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A07899	A discouerie of Edmund Campion, and his confederates, their most horrible and traiterous practises, against her Maiesties most royall person and the realme Wherein may be seene, how thorowe the whole course of their araignement: they were notably conuicted of euery cause. VVhereto is added, the execution of Edmund Campion, Raphe Sherwin, and Alexander Brian, executed at Tiborne the 1. of December. Published by A.M. sometime the Popes scholler, allowed in the seminarie at Roome amongst them: a discourse needefull to be read of euery man, to beware how they deale with such secret seducers. Seene, and allowed.	Munday, Anthony, 1553-1633.	1582 (1582)	STC 18270; ESTC S112984	30,400	112

Libell against mee was made this report of Campion to be a man of so rare learning excellēcy c. Doctour Saunders and Doctor Bristowes bookes were there read vnto them wherein most trayterouslie they defended the rebellion against her Maiestie They denyed what one of theyr owne fellowes had confessed and subscribed to and what euery one of the witnesses knew to be moste certaine Maister Campion aunswered this poynt subtilly because in the last edition of the booke the cheefe matters against them selues were abridged The generall determination howe to bring to passe theyrecret intent in this Realme The onely cause why the Pope hath kept his two Seminaries at Roome and at Rheimes so long for that none might better mooue secret r●bellion in England then they A sure way to make all Englishmē they can get out of England to ioy●e with them in this traiterou● intent For none but such as will be Preests must staye there Their perswasion on the Popes behalfe to vrge our Englishmē to fulfill the Popes minde what euer comes of them A thing to be looked vnto for thorow their secret freends they haue heere a number are brought to ioyn● in this action Preestes yeer●ly appointed and sent for England The Popes Merchandise that his Commissioners bring with them into England Their own confession howe they behaue them selues when they come into England Maister Campion coulloreth their com●ing ouer ●if●ming it was for the sauegard of soules When he had no other shift he fell into these woords M●●ning the Queene of Scot● A most traitero●s and villainous aunswere of euerie true Subiect to be read with re●erence of the person No ●ote of theyr good will wanted if God did not as he dayly dooth preuent their purposes This Preest was the first that euer I heard to name the treason In my other Booke you shall vnderstand more The Englishmen at Paris rehearsed the same matter that the Preest had doone Henrie Orton lying in the house of one Maister Deacon ga●e foorth notice of the former matter The cōmon and generall speeches in the Seminarie at Roome 〈◊〉 with all that wee heard by the way Their only delight to 〈◊〉 and ●ayle against her Maiestie and her honorable Counsell to whom they giue such names as modestie will not suffer me to reporte Tokens appointed to passe among them when this great day shall come which they hope for After what manner Father Parson● vsed to schoole and instruct the Schollers while he was in office They rem●mber not their owne gouernemēt that call this so 〈◊〉 and cru●ll for they say that then they 〈◊〉 nothing but good deedes Meaning the Queene of Scots whom the Pope hath vowed to restore againe The ouerthrowe of Englande was daylie ●●lked of The Schollers them selues would enterprise the death of her Maiestie the Lords of her Coūcell By this which is the simplest of all theyr trayterous intentes iudge howe horrible the other be Reade with reuerence and regarde Beholde heere the 〈◊〉 these Traytours haue ag●inst theyr 〈…〉 Countrey He respecte●h ●ore the abhominable trumperi●s of the Pope then eyther the safegarde of his soule or wealth of his Princesse and Countrey It is not possible for vs to imagine so yll as they doo daily report Maister Campion nor his fello●●● wyll graunt to any thing but ray●e vse bolde speeches whereby their guiltie consciences were discouered Maister Campion couereth their 〈◊〉 in●ē●s vnder the sauing of Soules A holy kinde of life were it not for the B. Note heere the perfect Image of hypocrisie 〈…〉 Consider 〈…〉 they concord and agree together A Booke which they vse as theyr instruction howe to aunswere to euerie question Sophistically To doo their du●tie to a waight●e burden to their cons●iēces and therefore they abyde in theyr obs●●ancie and blindnesse Campion his owne answer as concerning his allegeaunce to her Maiestie The cause why this Pope hath tollerated the former Bull of Pius Quintus Our English Doctors conferring with the Cardinalles found out the meane for this tolleration Another Booke how to handle all manner of persons to win them to their intent Maister Campion sent for frō Praga to goe with other Preestes appointed for England The Preestes are there only maintained for this purpose and none come from thence but about this cau●e which prooueth them all together guiltie Maister Campion graunteth he came as the other Preests did to reconcyle and shriue but he wyll not allowe that he came for any treason Iames Bosgraue his hastie comming from Vilna when he heard that Preestes were appointed for England Maister Campion frequenteth his accustomed order of subtyll answering Traytours wyll neuer beleeue any trueth especiallie if it touch them selues Robert Iohnson his comming from Auinion in Fraunce Edwarde Bishtons Letter to Richardson one of the condemned Maister Campions Letter to Master Pownde in the Tower Maister Campion was resolut● in the cheefe matter A very holy thing but very meete for his de●●tien

aforesayde Charles Sled who sometyme serued Maister Doctour Moorton in Roome in whose house there was many matters determyned bothe by Doctor Allen when hee came to Roome and diuers other Doctours lyuinge there in the Cittie as also diuers of the Seminarie he lykewise vnderstoode of the prouision for the great daye that it was generallie spoken of among the Englishe men and to be more rertayne he kepte a Iournall or Booke of theyr daylie dealinges noting● the daye tyme place and personnes present at theyr secrete conferences and verie much matter hath he iustified against them One Maister Cradocke a Merchaunt when hée was in Roome hée vnderstoode the aforesayde determination and howe that Doctour Shelley the Englishe Priour who is a Knight of the Rhodes for that hée somewhat spake against such crueltie to bée vsed to his Natiue Countrey was somewhat mislyked of him selfe and had almoste béene turned out of his office And this aforesayde Maister Cradocke béeing in Prisonne there for the space of twentie Monethes and more it was sayde to him that he might accoumpt him selfe blessed of God that hee was there because hee shoulde not sée the gréeuous ruine of his natiue Countrey He that hath but halfe an eye maye sée howe these matters concorde and agrée togeather and noting euerie thing as it lyeth may plainly sée their horrible and trayterous deuises And farder there was a lyttle Booke in Latine which they them selues brought ouer with them it was there openly read vnto them wherein was certayne rules and orders prescribed howe they should behaue them selues héere in Englande and howe if they were demaunded of any thing they shoulde make aunswere indyrectlie or to take the woorde it selfe according as it is mentioned in the Booke they must aunswere Sophisticae whereby is meant as thus If they be examined as concerning theyr allegeaunce to her Maiestie they wyll make theyr aunswere after this manner Shée is our lawfull Soueraigne Lady and Quéene and we doo obey her But then obiect vnto them wil you obeye her notwithstanding the Popes excommunication or any thing that he commaundeth to the contrarie Then will they aunswere we desire you not to charge our consciences and that you would not enter so déepe into our consciences we trust the Pope will not commaund vs any thing against her and a hundred such like sleeuelesse aunsweres they make neuer agréeing to any certayntie but holding the Pope in more reuerence then they doo her Maiestie For this consideration they carie with them that if by theyr showe of humilitie and deuised order of craftye aunsweringe they might mooue our Maiestrates to haue a good oppinion of thē and not to deale so strictly as lawe and their deseruing dooth worthily merit then they might with lesse suspect goe about their holy Fathers busines in that their Sophisticall aunswers couered so foule an abuse And then so many as comes after them purposely sent about the same affaires séeing their passage made before them and béeing Schooled after the same manner they might withdrawe the harts of a number her Maiesties Subiectes by such meanes as is before largely expressed so that destruction should come vpon vs before we had discouered their treatcherous dealings But God be thanked as all their deuises haue had their deserued successe this Sophisticall order hath sped a like with them for company and this let them fully assure themselues that what meanes soeuer they seeke against their Princesse and Countrey God will rewarde them after their owne dealings To Campion himselfe the former questions were put foorth at the Barre and this aunswer he made vnto them She is my lawfull Soueraigne Lady and Quéene and I doo obey her But when he was demaunded although the Pope did expreslye commaund him the contrary if he would neuerthelesse faithfully obey her Oh then they must not so déeply enter into his conscience that Barre was not a Barre to define on causes of conscience that question touched his conscience wherefore he flatly sayd he might not aunswer it No no he knew full well that the trayterous affayres he came about would not allowe him such a direct aunswer as they looked for gladly would haue had that of a Saule they might haue made him a Paule Wherfore his secret and guileful behauiour made perfect apparaunce of his wicked intent which hee shaddowed vnder the counterfeit cloke of sauing soules and reconciling his Countreymē to the Catholique faith Héer it cannot be greatly amisse to rehearse vnto you the cause why this Pope hath tollerated the former Bull séeing this Sophisticall kinde of aunswering grew chéefely therby Whē any of these secret messengers should be sēt about their holy fathers determination héere in England to recōcile shriue win her Maiesties Subiects to their deuillish intent if such misaduenture should happen to thē y e their secret dealings came to the eares of Iustice then they fel into the daunger of lawe wherefore to shaddow their subtiltie and to prosecute the effect of their message the Pope thought good to harten them by this Sophisticall addition For well we know and themselues likewise are not ignorant thereof that béeing examined if they should denye the Quéenes Maiestie to be their Supreme Princesse and Gouernesse in all causes then they fell into condemnation by her lawes Againe if they denyed the authoritie of the Pope as of force they must needes doo if they will estéeme themselues good subiects and manifest a duetifull and obedient hart to her Maiestie then they breake their vowe made to the Pope and so fall into his cursse and condemnation likewise so that this is certainely appointed them to cleaue faithfully to the one and vtterly to forsake the other Yet that they might haue as much fauoure and fréendship as the furtheraunce of such a cause required this hard clause béeing well scanned of diuers our English Doctors and other bothe at Roome and at Rheimes was through earnest sute deliuered to diuers of the Cardinalles who laying theyr heads together and thorowly searching the bottome of euery doubt a tolleration for that strict point was found out which was ordayned as you haue hearde before Then in all the haste the Pope was giuen to vnderstande thereof who respecting what might be for his benefit and what might turne to his discommoditie authorised them this former tolleration which God be thanked carryed as slender strength as the rest of his practises hath doone Yet all this béeing knowne to vs Maister Campion and his fellowes will graunt no knowledge but pleadeth still theyr deuoute consciences An other of their owne Bookes was there read vnto them wherin was other orders prescribed them how they should handle a Noble man how a Gentleman and how a poore man which béeing openly read before them gaue all there present to vnderstande howe assuredly they had appointed the course for their Treason A number of inuincible proofes passing against them they came

prōpt audacitie cunning conueyaunce in his Schoole pointes wherethrough he fell into a prowde and vaineglorious iudgement practising to be eloquent in phrase and so fine in his quirkes and fantasticall coniectures that the ignorant he wun by his smoothe deuises some other affecting his pleasaunt imaginations he charmed with subtilitie and choaked with Sophistrie The learned who behelde his practises and peremptory order of lyfe pittying his follie wishing him a more stayed determination loathed his manners yet looued the man because Christian Charitie wylled them so to doo Nowe this glorious Thraso hauing by his Lybeiles made him selfe famous and vnder shewe and suppose of great learning though in deede béeing approoued found verie simple to the spéeches giuen of him subdued many to affecte him verie much when he was taken he knew it stoode him vpon not to loose the credit opēly he had wun secretly wherefore in his former ridiculous manner bothe in Prison at his Araignement yea and at his death he continued the same in all points which the foulnes of his Treasons blemished euery way Now indéede as our English nation is bothe loouing and pittifull so many séeing the giftes of God so well bestowed on the man and by him applyed to so great abuse through naturall kindnesse bemoned his case wishing be had not fallen in so traiterous a cause This poynt least some should haue vsed to a wurse coniecture I thought good in bréefe somewhat to manifest Then was mooued to him againe his Treasons and haynous offences against the Quéenes Maiestie which impudentlie he styll denied séeming to vtter woordes on the behalfe of one Richardson one likewise of the condempned Traitours taking vppon his conscience that it was not he which hath béene prooued to the cōtrarie for that it is known howe this Richardson is he who distributed Campions Libels and Bookes abroade when he was put to his oath whether it was he or no he refused to sweare on his behalfe Pray with them in Englishe as he was desired he would not but sayde his Pater noster in Latin desired all those of the householde of Faith to saye one Credo for him Many indirect aunsweres he made as when he was mooued to aske the Quéene forgiuenesse and when the Preacher requested him to shewe some signe of a penitent sinner when shortlie he replyed You and I we are not of one Religion After a fewe silent prayers to him selfe the Carte was drawen away and he committed to the mercie of God There he hanged tyll he was dead when béeing cut downe he was bowelled and quartered according as it was appointed by Iustice. Raphe Sherwin seemed a man of better iudgement more learned and more obedient he sayde the Lordes Prayer in English beléeuing in God that made him in Christe his sonne that saued him and in the holie Ghost that sanctified him and according to the saying of S. Augustin desired Iesus that he would be to him Iesus as much to say as his Sauiour and Redéemer He lykewise confessed him self a Catholique man a Préest intending to die in that faith But when the Treasons were mooued to him he lykewise séemed to make deniall thereof He asked the Quéenes Maiestie forgiuenesse and desired that shée might long liue and raigne ouer vs. Then was read to him the Booke of the aduertisemēt which before had béen read to Campion and after a fewe prayers he lykewise ended his lyfe Alexander Brian séemed more obstinate and impious vsing very little signe of repentaunce and hartie humilitie he vsed many prayers to him selfe and spake very little woorthy the rehearsall Iustice béeing executed on him he and Sherwin were quartered according as Campion had béene before them God graunt that the offences of these may be a warning to all other God saue our Queene Elizabeth An Admonition to all true and faithfull Subiectes YOV HAVE in thys discourse right courteous breefelye vnderstood the horrible and traiterous intent of Edmund Campion and the reste of his secret confederates howe bothe against God and natures lawe they practised and conspired the death of our most gracious and Soueraigne Princesse as also the 〈…〉 the sum wherof how denill●sh and vnchristian like 〈◊〉 was intēded I leaue to the discreet consideration of 〈◊〉 true and fay●hfull Sub●●● Let vs therefore that professe ourselues the children of light faithfull Stewards to our heauenly ma●ster and duetifull Subiectes to her Maiestie who by his sacred and Diuine will is authorised to gouerne vs remember the odious and haynous offences by these our owne Co●ntreymen committed and let them remaine as spectacles before our eyes howe daungerous a thing it is for anye of vs to fall in the like For of this wee may be fully assured that though we kick and spurne against the trueth for a time hee who is the Author of all trueth●● yea and the verie trueth himselfe though hee suffer vs a 〈◊〉 to runne in our owne folly yet at lengthe hee will strike vs so seuerely that wee shall woorthelye taste the desert of our trespasses for hee is the onely Auenger and he will rewarde vs in his Iustice Learne we● therefore by theyr example to abhorre and detest that An●echriste of Room the auncient aduersary to Gods trueth to beware how we deale with anie of his wandring shauelinges and Messengers for he hath choaked them with his abhominable driftes and deuises and they vowing themselues his obedient children are prepared to roote vp looue dutie and obedience bothe to God our Princesse and Countrey Longe may his Gospell floorish and spread heere among vs and long may her Maiestie liue in health and quietnes to nourishe and mainetaine it as for her aduersaryes God either turne theyr hearts or speedily cut them off in their owne deuises To him therefore let vs commend our selues our dealings and thoughts to his will and pleasure so shall we liue in continuall happinesse by her whom God long preserue to our comfort and wealth of conscience A. Munday FINIS Imprinted at London for Edwarde VVhite and are to be solde at his shop at the little North doore of S. Paules Church at the signe of the Gunne Cicero A notable example of the Romanes Medians and the Arabians Scithians Cicero epist. 12. li. 7 Epist. famil Aegiptians Gaudentius Merula de Memorabilibus li. 3. Chap. 3. The rebellion in the North onely through the Popes meanes The s●m of the Popes Bul which our Englishe men beyonde the Seas holde as their authoritie to rebell against her Maiestie Doctor Saunders his rebellion in Ireland through whom the people were seduced to fight against theyr lawfull Princesse This Bull remayneth in his former force by this Pope onely a tolleration for the s●raitnes to the Subiecte therein amended Maister Cāpion destreth not to heare howe their Treasons tooke their originall howe from tyme to time they haue beene enterprised and confoūded wherefore to blind the peoples ●yes he maketh this counterfeyt aunswere In the

¶ A Discouerie of Edmund Campion and his Confederates their most horrible and traiterous practises against her Maiesties most royall person and the Realme Wherein may be seene how thorowe the whole course of their Araignement they were notably conuicted of euery cause VVhereto is added the Execution of Edmund Campion Raphe Sherwin and Alexander Brian executed at Tiborne the 1. of December Published by A. M. sometime the Popes Scholler allowed in the Seminarie at Roome amongst them a Discourse needefull to be read of euery man to beware how they deale with such secret seducers Seene and allowed Imprinted at London for Edwarde VVhite dwelling at the little North doore of Paules at the signe of the Gunne the 29. of Ianua 1582. To the right Honourable Sir Thomas Bromeley Knight Lord Chanceller of England William Lord Burleigh and Lorde Treasorer Robert Earle of Leicester Thomas Lorde Chamberlaine and Fraunces Earle of Bedforde with the rest of her Maiesties moste Honourable Councell continuaunce of health increase of Honour and all heauenlie wisedome IT hath beene alwayes seen right Honorable that the Peaceableste Prince hath had the priuiest enimies the moste ciuill gouernment some vnciuill aduersaries whose tedious natures could not liue within the compasse of vert●e and modestie and therefore they were at continuall warre with them who established and maintayned a thing of such excellencie within their Dominiōs I need not trauaile for circūstances to approoue what I haue said for that it hath beene manifested heere in our Realme of England Her Maiestie vnder whom we haue been so godlie gratiouslie famouslie gouerned her selfe beeing a spectacle to the whole world for vertue and modesty of life how greatlie she is defamed contemned and despised therefore of those whom iniquitie and error hath peruerslie blinded I leaue to your Honorable iudgements my humilitie vnfained loyaltie remembred But fearing to intangle my self in any such matters as may either seeme tedious to your Honours or troublesome to any modest minde I betake my selfe to such a simple course of breuitie as may discouer my true intent and the duetiful reuerence I owe to so Honourable personages It is not vnknowen to your Honours how not long since I witnessed my faithfull seruice to her Maiestie to the disproouing of such as were bothe her professed and sworne aduersaries at which tyme how notablie they were approoued guiltie of euerie obiection bothe by their owne writinges sufficiēt euidence vnreprooueable witnesses it were needlesse heere to rehearse for that the matter is yet apparant Since that time right Honourable there hath beene cast abroade by the secrete fauourers and ●reends of these so sufficiently cōuicted such reports Lybels trayterous speeches in the behalfe of the aforenamed bothe against me and the other of the witnesses as many haue been inforced to muse merua●le they haue been dely●ered soorth after such spightfull and vniust manner Wherefore at the earnest intreatie of diuers godlie and well disposed men as also to discharge my selfe of the manifest vnt●●●ethes to such as haue heard and seen them published against me vnder your Honours fauour I hau● beene so bolde to discouer these Traitours and their tr●tcherous practises that it maye be seene and knowen howe falselie and vntruelie they haue accused me and that they maye well vnderstand howe I haue beene in those places where I ha●● heard and seene more then I will heere report to the confounding o● them and 〈◊〉 such as they are though in their Libels they giue foorth otherwise of me My request is therefore to your Honours vnder whose fauours I cōfesse my selfe bothe safelie and sufficientlie defended that this my good intent maye attaine your Honourable liking● which will crosse all the 〈…〉 wherewith I haue beene endaungered and discouraged by many Thus remaining the most affectionate in duetiful seruice to her Maiestie and an humble and obedient seruaunt to your Honours I cease at this time beseeching God long to preserue her Maiestie and your Honours in continuall happinesse Your Honours in all humility and duetie A. Munday To the Courteous and freendly Reader HOw precious a thing courteous Reader faithfulnesse to our Prince and Countrey is cannot bee so much spoken of as it dooth worthily deserue for that as Cicero defineth it is the onely foundation of Iustice and without which Prudence is but Deceitfulnesse Temperaūce but Luxuriousnes Fortitude meere Cowardise and Iustice her selfe plaine Cruelnes The Heathen and other fayling in this so commendable vertue would esteeme themselues vnworthie to vse the company of men how much more then ought we Christians to reuerence and honour such an especiall or●ament The Romanes would take a Hog and breake it to peeces in a Morter wishing theyr owne bones might so be broken if they did prooue false of theyr faith The Medians and the Arabians were w●nt to pri●● their fingers and eche of them should 〈◊〉 thereof signitying 〈◊〉 that theyr blood should be spilte th●● kept not their ●aithe Among the Scithians if any were sound to 〈◊〉 their ●aithe they were by the lawe presentlye adiudged to death Cicero writing to Trebatius reporteth a notable custome among 〈◊〉 people how they would take Iupiters Stone in theyr handes vttering these woordes Euen as I cast this Stone from me so ●et Iupiter cast me out of the societie and companye of all men if willingly I breake my faithe The Aegiptians could neuer abide suche persons as were 〈…〉 their faith and therefore they that so offended no redemption might seeme to saue their liues Gaudentius Merula reporteth that in Bithinia there is a Riuer called Aleos and of some Olochas of which if any one taste that hath broken his faithe to his Prince and Coūtrey his entrayles are presently set on fyre within him and so he endeth his life meruelous miserably I would such a Riuer were in all Citties in the world for then lesse Treason and impietie would be practised among men against their Prince and naturall Countrey You see of late how it hath happened by our owne Countreymen borne and bred heere among vs how they neither regarding their duetie to God or faithfull looue they ought to beare theyr Princesse and Countrey wilfully yeelded themselues to the enemy of the whole world with him to practise the destruction of their lawfull Soueraigne and her dominion which beeing manifestly prooued to theyr faces is neuerthelesse misreported by some of their secret fauourers Wherefore that thou maist beware how thou giuest credit to any of them all whose wicked mindes kick and spurne against the trueth read this Discourse and thou shalt euidently see into the depthe of their secret and trayterous dealings And if thou finde in some places such wordes as modestie can hardly suffer bestowe such reuerence in the reading as thou maiste be warned by them to remaine euer a loyall and faithfull subiect Thine to vse A. Munday These faults good Reader where thou shalt finde them

escaped in the Booke I desire thee freendly to correct In the first Page of B. among the names thou shalt finde Iames Bosgraue by misaduenture left out I desire thée to beare with the Printers fault and to allowe the name there In the 11. page of C. 3. line for ought to be committed reade ought not to be committed In the 15. page of C. 8 line for aforenaned read aforenamed In the 16. page of C. 9. line for your ●wayne reade you twaine In the 5. page of F. 16. line for Edward Bishton reade Edward Rishton as also in the Margent All other faultes whatsoeuer escaped vnwittingly and not wilfully I desire thée fréendly to amend as they should be A Discouerie of Edmund Campion and his Complices their most traiterous practises against her Maiestie and the Realme Edmund Campion Raphe Sherwin Lucas Kerbie Edwarde Rishton Thomas Coteham Henrie Orton and Robert Iohnson all these aforenamed persons were brought on Monday the 20. of Nouember to the high Barre at VVestminster where they were seuerallie and all together endited vpon high Treason the sum whereof followeth in breefe as thus THAT these persons contrarie bothe to looue and dutie forsooke their natiue Countrie to liue beyond the Seas vnder the Popes obedience as at Roome Rheimes and diuers other places where the Pope hauing with other Princes practised the death and depriuation of our moste gratious Princesse and vtter subuertion of her seat and kingdom to his deuillish and abhominable Religion these men hauing vowed their alleageaunce to the Pope to obey him in all causes whatsoeuer being there gaue their consent yea vttermost furtherance they might to ayde him in this moste traiterous determination And for this intent and purpose they were sent ouer to seduce the hearts of her Maiesties loouing Subiects and to conspire and practise her Graces death as much as in them lay against a great day set and appointed when the generall hauock should be made those only reserued that ioyned with them This layde to their charge they boldely and impudently denyed wherevpon a lewrie was impaneled their owne confessions their owne writings and credible witnesses Viua voce produced to their faces approouing them guiltie of the former allegations as heereafter followeth After the Endightment was read vnto them and theyr aunswere that it was beyond theyr power to prooue them faultie in any such matters so stiflie they stoode in their apparant impudencie first was mooued to them sundrie Treasons past attempted against her Maiestie by those of theyr sect and disposition yet notwithstanding the vttermost of theyr mallice and crueltie howe mightilie God had defended his chosen Elizabeth returning their dealinges to theyr owne destruction Among sundrie these Treasonable practises which the Pope the aunciēt aduersarie to her Maiestie hath at diuers tymes set a broche the rebellion in the North may remaine as a witnesse of his exceeding mallice spight against her Grace and gouernement Whereto let vs ad the Bull sent ouer by Iohn Felton which Traiterouslie he placed on the Bishop of Londons gate in which Bull the Pope vtterlie excommunicated her Maiestie shée was an Heretique he had dispossest her of her Crowne and Dominion shée was not the lawfull Quéene of this Realme and her Subiectes were not bounde to obeye any of her Lawes or Decrées but they were all frée and perfectlie discharged of theyr allegeaunce to her so that they might lawfullie when tyme serued so conuenient for them bothe styrre rebellion against her and also enter into Armes against her Maiestie The Popes wyll in this hath béen put in execution as through the yll demeanour of diuers persons to him affected it was mooued in the North where maintaining themselues on the aucthoritie of the Pope and his traiterous Bull secretly dispersed abroad they entred into a plaine and manifest rebellion The like was put in practise in Ireland through Doctor Saunders and other Traitours who there ioyned themselues together vnder the Popes standard to bring to pass● their secret appointment in this Realme Through their perswasions and dealings the people were mooued in the Popes name to fight against their lawfull Princesse vnder his Banner and to rebell against her so notoriously as they might The encouragement to this great disobedyence they receyued through Doctor Saunders a Fugitiue and ranck Traitour to his Prince and Co●ntrey as also through diuers Iesuits bothe English and Irish whose hippocriticall shewe of holines deuillish perswasions on the behalse of the Pope theyr Maister and head entised a multitude of the people there to chaunge their profession in Religion and to yeeld them selues to the Popes authoritie whereby they should renounce the moste certaine and iust title of her Maiestie and when forraine forces should be assembled there they to ioyne with them in their intent and so traiterously rebell against their lawfull Soueraigne All these practises tooke their origynall from the Pope as well by sending his secret Messengers as also by his trayterous Bull which béeing sent by Pius Quintus is neuer thelesse confirmed in the former authoritie by this Pope Gregorie xiij and remayneth in hope to take effect at some time or other for which he dooth watche opportunitie as conueniently as he may But God the iust auenger of all causes as he hath hitherto preserued her Maiestie and this lyttle Iland from all theyr malicious attempts and practises and hath deseruedlie thrown the yoke of theyr shame on theyr owne neckes so wyll he no doubt continew his fatherlie care that his Chyldren shall be preserued and theyr aduersaries confounded But sayeth Maister Campion what is this to vs héere present what appertaineth this to our endytement we are héere bothe seuerallie and altogeather endyted on high Treasō and for that that is obiected against vs we must aunswere Let not other mennes offences be layde to our charge that we should aunswer for other mennes faultes committed long since some of vs were then but Nouises héere in y ● Uniuersities and were altogether ignoraunt of these matters What haue we to doo with any thing that they dyd they that were offendours let them aunswere to what you can lay against them For vs that be héere at this instant you must eyther saye thou Campion dyddest this thing or thou naming some of the other committedst this offence and therevpon bring your proofes and witnesses otherwise you shal neuer be able to touch vs. As for these assertions for the strength they haue against vs I wyll not estéeme it woorth a peny woorth of Pippins and therfore to your endytement This aunswer so smoothly deliuered and with such coy lookes and protestation of action iested to all the standers by gaue perfect notice of the man bothe of his nature and disposition as also of his prompte and ingenious capacity to shaddowe an absolute trueth with a showe of great wisedome and learning For this he knew● right well that before he came to that