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BIOGRAPHICAL SUMMARY OF ALL ENGLISH AND WELSH JESUITS AND OF ALL FOREIGN JESUITS WHO EITHER VISITED ENGLAND OR WHO WORKED IN ENGLISH COLLEGES ON THE CONTINENT (1555-1640) In the compilation of the following summaries, I have relied as much as I could on archival material. The summaries have two distinct sections . In the first, the dates and places of birth, entrance into the Society, vows, ordination, and death are given. The sources of that information are also provided, e.g. Angl . 13 , f. 5v. Wheneverthere is a number without a manuscript reference , it refers to an entry in the Monumenta volumes. Precise birth dates were rarely given: the yearsare often approximations, drawn from information in the catalogue. Regarding birthplace, the catalogues often made no distinction between county and diocese. Regarding dates of admission, I have noted variants , especially in the case ofthe Roman novitiate. If there is a date and place for admissionwithout a reference, the source of the information is one of the catalogues containedin theMonumenta volumes. The precise dates for ordination were especially difficult to ascertain, and have sought to approximate them from the information provided in the I catalogues . Often men simply disappear , and it is impossible to know whether they died, left the Society, or assumed a new identity. In those cases, I have provided no dates for death . All variations in the date of death have also been given. Because of the confusion over aliases , I have tried to cross -reference all names used bythe man. The biographical information, however, will be found underthe name most commonly employed in the catalogues , which need not be his true name, e.g. John Gerard will be found under John Thompson, the alias under which hemostoften appears . In the case of the English and Welsh, I strove to find whatever biographical information I could about them. did not make comparableefforts in the cases of the foreigners. If, in my ordinary labors, I came across biographical information about them , I have included it in the summary. The second part of the summary, based on the catalogues , is a year-by-year account of each Jesuit's life. Again the numbers refer to documents in the Monumenta. any information has been included in the survey that cannot be found in thosevolumes, the source is noted . Finally, as an aid tofurther study, have included extensive bibliographical references .
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Notes 1. Because Scotland was both an independentkingdom and a distinct Jesuit mission, its members who appeared in England will be considered as foreigners. 2. On the various grades of profession within the Society, see Ladislaus Lukács, S.J., De graduumdiversitateinter sacerdotes in Societate Iesu , ' AHSI 37 (1968 ) 237-314.
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