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his wife and family. In 1580, when the Jesuits Campian and 

 Parsons came into England, he went to London, found them out, 

 was exceedingly attached to them, and supplied them liberally ; by 

 which, bringing himself into dangers and difficulties, he went a 

 voluntary exile into France, in 1582, where he solicited the cause 

 of Mary Queen of Scots, but in vain. After the death of that prin- 

 cess, and of his own wife, he left France, arid went to Madrid, in 

 order to implore the protection of Philip II. ; but upon the defeat 

 of the Armada, in 1588, he left Spain, and accompanied the duke of 

 Feria to Milan. This duke had formerly been in England with 

 king Philip, had married an English lady, and was justly esteemed 

 a great patron of the English in Spain. Fitzherbert continued at 

 Milan some time, and thence went to Rome; where, taking a lodg- 

 ing near the English college, he attended prayers as regular as the 

 residents there, and spent the rest of his time in writing books. 

 He entered into the society of Jesus in 1614, and received priest's 

 orders much about the same time ; after which, he speedily removed 

 into Flanders, to preside over the mission there, and continued at 

 Brussels about two years. His great parts, extensive and polite 

 learning, together with the high esteem that he had gained by his 

 prudent behaviour at Brussels, procured him the government, with 

 the title of rector, of the English college at Rome. This office he 

 exercised for twenty-two years, with unblemished credit, during 

 which time he is said to have been often named for a cardinal's hat. 

 He died there, Aug. 27, 1640, in his eighty-eighth year, and was 

 interred in the chapel belonging to the English college. 



Wood has given a list of his writings, containing ten different 

 works, chiefly of the controversial kind, in defence of Popery, and 

 directed against Barlow, Donne, Andrews, and other English di- 

 vines. But the treatises which were received with most general 

 approbation by Protestants and Papists, are, 1. " Treatise concern- 

 ing Polity and Religion," Douay, 1606, 4to. wherein are confuted 

 several principles of Machiavel. The second part of the said 

 treatise was printed also at Doway, 1610, and both together in 

 1615, 4to. A third part was printed at London, in 1652, 4to. 2. 

 " An sit utilitas in scelere, vel de infelicitate Principis Machiavel- 

 lani?" Romae, 1610, 8vo. The language of these pieces is a little 

 perplexed and obscure, and the method, according to the manner 

 of those times, somewhat embarrassed and pedantic; but they 

 evince strong sense, a generous disposition, with much reading and 



