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NOTE 1./ from site of Barry L Matthews: <>

Sir Tobias Mathew, JR. Born Oct 3, 1577 at Salisbury, England Died Oct 13, 1655 at English College, Ghent. He Was a Courtier and Diplomat and became a Roman Catholic in Florence in 1606. He was sent to Madrid as an Advisor to Prince Charles and Buckingham, 1623 and was secretary to Stafford in Ireland, in 1633. He was later suspected by he Puritans of being a Papal spy an drived abroad in 1640. He was a friend of Sir FRANCIS BACON, whose essays he translated into Italian in 1618. BACON'S ESSAYS OF FRIENDSHIP Were written for TOBIAS, JR.

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SIR TOBIAS, or TOBIE, MATTHEW (1577-1655), is remembered as the correspondent and friend of Francis Bacon. He was educated at Christ Church, and was early attached to the court, serving in the embassy at Paris. His debts and dissipations were a great source of sorrow to his father, from whom he is known to have received at different times 14,000, the modern equivalent of which is much larger. He was chosen member for Newport in Cornwall in the parliament of 1601, and member for St Albans in 1604. Before this time he had become the intimate friend of Bacon, whom he replaced as member for St Albans. When peace was made with Spain, on the accession of James I., he wished to travel abroad. His family, who feared his conversion to Roman Catholicism, opposed his wish, but he promised not to go beyond France. When once safe out of England he broke his word and went to Italy. The persuasion of some of his countrymen in Florence, one of whom is said to have been the Jesuit Robert Parsons, and a story he heard of the miraculous liquefaction of the blood of San Januarius at Naples, led to his conversion in 16o6. When he returned to England he was imprisoned, and many efforts were made to obtain his reconversion without success. He would not take the oath of allegiance to the king. In 1608 he was exiled, andremainedoutof England for ten years, mostly in Flanders and Spain. Hereturned in 1617, but went abroad again in 1619. His friends obtained his leave to return in 1621. At home he was known as the intimate friend of Gondomar, the Spanish ambassador. In 1623 he was sent to join Prince Charles, afterwards Charles I., at Madrid, and was knighted on the 23rd of October of that year. He remained in England till 1640, when he was finally driven abroad by the parliament, which looked upon him as an agent of the pope. He died in the English college in Ghent on the I3th of October 1655. In 1618 he published an Italian translation of Bacons essays. The Essay on Friendship was written for him. He was also the author of a translation of The Confessions of the Incom parable Doctor St Augustine, which led him into controversy. His correspondence was published in London in 166o.

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NOTE 1./ Tobias Mathew

Tobias Mathew, 66th Archbishop of York, was born in 1546 in Bristol, and died March 29, 1628. He married Frances Barlow, dau. of William Barlow. He was brought up at Christ church, Oxford, D.D. and rose many steps by preferment. First Archdeacon of Wells, Priest of St. John's College, Oxford, Canon and Dean of Christ Church, Dean of Durham and lastly Archbishop of York, Sept. 11, 1606. Graduated at University College, Oxford, A.B. Feb. 1563/4. He was a member of Christ Church, taking degree of MA in July 1566. He was ordained the same year at which time he was much respected for his great learning, sweet coversation, friendly disposition, and sharpness of with. When Queen Elizabeth visted the University in Mary's Church on the 3rd of Sept., he argued in favor of an elective as against an hereditary monarchy. When the Queen left Christ Church on her departure from Oxford, he bad her farewell in and eloquent oration. His handsome presence and ready wit attrached the Queen's notice. He was an excellent preacher. The Queen continued her favor to him throughout her life and was equally kind to his wife, on whom she bestowed a fragment of a Unicorn's horn. His many offices included that of Dean of Durham in 1583, Bishop of Durham in 1595, Bishop of the Diocese and Archbishop of York. He had an admirable talent for preaching which he never suffered to lie idle, but used to go from one town to another to preach to crowded audiences. He kept an exact account of these sermons, by which it appears that he preached, when Dean of Durham, 321; when Bishop of the Diocese, 550; when Archbishop of York, 721; in all 1592. In his day, though renowned as a preacher, he was a statesman quite as much as a prelate. The advisors of Elizabeth and James felt that they could rely upon him to watch and guard the Northern Shires. He died March 29, 1628 and was buried in York Minster, where his tomb stands. The effigy now seperated, in the northside of the Presbytery. He married Frances Barlow, dau. of Sir William Barlow, Sr. who died in 1568, sometime Bishop of Chichester and Wells. She is described as a prudent and provident matron and died May 10, 1629, and is described further as being memorable for having a Bishop for a Father, four Bishops for her Brothers-in-law, and an Archbishop for her husband. Her four sisters married Bishops. She gave his Library of more than three thousand volumes to the Cathedral of York. The portrait of Tobias Mathew in Christ Church, Oxford, shows him as a small man with a beard and mustache turning gray. Frances Barlow had previously been married to Matthew Parker, son of Archbishop Matthew Park of Canterbury (1559-1575). Tobias Mathew was a friend of the Stuart family and was entrusted with the entertainment of Arbella Stuart of Bishopthorpe in 1611. As a politcal agent in the North, he forced recusants to conform to the Church of England

NOTE 2./ Archbishop of York

The Archbishop of York, Primate of England, is the metropolitan bishop of the Province of York, and is the junior of the two (A bishop of highest rank) archbishops of the (The national church of England (and all other churches in other countries that share its beliefs); has its see in Canterbury and the Sovereign as its temporal head) Church of England, after the Archbishop of Canterbury.

His cathedral is York Minster in central (The English royal house (a branch of the Plantagenet line) that reigned from 1461 to 1485; its emblem was a white rose) York and his official residence is the Archbishop's Palace in Bishopthorpe.

The Province of York includes the 12 Dioceses north of the (The interior part of a country) Midlands as well as the Diocese of Southwell Nottinghamshire) and the Diocese of Sodor and Man (the (One of the British Isles in the Irish Sea) Isle of Man). The Archbishop is also a member of the (The upper house of the British parliament) House of Lords.

HistoryThere was a bishop in York from very early Christian times. Bishops of York were particularly present at the Councils of Arles and (An ancient city in Bithynia; founded in the 4th century BC and flourished under the Romans; the Nicene Creed was adopted there in 325) Nicaea. However, this early Christian community was later blotted out by the pagan (A member of a Germanic people who conquered England and merged with the Angles and Jutes to become Anglo-Saxons; dominant in England until the Norman conquest) Saxons. There was no important archbishop of York till the consecration of St. (Click link for more info and facts about Wilfrid) Wilfrid in 664. His successors acted as diocesan prelates until the time of Egbert of York, who received the ((Roman Catholic Church) vestment consisting of a band encircling the shoulders with two lappets hanging in front and back) pallium from Pope Gregory III in 735 and established metropolitan rights in the north. The sees of (A town in Kent in southeastern England; site of the cathedral where Thomas a Becket was martyred in 1170; seat of the archbishop and primate of the Anglican Church) Canterbury and York were long struggling for precedence, often leading to scandalous scenes of dissension. In the 11th century, for instance, there was an arrangement which lasted until 1118 that the archbishops of York must be consecrated in Canterbury cathedral and swear allegiance to the Archbishop of Canterbury. In the mid 14th century, Pope Innocent VI confirmed an arrangement that the Archbishop of Canterbury should take precedence with the title Primate of All England, and that the Archbishop of York should retain the style of Primate of England.

Several of the archbishops of York held the office of (The highest officer of the Crown who is head of the judiciary and who presides in the House of Lords) Lord Chancellor and played some parts in affairs of state. As (Click link for more info and facts about Peter Heylyn) Peter Heylyn (1600–1662) wrote: "This see has yielded to the Church eight saints, to the Church of Rome three cardinals, to the realm of England twelve Lord Chancellors and two Lord Treasurers, and to the north of England two Lord Presidents."

Walter de Grey purchased York Place in (The capital and largest city of England; located on the Thames in southeastern England; financial and industrial and cultural center) London, which after the fall of Thomas Cardinal Wolsey, was to become the Palace of Whitehall.

Tobias Matthew 1606 thru 1628

Tobias Matthew, or Tobie (1546 - March 29, 1628), archbishop of York, was the son of Sir John Matthew of Ross in Herefordshire, and of his wife Eleanor Crofton of Ludlow.

He was born at (An industrial city and port in southwestern England near the mouth of the River Avon) Bristol and was educated at (Prolific English writer best known for his science-fiction novels; he also wrote on contemporary social problems and wrote popular accounts of history and science (1866-1946)) Wells, (A county in southwestern England on the Bristol Channel) Somerset, and then in succession at University College and Christ Church, Oxford. He proceeded BA in 1564, and MA in 1566.

He attracted the favourable notice of Queen Elizabeth I, and his rise was steady though not very rapid. He was public orator in 1569, president of St John's College, Oxford, in 1572, dean of Christ Church in 1576, vice-chancellor of the university in 1579, dean of Durham in 1583, bishop of Durham in 1595, and archbishop of York in 1606.

In 1581 he had a controversy with the Jesuit Edmund Campion, and published at Oxford his arguments in 1638 under the title, Piissimi et eminentissimi yin Tobiae Matthew, archiepiscopi ohm Eboracencis concio apologetica adversus Campianam. While in the north he was active in forcing the (Someone who refuses to conform to established standards of conduct) recusants to conform to the Church of England, preaching hundreds of sermons and carrying out thorough visitations.

During his later years he was to some extent in opposition to the administration of (The first Stuart to be king of England and Ireland from 1603 to 1925 and king of Scotland from 1567 to 1625; son of Mary Queen of Scots who succeeded Elizabeth I; alienated Parliament by claiming the divine right of kings (1566-1625)) James I. He was exempted from attendance in the parliament of 1625 on the ground of age and infirmities. His wife, Frances, was the daughter of William Barlow, bishop of Chichester.

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Tobias Matthew, Archbishop of York at the beginning of the seventeenth century, was particularly distinguished for his zeal and industry as a preacher, even after his preferment to a mitre. From September, 1583, when he was Dean of Durham, to the twentythird Sunday after Trinity, in 1622, a few years before his death, he kept an account of all the sermons he preached, the place where, the time when, and the distinguished persons, if any, before whom they were delivered.

It appears from this record, that he preached, while Dean of Durham, seven hundred and twenty-one; while Bishop of Durham, five hundred and fifty; and while Archbishop of York, to the time above mentioned, seven hundred and twenty-one; in all, one thousand nine hundred and ninety-two sermons! At the end of each year, he set down how many sermons he had preached; and usually adds a lamentation that the number is not greater. Thus, at the end of 1619, he writes, 'Sum Ser. 32. eheu!' at the end of 1620, 'Sum. Ser. 35, eheu!' The state of the account for 1621, appears to have grieved him still more. 'An. 1621, sore afflicted with a rheume and coughe diverse months, so that I never could preach until Easter daye. The Lord foregive me!' It is supposed that there was scarcely a pulpit in the wide dioceses of Durham and York, in which he had not appeared

Archbishop married Francis BARLOW about 1575 in England. Francis (daughter of Sir Bishop William BARLOW and Agatha WELLSBORNE) was born about 1540 in England; died on 10 May 1629 in Bristol, Gloucestershire, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

John married Eleanor CROFTON about 1545. Eleanor was born about 1525 in Ludlow, England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

Sir married Agatha WELLSBORNE. Agatha was born about 1505 in England; died on 15 Jun 1595 in Eaton,Hampshire,England. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

James married Amy (Mary) BAWDRIP. Amy (daughter of Sir Thomas BAWDRIP and Margred GILES) was born about 1489 in Roos, near Cardiff, Wales. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]