Lewis Owen

, a native of Merionithshire, became either a Servitor or a Student of Ch. Ch. in Summer time, an. 1590. aged 18. but left the University without a degree, having some petty employment bestow’d on him about that time. Afterwards he travelled in the latter end of Q. Elizab. and beginning of K. James into several countries of Europe: and in Spain making a longer continuance than elsewhere, he entred himself, if I mistake not, into the Society of Jesus at Valladolid, where he continued a curious observer among them for some time. At length being fully satisfied of their intregues, which tended, as he said, to worldly policy, rather than true religion, he left, and became a bitter enemy against, them, as well in his discourses, as writings, as it may appear in these things following.

The running Register: recording a true relation of the State of the English Colleges, Seminaries and Cloysters in all foreign parts, together with a brief discourse of the lives, practices, &c. of Engl. Monks, Friers, Jesuits, &c. Lond. 1626. qu.

The unmasking of all Popish Monks, Friers and Jesuits. Or, a treatise of their genealogy, beginnings, proceedings and present state, &c. Lond. 1628. qu.

Speculum Jesuiticum. Or, the Jesuits looking Glass: wherein they may behold Ignatius (their Patron) his progress, their own pilgrimage, his life, their beginning, &c. Lond. 1629. qu.

A true Catalogue of all their Colleges, professed houses, houses of Approbation, Seminaries and houses of residence in all parts of the World. And lastly a true number of the Fellows of their Society, taken out of their own books and catalogues printed with the Speculum Jesuiticum, and both at the end of Europae Speculum, 1629. written by Sir Ed. Sandys before mention’d. This Lew. Owen who had a rambling head, was living in sixteen hundred twenty and nine,Clar. 1629. but what became of him afterwards, I cannot find. Besides this Lew. Owen was another of both his names, born in Anglesie, first a Student in S. Edm. Hall 1578. afterwards of Hart hall, and a Benefactor to Jesus coll.