The Jesuit mission of 1580-1581 was the most dangerous moment of Elizabethan Catholic resistance. Persons in Yorkshire and Campion elsewhere revitalised the Catholic community. Persons eluded capture and eventually escaped abroad; Campion was caught and executed. The Yorkshire phase of the mission established the Jesuit network that would support the Gunpowder Plot generation and the northern Catholic resistance of the seventeenth century.
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