[1] After taking holy orders, Gee by 1619 was a curate at Newton-le-Willows, near Winwick, places then in Lancashire.
In the years to 1623 his activities as a cleric including clandestine marriages, work on behalf of John Bridgeman, the bishop of Chester, contact with the Stanley family of Winwick who were recusants, and undermining Josiah Horne who held the Winwick living at the time of the Spanish Match controversy.
He attended the "Fatal Vespers" at Blackfriars (26 October 1623), to hear Robert Drury in an upstairs room.
His chaplains Thomas Goad and Daniel Featley obtained from him a commitment to the Church of England, with the backing of Gee's father.
[4] The book has many contemporary allusions, and is full of stories against Catholic priests, their deceptions and vices, many purporting to be drawn from the author's personal experience.
Its publication caused excitement, and it rapidly passed through four editions; Catholics, according to Gee, threatened to cut his throat.