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on 25 March 1581. On 5 June of that year Amias, set out for Paris and then
England, as a missionary, in the company of another priest, Edmund Sykes. Of his missionary life we know little. Towards the end of 1588 he was seized at the house of a Mr Murton at
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to become a priest. There is also a possibility that he was really
William Anne (surname), youngest son of John and Katherine Anne, of
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