The Year 1603

In the beginning of this year one bishop of Ireland, four fathers of the Society of Jesus, sixteen other priests, and four Catholic lay-men, prisoners in Framlingham Castle, were transported into perpetual banishment. The names of the four Jesuits were, Christopher Holiwood, Roger Floyd, Edward Coffin, and Ralph Brickley. The sixteen priests of the secular clergy were Lewis Barlow, the first missioner from the Seminaries, Edward Hughes, Christopher Driland, Leonard Hide, Robert Woodraff, William Chaddock, Thomas Haber ley, William Clarjenet, Francis Robinson, Thomas Thursley (these ten went to Doway to visit their old mother-house, and made some stay¹

WILLIAM RICHARDSON there), Thomas Bramston, John Bolton ^ N. Tillotson, John Gray, Robert Barns^ and N. K7iight.

This same year also were banished, Father William Weston ^ S.J., after many years’ imprisonment; Father John Roberts, O.S.B., Father Andrew Bayly, O.S.D., Father Bennet Canfield, O.Cap., Mr. Anthony Wright, and Mr. James West, priests.

WILLIAM RICHARDSON, alias ANDERSON,

Priest.

This gentleman was the last that suffered death, on account of his priestly character, in this reign. Of whom thus writes the Protestant historian Howes upon Stow: — ‘ William Anderson, a Seminary priest, was drawn to Tyburn upon the 17th of February, and there hanged, bowelled, and quartered for being found in England, contrary to the statute of the 27th of Elizabeth.'' He was born at Vales, in Yorkshire; had his education abroad, first in Doway College, during its residence at Rhemes, from whence he was sent into Spain in 1592, and then in the Colleges of Valladolid and Seville, in the latter of which he was made priest. Other particulars of his apprehension, trial, and death I have not found.

Five weeks after Mr. Richardson's death, the Queen herself was called to the bar, to take her trial before the Great Judge. She died on the 24th of March, after having reigned forty- four years, four months, and seven days.

MEMOIRS

MISSIONARY PRIESTS

Footnotes

1. Sponsionem professus qua se nuper Societati Jesu devoverat. (Moms, Historia Societ. Provincice Anglicajice.) Se Societatis Jesu novitium palam professus. Historia Mar tyrum Societatis. Prague, 1675.) ↩