 16, 1772 ; ord. priest ;
died in the College, Jan. 22, 1777, aged 28.

WHITE, Thomas, bom 1593, second son of Richard White,
of Hutton, co. Essex, Esq., by Mary, dau. of Edmund
Plowden, of Plowden, co. Salop, the eminent lawyer ; his
elder brother, Richard, married first, Anne, dau. and
heiress of Andrew Grey, of the Inner Temple, and secondly,
the Lady Catherine Weston, dau. of Richard, first Earl of
Portland ; entered the English College, Valladolid, under
the alias of Blacklow, Nov. 16, 1609 ; transferred to the
college at Seville in 1612 ; thence to the college at St.
Omer ; went through his scholastic theology at Douay
College, and was ord. priest at Arras, March 25, 1617; he
graduated B.D.,and taught classics, philosophy, and theol-

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ogy at Douay ; left Douay for England on business affairs,
Aug. 17, and returned Oct. 23, 1623, bringing with him
one of the ribs of the martyr, Thomas Maxfield ; left
Douay for Paris to study canon law in the university, but
thence was despatched, as agent for the clergy, to Rome,
where he was residing, March 21, 1625-6 ; on his return to
Douay, he received his nomination to the presidency of
the College at Lisbon, -with orders to proceed without
delay, and he arrived in May, 1630 ; here he taught
theology, and drew up a code of rules for the government
of the college ; visited Madrid on college affairs in 1631 ;
two years later he left for England to obtain a fresh
supply of students, and to procure means for the advance
ment of the college, but failing in the latter object, he
resigned the presidency, and applied himself to missionary
work ; in 1635 he was one of those nominated by the
Chapter for the Episcopacy ; in 1650 he is found back at
Douay College, teaching divinity, and holding the office
of vice-president, in which year, on March 2Oth and 2ist,
King Charles II. visited Douay, and was presented by the
president, William Hyde, with Latin and English poems
in the name of the College ; soon after returned to
England, where spent most of his time in publishing
books, " which made a great noise in the world " ; he
*' dyed att his lodging in Drury Lane," July 6, 1676,
"betwixt three and four a clocke in the afternoone,
being the octave day of St. Peter and St. Paul," aged
83, and was buried on the 9th, in the church of St. Martin-
in-the-Fields ; for whose works see Bibl. Diet. Engl.
Caths. Vol. V.

WHIT WELL, Joseph, born Aug. 7, 1796, son of William and
Catherine Whitwell, of Bethnal Green, London, pro-
testants ; received into the Church by Mr. John Jones on
the same day with John Welch, q.v., July 2, 1813 ; con
firmed by Bp. Poynter, June u, 1814 ; admitted Aug. n,
1814 ; left in ill-health, 1818.

WILCOCK, Peter, born Oct. 28, 1777, son of George Wil-
cock (and his \vife Anne Taylor), of Bolton, younger son
of James Wilcock, of Thorp Green, Brindle, co. Lancaster,
land-surveyor, by Margery, dau. of Mr. Gerard, of Brindle ;
grand-nephew of Dom Peter Wilcock, O.S.B. ; went to
Mr. Simon Geo. Bordley's school at Ince Blundell ; admit.

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on the Borclley Fund, Oct. 10, 1792 ; alumnus Dec. 8,
1801 ; orcl. priest Dec. 25, 1802 ; retained as professor ;
left for England, Dec. 28, 1808 ; stationed for a short
time at Ladywell, Fernyhalgh, co. Lancaster ; thence
removed to Sunderland, co. Durham, and succeeded Mr.
Wm. Fletcher in the charge of that mission in 1812 ;
removed to St. Anthony's, Liverpool, 1825 5 erected new
church, schools, and presbytery, 1830, and retired in ill-
health in 1844, till death at Liverpool, Aug. 15, 1857,
aged 79 ; wrote " Lives of the Abbots of Wearmouth, trans
lated from the Venerable Becie." Sunderland, 1818, Svo.
WILKINSON, James, born Nov. i, 1777, son of John Wilk
inson, of Cottam Hall, co. Lane., yeo., and his wife
Eliz. Adamson ; left.

WILKINSON, John F., born April 29, 1804, son of William
and Mary Wilkinson, of Chester ; admit. Aug. I, 1819 ;
alumnus Dec. 3, 1826 ; ord. priest, and left for England,
March 15, 1830 ; stationed at Clewer Green, near Wind
sor, Berks, 1830-55 ; at Chichester, 1855 till death, Oct.
15, 1866, aged 64. In 1835 he had the honour of being
presented at court to William IV. by Lord Melbourne,
prime minister.

WILLIAMS, Charles, son of Thomas Williams, of Monmouth
shire, Esq. ; admitted Aug. 14, 1647 ; alumnus Dec. 12,
1651 ; ord. priest Dec. 24, 1651 ; left for England, March
14, 1652.

WILLIAMS, Francis, vide Victor.
WILLIAMS, John, vide Gwillims.

WILLIAMS, John, son of Thomas Williams, of Monmouth
shire, Esq., and brother of Charles, q.v. ; admitted Aug.
14, 1647 ; alum. Dec. 12, 1651 ; ord. priest Mar. 29, 1653 ;
appointed superior July n, 1654 ; procurator Sept. 19,
1657 ; confessarius, Apr. 13, 1659 ; prof, of philosophy,
Aug. 12, 1661 ; prof, of theology, Sept. i, 1664 ; vice-
president, Dec. 20, 1664.

WILLIAMS, John, admit, on Lloyd's Fund, Sept. 28, 1713 ;

alumnus Oct. 31, 1720 ; left for the mission, Mar. 25, 1726.

WILLIAMS, Reginald, born Jan. 21, 1772, son of Reginald

Williams, and his wife Sarah Rand, of Hull, co. York,

and probably descended from the Williams family of

Llanbadock, co. Monmouth ; admitted Dec. 4, 1784.

WILLIAMS, Roger, born 1615, son of Reginald Williams, of

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Lanbadock, co. Monmouth, Esq., was received into the
English College at Rome, Nov. 6, 1633, and adopted the
alias of Powell, probably his mother's name; returned
to England, after receiving minor orders, finding him
self quite unfit for ecclesiastical life ; came .to Lisbon for
another trial, and was admitted July 7, 1640 ; alumnus
March 31, 1641 ; but was expelled, April 5, 1642. His
nephew, Reginald, was ordained at Rome in 1682.

WILLIAMS, William, admitted Mar. 9, 1849 5 alum. Feb. i,
1856; ord. priest; superior 1863; left June i, 1865; at
Treforest, 1865-8; Tredegar, 1868-83; Cardiff, 1883,
(V.G. of Newport, 1883, and Mgr. 1887) till death Sept.
24, 1895.

WINDER, Peter, born at Caton, near Lancaster, was son of
William Winder, yeoman, whose wife was probably
Alice, daughter of Peter Bradley, of Little Eccleston-
cum-Larbreck, yeoman. At the age of sixteen he went to
Douay College, and for some time was servant to Dr.
Kellison, the president. Afterwards he pursued his studies,
took the college oath on Dec. 17, 1640, and in due
course was ordained priest. From Douay he was sent to
Lisbon, was admitted into the college, under the alias
of Bradley, June 9, 1642, and left for England, March 6,
1644. He was stationed in his native county, apparently
at Ouernmore, where his parents seem to have settled.
The sum of £10 per annum was allowed out of Sir Thos.
Preston's estate for the use of the priest at Ouernmore
and neighbourhood in 1677. In 1680, the name of
Peter Winder, of Quernmore, appears in a list of fines for
recusancy. Dodd, the historian, otherwise the Rev.
Hugh Tootell, says (in a MS. account) that whilst in
Lancashire in the reign of James II. he knew Peter
Winder personally, and that he was then a very old man.
He was still alive and serving the mission in Mar., 1697.

WINSTANLEY, Edmund, born Oct. 17, 1772,8011 of Thomas
Winstanley, and his wife Eliz. Herd, of Ashbourne, co.
Derby, descended from an old Lancashire Catholic family ;
went Mr. Simon Geo. Bordley's school at Ince Blundell ;
admitted Oct. 10, 1787 ; ord. priest Dec., 1796 ; soon
afterwards offered his services to Wellington, who was
then marching for Spain, which were accepted ; after
battle of Waterloo, returned to the College ; appointed

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vice-president ; presented to the presidency by Bp. Poyn-
ter, Dec. 27, 1819, and formally installed, Jan. 19, 1820 ;
D.D. ; died in the College, Aug. 14, 1852, aged 79. He
published : — (i) " The Christian's Companion." 2nd
edit., Lisbon, 1812; (2) "An Outline of Ecclesiastical
and Civil History." London, 1846, 2 vols., 8°. ; (3)
"Short Sketch of Ancient Geography." Lisbon, 1848,
8°. ; (4) " Short Geography of the Holy Land." Lisbon,
1850,8°.; (5) "The Lisbon Guide." Lisbon, 1853, 12°.
2nd edit. ; (6) His portrait in lithograph was published
at Lisbon, 1852.

WOODBURY, Gerard, vide Bernard.

WOODROFFE, Robert, son of Robert Woodroffe, of Stafford
shire, gent., and of his wife Anne ; admitted Jan., 1672,
as a convictor ; alumnus Oct. 30, 1678 ; ord. priest Jan.
i, and left for the English mission, July 17, 1680 ;
stationed at Yeldersley, co. Derby, and attended to the
Catholics about Norbury and Roston, where much es
teemed as a preacher and an exemplary missioner ; was
probably grand-nephew of Robert Woodroffe al las Worth,
ordained priest at Rome in 1606, whose father, James
Woodroffe, was mayor of Barnstaple, co. Devon, his
father having settled in Devon from Lancashire or York
shire ; Robert Woodroffe, a priest of Rheims and Rome,
•who was condemned to death at Lancaster in 1591, but
reprieved, and afterwards imprisoned at Wisbech Castle
and Framlingham till 1603, belonged to the Woodroffes
of Bank Top or Hall, Burnley, which estate was carried
by an heiress, Isabel Woodroffe, in marriage, Feb. 4,
1606, to Nicholas Towneley, of Royle, Esq., and after
wards descended through heiresses to the Inglebys, of
Lawkland Hall, and then to the Sherburnes of Stony-
hurst. Subsequently it passed by sale to the family of
Hargreaves, whose representatives now possess it.

WOOLFE, John, alias Allan, who assumed the name of
Brown on the mission ; native of the diocese of Worces
ter ; ord. priest July 26, 1674 ; left College for the English
mission July 30, 1676. He was elected an archdeacon of
the Old Chapter, Sept. 2, 1695, and was secretary; was
in Middlesex in 1702. He died in Shropshire, June 15,
1735. He established two Funds at the College.

WOOLFE, Thomas, probably brother of John ; admitted Jan.

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3, 1667 ; took oath of alumni Jan. 9, 1672. Presumably
came on the mission, as he established a Fund at the
College.

WOOLFREY, Norbert, admit. May 13, 1866 ; ord. priest Dec.
22, 1877 ; left Feb. 10, 1878 ; now at Liskeard, Cornwall.

WORTHY, Francis, alumnus Apr. 17, 1688 ; ord. priest Nov.
n, 1691 ; left for England, 1692.

WOTTON, George, vide Jerningham.

WRIGHT, Edmund, admitted as a convictor June 26, 1700 ;
left with his brother, Paul, Sept. 20, 1703.

WRIGHT, Joseph, born in London, 1851 ; went Sedgley Park
School, 1866-8 ; admit. Nov. n, 1868 ; left July 28, 1873 ;
went St. Thomas' Sem. and ord. priest Dec. 18, 1875 ; at
The Orphanage, Blackheath, 1876-84 ; entered the So
ciety of Jesus at Manresa, Roehampton, 1884-5 > St.
Beuno's Coll., St. Asaph, 1885-7 5 St- WTalburge's, Pres
ton, 1887-90; Manresa, 1890; Glasgow, 1891; Wimble
don College, 1891-5 ; went out to Grahamstown, South
Africa, to recuperate his health, 1895-6 ; Blackpool, Oct.,
1896, till death Apr. 6, 1897, aged 46.

WRIGHT, Paul, admit, as a convictor, Oct. 23, 1700 ; left
with his brother, Edmund, Sept. 20, 1703.

WRIGHT, Thomas, born 1647, son of John Wright, and
his wife Eliz. Somerset, of London ; admitted as a con-
victor under the alias of Bradley, March 12, 1659.

WYCHE, George, alumnus 1697 ; ord. priest and sent to
England ; a priest of this name succeeded Mr. Pierce
Parry, at Claxby, co. Lincoln, in 1762.

WYNNE, Hugh, son of William Parry Wynne, of Flint ;
alumnus, under alias of Parry, June 29, 1636 ; ord. priest
Apr. 10, 1640 ; sent England, Sept. 7, 1644.

YATES, Richard, ord. priest ; left for the mission, Apr. 29,
1674.

YOUNGE, Thomas, admitted July 1, 1670; ord. priest and
left for the mission, Apr. 10, 1681 ; served under the
alias of Brooks in Lancashire, probably his native county ;
was at Orrell, near Wigan, in 1699, when he purchased
five acres of land at Crossbrook, Orrell, upoa which he
erected a large house and chapel ; died there about May,
1714.

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