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.
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