1. All references will be to Anthony Munday, A Breefe Discourse of the taking of Edmund Campion, the Seditious Jesuit, and divers other Papistes, in Barkeshire… (London, 1581).
2. My use the words, ‘topography’, or ‘geography’, does not refer directly to the local or regional studies of post-Reformation Catholicism such as Hugh Aveling, Northern Catholics: The Catholic Recusants of the North Riding of Yorkshire 1558–1790 ( London: Geoffrey Chapman, 1966 )
3. John Bossy, The English Catholic Community 1570–1850 ( London: Darton, Longman and Todd, 1975 )
4. and Christopher Haigh, Reformation and Resistance in Tudor Lancashire (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975 ). While I have found these accounts of local Catholic practice invaluable, they tend to treat the landscape as a pre-given terrain which had to be crossed by both priest and pursuivant alike.
5. Godfrey Anstruther, Vaux of Harrowden (Newport: R. H. Johns Ltd., 1953), xiii.