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a Romanist, born at Stukeley, Huntingdonshire, and educated at Rheims. He took priest's orders in 1593; was sent into England as a missionary, and died in 1634. His principal works are, An Ecclesiastical History of Great Britain, from the Nativity to the Conversion of the Saxons (Douay, 1633, fol.):-A true Memorial of the ancient religious State of Great Britain in the Time of the Britons (1650, 8vo): -Monasticon Britannicum (1655, 8vo). - New Genesis Biog. Dict. v, 97; Landon, Eccl. Dict. ii, 418.