Anthony Champney


Anthony Champney was an English Roman Catholic priest and controversialist.

Life

He studied at Reims and Rome. As priest he was imprisoned at Wisbech Castle, and was active against the Jesuits, acting later for the Appellant Clergy in Rome.
Afterwards he was appointed president of Arras College near Paris, becoming doctor of theology and Fellow of the Sorbonne. He was vice-president of Douai College, from 1619 to 1625, and from 1628 till he returned to England, where he died some time after 1643.

Works

He published:
His "History of Queen Elizabeth" is still in manuscript. Formerly, as stated by Joseph Gillow, Thompson Cooper, Thomas Francis Knox, etc., it was preserved in the archives of the Old Chapter; from 1879 it has been in the Westminster Diocesan Archives. There are also some other works in manuscript.