[Footnote 6:  On the other hand, Mr. Thomas Edward Stonor, in a correspondence to be mentioned immediately, says that there were no definite traditions as to the actual locality of the press.]

[Footnote 7:  Challoner, Missionary Priests, Introd. p. 12.]

[Footnote 8:  As five printers were subsequently arrested, we know their names, and they deserve to be recorded here, viz., Stephen Brinkley, John Harris, John Hervey, John Tuker, John Compton.  Allen speaks of seven workmen. Diary of the Tower and Douay Diary.]

[Footnote 9:  The custom however was already changing, and “Roman” type soon afterwards came into general use.]

[Footnote 1:  Memoirs, i. cap. 24; Collectanea P. fol. 155.]

[Footnote 11:  Bombino, Vita Campiani 1620, p.136.  Some of Bombino’s additions are not, perhaps, arranged in their true chronological order.  He tells us, for instance, a propos of Brinkley’s difficulties in getting printers, that he had to dress them, and give them horses to ride, like gentlemen.  But he does not make it clear whether these were the men who printed the Ten Reasons, or Persons’ previous works.  Bombino says that Brinkley paid for the type, &c., but Allen, in a contemporary letter, says that George Gilbert had left a fund for these purposes.  Bombino says the printing of the Decem Rationes was commenced at Brinkley’s own house at Green Street, and had to be removed because one of the servants was arrested in London, and tortured to make him confess, which he heroically refused.  Campion and Persons knowing of the torture, not of the man’s constancy, at once removed the press.  But Persons’ Memoirs ascribes this incident to an earlier period. (Domestical Difficulties, p. 119; Autobiography for 1581).]

[Footnote 12:  Simpson, p. 217, following Lansdowne MSS. xxx. 78]

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