 were found guilty and sentenced to death under the Act of 1584 on 17 January 1680.Through influential friends Corker was granted a reprieve (in fact it does not seem that any of the convicted priests were executed, and the aged David Kemiss was allowed to die in prison) and he was detained in Newgate.While thus confined he is said in some reports to have converted more than a thousand Protestants to Catholicism.