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  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY Saints celebrated on the 1st of July WELCOME! BLESSED THOMAS MAXFIELD, PRIEST AND MARTYR London Oratory, The Martyrs of Tyburn Tree (detail)  Thomas Maxfield  was descended of an ancient family of this name in Staffordshire. His father, who was a man of great piety, had suffered much for his religion; and besides the confiscation of his estate, and a long and close imprisonment of many years, was actually under sentence of death for his faith when his son was born; his wife being at the same time a close prisoner for the same cause.  As for Mr Thomas, having got some little tincture of grammar in his own country, he was sent abroad to the English college of Douay, where he arrived in 1603, and there made a good progress in learning; finished his course of philosophy; and was advanced two years in the study of divinity, when he was attacked with a long and lingering sickness, which which obliged him to interrupt his studies, and return ...

  ALL SAINTS CELEBRATED IN JULY Saints celebrated on the 1st of July WELCOME! BLESSED THOMAS MAXFIELD, PRIEST AND MARTYR  Bl.  Thomas Maxfield  (Macclesfield) was an English priest and martyr, born in Stafford gaol. He was one of the younger sons of William Macclesfield of Chesterton and Maer and Aston, Staffordshire (a firm recusant, condemned to death in 1587 for harbouring priests, one of whom was his brother Humphrey), and Ursula, daughter of Francis Roos, of Laxton, Nottinghamshire. William Macclesfield is said to have died in prison. HE WAS ORDAINED A PRIEST Thomas arrived at the English College at Douai on March 16, 1602-3, but had to return to England May 17, 1610, owing to ill health. In 1614 he went back to Douai, was ordained priest, and in the next year came to London.  HE WAS ARRESTED Within three months of landing he was arrested, and sent to the Gatehouse, Westminster. After about eight months' imprisonment, he tried to escape by a rope let down f...