Michael Alford (1587 – 11 August 1652) (real name Griffith)[1] was an English Jesuit missionary and ecclesiastical historian.
Thomas Campbell says that Alford's real name was Griffith, and that he passed as John Flood, the aliases being used to escape detection.
[3] Upon landing at Dover he was mistakenly arrested on suspicion of being Father Richard Smith, Bishop of Chalcedon, for whose apprehension the government had offered a reward.
His captors conveyed him to London, "but as his person in no respect corresponded with the description of the bishop, he was restored to liberty through the mediation of Queen Henrietta Maria".
[3] In order to put the finishing stroke to his Annales Ecclesiae Britannicae he obtained leave to retire to the College of St. Omer in the spring of 1652, and while there he succumbed a fever on 11 August the same year.