Footnotes

[1]  Dates and names up to here taken from F.J. Mapelli L'Amministrazione Francescana di Inghilterra e Francia . Roma: Antonianum, 2003. 297-322.

[2]   [FPLD 206] = Franciscan Papers, Lists and Documents by A.G. Little Manchester 1943.

[3]   [FPLD 207].

[4]   [FPLD 207].

[5]   [FPLD 207].

[6]   [FPLD 207].

[7]   The Ministers Provincial from 1316 to 1517 and the Conventual Masters Provincial from 1517 to 1539 come from records kept by the London Greyfriars and reproduced in: Kingsford, The Grey Friars of London , 178-201

[8]   G. Oliver. Collections, Illustrating the History of the Catholic Religion in the Counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Wilts, and Gloucester. In Two Parts, Historical and Biographical. With Notices of the Dominican, Benedictine, & Franciscan Orders in England. London: Dolman, 1857. 640.

[9]   John Jones had the seal of the Province, giving him authority. He was on the mission in England from 1593 onwards and so probably received the seal before then but after 1587 when, as a secular priest he had been imprisoned in Wisbech Castle. and handed it to William Stanney before he died in 1598, but it is not clear under what title he operated. Cf. Thaddeus, 19.

[10] Thaddeus, The Franciscans in England 1650-1850 , 27.

[11] Ibid. 329

[12] Thaddeus, The Franciscans in England 1650-1850 , 34-5.

[13] Ibid. 36.

[14] The list of Minister Provincial from John Gennings to Francis Edgeworth is drawn from: “Brief Notice of Some Writers of English Franciscan Province since the Era of the Reformation” in: G. Oliver. Collections, Illustrating the History of the Catholic Religion in the Counties of Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Wilts, and Gloucester. In Two Parts, Historical and Biographical. With Notices of the Dominican, Benedictine, & Franciscan Orders in England . London: Dolman, 1857. 566-72.

     A similar list may be found in Thaddeus, 329-330.

[15] Thaddeus, 330.

[16] Thaddeus, 330

[17] The list of Ministers Provincial from 1930 onwards is drawn from the Catalogus of the Province as typed out by Br. Ninian Arbuckle, OFM the Provincial archivist.