Edward Weston (1566–1635) was an English
Roman Catholic priest and controversialist.
Life
The son of William Weston, of
Lincoln College, Oxford
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and afterwards a member of
Lincoln's Inn
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, by his wife, daughter of
John Story, he was born in London in 1566.
Hugh Weston was his great-uncle. Edward matriculated at Lincoln College on 20 March 1579. Afterwards he was put under the tuition of
John Case.
After he had spent at least five years at Oxford, his parents, who were Catholics, took him from the university and sent him to France, where for a short time he settled in the English College at
Reims
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. He was sent on 8 March 1585 to the
English College, Rome, where he spent six years in studying philosophy and theology, and was ordained priest. He was created D.D. by the
university of Monreale. Then he returned to Reims, where, on 3 November 1592, he began a course of lectures on
cases of conscience
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. In 1593 the college moved to Douai, where Weston lectured in divinity for about ten years. Later he went on mission in England, returning to Douai on 23 September 1612.
He maintained a correspondence with Cardinal
Robert Bellarmine, who held similar political views. He was dismissed from Douai in 1617 by
Matthew Kellison.
Later he was made canon of the collegiate church of St. Mary,
Bruges, where, according to
Hippolyte-Romain-Joseph Duthillœul, he died in 1635.
Works
His works are:
* ‘De triplici Hominis Officio, ex notione ipsius Naturali, Morali, ac Theologica; Institutiones orthodoxæ, contra Atheos, Politicos, Sectarios,’ Antwerp, 1602.
* ‘Juris Pontificii Sanctuarium. Defensum ac propugnatum contra Rogerii Widdringtoni in Apologia & Responso Apologetico Impietatem’
ouai 1613. Against
Thomas Preston writing as Roger Widdrington.
* ‘The Triall of Christian Truth by the Rules of the Vertues, namely these principall, Faith, Hope, Charitie, and Religion; serving for the discoverie of Heresie, and Antichrist in his Forerunners and Misteries of Iniquitie,’ Douay, 1614–15, 3 vols.
* ‘Probatio, seu Examen Veritatis Christianæ,’ Douay, 1614.
* ‘The Repaire of Honour, falsely impeached by Featlye, a minister; wherein (by occasion) the Apostles disciple S. Ignatius his religion, against Protestantisme, is layd open,’ Bruges, 1624.
* ‘Theatrum Vitæ civilis ac sacræ: sive de Moribus Reipub. Christianæ Commentaria,’ in 5 books, Bruges, 1626.
* ‘Jesu Christi Domini nostri Coruscationum, simulque earum vi dictorum, factorumque quarumdam Personarum, eodem Christo præsente, in Evangelica Historia recensitorum, Enarrationes philosophicæ, theologicæ, historicæ,’ Antwerp, 1631.
References
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1566 births
1635 deaths
16th-century English Roman Catholic priests
Alumni of Lincoln College, Oxford
17th-century English Roman Catholic priests
English religious writers
16th-century English writers
16th-century male writers
17th-century English writers
17th-century English male writers