The Stonor Park press was the most significant Catholic clandestine printing operation in Elizabethan England. Edmund Campion had used it to print Decem Rationes, distributed at the Oxford University encaenia before his arrest. The discovery and destruction of the press by Elizabethan agents was a major counter-intelligence success. It disrupted Catholic intellectual resistance at its most sophisticated point.
Press destroyed; participants arrested
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