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1. Rome and The Elizabethan Catholics: A Question of Geography1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 March 2010

John Bossy
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Goldsmiths' College, University of London

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26 Autobiography of John Gerard, 6-7, 218 (August-September 1588); other probable cases: Douai Diaries, 193 (1583), 222 (1589), 233 (1590); P.R.O. S.P. 12/260/37 (1596). Route Reims-Lorraine in McCann, J.et al., Ampleforth and its Origins (1952), 108 fGoogle Scholar.

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28 See Parsons to Richard Barrett, Valladolid, 7 November 1590 (H.M.C. Salisbury, IV, 69).

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