Christopher Bagshaw
Christopher Bagshaw (1552 – 1625?) was an
Life
He came from a
About 1579, he became Principal of
He went to England as a missioner and, in 1587, was imprisoned in the Tower of London. In 1593, he was confined with other Catholics in Wisbech Castle. He clashed with Father William Weston, who found him disobedient, setting off the "Wisbech Stirs". When examined at the Tower for treasonable practices, Edward Squire, an emissary from some English priests in Spain, affirmed that he had come with a letter (which he threw into the sea off Plymouth) from Father Henry Walpole to Bagshaw at Wisbech. After his liberation, Bagshaw continued to reside abroad.
In 1612, he held a disputation with
Works
Bagshaw published, at Paris in 1603, 'An Answer to certain points of a Libel called An Apology of the Subordination in England,' 8vo. He is also thought to have been concerned in
- 'Relatio compendiosa Turbarum quas Jesuitæ Angli una cum D. Georgio Blackwello, Archipresbytero, Sacerdotibus Seminariorum Populoque Catholico concivere,' &c., Rothomagi, 1601, (published under the name of John Mush);
- 'A true Relation of the Faction begun at Wisbich by Father Emonds, alias Weston, a Jesuit, 1595, and continued since by Father Walley, alias Garnet, the Provincial of the Jesuits in England, and by Father Parsons in Rome,' 1601.
References
- Holmes, Peter. "Bagshaw, Christopher (1552–1625?)". doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/1042. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.). The first edition of this text is available at Wikisource: Bullen, Arthur Henry (1885). . In Stephen, Leslie (ed.). Dictionary of National Biography. Vol. 2. London: Smith, Elder & Co. p. 400-1.
Notes
- ^ Herbermann, Charles, ed. (1913). . Catholic Encyclopedia. New York: Robert Appleton Company.
- ^ "Bagshaw, Christopher (BGSW566C)". A Cambridge Alumni Database. University of Cambridge.
- George Abbotto Dr. Hussye, from which it appears that Bagshaw 'coming to be fellow was most hot in prosecution against Parson.'
- ^ Notes of this disputation were printed many years afterwards in Transubstantiation exploded, or an Encounter with Richard, the titularie Bishop of Chalcedon. ... By Daniel Featley, D.D. Whereunto is annexed a publique and solemne disputation held at Paris with Christopher Bagshawe, D. in Theologie and Rector of Avie Marie College, 1638.
- Attribution
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Bagshaw, Christopher". Dictionary of National Biography. London: Smith, Elder & Co. 1885–1900.
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