There had evidently been a radical change of clerical culture in the household of the head of the Browne family by the beginning of the seventeenth century. We have already seen that several of Anthony Maria Browne, second Viscount Montague's servants were convinced Catholics, notably Richard Lambe, William Coningsby and Robert Barnes. Montague's experiences as a young man in the 1590s probably served to push him towards more overt expressions of Catholicism than he had made (or been allowed to make) in his childhood and adolescence. There was clearly something of a Catholicising process going on around him now in a way that was not the case when the first viscount was alive. We have noted how, in the 1590s, Henry Lanman, Montague's servant, was persuaded towards Catholicism by the arguments of his fellow servant William Coningsby. (Lanman was actually reconciled to the Church of Rome by the priest Richard Davies who, we know, was a friend of the first viscount's brother, Francis Browne.) There was even more of this explicit household Catholicism in evidence after 1605. Some of the family's servants enrolled at the seminaries on the Continent. Richard Lambe's son Anthony, who had been one of the second viscount's pages, entered the English College in Rome. Anthony Fletcher, one of Montague's stewards, when he lost his wife, travelled to Rome and enlisted at the English College in 1609. He was ordained shortly afterwards (on 18 December 1610). He used the alias of Blackwell.