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all’. 4 The College persisted, but its continuation was until 1578 in doubt. There was, in addition, the very real possibility that the virgin queen would die and that England would revert to Rome: the last Catholic Warden of Manchester, Laurence Vaux, who was ousted in 1559, was still looking forward in 1573 to a time when ‘the college should be restored to the Catholic faith, or … Catholics should live in it’, and he was not alone in such hopes. 5 Only with the benefit of hindsight does that possibility