Both of the two late sixteenth century casuist texts edited in this volume were probably used in the training of seminary priests. The first certainly was, since one manuscript version of it declares that it is a report of discussions held at the Rheims seminary, and the other principal manuscript version came originally from the archives of that seminary. I The second text is not quite so clearly associated with a seminary, but it was written in part by William Allen and Robert Persons, . and according to a nearly contemporary source (and another dating from the early eighteenth century) a copy of it was kept in the English College at Rome. 2
