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CORRESPONDENCE
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OF CARDINAL ALLEN
gamus ; sed de re nihil prorsus intelligit. Ipse erit valde idoneus ut inter præcipuos cum classe mittatur. Spero ipsum venturum ; si veniat, ut ipsum semel sistas Illmo Cardinali Comensi non est necessarium D. T. rogare, neque vero ut mea humillima officia Suæ Illmæ Di quam sæpissime commendes . Omnia enim illi viro , adeoque nos ipsos et salutem gentis nostra, debemus . De scripto quod nuper dedi Dño Englefeldio , et quod puto ipsum occultis litteris misisse Illmo D. Card . Comensi , aliis litteris scripsi , & quam opportune possit nunc res geri, cum præsens motus in Belgio omnino suspicionem tolleret. Omnia intus et exterius necessaria paramus ; sed pecunia valde indigemus, et quomodo possitis mittere menstruam provisionem Suæ Stis non video. Laborate, quæso, quantum potestis apud Illmum Comensem ut pro benignitate sua curet solvi nobis. Non scribo ad suam Celsitudinem quia, vestra persona interposita, hæc omnia ad ipsum Illmum D. Card . Comensem scribo. Dñs Comes Westmerlandia est in castro Antuerpiensi propter incolumitatem suam . Ego facile suadebo D. doctori Hallo ut mecum eat quo volo. Cogor hic subsistere potius quam Cameraci propter necessitatem nostrorum hominum. Vale in Domino Jesu . G. ALANUS. Note by Dr. Owen Lewis . D. Stapletonus et D. Hallus supra nominati sunt professores theologi Duaci, præstantissimi omnium nostratium in Belgica, post D. Alanum ; & sunt viri valde excellentes doctrina, pietate, consilio . Endorsed, Archid . Cameracen .
III. CORRESPONDENCE FROM JESUIT ARCHIVES . A. Memorial on the English Hospice, Rome . MS. original, Anglia Fundationes Collegiorum, ff. 1-9 . This important paper is unfortunatelyneither signed, directed nor dated. The date 1568 is clearly indicated by internal evidence. It must be before the end of that year , as the Douay Seminary is not mentioned ; and it certainly would have been , if it had existed. Again it cannot be earlier than the beginning of 1568 as the writer ( ad fin. ) speaks of the exodus of Catholics from England during these nine years , " and that exodus began in 1559. That it was written in Rome is fairly clear , as the writing is on Roman Palomba paper, but that point is not material . That the addresseewas St. Francis Borgia , then General of the Jesuits, is also probable, though again not very material . The person addressed is entitled both Reverendissime Pater , and also Celsitudo , " an odd combination , but well fitting St. Francis Borgia , who was a Spanish Grandee. The paper is found in the Jesuits Archives ; though to be sure it might have got taken there after the college came under Jesuit government . The chief difficulty seems to be that Jesuits never had, and were never likely to have, jurisdiction over the persons concerned : on the other hand, if the Hospice was to be turned into a college, as the writer eventually says that he desires, Jesuit help might be very useful . That Allen was the writer seems likely on several accounts. He visited Rome at this time, he is reported to have had a difference with the chaplains at the Hospice (C. R. S. ii . 62 ), he was likely to desire to change the Hospice into a college : the final words about the proposed college at Douay would suit him admirably. continued opposite
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