Leaving the seminary on the evening of August 17, Bayley traveled through Douai, Brussels, Antwerp, and Amsterdam seeking rare books Bishop Hughes wished him to purchase for the episcopal library, and sailed from Rotterdam on August 29 for London. Bayley spent the greater part of two weeks seeing the sights of London such as Westminster Abbey and Windsor Castle, during which he paid several visits to the offices of "The Tablet" and to its editor, Frederick Lucas. Bayley visited Oxford on September 14, and arriving in Birmingham on September 17, he crossed paths again with Bishop Hughes. Together they visited Nicholas Wiseman at Oscott College, and Bayley met several of those who had converted from Anglicanism to Catholicism under the influence of the Oxford movement, whose names he did not record. While Hughes left for America, Bayley remained to make a tour of Scotland and Ireland, where he heard Daniel O'Connell speak several times in Dublin. Returning from Ireland to Liverpool, Bayley sailed for New York on October 3, 1843.