Though a discredited scandal might best be forgotten, its reverberations may still have meaning. In 1537 England was cut off by the break with the Roman church from its Italian contacts outside of Venice; yet a scandal which was the talk of Rome and Florence in hat and following years not only made its speedy way to England but was soon recorded in print there.

Cosimo Gheri, Bishop of Fano, died in Fano of an apparent long standing malaria or other fever in September 1537. A young man of twenty-four, he owed his bishopric to his late uncle, his predecessor as bishop. He was praised for both learning and devotion and was well known from his recent student days at Padua to many of new eminence in the church—Contarini, Cortese, Sadoleto, Pole, Cervini. A laudatory account of him was written on January 1, 1538, for Venetian friends by his fellow-student Ludovico Bcccadelli, then in the famiglia of Cardinal Contarini in Rome, and his good works in the short year of his incumbency at Fano have been recorded by the local historian.

In the Catalogue of the British Museum and the Catalogue of Catholic Books in English Printed Abroad or Secretly in England, 1558-1640, the book An Advertisement written to a Secretarie . . . is assigned to Joseph Creswell, S.J. The ascription does not come from the title page since it was published under the pen name of ‘An Inglishe Intelligencer as he passed through Germanic towards Italie' but instead from a misleading reference in Felipe Alegambe's Biblioteca Scriptorum Societatis Iesu. Alegambe noted: ‘Joseph Creswell: In English under the name John Perney, a book opposing the Edict of Queen Elizabeth against the Catholics, also unless it is the same book, (one) against the letters of Cecil. However it is highly probable that Alegambe composed his entry from secondhand information without having seen the books he described.

On February 14, 1613, Frederick, the Elector Palatine, was married to Princess Elizabeth, daughter of James 1 of England. Shortly afterwards he and Prince Charles made a visit to Cambridge University. As on all such occasions, disputations were held, plays were acted, and congratulatory poems in Greek and Latin were offered. A contemporary account preserved in Gonville and Caius College (MS. 73, p. 232) records that after a speech the orator ‘presented the Princes with eyther of them a written book of verses, fairly bownd in vellum filletted and guilded, with crimson strings; that to the Prin: was gratulatorie, only that to the Palat: the former part gratulatori, the latter Epithalamia.’