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Two Seventeenth Century Hebrew Scholars: Thomas Fairfax and Edward Slaughter
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 September 2015
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Prevented by their refusal to take the Oath of Supremacy from being admitted to a degree at Oxford or Cambridge, Catholics—clerical or lay—who wished for higher education not infrequently attended foreign universities or colleges but there were those who achieved distinction in one branch or another of study without attending any institution of higher learning. One example of this was the subject of a recent article in Recusant History —the Jesuit astronomer Christopher Maire.
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1 Recusant History, 21, pp. 497–502.
2 English Jesuits in the Age of Reason by the present writer (1993) pp. 27–33.
3 Florus Anglo-Bavaricus p. 30.
4 See Dorrington, Th., Observations concerning the Present State of Religion in the Roman Church with some observations upon them made in a journey through some Provinces of Germany in the year 1698 (London 1699).Google Scholar
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7 The English Jesuits 1650–1829, A Biographical Dictionary (CRS 70) p. 90; Catalogi Provinciae Angliae S.J. in Jesuit Province Archives (JPA), London.
8 Literae Annuae Provinciae Anglicanae S.J. 1665–1690, Residentia S. Mariae in Archivum Romanum S.J. (ARSJ).
9 ARSJ Anglia 35, Literae Annuae, Residentia S. Mariae.
10 DNB, Fairfax, Thomas.
11 Wood, pp. 177, 194.
12 Wood,pp. 197,201, 215.
13 See N. Luttrell, Brief Historical Relation of State Affairs from September 1678 till 1714, vol. 1, January 1687/8; ‘A School in the Savoy, 1687–1688’ by the present writer in Transactions of the London and Middlesex Archaeological Society, 41, (1990), p. 24.
14 Wood, pp. 216 …; Bloxam, pp. 1 et seq.
15 CSP Dom James 11, 3, nos. 651, 734; Bloxam pp. 225 et seq.
16 CSP Dom James II, 3, 670; Bloxam p. 231; Gillow, J., Bibliographical Dictionary of the English Catholics, 1, pp. 473–4.Google Scholar
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18 CSP Dom James II, 3, nos. 451, 516, 518, 651, 734, 942; ‘A School in the Savoy’, p. 24; St. Omers and Bruges Colleges, 1593–1774, A Biographical Dictionary (CRS. 69).
19 Annual Letters, Residentia S. Mariae, Anglia 35 (ARSJ).
20 CSP Dom James II, 3, n. 797; Bloxam p. 238. One of the new fellows was Stephen Galloway, almost certainly the father of Edward Galloway S.J. (1706–1779). A royal mandate for the admission of Richard Short from Douay College as a fellow was issued that month. See CSPDom James II, 3,882; Bloxam p. 239.
21 Bloxam, pp. 240–242; CSP Dom James II, 3, 952.
22 Wood, p. 264.
23 Wood, p. 265.
24 Wood, p. 267.
25 Bloxam, p. 247.
26 Bloxam, pp. 245, 247 (July 4th and 9th 1688).
27 DNB, Johnston, Nathaniel. HMC, 6th Report, recorded that the Johnston papers were in the possession of F. Bacon Frank, Esq. of Campsall Hall, Co. York.
28 Wood, p. 198.
29 Gillow, 2 p. 221; Foley, records 5 p. 823; Sommervogel Bibliothèque de la Compagnie de Jesus (Brussels 1691) 3 p. 531: Wood, Athenae Oxonienses (ed. Bliss) 4, col. 563.
30 CSP Dom James II, 3, 1677; Bloxam, p. 252.
31 Bloxam, p. 262; Ellis, Henry, Original Letters, second series vol. 4 p. 132 Google Scholar (London 1822).
32 Bloxam, p. 261, Letter to Sir William Haward, October 27th 1688.
33 CSPDom James II, 3, 1700.
34 Brussels, Archives de l'Etat, Varia S.J. Carton 31 (copy in JPA 46/24/1 and Foley, Records 5, p. 956).
35 CRS, 70 p. 90; CRS Monograph Series, 1, Catholic Recusancy in Wiltshire 1660–1791, p. 151.
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37 The summaries of Letters are in ‘Notes and Fragments’ (a Ms in JPA), f. 80 and in CRS. Vol. 62, The Letter Book of Lewis Sabran, pp. 35, 305.
38 CRS, 70, p. 124; Wood, pp. 213, 240.
39 Wood, pp. 276, 285, 298.
40 CSP Dom James II, 3, 651, 734; Bloxam, pp. 225, 232, 265.
41 DNB, Meredith, Edward; Wood, Athenae Oxonienses (ed. Bliss), 4, col. 653.
42 CRS, 70 p. 163.
43 ‘A School in the Savoy, 1687–1688’, p. 25.
44 CRS, 70 p. 163; letters from him are in the Bodleian Library (Rawlinson Mss D 21) and summaries of letters in CRS, 62, The Letter Book of Lewis Sabran.
45 CRS, 70 p. 230.
46 According to Gillow, Bibliographical Dictionary, 5, p. 510, a James Slaughter lived at Yarkhill. Herefordshire and had a son, also James, born in 1712 who went to Douay College and became a priest. No connection has been found between this family and Edward Slaughter but it seems likely. See also Kirk, p. 212, CRS, 28, Seventh Douay Diary, p. 163n.
47 College of the Holy Apostles District Accounts 1667–1842 (Ms in JPA), f. 15.
48 There is evidence that secular students were admitted to attend the lectures at the Jesuit college c. 1690— see Catalogi Provinciae Angliae S.J. 1665–1711 (Ms in JPA).
49 Sommervogel, 7, col. 1293. There are copies of the first edition in the Heythrop College and Farm Street Libraries.
50 This document is in the Stonyhurst College Archives. Fr. F. Turner, the librarian, kindly provided me with a copy. See Oliver, Collections illustrating the Biography of the Scotch, English and Irish Members S.J. (London 1838), p. 276.Google Scholar
51 Sommervogel, 7, col. 1294. A copy of the first edition is in the Heythrop College Library. I am grateful to the Librarian, Mr. M. Walsh, for producing this and the Grammatica Hebraica for my inspection.
52 CRS, 70 p. 122.
53 Epist. Gen. Angliae (ARSJ), Tamburini to Slaughter, December 18th 1706.
54 Epist. Gen. Angliae (ARSJ), Tamburini to Slaughter February 29th 1716.
55 CRS, 70 p. 230.
56 Liège Procurators’ Correspondence 1662–1739, (Ms. in JPA) ff. 131 et seq.