sufficient correctness to gather the sense of the text? Fox has another rodomontade concerning Hudson. He relates, that queen Mary coming to the crown, he left Norfolk, and wandered up and down Suffolk for a time. And then returning to his wife again, and understanding he was sought for, "made himself a lodge to lie in among the fagots, for the day time. Where he stayed for half a year, reading and praying (says Fox) continually. And his wife, like an honest woman, being careful for him, used herself faithfully and diligently towards him, &c. At the last he walked abroad certain days openly in the town, crying out continually against the mass and all her trumpery. And in the end, coming home to his house, he set himself down upon his knees, having his book by him, reading and singing psalms continually without ceasing, for three days and three nights together, refusing meat and other talk, to the great wonder of many. At that time John Crouch, his neighbour, called the constables to apprehend him. Whom, when Hudson saw come in, he said, Now my hour is come, welcome my friends, welcome," &c, Thus writes Fox, and we leave it to the sensible reader, if such a man as Hudson is here described, do not partake more of the seditious and fanatic disturber of society, than the meek and humble Christian. When taken before the bishop's commissary, and being asked where he went to church, he answered, "Where he was there was the Church."-Such was the spirit that inflamed Fox's Martyrs. 29. William Harris; 30. Richard Day; 31. Christian George, Martyrs. These two men and a woman were burned at the same stake at Colchester on the 10th of this month, though each have a day apportioned to them in the calendar.-What there opinions were Fox does not inform us,,but he says, "these three good souls were brought to the stake, and there joyfully and fervently, like constant Christians, triumphantly offered up their bodies, a lively sacrifice unto his holy Majesty, for the defence and testimony of Christ's gospel, in whose habitation they have now their everlasting tabernacle," &c. Now this is all romancing. What testimony could these illiterate creatures give of the gospel of Christ? And why did not Fox give us the testimony itself? What he has said is mere assertion. He states not for what they were apprehended, nor why they were convicted. The last of the three was the third wife of one Richard George, whose former wife was also burned, and he took to himself a third wife, who was also a confessor of the faith; and it is conjectured that had not queen Mary died when she did, both the husband and the third wife would have bid fair to become martyrs. Here we come to the end of Fox's calendar for the month of May, and following father Parsons in his Examination, we have only to observe, the comparison will easily appear to the sensible and unbiassed reader, without any further notice on our part, when he has cast his eye over the calendar of real saints and martyrs which we here present him, and the victims that fell a sacrifice to the laws of Elizabeth, invented for the purpose of entrapping the conscientious and zealous Catholic. THE CATHOLIC CALENDAR. 62 1 SS. Philip and James, Apostles 372 2 St. Athanasius, Bishop and Con-1160 16 St. Ubaldus, Bishop and Conf. 1592 17 St. Paschal Baylon, Confessor 250 18 St. Venantius, Martyr 250 15 SS. Peter, Andrew, &c. Martyrs fessor 320 3 Invention; Cross or Finding of the 389 4 St. Monica, Widow 350 5 St. Maximus, Bishop and Conf. 90 6 St. John Evangelist, before the Latin Gate. 721 7 St. John of Beverley, Archbishop and Confessor 536 8 Apparition of St. Michael the Archangel 396 9 St. Gregory of Nazieuzen, Bp. 1459 10 St. Antoninus, Bishop and Conf. 13 St. Hermenigild, Martyr 304 14 St. Boniface, Martyr 988 19 St. Dunstan, Bishop and Conf. 1296 20 St. Peter Celestine, Pope and i Confessor 1444 21 St. Benardin, Confessor 349 29 St. Maximus, Bishop and Conf. Such were the illustrious and heroic characters, whose memories, after being venerated for ages by the Christian world, were set sside by the Protestant Martyrologist, to make way for his heterogeneous batch of ignorant fanatics and seditious enthusiasts. The first saint displaced by Fox to make room for the seditious and rebellious heresiarch John Huss, was the most famous doctor of the church Athanasius, patriarch of Alexandria, who defended the divinity of Christ with invincible assi duity and learning against Arius and his followers, and is called by St. Gregory Nazienzen, "the eye of the world." The day whereon St. Helena discovered the identical cross of Christ, on which was wrought the redemption of mankind, is obliterated to insert the name of a sedi tious Catholic friar, as a Protestant saint and martyr. St. Monica, the mother of the great doctor St. Augustine, bishop of Hippo, whose praises are sung even by Protestant writers, is likewise banished from Fox's calendar. The festival in honour of the great miracle wrought on St. John the evangelist, who being put into a cauldron of boiling oil, came out unhurt, must no longer be celebrated in Fox's church. Many of the other saints and martyrs we must pass over to avoid swelling the work too much. On the 19th, a poor labouring lad of Suffolk, only 19 years of age, is made to supplant the renowned St. Dunstan, the flower of the English clergy. This celebrated divine surpassed all other of his contempo raries in learning and the sciences, and was a perfect model of virtue and piety. He was chosen abbot of Glastonbury, then bishop of Winchester, and finally archbishop of Canterbury. He was a great reformer of abuses, but a strict maintainer of orthodoxy. He drew up some excellent regulations which may be seen in Spelman (Conc. Angl. t. i. p. 447.) having the title Canons published under king Edgar. Much obloquy has been attached to the character of this eminent primate of the English church for his conduct in reproving king Edgar of his vices, but it should be recollected that the religion of Christ was intended for the observance of kings as well as the people, and it is the duty of the mi nisters of that religion to reprove the monarch who gives scandal by the irregularity of his life, as well as the poorest peasant.-St. Dunstan followed this duty, for which his memory should be revered by all who admire virtue and justice, and not reviled as he has been by such historians as the infidel Hume. The Rev. Alban Butler, says, He employed his revenues in relieving the poor, he reconciled differences, refuted errors, and laboured incessantly in extirpating vices and abuses. Another saint, peculiarly entitled to the veneration of Englishmen, whose memory was, and still is, honoured by Catholics, but was thrown into the shade by Fox, to canonize an illiterate husbandman of Norfolk, is St. Augustine, who brought the light of the gospel to our benighted Pagan Saxon ancestors. This virtuous and learned man, was the happy instrument of converting our Pagan progenitors from fierce and perfidious barbarians, to mild, humble, yet courageous and patient christians. To him are we principally indebted for the excellent institutions which have made England the most renowned of nations; for had not our ancestors been converted to the Catholic faith, we should never have known what liberty was, nor would our Catholic ancestors have been so long in the enjoyment of it. Malmesbury says, that the Northumbrians sold their own children for slaves, surpassing, in barbarism and fierceness, the savages of the present day; but receiving readily the holy faith of Christ, they became at once new men. With the establishment of Catholicism, England saw the arts, sciences, and literature nourished and flourishing, and freedom and virtue intwined to secure happiness to her people. On the other hand, under pretence of rooting out Popery, as the reformers of the sixteenth century termed the religion of their forefathers, the stores of the libraries, consisting of the labours of the monks for ages, the art of printing being but then discovered, were ransacked and destroyed, and the streets contiguous to the noble buildings erected to the preservation of literature, were strewed with the leaves of the most precious and scarce writings on every subject of the classics and science. Well and truly has the great and illustrious Dr. Doyle, in his Letter to the Law-Bishop Elrington, stated, "that knowledge, the arts, good government, a sound morality, have advanced-not by the aid of the Reformation, but in despite of it; that the progress of Europe, in civilization and social happiness, has been retarded by that event, and that the leaven of it working, and still working, has been and is the remote or immediate cause of what is called the French Revolution, and all its consequences, including the infidelity which now embraces nearly all Protestant Germany. The Church might have been reformed in her morals and discipline, as had often been the case before, without a schism, and civil liberty would not only have grown up, but FLOURISHED with infinitely more security and quickness, had the scenes of the Reformation never been exhibited."-Yet has Fox, with the most brazen impudence and shameless impiety, erased from the calendar the greatest lights in the world of science, and the purest examples of virtue and morality, to substitute for the veneration of the duped and besotted admirers of the Reformation, so called, the very dregs of society, and the maddest enthusiasts the world ever saw, as saints and martyrs of a reformed church. CATHOLIC SUFFERERS, &c. UNDER PROTESTANT LAWS, IN THE MONTH OF MAY. 3. Henry Garnett, S. J. Priest. Henry Garnet was born in the year 1554, but the place of his birth is not correctly known. Some say he was born in Derbyshire, others at Nottingham. His first education was at the college of William of Wykeham in Winchester, from whence he was to have been sent to New College, Oxford, but disliking the Protestant religion, he chose rather to be reconciled to the Catholic church, and went abroad in pursuit of his studies.-At Rome he entered the society of Jesus, in 1571, and had the advantage of the best masters, such as Bellarmin, Suarez, Pererius, Clavius, &c. so that he became a great proficient in every branch of literature, both divine and human. In the year 1586, having long aspired after the English mission, he was sent with father Robert Southwell to labour in this vineyard of the Lord. Two years after his arrival in his native country, he was appointed supervisor of the English jesuits, in the room of father William Weston, who had fallen into the hands of the persecutors. From this time till the breaking out of the Gunpowder Plot, as it is called, father Garnet behaved himself in his post so as to gain the esteem and love of all those whom he had to deal with. During the time father Garnet was on the mission, the 5th of November Plot, or Gunpowder Treason, was made public, to the great consternation of the People, and distress of the Catholics, who were the objects of this infamous and treacherous conspiracy. Of this plot we shall offer some remarks hereafter, and proceed to lay before the reader the following account of father Garnet's apprehension, treatment, and execution from Dr. Challoner's Memoirs, an authority that must be ranked unimpeachable. Amongst those, writes the venerable annalist, who were engaged in this plot, was one Bates, a servant of Catesby: this man, in hopes of sav ing his own life, insinuated (probably at the instigation of a certain great man) that the Jesuits, and in particular father Greenway and father Garnet, had some knowledge of the conspiracy; of which unjust insinuation he afterwards repented himself. Upon this a proclamation was issued out, (two months after the discovery of the plot) for the apprehending of those two fathers, together with father Gerard, of whom also they had conceived some suspicion. Greenway and Gerard fled beyond the seas: father Garnet, who was then with father Oldcorne at Henlip, the seat of Mr. Abington, in Worcestershire, was soon after betrayed by Mr. Littleton, who, being then a prisoner for having harboured some of the conspirators, in hopes of saving his own life, discovered where the father was hid. Upon which, after many days search, both father Garnet and father Oldcorne were apprehended, with their servants, John Owen and Ralph Ashley, and were carried to Worcester, and from thence by an order of the council sent for up to London, and there committed first to the Gatehouse and then to the Tower. Father Garnet was examined no less than twenty-three different times, so intent were some people to bring him in, if possible, guilty of some share in the plot: yet with all these examinations no sufficient matter could be discovered to condemn him, nor any witnesses could be found to appear against him. At length Cecil, earl of Salisbury, who knew more of the whole affair, perhaps, than any man living, contrived to lodge father Oldcorne in a chamber adjoining to father Garnet, where they might, through a chink, converse together, and be over-heard by ; two men, whom he had placed in ambuscade for that purpose. This stratagem succeeded according to his wish. Father Garnet was privately informed by his keeper (under pretence of kindness) that father Oldcorne might be spoke with through that chink; and he gladly embraced that opportunity of making his confession, and conversing with his friend, little suspecting the snare that was laid for him: upon this occasion, being asked by father Oldcorne whether he was still examined about the plot? He answered, they have no proof that I ever had any knowledge at all of the matter; and there is but one man upon earth (meaning father Greenway) who can prove that I had. These words were heard by the two spies, and were immediately carried to the council. Upon this father Garnet was again examined and put upon the rack where, when the story was related to him, and what he had been heard to say, he acknowledged he had been told of the plot by F. Greenway, but it was under the inviolable seal of confession; and that he had both recommended to father Greenway, and had used himself his best endeavours to divert the design. Upon this his confession, as they called it, Sir Edward Coke, the attorney-general, was ordered to draw up an indictment of high treason against him; and he was brought to his trial at Guildhall, March the 28th, before the king's delegates; his majesty himself and many of the nobility being present. His enemies, to disgrace him, had published many falsehoods of him; and amongst the rest, that having been kept watching for six whole days and night (a new kind of torment!) he had lost his senses: but this and other calumnies were dissipated by his public appearance and comportment at his trial. The attorney-general held forth for several hours in his accusation, |