Franciscan priest and theologian who hoped for the reunion of the English Church with Roman Catholicism and attempted to reconcile the Thirty-nine Articles of Anglicanism with Roman Catholic teaching.
He studied at Oxford (1613-14), was converted to Catholicism and went to the English college at Douai in Fladers in n1615.
After joining the Franciscan Order at Ypres (1617) he studied at the University of Salamanca, Spain, and became a professor at Douai.
Returning to England he served as chaplain to Charles I´s Queen Henrietta Maria and after the Restoration to Charles II´s Queen Catherine of Braganza.
He was a friend of many Anglican clergymen. His Deus, Natura, Gratia (1634) in which he discussed the Thirty-nine Articles was placed on the Spanish Index but was not condemned by Rome.
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