Garboils

 Rather sinister looking character, don't you think? Found him on the back cover of Alice Hogge's book God's Secret Agents. It's a detail from a painting in the Palazzo Pitti collection. 

 

Also, I found a couple of interesting words during yesterday's reading, traduce and garboils.  The former was one I was at least somewhat familiar with. One of those rarely used SAT words, I think. The latter, though, was one I'd never heard of before. Here's I found it used in Hogge's book:

 

"Robert Persons, for whom the greatest contempt was reserved, was described as 'the principal author . . . of all garboils at home'." 

Library Haul

 

Headed to my local library and picked up two more books, Hogeland's The Whiskey Rebellion and O'Keefe's One Day in August. Still working my way through Miller's Music Theory and Hogge's God's Secret Agents.

Raids

"On the evening of Friday 15 March 1594 Richard Topcliffe, apparently acting on his own authority, organized a raid of all known or suspected Catholic houses in London. 'The uproar was such that Hannibal himself might have been at the gates or the Spanish fleet in the river Thames,' wrote Garnet to Aquaviva in the months following. Local magistrates were called in to assist the priest-hunter and overnight the city's churches were drafted into use as holding pens to contain all those arrested in the raids." -- Alice Hogge, God's Secret Agents

Baddesly Clinton

Fascinating account of a clandestine general meeting of Catholic missionaries that nearly ended in disaster at Baddesly Clinton. Authorities had somehow gotten word of the secret meeting and raided the house just moments after many of the attendees had left, leaving others to hide in a safe room created by Nicholas Owen. Ironic that Owen himself was hiding in his own creation.