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uincialis per octodecim ferme annos (442) multa cum sedulitate ac industria illam [sic] vexit gubernauitque Conuentum ad nonmediocre Missionis bonum . On the verso of fol. is written : I [Parisiis ] in Conuentu S. Edmundi congon Angliæ ord S. Ben : .
mortuus est 9 Julii 1652 P. Cuthbertus Risdon.* Cuius animam vestris precibus obnixe commendamus. requiescat in pace.
Thomas (Cuthbert) Risden, of Devonshire, was a novice at St. Edmund's, Paris, in December , 1639 (Council Book of that house) . Allanson says he was professed on 30 Nov. , 1640. The entry above would appear to have been taken from a mortuary notice issued by the convent; it is in blacker ink than the rest, and the writing may not be Woodhope's.
NOTE. On p . 242 above Allanson is quoted for the statement that Fr. Thomas Woodhope was tutor to Ralph Sheldon till the latter was nineteen . His ultimate authority must have been A. Wood, who wrote: Ralph Sheldon , son of William Sheldon , born of an antient, gentile, and wealthy family at Beoly in Worcestershire , 4 Aug. 1623, (was) educated in juvenile and grammaticall learning in his father's house, under Woodhop the preist of the house. At 19 yeares of age, in the beginning of the civil warrs in England, he went to travell in France and Italy, saw severall famous cities there, but made Rome his head quarters. After he had spent 4 yeares, he returned, the warr into See Clarke's Life and Times of England being then ceased , etc. A. Wood, iii, 98 ( Oxf. Hist. Soc., vol. xxvi) .
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