The Heretics

Acknowledgments

I am indebted to many people for their support and help. I would particularly like to thank Christine Clarke for giving me access to her scholarly work on the Wisbech ‘stirs’ – the infighting among Catholic priests held prisoner at Wisbech Castle in the late sixteenth century. As always, my heartfelt thanks go to my wife Naomi, editor Kate Parkin and agent Teresa Chris.

Books that have been especially helpful include: The Medieval Fenland by H. C. Darby; Liable to Floods by J. R. Ravensdale; From Punt to Plough: A History of the Fens by Rex Sly; A History of Wisbech Castle by George Amiss; Ladies in Waiting by Anne Somerset; St Gregory’s College, Seville, 1592–1767 by Martin Murphy; The Spanish Inquisition, 1478–1614, edited and translated by Lu Ann Homza; The Spanish Inquisition: An Historical Revision by Henry Kamen; James Archer of Kilkenny by Thomas Morrissey, SJ; History of Penzance by A. S. Poole; Sex and Society in Shakespeare’s Age by A. L. Rowse; The Elizabethan Renaissance by A. L. Rowse; Tudor Cornwall by A. L. Rowse; Eminent Elizabethans by A. L. Rowse; The Life of Robert Southwell by Christopher Devlin; William Weston: The Autobiography of an Elizabethan, translated by Philip Caraman; Popish Impostures by Samuel Harsnett.