God’s Traitors: Terror & Faith in Elizabethan England (70 page)

18
   Gerard,
Autobiography
, p. 26.

19
   Caraman,
Garnet
, pp. 197–8.

20
   Southwell, ‘Two Letters’, ed. Brown, pp. xvi, xxxix–xl.

21
   Petti,
Letters and Despatches
, p. 68.

22
   Ibid.; Caraman,
Garnet
, pp. 162, 195, 198.

23
   Caraman,
Garnet
, p. 196; Southwell, ‘Two Letters’, pp. xlii–xliii.

24
   Devlin,
Southwell
, pp. 88, 235.

25
   Ibid., p. 314; Southwell, ‘Two Letters’, p. 7; Petti,
Letters and Despatches
, p. 79.

26
   Southwell, ‘Two Letters’, pp. 81, 83.

27
   Caraman,
Garnet
, p. 162; Gerard,
Autobiography
, p. 26.

28
   Devlin,
Southwell
, p. 179.

29
   Caraman,
Garnet
, p. 168. Also Caraman,
The Other Face
, p. 129.

30
   Caraman,
Garnet
, pp. 152–3, 163, 177.

31
   Pollen,
Unpublished Documents
, pp. 237, 257, 259; Bod MS Eng. Th. B. 1, p. 758; Caraman,
Garnet
, pp. 190–1.

32
   Morris,
Troubles
, I, p. 177; Anstruther,
Vaux
, pp. 193–4.

33
   Caraman,
Garnet
, p. 152.

34
   ABSI Collectanea P II, f. 550; Caraman,
Garnet
, p. 185.

35
   Alford,
The Watchers
, pp. 300–8. For Walpole’s alleged involvement with the Irish assassins, see Hogge,
God’s Secret Agents
, p. 240.

36
   ABSI Collectanea P II, f. 550; Caraman,
Garnet
, pp. 185–7; Gerard,
Autobiography
, p. 54.

37
   Gerard,
Autobiography
, p. 59.

38
   Ibid., p. 65.

39
   Caraman,
Garnet
, pp. 188–9.

40
   Gerard,
Autobiography
, pp. 68, 77; ABSI Collectanea P II, f. 550.

14
Hot Holy Ladies

1
     Lessius and Androtius,
The Treasure of Vowed Chastity
, sigs *2r–*6v; Walpole,
The Life of B. Father Ignatius
, sig. A2.

2
     Watson,
Decacordon
, pp. 17, 37, 39, 40.

3
     Christopher Bagshaw,
A Sparing Discoverie of Our English Jesuits
(1601), in Donnelly,
Jesuit Writings
, pp. 252, 254.

4
     Watson, ‘Preface’ to John Mush’s
A Dialogue betwixt a Secular Priest and a Lay Gentleman
, in Donnelly,
Jesuit Writings
, p. 256.

5
     McCoog, ‘Construing Martyrdom’, pp. 106–20; Watson, ‘Preface’, in Donnelly,
Jesuit Writings
, p. 255.

6
     Watson,
Decacordon
, p. 109; Persons, ‘Memoirs’, 2, pp. 37, 41; Caraman,
The Other Face
, p. 131.

7
     Caraman,
Garnet
, p. 207.

8
     Watson,
Decacordon
, pp. 37, 40, 44. Bagshaw,
Sparing Discoverie
, p. 252.

9
     Bruce, ‘Observations’, p. 74.

10
   BL Add. MS 39828, f. 260r; 39829, f. 11r.

11
   Finch,
Wealth
, App. VIII, lists nineteen principal lawsuits. It excludes subsidiary cases and, as the Tresham Papers reveal, is by no means exhaustive. See, for example, Tresham’s letter to his sister, Lady Vaux, of 22 February 1593 (BL Add. MS 39828, ff. 191–2), in which he complains of ‘restless vexation in the law’.

12
   BL Add. MS 39829, f. 11r.

13
   BL Add. MS 39828, ff. 269r–270r.

14
   Ibid., f. 269r.

15
   BL Add. MS 39829, f. 11v. Also: 39828, f. 278r. For the proclamation of 10 January 1581, see Strype,
Annals
, III, pt I, pp. 58–9.

16
   BL Add. MS 39829, f. 13.

17
   BL Add. MS 39828, f. 277r.

18
   Ibid., ff. 271–2.

19
   Brigden,
New Worlds, Lost Worlds
, p. 300.

20
   McGrath,
Papists and Puritans
, pp. 177
n
, 255–6.

21
   Lord Burghley, quoted by Alford,
Burghley
, p. 323.

22
   See, for example, Marsh,
Popular Religion
, p. 23.

23
   BL Add. MS 39828, f. 277r; PRO SP 12/287, f. 72r; Foley,
Records
, III, p. 502; Fitzalan-Howard,
Lives
, pp. 225–6.

24
   Morris,
Troubles
, I, pp. 177–8.

25
   ABSI Collectanea P II, f. 551.

26
   Gerard,
Autobiography
, pp. 156–7; Morris,
Troubles
, I, p. 178–80. For the possibility that Garnet kept a printing press at the house in Spitalfields, see Brown, ‘Paperchase’, pp. 132–40.

27
   ABSI Collectanea P II, f. 551.

28
   PRO SP 14/216/188–9.

29
   Caraman,
Garnet
, pp. 245–6.

30
   ABSI Collectanea P II, ff. 553v, 554v.

PART THREE: ELIZA

15
Brazen-faced Bravados

1
     Carvajal,
Epistolario
, no. 135. I am grateful to George McPherson for his translation from the Spanish.

2
     Gerard,
Autobiography
, pp. 148–9. According to a document in the Court of Wards (PRO WARD 3/18 part 2), Eliza was thirty-three in 1598.

3
     BL Add. MS 39829, f. 12v.

4
     BL Add. MS 39828, f. 169r.

5
     Ibid., ff. 187v, 270v; Gerard,
Autobiography
, p. 148.

6
     BL Add. MS 39828, ff. 169r, 270v; PRO C2/Eliz./U2/12 (Ambrose Vaux
contra
George Vaux, 6 November 1590);
Vaux Petitions
, Minutes, p. 203.

7
     BL Add. MS 39828, ff. 169r, 187v, 191r, 209r.

8
     PRO SP 12/233, f. 13.

9
     Vallance, ‘The Ropers and Their Monuments’, pp. 148, 151–6; J. G. Nicholas, ‘Sepulchral Memorials of the English Formerly at Bruges’,
The Topographer and Genealogist
, II (1853), p. 469.

10
   HMC Downshire, 6, no. 167, p. 71; CP, 114, ff. 84–5 (quotations at f. 84r).

11
   PRO SP 14/70, f. 54v.

12
   Poulton,
John Dowland
, pp. 433–4.

13
   BL Add. MS 39828, ff. 169, 176r; 39829, f. 10v.

14
   BL Add. MS 39828, f. 170r.

15
   PRO SP 12/233, ff. 13, 22.

16
   BL Add. MS 39828, f. 270v.

17
   BL Add. MS 39829, ff. 11v, 35v; PRO SP 12/233, f. 21.

18
   BL Add. MS 39829, f. 14r.

19
   Kaushik, ‘Resistance, Loyalty and Recusant Politics’, p. 49.

20
   BL Add. MS 39828, ff. 169r, 187v. Also Add. MS 39829, f. 203r (for another instance of Vaux borrowing on Tresham’s credit). For Tresham’s finances, see Finch,
Wealth
, ch. 4, and App. VI.

21
   BL Add. MS 39828, ff. 192r, 217r; 39829, f. 12r.

22
   BL Add. MS 39828, f. 131v (Lady Tresham’s expenditure), 39829, f. 31r (mysticism), 39830,
passim
for the library, f. 211 (books in closet); TP, pp. 43 (cards), 72 (Easter), 92 (servants reading).

23
   Finch,
Wealth
, pp. 76, 77, 80, 82, 91; TP, pp. 59–60 (supporting his servant Vavasour); BL Add. MS 39831, f. 72v (pears).

24
   BL Add. MS 39828, f. 8r. All eleven volumes of the Tresham Papers can be found in the Additional Manuscripts collection at the British Library: BL Add. MSS 39828–39838.

25
   BL Add. MS 39829, f. 192r.

26
   Ibid., f. 10v.

27
   PRO SP 12/192, f. 92r; 12/194, f. 95r; Kaushik, ‘Resistance, Loyalty and Recusant Politics’.

28
   PRO SP 14/14, ff. 93–4, 106, 108; TP, pp. 128–32; Kaushik, ‘Resistance, Loyalty and Recusant Politics’, pp. 61–2.

29
   N. R. Ker, ‘Oxford College Libraries in the Sixteenth Century’,
The Bodleian Library Record
, 6/3 (1959), pp. 511–15; Kilroy,
Edmund Campion
, pp 136–45; TP, pp. xix–xxi; xxiii–lvi; Kaushik, ‘Resistance, Loyalty and Recusant Politics’, pp. 47–8; Gotch’s
Complete Account
provides wonderfully detailed drawings of the buildings.

30
   BL Add. MS 39828, ff. 115r; 191–2, 271r; 39829, f. 105r.

31
   BL Add. MS 39829, ff. 10v, 14r.

32
   College of Arms Vinc. MS 7, ff. 230–2; NRO Clayton 95: Copy of Final Concord between Antony Naylhart and Ambrose Vaux, Trinity 31 Eliz.; Anstruther,
Vaux
, pp. 207–8; BL Add. MS 39828, ff. 169, 170r, 187v, 209r.

33
   PRO SP 12/233, ff. 21–2.

34
   BL Add. MS 39828, ff. 178v, 187v, 190r.

35
   Ibid., ff. 207r, 270v; 39829, f. 13r.

36
   
APC
, XXIII, pp. 192–3 (14 September, 1592); Trimble,
Catholic Laity
, p. 213. Lord Vaux appeared in all the Recusant Rolls from this year till his death: CRS 18, pp. 1, 148, 234–5; CRS 57, pp. 1, 9, 88, 113; CRS 61, pp. 1, 8, 44, 64–5, 129, 134, 178, 196–7.

37
   BL Add. MS 39828, f. 262r; Donne, Satyre II, line 10;
Vaux Petitions
, Minutes, p. 39; NRO Parish Register, Irthlingborough, 21 August 1595.

38
   
Vaux Petitions
, Minutes, pp. 39–41; BL Lans. MS 991, f. 164r; Anstruther,
Vaux
, p. 232.