Edward Coffin

Edward Coffin (alias Hatton) (Exeter, 1570 – 17 April 1626, Saint-Omer's College) was an English Jesuit.

Life

After studies at Reims and Ingolstadt he was ordained at the English College, Rome, and sent to England.

In 1598 he entered the Society of Jesus. On his way to the novitiate in Flanders, travelling with Thomas Lister,^[1] he was seized by the Dutch, near Antwerp, and taken to England, where he was imprisoned for five years. Banished from England in 1603, he acted for twenty years as confessor at the English College, Rome. He volunteered for England again, but died on the journey.

Works

He wrote:

• the preface to Robert Persons's "Discussion of Mr. Barlowe's Answer" (Saint-Omer, 1612),
• Refutation of Hall, Dean of Worcester's "Discourse for the Marriage of Ecclesiastical Persons" (1619),
• "Art of Dying Well", from the Latin of Robert Bellarmine (1621);
• "True Relation of Sickness and Death of Cardinal Bellarmine", by C.E. of the Society of Jesus (1622), tr. into Latin,
• "De Morte", etc. (Saint-Omer 1623 8vo.);
• "Marci Antonii de Dominis Palinodia" (Saint-Omer, 1623), tr. by Dr. Fletcher in 1827 as "My Motives for Renouncing the Protestant Religion";
• "De Martyrio PP. Roberts, Wilson et Napper" (Stonyhurst MSS., Anglia, III, n. 103).

References

Attribution

•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Herbermann, Charles, ed (1913). "Edward Coffin". Catholic Encyclopedia. Robert Appleton Company.