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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 practise of some of our yong masters slaunderously geuen ont against M. Sherwin dreamed ou● by them of his wordes here as that he dyed a protestant because he disclaiming from the wretchednes of his owne mortalitie and nature reposed himselfe wholy vpon Christ and his passion These minions would no doubt make Catholiks monsters in poyntes of religion and faith and do labour to perswade the people that the Catholike religion doth euacuate the comfort of our fraylties and price of our souls the sheding of Christes moste pretious bloud in which we do acknowledge all our suffitiency and in which only as the sole foundation spring and cause of all merit the merite of all our wel doing so iniuriouslie to Christe his passion abolished by protestants is hath and shal be by vs maintayned not againste these naked solifidians onely but euen againste the gates of hell What web soeuer some sottish weauer or sutch like shall weaue in the meane tyme of a suposid suttelty touching iustification in M. Sherwins woordes here vttered his fyne suppose is coming out with great labour and much ado and all not woorthe a rush Truly it is a world to sée the raggid rable of these petti pratres who since M. Campions imprisonment and death haue caste vp their chargid gorge againste priesthoode priests and the societie of Iesus who yf it would please her Highnes and her honorable Counsel to lay open ether pul●it or print would shortly plums these daw●s in suche short that their nakednes aparantly discouerd wold shew them in their kind then should nether Ch●rke Ha●●er Whitakers Fyld Keltrigh Eliot kogging Munday riming Elderton and Iohn Nichols the disciple of Bawdy Bale all worshipful writers at this time again●t Preistes and Iesuites so daunse in their nettes as now by sway of time they do to the great hurte of ins●●ute innocent soules then should not William Wiborns Magg Howlet a false and malicious practise of som● fewe melancholike heretikes first broched and now renued by him selfe to diminish the credite and autoritie of Councels flye free in the day from pursuite and wonder of other birds at whom nowe with the rest I think the lerned and wise Catholike will looke and laugh as not worthy of refutation answere howsoeuer some yonger scoler may shortly exercise him selfe in reply vpon him whom all Englishe Catholikes as they say can not answere After these two glorious Martirs was brought vnto his martirdome M. Alexander Brian a man although in lerning knowledge inferior to them yet equal in patience constancie and humilitie whose pressures in prison and tortures strange I dare say among heathens more monstrous among Christians may be thought vncredible and are signified vnto his brethren abrode by him selfe To omit his rackings what practise was it of vncharitable Protestants to put pinnes vnder his nayles What hart could sée his famine so extreme that for his corporal sustenanse he was driuen to lick the moysture of walls His vsage is abrode in mens hands written by him selfe a testimony● of their cruell and harde hartes who in sutche wise abused a sacred prieste of God Being in the cart prepared to death began first to declare his bringing vp in the Catholike faith religion his being in Oxford vpon whiche worde he was stayed by one saiing What haue we to do with Oxford come to the purpose and confesse thy treason Wherupon he answered I am not guyltye of any suche death I was neuer at Rome nor then at Rhemes when D. Sanders came into Ireland To this ende he spake and protested as he woulde answere before God He spake not much but where as he was vrged more then the other to speke what he thought of the said Bull of Pius quintus he sayd he did beleue of it as al Catholiks and the Catholike faith doth and therupon protesting him selfe to dye a true catholike saying Miserere mei Deus was deliuered of the carts with more payn by negligence of the hangman thē either of the other who after his beheading himself dismembred his hart bowels and intrels burned to the gret admiration of some being layd vpon the blocke his bellye downward lifted vp his wholy body then remayning from the grounde and this I adde vpon report of others not mine owne sight Here you haue the speach and demeinor of these three glori●us martirs at their last hower and in their last breth of the true report whereof I doe referre my selfe vnto diuers of nobility and worship vnto those gallant and braue courtiers who beheld and hard the same who pitti●d their innocency so punished who commended their death so patiētly sustained who through mere pittye procured them fauor and preuented the bloudy purposes of some cruel tormenters for which fauour God rewarde that Gentleman who after M. Sherwin was put from the cart turned back and said This man was a wise man God I say rewarde him God encrease his honour God make him a sheepe of his foulde a childe of his Church God boord him in that arke which hath doth and shal preserue al Christs folowers from the floud and deluge in which only is grace security and saluation out of whiche is nought but desperate miserie perdition To conclude vpon this occasion I hane not thoght impertinent to remember al Catholikes and specially vs Preistes of some woordes of a lerned and famous Doctor whiche to this ende I haue as it foloweth gathered out of his exhortation to martirdome largely and sweetely deliuered vs in an Apologye of the English Seminaries That as the cause not the paine or persecution whereof our Heretikes only vaunt them selues iustifieth all men so Christ and these good mens consciences formed in al pietie mekenesse and modesty so their last protestation washed sealed confirmed with their blood so their resolute death for religion for our faith for the church no doubt by Gods grace shal animat and strengthen vs who remayne eyther in the furnace of Gods probation or in the burden or broyle of this hote haruest of our Lorde or by suer treading threshing and winewing are laide vp for well tried wheate in the barne floore of Christes Church And further may moue her Maiesties hart to haue compassion maye open her graue Counselors eyes to see our innocency may alter our enemies and ill informers mindes to loue and charitie may stirre vp the minds of al men inwardly in conscience to cōsider the cause of our sufferance affliction imprisonments and giue them such sense reason and religion that they may acknowledge our vndeserued calamities I saye this may the deathes of so good and holy martirs worke as they did sufficiently testifie that they were not acquainted with any conspiracie against our Prince and country but did suffer for the honor peace and vnitie of the Churche for sauing of their soules and the soules of our beloued parentes children friendes for the defence of Christes priesthood and souerainty in earth