Neville, Edmund (alias Sales), a Jesuit, b. at Hopcut, Lancashire, 1605; d. in England, 18 July, 1847. Educated at St. Omer, he entered the English College, Rome, 29 June, 1621, where he distinguished himself in philosophy. He joined the Jesuits, 24 May, 1626; was stationed at Ghent, 1636, and sent on the London mission, 1637. He was professed, 3 August, 1640; served in the Oxford district, 1642, and in South Wales, 1645. Being a suspected priest he was seized under the Commonwealth but soon released. He wrote the “Palm of Christian Fortitude” (St. Omer, 1630), an account of the Japanese persecutions; a “Life of St. Augustine” and. “Second Thoughts” both unprinted. (2) His uncle Edmund Neville (alias Elijah Nelson), probably the son of Sir John Neville of Leversedge, b. in Yorkshire about 1563; d. 1648, his death hastened by the treatment he received in prison. Ordained for the English mission, 12 April, 1608, he entered the Society, 1609. He is considered to have been the dejure seventh Earl of Northumberland. (3) Many members of the Scarisbrick family of Scarisbrick Hall, near Ormskirk, became Jesuits during the penal times and assumed the alias “Neville”. Among them were Edward Scarisbrick (Neville), b. 1639. Educated at St. Omer, he entered the Society at Watten, 7 September, 1660, and was stationed at Liége, 1671, and St. Omer, 1675. Sent to England, he was one of Oates’s intended victims. James II appointed him royal chaplain. He was instructor of the Jesuit tertians at Ghent, 1693. He returned to Lancashire, where he died, 19 February, 1708-9. He wrote ‘Life of Lady Warner” (St. Omer, 1691); ‘Catholic Loyalty”? (London, 1688); “Rules and Instructions for the Sodality of the Immaculate Conception”, etc. (4) Edward Neville (Scarisbrick), b. 1663; d. 15 November, 1735. He became a Jesuit, 1682; served on the Derbyshire mission, 1701, and after 1728 at Bushey Hall, Watford, Herts. (5) Edward Neville (Scarisbrick), b. 1698; d. 7 July, 1778. He entered the Society, 7 September, 1728. Superior of the Derbyshire mission in 1764, he laboured also in Lancashire. (6) Str Epwarp Nevitun, son of Baron Bergavenny, a courtier of Henry VIII, took part in the war in France, and was made the king’s standard bearer, 1531. He married Eleanor, daughter of Lord Windsor. Arrested 3 November, 1538, on the charge of conspiracy with the brother of Cardinal Pole, he was sent to the Tower, tried at Westminster, and beheaded for the faith, 8 December.
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