WALPOLE
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WALSH
consulted by the British Ciovernment on the reform
of the calendar and introduction of the "New Style",
and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of
London, and the kindred societies of Paris, Berlin,
and Bologna. From 1749 to 1753 he was Prior of St.
Edmund's, Paris,
and in 1754 was
sent to Rome as
procurator gen-
eral of the Enghsh
Benedictine Con-
gregation. Two
years later he
was selected by
Propaganda as
coadjutor, with
right of succes-
sion, to Bishop
York, Vicar Apo.s-
tohc of the West-
ern District; and
was consecrated
Bishop of Rama
on 21 Dec, 1756.
He administered
the vicariate after
the retirement of
Bishop York in
1763, and suc-
ceeded that prelate on his death in 1770. His energy
and ability attracted to him an amount of attention
seldom given to Catholic bishops in England in the
eighteenth century. So much was this the case that
during the "No Popery" riots of June, 1780, a post-
chaise conveying four of the rioters, and bearing the
insignia of the mob, drove the whole way from Lon-
don to Bath, where Walmesley then resided. These
men worked upon the people of Bath so much that the
newly built Catholic chapel in St. James's Parade
was burned to the ground, as well as the presbytery
in Bell-Tree Lane; all the registers and diocesan
archives, with Walinesley's private library and MSS.,
being destroyed.
In 1789, when the action of the "Catholic Com- mittee" threatened seriously to compromise the
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Engli.sh Catholics, Walmesley called a synod of his
colleagues, and a decree was i-ssued that the bishops
of England "unanimously condemned the new form
of oath intended for the Catholics, and declared it
unlawful lo be taken". On \h Aug., 1790, Walnicsli>y
consecrated Dr. John Carroll, the first Bishop of the
United States of America, at lAilworth Castle, Dor.set-
Bhire. Walmesley was buried at St. Joseph's Chapel,
Trenchard Street, Bristol. In 1906 the bodies there
interred were removed, and the bishop's remains were
translated to Downside Abbey and placed in a vault
beneath the choir of the abbey church, so that, more
than a century after his death, his body came into
the charge of that community by whom he was
educated nearly two hundred years ago. The sug-
gestion was put forward that the bishops of the two
hierarchies of America and England, of whom the
large majority trace their spiritual descent to Bishop
Walmesley, should erect a fitting monument over his
grave. The proposal met with generous support, and
a beautiful altar tomb with recumbent effigy in ala-
baster from the designs of F. A. Walters, F.S.A., has
now been erected on the Gospel side of the sanctu-
ary. Waknesley's published works consist chiefly
of treatises on astronomy and mathematics, but his
"General History of the Christian Chm^ch . . .
chiefly deduced from the ApocahTise of St. John the
Apostle, by Signor Pastorini" (a pseudonym), went
through nine or ten editions in Great Britain and five
more were produced in America. Translations of
the work also appeared in Latin, French, German,
and Italian, and were several times reprinted. A
number of his letters are in the archives of the Diocese
of Clifton. Portraits exist at Downside, Clifton, and
Lul worth.
Brady, Episcopal Succession, III (Rome, 1S77) ; Le Glat, Xo- tice sur C. Walmesley (Lille. 1858) : Ouver, Collections (London, 1857), 42!). 527; Butler, Historical Memoirs of Bnt/lish . . . Catholics (4 vols., London, 1822): Burton, Life and Times of Bishop Vhalloner (2 vols., London, 1909): Ward, Dawn of Che Catholic Revival (2 vola., London, 1909): The Rambler, VII.
G. Roger Hudleston.
Walpole, Henkt, Vener.vble, English Jesuit martyr, bom at Docking, Norfolk, 1558; martjTed at York, 7 .April, 1595. He was the eldest son of Chris- topher Walpole, bj' Margery, heiress of Richard Beck- ham of Narford, and was educated at Norw-ich School, Peterhouse, Cambridge, and Gray's Inn. Converted by the death of Blessed Edmund Campion, he went by way of Rouen and Paris, to Reims, where he ar- rived, 7 July, 1582. On 28 April, 1583, he was ad- mitted into the Enghsh College, Rome, and in October received minor orders. On 2 Februar>', 1584, he became a probationer of the Society, and soon after went to France, where he continued his studies, chiefly at Pont-a-Mousson. He was ordained subdeacon and deacon at Metz, and priest at Paris, 17 Dec, 1588. After acting as chaplain to the Span- ish forces in the Netherlands, suffering imprisonment by the English at Flushing in 1589, and being moved about to Brussels, Tournai, Bruges, and Spain, he was at last sent on the mission in 1590. He was arrested 7 December, at Kilham, Yorkshire, two days after lauding at Flamborough, and imprisoned at York. The following February he was sent to the Tower, where he was frequently and severely racked. He remained there until, in the spring of 1595, he was sent back to York for trial. With him suffered .Alex- ander Rawlins, of the Diocese of Gloucester. .After being twice imprisoned at Newgate for religion in 1586, Rawlins arrived at Reims, 23 Dec, 1589; he was ordained subdeacon at Laon, 23 September, 15S9, (leacon and jiriest at Soissons, 17 and IS March, l.")',i() w:i~i sent (Ml till- mission the following 9 April,
- i,hl luuh-A at Wlilll.v.
S, . . l..r \\ .lii^li .1) " rr. One Generation of a Norfolk House (X.jruuh 1.S7M; lui.M, Diet. Nat. Biog,, s. v.: Pollen, English Martyrs I'ssi-lOOS in Cath. Rec. Soc. Publ. (London. 190S). For Rawlins: Challoner, Missionary Priests, I. nn. 90 and 108; Knox. Douay Diaries (London, 1878); Cath. Rec. Soc. Publ., II, 261, 264, 267.
John B. Wainewright.
Walsh, Edw.ird, Irish poet, b. at Derry in 1805; d. at Cork, 6 .\ugiist, 1S.")0. When little more than a boy he showed great intellectual gifts, and in 1830 w:is "private tutor in County Cork. He was for a time teacher of a school at Mitlstreet, whence, in
