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Babingtone or anie of his fellowes Jesuiets semanaries or massinge prestes 
touchinge the same praictyses and treasones at anie tyme whylls he dyd macke 
his abode at Hampsted hearby Londone when he was at the counsells 
comaundy laste. 
Itm whether his Keper or Keppers dyd not after the apprehencio of the 
saide Babyngton or Emeadyatlie before receve into his parke of Rowlaye by 
his espesyall comaundyment and letter the 17 daye of Auguste 6 gyldings 
one fellye and a mare with her coult by one Edmunde Drelicot uncll to said 
wife of Babingtone wheareof theare weare three ryddyne Exstreamlie leane 
viz . tow beayes anda whyt the otheres but younge horses savineg the mare 
withe her foolle and the all weare fetched out of the parke the laste daye of 
September by an oulde farminge mane and took unto Mr John Dreacot of 
Paynestylea father in lawe to Babington and this Edmund Dreacot a recusante 
and his brother M* John Dreacot withe all his. 
To prove this Wyllyame Abell his bealyfe Thomas Coxsone 
his keper with others. Y 
Itm whether he haiethe not for the speaces of these 16th yeares and more 
kept in his howse at Norbury massinge prestes and now doith to saye sarvyse 
thear deallie. 
Itm whether he doiethe not kepe in his howse at this Instance fowre prestes 
viz. Sur Richard Arnolde Abrahame Suttone Robarte Greay and one frauncis* 
by sydes daylie recusants and all other sorts of papyest. 
Itm whether he doiethe not Releayve daylie and ever haith done boiethe 
Jesueytes semynaris and massinge prestes and now doieth kepe howse onlye 
for the meatenas of such psons and ever haiethe done. 
Itm whether all his sarvaunts boieth men and women be not Recusantes as 
also reconcylled and vowied papestes so to contynew. 
Itm whether father Parsons the Jesuyte + did not preache and saye mase at 
his howse at Norbury and whether that all his howseholde pepell boieth men 
and women did not receve at the same tyme withe dyvers others. 
* Richard Arnold (a/ias Audiey) was a young priest, son of one of the Fitz- 
herbert humble tenants of Hamstall Ridware. Abraham Sutton, was one of 
three brothers, all Roman Catholic Priests, of Burton-on-Trent; William, 
threatened with imprisonment, escaped on board ship, and was drowned off 
the coast of Spain, 1590; Robert was martyred at Stafford, July 27th, 1588 ; 
Abraham, for many years a tutor to the Fitzherberts, passed about two 
years in Derby gaol. Robert Grey was another tutor-priest of the young Fitz- 
herberts ; he was imprisoned both in London and at Derby, and was under 
torture by Topcliffe ; he at last escaped to France. John Francis was a friar 
of the Repton family of that name; he is several times mentioned by the 
Continental spies in their letters to the Council. 
+ Robert Parsons, the learned Jesuit Father, was an active proselytizer with 
Father Campion in 1580, but he was never in England after 1581, though the 
spies sometimes suspected his presence. He died at Rome in 1610. 
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