John Gerard
Subtitle: the autobiography of an Elizabethan
By: John Gerard ; translated from the Latin by Philip Caraman; with an introduction by Michael Hodgetts
Contributors: Caraman, Philip, 1911-1998; Greene, Graham, 1904-1991
Publisher: Family Publications
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9781871217636
Subjects: Biography; Clergy; Catholics; Catholic Church
Other titles: Autobiography of an Elizabethan
Work titles: Narratio P. Joannis Gerardi de Rebus a se in Anglia gestis
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes index.

Translated from the Latin.