ABSTRACT

This document is in Stonyhurst College Library, Blackburn, Lancashire, Collectanea B, ff. 87–39—also numbered 343–345. I am indebted to Father Leo Hicks, who first drew my attention to this item and permitted me to make a copy. I am also grateful to Anthony G.Petti, who supplied me with a photostat, and who first printed this document in his helpful edition, The Letters and Despatches of Richard Verstegan (c.1550–1640), “Publications of the Catholic Record Society,” Vol. LII (London, 1959), pp. 144–149.1 have used the photostat of the original document, but I have also collated my transcription with that of Mr. Petti as a check on my reading of the manuscript.