[B] The “Venerable” Thomas Welbourn and John Fulthering suffered at York on the 1st August, 1605; and William Brown at Ripon on the 5th September. — See Challoner’s “Missionary Priests.” Ed. by T. G. Law (Jack, Edinburgh).
There were four paragraphs at the end of the letter.
Now, a short but separate paragraph of three lines is carefully obliterated between the first and the third of these paragraphs.
The third paragraph ends thus: —
“I cease 4th Octobris.”
The fourth paragraph then continues: —
“My hostesses both and their children salute you. Sir Thomas Tresham is dead.”[C]
[C] The hostesses would be those valiant women, Elizabeth Dowager Lady Vaux of Harrowden (née Roper), the Honourable Eleanor Brookesby, and the Honourable Anne Vaux. William Lord Vaux of Harrowden, who harboured Father Parsons in 1580-81, had married for his second wife a sister of Sir Thomas Tresham. This Lord Vaux’s eldest son Ambrose, a priest, resigned his title in favour of his half-brother the Honourable George Vaux, afterwards Lord Vaux of Harrowden. The first wife of William Lord Vaux was Elizabeth Beaumont, of Gracedieu, Leicestershire. She was the mother of Ambrose, Elizabeth, and Anne Vaux. Father Garnet for many years lived at Harrowden, from 1586 as the guest of William Lord Vaux, whose son, George Lord Vaux of Harrowden, married Elizabeth Roper, daughter of the first Lord Teynham. This lady was the above-named Dowager Lady Vaux of Harrowden, mother of Edward Lord Vaux of Harrowden, who became as “noble a confessor for the Faith” as were his numerous other relatives. (The present Lord Vaux of Harrowden, whose family name is Mostyn, is descended from the above-mentioned Lords Vaux, through the female line.)
Here ends the body of the letter.