Aftermath
The coming of Mayne and others, made the English government fear the possibility of papal agents coming to the island to ready the populace to rise up in revolt in support of King Philip of Spain in a future potential invasion of Britain. This helped support the case to pass harsher legislation against Catholicism in Britain.
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