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The troubles of our Catholic forefathers

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CONTENTS.
I. THE LIFE OF FATHER WILLIAM WESTON, S.J. 3
Chapter I. — Father Weston's Vocation 5
" II. — The English Jesuit Mission 12
" III. — Father Weston's landing in England 27
" IV. — Father Weston's first shelter 44
" V. — The exiles of 1585 66
" VI. — Father Weston's first convert 82
" VII. — Possessions and exorcisms 96
" VIII. — Hard times 108
" IX. — Missionary life 119
" X. — Arrest 138
" XI. — Government information 152
" XII. — The Babington Plot 167
" XIII. — Life in the Clink 190
" XIV. — Between two prisons 208
" XV. — Wisbech Castle 221
" XVI. — College life in prison 242
" XVII. — The Tower, Exile, and Death 264
II. — THE FALL OF ANTHONY TYRRELL 287
Introduction 289
The true and wonderful Story of the lamentable Fall of Anthony Tyrrell, Priest, from the Catholic Faith, written by his own hand, before which is prefixed a Preface showing the causes of publishing the same unto the World.
The Preface to the Christian Reader, concerning the causes of publishing this Confession of Anthony Tyrrell 310
Chapter I. — His accusing of himself, set down in the Preface to the Reader 320
Chapter II. — Of his Apprehension and Behaviour in Prison, before his Fall, with his Examinations and Answers to the same 325
" III. — Of the beginning and secret occasion of his Fall and yielding 333
" IV. — Of his acquaintance and proceeding with Mr. Ballard the priest, and how after Ballard's apprehension the devil tempted him to fall 340
" V. — Of his desperate resolution to deny his religion against his own conscience, and of his accusing innocent men wrongfully and maliciously : and of Justice Young and the Lord Treasurer's manner of proceeding with him in these affairs 348
" VI. — Of a Letter written unto him by the Treasurer, and of his most wicked and lying answer to the same, containing the grounds of many men's unjust deaths afterwards 355
" VII. — How the Lord Treasurer, upon sight of the former letter, sent twenty-eight new interrogatories, and Tyrrell's answers to the same 362
" VIII. — What course he held after the giving up of the aforesaid accusations, of his impious writing to the Queen, and talk with the Treasurer, and how he procured to change prison from the Counter to the Clink, to do more hurt 392
" IX. — Of his dissimulation, treachery, and spiery in the Clink, and Justice Young his dispensation for the same, and what persons he betrayed there, and of the death of Mr. Ballard and his fellows 402
" X. — How he brought to their ends three other godly priests, named Mr. Lowe, Adams, and Dibdale, and of the matter of exorcisms practised in Peckham Place 411
" XI. — How he goeth forward with his course of dissimulation and spiery, and the dispensation given him for the same by Justice Young, for saying Mass, and hearing confessions, reconciling, and the like, is confirmed by the Lord Treasurer and the Queen's order 415
" XII. — Of three letters more written by Young to Tyrrell, with the plot of his delivery out of prison to play the spy abroad 425
" XIII. — He setteth forth his own miserable affliction of conscience whilst he lived in this dissimulation, and showeth how he could not yet brave to be an open Protestant 433
" XIV. — How he was convinced and brought to repentance by certain Catholic priests of his acquaintance, and yet how he dissembled again afterwards 443
" XV. — His sorrow for the great crimes rehearsed, with a declaration of the true causes of his Fall, and of the wicked manner of proceeding of the enemy with him 457
" XVI. — Of divers letters that after his repentance he wrote as well to the Queen as to other persons 471
" XVII. — How after all this he went over sea and returned, and fell again, and made new abjuration publicly at Paul's Cross, the 31st January the next year following, 1588 487

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