Career
Creswell"s character and conduct in connection with his difficulties over the seminaries in Seville and Valladolid, and his controversies about the Benedictine vocations have been criticized. Father Creswell had considerable intercourse with Sir Charles Cornwallis, the English resident at Madrid, till the Gunpowder Plot, when Creswell was summoned to Rome. Sent to Belgium in 1614, he was at Street-Omer in 1630, and in 1621 was made rector of Ghent.
