William Warford

received his first breath in that part of Bristow which is in Sommersetshire, was admitted a Scholar of Trinity coll. 13. June 1576. probationer two years after, being then Bach. of Arts, Fellow 1579. and Master of Arts in 82. But having more a mind to the Ro. Cath. religion, in which he was partly educated, than to Protestancy, he left the college, his friends and the nation, went to Rome, and obtaining entrance into the English coll. there, profited very much in Divinity. At length being ordained Priest, he was sent into the mission of England, where making but little stay, he returned to Rome, and in the year 1594. he was entred into the society of Jesus. Afterwards being sent by his Superiors into Spain, he spent the remainder of his time in the English Seminaries there. He hath written,

A short institution containing the chief mysteries of Christian religion, collected from the holy Scriptures and Fathers. Sevil 1600. and at S. Omers in 1616. Translated into Latine by Tho. More a Jesuit, descended from the famous Sir Tho. More, sometimes L. Chancellor of England;— Printed at S. Omers in 1617. The said Warford also translated into English several of the Histories of Saints, written by Pet. Ribadeneira, but died, before he could finish them, at Valladolid in Spain on the 3. Nov. (according the accompt there followed) in sixteen hundred and eight, and was buried in the college of the Jesuits there, 1608 leaving behind him other matters, which were in a manner fit for the Press, and the character among those of his profession of a godly and learned man.