WELCOME! PHILIP, EARL OF ARUNDEL AND COMPANIONS, MARTYRS As the names and number of other catholics , as well of the clergy as of the laity, who, under this same reign, were either deprived of their livings or suffered loss of their estates, imprisonments, banishments, &c., for their religion; it is impossible to set them all down. Dr Bridgewater, in a table published at the end of Concertatio Ecclesias Catholicæ , gives us the names of about twelve hundred, who had suffered in this manner before the year 1588; that is, before the greatest heat of the persecution; and yet declares that he is far from pretending to have named all, but only such whose sufferings had come to his knowledge. York Castle (c. 1699) In this list, there are three archbishops (taking in two of Ireland); bishops consecrated or elected: eighteen; one abbot; four whole convents of religious; thirteen deans; fourteen archdeacons; sixty prependaries; five hundred and thirty priests; forty-nine d...