Footnote 168:  Fynes Moryson, Itinerary, ed. 1907, vol. iii. pp. 390-1.

Footnote 169:  Such as Dr Thomas Case of St John’s in Oxford, whom Fuller reports as “always a Romanist in his heart, but never expressing the same till his mortal sickness seized upon him” (Church History, book ix. p. 235).

Footnote 170:  Gardiner, History of England, vol. v. pp. 102-3.  The same wavering between two Churches in the time of James I. is exemplified by “Edward Buggs, Esq., living in London, aged seventy, and a professed Protestant.”  He “was in his sicknesse seduced to the Romish Religion.”  Recovering, a dispute was held at his request between two Jesuits and two Protestant Divines, on the subject of the Visibility of the Church.  “This conference did so satisfie Master Buggs, that renouncing his former wavering, he was confirmed in the Protestant truth” (Fuller, Church History, x. 102).

Footnote 171:  Winwood Memorials, vol. ii. 109.

Footnote 172:  The Earl of Nottingham, Ambassador Extraordinary in 1605.

Footnote 173:  Winwood Memorials, vol. ii. 76.

Footnote 174:  Winwood Memorials, vol. ii. 109.

Footnote 175:  Fynes Moryson, Itinerary, vol. i. p. 260.

Footnote 176:  Such was the case of Tobie Matthew, son of the Archbishop of York, converted during his travels in Italy.  This witty and frivolous courtier came home and faced the uproar of his friends, spent a whole plague-stricken summer in Fleet arguing with the Bishops sent to reclaim him, and then was banished.  After ten years he reappeared at Court, as amusing as ever, the protege of the Duke of Buckingham.  But under the mask of frippery he worked unsleepingly to advance the Church of Rome, for he had secretly taken orders as a Jesuit Priest.  See Life of Sir Tobie Matthew, by A.H.  Mathew, London, 1907.

Footnote 177:  Davison’s Poetical Rhapsody, ed.  Nicolas, 1826, vol. i. p. vi.

Footnote 178:  Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton, vol. ii. 482.

Footnote 179:  Quo Vadis, A Just Censure of Travel, in Works, Oxford, vol. ix. p. 560.

Footnote 180:  Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton, vol. i. 70, note.

Footnote 181:  A Method for Travell shewed by taking the view of France,
As it stoode in the yeare of our Lord, 1598.

Footnote 182:  Wood records such a state of mind in John Nicolls, who, in 1577 left England, made a recantation of his heresy, and was “received into the holy Catholic Church.”  Returning to England he recanted his Roman Catholic opinions, and even wrote “His Pilgrimage, wherein is displayed the lives of the proud Popes, ambitious Cardinals, leacherous Bishops, fat bellied Monks, and hypocritical Jesuits” (1581).  Notwithstanding which, he went beyond the seas again (to turn Mohometan, his enemies said), and under threats and imprisonment at Rouen, recanted all that he had formerly uttered against the Romanists.—­Athenae Oxonienses, ed.  Bliss, i. p. 496.