Thomas Neal / en The Authorship of ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ MS 303 /node/2216 The Authorship of ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ MS 303 Alison Shell Issue number (2021): 15 Notes category Thomas Neal Library Manuscripts MS 303 Catholic Church Roman Catholic Church

          Ffyve hundreth, eight tymes tenn yn all.
          If ye can ioyne to gether well,
          By addyng thereto poynts vocall,
          The Authours name ye then ca[n] tell.

 

This provocative verse appears in ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ MS 303, a book of prose and poetry written by an Elizabethan Catholic.  

 

²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, BT1.4.6, f. 81r

 

²ÝÁñÊÓƵ Library and Archives, Oxford
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On 2 September 1566 Thomas Neal—Catholic, Hebraist, and ²ÝÁñÊÓƵ, Oxford fellow—was presented to Elizabeth I during her six-day visit to Oxford.  Neal achieved many things in his life as a scholar. But most impressively of all, however, he remained faithful to his vocation as a Catholic priest in the most turbulent and dangerous times.

 

Portrait of Queen Elizabeth I [detail], oil on panel (c. 1575)
By an unknown continental artist
NPG 2082 © National Portrait Gallery

 

National Portrait Gallery, London
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