John Cecil

John Cecil, alias John Snowden (1558 – 1626) was an English Roman Catholic priest, diplomat, spy and political adventurer. Biography Education John Cecil was born in 1558 of parents who lived at Worcester. He was educated at Trinity College, Oxford, became a Roman Catholic, joined the seminary at Rheims in August 1583, and in April of the following year, when he was twenty-six years of age, passed to the English College, Rome, where he received holy orders. For eighteen months (1587–8) he acted as Latin secretary to Cardinal Allen, and afterwards spent two years in Spain, and was with Father Parsons at his newly erected seminary at Valladolid. Diplomacy