Thomas Bailey (Catholic Encyclopedia article)
Edwin Burton · 1913
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Thomas Bailey, a controversialist who died about 1657, began as an Anglican clergyman and ended as a Catholic royalist in exile. The son of the Bishop of Bangor, he studied at Magdalen College, Cambridge, became sub-dean of Wells, and took a doctorate at Oxford during the Civil Wars. Service in the king's retinue after Naseby and travel abroad with Catholic help led him to convert.
Back in England he published a defence of episcopacy that angered Cromwell's government and landed him in Newgate prison, where he wrote Herba Parietis, or The Wall-flower, on his captivity. Freed, he retired to Italy and served in Cardinal Ottoboni's household at Ferrara. He also published a life of John Fisher, though its core text was Richard Hall's.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Edwin Burton |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 1913 |
| COLLECTION | REFERENCE |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| LICENSE | PUBLIC_DOMAIN |
| RIGHTS | PUBLIC DOMAIN |
| SOURCE | New Advent — Catholic Encyclopedia (1913) |