ECCLESIASTICAL HISTORY 



* dwelled likewise with the said Sir John Arundel and his lady for the space 

 of viii years and upwards before his death, and others ' ; that after Sir John 

 removed his house from Clerkenwell to Moushill, where he lived for about 

 three years, the said Cornelius and Sherwood continued with him ; after that 

 the knight removed to Isleworth where he remained for about six or seven 

 weeks and then died, and there he was visited by another priest whose name 

 was William Patinson. The witness further deposed that Cornelius and 

 Sherwood did daily say mass at Clerkenwell and Moushill and at Isleworth, 

 but that he was not admitted to hear mass until he came to Isleworth where 

 he heard the three priests say several masses ; he was also present at many 

 masses said by the three priests at Chideock, whither his lady had removed 

 since the death of Sir John, and for a time was appointed to wait on them in 

 their chamber. On the departure of William Patinson to London, where he 

 was soon after executed,"" his place was taken by another priest, John Currie, 

 who remained until after the death of Sherwood twelve months since, the latter, 

 as the witness understood, being buried in the chapel of Chideock House, and 

 on Currie's departure to London at Michaelmas, he was succeeded by Green, 

 alias Lusty Green, who remained in company with Cornelius until Easter day 

 last ; at which time, about one o'clock in the morning before day, having said 

 mass and received intelligence of an intended search they each went their ways. 

 Green going to Cornwall, but Cornelius having his mother in Chideock 

 House returned there the next day and remained till he was apprehended. The 

 informer gave the names of the household who daily attended mass; ~" the boys 

 and hinds in the house were not admitted, nor had he, the witness, been admitted 

 since a year last Michaelmas, and he stated that Cary and Patrick, now 

 prisoners in Dorchester gaol, had been in attendance upon the said priests in 

 their chamber both before and after his discharge from that duty. The 

 priest, John Cornelius, alias Moone late of Bodmin, Cornwall, on interroga- 

 tion, stated that he was forty years of age, had been ordained priest in the 

 seminary at Rome thirteen or fourteen years since, had returned to England 

 eleven years ago, and had since continued travelling to and fro ' to do good 

 and to instruct in the Romish religion according to his function ;' he refused 

 to say where he had lodged for fear of bringing others into danger.^'* That 

 Chideock was regarded as a hot-bed of Catholicism is evident from the letter 

 addressed by the justices of the peace who conducted this examination to 

 Lord Keeper Pickering and Lord Buckhurst, together with their report, lo 

 June, 1594. Referring to the priest Cornelius they say 



his repair with tiiat of others not yet taken to the lady's house has nursed up many ill 

 imps and given comfort to not a few ill subjects, whereby we are daily encumbered and the 

 country is drawn back from the faith. In regard thereof we desire that the said lady may 



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He was hanged at Tyburn Z2 Jan. I 592. 



"' The Lord Stourton ; Mr. Charles Stourton ; Mr. John Easton and Margaret his wife ; Mrs. Dorothy 

 Arundel ; Mrs. Gertrude Arundel ; Mr. Thomas Bosgrave, Thomas Stone, committed to gaol ; Henry Barbye,. 

 John Cooke ; Jeffrey Cardew; — Holcombe ; Ann Tremayne ; Margaret Tremayne ; Jane Tremayne; Dorothy 

 PriJeaux ; Jane Woodcocks ; Julyan Morgan, widow ; Christian Storche; Mother Mawde, mother to Cornelius;: 

 Faith Victor, attendant upon her ; Ellz. Diggenson, an old woman. 



"* Ca/. S.P. Dom. 1591-4, pp. 488-9. The prisoner, after confinement for a fortnight at the house of 

 the justice Trenchard, was ordered by the Council to be removed to London unless he could be persuaded to 

 renounce his religion. He spent two months in the Marshalsea and was then transferred to Dorchester, where- 

 having been put upon trial he was convicted of the crime of high treason and rebellion against the queen andl 

 executed 4 July, 1594, together with three companions from Chideock, Mr. Bosgrave, and the men-servants, 

 John Cary and Patrick. Foley, op. cit. iii, 465-72. 



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