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222 F. X. MARTIN under discussion Sackville became acquainted with Campbell at Paris.– The two travelled to Brussels on foot, Sackville disguised as a pilgrim,.. and proposed their plans to the resident papal nuncio, Bentivoglio. The nuncio wrote in cipher to Rome, stating that Sackville had offered to pay 2,000 scudi towards the building of Capuchin houses at Cologne and Mainz, as centres where English, Scottish and Irish novices might be trained for missionary work in their native countries 34 • It is safe to assume that the money went to Cologne. Sackville returned to Paris, while Campbell joined Nugent at Cologne 35 • Epiphanius Lindsay, another Scot, also went to Cologne 36 • He was a Capuchin of heroic fibre whose labours will be mentioned later in this article. We know that at least two English Capuchins, Fathers Anselm and Joseph, helped to strengthen the little group from the British Isles at Cologne 37 • Campbell was too restless by nature and too convinced that his vocation lay as a missionary in Great Britain to remain for long in the Rhineland. In 1612 he set off with Nugent's permission for his third return to England 38 • The French ambassador who had guar– anteed that the Scottish Capuchin would not re-enter the kingdom was now dead, and Campbell believed that he was thereby freed in honour from the promise to remain in exile 39 • The growing prospects for the Mission to Great Britain under Nugent's direction began to attract young Englishmen to the Capu– chins. In 1612 three students of the English College at Douai joined the order• 0 • The following year another student of the college followed their example 41 • The Capuchins at Cologne were an instant success and had little option but to give themselves to the constant demands of the religious revival in the Rhineland. Nevertheless, the English-speaking friars, who composed the majority of the Capuchin group at Cologne, were alert for any contact with the British Isles. A group of twenty five English actors, all Protestants, stopped at Cologne on their way to Prague to the court of the Elector Palatine Frederick V, newly married to Elizabeth, daughter of James I of England. All were converted to 34 Ibid., 214. 35 O'CONNELL, Hist.Miss., 61; ARCHBOLD, Evangel.Fruict, 49. 36 Ibid. 37 TI1eir signatures are included in a document from the English-speaking Capuchins,. to Cardinal Borghese, Cologne 3 Sept. 1614; see MARTIN Nugent, 138 n.3. 38 O'CONNELL, Hist.Miss., 61, 314. 39 Ibid., 61; BENEDICT OF BOLTON, art. cit., in Coll.Franc. 4(1934) 581. 40 Diaries of the English College, Douai, eel. T. Knox, London 1878, 34-35. 41 Ibid., 35.