NEVILLE, EDMUND (alias SALES), a Jesuit, b. at Hopcut, Lancashire, 1605; d. in England, July 18, 1847. Educated at St. Omer, he entered the English College, Rome, June 29, 1621, where he distinguished himself in philosophy. He joined the Jesuits, May 24, 1626; was stationed at Ghent, 1636, and sent on the London mission, 1637. He was professed, August 3, 1640; served in the Oxford district, 1642, and in South Wales, 1645. Being a suspected priest he was seized under the Commonwealth but soon released. He wrote the “Palm of Christian Fortitude” (St. Omer, 1630), an account of the Japanese persecutions; a “Life of St. Augustine” and “Second Thoughts” both unprinted. (2) His uncle EDMUND NEVILLE (alias ELIJAH NELSON), probably the son of Sir John Neville of Leversedge, b. in Yorkshire about 1563; d. 1648, his death hastened by the treatment he received in prison. Ordained for the English mission, April 12, 1608, he entered the Society, 1609. He is considered to have been the dejure seventh Earl of Northumberland. (3) Many members of the Scarisbrick family of Scarisbrick Hall, near Ormskirk, became Jesuits during the penal times and assumed the alias “Neville”. Among them were EDWARD SCARISBRICIC (Neville), b. 1639. Educated at St. Omer, he entered the Society at Watten, September 7, 1660, and was stationed at Liege, 1671, and St. Omer, 1675. Sent to England, he was one of Oates’s intended victims. James II appointed him royal chaplain. He was instructor of the Jesuit tertians at Ghent, 1693. He returned to Lancashire, where he died, February 19, 1708-9. He wrote “Life of Lady Warner” (St. Omer, 1691); “Catholick Loyalty” (London, 1688); “Rules and Instructions for the Sodality of the Immaculate Conception“, etc. (4) EDWARD NEVILLE (Scarisbrick), b. 1663; d. November 15, 1735. He became a Jesuit, 1682; served on the Derbyshire mission, 1701, and after 1728 at Bushey Hall, Watford, Herts. (5) EDWARD NEVILLE (Scarisbrick), b. 1698; d. July 7, 1778. He entered the Society, September 7, 1728. Superior of the Derbyshire mission in 1764, he labored also in Lancashire. (6) SIR ED’W ARD NEVILLE, son of Baron Bergavenny, a courtier of Henry VIII, took part in the war in France, and was made the king’s standard bearer, 1531. He married Eleanor, daughter of Lord Windsor. Arrested November 3, 1538, on the charge of conspiracy with the brother of Cardinal Pole, he was sent to the Tower, tried at Westminster, and beheaded for the faith, December 8.
A. A. MACERLEAN