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remained with her in Spain... " (P.R.O. S.P. 12/284/53). 15 The pension was given after he h~d lived in Rome for 3 years (A.G.R.,P.E.A. 1398/7). 16 The Sergeant Major is Studder, see note 5. 17 Auditor is the Judge Advocate of the Regiment. 18 The Commendador Mayor de Castilla at that time was don Luis de Requesens, Governor of the Low Countries, 1573-76. Customarily the title meant he was a deputy to the Grand Master of a Military order. Ligons was a servant of Anne Hungerford, sister of the Duchess of Feria. See Spanish Elizabethans, pp. 35-36,253. 19 He was 73 years old at this time. A 1600 pension list had noted: "He is acquainted with Secretary Prada, of the 40 escudos he retains, he gave him 25 ... " (E 617/23). 20 For his previous services see Loomie, "Richard Stanyhurst in Spain: two unknown Letters of August 1593", Huntington Library Quarterly vol. 28 (1965), pp. 145-55. 21 On 15 March 1614 Sarmiento wrote from London to ask Philip's approval of an allowance on behalf of Bentley's wife who came to the chapel of his embassy every day while trying to support 13 children, since her husband was forced to remain in Flanders (Duque de Alba, ed. Documentos Ineditos vol. 3, p. 298). Later in October 1616 Bentley wrote to Sarmiento (E 2596/117) begging the reinstatement of the pensions lost in 1609. He recalled that he had been imprisoned and condemned to death in 1587, "only because the Queen's attorney alleged that one of those who had plotted to free the Queen of Scots had told him that he had given the secret to a Bentley without specifying him or another. The Queen had then granted his property to one Michael Stanhope ... " (see also Acts of Privy Council 1586-87, p. 272). It had been Pedro de Zuniga who had secured his release from King James in 1605 so that Bentley could retire to the Low Countries. With Philip's approval Sarmiento began to pay through the embassy accounts 1100 reales a year to "Mrs. Catherine Bentley, niece of Thomas More" Documentos Ineditos vol. 1, p. 190.. 22 Colford had left England in 1595 (Meyer, England and the Catholic Church, pp. 357, n.2; 371, n.1). A close friend of William Byrd and Richard Verstegan (CR.S , vol. 52, p. 157n) Colford was also related by marriage to both Lord Burghley and Edward Coke (Foley, Records, vol. 1, p. 185n). In Calais Colford assisted in the correspondence between English Catholics and Rome, together with the transit of students towards St. Orner (A. de La Houssaye, ed. , Lettres du Cardinal d'Ossat, Amsterdam, 1732, vol. 5, pp. 58-59). 23 Stonor was 49 years old and his service with the Spanish army dated from 1596. When he had first asked Bernardino de Mendoza for a recommendation in 1582 in England he stated that one of his brothers has already died with the Spanish forces at a seige at Maastricht. (A.G.R., P.E.A. 1398/7 Deposition of 7 August 1597.) 24 Possibly a relation of Fr. John Boste executed in 1594 (CR.S, vol. 1), Richard has not been traced. 25 The "Provider of the sicke schollers and Master of Musick" at Douai College (CR.S, vol. 11, p. 569). 26 The Steward ofDouai College (CR.S., vol. 10, p. 336). 27 In an affadavit given to the Archduke in 1597 Stocker states that he was _ tortured twice in the Tower and once in the Bridewell. (A.G.R., P.E.A. 1398/7.) 28 He has not been identified. 29 A Captain Cheney served in Baron Arundell's own company in 1605 ("Names of Gentlemen that serve in Flanders", P.R.O. S.P. 77/7/329).