Richard Bradshaigh or Bradshaw (alias ''Barton'', 1602–1669), was an
English Jesuit
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.
Biography
Bradshaigh was born in
Lancashire
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in 1602. He was educated in the English college at Rome and entered the Society of Jesus in 1625.
Bradshaigh became a professed father in 1640 and rector of the English college at
Liège
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in 1642. He was Provincial of the English province (1656–60) during the great political change in the collapse of the
English Commonwealth
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and the restoration of the monarchy. He was rector of the English college at
Saint-Omer
Saint-Omer (; ; Picard: ''Saint-Onmé'') is a commune and sub-prefecture of the Pas-de-Calais department in France.
It is west-northwest of Lille on the railway to Calais, and is located in the Artois province. The town is named after Sa ...
from 1660 till his death on 12 February 1669.
Works
Dodd ascribes to him a work on the ''Nullity of the Protestant Clergy'' in reply to
Archbishop Bramhall, but the correctness of this statement has been questioned. Some interesting letters written by him in 1660 to Father General Nickell upon English affairs.
[ cites Foley's ''Records''.]
Notes
References
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;Attribution
* Note the following sources:
**Oliver's ''Collections'' S.J. 51;
**Foley's ''Records'', i. 227–32, vii. 78;
**Backer's ''Bibliothèque des Ecrivains de la Compagnie de Jésus'' (1849), i. 439.
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1602 births
1669 deaths
17th-century Roman Catholics
17th-century English Jesuits
Clergy from Lancashire
English emigrants to France