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⁴ My thanks are due to the Society of Antiquaries of London for permission to publish the extract below, and to Mr Adrian James, Assistant Librarian, for his assistance when I visited their library.

⁵ Sir, Henry Ellis, Catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of the Society of Antiquaries (London, 1816), p. 4.Google Scholar

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⁹ Elizabethan Casuistry, p. 69; SAL, MS 21, fo. 9.

¹⁰ Evans, History, p. 70.

¹¹ Elizabethan Casuistry, p. 101 (Case II, ii, 3); p. 120 (Case II, ii, 120); SAL, MS 21, fos. 64^v–5 (Case III, 5, edited below).

¹² Elizabethan Casuistry, pp. 52–3, 54–5 (Douai-Rheims, J2, J5), 63–6, 77, 122 (Allen-Persons, I, 1; II, i, 7; II, ii, 28). Cf. also Holmes, P J, Resistance and Compromise: the Political Thought of the Elizabethan Catholics (recently republished as a paperback, Cambridge, 2009), 81–125;Google Scholar Crosignani, G., McCoog, T. M., Questier, M. (assisted by Holmes, P.), Recusancy and Conformity in Early Modern England (Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 2010), esp. pp. 100–110.Google Scholar By far the best introduction to Elizabethan and Jacobean casuistry, both Catholic and Protestant, is still, Elliot Rose, Cases of Conscience (Cambridge, 1975), see especially pp. 71–113, 242–50.Google Scholar

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¹³ Elizabethan Casuistry, p. 55.

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¹⁸ Elizabethan Casuistry, pp. 63–6 (Allen–Persons, I, 1).

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²³ Sic, for ‘promissionem’.

²⁴ Sic, for ‘fugiendo’.

²⁵ Sic, for ‘fugiendum’.

²⁶ Sic, for ‘habebat’.

²⁷ This 3-word phrase is first written twice and then one version is crossed out.

²⁸ Sic, for ‘tenetur’.

²⁹ Sic, for ‘putet’.

³⁰ Underlined in original.

³¹ Sic, for ‘contingit’.

³² At this point the Lambeth MS ends.

³³ Sic, for ‘suam’.

³⁴ Sic, for ‘teneor’.

³⁵ Sic, for ‘legitime’.

³⁶ Sic, probably a miscopy of ‘12^o n^o 24^o’, see previous reference to Navarre in text.

³⁷ At this point there is a faint ‘n’ (?) in the margin closest to the reference which follows, possibly for ‘nota’.

³⁸ Sic, for ‘petere’.

³⁹ At this point, the copyist inserted by mistake the passage between footnotes 40 and 42 (from 'vllo’ to ‘con’), which was later crossed out.

⁴⁰ See note 39.

⁴¹ Sic, for ‘in’ (reading supplied by the crossed-out section, see note 39.)

⁴² See note 39.

⁴³ Underlined in the original.

⁴⁴ Underlined in the original.

⁴⁵ Sic, for ‘scit’.

⁴⁶ Sic, for ‘legitime’.

⁴⁷ Largely obscured by the library stamp.

⁴⁸ Thomas, de Vio Cajetan, Secunda Secundae partis Summae Sacrae Theologiae S. Thomae Aquinatis, doctoris Angelici cum commentariis R. D. D. Thomae de Vio Caietani (Louvain, 1581), pp. 294 ff., 389ff.Google Scholar

⁴⁹ Cicero, De Officiis, Book 1, § 7. (Peabody, Andrew P. (ed.), Cicero de Officiis (Boston, 1887), p. 14.)Google Scholar

⁵⁰ See subsection 5 at the very end of the case.

⁵¹ This is the point at which the Lambeth Palace manuscript ends.

⁵² Martin, ab Azpilcueta, Enchiridion sive manuale confessariorum et poenitentium (Antwerp, 1575), p. 159.Google Scholar

⁵³ Martin, an Azpilcueta, Enchiridion, p. 163.Google Scholar

⁵⁴ Decretum Gratiani (Rome, 1582), pp. 1691–2 (actually at q. 5).

⁵⁵ ‘He’ changes again to ‘they’ at this point in the manuscript.

⁵⁶ ‘He’ changes to ‘they’ at this point in the manuscript.

⁵⁷ This seems to mean that a priest might be persuaded, by subtle questioning, to agree that the Parliament which agreed to the Prayer Book was thereby shown to be heretical and schismatical. In doing so the priest would also have agreed that the Queen was heretical and schismatical, since she also agreed to the Prayer Book, or perhaps constitutionally since she is a part of Parliament. The translation given above goes beyond the literal meaning of the Latin.

⁵⁸ The ‘visio pacis’ is the heavenly city, holy city or Jerusalem, and used in an ancient hymn which is in the Breviary. ‘Coelestis patria’ is a phrase used to signify heaven, for example by Saint Thomas Aquinas in the sermon Beata Gens. Quite what riddles on English place-names the casuist had in mind is unclear.