[3] He was again arrested and transported to France on 21 January 1585, with twenty other priests and one layman, aboard the Mary Martin of Colchester, from Tower Wharf.

[2] Landing at Boulogne, 2 February, he revisited Rome in July, but, returned then to England as escort to newly ordained priests.

[3] There, in 1597, he signed a petition to Henry Garnet in favour of having a Jesuit superior, but, on 8 November 1598, he and his fellow martyr, Edward Thwing, with others, besought the Pope to institute an archpriest.

[1] It was said of Robert Nutter that, "[H]e was a man of a strong body but of a stronger soul, who rather despised and conquered death.

John Nutter had contracted an illness before sailing and as it grew worse, he ferried ashore at Dunwich.

He remained there a year before being tried and condemned, and shortly thereafter executed at Tyburn, along with James Fenn, George Haydock, Thomas Hemerford, and John Munden.