Thomas Ward

Thomas Ward
Thomas Ward
    Thomas Ward
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    Born at Danby Castle near Guisborough, Yorkshire, 13 April, 1652; d. at St-Germain, France, 1708. He was the son of a farmer and was educated as a Presbyterian at Pickering School. Henry Wharton asserted that he had been a Cambridge scholar but this is not certain. Having acted for a time as private tutor he was led by his theological studies to become a Catholic. He travelled in France and Italy, and for five or six years held a commission in the papal guard, seeing service against the Turks. On the accession of James II (1688) he returned to England and employed his learning in controversy. His most popular work, "England's Reformation", is a poem in four cantos in the metre of "Hundibras". It first appeared posthumously in 1710, and since then in several editions. His "Errata to the Protestant Bible", based on Gregory Martin's work on the same subject, has been frequently republished since its appearance in 1688, once with a preface by Lingard (1810). Bishop Milner wrote a pamphlet to defend it from one of the Protestant (Protestantism) attacks which its republication early in the nineteenth century provoked. His other works were: "Speculum Ecclesiasticum" (London, 1686?); "Some Queries to the Protestants" (London, 1687); "Monomachia" (London, 1678), written about Archbishop Tenison, as also was "The Roman Catholic Soldier's Letter" (London, 1688). He also published in 1688 in two broadsheets an epitome of church history, under the title "The Tree of Life". "The Controversy of Ordination truly stated" (London, 1719) and "Controversy with Mr. Ritschel" (1819) were posthumous works. He left two unpublished MSS. on the Divine Office now in the British Museum, one on the pope's supremacy in the possession of Mr. Gillow, one of the history of England, and others.
    Life of Thomas Ward, prefixed to the Controversy with Mr. Ritschel (Manchester, 1819); DODD, Church History, III (Brussels and Wolverhampton, 1742); Catholicon, IV, 195; COTTON, Rhemes and Douay (Oxford, 1855); COOPER, in Dict. Nat. Biog., s. v.; GILLOW, Bibl. Dict. Eng. Cath., s.v.
    EDWIN BURTON
    Transcribed by Thomas M. Barrett Dedicated to the memory of Thomas Ward

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume VIII. — New York: Robert Appleton Company. . 1910.


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