God's Traitors Terror and Faith in Elizabethan England by Jessie Childs

Author:Jessie Childs [Jessie Childs]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781473511644
Publisher: Random House
Published: 2014-03-06T00:00:00+00:00

fn1 Watson and the appellants did not represent the views of all the secular priests in England, of whom, in the 1580s and 1590s, there were between 120 and 150 in any given year. The Jesuits, by contrast, only ever comprised a handful, but they made a lot of noise and put a great deal on record. This can lead to a magnification of their role in the wider mission. For the Vauxes, however, their influence was immense. (McGrath and Rowe, ‘Harbourers and Helpers’, p. 209)

fn2 In October 1602 a papal brief ratified Blackwell’s appointment and removed the clause regarding consultation with the Jesuit superior. The appellants were exonerated from charges of schism.

fn3 course: literally, to pursue with hounds. It is not clear whether Eleanor meant that her uncle should chase Tresham in the courts or give him a beating.

fn4 Anne Howard, Countess of Arundel (the ‘Lady A.’ disparaged by William Watson in 1602) was a great patroness of the Society of Jesus in England. Southwell wrote his Short Rule of Good Life for her and she harboured him, and the Jesuit printing press, at one of her houses in London for several years. According to her biographer (and chaplain for the last fourteen years of her life), she had only meant for Southwell to be an occasional visitor, but he had assumed a more permanent arrangement and she had been too polite to put him straight. Her husband, Philip Howard, Earl of Arundel, who died a few months after Southwell in 1595, had prayed in prison for the success of the Spanish Armada. The Countess’s biographer wrote admiringly of her charitable works, relating one instance when she walked three miles from Acton to assist a poor woman giving birth ‘in the common open cage of Hammersmith’. (Fitzalan-Howard, Lives, pp. 308–9)

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