Pibush, JOHN, VENERABLE, English martyr, b. at Thirsk, Yorkshire; d. at St. Thomas’s Waterings, Camberwell, February 18, 1600-1. According to Gillow he was probably a son of Thomas Pibush, of Great Fencott, and Jane, sister to Peter Danby of Scotton. He came to Reims on August 4, 1580, received minor orders and subdiaconate in September, and diaconate in December, 1586, and was ordained on March 14, 1587. He was sent on the English mission on January 3, 1588-9, arrested at Morton-in-Marsh, Gloucestershire, in 1593, and sent to London, where he arrived before July 24. The Privy Council committed him to the Gatehouse at Westminster, where he remained a year. He was then tried at the Gloucester Assizes under 27 Eliz., c. 2, for being a priest, but not sentenced, and was returned to Gloucester gaol, whence he escaped on February 19 (1594-5). The next day he was recaptured at Matson and taken back to Gloucester gaol, whence he was sent to the Marshalsea, London, and again tried under the same statute at Westminster on July 1? 1595. He was sentenced to suffer the penalties of high treason at St. Thomas’s Waterings, and in the meantime was to be returned to the Marshalsea. However, by the end of the year he was in the Queen’s Bench prison, where he remained for more than five years. The sentence was carried out after one day’s notice.
JOHN B. WAINEWRIGHT