The King of Spain not only permitted English Seminaries and religious houses to be established in Spain and in the Low Countries, but he even supported some of them with pensions, and during the negotiations with James I for a matrimonial alliance he showed both his will and his power to protect the English Catholics at home, where a peace of the Church was then enjoyed which was long remembered in less happy times.
"Henrietta Maria"
Henrietta Haynes
Some French officers suffered others to take houses in their names, where priestes might retire and there they brought up young weemen and children to be sent to the Spanish Seminaries.
"Henrietta Maria"
Henrietta Haynes
They had no education, for the only schools were a few Jesuit Seminaries, and no printing-press existed.
"The South American Republics Part I of II"
Thomas C. Dawson