In the summer of 1585, he went to York(possibly because of ill health), where he was captured and banished in September, reaching Reims once more in November 1585.
He used the alias Weldon, and was disguised as the serving man of John Gardiner, Esq.
Sometime prior to March 1587, Hewitt/Weldon was arrested at their lodgings in Gray's Inn and sent to Newgate Prison.
[5] In October 1588, he was formally arraigned on a charge of obtaining ordination from the See of Rome and entering England to exercise the ministry.
He was sentenced to death, and on the following day was taken through the streets of London to Mile End Green, where he was hanged.