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Maurus Corker
Maurus Corker (baptised James; 1636 – 22 December 1715) was an English Benedictine who was accused and imprisoned as part of the Popish Plot, but acquitted of treason.
==Life==
He was born in Yorkshire. His baptismal name was James: he took the name Maurus when he entered the Benedictine order. On 23 April 1656, he took vows at the English Benedictine Lamspringe Abbey near Hildesheim, in Germany, and returned to England as missionary in 1665. Being accused by Titus Oates of implication in the Popish Plot, he was imprisoned in Newgate Prison, but was acquitted of treason by a London jury, 18 July 1679.〔Kenyon, J.P. ''The Popish Plot'' Phoenix Press reissue 2000 p.201〕 His acquittal was due in part to his own eloquent defence (he has been described as one of the ablest priests of his generation),〔Kenyon pp.250-1- he conducted his own defence, as a person accused of treason as not entitled to defence counsel.〕 and in part due to his good fortune in being tried with Sir George Wakeman, personal physician to Queen Catherine of Braganza. The Crown was determined to save Wakeman, and Lord Chief Justice William Scroggs, formerly a firm believer in the Plot, now turned on Oates and the other informers, denouncing them as liars.〔Kenyon pp192-201〕 Despite his notorious antipathy to Catholic priests, he made no effort to distinguish between Wakeman and the three priests tried with him, warning the jury that no innocent person, priest or layman, should suffer.〔Kenyon p.201- the other two accused priests were William Marshal and William Rumley.〕
Corker was returned to prison, and was then arraigned for being a priest and sentenced to death under the ''Act against Jesuits and Seminarists 1585'' prescribing the death penalty for anyone who was found acting as a priest in England, 17 January 1680.〔Kenyon p.223〕 Through influential friends he was granted a reprieve and detained in Newgate. While thus confined he is said in some reports to have converted more than a thousand Protestants to Catholicism.〔This derives from Ralph Weldon, who died in 1713 and compiled ''A Chronicle of the English Benedictine Monks (1554-1701)''.〕
One of his fellow-prisoners at Newgate was Oliver Plunkett, Archbishop of Armagh, with whom he formed a close friendship, and whom he prepared for his execution, which took place on 15 June 1681. Some correspondence which was carried on in prison between these two was later published. On the accession of James II of England in 1685, Father Corker was released and kept at the court as resident ambassador of Prince-Bishop Ferdinand of Bavaria, the Elector of Cologne. In 1687 he erected the little convent of St. John at Clerkenwell, where religious services were held for the public, but which was destroyed by a mob, 11 November 1688, during the Glorious Revolution. Father Corker himself was obliged to seek refuge on the continent. In 1691 he was made Abbot of Cismar Abbey near Lübeck and, two years later, of Lamspringe, where he had made his religious profession. In 1696 he resigned as abbot and returned to England to continue his missionary work. He died in Paddington.
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