 Corker was returned to prison, and was then arraigned for acting as a priest within England, an offence which carried the death penalty under the Jesuits, etc.Act 1584, although after the death of Elizabeth I the law had fallen into disuse until the advent of the Popish Plot.He was tried with six others, including the leading Dominican Lionel Anderson, and the colourful, one-legged Civil War veteran Colonel Henry Starkey.