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THE CAPUCHIN MISSION TO ENGLAND .AND SCOTLAND 227 -paganda in 1622 afforded Nugent an opportunity to press for an in– dependent Mission to England and Scotland. In his first letter to Propaganda, on 16 June 1622, he referred to his work on behalf of the Mission to England and Scotland, which he described as begun by the authority of Paul V 65 • Four months later, in a lengthy report which he composed for Propaganda on 19 October 1622, he accent– uated the need to avail of the favourable political circumstances for the development of a Mission to Great Britain 66 • It is noticeable that he treated of Scotland rather than England. He told of the completely inadequate number of priests trying to satisfy the spiritual needs of Scottish Catholics. He commented that special provision should be made in the continental seminaries for Highland Scots, and suggested that a college for this purpose be established in Rome 67 • He concluded the report with a request to have the Mission erected as an autonomous unit responsible directly to the general. To strengthen his request he pointed out that as a result of restrictions imposed by the Walloon Capuchins the number of missionaries sent to the British Isles during the previous seven years was limited to five to Ireland, three to England, and two to Scotland 68 • This statement indicates that Nugent was in fact trying to fulfil his obligations to all three countries. We know the names of the friars in Ireland .in 1623 - Bath, Comyn, Glynn, Laurence Nugent. Fathers Angelus, Anselm and Richard were the Capuchins in England. Father Epiphan– ius was one of the two in Scotland. Who was the other? Perhaps Nugent had already given Archangel Leslie permission to go to Scotland, and therefore considered him as one of those «sent». Archangel landed in England in 1623. Nugent wrote from Brussels to Cardinal Barberini on 18 Novem– ber 1622 repeating his suggestion that three houses be grouped together as a mission unit to serve the British Isles 69 • The following April he wrote from Charleville to Cardinal Ludovisi asking frankly 'in 1626. See synopsis of the refusal from Propaganda in GUILDAY, English Catholic refugees, 296 n.2. It is unlikely the refusal was due to Nugent's influence. More probably it may be traced to Friar Joseph who had already allocated England to the friars of his own 'Paris Province. 65 Printed in MARTIN, Nugent, 324-325. HB APP, Particolari, 1, 436r-451v. 01 Ibid., 44Sr-v. «s Ibid., 449v. In a letter from Charleville to Cardinal Ludovisi, 9 April 1623, Nugent •,recorded that there were then four Capuchins in Ireland, three in England, two in Scotland ,(APP, Scritt.rif.cong.gen., 347, 183r-v). 69 Ibid., 294, 39r-40r. See above n.51.