Education
Goffe was educated at Merton College, Oxford, becoming Master of Arts
Goffe was educated at Merton College, Oxford, becoming Master of Arts
Gough) (b 1605; d at Paris, Christmas Day, 1681), was a Royalist agent of the Wars of the Three Kingdoms, and later an Oratorian priest. In 1627. He took orders and became chaplain to Colonel Vere"s regiment in the Low Countries. Subsequently Henry Jermyn, 1st Earl of Street Albans obtained Goffe"s appointment as one of the chaplains to Charles I of England, in which capacity he was created Doctor of Divinity in 1636.
He was often employed in secret negotiations in France, Flanders, and Holland.
He was rector of Herstmonceaux from 1639. During the Civil War Goffe was arrested and charged with attempting to rescue the king, then a prisoner at Hampton Court.
After the execution of the king (whose death-warrant was signed by Stephen"s brother William), he went to France, where he became a Catholic. Dodd and other Catholics have disproved the story that the Sorbonne admitted the validity of his Anglican orders.
Goffe was a learned man and maintained a correspondence with Vossius and other scholars.
Some of his letters were printed by Paulus Colomesius (Paul Colomiès) in 1690, and others, still in manuscript, are in the British Museum (Addit Mississippi 6394).
Goffe became a member of the Oratory of Saint Philip Neri on 14 January 1651, at Notre-Dame-des Vertues near Paris, where he became superior in 1655.
