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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

as at euery remembraunce my heart dooth bléede to thinke vpon them Quoth one of them there is a Rod in prouiding that shall rouse that presumptuous Iezabell meaning our moste Gratious Princesse out of her vsurped authoritie which she hath so long time held to our no little gréefe and then looke how Iezabell was serued euen so shall she be yea wurse if wurse may be oh moste traiterous woords yet there passing euery mans mouthe with great laughter and ioy Quoth an other to me you may be happy if God take you out of this world héere then shall you neuer sée the bloody ruine of your owne Countrye which will be shortlye and sooner then some of them lookes for wherefore if you haue any fréendes in England which you doubt to be fallen from the faithe and take parte in that abhominable Religion send to them so soone as you can that they may goe to some of our Préests there labouring about the chéefe cause to be reconciled by them and so to conforme their liues a new And then they will deliuer them certayne Grana Benedicta that is appointed by the Popes holinesse for them or els the watch word Iesus Maria for béeing founde without these two they will be destroyed as all the rest shall be that are not so prouided Now they meane to deale surelie because they haue sundry wayes attempted yet still haue béene deceiued and therefore they haue appoynted a great daye when as the generall hauocke shall be made thorowe all England Robert Parsons commonly called among them Father Parsons Iesuit at what time Pater Alfonsus Rector of the Seminarie was so strooken with sicknesse that he could not be conuersaunt among the Schollers as was his wunt but inclined to such meanes as might soonest restore his health this aforesayd Robert Parsons by consent of their Generall was appoynted our Rector till father Alfonsus was well againe In the time of this his office it was his often vse to haue vs all assembled together and then he would come and sit downe in a Chayre in the middest when he would open vnto vs in what miserable and lamentable estate our Countrie of England stood which quoth he I bemone with a bleeding heart and would to God my death might restore it according as it should be You sée what a bloody and tyr●unicall Princesse hath gotten the Swoorde in hande wherewith shee s●riketh in such vnmerci●ull sorte that if any of our P●éestes hee taken which are sent to win our déers Countreymen from her abhominable and hereticall religion they are presently martired and intreated more like Dogges then Christians Yet let not your faythes fayle for all theyr torments but be you constant and vnremooueable for the day will come when shee her selfe shall taste of the same sauce and then blood shall be payde with blood and all that is now wrong shall to your owne mindes bee made right In the meane while pray for that gracious and thrise blessed Quéene who though she be now held downe by that Iezabels oppression shall ere long vndoubtedly be the glad Mother of our ioye and though shee bee kept from that which is her right she shall haue it when the proudest of them shall be of two weake power to defend them selues It is not for me to rehearse the woordes that he hath vsed to encourage them in their obedience to the Pope and beside what he hath sayde to me when as I came to confession to him but this I giue you to vnderstande that the chéefe cause was neuer forgotten the great daye was kepte in remembraunce and supposed long ere this to haue taken effecte if thinges had fallen out to their expectation I omit héere to rippe vp the innumerable trayterous spéeches vsed among the Schollers themselues whereto they are imboldened by these and such lyke perswaders whereof the Pope hath good store What trayterous causes they dare take vppon them to fulfyll themselues by their owne hands vpon her Maiesties moste royall person as also the Lordes of her honourable Councell But because they shall not report that in concealing theyr spéeches which for the odious and abhominable tearmes I ought to doo I am not therefore able to charge them with any I wyll my humilitie and duety to her Maiestie and the honorable Personages cōsidered reueale y e woords of one or two of them which although it be most horrible and trayterous yet is it the simplest that I heard vsed among them It chaunced that one daye I walked with two or thrée of the Schollers to a place without Roome called Petro Montorium where as they say Saint Peeter was martyred and by the way as we went we fell in our accustomed talke about the procéeding of matters in Englande Among which talke they entred into appointment determination with them selues if all other thinges fayled as they had good hope they woulde not what eche of them woulde doo to accomplishe the Popes long desire Quoth one of them whyle two or thrée persons be a liue we may stande in doubte of our matter in England Who be they quoth I héere I must craue pardon for that I maye not with modestie name these men of Honour according as they dyd and doo but these they were my L. K. then lyuing my L. T. whome they called plaine C. and S. F. W. Oh quoth he had I the hearts of these in my Purse and theyr headdes in the Popes holynesse handes I would not doubt but ere long wée should all merilie iourney homewarde Nay trust me quoth an other of them if you woulde so faine haue theyr thrée harts and heads h●ere then let me ad to the fowrth and thē take the whole messe together I should call her Quéene of Englād quoth hée but I wyll not for that I knowe shée is but an Usurper and kéepeth that good Queene of Scottes from her lawfull Seate for whome our holie Father hath so well prouided as wee are crediblie infourmed that shée shall be sette vp againe ere long or it shall coste the best blood in England Howe saye you to her had we but her head ●éere we would not doubte but in short tyme to bring the prowdest of the other whether they would or no. My fréendes quoth the thyrd this is the least matter of a hundred and I durst wadge my lyfe to bring it to passe of my selfe You knowe that our fréendes in Englande wyll not sée vs to want any money if then I haue money good store let me alone to bring this matter arteficiallie to passe I would quoth hee make my selfe verie gorgeous and sumptuous apparell and kéepe two or thrée men to wayte on mee as I walke thorowe the stréetes then would I goe to the Court eueri● daye for that I haue some good acquaintaunce there beside béeing so braue and gallaunt I should be a companion for euery one so that in theyr companies I might goe into

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

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

excuses sufficient so that he must be a Préest or else depart thence And good reason haue they for this for when they enter into Préesthood they are sworne duetifull and faithfull to the Pope to obey him in all causes what soeuer and to doo what soeuer theyr Superiours shall cōmaund them nowe if any one should remayne among them not entring into this oath their secrete practises might be discouered and beside that man vnsworne to be sent about these matters might chuse whether hee woulde fulfill his charge or no. As for those that be Préestes and are sworne to this obedience they must what euer happen to them doo theyr vttermoste or else they fall into the Popes cursse and are excommunicated besyde theyr sinnes breaking theyr promise with him who is Christes Uicare on earth shall neuer be forgiuen them say they neither in this worlde nor in the worlde to come With such threatnings lyes of myracles of theyr Church and styncking Reliques they shewe they make our Englishe men bewitched vnto them so that they stande in as much aw● to offende him as they doo God which is in Heauen For thorow his Indulgences graūted to their Agnus De●s their Beades Crosses and Medalles they as verilie thinke that they redéeme so many soules out of Purgatory as the Pope dooth set vpon them at his blessing them euen as verily doo they credit it as we hope to goe to heauen And for this intent they haue their perswaders héere who if they know any young Gentleman or other that is willing to trauaile they will bothe proffer him such sufficiencie of money as shall bring him to their Seminarie at Rheimes beside Letters for his entertainement there shall be giuen him that when he commeth thither he shall not onely be welcommed gratefully but also estéemed equall with any of the other Then when they haue studyed there a while that they are brought within the compasse of their determination they shall be sent to Roome to receiue their Préesthood if so be their mindes serue them to trauayle so farre otherwise they receiue it at Rheimes and this is the continuall dealings betwéene the two Seminaries to be sure of store for maintenance of their matter These men thus made Préests are appointed yearely by their Superiours so many of them as shall be thought conuenient to be sent into England to make preparation for the Popes former intent They haue their charge deliuered them how warie and circumspect how faithfull and dilligent they must be in execution of so great a cause they are pardoned for so many dayes as they cannot say Masse by reason of the daunger héere in England and therefore they may let theyr Crownes alone vnshauen where if they stayed there they must be shauen duely euery wéeke But if when they are héere in such a mans house where they may say Masse they doo not dayly doo it then they sinne mortally and for want of some other Préest to absolue him he writes downe all such sinnes as he dayly committeth till he may attaine vnto confession But neuerthelesse himselfe hath authoritie to reconcile confesse and absolue so many of her Maiesties Subiects as he can win from their obedience Then with them they bring Agnus Deis hallowed Grana and Beades sanctified Images holy Gyrdles come from S. Peeters Chayre Crosses and Medalles and a number of such paltryes The Agnus Dei is included within a case made fit for the purpose and the vertue of it is that the Deuill dare not come néere him so long as he hath it about him nor any sprights or euill motions may attempt to fraye him for that say they most trayterously and blasphemously he hath the very Lambe of God about him which is the stincking Agnus Dei made of War chrisma spittle salte Oyle and such trumperies whereof I haue séene aboundance made in the Popes Pallace and they be nothing worthe till he haue sayd a fewe Enchaunting woords ouer them where they stād great Chests ful Sackes and Baskets Yet they allow no holynesse to the Chest Basket or Sack which receiueth as much blessing as they It were too tedious to discourse héere the manner and order of all these ●ables wherefore I referre you to a booke which by the grace of God shall come foorth shortly intituled The English Romaine life Wherein our Englishmen and theyr order of life shall be truely and not malliciously reported with so many of theyr Popish knaueries discouered as I know will mooue some bothe to laugh and lament To laugh in that their dealinges are so ridiculous and foolishe and to lament in that they wyll be gouerned by so vaine imaginations When they are thus arriued in Englande they dispearce them selues into such places where they thinke them selues to be surest some in one place some in an other And disguising them selues lyke Gentlemen Seruingmen or what Apparell they maye fynde méetest for them they haue accesse to many and sundrie places where hauing reconciled some theyr fréendes must lykewise be of the same stampe and so what from Father to Sonne Husband and Wife Kinsmen and acquaintance a number are seduced brought into theyr detestable dealinges For after they haue gotten any lyttle grounde within them to builde vppon then doo they laye vnto them what a generall blooddy daye is toward England that the Pope other forraine Princes haue fullye determined to ouer runne the Realme then better it wer● for you say they to yéelde your selues willingly then to sée so horrible a slaughter bothe of your Princesse and all that dare presume to take her parte Your selues yea and your freends shall abyde the same harde iudgement except you ioyne with vs in this action Thus through terrifying and a thousande Traiterous fetches they haue one fréend bringeth an other and one Kinsman an other so that as they them selues wyll make theyr boast in shorte tyme they doubte not to haue the moste parte of all Englād yea and farder they presume that her Maiestie thinking her selfe in most safetie shall then be soonest of all deceyued These are the men that make them selues so sound and substantiall that they are as true Subiectes to her Maiestie as the best of vs. Yea sayth Maister Campion neuer shall you prooue this that we came ouer eyther for this intent or purpose but onelie for the sauing of soules which méere loo●● and conscience compelled vs to doo for that we dyd pittie the miserable estate of our Countrey But where are your prooues sayeth hee these are but quirkes by the way our lyues I perceyue standeth vppon pointes of Rethorique you haue showen vs the Antecedent nowe let vs haue the Ergo. With this continuall course of holdnesse and impudencie Maister Campion and his fellowes would graunt nothing but stiflie denied euerie cause and Maister Campion he tooke it for a custom to wrest euerie thing as pleased him saying That y ● Iewrie were not men learned