He  vaa  also  the  author  of  "  Jklcmoirs  of  Ijord  Stafford,"
thrtt  innocent  victim  of  Oatcs'B  perjuries.  Qy.  was  it  ever
pubhshcd?

Cressif  (Serenui),  Hugh  PnuHnu*,  Ji.D.,  of  Tiiorp  Sidvin,
county  York. — From  a  dipiitary  of  the  KstabUsheil  Churcli
(for  he  was  a  canon  of  Windsor,  and  dean  of  Emly,  in
IroUknd)  lic  choM;  to  become  one  of  OfiriBt's  little  ones — to
renounce  all  to  become  one  of  his  disciples.  CouversatJwi
with  P.  Cuthbcrl,  alias  John  Fursdon,  who  had  been  so
instrumental  in  the  coiivvrsiuii  of  the  nuble  family  of  Falk-
land, led  to  hia  Kulm^quent  reeoneiliiLtiou  »ith  Ood'H  Church.
— (Weldon,  190.)  lu  IGiS  he  took  the  habit  of  St.  Bcnnet,
and  was  professed  on  23nd  August,  the  ensuing  year,  in
St.  Gr«gorj')t  Convent.  His  "  Kxuniologe^i.-t,  or  Faithful
Narrative  of  the  Occasion  and  Motivea  of  his  Convcruon
unto  Ctttholic  Unity,"  printed  at  Paris,  8vo.,  1647,  is  a  work
deserving  to  be  reprinted,  as  well  adapted  to  the  prctent
times.  His  "Sancta  Sopliia,"  in  2  vols.  8vo.,  Hoiiay,  1(>.'>7,
is  the  aubatancc  of  several  treatises  of  F.  Austin  UiUicr  on
prayer  and  cunteiiipliition.  lie  had  compiled  a  sc«ond
voltiiii^,  but  which  ])r.  Itrowii  relates  in  his  memoir  of  ('reJMy
(Cath.  Mag.  1832,  p.  121),  remaining  in  MS.  in  the  Hbrary
of  St.  Gregory's  Coavcnt  at  Douay,  was  destroyed  with  many
other  valuable  works.
