83.
Footnote 136: Ibid., ii. 129.
Footnote 137: Ibid., ii. 114.
Footnote 138: Hatfield MSS. (Calendar), ii. 129.
Footnote 139: Ibid., p. 131.
Footnote 140: Ibid., p. 144.
Footnote 141: See "Sir Henry Sidney to his son Robert," 28th Oct. 1578,
in Collin's Sidney Papers, i. 271.
Footnote 142: In A Method for Travell, c. 1598, Fol. C.
Footnote 143: John Stowe, Annales, ed. 1641, p. 868.
Footnote 144: Ibid.
Footnote 145: Gabriel Harvey, Letter-Book, Camden Society, New Series,
No. xxxiii. p. 97.
Footnote 146: Stowe, Annales, ed. 1641, p. 867.
Footnote 147: Ibid., p. 869.
Footnote 148: Harrison's Description of England, ed. Withington, p.
111.
Footnote 149: T. Birch, Court and Times of James I., i. 191.
Footnote 150: E. Lodge's Illustrations of British History, ii. 228.
Footnote 151: Harleian Miscellany, vol. v. pp. 400-401.
Footnote 152: Leland, J., De Scriptoribus Britannicis, vol. i. 482.
Footnote 153: Calendar of State Papers, Foreign, 1562, Nos. 1069 and
1230.
Footnote 154: E. Nares, Memoir of Lord Burghley, vol. iii. p. 513.
Footnote 155: Lambeth MSS., No. 647, fol. iii. Printed in Spedding's
Letters and Life of Bacon, vol. i. p. 110.
Footnote 156: Calendar of State Papers, Domestic, 1603-1610, p. 634.
Footnote 157: Quoted in Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton, ed. by
L. Pearsall Smith, vol. ii. p. 462.
Footnote 158: Fuller, The Church-History of Britain, ed. 1655, book x.
p. 48. The alleged reason for Mole's imprisonment, Fuller says, was that
he had translated Du Plessis Mornay, "his book on the Visibility of the
Church, out of French into English; but besides, there were other
contrivances therein, not so fit for a public relation" (supra, p.
49).
Footnote 159: Fourth Baron Wentworth of Nettlestead and first Earl of
Cleveland, 1591-1667, who became a Royalist general in the Civil War. At
the time of Wotton's letter (1609) he was completing his education
abroad after residence at Oxford. See Dictionary of National
Biography, which does not, however, mention his foreign tour.
Footnote 160: He was at once "reconciled" to the Church of Rome, entered
the Society of the Jesuits, and "died a most holy death," in 1626, while
filling the office of Confessor of the English College at Rome. H.
Foley, Records of Society of Jesus, vi. p. 257, cited in Life and
Letters of Sir Henry Wotton, i. p. 457, note.
Footnote 161: Second Lord Harington of Exton, 1592-1614; the favourite
friend and companion of Henry, Prince of Wales. A rare and godly young
man. For an account of him, and for his letters from abroad, in French
and Latin, to Prince Henry, see T. Birch's Life of Prince Henry.
Footnote 162: "One Tovy, an 'aged man,' late master of the free school,
Guildford." Dictionary of National Biography, article on Sir John
Harington, supra.
Footnote 163: Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton, i. 456-7.
Footnote 164: S.R. Gardiner, History of England, iii. 191.
Footnote 165: H. Foley, Records of the English Province of the Society
of Jesus, London, 1882, Series ii. p. 253.
Footnote 166: Ibid.
Footnote 167: Foley, op. cit., p. 256. The facts are confirmed by the
report of the English Ambassador at Valladolid, 17th July 1605, O.S.,
printed in the Winwood Memorials, vol. ii. p. 95.
Footnote 168: Fynes Moryson, Itinerary, ed. 1907, vol. iii. pp. 390-1.
Footnote 169: Such as Dr Thomas Case of St John's in Oxford, whom Fuller
reports as "always a Romanist in his heart, but never expressing the
same till his mortal sickness seized upon him" (Church History, book
ix. p. 235).
Footnote 170: Gardiner, History of England, vol. v. pp. 102-3. The
same wavering between two Churches in the time of James I. is
exemplified by "Edward Buggs, Esq., living in London, aged seventy, and
a professed Protestant." He "was in his sicknesse seduced to the Romish
Religion." Recovering, a dispute was held at his request between two
Jesuits and two Protestant Divines, on the subject of the Visibility of
the Church. "This conference did so satisfie Master Buggs, that
renouncing his former wavering, he was confirmed in the Protestant
truth" (Fuller, Church History, x. 102).
Footnote 171: Winwood Memorials, vol. ii. 109.
Footnote 172: The Earl of Nottingham, Ambassador Extraordinary in 1605.
Footnote 173: Winwood Memorials, vol. ii. 76.
Footnote 174: Winwood Memorials, vol. ii. 109.
Footnote 175: Fynes Moryson, Itinerary, vol. i. p. 260.
Footnote 176: Such was the case of Tobie Matthew, son of the Archbishop
of York, converted during his travels in Italy. This witty and frivolous
courtier came home and faced the uproar of his friends, spent a whole
plague-stricken summer in Fleet arguing with the Bishops sent to reclaim
him, and then was banished. After ten years he reappeared at Court, as
amusing as ever, the protege of the Duke of Buckingham. But under the
mask of frippery he worked unsleepingly to advance the Church of Rome,
for he had secretly taken orders as a Jesuit Priest. See Life of Sir
Tobie Matthew, by A.H. Mathew, London, 1907.
Footnote 177: Davison's Poetical Rhapsody, ed. Nicolas, 1826, vol. i.
p. vi.
Footnote 178: Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton, vol. ii. 482.
Footnote 179: Quo Vadis, A Just Censure of Travel, in Works, Oxford,
vol. ix. p. 560.
Footnote 180: Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton, vol. i. 70, note.
Footnote 181: A Method for Travell shewed by taking the view of France,
As it stoode in the yeare of our Lord, 1598.
Footnote 182: Wood records such a state of mind in John Nicolls, who, in
1577 left England, made a recantation of his heresy, and was "received
into the holy Catholic Church." Returning to England he recanted his
Roman Catholic opinions, and even wrote "His Pilgrimage, wherein is
displayed the lives of the proud Popes, ambitious Cardinals, leacherous
Bishops, fat bellied Monks, and hypocritical Jesuits" (1581).
Notwithstanding which, he went beyond the seas again (to turn Mohometan,
his enemies said), and under threats and imprisonment at Rouen, recanted
all that he had formerly uttered against the Romanists.
