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and Robert Charnock travelled to Rome to represent their views and appeal against Blackwell's appointment. They arrived in December 1598; but Parsons had them arrested; and the Pope excluded Bishop from both Rome and England. Some of the seminary priests supported Blackwell, with others continuing to
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Some Appellants went to the Queen, requesting religious toleration in return for their declaring allegiance to her and for her expelling the Jesuits from England. Seeing a chance to divide the Catholics, Elizabeth initially welcomed these approaches, and her government gave some of the Appellants
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In 1602, the Pope settled the quarrel by reaffirming Blackwell's authority in a brief of 11 October, but making concessions to the Appellants. He ordered that the next three vacancies among Blackwell's assistants were to be filled from among the Appellants, and he rescinded the instruction that
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Blackwell was to consult with the Jesuits, instead forbidding such consultation. Relations between the two factions of seminary priests then improved; though there was an attempt to make out the fine print of the brief to disadvantage three appellant clergy (Bluet, Watson and
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accusing the Appellants of disloyalty, offering them mercy only if they gave themselves up and signed a "protestation of allegiance". Thirteen of the Appellants publicly asserted their loyalty to Elizabeth in this manner: they were Bishop, Colleton, Mush, Charnock with
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The discussion became an acrimonious church intrigue, active approximately from 1598 to 1603. The English government saw advantage in its continuation and supported the appellants or opponents of the archpriest; the controversy is also widely known as the
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saw their church's survival as a continuation of the institutions of the past. There were also suspicions in England that Jesuit missionaries supported Spanish foreign-policy aims, endangering English Catholics through their political entanglements
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Bancroft cultivated his contacts with individual appellant priests. He supported Thomas Bluet's wish to travel to Rome and see Pope Clement VIII, with permission and contacts in Parliament. In September 1601 William Watson was resident at
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The approach taken in appealing against Blackwell changed over the space of about four years. The first appeal of 1598/9 was quite clumsy. In 1602 negotiations were backed by a decision of the French theologians of the
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The root of the controversy stemmed from two different views of the state of the Roman Catholic Church in post-Reformation England. The Jesuits saw England as a missionary field, almost a clean slate, while many of the
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A Replie unto a certain Libell latelie set foorth by Fa. Parsons, in the name of the united Priests, intituled, A Manifestation of the great folly and bad spirit of certaine in England calling themselves Secular
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other than those answerable to the nuncio there, and was told to co-operate with Blackwell, and to act against disruptive English priests.
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access to printers during the pamphlet war. However, in 1602, disappointed at the Pope's settlement of the dispute, Elizabeth issued a
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had taken on the role of Cardinal Protector, given that the obvious successor to Allen in terms of involvement in the English mission,
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who had jurisdiction over the archpriest, and he believed the arrangement gave excessive control to the Jesuits. At the same time,
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All hail to the Archpriest : confessional conflict, toleration, and the politics of publicity in post-reformation England
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was chosen: he was close to the Jesuits, and his letter of appointment included instructions to co-operate with them. The new
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The Theological-Political Origins of the Modern State: The Controversy Between James I of England & Cardinal Bellarmine
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to the English crown, but it is now argued that internal church matters were central. Other factors were the role of the
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Affronted, and fearing their loss of independence, a vocal minority of seminary priests refused Blackwell's authority.
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The Archpriest Controversy: Documents Relating to the Dissensions of the Roman Catholic Clergy, 1597–1602. 2 vol
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of England appointed an archpriest to oversee the mission in England, with the permission of Pope Clement VIII.
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appeal to Rome for his removal. The latter group came to be known as "Appellants". Their leaders included
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Antwerp and the World: Richard Verstegan and the international culture of Catholic reformation
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Catholic Resistance in Elizabethan England: Robert Persons's Jesuit polemic, 1580-1610
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Good Newes from Fraunce: French anti-league propaganda in late Elizabethan England
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and three others. The authors included the French writers against the Jesuits,
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The royal policy of helping the appellants print pamphlets was implemented by
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Enemies within: Jesuits, Appellants and ‘Hispaniolated' Englishmen, 1588–1603
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Religious Controversies of the Elizabethan Age: a Survey of Printed Sources
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in the English mission and tensions between Catholic clerics and laymen.
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Religious Controversies of the Jacobean Age: a Survey of Printed Sources
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A bitter pamphlet war followed from the inflammatory manuscript
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Newsletters from the Archpresbyterate of George Birkhead
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In 1598, some four years after the death of Cardinal
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was the debate which followed the appointment of an
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Index

Archpriest controversy
archpriest
Pope Clement VIII
Roman Catholic Church
recusants
Jesuits
Queen Elizabeth I
Spain
France
Jesuits
seminary priests
English College, Douai
Cardinal Allen
University of Douai
secular clergy
William Allen
Cardinal Protector
Enrico Caetani
Robert Parsons
secular clergy
George Blackwell
nuncio
Brussels
Ottavio Mirto Frangipani
Richard Barret
Spanish Netherlands
William Bishop
Christopher Bagshaw
John Colleton
Anthony Copley

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