Michael Walpole (1570–1624?), was an English

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and controversialist.

Life

Walpole, youngest of the four brothers of

Henry Walpole Henry Walpole (1558 – 7 April 1595) was an English Jesuit martyr, executed at York for refusing to take the Oath of Supremacy. Early life Walpole was born at Docking, Norfolk, in 1558, the eldest son of Christopher Walpole, by Margery, heir ...

, was baptised at Docking, Norfolk, on 1 Oct. 1570. When John Gerard landed in Norfolk in 1588, he made the acquaintance of the Docking household, and young Michael attached himself to the Jesuit. When Henry Walpole was taken prisoner at Flushing, Michael went to his assistance and procured his

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. He entered the Society of Jesus on 7 Sept. 1593. Doña Luisa de Carvajal came to England in 1606, and he appears to have been her confessor or spiritual adviser. In 1610, while in attendance on this lady, he was arrested and thrown into prison; but on the intervention of the Spanish ambassador Gondomar he was released, though compelled to leave the country. In 1613, he returned to England in company with Gondomar, when Doña Luisa's house was broken into and the lady imprisoned. Walpole very narrowly escaped arrest. When Doña Luisa died in 1614, Walpole was with her, and he accompanied her body on its removal to Spain next year, and died some time after 12 Aug. 1624.

Works

Walpole wrote a number of books, including: * ''A Treatise on the Subjection of Princes to God and the Church'', St. Omer, 1608, 4to. * ''Five Books of Philosophical Comfort, with Marginal Notes, translated from the Latin of Boethius'', London, 1609, 8vo. * ''Admonition to the English Catholics concerning the Edict of King James'', St. Omer, 1610, 4to. * ''The Lyf of the Mother Teresa of Jesus'' (Mechelen:

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, 1611), the first English translation of the autobiography of Teresa of Avila * ''Anti-Christ Extant, against

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'', St. Omer, 1613–14, 2 vols. 4to; 2nd edit. 1632. * ''Life of

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'', St. Omer, 1616, 12mo: a translation of Ribadeneyra, which was often reprinted.

References

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