WHITE, Francis

by Francis White

£6,750 · Offered by Sokol Books

A handsome, unsophisticated copy, of the first edition of the this interesting work by the Protestant controversialist Francis White, an account of his debates with the Jesuit theologian Fisher. Early in 1622 he was employed by James I as a disputant against John Fisher (1569 1641), to stay the Roman catholic tendencies of Mary, countess of Buckingham. He held two conferences; the third (24 May 1622) was entrusted to William Laud. White s Replie to Fisher .. was dedicated to James I, whose copy is in the British Museum; it was reprinted by subscription, Dublin, 1824, 2 vols. 8vo. An account, from the other side, is in Trve Relations of Svndry Conferences, 1626, 4to, by A. C. . On 14 Sept. 1622 White was presented to the deanery of Carlisle. He took part, in conjunction with Daniel Featley or Fairclough, in another discussion with Fisher, opened on 27 June 1623, at the house of Sir Humphrey Lynde, in Sheer Lane, London; a report was published in The Fisher catched in his owne Net, 1623, 4to; and more fully (by Featley) in The Romish Fisher cavght and held in his owne Net, 1624, 4to. DNB. Among the emissaries whom the Romanists employed at this time in England, one of the most active and intelligent was a Jesuit of the name of Piersey, who has been better known under the assumed appellation of Fisher. He had obtained admission to the countess, mother of Villiers, who was afterwards duke of Buckingham, and had made some progress in converting her to the Romish faith, in the hope

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