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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

¶ 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

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

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