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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

euery place of the Court and be in the presence of the Quéene euerie day Then woulde I fayne to giue some gifte vnto her and so on a suddaine giue her such a gifte as should dispatche her for euer styrring more Oh villainous woordes able to make a ●lintie heart to gush foorth aboundaunce of teares to thinke that such a mercifull Princesse should haue so mercilesse an enimie especiallie that any Subiecte should but imagine such a monstrous crueltie Then quoth I vnto him admitte God dyd suffer you to doo such an horrible déede what thinke you would become of you you could not escape away but you must perforce suffer the awarde of Lawe Tushe quoth he what care I for the vttermoste crueltie they would vse to me I that could accomplishe such a famous thing would neuer respect Rack Rope nor any torment For this I knowe that the Popes holynesse would in the remembraunce of me both giue foorth Indulgences and a notable benediction which should be called after my name as the benediction for the Quéene of Scottes is and those that were giuen for Stukely the Bishoppe of Corke Doctour Allen and diuers other Then when any shall haue of my Grana Crosses Medalles and Beades they wyll say these were blessed for such a one that dyd bring to passe in Englande what coulde not be done in many yéeres before then my Beades shall be prayed vpon more then any other Beside my Indulgences should be Plenaria for euer I shoulde haue remission of all my sinnes Masses continually sayd for me all my Coūtrey and fréends haue lybertie of theyr conscience then what is hee that woulde not aduenture the extreamest hazard of his lyfe to gayne s●ch a heauenly and blessed reward I perceyue quoth he to mee you haue but a slender staye of your Faith that would feare to doo such a good déede for your Coūtrey where through your same would be registred for euer bothe in our Martirilogium as diuers of our Countrey are and also through the whole world A great deale more talke they had so trayterous and horrible that no godlie and vertuous minded can suffer to heare it So when wée came to the Seminarie againe because I had béene there but a whyle the same partie brought me theyr Martirilogium wherein hee read to me the execution of the two Nortons the death of Doctour Storie and the Martyrdome of Iohn Felton and other altogeather Imprinted in a great Booke of theyr Sayntes and Martyrs The least report of these traytours which they had there Canonized for Martyres of theyr Churche contayned 〈◊〉 or eyght shéetes in Folio 〈◊〉 of a verie small Letter but in no poynt true because I knewe my selfe the contrarie for that before I went ouer I sawe the execution of them all There were diuers other of their Martirs the discourses of their liues and deathes reserued there to be imprinted in the same Booke as of Barlowe Madder Wilkinson the Iaylor of Yorke Sherwood and Nelson sometime Sexton of the English Church in Roome all these executed at Tiborne for high Treason and there estéemed for their Martires William Filbie at the Barre would chalēge me that there was no such Booke there when I am sure not one of the other will attempt to deny it if they should they be héere in the Cittie that are able to disprooue them A number of such like trayterous spéeches and practises which on my owne knowledge I am able to report but to auoyde tediousnes as also not to offend any chaste and discréete minde I let them passe in silence desiring pardon for that which I haue alreadie set downe And now you may perceyue what affection these fellowes afforde theyr lawfull Quéene and Countrey well is he that can imagine most against her Maiestie and highlie is he estéemed that beareth the most trayterous hart to her Yet Maister Campion and the rest of his fellowes they pleade ignorance in all these causes they bolster vp one another with large protestations rayling woordes and subtyll surmises affyrming that they were not sent hyther for any such intent which is as vntrue as we knowe it for trueth that the Lord God lyueth in Heauen For this I am able to saye my selfe that both then and at diuers other tymes it was whispered among them in the Seminarie that shortlie there shoulde bée Préestes appointed for England to winne the people against the appoynted tyme when as a great Armie shoulde be ready to ioyne with them and Maister Campion who was then at Praga in Bohemia hee was spoken off amongst them all to be a rare and singuler fellowe and therefore generallie was taken for a méete man to bée sent about such a Message so that they iudged that he should be sent for to be a cheefe man in this matter Well sayth Maister Campion it maye be they had such an oppinion of me which in my selfe I finde not to be deserued and it maye be that I was appointed to be sent into Englande according as those other Préestes were for the sauing of Soules and benefite of my Countreye must it followe then that wée are sent to practise the death of the Quéene and to séeke the ruine of our Countrey Alas this is a harde case and I desyre you of the Iewrie to marke it for these are but shadowes without any substaunce This you are to note that we which enter into that blessed societie of the Iesuites we doo as it were forsake the worlde vowing our selues to chastitie and sinceritie of conscience to obeye our Superiours and to be ready to goe whether they shall appoint vs. If they send vs to the Indiaes or to any such places where the people haue not the true Catholique Faith we are bound by duetie in Conscience to goe whether they appoint vs. And shall it then be sayde that wée come for the destruction of the Prince and Countreye where wee settle our selues Alas that were a harde case for Christian charitie wylleth vs to comfort one an other and if we can to gette the Shéepe into the Folde which hath long runne a straye And when we heare confession we doo not perswade them to any disobedience for that is against the nature of Confession God forbyd that wée should once thinke any such thing Beholde the subtyll shifts that he found out still to flie vnto yea though the manifest disproofe laye before them yet would he finde some cauill or other for not onely the euidence of their generall determination beyonde the Seas was showen them but also the trayterous Articles were there read vnto them which Iohn Hart had coppyed out for Doctour Allen concerning the procéeding of these trayterous causes and for which hee went purposelie to Roome to confer with the Pope about and subscribed vnto that they were certayne and true as also theyr owne confessions and writings were layde open before them approouing them notablie guiltie of the matters