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SIR EDWARD PETRE (1631-1699)

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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 315 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SIR See also:EDWARD See also:PETRE (1631-1699)  , Jesuit See also:confessor of See also:King See also:James II. of See also:England, was See also:born in See also:Paris . He was the son of See also:Sir See also:Francis See also:Petre, See also:Bart., of Cranham, See also:head of a junior See also:branch of the See also:family of the Barons Petre, and his wife See also:Elizabeth See also:Gage, daughter of Sir See also:John Gage, both strong See also:Roman Catholics . In 1649 he was sent for his See also:education to the Jesuit See also:College at St Omer, and he entered the See also:order under the name of See also:Spencer in 1657, but did not receive the full orders till 1671 . In 1679 he succeeded his See also:elder See also:brother in the See also:title and family estates . On the See also:accession of James II. in 1685 he was chosen as confessor by the king, who looked upon him as " a resolute and undertaking See also:man." During the whole of the king's reign Petre was one of his advisers who did the most to encourage him in the policy which ended by producing the revolution of 1688 . The king contemplated making him See also:archbishop of See also:York, as the see was then vacant, but the See also:pope, See also:Innocent XI., who was not friendly to the order, would not See also:grant a See also:dispensation to hold it, and even directed Petre's superiors to rebuke him for his excessive ambition . In 1687 he was made privy councillor . When the revolution See also:broke out Petre was compelled to flee disguised as a woman . After his See also:flight ,he had no further relations with James II . After a visit to See also:Rome, he became head of the Jesuit College at St Omer in 1693, from whence he was transferred to Walten in See also:Flanders in 1697 . He died on the 15th of May 1699 . A younger brother See also:Charles (1644-1712) was also a member of the order .

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