 Acquaviva had instructed that should anything happen to Weston , Garnet was to succeed him as superior in England , which he did when only days after leaving <unk> , Weston was captured en route to London . Acquaviva had also given Garnet permission to print pro @-@ Catholic literature , and so early the next year he met Southwell in London to discuss the establishment of a secret press , which was probably located somewhere around a former Augustinian hospital near Spitalfields . It lasted until late 1588 and was responsible for A <unk> Letter to All the Afflicted <unk> in England , author unknown , and An Epistle of Comfort , by Southwell . From a friend 's window in Ludgate Hill , Garnet witnessed the November 1588 procession to a thanksgiving service at Old St Paul 's Cathedral , celebrating the failed Spanish invasion . Spain 's actions gave Garnet much cause for concern , " For when we thought that there was an end to these disasters by which we are already nearly destroyed , our hope was suddenly turned to sorrow , and now with redoubled effort the overseers are pressing upon us " . People were allowed to spectate from windows only if their loyalty to Queen Elizabeth I was guaranteed by the householder . In a letter to Acquaviva , Garnet said that many of his supporters thought that he was more concerned for the Queen than her Calvinist ministers . In light of the Armada 's destruction , he also wrote to the general to ask for advice on two versions of a proposed oath to allow Roman Catholics to swear their allegiance to the Queen . The government 's version required that Catholics reject the pope 's authority over Elizabeth , whereas the Catholic version proposed that they recognise her authority and " would wish with every effort to struggle to thwart and to fight to the death all those who will in any way endanger the life of her Highness " . The Privy Council rejected the latter . 
