- Robert Phillip
Robert Phillip (d. at Paris,
4 January 1647 ) was a ScottishRoman Catholic priest, theconfessor toHenrietta Maria of France .Life
He was descended from the Scottish family of Phillip of
Sanquhar , but nothing is known of his early life. Ordained in Rome, he returned in 1612 to Scotland where he was betrayed by his father, seized while saying Mass, and tried atEdinburgh as a seminary priest, 14 September, 1613.The sentence of death was commuted to banishment, and he withdrew to France, where he joined the
French Oratory recently founded byCardinal de Bérulle . In 1628 he went to England as confessor to Queen Henrietta Maria. At her request he asked the pope for financial aid against the enemiesofCharles I of England . The subsequent negotiations were discovered, and Phillip was impeached on the charge of being a papal spy and of having endeavoured to pervert Prince Charles, but proceedings dropped owing to the displeasure of Richelieu at the introduction of his own name into the matter.Later he was committed to the
Tower of London for refusing to be sworn on the Anglican Bible on 2 November, 1641, when he had been summoned by theHouse of Lords committee to be examined touching State matters. Released through the queen's influence, he accompanied her toThe Hague in March, 1642, and remained with her in Paris till his death.References
*John Nalson, "Collection of Affairs of State", II (London, 1682-3)
*Joseph Berington , "Memoirs of Panzani" (Birmingham, 1793)
*STOTHERT
*James Frederick Skinner Gordon , ed., "Catholic Church in Scotland" (Glasgow, 1869)
*Henry Foley , "Records of Eng. Jesuits", V (London, 1879)
*Thomas Seccombe in "Dictionary of National Biography ", s.v. PHILIPS, ROBERT
*Joseph Gillow , "Bibl. Dict. Eng. Cath.", s.v.External links
*worldcat id|lccn-n85-35115
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