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being a young man, a catholic, and an exile ; " whom (as he flat- tereth him) England loved, Rome adorned, banimment hath, as it were ratified (fanxit) the patron and father of Englishmen, catho- lics, and exiles." "That this man's requeft was that he might be chofen into the faid college, having confecrated himfelf to God, to England, and Rome ; and that he was a fit young man of no ill note, and prepared inire paleftram : Juvenis feroculus ; ready to enter upon aclion, a fierce youth : very good qualifications for a Romifli emiffary." Dod tells us that he was born in Exeter, edu- cated in the Englim college in Rome from the year 1588 ; and, be- ing ordained prieft, was fent upon the miffion; and, having la- boured fome years, became a Jefuit, as it appears, making his pro- feffion in England An. 1598. He was a great fufFerer upon ac- count of religion, being feveral years a prifoner, and at laft banilhed An. 1603. He lived afterwards in Rome, and was near twenty years confeflbr in the Englim college. Though now advanced in years, he was defirous of feeing England once more ; and, being permitted, remained there a little while, and then died at St. Omer's, in the year 1636. The works he left to pofterity are, i . A Preface to Robert Parfon's Pofthumous Work againft William Barlow, bifhop of Lincoln. St. Omer's, 1615. 2. A Treatife in Defence of the Celibacy of Priefts againft Jofeph Hall, dean of Wor- ceiler. Ib. 8vo. 1619. 3. De Morte Roberti Bellarmini. Ibid. 8vo. 1623. 4. The Art of Dying Well, a tranflation from the Latin of Rob. Bellarmin. Ibid. 8vo. 162,2,. 5. M. Ant. de Dominis Archiepifc. Spalatenfis Palinodia, qua Reditus fui ex Anglia Rationcs explicat. Ib. 8vo. " John CoUeton Prtft 1581. July 22." In A. Munday's " Difcoverie of Edmund Campion and his con- federates,