ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY Saints celebrated on the 6th of July WELCOME! BLESSED THOMAS ALFIELD, PRIEST AND MARTYR Thomas Alfield, or Aufield, as some call him, was born in Gloucestershire, studied his divinity in the English college then residing in Rheims, where he was made priest in 1581; and so went upon the English mission, where I find him a prisoner in April, 1582. In the latter end of the year 1583, or the beginning of 1584, there came out a book, penned, as it was supposed, by Cecil, lord treasurer, entitled, The Execution of Justice, &c. , or Justitia Britannica . The drift of this book was to persuade the world, that the Catholics, who had suffered in England since the queen's ascension to the crown, had not suffered for religion, but for treason. The book was immediately answered by Dr Allen, and the author fairly convicted of notorious untruths; but people in power will not bear to be told they lie. Mr Alfield, therefore, who had found means to imp...