John Gerard

"John Gerard's autobiography gives us 'a finer and fuller account ... than any other document' of the hazardous years between the Armada and the Gunpowder Plot, when he was working as a priest in England. Written in Latin in 1609, it contains vivid descriptions of priest-hunts and hiding-places, of his torture and escape, of secret letters written in orange juice, of Mass said in great houses and in prisons, and of encounters with courtiers, ladies, Protestant divines and lords of the Privy Council."--P. [4] of cover.