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 him he did not understand his modo Anglicano—no, but faciamus modo Romano, said the religious man.&quot; There was no truth whatever in this charge; no such words were spoken as faciamus modo Anglicano either by Mr. Vane or anyone else, no religious man was present at the funeral, and finally the burial ceremony was not performed by Mr. Vane, but by Mr. Tobias Gibbons. &quot; So,&quot; says Mr. Andrew Giffard, &quot; the vhole story is a groundless fiction.&quot; Mr. Vane was noted for his assiduous attention to the wants of the poor throughout his missionary career, which he ended in London, Oct. 22, 1733.

VAUGHAN, John, probably second son of John Vaughan, of Welsh Bicknor, co. Monmouth, and of Clifford Park, co. Hereford, Esq., by Anne, dau. of Richard Lyngen, Esq.; admitted under the alias of Humphrey Price, July 4, 1663; alumnus June 29, 1635; ord. priest Apr. 26, 1639, sent to England, Apr. 14, 1640; chaplain to the Somerset family at Raglan Castle during the civil wars.

VENABLES, John, vide Gother.

VERNALTY, Edward, vide Barker.

VICTOR, Francis, alias Bishop, who went by the name of Williams on the mission, son of Edward Victor, of Corn wall; admitted Sept. 1, 1633; took the oath of the alumni June 29, 1635; ord. priest Apr. 20, 1636; appointed professor of philosophy, Sept. 16, 1644; professor of theology and confessor, Sept. 17, 1647, and left, owing to ill-health, for the mission, Feb. 28, 1649. He was elected archdeacon of Cornwall, Devon, and Dorsetshire by the Chapter, Sept. 13, 1661. He died on the mission in Devonshire, in 1683. His sister, Sr. Erances Victor, was professed at the Bridgettine Abbey of Syon at Lisbon, in 1652, and died there, June 30, 1681.

VERE, Langton George, admitted Oct. 22, 1861; left Aug. 9, 1865; went Old Hall Coll., and ord. priest Sept 19, 1868; now at St. Patrick s, Soho. Canon of Westminster.

WAGNER, Frederick, admitted; left Dec. 12, 1746.

WAGNER, Thomas, alum. Dec. 6, 1747; left Apr. 27, 1749.

WAGSTAFFE, James, baptized July 18, 1762, son of Charles Wagstaffe, and his vife Sarah Denton, of Manchester; went Sedgley Park School, 1774-6; thence to Douay College, where received Sept. 3, 1776; left Douay, June 3, 1780; admit. Dec. 24, 1781; alumnus May 20, 1784;