James Mumford
James Mumford (c.1606 – 9 March 1666) was an English Jesuit and Catholic controversialist.
Born in Norfolk or Suffolk, Mumford became a Jesuit novice in 1626, was ordained priest at Liège around 1635, and made his Jesuit profession in 1641.[1] He taught in the Jesuit colleges at St Omer, Watten, and Liège, where he was elected rector in 1648. He returned to England in 1650, based in Norwich as a member (and possibly later rector) of the Jesuit College of the Holy Apostles, which comprised the Jesuits' English mission to eastern counties.[1] In the late 1650s he was arrested, displayed in the city streets, and imprisoned. After no witnesses were found to accuse him of the crime of being a priest, he was discharged and returned to mission work.[2]
Aside from his controversial writings, Mumford wrote several works on purgatory.
Works
- [as 'Optatus Ductor'], The Question of Questions, 1658. Republished 1686 and (under Mumford's name) 1687.
- The Catholick Scripturalist, Ghent, 1658.
- De Misericordia fidelibus defunctis exhibenda, 1647
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Joy Rowe, ‘Mumford, James (c.1606–1666)’, Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 11 Jan 2009
- ↑ Michael Mullett, ed., English Catholicism 1680-1830. Volume 1. English Catholic Writings on Religious Controversies 1685-1736, 2006, pp. 245-6
External links
- Works by or about James Mumford in libraries (WorldCat catalog)
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