Priest hunter
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A priest hunter was a person who, acting on behalf of the English and later British government, spied on or captured Catholic priests during Penal Times. Priest hunters were effectively bounty hunters
Bragan Penal Cross, alias Leacht a 'tSagairt, Slieve Beagh, County Monaghan.
Robert Southwell (priest)
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Robert Southwell, SJ, also Saint Robert Southwell, was an English Catholic priest of the Jesuit Order. He was also an author of Christian poetry in Elizabethan English, and a clandestine missionary in
Priest hunter
…from favour with the queen and was imprisoned very soon after his role in the arrest, trial, and execution of the underground priest and secret poet, Robert Southwell. Walsingham tracked down Catholic priests in England and supposed conspirators by employing informers and intercepting correspondence. Shortly before…
Line engraving by Matthaus Greuter (Greuther) or Paul Maupin, published 1608.
Frontispiece of Saint Peter's complaint