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BODLEIAN LIBRARY, OXFORD, RAWLINSON, MS D. 83: A DISCOURSE OF HP HIS TRAVELLES WRITTEN BY HIM SELFE
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To the Right Reverend Father Richard Haddocke preiste Doctor of Divinitie
It is evidently seene (Reverend Father) as well in the holy Scriptures, as also in many other bookes written by dyvers learned men in former adges, howe exceedinge hatefull ingratitude hathe bene unto the divine maiestie of god in soe muche as he reiected his owne people, the Jewes for that hai[ ]nous offence, and gave the Greeke churche as a praye unto the Turcke, for that they did ungratefully Seperatt themselves by there Scisme and heresie from the unitie of oure holy mother the Catholicke Churche and therefore if he did cast out his elect people the Jewes, and suffer the Gretians to be over runn by the Turcks, for there ungratefullnes, much more will he extend his iustice againste any particular parson which shalbe founde giltie of that detestable cryme, for the eschewinge of the wch Synn I will (by his gratious assistance) use my beste diligence, and for the better manifestation of my intent therein, I have written this followinge discourse of my travells, and have made choyse to dedicate the same unto your Fatherhoode, one reason movinge me thereunto, was to shewe my thanckfull mynde towards you, for that as an immediat instrument under god of my happines, you did place me in the Englishe Colledge in Rome where I gayned great store of Spirituall treasure, another reason embouldninge me thereunto, was for that I knowe your accustomed affection to be suche towards me, as you will take these my poore endevors in good parte, they beinge intended by me for the good of ye churche of god, Thus hartely wishinge unto yor Fatherhoode all comforts temporall and eternall, I ende Yor thanckfull godsonn, HP
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- Royal Historical Society Camden Fifth Series , Volume 54: HENRY PIERS'S CONTINENTAL TRAVELS, 1595–1598 , July 2018 , pp. 49 - 220
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Note inserted, sign ‘a’, new hand: ‘a Henry Piers Esqr He deceased in December 1623’.
References
2 Psalm 88 (89):1.
3 Richard Haddock (1552–1605), priest. For an overview of his life, see above pp. 17–18.
4 ‘hai[ ]nous’ inserted.
5 Recte ‘person’.
6 ‘for’ inserted.
7 ‘that’ deleted.
8 ‘that’ inserted.
9 Phrase emended; originally ‘be seeing’.
10 Probably ‘dislicke’: dislike, meaning disapproval, OED.
11 ‘did’ inserted.
12 ‘which’ inserted.
13 ‘dyinge’ inserted.
14 ‘and’ inserted.
15 Word is located at end of line; ‘to’ repeated at start of following line.
16 The story of how Noah survived the flood is recounted in Genesis:6–8.
17 ‘to be the one … at Dublin’ inserted; ‘James Jans’ in margin; on Alderman James Jans (d.1610), of Dublin, brother of Thomas Jans who married Mary Piers, Henry's sister, see prosopography of Dublin aldermen, Lennon, Colm, The Lords of Dublin in the Age of Reformation (Dublin, 1989), 258Google Scholar.
18 Change of hand.
19 Sir William Russell (c.1553–1613), 1st Baron Russell, lord deputy of Ireland, 1594–1597, DIB.
20 Sedsall, Derbyshire; it lies on the River Dove, on the border with Staffordshire, about a mile south of Rocester.
21 Philip Draycott (1573/75–1598), of Lichfield diocese; entered English College, Rome, 4 Oct. 1595; took college oath, 10 Aug. 1596; took minor orders, 25 Aug. 1596, Kelly, Wilfrid (ed.), Liber Ruber Venerabilis Collegii Anglorum de Urbe; I Annales Collegii Pars Prima. Nomina Alumnorum (1579–1630) (London, 1940), 100Google Scholar; of Derby, Archivum Venerabilis Collegii Anglorum de Urbe, Liber 282, 33; entered Society of Jesus 12 Apr. 1598 in novitiate, S. Andrea, Rome, and died there 14 Aug. 1598, Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu, Rom. 172, fo. 25r, and Rom. 162 I, fo. 168v.
22 Word located at end of line; ‘of’ repeated at start of succeeding line.
23 ‘tilt’ inserted; ‘litle’ deleted; ‘a large rowing boat having a tilt or awning, formerly used on the Thames, especially as a passenger boat between London and Gravesend’, OED.
24 Spelling amended; Thomas Burgh (c.1558–1597), 3rd Lord Burgh, succeeded to title in 1584; governor of Den Briel (Brielle or Brill) in the Netherlands, 1586/7 to 1597; lord deputy of Ireland 18 Apr. 1597, and died 14 Oct. 1597 in Newry, Ireland, Cokayne, G.E., The Complete Peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, and the United Kingdom, 8 vols (London, 1887–1898), II, 424Google Scholar.
25 ‘and his attendance’ inserted.
26 ‘or to goe’ deleted.
27 Name erased; ‘Burgh’ inserted.
28 ‘willed’ deleted; ‘desired’ inserted.
29 ‘goe’ deleted; ‘passe’ inserted.
30 ‘desire’ deleted; ‘wish’ inserted.
31 ‘Spaine’ erased; ‘thence’ inserted.
32 ‘month’ inserted.
33 Possibly ‘Sandenburgh’: a castle on outskirts of Veere.
34 Robert Sidney (1563–1626), 1st earl of Leicester, soldier; was named governor of Flushing (Dutch: Vlissingen) in 1589, and served there until 1603, ODNB.
35 Lies on the coast just east of Flushing.
36 Place names uncertain; as given here by Piers, these words have the echo respectively of ‘portolan’: ‘a book of sailing directions, describing harbours, sea-coasts etc. and illustrated with charts’, OED; and ‘lurdan’: ‘a dull, idle, fellow’, OED.
37 ‘pounde’ deleted.
38 Ell: ‘a measure of length varying in different countries’, OED.
39 Gudgeon: ‘a pivot, usually of metal, fixed on or let into the end of a beam, spindle, axle etc, and on which a wheel turns’, OED.
40 ‘daie’ deleted.
41 ‘of Dort’ inserted.
42 ‘with great paines cost and industrie’ inserted.
43 ‘of Calvenists’ inserted; ‘an excellent chime of bells’ deleted.
44 ‘amonge other thinges … of bells’ inserted.
45 ‘daie’ deleted.
46 ‘whose … wicked’ inserted.
47 Probably ‘chimes’.
48 ‘are’ inserted.
49 A reference to the followers of Robert Browne (1550?–1633), religious separatist; in May–Aug. 1582, official coercion impelled Browne's congregation to emigrate from England to Middelburg, in the Netherlands, ODNB.
50 Barrowist: ‘one who followed, or held the tenets of, Henry Barrowe, one of the founders of Independency or Congregationalism, executed along with John Greenwood, in 1593, for nonconformity to the Church of England’, OED; Henry Barrow (c.1550–1593), ODNB; contemporaries linked the followers of Browne and of Barrow, ‘Brownist’, OED.
51 Privateers in the service of the Spanish monarchy during the Dutch revolt (1568–1648).
52 ‘daie’ deleted.
53 ‘chieffe’ deleted; ‘principall’ inserted.
54 In May–June 1594, Prince Maurice of Orange successfully besieged Groningen, held by the Spanish.
55 ‘buy’ inserted.
56 ‘there’ deleted.
57 ‘all’ inserted.
58 ‘to be passed’ inserted.
59 ‘daye’ deleted.
60 ‘daye’ deleted.
61 ‘that’ inserted.
62 ‘xxxith’ deleted; ‘last’ inserted.
63 ‘and melodious’ inserted.
64 ‘tyme’ inserted.
65 Change from ‘loe’ to ‘loely’.
66 ‘and environes’ inserted.
67 ‘wch was because why that cittie was soe caled’ interlined.
68 Perhaps ‘spannes’.
69 ‘of wch’ inserted.
70 ‘not’ inserted in margin.
71 ‘wch’ inserted.
72 ‘in’ inserted.
73 ‘daye’ deleted.
74 ‘a’ inserted.
75 ‘is’ inserted.
76 ‘iii tyers of’ inserted.
77 ‘a cople of nagges’ inserted; ‘horses’ deleted.
78 ‘is’ deleted.
79 ‘there’ inserted.
80 There were several military figures in this family, including Peter-Ernst von Mansfeld (1517–1604), governor of Spanish Netherlands, 1592–1594.
81 ‘convertinge of’ deleted.
82 ‘Peeter’ inserted.
83 John 21:17.
84 Psalm 49 (50):14.
85 ‘Christian’ inserted; Karl von Mansfeld (1543–1595), general who participated in siege of Esztergom, and died shortly afterwards, 24 Aug. 1595. On the renewed military conflict (1593–1606) between Ottoman and Imperial forces in Hungary, see Braudel, Fernand, The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II, 2 vols (London, 1973), II, 1196–1204Google Scholar.
86 ‘weare’ inserted.
87 Two letters deleted.
88 ‘a’ inserted.
89 ‘there’ inserted.
90 ‘waye’ deleted.
91 ‘he’ inserted; recte Psalm 119 (120):1.
92 ‘did’ inserted.
93 ‘ye’ inserted.
94 ‘Protestants’ deleted.
95 ‘and’ inserted; ‘for’ deleted.
96 ‘well grounded … an occasion’ different hand; this material deleted.
97 ‘townes’ inserted.
98 ‘is situated’ inserted; ‘standethe’ deleted.
99 ‘ewe’: a form of ‘yew’, OED.
100 Word emended.
101 ‘builded’ inserted; ‘situated’ deleted.
102 Robert Radcliffe (1573–1629), 10th earl of Sussex; succeeded to title in 1593; colonel of foot regiment in the Cadiz expedition, 1596. Cokayne The Complete Peerage, XI, 526–528.
103 Marginal material in different hand.
104 ‘the cittie of’ deleted.
105 Phrase inserted, and then deleted.
106 ‘condacte’: probably variant of ‘conduct’, ‘an artificial channel for the conveyance of water or other liquid’, OED.
107 ‘within that city’ inserted.
108 ‘lyves’ inserted.
109 ‘nether’ inserted; ‘bottome’ deleted.
110 ‘ingraved’ inserted.
111 ‘and artificially’ inserted; different hand.
112 ‘well adorned’ inserted; different hand.
113 ‘cheefe’ inserted; different hand.
114 ‘wch was’ inserted; different hand.
115 ‘wrongfuly’ inserted; different hand.
116 ‘for the doing … injury’ inserted; different hand.
117 Latin ‘Caesarea’: the imperial abbey of Kaisersheim (now Kaisheim).
118 ‘furnished … writings’ inserted; different hand.
119 ‘wee … for’ inserted; different hand.
120 ‘there’ inserted; different hand.
121 ‘charitably and’ inserted; different hand.
122 ‘profession’ inserted; ‘there religion’ deleted.
123 ‘used’ inserted; different hand.
124 Ingolstadt: a Jesuit college was founded there in 1556, Koch, Ludwig, Jesuiten-Lexikon (Paderborn, 1934), 870Google Scholar.
125 ‘abundance of’ inserted; ‘great’ deleted.
126 ‘a hudge’ inserted; ‘a great’ deleted.
127 ‘a mightie proportion of merchandise’ inserted.
128 ‘lardge college for the Jesuitts’ deleted.
129 Augsburg: a Jesuit college was established there in 1582, Koch, Jesuiten-Lexikon, 134; change of hand from page 19 onwards.
130 ‘poste’ denotes ‘men with horses stationed or appointed in places at suitable distances along the post-roads’; also, ‘one of a series of stations where post-horses are kept for relays’, OED.
131 ‘horste us’: ‘to provide with a horse or horses’, ‘our chardges’: form of ‘charge’, ‘a load, burden, weight’, here, presumably referring to luggage, OED.
132 ‘the wch iorney … or thereabouts’ inserted.
133 ‘cheerie’: a form of ‘cherry’, OED.
134 ‘was’ inserted.
135 Presumably Graf Midleman.
136 ‘daye’ deleted.
137 ‘daye’ deleted.
138 Virgil, in his description of the underworld (Aeneid, Book VI) notes the rivers Acheron, Phlegethon, and Styx.
139 ‘potens … eius’ interlined.
140 ‘His posteritie … shalbe blessed’ interlined; Psalm 111 (112):2.
141 ‘his’ inserted.
142 Andreas von Austria (1558–1600), son of Archduke Ferdinand of Austria, created cardinal in 1576; succeeded as bishop of Brixen in 1591. Salvador Miranda, The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1576.htm#Austria, accessed 20 Nov. 2017.
143 ‘In the which’ inserted.
144 ‘in’ inserted.
145 ‘xxxth’ deleted.
146 Trent is located on the river Adige (in German, Etsch).
147 Council of Trent, 1545–1563.
148 Lodovico Madruzzo (1532–1600), also listed as ‘von Marrutz’, ‘Madrucci’; created cardinal in 1561; elected prince-bishop of Trent in 1567. Miranda, The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1561.htm#Madruzzo, accessed 20 Nov. 2017.
149 ‘Bandettoes’: a form of ‘bandits’, OED.
150 Word emended.
151 ‘is’ inserted; different ink.
152 ‘miles’ deleted.
153 ‘daye’ deleted.
154 ‘sumptuously’ interlined.
155 ‘weste ende’ deleted; ‘entrance therof’ interlined.
156 ‘be’ inserted.
157 ‘said to be’ interlined.
158 ‘of’ erased.
159 ‘turkis’: a form of ‘turquoise’, ‘a precious stone’, OED.
160 ‘sett’ interlined.
161 ‘thereof’ interlined.
162 ‘furniture’ deleted; ‘weapons’ inserted.
163 ‘there are’ deleted; ‘alsoe wee saw there’ inserted.
164 ‘There’ deleted.
165 ‘galliasses’: denotes ‘a heavy, low-built vessel, larger than a galley, impelled both by sail and oars, chiefly employed in war’, OED.
166 ‘There -' deleted.
167 ‘over’ interlined.
168 ‘sawe’ deleted; ‘viewed’ inserted.
169 Emendation: from ‘are’ to ‘weare contayned’; insertions in different hand.
170 ‘Candie’: a form of ‘Candia’, name of an island in Mediterranean, formerly called Crete, OED.
171 ‘peece’ deleted; ‘wch’ inserted.
172 ‘and so … forwards’ interlined.
173 ‘sawe’ deleted; ‘might perceave’ inserted.
174 ‘contained’; ‘fewere’ deleted.
175 ‘passed forwarde’ deleted.
176 ‘callyvers’: a form of ‘caliver’, denoting ‘a light kind of musket … introduced during the 16th century’, OED.
177 ‘rooms’ erased.
178 ‘men’ deleted.
179 ‘sawe’ deleted.
180 ‘ducketts’: form of ‘ducat’, ‘a gold coin of varying value … Also … a silver coin of Italy’, OED.
181 ‘to his … chardge’ interlined.
182 ‘is at … yet dothe’ line through these words.
183 ‘Saint Sepullcher is a patterne of’ interlined.
184 ‘in the wch they doe use there Ebrue sarvice, and ancient ceremonies’ interlined; different hand and ink.
185 ‘when’ deleted.
186 ‘they’ deleted.
187 ‘windeglass’; probably, form of ‘windlass’, denoting ‘a mechanical contrivance, working on the principle of the wheel and axle’, OED; an inland waterway (comprising the Naviglio del Brenta and the Piovego canal) linked Fusina on the Venetian lagoon with Padua.
188 Antenor: in Greek legend, was one of elders of Troy; Virgil, Aeneid, I, lines 242–247 mentions that Antenor had escaped from Troy and subsequently founded the city of Patavium (modern Padua).
189 ‘and’ deleted.
190 ‘there’ deleted; ‘and’ inserted.
191 Presumably denotes ‘thirtie’.
192 Thomas Cecil (1542–1623), known as Lord Burghley from 1598–1605, son of William Cecil, 1st Baron Burghley; Thomas's sons Edward Cecil (1572–1638) and Sir Richard Cecil (1570–1633) were granted leave to travel abroad late in 1594; Edward matriculated at Padua University in 1595. Thomas Cecil, ODNB; Edward Cecil, ODNB; Woolfson, Jonathan, Padua and the Tudors: English Students in Italy, 1485–1603 (Cambridge, 1998), 218CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
193 Titus Livius (known in English as Livy) (c.64 bc–c. ad 12), Roman historian, born in Patavium (Padua).
194 ‘medsenable’: form of ‘medicinable’, denoting ‘having healing or curative properties’, OED.
195 ‘there’ interlined.
196 ‘gent’ interlined.
197 ‘daye’ deleted.
198 ‘cittie’ deleted.
199 Change from ‘i’ to ‘I’.
200 Ludovico Ariosto (1474–1533), Italian poet; the duke of Ferrara was his patron.
201 ‘the duke’ deleted; ‘he’ inserted.
202 ‘belonginge’ interlined.
203 ‘hundred’ interlined.
204 Alps: denotes ‘any high, especially snow-capped, mountains’, OED.
205 Christopher Nugent (1544–1602), 14th Baron Delvin, succeeded his father in 1559; matriculated at Clare Hall, Cambridge, in 1563; was detained in England, 1582–1586, returning to his estates in Ireland in 1586; in June 1595 was appointed leader of crown forces in Co. Westmeath; died in custody in Dublin Castle, Aug. or Oct. 1602, DIB.
206 ‘have’ interlined.
207 ‘as wee hard’ interlined.
208 ‘in’ deleted; ‘over’ inserted.
209 Thomas Grey (1575–1614), Baron Grey of Wilton; inherited barony in 1593, ODNB; matriculated at Padua in 1594, Woolfson, Padua and the Tudors, 240–241; however, 3 lines were placed through this note, perhaps indicating cancellation.
210 ‘is’ interlined.
211 ‘all’ deleted; ‘other’ inserted; new ink.
212 ‘was’ emended to ‘were’.
213 ‘contayninge in substanc as’ interlined; different ink.
214 ‘is’ inserted.
215 ‘to remaine there’ interlined; different ink.
216 ‘is’ deleted ‘are’ inserted, different hand.
217 ‘there is’ deleted.
218 ‘as was related unto us’ interlined; different hand.
219 Five lines of text cancelled: ‘vid. Alexander the first duke of that cittie, Sonn unto one Lawrence duke of Urbin, wch Alexander died wthout issue; whereupon the Contri[e] assembled together and chose’ [Cossimus De Medices].
220 ‘of great reckoning and accounte’ interlined; 3 lines cancelled: ‘The wch Cossimus had two sonnes Fraunces and Ferdinando, Fraunces died wthout issue, soe that Ferdinando nowe raig[ne]the’; Cosimo de’ Medici (1519–1574), grand duke of Tuscany.
221 Pope Leo X, reigned 1513–1521; Pope Clement VII, reigned 1523–1534, both of the Medici family.
222 ‘and’ interlined.
223 ‘historiographer’ inserted; ‘writer’ deleted.
224 Line through ‘Antonius Cuffinus apoette’, but legible.
225 ‘monument’ deleted; ‘tombe’ inserted, different ink.
226 ‘this Englishe man’ deleted; ‘he’ inserted.
227 ‘called’ deleted; ‘termed’ inserted.
228 ‘of’ interlined.
229 ‘of wch’ interlined; ‘bedd’ cancelled.
230 ‘lodged’ inserted; ‘men’ deleted.
231 ‘is’ deleted; ‘are’ inserted.
232 ‘each’ inserted; ‘every one’ deleted.
233 ‘being aiorney of some 7 score mils’ interlined; ink and hand as in immediately previous emendations.
234 ‘pistoletts’: denoting certain foreign gold coins, OED.
235 ‘daylie frequented’ inserted.
236 ‘Syenna’ deleted; ‘of the same’ inserted.
237 ‘in the Colledg’ interlined.
238 ‘be’ inserted; different ink.
239 ‘travelled’ interlined; ‘passed’ deleted.
240 ‘wee’ interlined.
241 ‘iorneyed’ inserted; ‘travelled’ deleted.
242 ‘have’ interlined; different ink.
243 ‘had’ interlined.
244 ‘good’ interlined.
245 ‘not staye to take’ interlined.
246 Located near Castel Sant'Angelo, in Rome.
247 Edmund Harewood SJ (1554–1597) was minister in the English College in Rome from 1593. For an outline of his Jesuit life, see ‘Edmundus Harvardus’, Thomas, McCoog SJ (ed.), Monumenta Angliae: English and Welsh Jesuits, 3 vols (Rome, 1992), II, 349Google Scholar.
248 ‘wee’ inserted; ‘none’ deleted; different ink.
249 ‘not’ inserted.
250 ‘theye’ deleted; ‘wee’ inserted.
251 Possibly Nicholas Fagan from Waterford ordained at Rome in 1582, Fenning, Hugh, ‘Irishmen ordained at Rome, 1572–1697’, Archivium Hibernicum, 59 (2005), 7CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
252 ‘whoe having very frindly saluted us’ interlined.
253 In the 1590s there was a Gerald Dillon of Balgoth, Co. Meath, another of Lessonhall, Co. Dublin, and yet another of Grange, Harold's, Dublin, Co., Ohlmeyer, J. and Ciardha, E. Ó (eds), The Irish Statute Staple Books, 1596–1687 (Dublin, 1998), 206Google Scholar.
254 Margin: ‘The sufficiency of Garrott dillon’ erased.
255 Following 4 lines erased; illegibile.
256 Previous 1½ lines erased; illegible.
257 ‘be reconsiled unto the Catholicke Church’ interlined; ‘make our confession’ deleted; different hand.
258 A ‘father confessor’, OED.
259 ‘reconsiled us’ deleted; ‘hard our confession’ interlined’; ‘Richard Cowlinus’ SJ (1562–1618), born in York, ordained at Rome 1587, entered SJ at Tournai 1588; served as English pentitentiary at St Peter's, Rome, from 1593; in Sept. 1596 received permission to travel to Flanders. McCoog (ed.), Monumenta Angliae, II, 277–278.
260 ‘me’ deleted: ‘us’ imposed.
261 ‘holy’ interlined; ‘inquisition’ deleted.
262 Domenico Pinelli (1541–1611), born in Genoa, of a patrician family; created cardinal 1585. Miranda, The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1585-ii.htm#Pinelli, accessed 4 Dec. 2017. At the beginning of his pontificate (in 1592) Clement VIII appointed him a permanent member of the congregations of the Council, and of the Holy Office (Inquisition).
263 ‘muche’ interlined.
264 Enrico Caetani (1550–1599), Latin ‘Henricus Gaetanus’, created cardinal, 1585; legate a latere in Poland, 3 Apr. 1596–23 June 1597 (Miranda, The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1585-ii.htm#Caetani, accessed 4 Dec. 2017). After the death of Cardinal Allen (16 Oct. 1594), Clement VIII appointed him protector of the English.
265 Register of English College, 12 Oct. 1595, AVCAU, Liber 282, 33; convictor: ‘boarder’, OED.
266 ‘the wch tyme’ interlined; ‘that two yeeres’ deleted.
267 William Warford SJ (c.1560–1608), born in Bristol, ordained Dec. 1584 in Rome, entered SJ in Rome 23 May 1594; was in Rome until June 1596; died in Valladolid. McCoog, Monumenta Angliae, I, 11; II, 522.
268 ‘saintlicke’ inserted; ‘goodly’ deleted.
269 ‘cold carriadge’ deleted; perhaps ‘uncivill’ intended.
270 ‘have’ inserted.
271 ‘on’ interlined.
272 ‘deferr’ inserted, different hand; ‘diferr’ deleted.
273 Letter inserted: possibly ‘i’.
274 ‘deepeste’ inserted; different hand and ink; the text is Psalm 85 (86):13.
275 Filippo Sega (1537–1596), created cardinal 1591; died 29 May 1596. Miranda, The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1591-ii.htm#Sega, accessed 4 Dec. 2017.
276 ‘thither’ inserted; ‘to the Englishe Colledge’ deleted.
277 ‘scollers’ inserted; ‘Colledge’ deleted.
278 ‘Englishe’ deleted.
279 Enrico Caetani (1550–1599); on Caetani's diplomatic mission in search of an alliance between the emperor, and the rulers of Poland and Transylvania, against the Turks, and on his subsequent involvement in English Catholic affairs, see Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/enrico-caetani_(Dizionario-Biografico)/, accessed 16 Jan. 2018. He was appointed legate ‘a latere’ 3 Apr. 1596, and left Warsaw for Rome in Feb. 1597.
280 Sigismund III (1566–1632), king of Poland; Sigismund Báthory (1572–1613), prince of Transylvania.
281 ‘in’ inserted.
282 Francisco de Toledo Herrera SJ (1532–1596), created cardinal 1593, died 14 Sept. 1596 (Miranda, The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1593.htm#Toledo, accessed 4 Dec. 2017). A leading theologian, he was among those Jesuits who opposed Claudio Acqauviva as General, Diccionario Histórico de la Compañía de Jésus, sub Toledo.
283 ‘wch’ inserted.
284 ‘infirmity’ inserted; ‘sicknes’ deleted.
285 ‘unfained’ inserted.
286 ‘towards them’ deleted.
287 ‘moste’ inserted.
288 ‘his’ inserted; funeral took place in Gesù church, Rome.
289 Robert Persons SJ (1546–1610) entered SJ 1575; while in Spain (1589–1596) founded seminaries for English students in Valladolid and Seville; in early 1597 moved to Rome where he became rector of the English College in Nov. 1598, which post he held until his death in 1610, ODNB.
290 ‘travell’: travail.
291 Sapienza: The University of Rome, founded 1303.
292 ‘of’ inserted.
293 Unclear – possibly ‘Henry Dillon’.
294 ‘more’ deleted; ‘exceeding’ inserted.
295 ‘and prosperous’ inserted.
296 ‘then moste of them be wch are borne and nourished in yt’ erased.
297 ‘the’ inserted; different ink.
298 For a list of these books (published 1598–1603), see Milward, Peter, Religious Controversies of the Elizabethan Age: A Survey of Printed Sources (London, 1977)Google Scholar, ‘The Appellant controversy’, 116–124; on the campaign of the Appellant group within the English secular clergy, see Bossy, John, The English Catholic Community 1570–1850 (London, 1975), 35–48Google Scholar; see also Law, T.G. (ed.), The Archpriest Controversy: Documents Relating to the Dissensions of the Roman Catholic Clergy 1597–1602, Camden Society, ns, 2 vols (1896, 1898)Google Scholar.
299 St Edmund (d.869), king of the East Angles, ODNB; here Piers is mistaken, for in 1362, when the hospice was founded, Edward III (1312–1377) was king of England; Piers may have had in mind St Edward, known as Edward the Confessor (c.1003–1066), king of England, ODNB.
300 Henry VIII (1491–1547), king of England, ODNB.
301 ‘therunto’ inserted.
302 ‘to yt’ deleted.
303 William Allen (1532–1594), English cardinal; founded Douai College (1568), English seminary; from late 1585 resided in Rome, and was involved with the English College, living in a simple house next to it; created cardinal, 1587; died in Rome, 16 Oct. 1594. ODNB; Miranda, The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1587.htm#Allen, accessed 4 Dec. 2017.
304 Pope Gregory XIII, reigned 1572–1585.
305 ‘for’ inserted.
306 ‘good indevours’ deleted.
307 ‘in Spayne, and the other at Lisbone’ inserted; different ink.
308 ‘peculiar or exclusive attribute’; ‘the characteristic quality of a person’, OED.
309 ‘is’ inserted.
310 ‘his church’ deleted.
311 Final ‘s’ possibly deleted.
312 Pope Martin I, reigned 649–655.
313 Pope Sixtus V, reigned 1585–1590.
314 ‘at that churche’ deleted; stations: ‘a service at which the clergy of the city of Rome assembled at one of a certain number of churches … each of which had its fixed day … for this celebration’, OED.
315 ‘there is’ deleted.
316 Word underneath ‘blessed’ erased.
317 ‘wch’ inserted.
318 ‘and’ inserted.
319 ‘steayres’ inserted; word deleted.
320 ‘there is’ deleted.
321 ‘are’ inserted.
322 Pope Silvester I, reigned 314–335.
323 Probably denotes the Colonna family.
324 ‘noble’ delete; ‘worthie’ inserted; change of ink.
325 ‘There were’ deleted.
326 ‘were’ inserted.
327 Word deleted; ‘wch’ inserted; different ink.
328 ‘to the church’ inserted.
329 ‘and lerned fathers’ interlined; different hand; the IV Lateran Council (1215) promulgated the docrine of transubstantiation regarding the real presence of Christ in the Eucharist; regarding heretics, the council merely decreed that those condemned as heretics were to be handed over to the secular authorities for due punishment, Tanner, Norman (ed.), Decrees of the Ecumenical Councils, 2 vols (London and Washington DC, 1990), I, 230, 233–5Google Scholar.
330 Word possibly deleted; ‘did’ inserted.
331 ‘and’ deleted.
332 ‘were’ deleted.
333 ‘councell’ deleted.
334 Change of ink.
335 ‘u’ interlined.
336 ‘for’ interlined.
337 ‘whose bountifull … towards them’ inserted; different ink.
338 ‘his church’ deleted.
339 Word deleted; space.
340 ‘great’ deleted; ‘riche’ inserted; different hand.
341 Presumably the 12th day of Christmas, i.e. feast of Epiphany.
342 ‘in the daye’ inserted.
343 ‘dayes’ deleted.
344 ‘the body of the Church’ interlined.
345 ‘bodies’ deleted; ‘corpes’ inserted; different hand.
346 Pope Pius II, reigned 1458–1464.
347 Different ink.
348 ‘his’ inserted; different ink.
349 Pope Innocent VIII, reigned 1484–1492.
350 Different ink.
351 Lantern: ‘an erection … on the top either of a dome or of an apartment, having the sides pierced, and the apertures glazed, to admit light’, OED.
352 Presumably ‘vaulted’.
353 ‘of’ inserted.
354 ‘there is also’ deleted.
355 ‘vault’ inserted; word deleted.
356 Final letter (after ‘e’) deleted.
357 ‘and in itt are’ interlined, different ink and hand; ‘there is’ deleted.
358 ‘and’ deleted.
359 ‘the’ inserted.
360 ‘chapell’ deleted.
361 ‘cause whie he was interred’ inserted, different hand; ‘is buried’ deleted.
362 ‘doth signifii unto us’ inserted, different hand; ‘by the which is signified’ deleted.
363 ‘same’ inserted, different hand; ‘Churche’ deleted.
364 ‘thundred’ inserted; ‘shott’ deleted.
365 ‘gallery’ deleted.
366 ‘his holines’ inserted, different ink and hand; ‘the Popes’ deleted.
367 i.e. Belvedere.
368 coaches.
369 ‘to’ inserted.
370 ‘holy place’ inserted, different ink and hand; ‘churche’ deleted.
371 ‘and some viii foote – in the bottome’ interlined; different ink and hand; ‘brode’ inserted; ‘guilio’: cf. ‘aguglia’ (Italian), obelisk.
372 ‘this giulio’ deleted.
373 ‘a’ inserted.
374 ‘erecting’ inserted; ‘settinge up’ deleted; different ink and hand.
375 ‘unto’ possibly deleted – unclear.
376 Words in margin: change of hand.
377 Word deleted; ‘att’ inserted; different ink and hand.
378 ‘in’ deleted.
379 ‘Churche’ deleted.
380 Canons: members of cathedral chapter.
381 Acolytes.
382 ‘other’ deleted.
383 ‘of them are men of’ inserted; ‘are men of’ deleted.
384 ‘wch’ inserted.
385 ‘doth’ emended to ‘doe’.
386 ‘great’ deleted; ‘speciall’ inserted.
387 ‘same’ inserted; ‘gospell and Epistle’ deleted.
388 Line deleted; ‘who with a smale wax candle lighting in his hand, he –eth his holines right’ inserted.
389 ‘whose chardge’ inserted; ‘and his office’ deleted.
390 ‘regular persons’ inserted; ‘religious men’ deleted.
391 ‘ample and large’ inserted; ‘greate’ deleted.
392 ‘blissed’ inserted.
393 ‘of St Paule the apostle’ deleted.
394 ‘his churche’ deleted.
395 ‘consecrated’ deleted.
396 ‘spacious and wide’ inserted; ‘lardge’ deleted.
397 Septuagesima Sunday, ‘the third Sunday before Lent’, OED.
398 ‘there are’ deleted.
399 ‘are’ inserted.
400 ‘in the churche’ deleted.
401 ‘wherein’ inserted.
402 ‘half’ inserted.
403 ‘as in the perusing of hir life will more at large apeere’ inserted.
404 ‘verie’ erased, but legible.
405 ‘was presented’ inserted; ‘apeered’ deleted.
406 ‘all’ inserted; ‘that vition’ deleted.
407 ‘nowe is’ deleted.
408 Ember week: refers to one of four periods of fasting and prayer, in each of the four seasons, following these dates: first Sunday in Lent, Whitsunday, Holy Cross Day (14 Sept.), and St Lucia's Day (13 Dec.), OED.
409 Denotes the crib (Italian ‘persepe’) of the Infant Jesus, a relic of which was conserved in this basilica.
410 Maniple and stole: priest's liturgical vestments.
411 ‘this churche’ deleted.
412 ‘body of’ deleted.
413 ‘did build, lyeth his body interred’ interlined; ‘the wch was built by himself’ deleted.
414 ‘edified’ inserted; ‘builded’ deleted.
415 ‘a’ erased, but legible.
416 ‘martired’ inserted; ‘stoned’ deleted.
417 ‘his church’ deleted.
418 ‘of St Sebastean’ inserted.
419 Emended from ‘Lutisa’ to ‘Lucina’.
420 ‘there are buried’ deleted.
421 ‘church and’ inserted.
422 ‘thereof are buried’ inserted; ‘and the churche’ deleted.
423 ‘martires’ inserted.
424 ‘same’ inserted; ‘churche’ deleted.
425 Emended from ‘Lutina’ to ‘Lucina’.
426 ‘the church of the holy .. in Iherusalem’ deleted; ‘Holy’ superimposed; ‘crosse’ not deleted.
427 ‘of the holy cross in Jerusalem’ inserted.
428 ‘there’ deleted.
429 ‘in itt’ inserted; ‘there’ deleted.
430 ‘crosse’ deleted; ‘same’ inserted.
431 ‘of’ deleted.
432 ‘of’ inserted; ‘same’ deleted.
433 ‘good’ inserted.
434 ‘there is’ deleted.
435 ‘it’ inserted; ‘that churche’ deleted; ‘is’ inserted.
436 ‘ye forsaid’ inserted.
437 ‘Helina’ deleted.
438 ‘moste’ inserted.
439 ‘churches’ deleted.
440 ‘there are’ deleted.
441 ‘are’ inserted.
442 ‘of our lady de Populo’ inserted.
443 ‘a nott tree’: obsolete form of ‘nut-tree’, a tree that bears nuts, especially the hazel, OED.
444 ‘there’ deleted.
445 Emended from ‘Mamdeline’.
446 ‘Churche’ deleted.
447 ‘an’ deleted.
448 ‘ther’ inserted; ‘this churche’ deleted.
449 ‘his churche’ deleted.
450 ‘Church of St John Calavita’ inserted.
451 ‘nowe’ deleted.
452 ‘bi’ deleted; ‘the’ inserted.
453 ‘look and’ deleted.
454 ‘his church in the Iland of Tiber’ deleted.
455 ‘of St Bartolomew by the Iland of Tyber’ inserted.
456 Pope Gelasius II, reigned 1118–1119.
457 ‘there are’ deleted.
458 ‘are’ inserted.
459 ‘hir churche’ deleted.
460 ‘Church of St Scicilia’ inserted.
461 ‘of’ inserted.
462 Emended from ‘Cicillia’ to ‘Scicillia’.
463 ‘his churche’ deleted.
464 ‘Church of St Crisogono’ inserted.
465 ‘in itt’ inserted; ‘there’ deleted.
466 ‘other’ deleted.
467 ‘The church’ deleted.
468 ‘Church of our Lady beyond Tyber’ inserted.
469 ‘in ye tyme of ye Pagan Emperors’ inserted.
470 ‘this churche’ deleted; ‘itt’ inserted.
471 ‘as by ancient tradition is delyvered unto us’ inserted.
472 ‘sts’ inserted.
473 Emended from ‘Mamdeline’ to ‘Magdeline’.
474 ‘his churche’ deleted.
475 Change from ‘This’ to ‘The’.
476 ‘Church of St Frances’ inserted.
477 ‘seeme’ inserted.
478 ‘glorious’ inserted.
479 Variant of ‘seraphim’; referring to type of angel, OED.
480 Material inserted in right-hand margin, different ink and hand.
481 ‘The churche’ deleted.
482 ‘Church of St Peeter Montorio. standeth uppon ye hill Janicula’ inserted.
483 ‘his churche’ deleted.
484 ‘Church of St Pancratius’ inserted; words following deleted.
485 ‘his order’ deleted.
486 ‘yt’ deleted.
487 ‘This hath the tytle of a Cardinall … ’ inserted, different ink and hand.
488 ‘his churche’ deleted.
489 ‘church of St onofrius’ inserted.
490 ‘tytle’: ‘each of the principal or parish churches in Rome, the incumbents of which are cardinal priests; a cardinal church’, OED.
491 ‘There in it are an innumerable company …’ material inserted on right-hand margin, different hand.
492 ‘The churche of the’ deleted.
493 ‘Church of the Holy Ghost’ inserted.
494 ‘a’ deleted’; ‘very’ inserted.
495 ‘Church’ deleted.
496 Material between brackets interlined.
497 ‘standethe’ deleted.
498 ‘suche’ deleted; ‘so’ inserted.
499 ‘and hudge proporcion for receite’ inserted; ‘capacetie’ deleted.
500 i.e. person.
501 ‘see’ deleted; ‘vewe the same’ inserted.
502 Material inserted on left-hand margin; different ink and hand.
503 ‘the hospitall’ deleted; ‘there’ inserted before ‘of’.
504 ‘on St Marks day’ inserted; different ink and hand.
505 ‘see’ deleted; ‘observe’ inserted.
506 ‘as … will in more particular apeere’ inserted.
507 ‘in itt’ inserted; ‘there’ deleted.
508 ‘in yt’ deleted.
509 ‘ther’ inserted.
510 ‘this hospitall’ deleted.
511 ‘the lodgings … will seeme incredible +’ inserted.
512 ‘heate’ inserted.
513 ‘at the leaste’ inserted.
514 ‘died in the hospitall’ deleted; ‘departed … that house’ inserted.
515 ‘as I meself … testifie’ inserted; on right-hand margin: ‘standeth about St Peeter is gate’.
516 ‘The churche of’ deleted.
517 ‘of St Lazaro St Martha e St Mary magdalen’ inserted.
518 ‘the’ inserted.
519 ‘where there is … be served’ inserted.
520 ‘his churche’ deleted.
521 ‘his churche’ deleted.
522 ‘of St James’ inserted.
523 ‘the wch … the Empress’ inserted.
524 ‘The Churche of’ deleted.
525 ‘itt’ inserted; ‘this Churche’ deleted.
526 Quinquagesima, ‘the Sunday immediately preceding Lent’, OED.
527 ‘the churche of’ deleted.
528 ‘churche’ deleted; ‘of ye’ interlined.
529 ‘otherwise cale minimes’ inserted.
530 ‘churche’ deleted.
531 ‘ye’ inserted.
532 ‘unto whom … owne order’ inserted.
533 ‘the churche of’ deleted.
534 ‘on ye Annunciation … obtayned’ inserted.
535 ‘the churche of’ deleted.
536 ‘of St Ambros’ inserted.
537 ‘m’ inserted above ‘p’; ‘and’ deleted.
538 ‘Pope Clement … therunto’ inserted.
539 ‘his churche’ deleted.
540 ‘of St Athenatius’ inserted.
541 ‘ye wch’ inserted.
542 ‘It was … comodities’ inserted.
543 ‘The churche of’ deleted.
544 ‘Church of Or Lady’ inserted.
545 Cesare Baronio [Baronius] (1538–1607), church historian, author of Annales ecclesiastici (12 vols, published 1588–1607); created cardinal 1596; he succeeded Philip Neri as superior of the Oratorians. Miranda, The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1596.htm#Baronio, accessed 4 Dec. 2017.
546 ‘his churche’ deleted.
547 ‘by’ inserted; ‘for’ deleted.
548 Pope Pius IV, reigned 1559–1565.
549 ‘Slavonians’: the Slavs, OED.
550 ‘there are to be seene … Cardinall’ inserted; change of ink.
551 ‘his churche in Lucina’ deleted.
552 ‘in Lucina’ deleted.
553 Pope Celestine III, reigned 1191–1198.
554 ‘Lucina … Cardinall’ inserted; change of ink.
555 ‘his churche’ deleted.
556 ‘of St John baptiste’ inserted.
557 ‘+ it is also … of a Cardinall’ inserted; different ink and hand; scratch marks on ‘it is allso’.
558 ‘churche’ deleted.
559 Variant of ‘convertite’: ‘a reformed Magdalen’, OED.
560 On the lifestyle of Roman courtesans, and on the ineffectual efforts to expel them, see Girouard, M., Cities and People: Social and Architectural History (New Haven, CT, and London, 1985), 135Google Scholar; for a contemporary English Catholic discussion, see Martin, Gregory, Roma Sancta (1581), ed. Parks, G.B. (Rome, 1969), 145–151Google Scholar.
561 ‘there is plenary Indulgences … said st’ inserted; different ink and hand.
562 ‘A churche dedicated to’ deleted.
563 ‘it contayneth … by a Cardinall’ inserted; different ink and hand.
564 ‘his churche’ deleted.
565 ‘churche’ deleted.
566 ‘his churche’ deleted.
567 ‘is’ inserted; different ink.
568 ‘churche’ deleted.
569 ‘Maria’ inserted.
570 ‘they’ inserted.
571 Alessandro Farnese (1520–1589), created cardinal in 1534. Miranda, The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1534.htm#Farnes, accessed 5 Dec. 2017.
572 ‘him’ inserted.
573 ‘yt’ deleted; ‘it’ inserted.
574 ‘begoone’ inserted; word deleted.
575 ‘u’ inserted between ‘o’ and ‘ll’; different ink.
576 ‘the’ inserted.
577 ‘was’ inserted.
578 ‘and’ inserted; ‘was’ deleted.
579 Claudio Acquaviva SJ (1543–1615), father general of the Society of Jesus from 1581 until his death, Diccionario Histórico de la Compañía de Jésus, II, 1614–1621.
580 ‘it’ inserted; ‘yt’ deleted.
581 Estate: ‘state or condition in general, whether material or moral, bodily or mental’; ‘an account of the state or condition of anything’, OED.
582 Bartolomeo Biondi (b. c.1548, Rome); became a Jesuit; was dismissed from the Society of Jesus, 27 July 1596, Archivum Romanum Societatis Iesu, Hist. Soc. 54, f.15.
583 Alessandro Damasceni Peretti di Montalto (1571–1623), created cardinal in 1585, vice chancellor of Holy Roman Church from 1589 until his death. Miranda, The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1585.htm#Damasceni, accessed 5 Dec. 2017.
584 Odoardo Farnese (1573–1626), created cardinal in 1591. Miranda, The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1591.htm#Farnese, accessed 5 Dec. 2017.
585 ‘intollerable offence’ inserted; ‘mortall sinn’ deleted; different ink.
586 ‘howse’ inserted; quotation from Psalm 32 (33):12.
587 Line through ‘In this churche of the professed howse is Cardinall Fernesoe buriede’; Cardinal Alessandro Farnese died in 1589.
588 ‘of this Churche’ deleted; ‘thereof’ inserted, different ink.
589 ‘nott’ inserted; context here is to days before start of Lent.
590 ‘was’ inserted.
591 ‘as’ inserted; for a contemporary description of carnival in Rome, see Munday, Anthony, The English Roman Life, ed. Ayres, Philip (Oxford, 1980), 95–99Google Scholar.
592 ‘Mynervam’ – capital ‘M’ inserted; changed from small ‘m’.
593 As in previous note.
594 ‘Heathens’ – change from small ‘h’ to capital ‘H’.
595 From small ‘m’ to capital ‘M’.
596 ‘yt’ deleted; ‘it’ inserted.
597 ‘yt’ deleted; ‘it’ inserted.
598 Walter Marsh (bapt.1560–1595), spy and Protestant martyr; educated at Cambridge University (graduated MA 1585), ordained 1586; by 1590 had vacated his benefices. Entered English College in Douai, 1591; admitted to English College in Rome, Mar. 1593; knocked host from priest's hands in procession, Rome, 15 June 1595; shortly thereafter was burnt as a heretic, ODNB.
599 From small ‘m’ to capital ‘M’.
600 Variant of ‘visor’: ‘a mask to conceal the face’, OED.
601 Intelligencer: ‘a spy’, OED.
602 Owen Lewis [Lewis Owen] (1533–1594), bishop of Cassano, Naples; born in Anglesey, Wales; scholar at Winchester College, 1547; fellow, New College, Oxford, 1554, later resigned; matriculated at Louvain, 1563; by 1566 was doctor of law and regius professor of canon law at Douai University, and rector there, 1568; archdeacon of Hainaut from 1572; 1574–1580 was agent for Cambrai diocese in Rome; involved in emergence of English College in Rome; 1580–1584 served as vicar general of Milan; 1588 was named bishop of Cassano in kingdom of Naples; 1590 was called to Rome and was involved in church visitations there; was accused of inciting unrest between English and Welsh in the English College in Rome; died in Rome 14 Oct. 1594, and was buried in the church of the English College, ODNB.
603 ‘he’ inserted.
604 ‘of’ inserted.
605 ‘religion’ deleted.
606 ‘in’ inserted.
607 ‘gaged’: gagged.
608 Semicolon: different ink.
609 ‘the’ deleted.
610 Changed from small ‘m’ to capital ‘M’.
611 ‘a’ deleted.
612 ‘ther’ inserted.
613 ‘churche’ deleted.
614 ‘Jupiter and’ inserted.
615 Pope Boniface IV, reigned 608–615.
616 ‘of this Churche’ deleted.
617 ‘highe’ inserted.
618 ‘altares’ deleted.
619 ‘of yt’ deleted.
620 ‘wch stand … of the walle’ inserted.
621 ‘of it’ deleted.
622 ‘altars’ deleted; ‘churche’ inserted.
623 From ‘+’ material inserted.
624 ‘yt’ deleted; ‘it’ inserted.
625 Changed from ‘ma[u]delen’ to ‘magdelyn’.
626 ‘those’ deleted; ‘the wch’ inserted.
627 ‘the patrons dayes thereof indullgences are there to be obtayned’ inserted, and overlaid on top of material erased.
628 ‘hir churche’ deleted; ‘c’ in Lucia was originally ‘t’.
629 ‘was’ inserted; Girolamo Mattei (1547–1603), created cardinal 1585. Miranda, The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1586.htm#Mattei, accessed 20 Nov. 2017.
630 ‘churche’ deleted.
631 ‘att ye wch tymes … gayned’ inserted.
632 ‘his churche’ deleted.
633 ‘on ther daies … receaved’ inserted.
634 ‘A’ inserted before ‘Pollinarius’.
635 ‘where in old tyme … stood’ inserted.
636 ‘it is acardinall … in lent’ inserted.
637 ‘his churche’ deleted.
638 ‘the greate’ inserted.
639 ‘on the said Apostles Dai …. Inocent ye eight’ inserted.
640 ‘churche’ deleted.
641 ‘his churche’ deleted.
642 ‘on the xxiiiith … to be gained’ inserted.
643 ‘his churche’ deleted.
644 ‘ye said’ inserted.
645 ‘Lawrence’ deleted.
646 ‘it is of title … fourth Sonday in lent’ inserted.
647 Pope Adrian VI, reigned 1522–1523.
648 ‘there is to be found … relicks of great account’ inserted.
649 ‘his churche’ deleted.
650 ‘Tuliano’ deleted.
651 ‘there are stations … ther to be obtayned’ inserted.
652 ‘yt’ deleted.
653 ‘on the days of St Anthony of Padua … and doe desarve ye same’ inserted.
654 Change from ‘m’ to ‘M’.
655 ‘g’ between ‘n’ and ‘c’ deleted.
656 ‘g’ between ‘n’ and ‘c’ deleted.
657 ‘it is acardinall is … devout visitors thereof’ inserted.
658 ‘itt’ inserted.
659 ‘on whose festivall … are there to be obtayned’ inserted.
660 ‘his churche’ deleted.
661 ‘it goeth in the … of greate account’ inserted.
662 ‘churche’ deleted.
663 ‘that Churche there’ deleted.
664 ‘cave’ inserted.
665 ‘there are stations … acardinalls tytle’ inserted.
666 ‘churche’ deleted.
667 ‘ye said’ inserted.
668 ‘Martin’ deleted.
669 ‘of’ inserted.
670 ‘it belongethe to … fourth sonday in lent’ inserted.
671 ‘churche’ deleted.
672 ‘unto hir’ inserted.
673 Pope Pascal I, reigned 817–824.
674 ‘wth many other relicks … at her festival day’ inserted.
675 ‘his church’ deleted.
676 ‘unto the fornamed … the wch is’ inserted.
677 ‘the said’ inserted.
678 ‘Anthony’ deleted.
679 ‘on whose day … there acquired’ inserted.
680 ‘is churche’ deleted.
681 ‘on her festivall day … there wanting’ inserted.
682 ‘his churche’ deleted.
683 Changed from ‘concecrated’ to ‘consecrated’.
684 ‘to the honnour of St Andrewe’ inserted.
685 ‘Saint Gregorie’ deleted.
686 ‘on the day of all Soules … by true penitent people’ inserted.
687 ‘A churche of’ deleted.
688 ‘stilling’: ‘distilling’, OED.
689 ‘there are stations … of acardinall’ inserted.
690 ‘is acardinalls tytle’ inserted.
691 ‘there are stations … are there gained’ inserted.
692 ‘hir’ deleted.
693 ‘she’ inserted; ‘Saint Sabina’ deleted.
694 ‘this Churche’ deleted.
695 ‘he’ inserted.
696 ‘it is woorthely … the said wanesday’ inserted.
697 ‘churche’ deleted.
698 ‘unto his honnour’ inserted.
699 Pope Honorius I, reigned 625–638.
700 ‘the’ deleted; ‘his’ inserted.
701 ‘the’ deleted.
702 ‘caely’ deleted.
703 ‘and on the day of the said St … there be gained’ inserted.
704 ‘his church’ deleted.
705 Recte ‘churche’.
706 Change from ‘belonginge’ to ‘belongethe’.
707 ‘a man descended from an honorable house’ deleted; Dysart, Co. Westmeath; Francis Lavalin Nugent (1569–1635), founder of the Irish Capuchins; son of Sir Edward Nugent of Walshestown, Mullingar, and his wife Margaret O'Connor; studied at Pont-à-Mousson from 1582; by 1590, MA of Louvain University; lecturer in philosophy at Louvain; entered Capuchin order at Brussels, 1591; was appointed superior at Béthune [west of Lille] Aug. 1595, DIB. Left Low Countries in July–Aug. 1596 for banishment to Rome, because his superiors viewed him as a representative of the ‘Spirituals’, or mystical movement in the order. Had returned to Low Countries by July 1598; on the circumstances of Nugent's Roman exile, 1596–8, see Martin, F.X., Friar Nugent: A Study of Francis Lavalin Nugent (1569–1635), Agent of the Counter-Reformation (Rome and London, 1962), 47–50Google Scholar.
708 ‘the contryes .. imployed’ inserted; ‘that order’ deleted.
709 ‘honorable’ inserted.
710 ‘people’ deleted; ‘heere at ye day … catholickes’ inserted; ‘people’ deleted, ‘catholickes’ inserted.
711 ‘Saint Peter’ deleted; ‘him’ inserted.
712 ‘crucified’ deleted; ‘offered’ inserted.
713 ‘on whose festifall dayes … theether’ inserted.
714 ‘is chappell’ deleted.
715 ‘there are stations … complet beleevers’ inserted.
716 ‘as in particular … mentioned’ inserted.
717 ‘ye’ inserted.
718 Genesis 28:17.
719 Matthew 16:18.
720 ‘quod’ deleted.
721 ‘Ego . . . rogavi pro te ut non deficiat fides tua’, Luke 22:32.
722 Robert Bellarmine, Disputationes … De controversiis Christianae fidei: Tertia controversia generalis: De summo pontifice ([Ingolstadt, 1587]), listed in Carlos Sommervogel, Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jésus (Brussels and Paris, 1890), I, column 1156; Robert Bellarmine SJ (1542–1621), created cardinal 1599, Diccionario Histórico de la Compañía de Jésus, sub nomine.
723 ‘bi’ deleted; ‘in’ inserted.
724 ‘he’ deleted.
725 ‘of’ inserted.
726 ‘Chappell’ deleted.
727 Recte ‘doors’.
728 ‘is’ deleted.
729 ‘then’ deleted.
730 ‘etc’ inserted.
731 ‘unto’ inserted.
732 Psalm 23 (24):7–10.
733 Word erased: possibly ‘sorte’.
734 Maundy Thursday, the Thursday preceding Easter Sunday.
735 ‘the’ deleted from ‘standethe’.
736 ‘then’ inserted.
737 Recte ‘disciplinants’: cf. members of a religious order in Spain, who publicly scourged themselves by way of discipline, OED.
738 ‘in there severall processions’ inserted; different hand.
739 ‘e’ deleted.
740 ‘time’ inserted.
741 ‘is’ deleted.
742 ‘wipe’ deleted.
743 In MS ‘32’ – recte ‘82’.
744 Tenebrae: liturgical office, ‘usually sung in afternoon or evening of Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday in Holy Week, at which the candles … are extinguished one by one after each psalm, in memory of the darkness at the time of the Crucifixion’, OED.
745 ‘to witt’: ‘to know’, OED.
746 One of the divisions of the liturgical office of matins, OED.
747 ‘s’ before ‘psalme’ deleted.
748 ‘do’ deleted.
749 ‘seeme … (morallie speakeinge)’ inserted.
750 ‘to’ inserted.
751 ‘ye altare’ inserted.
752 ‘Miserere’: the 50th (51st) psalm, beginning ‘Miserere mei Deus’ ‘Have mercy on me, o God’: ‘one of the Penitential Psalms’, OED.
753 ‘submisse’: of voice: low, subdued, OED.
754 The correct reference is Luke 23:44: ‘It was now about the sixth hour, and darkness came over the whole land until the ninth hour.’
755 ‘is’ inserted.
756 Originally ‘one’: ‘e’ erased.
757 ‘discovered’: uncovered, OED.
758 ‘sackbutt’: a brass musical instrument, OED.
759 ‘of’ inserted; for a discussion of the Easter procession of the ‘Confraternità della SS. Resurrezione’, see Fiorani, Luigi, ‘Processioni tra devozione e politica’, in Fagiolo, Marcello (ed.), La festa a Roma: Dal rinascimento al 1870 (Turin, 1997), 70Google Scholar. For two contemporary images of the Easter festivities in Piazza Navona (from 1589 and 1592), see Michael Rak, ‘Piazza Navona: Trionfi, feste da gioco, feste stellari’, in Fagiolo (ed.), La festa a Roma, 183.
760 ‘there’ deleted.
761 Changed from ‘and’ to ‘And’.
762 ‘worcke’ deleted.
763 ‘lyke’ inserted.
764 ‘the’ inserted.
765 ‘ye’ inserted.
766 ‘in there’ deleted.
767 ‘all’ deleted.
768 Original ‘s’ at end of ‘minde’ deleted.
769 ‘See, the Lion of the Tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has triumphed’, Revelation 5:5.
770 ‘neighe unto the hospitall of the holie goste, which is a myle’ deleted.
771 Pope Gregory I, reigned 590–604.
772 ‘that’ deleted.
773 Presumably Cardinal Francesco Sforza (1562–1618), Miranda, The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1583.htm#Sforza, accessed 24 Nov. 2017.
774 At the consistory held by Clement VIII on 5 June 1596 sixteen cardinals were created, Miranda, The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/consistories-xvi.htm#ClementVIII, accessed 22 Nov. 2017.
775 ‘him’ inserted; ‘Camillus Burghesius’ (Camillo Borghese), created cardinal Sept. 1593; consecrated bishop by Clement VIII in Sistine Chapel, 27 May 1597; elected pope (Paul V), 16 May 1605. Miranda, The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1596.htm#Borghese, accessed 22 Nov. 2017.
776 For a discussion of the ‘Corpus Domini’ procession in 16th-century Rome, see Fiorani, ‘Processioni tra devozione e politica’, 73–78.
777 ‘his’ inserted.
778 Presumably a rendition of the Italian ‘monsignori’.
779 ‘it’ deleted.
780 ‘royall’ inserted.
781 ‘and’ inserted.
782 ‘Ladie’ deleted.
783 ‘and’ deleted; ‘of’ inserted.
784 Abbreviated form of ‘procession’ deleted.
785 ‘was’ deleted; ‘it is’ inserted; ‘quarant'ore’: forty hours.
786 ‘a’ inserted in ‘fratres’.
787 I Peter 5:8.
788 Parable of the ten virgins, Matthew 25:1–13.
789 ‘his father’ inserted; with reference to Jesus Christ, ‘consubstantial with the Father’ occurs in the Nicene Creed.
790 ‘and’ inserted.
791 Letters deleted.
792 ‘is nott’ inserted.
793 Erasure marks; ‘ei’ possibly deleted; from ‘either’ to ‘ther’.
794 Final ‘s’ slightly erased.
795 ‘for’ deleted.
796 Here Piers changes the gospel wording so as to emphasize the theological case for works, ‘A fructibus eorum cognoscetis eos’, ‘By their fruits you shall know them’, Matthew 7:16.
797 ‘here’ deleted.
798 ‘a’ inserted.
799 ‘ye’ inserted.
800 ‘by’ inserted; different ink and hand.
801 ‘the’ inserted.
802 ‘dayes’ inserted; different ink and hand.
803 ‘the returns of there tearmes’: ‘return’ refers to a sheriff's report upon a writ directed to him; by extension the word refers to the days within a legal term when returns were made, OED.
804 ‘nowe’ deleted.
805 ‘And what’ deleted.
806 Denotes the four periods of fasting and prayer observed respectively in the four seasons of the year; each fast occupied three days, and the weeks in which they occurred were called Ember weeks; on Ember Saturdays ordinations usually took place, OED.
807 Second ‘then’ deleted.
808 Recte ‘precepts’.
809 ‘the imagenarie consecration … tymes appoynted’, inserted, different hand; ‘there are noe lawfull busshoppes and therefor noe consecration of preestes’ deleted.
810 In the season after Easter, refers to ‘the week in which Ascension day falls’, OED.
811 ‘by’ erased.
812 This letter of St Jerome to Pope Damasus I (reigned 366–384) was included in the introductory material of the Vulgate Bible; what became the standard edition of the Vulgate was first published under Clement VIII in 1592.
813 ‘then’ deleted.
814 ‘ye’ inserted.
815 One who ‘accepts a religion or church ordained or ruled by parliament’, OED.
816 Separate page, not numbered; inserted after the main text was completed; see Introduction, pp. 44–45.
817 Conversions.
818 End of inserted material.
819 Text continues on p. 100.
820 ‘Scollers’ deleted: ‘schooles’ inserted; different ink and hand.
821 Recte ‘polliticke’.
822 ‘yt’ deleted; ‘it’ inserted.
823 Change from ‘the’ to ‘there’; the novitiate was at Sant’Andrea al Quirinale.
824 ‘discipline’: the mortification of the flesh by penance; by extension, a whip or scourge, especially one used for religious penance, OED.
825 Stroke similar to comma.
826 ‘choise’: of persons, ‘careful or nice in choosing; selective, discriminative’, OED.
827 Stroke similar to comma.
828 Stroke similar to comma.
829 ‘in’ inserted.
830 ‘as’ inserted.
831 Here Piers refers to the meditations of the First Week of the Spiritual Exercises of St Ignatius Loyola, see Munitiz, Joseph and Endean, Philip (eds), Saint Ignatius of Loyola: Personal Writings (London, 1996), 289–302Google Scholar.
832 ‘h’ inserted.
833 Change from ‘noe’ to ‘no’.
834 ‘theie use’ inserted; different ink and hand.
835 ‘time’ deleted.
836 i.e. love.
837 Here Piers refers to the ‘Principle and foundation’ meditation of the Spiritual Exercises, Munitiz and Endean, Saint Ignatius of Loyola, 289.
838 ‘is’ inserted; different ink.
839 ‘cann’ inserted; word deleted.
840 ‘father’ deleted; ‘fathers’ is the following word.
841 The parable of the prodigal son is given in Luke 15:11–32.
842 Second ‘wch’ deleted.
843 i.e. misconstrue, OED.
844 ‘that ’ inserted.
845 ‘nott’ inserted; different ink and hand.
846 ‘woulde’ deleted.
847 ‘yeere’ deleted.
848 ‘woulde’ deleted.
849 ‘the’ inserted.
850 ‘that’ inserted.
851 ‘that’ inserted.
852 ‘no’ inserted.
853 Word deleted.
854 ‘twenty’ inserted; different ink.
855 ‘lyberarie’ inserted; ‘and’ deleted; different ink.
856 Thomas Becket [St Thomas of Canterbury, Thomas of London] (?1120–1170), archbishop of Canterbury, saint and martyr, ODNB.
857 ‘and pipes’ inserted.
858 Final ‘e’ inserted; different ink.
859 Change from ‘ther’ to ‘the’; ‘r’ deleted using different ink.
860 ‘h’ inserted; different ink.
861 The ink changes here.
862 ‘Pollonians’: natives of Poland, OED.
863 ‘Colledge’ deleted.
864 ‘of the wch … no certen notis’ inserted; different ink and hand.
865 The Theatines: a religious order founded in Rome in 1524, Cross, F.L. and Livingstone, E.A. (eds), The Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (Oxford, 1997)Google Scholar, sub nomine.
866 Referring to the Maronites, a sect of Syrian Christians, living in Lebanon, OED.
867 ‘of’ deleted.
868 ‘of’ added to ‘there’, different ink; ‘Government’ deleted.
869 ‘to’ inserted.
870 ‘of the clocke’ deleted.
871 ‘buttery’: in colleges, the place where food was kept; ‘buttery-hatch’: the half-door over which food was served, OED.
872 Probably ‘manchet’: ‘a small … loaf or roll of the finest wheaten bread’, OED.
873 ‘yt’ deleted; ‘it’ inserted.
874 ‘grave’ deleted.
875 Mend: to improve, ameliorate, or render more excellent, OED.
876 ‘Ringethe’ deleted; ‘warnethe’ inserted.
877 ‘commons’: share of a common table; board; rations, OED.
878 ‘meale tyme’ inserted; ‘dinner’ deleted.
879 ‘of the clocke’ deleted.
880 ‘and’ deleted.
881 ‘inge’ inserted after ‘com’; different hand.
882 ‘of the clocke’ deleted.
883 ‘of the clocke’ deleted.
884 ‘and meditation’ deleted.
885 Change from ‘the’ to ‘there’; ‘of the chamber’ deleted.
886 ‘bed’ deleted; ‘there rest’ inserted; different hand.
887 ‘one’ inserted.
888 ‘a clocke’ deleted.
889 ‘ended’ inserted, different ink; ‘done’ deleted.
890 ‘are’ inserted; ‘it’ deleted.
891 ‘is’ inserted.
892 ‘then’ inserted, different ink; ‘on that daie’ deleted.
893 ‘there’ deleted.
894 ‘they’ deleted.
895 ‘are’ inserted.
896 days.
897 ‘in the wch’ inserted; ‘where’ deleted.
898 ‘dictat’ inserted, different ink.
899 ‘oportunities’ inserted; ‘times’ deleted.
900 ‘of lent’ deleted.
901 That is, from 29 June to 8 Sep.
902 Feast of All Souls, 2 Nov.
903 ‘of devotion’ inserted, different ink.
904 ‘accustome’ inserted; ‘use’ deleted.
905 ‘newes’ cancelled.
906 ‘amongst’ inserted, different ink; ‘in’ deleted.
907 ‘Englishe Colledge’ deleted.
908 ‘it’ deleted.
909 Spelling altered by addition of several letters; different hand.
910 ‘He was’ deleted; ‘and’ inserted; Pope Pius V, reigned 1566–1572.
911 On the role of governor of Rome in the 16th century, see Pattenden, Miles, ‘Governor and government in sixteenth-century Rome’, Papers of the British School at Rome, 77 (2009), 257–272CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
912 Initial letter altered from ‘m’ to ‘M’.
913 ‘by them’ inserted, different hand.
914 ‘u’ inserted.
915 Marcantonio Colonna (1535–1584), Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/marcantonio-colonna_(Dizionario-Biografico)/, accessed 23 Nov. 2017.
916 ‘Turckes’ deleted.
917 Different hand.
918 ‘de’ inserted.
919 ‘him’ inserted; different ink, different hand.
920 ‘de’ deleted; Don John of Austria (1547–1578), half-brother of Philip II of Spain.
921 Probably referring to Marco Querini, a Venetian admiral at Lepanto, Enciclopedia Italiana (Roma, 1935)Google Scholar, sub Querini; ‘Antonius Quirinus’, Knolles, Richard, The generall historie of the Turkes, from the first beginning of that nation to the rising of the Othoman familie: With all the notable expeditions of the Christian princes against them: Together with lives and conquests of the Othoman kings and emperours faithfullie collected out of the best histories, both auntient and modern, and digested into one continuat historie until this present yeare 1603 (London, 1603), 870Google Scholar; Knolles published the first significant work on Turkish history in English, comprising 1152 pages, renowned for its style and its popularity. A recurrent theme was the need for Christian unity in order to combat the Turkish threat; Richard Knolles (late 1540s–1610), ODNB.
922 ‘three’ deleted.
923 ‘ye’ inserted.
924 ‘then’ inserted.
925 ‘and’ deleted.
926 Don John was received by ‘the Venetian and Popes Admirals’, Knolles, Generall Historie of the Turkes, 870.
927 Probably referring to Gian Andrea Doria (1540–1606), Genovese admiral at Lepanto, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/giovanni-andrea-doria_(Dizionario-Biografico)/, accessed 23 Nov. 2017.
928 Alessandro Farnese (1545–1592), duke of Parma.
929 Francesco Maria della Rovere di Urbino.
930 Paolo Giordano Orsini (1541–1585), Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/paolo-giordano-orsini_res-ac068daf-373d-11e3-97d5-00271042e8d9_(Dizionario-Biografico), accessed 23 Nov. 2017; ‘Pau. Iordanus Ursinus’, Knolles, Generall Historie, 870.
931 ‘wth’ deleted.
932 ‘hover there abouts’ deleted; ‘presently sett upon’ inserted.
933 ‘mutanie’ altered to ‘mutinie’.
934 Sebastian Venier (Veniero) (1499–1578), Venetian admiral at Lepanto.
935 ‘M’ and ‘F’: altered from lower case to upper case, different ink; ‘Mutius Tortona’, Knolles, Generall Historie, 873.
936 ‘were’ inserted.
937 ‘were’ inserted; different ink.
938 Last letters altered.
939 Recte ‘they’.
940 Galliasse: ‘a heavy, low-built vessel, larger than a galley, impelled both by sail and oars, chiefly employed in war’, OED.
941 ‘as’ inserted.
942 ‘itt’ inserted.
943 ‘a’ inserted.
944 Different hand; the editor has placed this heading here; in the MS it is on the margin at top of p. 127.
945 ‘s’ erased.
946 ‘one’ inserted.
947 ‘dayes’ inserted.
948 ‘d’ at end of word erased; Knolles gives one estimate (naming the author) of 32,000 Turks killed, while adding that other authors give less than half that number, Knolles, Generall Historie, 883.
949 Galliott: ‘a small galley or boat, propelled by sails and oars, used for swift navigation; in English applied esp. to Spanish and Mediterranean vessels’, OED.
950 Word possibly altered: from ‘natio’ to ‘natian’.
951 ‘Cardona’, Knolles, Generall Historie, 884.
952 ‘of the honourable family of Ursini. Of the Venetian nobilitie, Augustinus Barbadicus’, Knolles, Generall Historie, 884.
953 ‘Vincentius Quirinus’, Knolles, Generall Historie, 884.
954 Knolles, Richard, Generall Historie (London, 1603)Google Scholar.
955 ‘consideracion’ inserted, different ink; ‘cause’ deleted.
956 ‘reherse’ inserted, different ink; ‘sett downe’ deleted.
957 Word following deleted.
958 George Castriot (1405–1468), known as Skanderbeg, Albanian military commander, Enciclopedia Treccani http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/scanderbeg/, accessed 23 Nov. 2017.
959 Janos Hunyadi (c.1387–1456), Hungarian military commander, Enciclopedia Treccani http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/hunyadi-giovanni-reggente-di-ungheria, accessed 23 Nov. 2017.
960 Word ‘cisternas’ repeated.
961 Jeremiah 2:13.
962 Altered from ‘the’ to ‘they’.
963 That is, ‘persons’.
964 Pope Pius V, reigned 1566–1572.
965 ‘as beste is specified’ interlined; different ink.
966 ‘Viminales’: ‘n’ inserted.
967 ‘hill’ inserted; different ink and hand.
968 ‘weare’ erased.
969 ‘wch’ inserted; different hand.
970 Altered from ‘i’ to ‘I’.
971 Final ‘alla’ inserted, different ink.
972 ‘his’ in MS.
973 Probably ‘use’ intended.
974 ‘it’ inserted; ‘yt’ deleted.
975 Probably ‘curious’ intended.
976 Possibly ‘Collatina’.
977 ‘or’ inserted.
978 ‘n’ inserted; ‘x’ deleted.
979 Pope Sixtus IV, reigned 1471–1484.
980 Pope Nicholas V, reigned 1447–1455.
981 Latin quote possibly in different hand.
982 Word erased; ‘seavene’ inserted.
983 Altered from ‘Celio’ to ‘Celius’.
984 ‘t’ inserted above ‘c’; change from ‘archers’ to ‘arches’.
985 ‘last named’ inserted; different ink and hand.
986 Altered from ‘b’ to ‘B’.
987 ‘and’ deleted.
988 Altered from ‘doe’ to ‘dothe’.
989 ‘five thowsande and’ deleted: here Piers describes the Colosseum.
990 ‘1000 and 5000’ interlined; ‘1000’ different ink.
991 ‘xx’ above ‘xii’ i.e. 20 x 12, namely 240 yards.
992 ‘longe’ deleted.
993 i.e. Campo dei Fiori.
994 ‘and’ inserted.
995 Altered from ‘Andrea’ to ‘Andrewe’.
996 ‘is’ deleted.
997 ‘already’ inserted, then crossed out.
998 ‘the’ deleted.
999 ‘in’ deleted.
1000 ‘there winninge’ inserted, different hand.
1001 ‘ye’ inserted, different hand.
1002 Four letters erased.
1003 ‘Churche’ deleted; ‘bridge’ inserted, different hand.
1004 ‘are’ inserted, different hand.
1005 ‘yt’ inserted, different hand.
1006 ‘the’ inserted, different hand.
1007 i.e. Palazzo Farnese.
1008 Alessandro Damasceni Peretti (1571–1623), also known as Cardinal di Montalto, created cardinal 1585; vice chancellor of the Holy Roman Church, 1589–1623. Miranda, The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1585.htm, accessed 25 Nov. 2017.
1009 ‘unto’ deleted.
1010 Girolamo Rusticucci (1537–1603), created cardinal 1570; vicar general of Rome, 1588–1603. Miranda, The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1570.htm#Rusticucci, accessed 25 Nov. 2017.
1011 ‘manie’ inserted, different hand and ink.
1012 Different hand, different ink – black ink, in contrast to brown ink of body of text.
1013 ‘of’ inserted.
1014 ‘wth’ inserted, different hand.
1015 Altered from ‘usuall’ to ‘unusuall’.
1016 Probably ‘grove’ intended.
1017 ‘also the perfect … certaine’: continuous line under last line of text on this page, at right angle to line indicating left-hand margin of the page.
1018 ‘2’ inserted.
1019 ‘may’ deleted.
1020 Letters in italics inserted.
1021 ‘he’ deleted.
1022 A form of ‘garnel’: a granary or barn, OED.
1023 ‘the’ inserted.
1024 The translation of the population figures from Italian to English is unclear; see the original Italian, as given by Palladio, in Francini, Girolamo [Francino], Le Cose Maravigliose dell'Alma Città di Roma (Venice, 1588), 122–123Google Scholar; here in the margin of the ‘Discourse’ there is a cross, indicating a reader's perplexity regarding this passage.
1025 ‘and’ deleted.
1026 ‘by the ryver Tyber … wch ryver’ underlined.
1027 ‘receavethe’ deleted.
1028 In the MS this heading is on the margin towards the top of p. 154.
1029 Start of new word deleted.
1030 ‘ye’ inserted; different hand and ink.
1031 Robert Bellarmine SJ, created cardinal 3 Mar. 1599. Miranda, The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1599.htm, accessed 21 Jan. 2018.
1032 For a survey of Clement VIII's pontificate (1592–1605), see entry by Borromeo, Agostino, in Bray, Massimo et al. (eds), Enciclopedia dei Papi ([Roma], 2000), III, 249–269Google Scholar.
1033 ‘ca’ inserted.
1034 For an outline of Jesuit activity in Japan at the end of the 16th century, see Diccionario histórico de la Compañía de Jésus, sub ‘Japón’.
1035 Previous ‘his’ written in faint ink.
1036 Swiss guards; probably a variant of ‘Switzer’, OED.
1037 ‘be’ inserted.
1038 ‘exceedinge’ inserted; ‘verie’ deleted.
1039 ‘and’ deleted.
1040 ‘holie’ inserted.
1041 Recte ‘profession’.
1042 From here, change of ink.
1043 ‘we were’ inserted; different ink and hand.
1044 Cut off authoritatively from religious offices or privileges; regarding a place or person, ‘lay … under an interdict’, OED.
1045 ‘and’ deleted.
1046 Altered from ‘fam’ to ‘Sainctlicke’.
1047 Pope Clement VIII reigned from 1592–1605.
1048 ‘moste’ deleted; ‘surpassinge’ inserted, different hand.
1049 New hand to end of page.
1050 Pope Leo XI, elected 1 Apr. 1605; d. 27 Apr. 1605.
1051 ‘then’ inserted.
1052 Pope Paul V reigned from 1605–1621.
1053 ‘After whose deathe … great wisedom and understandinge’ inserted in new hand.
1054 ‘in’ inserted.
1055 ‘brothers’ inserted – new hand, as previous insertion on p. 160 of MS.
1056 ‘and’ deleted.
1057 The sense is ‘I have thought it not amiss’; probably a copyist's error.
1058 ‘and’ inserted, new hand, as previous insertions; ‘they’ deleted.
1059 ‘by that meanes’ inserted; new hand.
1060 ‘by the Christian, his passinge under it’ – line through, but legible.
1061 ‘are’ inserted; new hand, as previous insertions.
1062 ‘doe use’ inserted, new hand; ‘are bounde’ deleted.
1063 ‘in matters related’ inserted, new hand; word deleted.
1064 ‘and modern’ inserted; new hand.
1065 ‘and the notable things wch they have done’ deleted.
1066 ‘written by … before mentioned’ inserted; new hand; Francini, Le Cose Maravigliose.
1067 ‘as were presente, the wch was signified’ – line under last line of page (as before).
1068 ‘same’ inserted.
1069 ‘daye’ deleted.
1070 ‘daye’ deleted.
1071 St Nicholas of Tolentino (c.1245–1306), Augustinian friar, Cross and Livingstone, Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church, sub nomine.
1072 ‘daye’ deleted.
1073 ‘as a’ inserted.
1074 ‘our’ inserted.
1075 ‘house’ deleted.
1076 Pope Urban II, reigned 1088–1099.
1077 ‘wch’ inserted.
1078 ‘verie riche’ inserted; new hand.
1079 Pope Nicholas IV, reigned 1288–1292.
1080 ‘suche’ inserted.
1081 Different ink.
1082 ‘it’ inserted.
1083 ‘and’ inserted.
1084 Pope Boniface VIII, reigned 1294–1303.
1085 ‘sortes of’ inserted; word deleted.
1086 ‘in’ inserted.
1087 That is, ‘the end’.
1088 ‘holy places … by them they’ line inserted under final line of page, as before.
1089 ‘one’ inserted.
1090 ‘Ladie’ inserted.
1091 ‘the’ inserted; different ink.
1092 ‘im’ inserted.
1093 ‘ther’ deleted.
1094 That is, ‘eve’.
1095 ‘unto the wch’ erased.
1096 Pope Benedict XII, reigned 1334–1342.
1097 Different ink.
1098 Pope Martin V, reigned 1417–1431.
1099 There is some confusion in the text regarding the sequence of the popes: in fact, Eugenius IV reigned 1431–1447, and his successor was Nicholas V, reigned 1447–1455.
1100 Pope Callistus III, reigned 1455–1458.
1101 ‘foure’ deleted.
1102 The margin entry is misleading, for it was Pius II (not Pope Callistus) who was cured.
1103 Pope Pius II, reigned 1458–1464.
1104 Pope Paul II, reigned 1464–1471.
1105 ‘was’ inserted; new hand, different ink.
1106 Diocese of ‘Racanaten’ (Recanati) ‘et Maceraten’ (Macerata), in Italy.
1107 ‘it’ inserted; new hand.
1108 ‘and’ deleted; ‘gave’ changed to ‘givinge’.
1109 Pope Innocent VIII, reigned 1484–1492; Pope Sixtus IV, reigned 1471–1484.
1110 i.e. after the death of Innocent VIII.
1111 Pope Alexander VI, reigned 1492–1503.
1112 Pope Julius II, reigned 1503–1513.
1113 ‘Pope’ inserted.
1114 Pope Leo X, reigned 1513–1521.
1115 Pope Clement VII, reigned 1523–1534.
1116 Pope Paul III, reigned 1534–1549.
1117 ‘y’ inserted; different ink.
1118 ‘thrise’ inserted.
1119 Recte ‘pope’.
1120 Pope Julius III, reigned 1550–1555.
1121 ‘in’ deleted; the Jesuit college in Loreto was established in 1554, Hamy, Alfred, Documents pour servir à l'histoire des domiciles de la Compagnie de Jésus … [1540–1773] (Paris, [1892]), 39Google Scholar.
1122 ‘Pope Paule the fourthe who’ inserted; ‘him, and’ deleted; Pope Paul IV, reigned 1555–1559.
1123 ‘Pope Paule the fourthe’ deleted.
1124 ‘Popes’ inserted.
1125 ‘did’ insert.
1126 Last line of page, line through, as before, but legible.
1127 Word erased; ‘ritche’ inserted.
1128 ‘of’ inserted.
1129 ‘there’ inserted.
1130 ‘sett’ deleted.
1131 ‘tymes’ inserted; ‘as’ deleted.
1132 Gospellers: those who claim exclusive possession of gospel truth; in 16th and 17th centuries, ‘often applied derisively to Protestants, Puritans, and sectaries’, OED.
1133 Orazio Torsellino (Torsellini) SJ (1544–1599), writer and historian, rector of the Jesuit community, Loreto, 1591–1595; his book on the history of Loreto appeared in 21 editions (1597–1837), Diccionario Histórico de la Compañía de Jésus, sub nomine; Horatii Tursellini e Societate Jesu Lauretanae Historiae Libri Quinque (Rome, 1597)Google Scholar; see also Murphy, Paul, ‘The Jesuits and the Santa Casa di Loreto: Orazio Torsellini's Lauretanae historiae libri quinque’, in Lucas, T. (ed.), Spirit Style Story: Essays honoring John W. Padberg (Chicago, 2002), 269–281Google Scholar.
1134 ‘to’ placed above ‘in’.
1135 ‘over’ deleted.
1136 ‘againt’ inserted.
1137 ‘Slavonia’ deleted; ‘that cuntrie’ inserted.
1138 ‘and’ inserted.
1139 ‘in’ deleted.
1140 ‘the’ inserted, different hand and ink.
1141 ‘the’ deleted.
1142 Originally ‘backeside’; ‘side’ deleted.
1143 No previous bracket.
1144 ‘wth holes in the topps of them’ interlined.
1145 ‘doe’ deleted.
1146 ‘and’ inserted.
1147 ‘same’ deleted.
1148 ‘the keepers of’ inserted.
1149 Words deleted.
1150 ‘be’ inserted.
1151 ‘is a’ inserted; ‘ly two’ deleted.
1152 ‘side’ deleted.
1153 ‘the’ deleted.
1154 ‘in’ inserted.
1155 Here Piers refers to the contemplation on the incarnation from the Second Week of the Spiritual Exercises, Munitiz and Endean, Saint Ignatius of Loyola, 305–306.
1156 ‘was’ deleted.
1157 Sacramentarians: in the 16th century, used, by opponents, ‘as a general name for all deniers of the doctrine of the Real Presence [of Christ in the eucharist]’, OED.
1158 ‘in’ inserted.
1159 ‘matter’ deleted.
1160 ‘severally’ inserted.
1161 ‘the’ inserted.
1162 Word deleted.
1163 Words erased; ‘taste of the premisses’ superimposed.
1164 ‘ye wch’ inserted.
1165 ‘doe’ inserted.
1166 ‘to’ inserted.
1167 ‘ioyfull’ inserted.
1168 Word deleted; ‘there’ inserted.
1169 ‘wch’ inserted.
1170 New page, unnumbered; ‘vertues and of …of oure churche have bene’; remainder of page is blank.
1171 ‘of’ inserted.
1172 ‘obiect’ deleted; ‘averr’ inserted, different hand and ink.
1173 ‘in’ inserted.
1174 ‘but want of govearment’ inserted, different hand.
1175 ‘in’ deleted.
1176 Change from ‘sheweinge’ to ‘shewe’.
1177 Change from ‘there’ to ‘the’.
1178 ‘are’ inserted; ‘men’ deleted.
1179 ‘that’ inserted.
1180 ‘of’ inserted; ‘everting’: to overthrow, OED.
1181 ‘and’ deleted.
1182 ‘I’ erased.
1183 ‘virtue’ altered to ‘vertue’.
1184 ‘up’ inserted.
1185 ‘the’ deleted.
1186 ‘convertinge’ interlined.
1187 ‘pride’ inserted, different hand.
1188 ‘were’ inserted, different hand.
1189 ‘wch are of the newe rell[ya]tion’ inserted, different hand.
1190 ‘great’ deleted; ‘due’ inserted, different hand.
1191 ‘as theye’ inserted, different hand.
1192 ‘account’, ‘as’, inserted.
1193 ‘that holie sacrament’ inserted.
1194 ‘ther by’ inserted, different hand.
1195 One and a half lines of text erased: ‘vertues and of soe sanctified a life as thowsands of or church have bene +’; this material was inserted on unnumbered page between pp. 184 and 185.
1196 ‘I’ erased; ‘have’ altered to ‘havinge’, different hand.
1197 ‘the same’ inserted; same hand as previous insertion.
1198 ‘what’ inserted.
1199 ‘other’ inserted.
1200 Word altered by changing letter; unclear.
1201 Initial two letters erased.
1202 ‘There is’ deleted.
1203 ‘bestowead’ inserted, different hand; ‘gyven’ deleted.
1204 ‘there is’ deleted.
1205 Gianfrancesco Gambara (1533–1587), created cardinal 1561. Miranda, The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1561.htm#Gambara, accessed 24 Jan. 2018.
1206 ‘gyven’ deleted.
1207 ‘dedicated unto that holie howse’ inserted.
1208 ‘gyven’ deleted; ‘presented’ inserted.
1209 ‘There is’ deleted; ‘in’ altered to ‘In’.
1210 ‘is’ inserted.
1211 ‘bestowead’ inserted; ‘gyven’ deleted.
1212 ‘I C’ possibly deleted.
1213 Probably ‘cupp’ intended; Henry II (1519–1559), king of France, r. 1547–1559.
1214 ‘presented’ inserted; ‘gyven’ deleted.
1215 ‘soondrie’ inserted; ‘dyvers’ deleted.
1216 ‘offered’ inserted; ‘sente’ deleted.
1217 ‘gyven’ deleted; ‘sent’ inserted.
1218 ‘More’ inserted; ‘There is’ deleted.
1219 ‘gyven’ deleted; ‘dedicated therunto’ inserted.
1220 ‘I sawe’ inserted in margin.
1221 ‘by’ deleted.
1222 ‘as it was told us’ inserted.
1223 ‘in weight’ inserted.
1224 ‘There are’ deleted; ‘in’ altered to ‘In’.
1225 ‘are’ inserted.
1226 ‘there [are]’ deleted; ‘allso’ inserted.
1227 ‘an incredible’ inserted; ‘a wonderfull’ deleted.
1228 ‘and’ inserted; ‘we also sawe there’ deleted.
1229 ‘verie’ inserted.
1230 ‘and divine’ inserted; ‘good’ deleted.
1231 ‘thereof’ inserted.
1232 ‘lickwyse’ inserted.
1233 ‘this’ deleted.
1234 ‘as before I have saide’ inserted; different hand.
1235 ‘daye’ deleted; after each calendar numeral, word ‘daye’ deleted.
1236 ‘unto’ inserted; ‘the Cittie’ deleted.
1237 ‘daye’ deleted.
1238 ‘the Cittie’ deleted.
1239 ‘of’ inserted.
1240 ‘where the Councell of Arimynyne was helde’ deleted.
1241 ‘daye’ deleted.
1242 ‘the Cittie’ deleted.
1243 ‘a’ inserted; ‘the’ deleted.
1244 ‘called’ inserted.
1245 ‘daye’ deleted.
1246 ‘liethe’ deleted; ‘is interred’ inserted.
1247 ‘there’ deleted; ‘thereof’ inserted.
1248 ‘daye’ deleted.
1249 ‘wch’ inserted; ‘cittie’ deleted.
1250 ‘whoe hath a sumptuous tombe over him’ inserted.
1251 ‘daye’ deleted.
1252 ‘we’ inserted; ‘I’ deleted.
1253 ‘we travellead’ inserted.
1254 ‘myracles’ deleted.
1255 ‘as the inhabytants thereof do testefie’ inserted.
1256 ‘from thence’ inserted; ‘and soe’ deleted.
1257 ‘said’ inserted.
1258 ‘of Parma’ deleted.
1259 ‘comethe’ – ‘the’ deleted.
1260 ‘we iorniead’ inserted.
1261 ‘day’ deleted.
1262 ‘soe’ deleted; ‘frome thence’ inserted.
1263 ‘daye’ deleted.
1264 ‘cittie’ deleted.
1265 ‘allso’ inserted; ‘there is’ deleted.
1266 ‘is constantlie reported’ inserted.
1267 ‘strange’ inserted.
1268 ‘corpes’ inserted.
1269 ‘In this cittie’ inserted; ‘there’ deleted.
1270 ‘moreover’ inserted; ‘there is’ deleted.
1271 ‘monesterie’ inserted; ‘churche’ deleted.
1272 ‘wch’ inserted; ‘there’ altered to ‘the; ‘bodies’ deleted.
1273 ‘we sawe’ inserted.
1274 ‘is’ deleted.
1275 ‘dedicated’ inserted.
1276 ‘of’ altered to ‘to’.
1277 ‘in itt’ inserted; ‘There’ deleted.
1278 ‘to be seene’ inserted; ‘alsoe’ deleted.
1279 ‘We tooke note of a’ inserted; ‘There is a’ deleted.
1280 ‘fortres’ inserted; ‘castle’ deleted.
1281 ‘if occation be offered’ inserted.
1282 ‘in Millan’ inserted; ‘there’ deleted.
1283 ‘me’ inserted.
1284 ‘for me, and did’ deleted.
1285 Reginald Bates (b.1569), entered English College, Rome, in June 1591; ordained there March 1594; was sent to England, 22 Oct. 1597, and was working in Newgate in 1612. Anstruther, Godfrey, The Seminary Priests: A Dictionary of the Secular Clergy of England and Wales 1558–1850, I: Elizabethan 1558–1603 (Ware and Durham, [1969]), 26Google Scholar. In the internal college dispute of 1595, Bates and Piers were among the minority who sided with the Jesuit administration, Foley, Records, VI, 3.
1286 Carlo Borromeo (1538–1584), created cardinal in 1560. Miranda, The Cardinals of the Holy Roman Church, http://www2.fiu.edu/~mirandas/bios1560.htm#Borromeo, accessed 2 Dec. 2017.
1287 ‘beinge a man induead wth great virtue and learninge’ inserted.
1288 ‘daye over’ deleted; ‘thorowe’ inserted.
1289 ‘daye’ deleted.
1290 ‘monasterie’ inserted.
1291 Bede [St Bede, known as the Venerable Bede] (673/4–735), monk, historian, theologian; author of Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum; was buried at Jarrow, but his remains were said to have been removed in early 11th century to Durham; his tomb there was desecrated in 1541 but its contents are believed to be interred in Galilee chapel of Durham Cathedral, ODNB.
1292 ‘it’ inserted; ‘That cittie’ deleted.
1293 ‘there cittisens’ inserted.
1294 ‘moste high sperited people’ inserted; words deleted.
1295 ‘testimonie whereof’ inserted; ‘soe muche as’ deleted.
1296 ‘amongste other things of note’ inserted in margin.
1297 ‘[from one] streete to another’ inserted.
1298 ‘heere’ inserted; ‘in this cittie’ deleted.
1299 Change of ink, from brown to black; continues to top of p. 199 of text.
1300 Domenico Pinelli (1541–1611), native of Genoa, created cardinal 18 Dec. 1585; from 1592 a leading figure in the Roman Inquisition, Dizionario Biografico degli Italiani, http://www.treccani.it/enciclopedia/domenico-pinelli_(Dizionario-Biografico), accessed 6 Dec. 2017.
1301 ‘sayled’ deleted.
1302 ‘that’ inserted.
1303 ‘that’ inserted.
1304 ‘wch’ deleted.
1305 ‘sayled’ inserted; ‘passed’ deleted.
1306 ‘we lefte’ deleted.
1307 ‘lyeath’ inserted.
1308 ‘hand thereof’ inserted; ‘hand’ deleted.
1309 ‘so dothe’ inserted.
1310 ‘sacred’ inserted; ‘blessed’ deleted.
1311 ‘unto’ deleted.
1312 ‘soe’ inserted.
1313 ‘dothe’ inserted.
1314 ‘are’ inserted; ‘is’ deleted.
1315 ‘is’ inserted.
1316 Symbol unclear; possibly ‘1/2’.
1317 ‘great’ deleted.
1318 ‘them’ deleted.
1319 Thomas Fitzherbert (1552–1640), writer; after the death of his wife in 1588 he moved from England to Spain, and received a pension from Philip II; in 1596 Fitzherbert became English secretary to Philip II; author of A defence of the Catholycke cause, containing a treatise in confutation of sundry untruths and slanders, published by the heretics, in infamous libels as well against all English Catholicks in general, as against some in particular, etc., by T.F: With an apology of his innocence in a fayned conspiracy against her majesty's person, for the which one Edward Squyre was wrongfully condemned and executed in November, 1598, wherewith the author and other Catholykes were also falsely charged (St Omer, 1602); he moved to Rome, and was ordained priest 24 Mar. 1602; served as Roman agent of the English clergy, resigned, and entered Society of Jesus in 1615; served as rector, English College, Rome, 1619–39, ODNB; Fitzherbert's cousin Nicholas Fitzherbert (1550–1612) was living in Rome in the 1590s, and thus Piers probably knew him, Nicholas Fitzherbert, ODNB.
1320 ‘E’ partly erased.
1321 ‘them’ inserted; ‘Castyell’ (after ‘newe’), deleted.
1322 ‘in’ deleted.
1323 ‘was’ inserted; may be identified with ‘Bernard O Ferail’ described as sacerdotem theologum at Valladolid in 1601 for ‘seven continuous years’, he studied letters at the University of Valladolid where he spent a further four years studying theology. On 14 Dec. 1601, Hugh O'Neill and Red Hugh O'Donnell recommended O Ferail to Philip III for the vacant see of Meath, Hazard, Benjamin, Faith and Patronage: The Political Career of Flaithrí Ó Maolchonaire, 1560–1629 (Dublin, 2010), 172–173Google Scholar.
1324 ‘great’ inserted.
1325 ‘sett forthe’ inserted.
1326 ‘adorned’ inserted; ‘sett out’ deleted.
1327 ‘being’ inserted; ‘are’ deleted.
1328 ‘or thereaboute’ inserted.
1329 ‘there’ deleted.
1330 ‘of’ deleted.
1331 ‘in itt’ inserted; ‘there’ deleted.
1332 ‘as is reported’ inserted, different hand.
1333 ‘the’ inserted.
1334 Aristotle; ‘etc’ inserted.
1335 Monks of a religious order more commonly known as ‘Hieronymites’, or the Order of St Jerome; Philip II assigned them the monastery he built at El Escorial.
1336 Recte ‘Philosophy’.
1337 ‘of’ inserted, but in faint ink.
1338 ‘was’ inserted.
1339 ‘thirde’ deleted.
1340 Ann Houlte (or Holt) was buried in Christ Church Cathedral, Dublin, beside her husband Captain Pearse (or Piers), 12 Feb. 1596–1597, National Library of Ireland, Genealogical Office, MS 64, fo.11r.
1341 ‘but’ inserted.
1342 ‘to’ inserted; ‘for’ deleted; following 2 lines erased: ‘but I am in full hope that god hath [acc]epted of hir good intent and inward resolution’.
1343 ‘wch’ deleted.
1344 Altered from ‘is’ to ‘was’.
1345 Altered from ‘are’ to ‘weare’.
1346 ‘oute’ deleted.
1347 ‘in the said towne’ inserted.
1348 ‘in’ inserted.
1349 ‘ye’ inserted.
1350 Joseph Creswell SJ (1556–1623), joined Jesuits 1583 in Rome; rector, English College, Rome, c.1589–1592; went to Spain in 1592 as collaborator of Robert Persons, and for years lobbied at the royal court for funds for the English colleges in Valladolid and Seville, becoming informal agent with crown for the English in Spain; moved to Flanders in 1615, ODNB; on Creswell's Spanish career, see Loomie, Albert, The Spanish Elizabethans: The English Exiles at the Court of Philip II (New York, 1963), 182–229Google Scholar.
1351 Probably Nicholas Weston (d.1617), a leading Dublin merchant who by 1589 was engaged in shipping with Spain, and in 1597–1598 served as mayor of Dublin, DIB, sub nomine; on Weston, see Lennon, The Lords of Dublin in the Age of Reformation, 275; for a case study of an Irish merchant in the war years of the 1590s, see Canning, Ruth, ‘Profits and patriotism: Nicholas Weston, Old English merchants, and Ireland's Nine Years War, 1594–1603’, Irish Economic and Social History, 43 (2016), 85–112CrossRefGoogle Scholar.
1352 In the 1580s and 1590s, Comerford family members were prominent in the civic life of Waterford, serving as sheriff and mayor, Byrne, Niall (ed.), The Great Parchment Book of Waterford: Liber Antiquissimus Civitatis Waterfordiae (Dublin, 2007)Google Scholar.
1353 ‘that’ deleted; ‘the’ inserted.
1354 ‘or’ inserted.
1355 ‘day’ deleted.
1356 Last character uncertain; possibly ‘x’ i.e. 80 paces.
1357 ‘In itt’ inserted; ‘There’ deleted.
1358 ‘to be seene’ inserted; ‘also’ deleted.
1359 ‘There is’ deleted.
1360 ‘dom’ deleted.
1361 Following line erased.
1362 ‘so’ inserted.
1363 ‘and periured’ inserted.
1364 ‘besides manie other’ inserted; ‘here are [an] infinitt’ deleted.
1365 ‘besides’ deleted.
1366 ‘thereof’ inserted.
1367 ‘day’ deleted.
1368 ‘of Civill’ deleted.
1369 ‘which runnethe by ye same’ inserted.
1370 Richard Walpole SJ ([1564]–1607), prefect of studies at the English College in Seville in late 1590s, ODNB.
1371 ‘owne’ inserted; ‘goods’ deleted.
1372 Sir Valentine Blake (1560–1635), created baronet 1622, DIB; for Piers's contacts with Irish merchants in Spain, see above, Introduction, pp. 31–34.
1373 ‘it’ deleted; ‘doe prove evidentlie’ inserted, smaller script.
1374 ‘is’ deleted.
1375 ‘this churche’ deleted; ‘itt’ inserted.
1376 ‘oure’ deleted.
1377 ‘the’ altered to ‘there’; ‘of the churche’ deleted.
1378 ‘there’ deleted.
1379 ‘sumptuous’ inserted.
1380 ‘5’ placed above ‘five’.
1381 ‘that churche’ deleted.
1382 ‘St Fraunces’ deleted.
1383 ‘river wch’ inserted; ‘there’ altered to ‘the’.
1384 ‘itt’ inserted; ‘Civill’ deleted; ‘wch’ deleted.
1385 ‘of cevill’ inserted.
1386 ‘the’ deleted.
1387 ‘busines of state is manadged’ inserted; ‘other wise’ deleted.
1388 ‘who is a man of great honor and reputation’ inserted.
1389 ‘di’ inserted betweeen ‘u’ and ‘e’.
1390 Abbreviation; unclear.
1391 ‘in’ inserted.
1392 ‘iorniead’ inserted.
1393 ‘againe’ inserted.
1394 ‘to Civill’ deleted; ‘againe theether’ inserted.
1395 ‘that cittie’ inserted; ‘Civill’ deleted.
1396 The standard form is ‘ne plus ultra’ [Lat. ‘no more beyond’]; denoted the uttermost limit of navigation in the ancient world, Bliss, A.J., A Dictionary of Foreign Words and Phrases in Current English (London, 1966), 256Google Scholar.
1397 ‘ther’ inserted; ‘Civill there’ deleted.
1398 ‘comethe’ altered to ‘come’.
1399 Different ink.
1400 Philip II died 13 Sept. 1598.
1401 ‘eare itt were finishead’ inserted.
1402 ‘and that’ inserted.
1403 ‘would’ inserted.
1404 ‘no less then’ inserted.
1405 ‘ducketts’ deleted.
1406 Sir Richard Hawkins (c.1560–1622), English naval officer; was captured June 1594 by the Spanish at San Mateo, off coast of present-day Chile; was held in Lima for almost three years and in 1597 was transferred to a prison in Seville. In Sept. 1598 he attempted to escape but was recaptured and transferred to a prison in Madrid. In 1602 he was released after eight years in captivity. On his return to England he was knighted in 1603. ODNB.
1407 ‘wherein he laye’ inserted; ‘of Civill’ deleted.
1408 ‘he’ inserted; ‘Father Wallpoll’ deleted.
1409 ‘supposinge that … busines’ interlined; different hand.
1410 Margin, erased: ‘Another burdene of affliction’.
1411 Changed from ‘me’ to ‘my’.
1412 Changed from ‘my’ to ‘me’.
1413 ‘mis’ inserted.
1414 Duke of Medina Sidonia.
1415 Dona Ana de Espinosa, widow of Don Alonso Flores Quiñones, captain-general of the Fleet of the Indies, Murphy, Martin, St Gregory's College, Seville, 1592–1767, Catholic Record Society, 73 (1992), 141Google Scholar.
1416 ‘of’ inserted.
1417 ‘was’ inserted.
1418 Capital ‘I’ before ‘imitatinge’ – sense unclear.
1419 In the New Testament, regarding those giving to the temple treasury, the widow ‘out of her poverty put in all she had to live on’, Luke 21:1–4.
1420 ‘h’ inserted in front of ‘abillitie’.
1421 ‘teachers and’ inserted.
1422 ‘me’ inserted.
1423 ‘of’ inserted.
1424 ‘takinge’ deleted.
1425 ‘by me’ deleted.
1426 ‘had’ inserted.
1427 ‘therwthall’ inserted.
1428 ‘did’ deleted.
1429 ‘on’ inserted.
1430 ‘daye’ deleted.
1431 ‘as I was informed’ inserted.
1432 ‘whose’ inserted; ‘the’ deleted.
1433 First letter deleted; thus starts with ‘h’.
1434 Perhaps the ‘Bestian?’ Fleming, Drogheda merchant, bond as debtor for £220 in June 1599, Ohlmeyer and Ó Ciardha, The Irish Statute Staple Books, 225.
1435 ‘day’ deleted.
1436 ‘daye’ deleted.
1437 First letter erased; perhaps ‘S’.
1438 John Fletcher, English merchant with a wine business in Jerez, member of the Brotherhood of St George, the confraternity which administered the church of St George and adjoining entities in the port of Sanlucar until 1591, Albert Loomie, ‘Religion and Elizabethan commerce with Spain’, 40–41, repr. in Loomie, A., Spain and the Early Stuarts, 1585–1655 (Aldershot, 1996)Google Scholar.
1439 One Captain Crisp, an Englishman, had been serving in the Spanish fleets since c.1594, Loomie, Spanish Elizabethans, 164, 247.
1440 One of a category of precious stones, ‘spotted or streaked with red, supposed in former times to have the power of staunching bleeding, when worn as amulets’, OED.
1441 ‘daye’ deleted.
1442 Robert Devereux (1565–1601), 2nd earl of Essex; led an expedition to Cadiz, and on 21 June 1596 destroyed a Spanish fleet there, landed troops, and stormed the city; Cadiz was plundered, burnt, and abandoned; Essex and his party returned to Plymouth, 8 Aug. 1596, ODNB.
1443 ‘daye’ deleted; ‘of november’ inserted.
1444 Probably ‘clouds’.
1445 Pluto: Greek and Roman god of the lower world.
1446 Different hand; recte Psalm 36 (37):11; Psalm 33 (34):20.
1447 Psalm 36 (37):35–36; the correct wording is ‘Vidi impium superexaltatum, et elevatum sicut cedros Libani …’
1448 ‘same’ inserted.
1449 Psalm 33 (34):22.
1450 Psalm 36 (37):28.
1451 Psalm 36 (37):25.
1452 ‘for’ inserted; ‘and’ deleted.
1453 ‘we sawe’ inserted.
1454 Final letter ‘n’ erased.
1455 Co. Cork, Ireland.
1456 ‘was’ inserted.
1457 Change from ‘the’ to ‘therof’; ‘rocke’ deleted.
1458 Recte 220.
1459 ‘or’ deleted.
1460 ‘or’ inserted.
1461 Different hand.
1462 ‘ten’ changed to ‘twentie’.
1463 ‘ye’ inserted.
1464 Slight difference in ink.
1465 Ink as in previous margin entry.
1466 ‘to’ inserted twice.
1467 ‘to’ deleted.
1468 ‘to’ deleted.
1469 Added, in pencil, ‘115’ – modern.
1470 ‘day’ deleted.
1471 ‘to’ deleted.