English martyr, suffered at Newcastle-under-Lyme on 30 April 1618. An alumnus and priest of the English College at Douai, he laboured mainly at Baswich, near Stafford, which then belonged to a branch of the Fowler family. He was arrested while saying Mass, and committed by a neighboring justice to Stafford gaol. He was immediately sentenced to death for being a priest and refusing to take the oath of allegiance; he remained in prison for six days after condemnation, no hangman being forthcoming. He was beatified on 22 November 1987 by Pope John Paul II as one of the Martyrs of England, Scotland, and Wales.
- John B Wainewright, Catholic Encyclopedia, 1912
