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James Wadsworth (1572?–1623) was an English Catholic priest and Jesuit. ==Life== Wadsworth was elected scholar at Emmanuel College, Cambridge, on 12 March 1584, admitted sizar in 1585, and graduated M.A. in 1593, B.D. in 1600.〔 cites: ''Hist. MSS.'' Comm. 4th Rep. App. p. 417.〕 He was instituted in 1598 to the rectory of Pakefield in Suffolk, and from 1600 he held in addition, at any rate until 1603, the livings of Cotton and Thornham Magna in the same county.〔 cites: David Elisha Davy's ''Suffolk Collections'' in Addit. MSS. 19089 f. 113, 19090 f. 180. 〕 He was also chaplain in ordinary to William Redman, bishop of Norwich. In May 1605 he accompanied Sir Charles Cornwallis to Spain as chaplain; his brother Paul was consul in Andalusia.〔 cites: Cal. State Papers, Dom. 1644–5, p. 210.〕 At Valladolid James fell under jesuit influence; in August of the same year he left the ambassador's house under pretext of a visit to the University of Salamanca, and never returned. Cornwallis, in letters to the Robert Cecil, 1st Earl of Salisbury, 15 September 1605, suggested that family and financial problems had been the cause.〔 cites: Winwood, Memorials, ii. 109, 131, 136. "perhaps through discontent of a shrewd wife, a burthen of children, and a benefice unequal to his desires, he brought his purpose out of England".〕 Wadsworth became an officer of the inquisition in Seville, receiving from the king of Spain a pension of forty ducats a month. Five years later, in 1610, his wife and children arrived, and also joined the Catholic faith. Wadsworth became steward or agent to Sir Robert Shirley, and, on the proposed Spanish match, was appointed English tutor to the Infanta Maria. He died of consumption on 30 November 1623, and was buried at Madrid. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「James Wadsworth (Jesuit)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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