Extract from a ‘Catalogue of certain English Catholics’, 1598 (SP 12/269/69, f.97r)
This extract gives a sense of some of the information that was collected by the state towards the end of Elizabeth’s reign on Catholic exiles living abroad. Although most entries are just names, some individuals were described and notes were taken if they had passed on ‘intelligence’ (i.e. information) to foreign princes and/or received pensions from them.
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1598 A Catalogue of certain English Catholics
[f.97r]
In Flanders
Att Dowaye [Jesuit seminary in Douai]
Doctor Worthington president of the College
Doctor Webb which put up the bull against her Majesty
Doctor Harison a shrewd fellow, a writer
Comers the Jesuit
Lowe the steward who hath a son in London which gives him intelligence [from?] a [unclear] schoolmaster
Hanson an ancient grave gentleman
Mistress Saoler & her two daughters
Doctor White, a civilian, wife & many[?] children
Divers artisans of sundry trades
Priests in the cell
Willis the [most] honest man of them all and best affectionate to his country He was a minister in England sometimes
Tirrell}
Norton} Young priests gentlemen
Younger a Yorkshire man well on in years
Reynolds sometime a minister a simple man
Students in Divinity
Knott
Hasell Thursebye
Gervas Pentraye
Tottye Blinkinsipe
Hikeman
Brownbrick
Students in philosophy
Triuer Norton
Brotherlome Lowe the steward’s son
Students in logic
Greene Perkinson
Redman Twist his father is of
Philips the Queen’s stable he fled from the court Ostende & gave intelligence to the archduke who reared him.
Students in Retoric [& poetry?]
Webb Timothie
Change James
Grigory Francis Gregorye
Greene Kenington
Guillames
Grammarians
Genninges Thursbye
Norton Ingham
Burrell Hugh Thomas
Stokeman
At Brussels
William Stanley & six English servants
Hugh Owen & 2 English servants
Capten Flaide}
Capten Thomas}
Capten Dyar}
Capten Fennel} all these save the 2 last
Capten Zouch} have pensions
Capten Smith} 60 crowns a month of
Capten Eliot} of the king of Spain
Capten Gervas}
Lieutenat Chambers} ….