The Watchers

Contents

Dates and Calendars

Principal Characters

A Secret History

PART ONE
Spying Out the Land

1. Ten Days in November

2. The Lion’s Mouth

3. English Roman Lives

4. ‘Judas his parts’

5. Paris and London

6. Hunting Edmund Campion

7. Out of the Shadows

PART TWO
Enemies of the State

8. ‘Sundry wicked plots and means’

9. The Secret Lives of William Parry

10. ‘The enemy sleeps not’

11. ‘A very unadvised enterprise’

12. Dangerous Fruits

13. Alias Cornelys

14. Sleights of Hand

15. Framing the Labyrinth

PART THREE
Politics and Money

16. An Axe and an Armada

17. ‘Good and painful long services’

18. Platforms and Passports

19. The Fall and Rise of Thomas Phelippes

20. Politics and Prognostications

21. Ends and Beginnings

Plate Section

Acknowledgements

References and Abbreviations

Select Bibliography

Illustrations