Bristow, Richard, 1538-1581

found: Bristow, Richard. A briefe treatise of diverse plaine and sure wayes, 1574, 1974:t.p. (Richard Bristow)

found: Bristow, Richard. A briefe treatise of diuerse plaine and sure wayes to finde out the truthe in this doubtful and dangerous time of heresie, 1574, viewed online 28 October 2022:title page (Richard Bristow priest, licentiat in diuinitie; A briefe treatise of diuerse plaine and sure wayes to finde out the truthe in this doubtful and dangerous time of heresie: conteyning sundry worthy motiues vnto the Catholike faith, or considerations to moue a man to beleue the Catholikes, and not the Heretikes)

found: Oxford dictionary of national biography, viewed online 28 April 2020:Bristow, Richard (Bristow, Richard (1538-1581), Roman Catholic priest; born in Worcester; matriculated from Exeter College, Oxford, 1555, BA 1559, MA 1562; companion of Edmund Campion; fellowship at Exeter 1567-1568, when he left Oxford, sought refuge in Flanders as a Catholic; assistant to William Allen as Allen founded new college at Douai; close collaborator with Allen in administration of the college and prefect of studies there; ordained to priesthood in Brussels 1573; awarded STD by University of Douai 1575; Bristow was responsible, with Gregory Martin, for much of the translation of the Douai-Rheims Bible, the great enterprise of the Catholic exiles to render Vulgate into English for use of Catholics in England; when college temporarily moved to Rheims, Allen placed it under Bristow's care; 1574, published A briefe treatise of diverse plaine and sure wayes; left Douai 23 September 1581, lodged with Bellamy family at Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex; circumstances of his death somewhat confused: evidence that was arrested and arraigned with his old friend Campion and others on 14 November 1581; the Douai diary records his death in London 14 October 1581, but the months may have been confused; G. Anstruther concludes that Bristow died in prison 14 November 1581, between arraignment and indictment)

found: CERL thesaurus, 28 October 2022(heading: Bristow, Richard; variant name: Bristous, Ricardus; record ID: cnp01321318; biographical data: 1538-1581; general note: born in Worcester, Catholic theologian; primary language: Latin) - http://thesaurus.cerl.org/record/cnp01321318

found: Oxford dictionary of national biography, viewed online 22 April 2020:Martin, Gregory, 1542?-1582 (Martin, Gregory (1542?-1582); Roman Catholic priest and biblical translator; English translation of Bible: William Allen announced project September 1578; the work was Martin's, who translated the entire Vulgate September 1578-July 1580 (Allen, Richard Bristow, and William Reynolds were involved primarily as revisers); The New Testament of Iesus Christ with Bristow's notes published at Rheims 1582)