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6th. Mr. Robert Brathwet, a man distinguished by piety and prudence , and an enemy of strange doctrine. The President of the Pontifical College of Douay knows him well , as he is his relative . He taught philosophy in the same College , and for several years acted as Procurator. He was born of parents of good standing, and is about forty-four years old. He lives in Lancashire in the
house of his sister. 7th. Mr. James Heaselwood , licentiate of theology, is a contemporary and fellow-student of the President of the English College at Douay. He detests the strange doctrines of White, and execrates them worse than a dog. He is descended from a family of good standing, and for the space of many years lived with the illustrious Viscount Stafford, to whose wife he was confessor. He is a learned man of exemplary life. He is sixty-eight years old , and still vigorous. 8th. Mr. LawrenceJones , a man of good dispositionand learned, very hostile to strange doctrines. He was born of well-born but poor parents. He is about fifty years old and lives in London. Mr. John Younge, is a devout, good , and prudent priest, who was always averse to the pernicious doctrines of White, and disapproved of the favourite objects of the Capitulars. He was born of parents of good position. He is about sixty years old, but feeble
in body. He lives at Branton, in the county of York. Many priests of this sort, devout, good , and possessed of sufficient learning, might here enumerate ; but I am aiming at brevity, and their enumerationwould lead to a longer explanation than could be set out in brief.
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On the last page of the Diary there is a note , written seventy years later, which runs as follows : In the year 1725, May 8th. , Robert Witham , President of this College , certify that cannot yet find any journal or history of events relating to this College from the year 1654 to the year 1676 that is, for the twenty-two years during which there presided over this College Mr. George Layburne (till the year 1670) , and then his successor, Mr. John Leyburne, nephew of the previous President. But though lately discovered I in the Procurator's room some letters and at some time a catalogue of masters and others in the College, hitherto have not found any list of the priests who were sent into England by both these Presidents , or of the alumni who took the oath under Mr. George Leyburn . Nevertheless , it has seemed well to note down here some things which we have been able to discover from the year 1654, in which the Diary, under the aforesaid President, ceases . In the year 1654, or at least in 1655 . And there the entry ceases, no particulars being given , except a hastily-scrawled list of professors of theology , philosophy , and rhetoric.. This is scribbled rather than written on a sheet of paper affixed to the Diary by a wafer.
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