Robert Dibdale

Catholic records show that, by that time, he had already been to Rome and had then gone to the English College in Rheims, France, arriving there on 29 December 1579, before setting out for England on 22 June 1580.

Denham was held by Edmund Peckham, whose wife Dorothy was the sister of John Gerard SJ.

Dibdale was arrested near Tothill Street in London on 24 July 1586, and was imprisoned, first at the Counter, then at Newgate.

Given the 1585 Act making it a capital offence to be a Catholic priest in England, the sentence of hanging, drawing and quartering was inevitable.

[2] All three priests were beatified (the last stage prior to canonisation) by Pope John Paul II on 22 November 1987.