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A17870	A true reporte of the death & martyrdome of M. Campion Iesuite and preiste, & M. Sherwin, & M. Bryan preistes, at Tiborne the first of December 1581 Observid and written by a Catholike preist, which was present therat Wheruuto [sic] is annexid certayne verses made by sundrie persons	Alfield, Thomas, 1552-1585.; Parsons, Robert, 1546-1610, attributed name.; Walpole, Henry, 1558-1595, attributed name.	1582 (1582)	STC 4537; ESTC S107411	16,675	52

penance not thy desperate ende let Norton thinke which now in prison is to whom was said he was not Caesars friend and let the Iudge consider well in feare that Pilate washt his hands and was not cleare The witnesse false Sledd Munday and the rest which had your slanders noted in your booke con●●esse your fault beforehand it were best lest God do find it written when he doth looke in dreadfull doome vpon the soules of men it wil be late alas to mend it then You bloody iury Lea and all the leauen take ●eede your verdit which was giuen in hast do not e●clude you from the ioyes of heauen and cause you rue it when the time is past and euery one whose malice causd him say Crucifige let him dread the terror of that day Fonde Elderton call in thy foolish rime thy scurile balates are to bad to sell let good men rest and mende thy self in time confesse in prose thou hast not meetred well or if thy folly can not choose but fayne write alehouse ●oys blaspheme not in thy vain Remember you that would oppresse the cause the Church is Christes his honor can not dye though hel her selfe reuest her gresly iawes and ioyne in league with schisme and heresie though craft deuise and cruel rage oppresse yet skil wil write and martirdome confesse You thought perhaps whē lerned Cāpion dyes his pen must cease his sugred tong be still but you forgot how lowde his death it cryes how farre beyond the sound of tongue and ●uil you did not know how rare and great a good it was to write his precious giftes in blood Liuing he s●ake to th●m that present were his writings tooke their censure of the viewe Now fame reports his lerning farre and nere and now his death con●●●m●s his doctrine true his vertues now are written in the skyes and often read with holy inward eyes All Europe wonders at so rare a man England is fild with rumor of his ende London must needs for it was present than when cōstantly thrée saints their liues did spend the streets the stones the steps you ●ald thē be proclaime the cause for which these martirs dy The Tower saith the truth he did d●fend the barre beares witnes of his guiltles minde Tiborne doth tell he made a pa●●ent ende on euery gate his martirdome we finde in vaine you wroght y t would obscure his name for heauen and earth will still record the same Your sentence wrong pronounced of him here exemptes him from the iudgments for to come O happy he that is not iudged there God graunt me too to haue an earthly dome your witnes false and lewdly taken in doth cause he is not now accusd of sin His prison now the citie of the king his racke and torture ioyes and heuenly blisse for mens reproch with angels he doth sing a sacred song which euerlasting is for shame but short and losse of small renowne he purchase hath an euer during crowne His quarterd lims shall ioyne with ioy agayne and rise a body brighter then the sunne your blinded malice torturde him in vayne For euery wrinch sowe glory hath him wonne and euery drop of blood which he did spend hath reapt a ioy which neuer shal haue end Can dreary death thē daunt our faith or paine ist lingring life we feare to loose or ease no no such death procureth life againe tis only God we tremble to displease who kils but once and euer stil we dye whose hote reuenge tormentes eternallye We can not feare a mortal torment wée this Martirs blood hath moystned all our harts whose partid quarties when we chaunce to see we lerne to play the constant christians parts his head doth speake heauenly precepts giue how we y t looke should frame our selues to liue His youth enstru●ts vs how to spend our daies his flying bids vs how to vanish sinne his straight profession shews the narrow waies which they must walk that looke to enter in his home returne by danger and distresse emboldens vs our conscience to professe His hardle drawes vs with him to the crosse his speeches there prouoke vs for to dye his death doth say this life is but a losse his martird blood from heauen to vs doth crye his first and last and all conspire in this to shew the way that leadeth vnto blisse Blessed be God which lent him so much grace thanked be Christ which blest his martir so happy is he which sees his masters face Cursed are they that thought to worke him wo b●unden be we to geue eternall prayse to Iesus name which such a man did rayse Amen An o●h●r vpon the same WHat yron hart that wold not melt in gréefe what steele or stone could kepe him dry frō teares to see a Campion haled like a théefe to end his life with both his glorious feares in whose three deathes vnto the standers by euen al the world almost might seeme to dye England must lose a soueraigne salue for sinne a sweet receit for suttle herisie India a saint her seely soules to winne Turky a bane for her idolatrie the Church a souldier against Babylon to batter hell and her confusien The skowling skies did storme and puff apace they could not bear y e wrongs y t malice wroght the sunne drew in his shining purple face the moistned clouds she brimsh tears for thoght the riuer Thames a while astonied stoode to count the drops of Campions sacred blood Nature with teares bewaild her heauy lesse honesty feard her selfe should shortly dye religion saw her Champion on the crosse Angels and sainis desired leaue to cry euen herisie the eldest child of hell began to blush and thoght she did not well And yet behold when Campion made his end his humble hart was so bedewde with grace that no reproch could once his mind offend mildnes possest his sweet and cherefull face a pacient spectacle was presented then in sight of God of angels saints and men The heuens did cleare y e sun like gold did shine the cloudes were dry the fearful riuer ranne nature and vertue wypt their watred eyen religion ioyed to sée so mild a man men angels saints and al that saw him dye forgot their grief his ioyes appeard so nye They saw his patience did expect a crowne his scornful cart a glorious heauenly place his lowly mind a happy high renowne his humble cheare a ●hining angels face his feare his griefe his death agonie a ioy a peace a life in maiestie From thence he prayes and sings in melodie for our recure and calleth vs to him he stands before the throne with harmonie and is a glorious suter for our sinne with wings of loue he iumped vp so hye to helpe the cause for which he sought to dye Reioyce be glad triumph sing himmes of ioye Campion Sherwine Brian liue in blis they sue they seeke the ●ase of our annoy they pray they speake and al effectuall is not like to men

A true reporte of the death martyrdome of M. Campion Iesuite and preiste M. Sherwin M. Bryan preistes at Tiborne the first of December 1581 Observid and written by a Catholike preist which was present therat Wherunto is annexid certayne verses made by sundrie persons Apoca. 7. These are they that came out of gret tribulation and haue washed their stoles and made them white in the bloud of the Lambe TO THE READER AMongst the diuers reportes of the behavior of M Campion M. Sherwin M Bryā at their death passing among freindes from hand to hand I hapned vpon one geven out as it seemeth by a Catholike priest who as it apereth pressed to obserue marke those dealings which report I have here published cōsidering the divers many slaunders raised since by some maliciously blinded to satisfie content all such as do desire to vnderstand the manner of the same I hope that consideration which hath movid me hereto wil also perswade that priest to the wel liking of this my doing I dout not but that the relation it self will content the reader throughly touching their words and behaviour at the tyme of execution Notwithstanding those slaunders which were since spred to diminish the honour of their refolute departure Martirdome as that M Campion was timerous and fearfull that M Sherwin died a protestant with other such false reportes as thov shalt see in pervsing this short relation here exhibitid for thy satisfaction wherin is a lively Image of resolute martirs constantly professing their faith belief resolutly disclaming from all treasons and treacheryes falslie intendid againste them and loyaly behaving them selues towards our queene country Who as they were in their lives lanterns of piety vertue so in their deathes made themselves paternes and examples for all good christian subiectes to follow And here by the way I might point out M. Elmers folly as not one of the least who notwithstanding the knowen lerning of M. Campion he him selfe a man of knowen wisedome iudgement was not ashamed at a Sessions at Newgate vpon the apparance of the Cutler of Holborne to say openly that M Campion was vnlern●d and that a Note booke or two of his felowes being taken from him he had nothing in him as it was manifest in his disputations in the Tower Further that al the Papistes in the worlde coulde not answere Whitakers booke against the saide M Campion Which his censure I referre vnto the iudgement of the lerned discret and wise who I know do condemne the babbling of that barren declaymer as voyde of witte discretion lerning modestie truth But howe friuolous and vayne these slaunders are although the whole world filled nowe with the fame of his lerning doth know yet it shal be made more manifest and apparant euen vnto him selfe by those Disputations had in the Tower to the honor of M Campion and furthering of his cause at suche time as by the grace of God they shal be published This rehearsal good Reader I confesse is impertinent to the purposse of that Preist who gaue out the report folowing and yet I thought it not altogether amisse to touch those slaunders so false and malicious as many good Gentlemen can not but confesse Muche more M Elmer spake that day as he thought to the discredite of M. Campion but I pray God giue him better consideration both of this and of further iustice and so shall the poore Poulter at his nexte complaynt be heard euen of himself beeing as he himself said a Bishop a Lorde and of some credite Farewell ¶ A true report of the death of M. Campion Iesuite and Preist M. Sherwin and M. Bryan preistes THE diuers and contrary reportes falsely and maliciously bruted and published of M. Euerard Haunse directly executed for cause of Religion after his late martyrdome gaue iust feare of the like practise towards those thrée glorious Martirs learned meeke stoute and constant Priests M. Edmund Campion Iesuite M. Rodulph Sherwin and M. Alexander Bryan preistes who vpon the first day of December last past were vnder pretence of highe treason moste iniuriously to the great lamentation generally of all good men martired for the Catholike faith and religion Upon which occasion many good catholike gentlemen desirous to be eye witnesses of that which might hapen in the speach demeinor passage of those thrée rare paternes of piety vertue and innocencie presented them selues at the place of execution and my selfe a Catholike preist pressed to that bloodie spectacle no dout a liuely sacrifice vnto God and a sweete sauour vnto his Angels with minde vpon occasion to referre uncerely and truly to my power this tragedie with suche accidents as did hapen in the maner cou●se and ende thereof Since which time vpon request of some of my fellows and b●ethren I wrote those dealings to answere and satisfie our aduersaries generally to content comfort our persecuted brethren specially and in part to diminishe those sinister rumors which are raysed against these good men by a notable and most infamous libel entituled An Aduertisement and defence for truth against her backbyters and specially against the whispering fauorers and colorers of Campions and the rest of his confederates treasons published there and openly read printed abrode without authoritie of seen aud alowed a pamphlet false impudent and farssed with lyes and vntruthes only to colour and shadowe with some face of equitie those strange procedinges my meaning is not to refute in spetial falsities that shamfull aduertisment alredy generaly confutid in all mens consciences and with priuate mutteringes even of the aduers parte them selues flatly condemned for I knowe and all men are pe●swaded that those inocentes suffered only for religion for our fathers faith and spirituall inheritance for seruing god in priestly function and duties And not for treson not for conspiring her highnesse death and ruin as it shal more clerly apere by their owne defence at the tyme of their arraignment which will shortly be published as a testimonie and expreste signification of their innocencie together with their dispntations priuately had in the tower argumentes of their learning and seale towardes this our natiue countrie so devided dayly with nombers of newe faithes and religions to the ruin and damnation of many our parentes children kinssolkes fréendes for whose instruction saluation only these good men with infinite more haue offered and as i● were consecrated them selues to these daungers and ●erilles of our times But if I ●houlde vpon that defeuce of their doings stand long to the contrary yet could I not when all were done saye more then other men haue already alleg●d by whom is declared howe our doings and labours in these spiritual affayres are misconstred how truth is made treason religion rebellion To whose bookes I do referre my deare countrie men eith●r inwardly affected or outwardly afflicted by the swete departure of these so lern●d● so m●ke so