John Hog, pr. Durham......139 Į
Richard Holiday, pr...do.........ib. George Errington, gent. York 191
William Knight, yeoman, do...ib.
William Gibson. yeoman, do...ib,
Henry Abbot, yeoman...do...ib.

Robert Southwell, pr. S. J. Ty-

burn

...175

Alex. Rawlins, pr. York......181

Henry Walpole, pr. S.J. do.....182

James Atkinson, layman..............183 {

William Freeman, pr. Warwick 190

As the names and number of other catholics, as well of the clergy
as of the laity, who, under this same reign, were either deprived of
their livings, or suffered loss of their estates, imprisonments, banish-
ments, &c. for their religion; it is impossible to set them all down.
Dr. Bridgewater, in a table published at the end of Concertatio Eccle-
sia Catholica, gives us the names of about twelve hundred, who had
suffered in this manner, before the year 1588; that is, before the
greatest heat of the persecution; and yet declares, that he is far
from pretending to have named all, but only such whose sufferings had
come to his knowledge. In this list there are three archbishops (taking
in two of Ireland); bishops consecrated, or elected, eighteen; one
abbot; four whole convents of religious; thirteen deans; fourteen
archdeacons ; sixty prebendaries; five hundred and thirty priests;
forty-nine doctors of divinity; eighteen doctors of the law; and fif
teen masters of colleges; one queen; eight earls; ten lords; twenty
six knights; three hundred and twenty-six gentlemen; and about
sixty ladies and gentlewomen. Many of these died in prison; and
several under the sentence of death,

We shall here add, by way of conclusion of this first part, the
names of those (who were not executed) whose sufferings for religion.
are briefly touched on in our memoirs.

Ailworth, an Irish gentleman, perishes in prison,

Arundel, Sir John, is cast into prison.

Arundel, Philip, Earl of, died in prison under sentence of death.
Barnet, Mr. is condemned to die.

Bennet, John, priest, is imprisoned and tortured, and at last sent into
banishment.

Bishop, William, priest, is imprisoned, and afterwards banished.
Bosgrave, James, priest, S. J. is sentenced to death, afterwards
banished.

Canfield, Bennet, capuchin, imprisoned, afterwards banished."
Catholics, prisoners in York castle, dragged to protestant sermons.
Chaplain, William, priest, dies in prison.

Clifton, Thomas, priest, is condemned to perpetual imprisonment,
Cooper, John, perishes through cruel treatment in the Tower.
Colins, John, bookseller, condemned to die.

Cornish gentlemen cast into a premunire.

Cotesmore, Thomas, priest, perishes in prison.

Crowther, Thomas, priest, dies in prison,

Dymock, esq. champion of England, perishes in prison.

Feckenham, abbot of Westminster, dies in prison.

Fenn, Robert, priest, suffers prisons, racks, & banishment for his faith,

Harrison, John, priest, dies in prison.

Hart, John, priest, is condemned with father Campion, is cruelly used

in prison, and afterwards banished.

Hatton, Richard, priest, is condemned to perpetual imprisonment.

Holmes, Robert, priest, perishes in prison.

Hunt, Eleanore, is sentenced to die for harbouring a priest.

Jenks, Roland, is condemned to lose his ears.

Jetter, John, priest, dies in prison.

Lancashire gentlemen imprisoned for religion,
Lomax, James, priest, perishes in prison.
Maskew, Bridget, is condemned to be burnt.
Mettham, Thomas, priest, S. J. dies in prison.

Northumberland, Henry Piercy, earl, is murdered in the Tower.
Norton, Mrs. is sentenced to death for relieving a priest.

Orton, Mr. is condemned with father Campion, afterwards banished
Pounds, Thomas, esq. a great sufferer for catholic religion.
Pole, Edward, priest, dies in prison.

Priests, seventy, banished in 1585.

more banished in 1603.

thirty committed prisoners to Wisbich castle.

Pugh, John, is condemned to die for his religion.

Pugh, Henry, gent. is cruelly tortured.

Rishton, Edward, priest, is condemned with father Campion.

Shelley, esq. dies in the Marshalsea.

Sherton, Martin, priest, dies in prison.

Steile, James, priest, is banished and cruelly treated.

Tesse, Ann, is condemned to be burnt, for persuading a minister to

become a catholic.

Thimbleby, Gabriel, gent. dies in prison.

Tregian, Thomas, esq. is stripped of a plentiful estate, and condemned

to perpetual imprisonment.

Thyrwhite, William, esq. is hurried to prison under a violent fever,
and dies in two days.

Typper, Mark, gent. is whipped through the city of London, and has
his ears bored through with a hot iron.

Vaux, Lawrence, warden of Manchester, dies in prison.

Wakeman, Roger, priest, perishes in prison.

Watson, Christopher, with twenty other catholics, perishes in York jail.
Watson, Richard, priest, is cruelly treated in bridewell.
escapes by the help of Mrs. Margaret Ward.

Wells, Mrs. dies under sentence of death in prison.

Williamson, Thomas, priest, is condemned to prison for life.

Wiseman, Mrs. is condemned to die.

Yates, Edward, esq. with six other catholic gentlemen, is taken with

father Campion and cast into prison.

Introduction.

QUEEN Mary being dead, her sister Elizabeth was immediately proclaimed queen, November 17, 1558. This princess, who had before professed herself a catholic, now took off the mask, and, by degrees, brought about a total change of the religion of the kingdom. In order to this, great industry was used to have a parliament returned that might come into the queen's measures; and she succeeded so far, that the pretended reformation was by law established, though not without great opposition, in both houses; and in the house of commons, only by the plurality of six voices, notwithstanding the queen was present to encourage her party. See Howes upon Stow, in his preface to queen Elizabeth.

As for the clergy, all the bishops then sitting opposed the change: and the whole convocation, which met at the same time with this queen's first parliament, declared against it, and drew up five memorable articles, touching the real presence; transubstantiation; the sacrifice of the mass for the living and the dead; the supremacy of St. Peter, and his successors; and the authority of the pastors of the church exclusive of the laity, in matters relating to faith and church discipline. Which articles they addressed to the bishops, to be by them laid before the lords in parliament: and both the universities sent a writing at the same time, declaring their concurrence in the same doctrine, so that the new religion was settled by this parliament, not only without the concurrence of the clergy, but, indeed, in opposition to the whole body of the clergy of the nation. See Fuller, 1. 6. &c. and Dr. Heylin's Hist. Reform. p. 285. 286.

Religion being thus changed, and the common prayer established instead of the mass, the bishops, and as many of the clergy as could not be brought to acknowledge the queen's church headship, and receive the new liturgy, were deprived of their livings, and either cast into prison, or forced into banishment. Kitchin of Landaff was the only one among the prelates who complied; who having changed with every turn, was resolved now to be no changling so that, what with the deprivation of great numbers of the catholic clergy, and the death of a great many more, carried off not long before by an epidemical distemper, the queen was put upon the necessity of having her new church supplied with an ignorant and illiterate clergy, as Dr. Heylin complains, whose learning went no further than the liturgy, or book of homilies.

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The removal and imprisonment of the catholic clergy, joined to the precautions that were taken to exclude catholics from the universities,

and from all means of qualifying themselves by learning, for the functions of the priesthood, would, in a short time, have left this nation quite destitute of pastors to administer the sacraments to such as still adhered to the old religion; the old priests daily dying off, and no new ones coming to succeed in their places; had not the divine wisdom prevented so great an evil, by inspiring Dr. William Allen (afterwards cardinal) to institute seminaries abroad for training up English scholars in virtue and learning, to be in proper time made priests, and to return into their native country, there to labour in the vineyard of their Lord. This learned and pious divine, at that time regius professor of divinity in the university of Douay, instituted, by the authority of that holy pope St. Pius V. a seminary in Douay in 1568, which was not only the first of the English nation, and the parent of all the rest, but also the first, as it is believed, in the whole Christian world, instituted according to the model of the council of Trent. Sess. 23. cap. 10. This seminary or college counts amongst her alumni, or such as have been some time her members, one cardinal, one archbishop, twelve bishops, two other bishops elect, three archpriests with episcopal faculties, eighty doctors of divinity, seventy writers; many of the most eminent men of divers religious orders; and what is most glorious of all, above one hundred and fifty martyrs, besides innumerable others who have either died in prison for their faith, or, at least, have suffered imprisonments, banishments, &c. for the same. The first amongst the sons of this seminary that were presented to the holy order of priesthood, were Richard Bristow, afterwards D. D. Gregory Martin, chief author of the translation of the Rhemes testament, Thomas Ford and Thomas Robinson; they were ordained at Brussels in 1573. But none were sent upon the mission till 1574, when Lewis Barlow, Henry Shaw, Thomas Metham, and Martin Nelson, were sent, with apostolic faculties, into the vineyard of their Lord.

The great success which followed these beginnings, engaged pope Gregory XIII., the successor of Pius V. not only to settle a yearly pension upon the seminary of Douay, but also to found another seminary in Rome, in the ancient hospital of the English nation. To this purpose Mr. Allen, by orders of his holiness, sent to Rome, in 1576, William Holt, priest, John Atkins, deacon, Ralph Standish, clerk, Thomas Bell, John Mush, and William Low: he also sent Mr. Gregory Martin to help to model this new colony. These were followed, in 1577, by Martin Aray, Ralph Sherwin, Edward Rishton and Leonard Hide, all priests; William Harrison, deacon, and Arthur Pitts: and in the beginning of 1578, by Richard Haydock and George Birket, priests; Thomas Burscough, Edward Gratley, Christopher Owen, and Cæsar Clement, students. In the mean time the tumults of the Low Countries in this year, 1578, obliged the seminary to remove from Douay to Rhemes, in France, after it had sent fifty-two priests into the mission : and from Rhemes it sent twelve more that same year, and twenty others in the following year, 1579.

The first missioner from Rome was John Atkins above-mentioned, who was sent in 1579, and was followed that same year by Jonas Meredith, Richard Haydock, Martin Aray, and Leonard Hide, all made