A Literary And Biographical History Or Bibliographical Dictionary Of The English Catholics From The Breach With Rome In 1534 To The Present Time Volume 4

Author : Joseph Gillow
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ISBN 13 : 9781331059417
Total Pages : 602 pages
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Download or read book A Literary and Biographical History, Or Bibliographical Dictionary of the English Catholics, Vol. 4 written by Joseph Gillow and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Literary and Biographical History, or Bibliographical Dictionary of the English Catholics, Vol. 4: From the Breach With Rome, in 1534, to the Present Time Kemeys, David Joseph, O.P., confessor of the faith, born of honourable parentage, was probably a relative of Sir Nicholas Kemeys, of Ceven Mably, co. Glamorgan, grandson of David Kemeys, of the same place. Sir Nicholas was created a baronet by Charles I. in 1642. He was colonel of a regiment of horse, and, at the outbreak of the rebellion, was appointed, by the king, Governor of Chepstow Castle. This he gallantly and successfully defended against Cromwell, but subsequently was slain during the siege by Col. Ewer. The title became extinct on the death of the fourth baronet in 1735. John Kemeys, of Monmouthshire, who was ordained priest at the English college at Rome in 1658, was probably of the same family. David Kemeys was professed at the Dominican convent of SS. Giovanni e Paolo, at Rome, and after his ordination came to London. Here he was chaplain to Elizabeth, Countess-dowager of Arundel, mother of Cardinal Howard. In 1679 he was impeached by Oates as a conspirator. The perjurer, in his narrative of the plot, asserted that Fr. Kemeys was nominated by the Pope for the See of Bangor. On Jan. 17, 1679-80, he and several others were brought to the Old Bailey and arraigned for "high-treason as Romish priests." Fr. Kemeys was the first brought to the bar, but being very ill and weak, he was remanded by Scroggs, the Lord Chief Justice, who sent him back to Newgate, "that the world may not say we are grown barbarous and inhumane; we are all contented he should be set by. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.