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FR. ARCHANGEL OF PEMBROKE AND GROTIUS 319' Meudon. Already he was noted for his sound judgment 19 • Soon he began to hold high office in his province. In 1600 he was elected definitor for the first time and he was going to hold this office many times in.subsequent years 20 • In 1608, he accompanied Ange de Joyeuse,. then provincial, to Rome to take part in the General Chapter of the Order held that year. That was to be a sad undertaking; for Ange,. when they reached Rivoli on the way back to France, was to succumb to an illness that had been aggravated by the trying journey. It was Archangel of Pembroke who assisted this intimate friend of his in his extremity 21 • In 1614, in a spirit of enterprise that would surely have received the approval of his grandfather, Roger Barlow, he led a contingent of Capuchin missionaries to Brazil only to return at the end of that year when this missionary enterprise was frustrated by the Portuguese 22 • Residing in Paris as much as he did and where he frequently held the important post of Guardian of the 'grand Couvent' in the Rue Saint-Honoré, it was to be expected that he carne much into contact 1 0 G0DEFROY DE PARIS, op. cit. I, 190, 198. He is described as one « qui se connaissoit en Prosélittes et qui s'y trompoit peu ». 2 0 Annales des Révérends Peres Capucins de la Province de París, Bibl. Mazarine, Paris,. ms. 2418, f.163-176; Chapitres provínciaux des Capucins de París 1594-1705, Bibl. Mazarine,. Paris, ms. 2419, f.42 ss.; Abrégé des Annales des Capucins de la Provínce de Paris, Bibl. Nationale, Paris, ms. Fonds fran9. 5859, f.191-206. There is sorne discrepancy between the· entries rcgarding Father Archangel in these three documents, ali from the pen of Maurice d'Epernay. One can easily accept the statement of Pere Godefroy de Paris regarding the· works of this Annalist; he writes « cl'une maniere générale la chronologie en est hésitante. Ces cléfauts toutefois se remarquent surtout clans les Annales (Bibl. Maz.) et clans I'Abrégé· des Annales "· Cf. GODEFROY DE PARIS, op. cit. II, 7, 353; HILDEBRAND [VAN HoOGLEDE], op. cit., loco cit. 2l Lours DE GONZAGUE, op. cit., 481; L. OWEN, The Vnmaskíng of Ali popish Monks, Friers, and Jesuits, Lonclon 1628, 75-76. The eviclence of the anti-Catholic Owen is worth citing; he writes: « In the ene!, this Father Angell ancl one Father Arch-Angell, otherwise Father William Barlow, an English Capuchín Frier, who is now liuing in París, went to Rome to the Chapter General of the Capuchins, about sorne nineteene yeeres agoe; ancl in thcir re– turne home, this Duke-like Capuchin fell sicke of a burning Feuer, ancl cliecl about Sauoy. Alas, good Frier, he was not vsecl to goe such a voiage on foot, as Roan in Normandy is from Rome, being aboue a thousancl English miles ». In other parts of this work, Owen has sorne curious ancl critica! things to say about Capuchins. Cf. FELICE DA MARETO, O.F.M.Cap., Tavole– dei Capitoli Generali, Parma 1940, 112-114. 22 RA0UL DE SCEAUX, O.F.M.Cap., Les Capucins de la Provínce de Paris au Maragnan, in Etudes Franc. nouv. sér. 12(1962) 77-83; G. LE GENTIL, Un docwnent inédit sur la seconde expédition des Capucíns a Maranh[w en 1614, in Revue d'histoíre franc. 2(1925) 376-384; METODIO DA NEMBR0, op. cit., 45-50; MODESTO REZENDE DE TAUBATÉ, O.F.M.Cap. - FJDELIS M0TTA DE PRIMERIO, O.F.M.Cap., Os Missionarios Capuchínhos no Brasil. Esbot;o Historico, Siio, Paulo 1929, 28ss. It is statecl in this work that Father Archangel baptisecl natives right ancl Ieft (a torto e clireito, p.30), but see G. Le Gentil art. cit., 378, where it is relatecl that « Archange ele Pembroke apres avoir administré le baptisme a 650 indigenes reconnait que le nombre des chréiicns sinceres ne s'élevait pas de soixante auxquels il faut joindre une vingtaine cl'enfants ». Cf. MELCI-IIOR A P0BLADURA, O.F.M.Cap., Historia genera/is Ordinis Fra– trum Minorum Capuccinorum. Pars prima: 1525-1619, Rornae 1947, 329-330.