• 1781 100 ST. JOSEPH'S ASCETICAL LIBRARY. EDITED BY FATHERS S.J. No. II. A REMEMBRANCE FOR THE LIVING TO PRAY FOR THE DEAD. Remember them that are in bands, as if you were bound with them.-Heb. xiii. 3. LONDON: BURNS, OATES, AND COMPANY. 1871. 141. K. 429. INTRODUCTION. JAMES MUMFORD, a native of the county of Norfolk, was born in the year 1606. His name is spelt in various ways. The Catalogue of the English Province S.J. for the year 1642, calls him "Momford." That for the year 1655 calls him, in the body of it, "Jacobus Momfordus," whilst in the index to the same it has "Mumfordus." Mr. Dodd, in a very brief notice of this Father, in his Church History, vol. iii., p. 321, calls him "Monford;" and Father Nathaniel Southwell, in his Bibliotheca Scriptorum Societatis Fesu (Rome, 1676) gives his name as "Jacobus Munfordus." He entered the Society of Jesus in the year 1626, made his noviceship at Watten, and was professed of the four vows on the 29th September, 1641. In the Catalogue of the Province for the year 1642, he appears as Father Minister of the English College S.J. at Liége, at the same time being Consultor of the College and teaching humanities. He was subsequently Rector of the College. In the Catalogue for the year 1655, he is entered as serving in the College |