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212 F. X. MARTIN Seducinge muche people to their damned estate by their new false founde doctrine the Gospel deridinge. Sayinge and affirminge, which is no newe false tidinge: That all suche as doe the Pope's doctrine dispise, As damned soules to hell muste be ridinge, For they doe condemne them with their newe found lie, These be the children of the worlde counted wise, whose wisedome is folly to God and his elect. But let Sathan worke all that he can devise, God it is alone which the Gospel doeth protect. It was an opportune warning to Her Majesty's God-fearing sub– jects. At the time this broadsheet was published Scots and Englishmen in exile had already joined the Capuchin Order. A spy reporting to the English government in December 1598 listed some of these friars 2 - at Arras in the Low Countries a Father William; in France Father Constantine, 'whose name is Polidore Morgan'; Father Archangel of Pembroke, 'whose name is William Barloe, a Capuchin, but in great credit in France'; at Paris Father Patrick Bath, 'a great scholar'; at Saint Malo 'one Fitz... alias Bennett'; at Metz in Germany Father Fitzherbert. The first of these exiles to make a name for himself was Con– stantine Morgan 3 • He had been a secular priest, a missionary in England, but was captured, imprisoned, and forced to leave the country. At Rome he became a Capuchin, and after an unsuccessful attempt to return to England during the time of Gregory XIII (1572- 85) settled in France, was appointed guardian of various friaries in– cluding that of Saint-Honore at Paris in 1592, and by the time of his death at Tours in 1616 had earned a reputation for exceptional sanctity. The spy's report omits several Capuchin names, notably John Forbes and Francis Nugent. John Forbes, son of Lord Forbes of Scotland, was a staunch Catholic like his mother, Margaret, daughter of the fourth earl of Huntly 1 • The father although a Calvinist was free in his morals - he 2 P. GuILDAY, The English Catholic refugees on the continent, 1558-1795, London 1914, 14-18; Public Record Office, London, Domestic State Papers, Elizabeth, 269 no. 69. The printed Cal.S.P.dom. (1598-1601), 145, gives only a general reference to this document. s For Constantine Morgan see: EMMANUEL DE LANMODEZ, O.F.M.Cap., Les Peres Gardiens des capucins du couvent de la rue Saint-Honore a Paris, Paris 1893, 6; GoDEFROY DE PARIS, O.F.M.Cap., Les freres-mineurs capucins en France I, Paris 1939, 140-142, 191, 197; MARCELLlNUS MATICONENSIS [a Macon], O.F.M.Cap., Annales Ord.Min.Cap. III, Lyons 1676, 188-192. These accounts have to a great extent been outdated by Cassian Reel's biography of Morgan in Biographical Studies, 1534-1829, ed. A.F. Allison and D.M. Rogers, Bognar Regis 1953, 23-36. 4 For the Forbes brothers see: CunIBERT [OF BRIGHTON], O.F.M.Cap., The Capuchins; a contribution to the histoty of the Countct-Refonnation II, London 1928, 322-325; G.E. C[oKAYNE], The complete peerage of England, Scotland, Ireland, Great Britain, ancl the