Antony Munday, in his book The English Romayne Life, described the customs of the English College in Rome and narrated the mutiny of the English scholars against their first Rector, the Welshman Dr. Morus Clynnog. He claimed to base his account on his own stay in the College, as ‘the Pope's scholar,’ during the troubles. However, in all the records of this over-documented squabble, no trace has hitherto been found of his name: it is absent, for example, from the earliest published list of English College scholars in the Liber Ruber or College diary. For this reason, it has sometimes been doubted whether Munday was ever in the College at all.

It has already been stated that, on the 17 September, 1603, Standen, while at Florence, sent his companion, Edmund Thornhill, Canon of Vicenza, to Rome to ask for the Pope's blessing and for some spiritual favours. Thus began that Roman episode which on his return to England led to his downfall.

When Bishop Challoner wrote his account of the martyr Bl. John Wall in the second volume of his Memoirs of Missionary Priests, which was published in 1742, he used as his authority transcripts of some documents which then belonged to the Douai seminary and wrote, “ John Wall … was born in Lancashire in 1620 of a gentleman's family, possessed at that time of about £500 a year, which, he and his elder brother William … entering into religion, was devolved to the third brother and by him enjoyed at the time of the execution of our confessor [i.e. in 1679]. Mr John was sent over young to the English College at Doway.”