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at Tournay on 7 April, 1601 , together with Nicholas Fitzjames, another Somerset man , who took the habit at Douay on 12 May, 1607. The date of his going to England is not recorded ; but it is said that on 5 June, 1607, he visited the College, having been banished (from Cornwall) about a year before . On 8 August of the same year he went to Rheims on his way to Rome , whither he was to make a pilgrimage (C.R.S., x, 6, 32, 82, 84) . He and Ridley (previous note ) appear as D. Bar" English tholomew and D. Placid," and as professed members of the Congregation , in the document of 22 July, 1611 , mentioned above. Allanson and the Obit Book state that he was professed at Dieulouard; but there is no evidence for this, and it appears to be a mistaken inference from a phrase in Weldon. There can be little doubt that he and Ridley were among the six or seven secular priests who, as Fr. Baker says (Mission, § 41), were received to the habit in England by the English Cassinese fathers, and some of whom were afterwards aggregated to the English Congregation . The absence of their names from Script . v of the Apostolatus, dated 19 Dec. , 1609 , seems to show that they were not then members of the English Congregation . Weldon places Fr. Muttlebury's death under the year 1632, and thus writes of him : " July 6. Placid Muttleberry , born in Somersetshire , changing the Mission for a monk's habit , came to Dieulwart , where full of pleasing qualities which rendered him highly grateful to all his brethren, in a good old age he happily ended his life " (i, 194 ) . He appears to have retired to Dieulouard a year or two after the union of 1619 , as his name ( Placid Muttlebury ) is found there in documents of January " 1621 (Downside Review " , July, 1900, p. 156). and April, 69. Thomas Kemish: " learned and practical, of 40 years. Found as a Benedictineonly in this list. Thomas Kemys, or Kemish, son of John Kemys, of Cucklington, Somerset, and his wife Jane Courtenay, entered Douay College in April, 1600; received confirmation and tonsure on 4 August; and a week later set out for the Roman
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College, where he was admitted on 24 October, and ordained priest on 20 Dec. , 1603. He left Rome on 17 May, 1604, and arrived at Douay again on 1 July. On 24 May, 1605 , he departed for England. See C.R.S. , x, 19 , 29, 59, 68 ; and Foley , vi, 218. His autobiographyis in Foley, iv, 431 , and from it we learn that he was born in 1575 , had studied for about five years at Oxford, and another three years in London at New Inn and St. Thomas's Hospital . Weldon , Allanson and the Obit Book make no mention of him . 70. And some novices ." Who these novices may have beenif they were distinct from those mentioned under note 54 above am
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The paper is endorsed : English, 1613. Memorial of the English monks in Flanders all of them. "
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