The Contemporary Printed Literature of the English Counter-Reformation between 1558 and 1640

Volume II: Works in English, with Addenda & Corrigenda to Volume I

A.F. Allison, D.M. Rogers

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2017
• Print ISBN:
  9780859678520
• eBook ISBN:
  9781351963978
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: World History
• Index: History

This is an annotated bibliography of Catholic books in English printed abroad or secretly in England at a time when Catholic printing was prohibited in England and such books, when discovered by the authorities, were seized and destroyed. It includes all the 930 items listed in the authors' A Catalogue of Catholic Books in English..., 1956 (A&R) except for a handful which, for reasons of consistency, were described in volume I of the present work (Scolar Press, 1989), and it adds a further twenty-five on which information has come to light more recently. The annotations, historical, literary and bibliographical, are very much fuller than those in A&R and include a vast amount of evidence now brought together for the first time. The true authors of many anonymous and pseudonymous books are identified and many books issued with a false imprint, or no imprint at all, are assigned to particular presses. In each entry, up to fifteen locations are given where known. A concordance links the entries with those in A&R to facilitate cross-reference from one to the other, and indexes of titles, printers and publishers, and persons (including foreign authors) mentioned in the text are provided. The volume concludes with a short list of Addenda and Corrigenda to volume I.

Catalogue
Part I

Works written by, translated by, or concerning known English Catholic persons, institutions or groups. Entered under the name or initials of the person, institution or group.

In addition to personal names, the following institutions and groups figure as headings in this section:

1. Brussels, English Benedictine Convent.
2. Douai, English College.
3. English Benedictines.
4. English Catholics.
5. English Jesuits.
6. Louvain, English Jesuit College.
7. Louvain, Irish Franciscan College of St. Anthony.
8. Paris, University, Faculty of Theology.
9. Rheims, English College.
10. Salamanca, Irish College.

1. A., B.E. See nos. 185-6.
   A., B.T. See no. 226.
   A., C. Monsigr. fate vol. Or a discouery. See no. 739.
2. 1 A., C. [Works translated under these initials.] Coton, Pierre. The interiour occupation of the soule. Treating of the important businesse of our saluation with God, and his saints, by way of prayer … translated into English by C.A. for the benefit of all of our nation. 12⁰. Printed at Doway, 1618. D.C(2, 1 P); AUG, CAL DE. F.P. LIV. W. WCHR (1956) YK.YK².
   A transl. of Intérieure occupation d’une âme dévote. The style of the translator’s preface, also signed: C.A., suggests that he is the same as the translator of no. 2. He has not been identified. Imprint false; pr. [secretly in England, press no. 20].

   A&R 263. STC 5860. ERL 156.
3. 2 —Richeome, Louis. Holy pictures of the mysticall figures of the most holy sacrifice and sacrament of the Eucharist … translated into English for the benefit of those of that nation, as well Protestants as Catholikes. By C.A. 4⁰. n.p., 1619. L.O(2). c(2, 1 P); AMP (both errata) AUG. D. DAI. DE. F.HN.N.ST (3). U.W.Y.+
   A transl. of Tableaux sacrés des figures mystiques … de l'Eucharistie. The translator, who also signs his preface with the initials C.A., is probably the same as the translator of no. I. Gillow’s attribution to Charles Apsley (vol. 1, p. 54) is a mistaken guess disproved by the translator’s statement in the preface that he has never been to France: Apsley was in France in 1589 (see DD 1, 2, p. 223). Hawkes’s suggestion that the translator was Christopher Anderton (LIB. 1927, p. 168) lacks evidence. Pr. [secretly in England, press no. 18]. In some copies, e.g. DAI, DE, the original 20-line errata list has been cancelled by pasting over a fresh leaf containing a 31-line list.

   A&R 714. STC 21022. ERL 250.
   A., E. See nos. 185-6
   A., H. See nos. 388-9
   A., M. See no. 30
   A., O. See nos. 15, 106, 108—9
   A., R. See no. 8.
   A., T. See no. 579.
   A., T.W.S.T.D.P. See nos. 841-5.
4. 3 Abbot, John. Iesus praefigured: or a poëme of the holy name of Iesus in fiue bookes. The first and second booke. 4⁰. n.p. 1623. L.O.; BUTE F.HN. HP (imp.), L4. NLA (ex. UG). ST (imp.) YK.
   The poem was occasioned by the proposed marriage between Prince Charles and the Infanta Maria of Spain. The failure to conclude the match in September 1623 was doubtless the reason why books 3-5, if written, were never published. The author’s name appears on sig.*2^v at the end of the verse dedication to the Prince. A prose dedication in Spanish to the Infanta ends (sig.*4^v): ‘Deste Conuento de San Iuan Baptista de Anuers a 12. de Nouembre 1623’. Pr. [Antwerp ?]. For Abbot, see ANST., vol. 2, pp. 1-2; RH January 1951, pp. 22-33.

   A&R I. STC 42. ERL 54.
5. 4 Alfield, Thomas, Bl. A true reporte of the death & martyrdome of M. Campion Iesuite and preiste, & M. Sherwin, & M. Bryan preistes … Observid and written by a Catholike preist, which was present therat. 8°. n.p.d. [1582.] L(2). O.; E.F.HN.L13. N. OS. PORT. (1956).
   Anon. The evidence for Alfield is given by sou. pp. 376-9. See also RH April 1959, pp. 66-69; & October 1962, pp. 251-56, where the parts played in the book’s make-up by Stephen Vallenger and Henry Walpole, and the printer himself, Richard Verstegan (also known as Rowland) are discussed. Campion and his companions suffered on 1 December 1581. The book was printed in February 1582 (see RH October 1962, p. 253). Pr. [London, by ‘Rowlande, the printer in Smythefild’, See press no. 6].

   A&R 4. STC 4537. ERL 56. SOU. 9.
   Alford, Michael, alias. See Griffith, M.
6. 5 Allen, William, Cardinal An admonition to the nobility and people of England and Ireland concerninge the present war res made for the execution of his Holines sentence, by the highe and mightie Kinge Catholike of Spaine. By the Cardinal of Englande. 8°. n.p., 1588. L.; BUTE. ST.YK.
   For the history of this book, written when an invasion by Spanish armed forces was imminent, see CRS 21, pp. 166, et seq.; The Month, April 1948, pp. 232, et seq.; MIL. vol. 1, p. 111. Though Allen’s surname is not mentioned, there is a woodcut of his arms on the titlepage, the words ‘the Cardinal of Englande’ can refer to no one else since there was no other English cardinal at this date, and the text begins with the Latin recital of his titles as Cardinal Priest of St. Martin in Montibus. Charges by contemporaries, repeated by some later writers, that the real author was Robert Persons, are unsubstantiated by any evidence. The Pope’s sentence referred to in the title was a bull of Sixtus V drawn up but never, in fact, issued. Pr. [probably at Antwerp]. For a broadside summary of the work, see no. 10 below. Both versions were suppressed by Royal Proclamation on 1 July 1588 (STC 8172). There is a contemporary Spanish version of the Admonition, in manuscript, at BL (MSS. Eg. 2048. f.I.) (GAYANGOS, vol. 1, p. 871.) A&R 5. STC 368. ERL 74.
7. 6 —An apologie and true declaration of the institution and endeuours of the two English colleges, the one in Rome, the other now resident in Rhemes. 8°. Mounts in Henault, 1581. L(2). O.C.; BUTE. D. DE. DUR⁵(2). F.HN.HP.N. U. USH(2). W.Y.YK(2).
   Answers the proclamations of 15 July 1580 (STC 8124) and 10 January 1581 (STC 8127) against his two foundations, at Rome and at Douai (now temporarily at Rheims). Signed by Allen at the end. Imprint false; pr. [Rheims, Jean Foigny]. Answered by STC 3071. See MIL. vol. 1, p. 67. For a Latin version see ARCR vol. 1, nos. 524-7.

   A&R 6. STC 369. ERL 67. SOU. 12.
   —Articles. [Printed versions of a defence of Catholic beliefs, commonly known at the time as ‘Allen’s Articles’, are to be found in nos. 67, 877.]
8. 7 —A briefe historie of the glorious martyrdom of xii. reuerend priests, executed within these twelue monethes for confession and defence of the catholike faith. 8°. n.p., 1582. L.; W(L27).
   Anon. The earliest printed work on the English martyrs. It was drawn up by Allen when he was Rector of the English College then at Rheims from first-hand reports sent to him from England. The authorship and history of the book are discussed at length by J.H. Pollen in the introduction to his London reprint of it in 1908. See also MIL. vol. 1, p. 64, and sou. pp. 383-5. Pr. [Rheims, Jean Foigny.] While the work was ...

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• Foreword
• Symbols and Libraries
• Signs and Abbreviations
• Short References
• Concordance Linking A&R Numbers with ARCR Numbers
• Catalogue Part I
• Catalogue Part II
• Catalogue Part III
• Titles
• Printers, Publishers and Booksellers
• Chronological Index
• General Index of Proper Names
• ADDENDA & CORRIGENDA TO VOLUME I
• ADDENDA & CORRIGENDA TO VOLUME II