5 Chaplains to embassies
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Hugh Adlington
Abstract
Daniel Featley was the Protestant chaplain to the English Ambassador in Paris, and Richard Smith was a Roman Catholic priest, controversialist and the head of the College d'Arras, the recently formed Catholic writers' academy in Paris. This chapter argues, from the evidence of Featley's 'experience beyond the sea', that the role of embassy chaplain was understood to constitute something far more strategically significant than a mere adjunct to diplomacy. During his memorable three-year stint in France, as chaplain to Sir Thomas Edmondes, the 'polemicall' Featley kept up a steady stream of anti-Catholic preaching and disputation. Featley's own preferment to Paris followed after the appearance in print of his abridgement of Laurence Humphrey's life of Bishop John Jewel. If Featley had 'leaue' from the Archbishop of Canterbury to engage in and publish accounts of disputations with Catholic adversaries, then he would have had permission to do so from a mere 'Ambassadour'.
Abstract
Daniel Featley was the Protestant chaplain to the English Ambassador in Paris, and Richard Smith was a Roman Catholic priest, controversialist and the head of the College d'Arras, the recently formed Catholic writers' academy in Paris. This chapter argues, from the evidence of Featley's 'experience beyond the sea', that the role of embassy chaplain was understood to constitute something far more strategically significant than a mere adjunct to diplomacy. During his memorable three-year stint in France, as chaplain to Sir Thomas Edmondes, the 'polemicall' Featley kept up a steady stream of anti-Catholic preaching and disputation. Featley's own preferment to Paris followed after the appearance in print of his abridgement of Laurence Humphrey's life of Bishop John Jewel. If Featley had 'leaue' from the Archbishop of Canterbury to engage in and publish accounts of disputations with Catholic adversaries, then he would have had permission to do so from a mere 'Ambassadour'.
Chapters in this book
- Front matter i
- Contents v
- List of illustrations vi
- Notes on contributors vii
- Acknowledgements ix
- Note on conventions and list of abbreviations x
- 1 Introduction 1
- 2 The roles and influence of household chaplains, c. 1600–c. 1660 11
- 3 Chaplains to the Elizabethan nobility 36
- 4 Episcopal chaplains and control of the media, 1586–1642 64
- 5 Chaplains to embassies 83
- 6 Poetry, patronage and cultural agency 103
- 7 ‘His Lordships First, and Last, CHAPLEINE’ 123
- 8 Richard Corbett and William Strode 141
- 9 The Isham family and their clergy 159
- 10 A chaplain and his patron 177
- 11 The reluctant chaplain 193
- Select bibliography 212
- Index of names 220
Chapters in this book
- Front matter i
- Contents v
- List of illustrations vi
- Notes on contributors vii
- Acknowledgements ix
- Note on conventions and list of abbreviations x
- 1 Introduction 1
- 2 The roles and influence of household chaplains, c. 1600–c. 1660 11
- 3 Chaplains to the Elizabethan nobility 36
- 4 Episcopal chaplains and control of the media, 1586–1642 64
- 5 Chaplains to embassies 83
- 6 Poetry, patronage and cultural agency 103
- 7 ‘His Lordships First, and Last, CHAPLEINE’ 123
- 8 Richard Corbett and William Strode 141
- 9 The Isham family and their clergy 159
- 10 A chaplain and his patron 177
- 11 The reluctant chaplain 193
- Select bibliography 212
- Index of names 220
