ABSTRACT
The life and career that John Day was building for himself was shattered by the death of Edward VI and the succession of the Catholic Mary. Having clearly identified himself with the beliefs of the Protestant reformers for whom he printed, Day inevitably found himself out of favour and effectively out of a job the moment Mary rose to power. It has generally been assumed that Day fled overseas during Mary’s reign and that he sought to continue his printing of Protestant polemic from the Continent. Christina Garrett assumed that his destination was Antwerp and then Strasbourg, while scholars such as Leslie Fairfield and Chris Oastler have also speculated that Day was involved in clandestine printing overseas during the early years of Mary’s reign.1
