Oswald Tesmond

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Topic author: greenwellt
Subject: Oswald Tesmond
Posted on: 06/13/2006 07:00:15
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Oswald Tesmond (Tesimond) seems to play a small but interesting role as the first open contact between the conspiritors and the Jesuits. According to www.british-history.ac.uk archives, his alias was Greenwell. This was a fairly established and strongly Catholic family near Durham. Does it seem more likely that Tesimond or Greenwell would be his birthname? Were aliases common for Jusuits to protect familynames or a matter of custom?

Does anyone know of any additional information about this individual? He seems to be one of the few who faced interrogation but managed to escape.

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Jan. 15.
Westminster.Proclamation for the apprehension and discovery of John Gerard, Henry Garnet, and Oswald Tesmond. Printed. [Proc. Bk., p. 120.]

[Jan. 15]20. Description of the person, &c.;, of John Gerard, the Jesuit.

[Jan. 15.]21. Same of Greenwell, alias Tesmond.

From: 'James I: Volume 18: January-February, 1606', Calendar of State Papers Domestic: James I, 1603-1610 (1857), pp. 277-94. URL: http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=15003&strquery;=greenwell. Date accessed: 13 June 2006.

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