THE ENGLISH MARTYRS
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(v) FATHER GARNET TO FATHER CLAUDIUS AQUAVIVA
15 July, 15g8 Stonyhurst MSS., Anglz'a, ii, fol. 132, a copy. It is with a feeling of relief that one turns from the previous records of that which in man is most brutal and degraded to Father Garnet's sympathetic account of the martyrdom. Though his own words have not been hitherto published, they were translated into Spanish by Bishop Yepes (H$storia ParNcolar, pp. 710-713), whence their purport was quoted by Challoner. Dr. G. Oliver printed an abstract of them in his Collections for Devon, Cornwall . .. and the Franczscans, p. 562, which has been quoted both by J. M. Stone (Faithful unto Death, 1872, pp. I I I - I 13) and Mrs. Hope (Franczscan Martyrs, p. 89-92); a long quotation also in Morris, :John Gerard, p. 142n. Under these circumstances a fresh translation does not seem necessary. For the rest, it would seem that Garnet was not aware of Barnes's speech, or that both he and Father Jones denied that mass was said in the Gatehouse, or that alms were given to the priest. Garnet mentions below that another Franciscan father had just come to London, and he would perhaps write a more ample account of the martyrdom. This will probably have been Father William Staney, the person to whom Father Jones is stated to have bequeathed a seal of the Pre-Reformation Observants, of which he had become possessed. Indeed, there does not seem to have been any other Franciscan in England at this time The Franczscans in 1898, p. Ig. The seal is It is bears at the base
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