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essor of the English College at Rome. H. Foley, _Records of Society of Jesus_, vi. p. 257, cited in _Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton_, i. p. 457, note. Footnote 161: Second Lord Harington of Exton, 1592-1614; the favourite friend and companion of Henry, Prince of Wales. A rare and godly young man. For an account of him, and for his letters from abroad, in French and Latin, to Prince Henry, see T. Birch's _Life of Prince Henry_. Footnote 162: "One Tovy, an 'aged man,' late master of the free school, Guildford." _Dictionary of National Biography_, article on Sir John Harington, _supra_. Footnote 163: _Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton_, i. 456-7. Footnote 164: S.R. Gardiner, _History of England_, iii. 191. Footnote 165: H. Foley, _Records of the English Province of the Society of Jesus_, London, 1882, Series ii. p. 253. Footnote 166: Ibid. Footnote 167: Foley, op. cit., p. 256. The facts are confirmed by the report of the English Ambassador at Valladolid, 17th July 1605, O.S., printed in the _Winwood Memorials_, vol. ii. p. 95. Footnote 168: Fynes Moryson, _Itinerary_, ed. 1907, vol. iii. pp. 390-1. Footnote 169: Such as Dr Thomas Case of St John's in Oxford, whom Fuller reports as "always a Romanist in his heart, but never expressing the same till his mortal sickness seized upon him" (_Church History_, book ix. p. 235). Footnote 170: Gardiner, _History of England_, vol. v. pp. 102-3. The same wavering between two Churches in the time of James I. is exemplified by "Edward Buggs, Esq., living in London, aged seventy, and a professed Protestant." He "was in his sicknesse seduced to the Romish Religion." Recovering, a dispute was held at his request between two Jesuits and two Protestant Divines, on the subject of the Visibility of the Church. "This conference did so satisfie Master Buggs, that renouncing his former wavering, he was confirmed in the Protestant truth" (Fuller, _Church History_, x. 102). Footnote 171: _Winwood Memorials_, vol. ii. 109. Footnote 172: The Earl of Nottingham, Ambassador Extraordinary in 1605. Footnote 173: _Winwood Memorials_, vol. ii. 76. Footnote 174: _Winwood Memorials_, vol. ii. 109. Footnote 175: Fynes Moryson, _Itinerary_, vol. i. p. 260. Footnote 176: Such was the case of Tobie Matthew, son of the Archbishop of York, converted during his travels in Italy. This witty and frivolous courtier came home and faced the uproar of his friends, spent a whole
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