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clock in the morning where she staid an hour and that her errand was to speak with Mr. Guin the priest who was not well yet confesseth that she went into the Chappell and said her devotion there where she saw company whom she knew not saving only one Mrs. Creighton a Scottish woman who had been dry nurse to ye lady Elizabeth her grace. Ellenor Barnes † wife of Richard Barnes Coachman to Mrs Talbott dwelling in Clerkenwell parish examined acknowledgeth herself to be a popish Recusant and that upon Sunday last was sevennight she was at the Spanish Ambassador's house in Barbican about the tyme of morning prayer and there heard Masse but knew nobody there saving Bridget, Mrs Talbott's maid yet saith the Chappell was as full as it could be thrust , many of them being English . Bridget Massy servant to ye said Mrs Talbott examined confesseth that upon Sunday she went in company with Ellenor Barnes to the Spanish Ambassadors house in Barbican and there heard part of their service. Martii 1614. The abstract of ye examinations [Endorsed.] Mense of sundry persons that went to hear Masse at ye Spanish Ambassadour. . five coches on ffriday in the morning . Hottush on Sun[Endorsed day 3 & 300 persons . Talnudge . C.H. one the priest . The Rhumes catching the Catholiques armed men . 200 . Pilgrimes 1500. 600 in procession with Palmes:
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Three priests about the time are named Gwin, Gwynne , etc. (1) Roger G. imprisoned in the Tower, 1603-5 (C. R. S. iv .). (2) William G. ordained at the English College, Rome, in 1601. (3) Charles G. alias Brown , alias Bodwell, ordained at the English College, Rome, 21 December, 1613. An earlier one Robert G., of whom Gillow only gives the dates of 1568 and 1591 , may not have been alive Dorothy Barnes, spinster , of Turnmill Street , was a recusant in 1619 , but the two in the text are not in the printed lists. There is a Katharine Massey, Messey or Messe, spinster , of Clerkenwell in 1617 and 1618 , but not Bridget in the lists.