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232 F. X. MARTIN never again to see England 86 • Father Anselm, another English Capuchin also had to make his way out of the country. A third English friar, Father Richard, was unable to obey Friar Joseph's command since he was then imprisoned in London 87 • Even the two Capuchin missionaries in distant Scotland were not exempt from Friar Joseph's orders. Archangel Leslie and Epiphan– ius Lindsay travelled to London with breaking hearts on their way to the continent. Lindsay's missionary career was so remarkable and the indignation of Scottish Catholics so intense that he was halted in London and allowed back to Scotland 88 • Friar Joseph's plans for a Catholic revival under French Capuchin auspices were at first delayed by the presence at London of the Oratorians. When Henrietta Maria came to England in May 1625 she brought twelve Oratorian priests under the leadership of the famous de Berulle 89 • He accompanied her as confessor, but was forced to leave England in November 1625 under threat of expulsion. Ten of the Oratorians followed him during August 1626 90 • De Berulle, whose shining merits were recognized by his creation as a cardinal in 1627, became discouraged about the prospects for a Catholic revival in England, and by the time of his death on 2 October 1629 there remained only one Oratorian at London, a Scot, the official confessor to the queen 91 • Once the cardinal was dead Friar Joseph was able to let plans for England take full shape. When the new French ambassador, the marquis de Fontenay-Mareuil, came to London in February 1630 he was accompanied by ten friars under the direction of Pere Leonard de Paris 92 • Friar Joseph himself made strenuous efforts to join the Mission, but neither the king of France nor Richelieu was willing to part with him. The French Capuchins were graciously received by their Majesties, and lodged in a house built by the queen adjoining her splendid palace, Somerset House. Archbold noted the irony of history by which the house belonging to the earl of Somerset, uncle and tutor of Edward VI, became the sn Ibid., 366-367. s1 Friar Joseph to Propaganda, 12 March 1626 : APF, Scritt.rif.cong.gen., 101, 289r. La– gonissa, papal nuncio at Brussels, to Propaganda, 31 July 1627, mentioned that Fr. Angelus was then imprisoned at London (ibid.. 129. 279v). Was this a confusion with Fr. Richard?' 88 CYPRIEN DE GAMACHES, Memoires, 338. sn DEDOUVRES, Joseph de Paris II, 106. '"' Ibid., 107. ,n Ibid., 107-108; ARCHBOLD, Evangel.Fruict, 207. n2 ALBION, Charles I and the court of Rome, 106-107.