CORRESPONDENCE OF CARDINAL ALLEN
43 his absence, the Cardinal's letter, which your Reverence will shortly . have, has not yet been written. Here from the most excellent Fathers of your Society I receive every service of love and charity, and I love them reciprocally in the Lord. I eagerly await your letter about the long waited for Bull for establishing that College, and also for news of its happy progress, and also about its prosperous condition, mutual charity etc. of those young men to me most dear; from whom not without sorrow and considerable perturbation of mind I was recently torn away. In those green shoots lies our harvest, on them depends the reformation of our England now so sorely tried: that they be saluted with long messages from me is my desire etc. A letter from Mr. Thomas Covert to Agazzari, 9 November ISS!. From your Reverence's letter of the ISth of October written to me etc . . . . (Grene-" It contains certain items about Campion, which I do not copy, as they are known.") Another leiter from the same Thomas Covert to Agazzari, Paris, St. Thomas's Eve ISS1. Although these tragic affairs just now enacted in England suppTy me with abundant matter for writing, yet because the whole conduct of the business is set forth in detail by good Father Thomas Darbyshire to your Reverend Father General, I refer you to his account. I wi1i touch briefly on those things only which are of greater ~oment. . . . (Grene-" Father Bartoli hath all which in this letter IS very well recounted.") Allen to Agazzari, Rheims, 1 December ISSI. Dear Reverend Father-,Peace and salvation in Christ, . . . I have not that which etc. . . . (He sayth Dr Bayly wil come to Rome etc.) continued from opposite page] passe and repasse for treaty of religion, specially with Canterbury and Hatton, who wil he sayth become Caths, by w ch you see what kinde of practises these good fellows haue in hand and with whome they deale. [Fr. Grene-This and other particulars is written partly in cypher. In the Archives also there is the Copia della lra: del Cardinale Alano, l:nandata 9 Aprile 1594 al Secretario dell' Arciduca, Stefano Yeuares m fauore del P. Holto, Sig,' Hugo Oeno, Don Gul. Stanleo e Sig,. Hopkins.]