"On the evening of Friday 15 March 1594 Richard Topcliffe, apparently acting on his own authority, organized a raid of all known or suspected Catholic houses in London. 'The uproar was such that Hannibal himself might have been at the gates or the Spanish fleet in the river Thames,' wrote Garnet to Aquaviva in the months following. Local magistrates were called in to assist the priest-hunter and overnight the city's churches were drafted into use as holding pens to contain all those arrested in the raids." -- Alice Hogge, God's Secret Agents