Christopher Bagshaw

was originally descended from the Bagshaws, living at Ridge or Abney in Derbyshire, but the name of the place wherein he received his first breath, I cannot yet find. In 1572, he was by the endeavours of Rob. Persons (afterwards a Jesuit) elected Probationer-Fellow of Balliol coll. being then a Bach. of Arts, and a celebrated Logician and Philosopher. Soon after proceeding in his Faculty, he was much noted for his zeal to Protestancy, yet proved troublesome in his publick disputes, and in his behaviour towards Persons. About the year 1579. he was Principal, or at least Deputy, for a time, of Gloucester hall; where also being disliked, he left that place soon after, and his Fellowship in 1582. which was pronounced void the year following. About that time he went beyond the Seas, changed his Religion, and being made a Priest in France, and getting helps and directions from Fa. Persons, he journied to Rome, where for some time he lived in the English college. But being troublesome there also, and raising great garboyles among the Scholars of that place, Cardinal Boncompagno, Protector of the English Nation, expelled him thence, as one (a)(a) Rob. Persons in his Manifestation of the folly, &c. fol. 56. b. that had no good will for him saith: Yet our author in his own vindication tells (b)(b) Answer to certain points of a Libel, p. 31. &c. us, that he had a Benedicessit, and departed very orderly. Afterwards he returned to Paris, where, as ’tis said, he was made Doctor of Div. and one of the Sorbon, at which time, and after, the Jesuits used to stile him, Doctor Erraticus, and Doctor per Saltum. Afterwards he was sent into England to gain Souls to his Religion, but taken and committed Prisoner to Wisbich Castle in Cambridgshire, where I find him in 1593. among many other Priests and Gentlemen of the Rom. Cath. Religion, that had some years before been secured in that place. ’Tis said (c)(c) In the Relation of the Faction began at Wisbich, 1595. &c. Printed 1601. qu. p. 18. while he continued there, that he carried away the glory and fame of all that was heretofore laudably done in that Castle, before Fa. Edmonds alias Weston a Jesuit began to shew his tricks, and then that Party, and those Lay-persons that favoured them, would condemn Bagshaw as (d)(d) Ibid. p. 38. a man of no worth, unruly, disordered, and a disobedient person, not to be favoured or respected by any, &c. Afterwards being freed from that prison, he went beyond Sea again, where he ended his days. He hath written,

An answer to certain points of a Libel, called, An Apology of the Subordination in England. Par. 1603. oct. He had a considerable hand also in writing a book, intit.

Declaratio motuum ac turbationum inter Jesuitas & Sacerdotes Seminariorum in Anglia. Rothomag. 1601. in qu. Set out under the name of one Joh. Mush a Yorkshire man born, and a learned Priest, who engaged himself much in composing the differences that happened among the Priests and Jesuits in Wisbich Castle. Dr. Bagshaw had also a hand in,

A true relation of the Faction began at Wisbich by Father Edmunds alias Weston a Jesuit, 1595, and continued since by Father Walley alias Garnet, the Provincial of the Jesuits in England, and by Fa. Persons in Rome.—Printed 1601. qu. This Dr. Bagshaw died and was buried at Paris after the year sixteen hundred twenty and five,clar. 1 [•] 25. as I have been informed by Franc. à Sancta Clara, who remembered and knew the Doctor well, but had forgotten the exact time of his death.