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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

vertuous Priests of whose innocencie dutiful purposes demeinors and attemptes towards our natiue countrie our parentes and friendes notwithstāding that generall testimony of many lerned m●n are further and most sure witnesse their disputation publikely chalenged and by the aduerse part priuately performed their answeres wise and euen to the admiration of al men discrete at their arraignement their resolute denial and plaine disclaming from all such practises surmised and violently intended at their laste speach and that assured vpon the peril of their souls and lastly the disloyal and traterous practise of the aduers part againste her highnes her crowne and state againste her frendes against some of her graue and wise true and faithful Counselers practised secretly as by priuate speach of her maiesties subiectes generally is cons●ant and manifeste by some hollow harted freendes and flaterers vtered nowe and no doubt if all were knowne for some purpose broched by M. Norton nowe prisoner who for the better face of his owne disloyalty and treason procured these her maiesties true and moste loyal subiectes to be accused condemned and executed for treason But O alta iuditia dei I say no more but half those wordes he vsed wonld haue byn made playne expresse treason in pore Catholikes howsoeuer some will seme to excuse them as rashe wordes Well here as I wil answere for myne owne sonle before God I mynde to write sincerly and simply a truth concerning the behauiour of these men at their departure wherin of myne owne faith and fidilitie in reporting I call witnes of those gentilmen who before the begining of this tragedie at Tiborne disputed of the motion of the Sunne from east to west which was violent which was natural at whose backes I sta●ed the end of this pageant I mynded this end and they I know atended the same this I do implie to remember those gentilmen of the manner of the behauiour meke humble constant and resolute of those honorable martirs nowe no doubt daily intercessors for ●his our miserable countrie not douting but that as they were then charitably moued and affected with compassion so now they wil truely giue testimony of their innocencie and my fayth in relation Let therefore malice report treason and here●ie sownde conspiracie a practise euen from the infancie of religion and faith to brede hatred to religious faithfull men yet in al these inuentions of quarelling Lawyers in our doing in suche wise made treasonable we for them and our selues by S. Paules example who beeing charged before the ciuil magistrate of conspiracy and il demeinour towardes his countrey protested that he was iudged concerning the resurrection a question in religion and not for sedition or concourse in tumults doe crie to God and al Christian people which beheld their sufferance and doe still sée our afflictions that y e cause of their death and our extreme misery is meerely and only religion no treason no vnduetifulnes to our Prince no disobedience to her temporal laws howsoeuer they who maligne our fayth and Priesthood haue by these Macheuilian practises drawen al our doinges ententes and endeuours to disloyalty and treason by which meanes were lately condemned thirtene preistes and one lay man agaynste lawe equitie conscience without special euidence vpon general presumption by testimony of three or foure lewde Apostates vnlawful persons and notoriously infamed This is vox populi and was at the time of their arraignement expresly proued howsoeuer this namelesse Aduertiser doth without shame most falsly affirme the contrary But to my purpose which is to intimat and publi●he the behauiour speches and protestation of these so lerned rare men It is not vnknowen that M. Edmund Campion Iesuite Preist a man reputed and taken and by diuers his coequals plainlye confessed the flewer of Oxforde for that time he studied there and since abrode in foreine countries one in whom our countrey hath had great honor the frute of his l●rning vertue and rar● giftes whiche as they were in his childhood here among vs wonderful so they were abrode as in Italy Germany and Bohemia an honor to our country a glasse and mirror a light and lanterne a paterne and example to youth to age to lerned to vnlerned to religious and to the laytie of al sort state condition of modestie grauitie eloquence knowledge vertue and pietie of which iust and due commendation some of our aduersaries can giue true and ●erteyn testimonie who after diligent sifting and enquiring of his life maners and demeinor found nothing faulty nothing worthy of blame This man M. Campion I say first mekely yelded himself and his carkasse to this butcherie with such humility corage as moued most beholders to compassion and pity Those speches he vsed in the way to diuers calling and crying vnto him I leaue my selfe not able to make relation therof to common report or to that mans testimonie who eyther for pity or affection wiped his face defiled with durt as he was drawen most miserably through thick and thin as the saying is to the place of execution for whiche charity and happily some sodein moued affection God rewarde him and blesse him What he spake openly that my meaning is to set down truly my selfe béeing present and very nere as hard by Syr Frances Knoles the Lorde Howard Syr Henry Lee and other Gentlemen then gathered there to see and heare him And here I wil omit althogh it be very much material his vsage in time of imprisonment his constant patience in his rackinges and after his condēnation by report of some very nere to him his fiue days fast frō tēporal bodily sustenance his abstinence from slepe and ordinary rest which was before his death by credible report of some continued two nightes bestowed in meditation prayer Who after many conflictes and agonies ioyfully comming to receiue his reward and crowne the kingdome of heauen an enheritance certayne to such who in this life refuse the worlde thinges worldly themselues for Christes sake after some small pawse in the carte with graue countenance and swéete voyce stoutly spake as followeth Spectaculum facti sumus Deo Angeli hominibus saying These are the wordes of S. Paule Englished thus We are made a spectacle or a sight vnto God vnto his Angels and vnto men verified this day in me who am here a spectacle vnto my lorde god a spectacle vnto his angels vnto you men And here going forwarde in this text was interuptid cut of by Syr Frauncis Knowles and the sh●ryfs earnestly vrging him to confesse his treason against her maiestie and to acknowledge himself gilty To whom he answered saying● You haue now what you do desire I besech you to haue patience suffer me to speake a woorde or too for discharge of my conscience But beiug not suffered to go forward gaue answere to that point they alwayes vrged that he was giltlesse innocent of all treason

and conspiracie crauing credit to be geuen to this answere as to his last answere made vpon his death soule adding that touching this poynt both the Iurie might be deceauid and more also put in the evidence then was true notwithstanding he forgaue as he would be forgeuen desiring all them to forgeue him whome he had confessed vpon the racke Further he declared the meaning of a le●ter sent by him self in time of his imprisonment out of the Tower in which he wrote he would not disclos● the secretes of some houses where he had bin interteined affirming on his soule that the secretes he m●nt in that letter were no● as some miscon●tred them treason or conspiracy or any matter els any way intended against her Maiestie or the state but saying of Masse hearing of confession preaching and such like duties and functions of Priests this he protested to be true as he would answere before God Then he desired Syr Francis Knowles and some other of nobility to heare him touching one Richardson cōdemned about a booke of his and ernestly besought them to haue consideration of that man saying he was not that Richard son which brought his booke this he affirmed with vehement protestation vpon his death Then one Hearne a seolemaster as I lerned after red the new Aduertisement openly with lowde voyce vnto the people published only to colour so manifest and ●xpresse iniury M. Campion al the time of his reading deuoutlye praying Notwithstanding which aduertisement or defence of theirs aswel bicause they dis●r●s●ed their own po●●cie in publication therof as that they did also ●●si●e ●me better colour or faster v●said for their procedings pressed him to declare his opinion of Pius quintus Bull concerning thexcommunication of our Soueraigne and queene To which d●maunde he gaue no answere But being asked whether he renounced the Pope said he was a Catholike whereupon one inferred saying In your Catholisisme I noted the worde al treas●n is conteined In fine preparing himself to drinke his last draght of Christ his cup was interrupted in his prayer by a minister willing him to saye Christ haue mercy vpon me or suche like prayer with him vnto whom he looking backe with milde countenance humbly saide You and I are not one in religion wherfore I pray you content your selfe I barre none of prayer only I desire them of the houshold of faith to pray with me● in mine agony to say one Crede Some also called vpon him to praye in Engli●h to whom he answered that he would pray in a language that he wel vnderstood At the vpshot of this conflict he was willed to aske the queene forgeuenes and to praye for her He meekely answered wherein haue I offended her In this I am innocent this is my laste speache in this geue me credite I haue and do pray for her Then did the Lorde Charles Howard aske of him For which quéene he prayed whether for Elizabeth quéene To whom he answered Yea for Elizabeth your queene and my queene vnto whom I wish a long quiet raigne with all prosperity And so he meekely and sweetly yelded his soule vnto his Sauiour protesting that he dyed a perfect Catholike M. Campion hauing thus triumfed on the world the flesh the diuell and receiued his long desired crown M. Rodulph Sherwine a stoute wise discret and lerned Preist was brought vnto the cart a man so mortifi●d so febled with fasting watching and suche like spirituall exercise as was wonderful vnto suche who had conuersed with him before his imprisonment He standing vpon the carte with closed eyes with hand●s lifted vp to heauen in contemplation and prayer al men marking his demeinor with milde voyce first made this demaund Doth the people expect that I should speake Being answered of many and some of nobilitie yea yea with stoute courage and strong voyce saide Then first I thanke the omnipotent and most mercifull God the father for my creation my swéete and louing sauiour Christ Iesus for my redemption and the holy Ghoste for my sanctification three persons and one God After this thanks geuing vnto the holy and blessed trinity entring in discourse of his faith his condemnation and death was interrupted and stayed by Sir Frauncis Knowles and the sherifs saying You haue declared your faith we know it come to the poynt and confesse your treason disloyalty towardes your Prince Wherupon he constantly said I am innocent guiltles And being stil vrged answred I wil not belye my selfe for so should I condemne mine owne soule And although I haue confusion in this world yet I doubt not of my saluation in Christ Iesus in whom only I looke to be saued and in whose death passion and bloud I only trust and so made a sweete prayer to Iesus acknowledging the imperfection misery and sinfull wretchednes of his owne nature still protesting his innocency from al treason and traiterous practises and that his going out of this Realme beyonde the seas was onely for his soules health to lerne to saue his soule And being againe interrupted by Sir Frauncis Knowles said in this wise Tush tush you and I shal answere this before an other Iudge where my innocēcy shal be knowen you see that I am guiltles of this Wherevpon Sir Frauncis saide We knowe you are no contriuer or doer of this treason for you are no man of armes but you are a traytor by consequence O miserable consequence that hath depriued vs of so worthye members and is like to imbrue our country nation with much innocent bloud do not our Soueraigne and quéene deny the same so strangely inferred vpon no premisses and turne her Highnesse hande of indignation from many our afflicted brethren her hart to wonted mercy and clemencie towards her true loyal and naturall Catholike subiectes But to M Sherwine who boldly answered If to be a Catholike onely if to be a perfecte Catholike be to be a traytor then said he am I a traytor After which wordes being by authoritie debarred of further speach he sayd I forgeue al who either by general presumption or particuler error haue procured my death and so deuoutly prayed vnto Iesus after which prayer Be was vrged to speake his opinion touching the said bull of Pope Pius to which poynt he gaue no answere Then beeing willed to pray for the queenes Maiesty answered I haue and do At which wordes the Lords Howard againe asked which quéene he ment whether Elizabeth queene to whom somewhat smiling he sayd yea for Elizabeth queene I nowe at this instant pray my Lorde God to make her his seruant in this life and after this life coheir with Christ Iesus When he had prayed to God to make her his seruant there were which said openly that he ment to make her a Papist to whom he boldly replied Els God forbid And so collecting himself to prayer dyed paciently stoutly and mildly crying Iesus Iesus Iesus esto mihi Iesus Here I can not omit

for his eternall sacrifice and sacramentes who moue the hart of our noble Prince to tender her true and trustiest subiects afflicted Catholikes Amen God saue the Queene A caueat to the reader touching A M his discouery Anthony Munday or as it is not without some consideration thought that some macheuillian in mnndayes name hath shufled out of late a Discouery of M Campions his confederates treasons the same in effect substance with the aduertisment before rehearesed My self considering this neiwe hatched discouery to peepe out by sene alowed haue thought good in the conclusion of this reporte for the more credit of this his discours to aduertise the reader of the qualities and conditions of this davus so rayling aud rauing at uertuous and good men deseassed that there by he may the better Iudge and value the truthe of that neiwe pamphlet which hathe byn perused by no wurs man then by M Norton a supposed traytor in the towre and nowe deliuered ont by munday who first was a stage player no donbt a calling of some creditt after an aprentise which tyme he wel semed with deceauing of his master then wandring towardes Italy by his owne report became a coosener in his iourney Comming to Rome in his short abode there vvas charitably relieued but neuer admitted in the seminary as he pleseth to lye in the title of his booke and being wery of well doing returned home to his first vomite againe I omite to declare howe this scholler new come out of Italy did play extempore those gentlemen and others whiche were present can best giue witnes of his dexterity who being wery of his folly hissed him from his stage Then being therby discouraged he set forth a balet against playes but yet O constant youth he now beginnes againe to ruffle vpon the stage I omit among other places his behauior in Barbican with his good mistres and mother from whēce our superintendent might fetch him to his conrt were it not for loue I woulde saye slannder to their gospel Yet I thinke it not amiss to remember thee of this boyes infelicitie two seueral wayes of late notorious First he writing vpon the death of Euerard Haunse was immediatly controled and disproued by one of his owne hatche and shortely after seting forth the aprehension of M. Campion was disproued by George I was about to saye Iudas Eliot who writing against him proued that those thinges he did were for very lucers sake only and not for the truthe althogh he himself be a person of the same predicament of whom I muste say that if felony be honesti then he may for his behauiore be taken for a laweful witnes againste so good men al which considred I wishe the ●eder to think that the credit of this discourser at the time of their arraignment an accuser shuld be such as in euery indifferent mans iugement we know and see by experience the accusers report against the accused doth deserue Therfore good reader examine this mans honesti so reported snspend thy iugement against these good preists vntill by gods grace the whol maner course and order araignment accnsation condemnation and answeres shal come forth which is shortly intēded for thy benefite and satisfaction Vpon the death of M. Edmund Campion one of the societie of the holy name of Iesus WHy do I vse my paper inke and penne and call my wits to connsel what to say such memories were made for mortall men I speak of Saints whose names can not decay an Angels trumpe were fitter for to found their glorious death if such on earth wer found Pardon my want I offer nought but will their register remaineth safe aboue Campion exceedes the compasse of my skill yet let me vse the measure of my loue and giue me leaue in lowe and homeli v●rse his hye attempts in England to rehearse He came by vow the cause to conquer sinne his armour prayer the word his targe shield his cōfort heauen his spoyle our soules to win the diuel his foe the wicked world the field his triumph ioy his wage eternall blis his captaine Christ which euer blessed is From ease to paine from honour to disgrace from loue to hate to daunger being wel from safe abode to feares in euery place contemning death to saue our soules from hel our new Apostle comming to restore the faith which Austine planted here before His natures flowres were mirt with herbes of grace his mild behauior tempered wel with skil a lowly minde possest a learned place a sugred speach a rare and vertuous wil asaintlike man was set on earth below the seede of truth in e●ring hartes to sow With tung pen the truth he taught wrote byforce wherof they came to Christ apace but when it pleased God it was his lote he should be thrald he lent him so much grace his patience then did worke as much or more as had his heauenly speeches done before His fare was hard yet mild sweet his chéere his prison close yet frée and lose his minde his torture great yet small or none his feare his offers la●ge but nothing could him blinde O constant man O mind O vertue strange whom want nor wo nor feare nor hope coulde change Frō rack in Tower they broght him to dispute bookeles alone to answere al that came yet Christ gaue grace he did them all confute so sweetly there in glory of his name that euen the aduers part are forst to say that Campions cause did beare the bell away This foyle enragde the minds of some so farre they thought it best to take his life away because they saw he would their matter marre and leaue them shortly nought at al to say traytor he was with many a seely slight yet pact a Iury that cried guylti straight Religion there was treason to the quéene preaching of penance warre against the lande prests were such dangerous mē as haue not bin prayers beads were fight and force of hande cases of conscience bane vnto the state so blind is error so false a witnes hate And yet behold these lambes be drawen to dye treason proclaymed the quéene is put in feare out vpon satan fye malice fye speakst thou to them that did the guildles heare can humble soules departing now to Christ protest vntrue Auant foule fend thou lyst My soueraigne Liege behold your subiects end your secret foes do misenforme your grace who in your cause their holy liues would spend as traytors dye a rare and monstrous case the bloudy wolfe condemnes the harmles shepe before the dog y t whiles the sherherds slepe England looke vp thy soyle is staind with blood thou hast made martirs many of thine owne if thou hast grace their deaths will do thee good the seede will take which in such blood is sowne and Campions lerning fertile so before thus watered too must nedes of force be more Repent thée Eliot of thy Iudas kisse I wish thy