tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post195688109863571565..comments2024-03-29T09:39:50.604+00:00Comments on Fr Hunwicke's Mutual Enrichment: Whatever happened to Sir John Tregear?Fr John Hunwickehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17766211573399409633noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-88004423377918200932019-04-04T20:18:23.419+01:002019-04-04T20:18:23.419+01:00I seem to recall a ledger stone in Exeter Cathedra...I seem to recall a ledger stone in Exeter Cathedral to an 18th century Canon called Canon Nutcombe Nutcombe. I rather assume that the family comes from Nutcombe in Clayhanger parish, next to Ashbrittle right up on the Somerset frontier.<br />Oliver Nicholsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07187098939500953848noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-13310378894505652872019-04-04T17:34:16.302+01:002019-04-04T17:34:16.302+01:00Knox's "Let Dons Delight" -- perhaps...Knox's "Let Dons Delight" -- perhaps you have it memorized, or internalized, considering your position! -- was indeed a delightful perspective on the various attitudes toward prevarication or temporization in the Elizabethan era and beyond.<br /><br />I am sure much of the subtlety escaped me, having neither laid eyes on Oxford nor (particularly) studied English ecclesiastical Thorfinnhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12140352020612339113noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8940364093450837549.post-8889599451620481562019-04-04T13:51:14.120+01:002019-04-04T13:51:14.120+01:00"Did Tregear perhaps take the oaths, and then..."Did Tregear perhaps take the oaths, and then ... just carry on as if he hadn't?" We all remember well, of course, that the Jesuits were heavily involved in supporting the Catholics during this time. The Jeuits, brave and sometimes heroic men, to be sure, but who are also rather famous for a moral theory of "say one thing and think another."Ben of the Bayouhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07300583569226801488noreply@blogger.com