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 wife Dorothy, dau. and coheiress of Edward Persehouse, of Gwarn Hall, in the parish of Sedgley, co. Stafford, Esq.; alumnus Sept. 1, 1670; ord. priest; sent English mission Jan. 26, 1681.

VANCAM, John, born Feb. 10, 1693, son of John Vancam and his wife Winifred Beggs; admitted 1708; left 1712; went to Rome, where received at the English College, March 23, 1712; alumnus Sept. 1712; ord. priest April u, 1716; left Rome for the Eng. mission, Apr. 21, 1718.

VANE, John, alias Jones and Herbert, of an ancient family, was educated at one of the Universities, and took orders in the Church of England. At the revolution, &quot;being scandalized at the doctrine and practice of his Church, which maintained it was lawful to depose a King,&quot; he became a Catholic, and was received into the Church by Bp. Giffarcl, who had been apprehended at the revolution and was then confined in Newgate. Towards the close of 1688 came over to Lisbon, and Nov. 9, 1692, took college oath and cassock; defended universal philosophy, 1693, and ded. his thesis to the dowager Queen Catharine; ord. priest May, 1693, taught classics for three years, and in July, 1694, defended theses in divinity under Mr. Roger Brockholes; left for England, April 13, 1699, and appointed agent of the College in London, where he resided, and laboured hard in his missionary duties. Elected archdeacon of the Chapter, June 7, 1703. About 1710, when the controversy concerning Jansenism in England was at its height, Fr. Thos. Lewis, alias Smith, S.J., reported that Mr. Vane had been a Jansenist, but that he had caused him to retract his errors. Later Fr. Lewis spread it abroad that Mr. Vane had relapsed into Jansenism, and the Superioress of the convent at York Bar was led to report that Mr. Vane was suspended from his functions for the crime of Jansenism, all of which was absolutely untrue. Moreover the Jesuit's relative, John Lewis, the bookseller, in his controversy with Mr. Thos. Mainwaring and Fr. Thos. Hunter, O. P., asserted, &quot;That Mr. Vane (a clergyman) was an ignorant nonsensical fellow; that the Jesuits having challenged him to dispute he never durst; that the same Mr. Vane performing the buriall ceremony and Dirige for Dr. Short, said faciamus nwdo Anglicano, but a religious man replied, and tould