 Ribadaneira, with Father Southwell and Brother Foley account him a member of the Society of Jesus, though there is no proof of that (Records of English Catholics, I, pg 408).Bridgewater refuted (Trier 1589) a Protestant work on the pope as Antichrist and also wrote "Account of the Six Articles usually Proposed to the Missioners that Suffered in England", and against which he voted in 1562.He may be best known as the earliest martyrologist of Catholic England.