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1. Rome and The Elizabethan Catholics: A Question of Geography1

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John Bossy
John Bossy
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Goldsmiths' College, University of London
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The Historical Journal , Volume 7 , Issue 1 , March 1964 , pp. 135 - 142
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26 Autobiography of John Gerard, 6-7, 218 (August-September 1588); other probable cases: Douai Diaries, 193 (1583), 222 (1589), 233 (1590); P.R.O. S.P. 12/260/37 (1596). Route Reims-Lorraine in McCann, J.et al., Ampleforth and its Origins (1952), 108 fGoogle Scholar.

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44 Note, for example, the houses of the religious order for women, the Institute of Mary: St Omer (founded 1609), Liège (1616), Cologne (1620), Trier (1621), Rome and Naples (1622), Perugia (1624), Munich (1626), Vienna, Bratislava, Prague (1627-8) ( Guilday, , op. cit. 163–209Google Scholar).

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