THE JESUIT MURDERERS.

There is difficulty in identifying as Jesuits the 'Jesuits' accused
by Bedloe. The chief is 'Father Le Herry,'* called 'Le Ferry' by
Mr. Pollock and Mr. Foley. He also appears as Le Faire, Lee Phaire,
Le Fere, but usually Le Fevre, in the documents. There really was a
priest styled Le Fevre. A man named Mark Preston was accused of
being a priest and a Jesuit. When arrested he declared that he was
a married layman with a family. He had been married in Mr.
Langhorne's rooms, in the Temple, by Le Fevre, a priest, in 1667,
or, at least, about eleven years before 1678.** I cannot find that
Le Fevre was known as a Jesuit to the English members of the
Society. He is not in Oates's list of conspirators. He does not
occur in Foley's 'Records,' vol. v., a very painstaking work. Nor
would he be omitted because accused of a crime, rather he would be
reckoned as more or less of a martyr, like the other Fathers
implicated by the informers. The author of 'Florus Anglo-
Bavaricus'*** names 'Pharius' (Le Phaire), 'Valschius' (Walsh), and
'Atkinsus,' as denounced by Bedloe, but clearly knows nothing about
them. 'Atkinsus' is Mr. Pepys's clerk, Samuel Atkins, who had an
alibi. Valschius is Walsh, certainly a priest, but not to be found
in Foley's 'Records' as a Jesuit.

*Brit. Mus. Addit. MS. 11055, 245.
**Lords' Journals, xiii. 331, 332. Lords' MSS., p. 99.
***Liege, 1685, p. 137.

That Le Fevre was the Queen's confessor I find no proof. But she
had a priest named Ferrera, who might be confused with Le Faire.*
He was accused of calling a waterman to help to take two persons