A memoir of Southwell was drawn up soon after his death. Much of the material was incorporated by Richard Challoner in his "Memoirs of Missionary Priests "(1741), and the manuscript is now in the Public Record Office in Brussels. See also Alexis Possoz, "Vie du Pre R. Southwell" (1866); and a life in Henry Foley's "Records of the English Province of the Society of Jesus: historic facts illustrative of the labours and sufferings of its members in the 16th and 17th centuries", 1877 (i. 301387). Foley's narrative includes copies of documents connected with his trial, and gives information on the original sources. The standard modern life, however, is Christopher Devlin's "The Life of Robert Southwell, Poet and Martyr", London, 1956.