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THE CAPUCHIN MISSION TO ENGLAND AND SCOTLAND 221 5. - The English-speaking Capuchins in the Rhineland Nugent was never one to lie down under adverse circumstances. He undertook his assignment with energy, establishing a Capuchin centre at Cologne, but he did not relinquish his object of a Mission to the British Isles. With that tenacity which was instinctive to his nature he resolved to organize the Mission as best he could from the Rhineland. The general was agreeable to this compromise, and even .suggested that the majority of the Capuchin pioneers who were to accompany Nugent to the Rhineland should be Irish, and that he might also summon to Germany such Irish students as were in France and the Low Countries 30 • Nugent acted on the general's suggestion. Two priests, Edward Bath and Barnaby Barnewall, joined him from France, and a Capuchin student, John Baptist Browne, came from the Low Countries. The most encouraging sign was the arrival at Cologne of seven young men, who had just finished their classical studies in the Irish college at Douai, and wished to become Capuchins 31 • England and Scotland were not forgotten. The intrepid John Chrysostom Campbell, who was in France recovering from his two years' imprisonment in the Tower of London, saw a new opportunity for a Capuchin Mission at work in Great Britain. He and Nugent had been fellow-students twenty years previously during the golden years of their youth in the Scots-Irish College at Pont-a-Mousson. While he knew the Irishman's almost ruthless ability to attain his objects he recognized that goodwill and will power could go only a limited distance. He appreciated the meagre financial resources at Nugent's disposal and brought him a sudden windfall in the person of Thomas Sackville, son of Thomas, the first earl of Dorset 32 • Young Sackville was a Catholic, an adventurous spirit who was prepared to put his sword and money at the service of the Catholic cause. He had gained his spurs in 1595, fighting like so many other young Christian noblemen of the time against the Turks in Hungary. By 1611 he was in France, exhorting the papacy to renewed effort on behalf of the Catholics in Great Britain. Conscious of the need for English Catholic experts in the battle of the books, he volunteered to support a group of English priests on the continent whose pens were to uphold the Catholic cause 33 • While this ambitious scheme was ao Ibid. 31 Ibid., 120, 122. 32 For Thomas Sackville (1571-1646), and his father, Thomas (1536-1608), first earl of Dorset, see Dictionary of National Biography XVII, London 1909, 585-589; G.E.C., Complete Peerage IV, London 1916, 422-423. 33 Bentivoglio to Rome, Brussels 17 Sept. 1611, ed. R. Belvederi, Guido Bentivoglio II, 212-215.