God’s Traitors: Terror & Faith in Elizabethan England (67 page)

20
   TP, pp. 37–43.

21
   Alford,
Burghley
, p. 199. See too Kaushik, ‘Resistance, Loyalty and Recusant Politics’, pp. 57–9.

22
   
Markham Memorials
, I, pp. 103–4.

23
   Hicks,
Letters and Memorials
, pp. 334–7.

24
   PRO SP 12/183, f. 218v.

25
   PRO SP 12/178, ff. 88–90, 170r.

26
   Persons, ‘Life and Martyrdom’, 12, pp. 29–30.

6
Flibbertigibbets

1
     
The History of King Lear
(The Quarto Text, 1608), Scene 15.

2
     
DEP
, pp. 211–12, 295–6.

3
     
Vaux Petitions
, Minutes, p. 203; BL Add. MS 39829, f. 12v.

4
     
DEP
, pp. 400, 408.

5
     Bod MS Eng. Th. B. 1, Lib. 25: ‘Of Exorcisms’, pp. 485–91. The ‘true witness’ of Sara’s exorcism may have been the priest and future government informant, Anthony Tyrrell (
DEP
, p. 394).

          The ‘Brudenell manuscript’ is discussed by Kilroy in
Edmund Campion
,
passim
, but esp. at pp. 5, 13–15. Kilroy suggests that that author, ‘Thomas Jollet’, was Sir Thomas Tresham, but it may not be a pseudonym: a certain Thomas Jollett/Jellett/Jallet of Edmonton and Shoreditch was cited for recusancy several times in the reign of James I (Jeaffreson,
Middlesex County Records
, II, pp. 115, 131, 134, 144, 211–12).

6
     Weston,
Autobiography
, p. 24.

7
     Walsham, ‘Miracles’, p. 801.

8
     
DEP
, pp. 350, 375.

9
     Ibid., p. 390; Weston,
Autobiography
, p. 25. Also, Holmes, ‘Witchcraft and Possession’, pp. 71–3.

10
   The book was dedicated to ‘the seduced Catholics of England’. Quotations are from the edition by Brownlow [
DEP
].

11
   
DEP
, p. 318. Holmes, ‘Witchcraft and Possession’.

12
   Brownlow,
Shakespeare, Harsnett, and the Devils of Denham
, pp. 76–83.

13
   Holmes, ‘Witchcraft and Possession’, p. 70.

14
   
DEP
, p. 350.

15
   Ibid., pp. 297, 266, 312–13, 350.

16
   Crawford, ‘Attitudes to Menstruation’, p. 49.

17
   
DEP
, pp. 224–5, 352.

18
   Ibid., p. 357.

19
   Brownlow,
Shakespeare, Harsnett, and the Devils of Denham
, pp. 23, 88.

20
   Weston,
Autobiography
, pp. 26–7; also p. 30
n
.

21
   Bod MS Eng. Th. B. 1, p. 491.

22
   
DEP
, pp. 357–9.

23
   Bod MS Eng. Th. B. 1, p. 485; BL Add. MS 39828, ff. 203r, 239r; PRO PROB 11/88/344 & 11/92/52; NRO YZ 8240. John Cheney was also Sir Thomas Tresham’s solicitor (BL Add. MS 39829, f. 21r). Pollen, ‘Official Lists’, p. 269; Bowler and McCann,
Recusants in the Exchequer Pipe Rolls
, p. 36; Bridges,
History and Antiquities
, II, p. 152; Jeaffreson,
Middlesex County Records
, I, p. 163.

24
   
DEP
, pp. 311, 357.

25
   Ibid., pp. 208, 211, 391, 405.

26
   Jeaffreson,
Middlesex County Records
, I, p. 160. The other surety was ‘Henry Marshe of London, letherseller’, who appears to have been a moneylender operating by St Paul’s Cathedral (ibid., p. 267).

27
   PRO SP 12/179, f. 1r.

28
   Weston,
Autobiography
, p. 99.

29
   PRO SP 53/19, no. 28.

7
Atheistical Anthony Babington’s Complotment

1
     
DEP
, p. 208.

2
     Pollen,
Babington Plot
, pp. 18–22, 52–3. This is an invaluable resource. Two excellent recent accounts of the plot are by John Guy (
My Heart is My Own
, ch. 29) and Stephen Alford (
The Watchers
, chs 13–15). Also very useful are: Fraser,
Mary Queen of Scots
, ch. 24; Bossy,
Under the Molehill
, pp. 140–1; and the
ODNB
entries for Anthony Babington (by Penry Williams), Gilbert Gifford (by Alison Plowden) and Thomas Phelippes (by William Richardson).

3
     Weston,
Autobiography
, p. 101.

4
     Pollen,
Babington Plot
, pp. 38–46.

5
     PRO SP 53/20, no. 26.

6
     Camden,
Annales
, p. 142; Read,
Bardon Papers
, pp. 45, 47.

7
     Weston,
Autobiography
, p. 87n.

8
     BL Harl MS 360, f. 8; PRO SP 12/203, f. 100r; SP 53/19, no. 28.

9
     PRO SP 12/179, f. 3r; Pollen,
Babington Plot
, pp. 58, 92, 108; Pollen, ‘Official Lists’, p. 269; BL Add. MS 39828, f. 170v.

10
   PRO E 133/10/1656. Almost a decade later, Sir Thomas Tresham recalled that ‘one Babington which was executed, or some other to his use, bought lands of the said Lord Harrowden & his sons, as he taketh it, which lands lie in Lincolnshire or Nottinghamshire as he remembreth’ (PRO WARD 3/17 part 2).

11
   BL Harl MS 360, ff. 8r, 12r; PRO SP 53/19, no. 28.

12
   PRO SP 12/193 f. 119r. Five years later, one Robert Weston, the son of ‘a notable recusant dwelling in Clerkenwell’, was apprehended with letters on his person from his father to John Palmer and ‘Francis Babington, brother to Anthony Babington the traitor’ (PRO SP 12/238, f. 185r).

13
   Howell,
State Trials
, I, cols 1135, 1150; BL Harl. MS 286, f. 52v; PRO SP 12/178, f. 170r.

14
   
DEP
, p. 391; P. Holmes, ‘Tyrrell, Anthony’,
ODNB
.

15
   
DEP
, p. 362 and Brownlow’s commentary in this edition, pp. 30–4.

16
   Weston,
Autobiography
, p. 88.

17
   
DEP
, p. 350; Pollen, ‘Official Lists’, pp. 258, 280.

18
   PRO SP 12/191, f.101r.

19
   
CSP Spanish
III, p. 605.

20
   Pollen,
Babington Plot
, p. 108.

21
   BL Add. MS 39829, f. 105r.

22
   
CSP Spanish
III, p. 607.

23
   Miola,
Early Modern Catholicism
, pp. 180–1.

8
Lambs to the Slaughter

1
     Devlin,
Southwell
, p. 107. See too Caraman,
Garnet
, ch. 3.

2
     Caraman,
Garnet
, p. 244; ABSI Collectanea P II, f. 551.

3
     Bod MS Eng. Th. B. 1, p. 758; N. P. Brown, ‘Southwell, Robert’,
ODNB
.

4
     T. M. McCoog, ‘Garnett, Henry’,
ODNB
.

5
     Caraman,
Garnet
, p. 20.

6
     Devlin,
Southwell
, p. 99.

7
     Ibid., pp. 107–8; Caraman,
Garnet
, p. 28.

8
     PRO SP 12/178, f. 88r.

9
     Weston,
Autobiography
, pp, 69, 75
n
.

10
   Devlin,
Southwell
, p. 109.

11
   Ibid., p. 116; More,
Historia
, p. 235; Bartoli,
Dell’ Istoria
, p. 374.

12
   Devlin,
Southwell
, p. 109.

13
   Southwell,
Humble Supplication
, p. 22.

14
   Weston,
Autobiography
, p. 31.

15
   Pollen,
Unpublished Documents
, pp. 308, 309, 313, 314; Devlin,
Southwell
, pp. 117, 122.

16
   Morris,
Troubles
, II, pp. 428–9. There is no record of a priest called (or having the alias) Sale. It has plausibly been suggested that it was a mishearing of the elided form of Southwell (pronounced Suthall). See Devlin,
Southwell
, p. 123; N. P. Brown, ‘Southwell, Robert’,
ODNB
.

17
   Pollen,
Unpublished Documents
, p. 313.

18
   PRO SP 53/20, no. 26; SP 12/192, f. 92r. For Henry Davies, see: PRO SP 12/194, f. 95r; SP 12/202, f. 2r.

19
   Morris,
Troubles
, II, pp. 428–9.

20
   PRO SP 53/20, no. 26.

21
   
APC
, XV, p. 89.

22
   LRO Parish Register, Ashby Magna, 19 November 1587.

23
   Persons, ‘Life and Martyrdom’, 12, p. 30; Gerard,
Autobiography
, p. 195; Caraman,
Garnet
, pp. 44, 209.

24
   Anstruther,
Vaux
, p. 100; BL Add. MS 39829, f. 12v; Caraman,
Garnet
, p. 209; Persons, ‘Life and Martyrdom’, 12, pp. 29–30. Catilyn’s report can be found at PRO SP 53/20, no. 26. Elsewhere, he describes Clerkenwell as ‘a very college of wicked papists’ (PRO SP 12/194, f. 95r).

25
   Gerard,
Autobiography
, p. 195; BL Add. MS 39828, f. 275r. Henry’s verses are bound up with Robert Southwell’s in a seventeenth-century manuscript volume in the Folger Shakespeare Library, Washington, DC: MS Bd.w. STC 22957, ff. 69r–88v (quotation at f. 88r). They are also accessible online courtesy of Timothy Hacksley’s MA thesis, ‘A Critical Edition of the Poems of Henry Vaux’. Full details in the bibliography. I am most grateful to Timothy Hacksley for kindly permitting me to cite his thesis.