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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by greenwellt[/i] [br]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. ------------------------------ 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. [/quote]   Check here to include your profile signature.