47 most humble services. For to that man are we indebted for all, yea for our own lives and the salvation of our nation. As to the paper which I lately gave to Sir [Francis] Englefield, and which I think he has sent in cipher to the Cardinal of Como, I have written in another letter, and how opportunely the enterprise can now be carried out, since the present state of confusion in Belgium would remove all suspicion. All that is necessary within and without we are getting ready; but we are in great want of money, and yet I do not see how you can send even his Holiness's monthly allowance. Do all you can, I pray, with the Cardinal of Como, that with his usual kindness he sees that we are paid. I do not write to his Eminence, because with you merely as an intermediary, all this that I write is for the Cardinal of Como himself. His lordship the Earl of Westmoreland is in the camp at Antwerp consulting his own safety. I shall easily persuade Dr. Hall to go with me where I will. I must stay here, rather than at Cambray, on account of the needs of our countrymen. Farewell in the Lord Jesus. CORRESPONDENCE OF CARDINAL ALLEN
WILLIAM ALLEN.
Note by Dr. Owen Lewis. Dr. Stapleton and Dr. Hall, above mentioned, are professors of theology at Douay, the most eminent-after Dr. Allen-of all our countrymen in Belgium; and are men most conspicuous for learning, piety, and prudence. Endorsed, Archdeacon of Cam bray.
III. CORRESPONDENCE FROM JESUIT ARCHIVES. A. Memorial on the English Hospice, Rome. contillued from opposite page] The difficulty is rather with the tone of the writer. As the reader has seen from the letters to Agazzari, Allen is usually amiable and loving in the highest degree. This writer is evidently rigorous, and suspicious, and of his amiability little proof is given. Compare for instance the severe judgment here passed upon Thomas Sackville in §§ 19,20, with the very different tone of the letters from dignitaries of the highest rank, printed in C. R. S. ii. I-II. On the other hand, Allen's character had many sides, and his sterner qualities can be 'seen in the Papal and Spanish State Papers, and especially in his Admonition. It must also be remembered that Pius V. was then reigning, "vigour and rigour" were everywhere in the ascendant. It would be no wonder if Allen had reflected the temper of the day. If the tone of this writer should not be thought consistent with Allen, and especially if § 41 contains a display of anti-English spirit in the matter of Goldwell's Welsh see, we should have to consider the claims of some one else for the authorship, and our choice should then I think incline to Dr. Morris Clenog. He was in Rome at the time. His signature to the Sackville testimonial (C. R. S. ii. 3) is tinged with a curious reserve. He was somewhat anti-English. He desired the change of the Hospice into a college, and eventually contributed much to bring this about (C. R. S. ii. 97, etc.). One phrase seems to make for the Allen and against the Clenog authorship. The writer says he is "in ipso profectionis articulo" (fol. i.). But Dr. Morris did not leave Rome, while Allen did. The translation which follows is by Father Joseph Rickaby, S.J.