Thomas Plowden

Plowden (alias SALISBURY), THOMAS, b. in Oxfordshire, England, 1594; d. in London, February 13, 1664; grandson of Edmund Plowden, the great lawyer; entered the Society of Jesus, 1617; sent on the English Mission about 1622. He was seized, with other fathers, by the pursuivants in 1628, at Clerkenwell, the London residence of the Jesuits. He filled various responsible offices of the order, and labored on the perilous English Mission until his death. He translated from the Italian of D. Bartoli “The Learned Man Defended and Reformed” (London, 1660).

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