No. XIII .
EXTRACT FROM A LETTER OF SIR ROBERT CROSSE TO SIR ROBERT CECIL OF FEB. 11 , 160 , IN THE
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SOME time back an enquiry was made as to the personality of the wife of Sir Robert Crosse, who changed maritime for marital buccaneering, thinking to have lived in Pease with my selfe & the world The question of her name and sufferings must interest us, and requested and
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J. S. H. Seeing there would be no ymployment for me after the decese of our latte Soffren Quine Elizabeth, thought it my beste course to betake me to a wyffe wch then did thinking to have lived in Pease with my selfe & the world, but now I heir say, that the pore Fortune had wythe her, the 2 partes tharof wylbe taking from me because she is a recusant , have done my indevore to alter her from it, & have found that grasse with the lord of * Crutelbury to cum to my house & Sir Cris toffer Perkes twice, with Sir Edwd Hobbie, & sithes Crismasse a devyne of the lo : Crutleberries , but all this, neither can yt alter her inward
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No. XIV .
CERTIFICATE OF SUBSCRIBING THE OATH IN 1813 BY THE REV MARK ALOYSIUS TIERNEY (Canon later), . THE CATHOLIC HISTORIAN
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from the original MS., lent by Bro. Vincent Hayles , of the Oratory. (Memoir in Gillow's Bibl. Dict. , V, 545.) J. S. H. Herts [in margin These are to certify That at the General Quarter Sessions of the Peace holden by adjournment in and for the County of Hertford on Saturday the 28thday of November last , Mark Tierney of Old Hall Green in the Parish of Standon in the said County professing the Roman Catholic Religion took made and subscribed the declaration and oath mentioned in an act of Parliament made in the 31st year of the Reign of His Majesty King George the Third " Intitled an act to relieve upon Conditions and under restrictions the persons therein described from certain penalties and disabilities to which Papists or persons professing the Popish Religion are by Law subject ." Witness my Hand this fourteenth day of September 1813.
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Clk. of ye peace. Richard Bancroft was Archbishop of Canterbury at this time. Probably Sir Christopher Perkins , knt., an apostateJesuit. (Foley, ii, 340.)