Thomas Martin, Historica descriptio complectens vitam, ac res gestas beatissimi viri Guilielmi Wicami (London, 1597)

The Papists of °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ: I

Katie McKeogh
Issue number
(2020): 14

In her first months as queen, the last surviving child of the Tudor dynasty passed the Acts of Supremacy and Uniformity, the legislation now known as the Elizabethan religious settlement (1559).  But who were the Catholics associated with °ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ during the Reformation period?—the Elizabethan exiles, musicians, university men, deprived clergy, and lawmen?

 

Thomas Martin, Historica descriptio complectens vitam . . .  (London, 1597)
Pen-and-ink drawing of William of Wykeham inserted before title page
°ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library, Oxford, BT1.132.17

 
°ÅÀÖ¶ÌÊÓƵ Library and Archives, Oxford