Early Life and Conversion To Catholicism
He was the son of John and Anna Roberts of Trawsfynydd, Merionethshire, in Northern Wales. He matriculated at St. John's College, Oxford, in February, 1595–96, but left after two years without taking a degree and entered as a law student at one of the Inns of Court. In 1598 he travelled on the continent and in Paris. Through the influence of a Catholic fellow- countryman he was converted. By the advice of John Cecil, an English priest who afterwards became a Government spy, he decided to enter the English College, Douai, then located at Valladolid, where he was admitted on 18 October 1598.
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