Thomas Preston (monk)

[5] They landed at Great Yarmouth and made contact with Sigebert Buckley, last survivor of the monks of St. Peter, Westminster, who had recently been released from imprisonment in Framlingham.

[6] They lived with Buckley, who by letters of 1607 and 1609[7] granted and confirmed to them authority to admit brethren to membership of the monastery and Congregation of which he had been the only surviving representative.

[10][15] Preston took the pen name of Roger Widdrington for his controversial writings, concealing his own authorship, and using the real name of a Roman Catholic squire in Northumberland,[16] a Bailiff of Hexham who was associated with the recusant Radcliffe family and the conspirator Thomas Percy.

[10] The 1611 Apologia was given a false imprimatur although in fact being published in London by government order: it is possible that the real Widdrington was complicit in the use of his name, though it was quickly recognised that he was unlikely to be the true author.

[18] Among his works are: Schulckenius was Adolf Schulcken, a Dutch theologian and supporter of Robert Bellarmine, thought at the time by many opponents to be pseudonymous.