Thomas Darbyshire

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Thomas Darbyshire (1518–1604) was an English churchman and

Jesuit
.

He was a nephew of

St. Magnus, near London Bridge, on 27 November 1558. He was also chancellor of the diocese of London, in which capacity he examined Protestants who were brought before Bishop Bonner about matters of faith.[3]

On the accession of

recusants
. He brought back an answer to the effect that attendance at the heretical worship would be a great sin. It was at his prompting that the fathers of the Council passed the decree De non adeundis Haereticorum ecclesiis. He afterwards suffered imprisonment in London, and eventually left England.

He visited several parts of France and Flanders, and entered the Society of Jesus on 1 May 1563, at St. Andrew's Novitiate, Rome. He was sent first to

He visited

Lorraine, where he died on 6 April 1604. Some of his letters, intercepted by the English government, were printed by Henry Foley
.

Notes

  1. ^ Alumni Oxonienses 1500-1714, Dabbe-Dirkin
  2. ^ "Hackney: The Parish Church | British History Online".
  3. ^ "Editorial commentary and additional information". Archived from the original on 14 June 2011. Retrieved 18 September 2009.
  4. ^ "§1. Robert Southwell. VII. Robert Southwell. Samuel Daniel. Vol. 4. Prose and Poetry: Sir Thomas North to Michael Drayton. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21".
  5. ^ Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Southwell, Robert" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 25 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 517–518.
  6. ^ Menology of the Society of Jesus. English-speaking assistancy: comprising the provinces of England, Ireland, Maryland and Missouri, together with the missions of Canada and New Orleans (1902), p. 167.

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