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Letters, Bills and other like Concerns from 22 October 1713 .
October . 22°. To Fr. Coxon . With an inclosed (from Bloomberg) to Mrs. James in Porters Street near Rupert Marquet, desyring an answermay come under his cover to me; wether Mr. Nevel2 hath left £20 with him ; that Mr. Arthur³ must pay the £25 for Joseph Wright4 ; wether he hath receivd Fr. J. Smith's pensions ; that Mr. Hill took 4 guineas and 20 livres ; of a place for him at the French Embassador.? From Fr. Kennet.8 2/13 October . That he persuaded Mrs. Griffin to bring over and leave with me the security her brother had given her of enjoying what he hath after his death. The rest, current news.
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1 Fr. Thomas Coxon ( 1654-1735) , a missionerin London for many years, was also the agent , financial and otherwise , for St. Omers College , and was in constant correspondence with Fr. Sabran ; at times he used various aliasesWillis , Baston , Sympson , Jackson . Sometimes he had to leave London to seek safety . See Foley, VII, 179. 2 Nevil or Neville was an alias employed by members of the Scarisbrickfamily of Lancashire . This could be Robert Scarisbrick, who had sons at St. Omers College at the time, or Fr. Edward, S.J. ( 1663-1735) or Fr. Francis, S.J. (1643-1713 ), or Fr. Joseph ( 1673-1729 ). See Foley, VII, 686 ff. 3 Mr. Daniel Arthur appears to have lived in London (where he was probably a merchant; see Nolan, 225) ; parents sometimes paid the school fees through his hands . The fees at this date were £25 per annum. See Mannock pedigree in Foley, V, 547; Anne Mannock married Sir Daniel Arthur. Was this their son ? 4 Joseph and Edmund Wright were the sons of Edmund Wright of Oporto see letter from him just below. Joseph ( 1698 /9-1760 ) became a Jesuit in 1720. See Foley , VII, 869. 5 At this time there was a Fr. John Smith ( 1669 /70-1754) who was for most of his life a missionary in England in Durham, Lancashire and London ; but this may be Fr. Joseph Smith vere Philip Gerard, seventh and last Lord Gerard of Bromley (1665-1733), who was stationed at St. Omers College in 1714-15 , with apparently no fixed duties , perhaps because of ill health. The pension may refer to a contribution by the Provincial towards his maintenance . Foley, VII, 295 and catalogues . Perhaps Fr. John Hill ( 1683-1751), who crossed to England as a newmissionary in 1713 or 1714. The guineas and livres may have been money he borrowed for the journey . See Foley, VII, 260 and catalogues . 7 Fr. Sabran's father had been French Ambassador in London ; he may be suggesting here that Fr. Coxon could, if need be, find a refuge in the embassy in an emergency . 8 Fr. Charles Kennet ( 1660 /2-1728 ) was the procurator or treasurer of the English Jesuits in London . (Fr. Sabran notes the date according to the old
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9 Mrs. or Miss Griffin had some financial claim on the Powis family (Fr. Sabran'saccount of this is in a letter to the Duke of Powis dated April 10th, 1714); there is some evidence that she had a post at the court of Queen Mary Beatrice at St. Germains. She may have been the Mrs. Griffin, widow, of Orleton, Herefordshire listed in Estcourt and Payne, 62, 78, 271. 1