Edward Arden of Mary Arden, mother of William Shakespeare. He was the head of a Warwickshire family; his father William died in 1545, and Edward succeeded his grandfather Thomas Arden in 1563. He kept to the old faith and maintained in his home, Park Hall at Castle Bromwich, a priest named Hall, in the disguise of a gardener. This priest influenced John Somerville, Edward Arden's son-in-law, who had had indirect contact with Mary Queen of Scots (she had visited Coventry in 1569). Somerville talked of shooting the Queen of England, and set out for London. He was arrested, put to the rack,
Mother Mary Alphonsa Mother Mary Alphonsa Rose Hawthorne Lathrop, O.P., (May 20, 1851 – July 9, 1926) was an American writer. As Mother Mary Alphonsa in the 1900s, she was a Roman Catholic religious sister, social worker, and foundress of the Dominican Sisters of Hawthorne. Rose Hawthorne was born on May 20, 1851, in Lenox, Massachusetts, to Nathaniel Hawthorne and his wife Sophia. Sophia was assisted in the birth by her grandfather, Nathaniel Peabody. Hawthorne wrote about it to his friend, Horatio Bridge, comparing her to a book: "Mrs. Hawthorne published a little work, two months ago, which still lies in sheets; but,