John Warner (Jesuit)
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John Warner was an English Jesuit, known as a controversialist and confessor to James II
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, and was educated and ordained priest in Spain. For some years prior to 1663, when he entered the Jesuit order, he held the chair of philosophy and divinity in the English College at Douai. He was afterwards successively lecturer in divinity in the Jesuit college at Liège and prolocutor of the order at Paris, where he took the fourth vow on 2 February 1673. He was appointed rector of Liège in 1678, and on 4 December 1679 provincial of his order. He was reputed to be implicated in the Popish Plot
; the 1680 pamphlet A Vindication of the English Catholics against the accusations levelled at the Jesuits in the fictitious Plot is attributed to him. Warner claimed that Titus Oates
had offered to sell to the Jesuits his manuscript narrative which later became the backbone of the alleged Plot, early in August 1678. He took part in the twelfth general congregation of the Jesuit order at Rome, 21 June to 6 September 1682, and was rector of St. Omer, 1683-6.
On the recommendation of Edward Petre
, he replaced the Capuchin
Father Mansuete as confessor to James II, in 1686; according to Maurice Ashley
, Warner gave James moderate advice. At the time of the Glorious Revolution
in 1689 he followed James to France, though detained at Gravesend
where he needed forged papers to escape. He died at Paris on 2 November 1692.
Warner has also been credited with the authorship of Blakloanas Haeresis olim in Pelagio et Manichaeis damnatae nunc denuo renascentis Historia et Confutatio, an attack on Thomas White (pseudonym Thomas Blackloe). It was published at Ghent, 1675, 4to, as by M. Lominus, which was really a pseudonym for Peter Talbot.
James II of England
James II & VII was King of England and King of Ireland as James II and King of Scotland as James VII, from 6 February 1685. He was the last Catholic monarch to reign over the Kingdoms of England, Scotland, and Ireland...
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Life
He was born in WarwickshireWarwickshire
Warwickshire is a landlocked non-metropolitan county in the West Midlands region of England. The county town is Warwick, although the largest town is Nuneaton. The county is famous for being the birthplace of William Shakespeare...
, and was educated and ordained priest in Spain. For some years prior to 1663, when he entered the Jesuit order, he held the chair of philosophy and divinity in the English College at Douai. He was afterwards successively lecturer in divinity in the Jesuit college at Liège and prolocutor of the order at Paris, where he took the fourth vow on 2 February 1673. He was appointed rector of Liège in 1678, and on 4 December 1679 provincial of his order. He was reputed to be implicated in the Popish Plot
Popish Plot
The Popish Plot was a fictitious conspiracy concocted by Titus Oates that gripped England, Wales and Scotland in Anti-Catholic hysteria between 1678 and 1681. Oates alleged that there existed an extensive Catholic conspiracy to assassinate Charles II, accusations that led to the execution of at...
; the 1680 pamphlet A Vindication of the English Catholics against the accusations levelled at the Jesuits in the fictitious Plot is attributed to him. Warner claimed that Titus Oates
Titus Oates
Titus Oates was an English perjurer who fabricated the "Popish Plot", a supposed Catholic conspiracy to kill King Charles II.-Early life:...
had offered to sell to the Jesuits his manuscript narrative which later became the backbone of the alleged Plot, early in August 1678. He took part in the twelfth general congregation of the Jesuit order at Rome, 21 June to 6 September 1682, and was rector of St. Omer, 1683-6.
On the recommendation of Edward Petre
Edward Petre
Sir Edward Petre, 3rd baronet SJ was an English Jesuit who became a close adviser to King James II and was appointed a privy councillor.-Early life:...
, he replaced the Capuchin
Order of Friars Minor Capuchin
The Order of Friars Minor Capuchin is an Order of friars in the Catholic Church, among the chief offshoots of the Franciscans. The worldwide head of the Order, called the Minister General, is currently Father Mauro Jöhri.-Origins :...
Father Mansuete as confessor to James II, in 1686; according to Maurice Ashley
Maurice Ashley (historian)
Maurice Percy Ashley CBE was a noted historian of the 17th Century and a former editor of The Listener. Ashley published over thirty books on history...
, Warner gave James moderate advice. At the time of the Glorious Revolution
Glorious Revolution
The Glorious Revolution, also called the Revolution of 1688, is the overthrow of King James II of England by a union of English Parliamentarians with the Dutch stadtholder William III of Orange-Nassau...
in 1689 he followed James to France, though detained at Gravesend
Gravesend, Kent
Gravesend is a town in northwest Kent, England, on the south bank of the Thames, opposite Tilbury in Essex. It is the administrative town of the Borough of Gravesham and, because of its geographical position, has always had an important role to play in the history and communications of this part of...
where he needed forged papers to escape. He died at Paris on 2 November 1692.
Works
Warner was author of:- Vindiciae censurae Duacenae, seu confutatio scripti cujusdam Thomae Albii contra latum a S. facilitate theologica Duacena in 22 propositiones ejus censuram. Cui praefigitur Albianae censurae scopus, et alia quaedam ejus dogmata referuntur, published under the pseudonym Jonas Thamon, Douai, 1661. Against Thomas White
- Conclusiones ex universa theologia propugnandae in Collegio Anglicano Soc. Jesu, Liège, 1670.
- Dr. Stillingfleet still against Stillingfleet or the Examination of Dr. Stillingfleet against Dr. Stillingfleet examined, 1675.
- Duarum Epistolarum Georgii Morlaei S. T. D. et Episcopi Wintoniensis ad Janum Ulitium Revisio. In qua de Orationibus pro Defunctis, Sanctorum Invocatione, Diis Gentilium, et Idolatria agitur, 1683, (English version entitled A Revision of Dr. George Morlei's Judgment in Matters of Religion,' &c., 1683).
- Ecclesiae Primitivae Clericus: cujus Gradus, Educatio, Tonsura, Chorus, Vita Communis, Hierarchia exponuntur, 1686.
- A Defence of the Doctrine and Holy Rites of the Roman Catholic Church from the Calumnies and Cavils of Dr. Burnet's "Mystery of Iniquity Unveiled," London, 1688, 2nd edit.
Warner has also been credited with the authorship of Blakloanas Haeresis olim in Pelagio et Manichaeis damnatae nunc denuo renascentis Historia et Confutatio, an attack on Thomas White (pseudonym Thomas Blackloe). It was published at Ghent, 1675, 4to, as by M. Lominus, which was really a pseudonym for Peter Talbot.