any such promise But that he may learne an other time to order his matters with more trueth discretion I wil set down bothe how I wēt with what commission and to what intent then let him haue iudgemēt according to the credit of his woorke When I had reuealed the traiterous spéeches of Payne the Préeste how and after what māner you may reade in the Booke before expressed I was demaunded if I knew where hee was at that time I could not make any certayne answere wherefore I was demaunded againe if I would doo my endeuoure to search him out whereto according to my bounden dutie I agréede right willinglie Then was I appointed in company with Dauid Ienkins one of the Messengers of her Maiesties Chamber and to vs was deliuered a warrant to take and apprehend not any one man but all Préestes Iesuites and such like seditious persons as in our iourney we should méete with all neither was Campion Paine or any one man named in the warrant for that as the one was iudged harde to be found so was it vncertaine where to finde him I knew well enough Wherefore remembring when I serued Maister Roper that there was one Thomas Cooper a Cooke who serued him likewise and also knew the aforesayde Paine to him I thought good to go because I had vnderstanding that he dwelt at Liuarde in Barkeshire with one Maister Yates who was a very earnest Papist and gaue great entertainement to all of that sect thinking as it might so fall out that we eyther might finde the sayd Paine there or els vnderstand where he was And considering the generalitie of our warrant some other Préestes might chaunce to be there in respect he was such an Hoste for all of that disposition When we came to Liuard and had talked with this aforesayd Thomas Cooper we were framing our selues to depart thence not hauing béene within the house at all but he desiring vs to staye Dinner we alighted and went in with him he not telling me that Campion was there with his Maister for he was then in the Iayle at Reading or any other Preeste though it hath pleased our namelesse Author to write so When we were within the house this Cooper brought vs into the Buttery where he whispering me in the eare demaunded if my fellow were within the Church or no as much to say as whether he was a Papist or no I aunswered he was not yet neuerthelesse quoth I he is a very honest mā and one that wisheth well that way Then sayde the Cooke will you goe vp Héereby I vnderstood that he would bring me to a Masse whereto I consenting leauing Dauid Ienkins in the Butterie he brought me vp where after one Satwell alias Foord had sayde Masse Campion prepared himselfe to say Masse And there was the first time that euer I saw Campion in all my life not hauing heard by any that he was ther in the house before I was brought vp into the Chamber As concerning how he was taken how he was brought vp to London and how all thinges passed in that seruice I haue already set downe in my booke imprinted which conferring with his false reporte you shall finde it as much to differ as trueth dooth from falshood This haue I thought good héere to set downe in the reproofe of him who hath published such a manifest vntrueth and as concerning what I haue reported to be spoken by Payne I am ready at all times to iustifye it with my death that they are his woordes according as he spake them By me George Eliot THus may you sée how apparant these vntruethes are which he and his sect take for their infallible ground woorke comparing the one with the other you shall hardly finde him to say trueth in any place but euen according to his owne profession béeing gouerned by lyes and vniust actions wherein he is growne so prompte and headstrong that he must néedes shewe it accordingly els he should estraunge himselfe from the ordinary course of their nature but now againe to our Historie He sayth that after Campion was brought to the Tower he was hardly entertayned bothe for lodging and victualles I néede not héere to laye open how and after what manner all prisoners that come there are entertayned for euery one well dooth know how bountifully liberally and truely they are serued béeing the Quéenes Maiesties Prisoners which many a poore man would be highly contented to fare in the order as they doo But in déede hee kéepeth order very well to make as many lyes as lynes his Booke will be the better estéemed of them that delight therein Now as concerning the time of his imprisonment his Disputations and other matters Whereat he sayth he thanketh God he was present himselfe such a one hath taken those matters in hand that when they come foorthe you shall sée our Historian made the perfect Anotamye of all vntrueth mallice and egregious slaunders After what manner hee hath behaued himself to Maister Nowell the Deane of Paules Maister Doctor Day and Maister Whitakers Who sayth he hath put foorth a Booke in answere to the Booke made by the Father Campion but any man may see saith he with what ignorance and impudencie Indéede ignoraunce hath so peruersely blinded them that either they cannot or will not sée the learning modestie and grauitie handled in that skilfull Booke for trueth whereof I appeale to all the learned Diuines in England who very well know that I reporte no otherwise then trueth is my warrant After he hath showen some part of his accustomed vntruethes in opening part of the Disputations he commeth to reporte whereof they were endicted As cōspiring the death of the Queens Maiestie ouerthrowe of the Realme of England prouoking forraine Princes to ioine therein and perswading the people of Englande vnto manifest Rebellion all these beeing fables and no trueth saith he not able to be prooued any way albeit they were garnished with sundrye false witnesses who were corrupted and bribed onely for that purpose I take God to my witnesse that neither I receyued bribe nor any manner of corrupting in the worlde or any premise of my preferment any way but onely what I sayd and did long before that time when I was brought to my examination without demaūd of any such matter promise bribe or corruption I declared that which was nothing but the méere trueth as diuers at my first comming ouer can witnesse that what I tolde them of treasons pretended and conspired against her Maiestie and the Realme I reported at the Araignement and haue set downe in my Booke the very same which as I knowe to be true and many other not to be publiquely named so will I stande in maintenaunce thereof to the death and in the death for the sauegarde of my Princesse whom I pray God long to continue in honor and benefit of my Country which I pray God to blesse continually from all attempts
Brian was manifestly founde to be present at the trayterous Sermon which Iohn Hart made at Rheimes as an especiall encouragement to them all there sitting in audience to great disobediēce and hate of their Princesse and Countrey the sayd Alexander offered denial therof which notwithstanding Charles Sled defended truly to his face Whervpon this William Nicholson standing by amōg the people would take vppon him to affirme that Brian was not at y e sayd Sermon graunting him selfe to be present there then béeing euidentlie disprooued of his bolde attempt the treason of Brian appearing so manifest he was committed to prison according as rightly he had deserued He neither offered woorde on the behalfe of Foord either to defend his innocency or appeach his guiltines but euen as I haue set you downe so it was and no otherwise As for the determination of the Pope to replenish his Seminaries with such aboūdance of Schollers as he can cōueniently attaine vnto It is largely hādled in my other Booke to his shame all such as follow his humour in so traiterous perswasions Neuerthelesse this Sophister would smooth the matter after an other manner as that The Pope dooth it for meere looue and pittie to our Countrey to encrease such as shal profite in his seruice and to ayde the Church sayeth he which is so afflicted I would wishe him to kéepe that looue and pittie to him selfe for any good Subiect loatheth to heare a motion which maye offer disobedience to their Prince and Countrey and therfore loatheth him who offereth them such vnchristianlike seruice And héere I must not forget to answer his deepe iudgement as concerning Alexander Brian and the Crosse made of a peece of a Trencher which he had in his hande at the Arraignement which this fellowe sayth To be a great Crosse and that Maister Brian as Auncient bearer bare it there in the behalfe of them all vntyll sayth he he was corrected for it and because he woulde not laye it away a naughtie man by force tooke it from him to whome Brian sayde Thou hast taken from me my Image neuerthelesse I wyll fight vnder the Standarde thereof to the death Oh most impudent and shamelesse woordes it is so well knowne to be be vntrue that is héere rehearsed as I néede not to waste tyme in so vaine a matter For when he was reprooued for his shauen crowne and that stubbornlie and obstinatlie hee made aunswer He had good hope to doo it againe The Crosse was taken from him with so swéete a rebuke for such an idolatrous spectacle as if he had had any grace in him woulde haue constrayned him to be hartilie sorie for his follie And neither spake he the woordes héere falselie imputed to him or any matter to that intent onelie these woordes which haue béene rehearsed he spake verie scornefullie and without any showe of wisedome or modestie And because I wyll not be ouer tedious to the fréendlie Readers the vntruethes by him auouched at their execution I wyll bréestlie touche in rehearsall of the other Booke which is imprinted in Englishe as concerning the same matter shortlie knitting vp this slaunderous Libell to be as you maye perceyue by the confutation thereof the wryter thereof to be shamelesse in his shame one of the right broode as they all are of and his Booke equall with him in any euyll condition so that as the Trée is such is his fruite and as the wrighter is suche are his woorkes In the ende hée knitteth vp his Booke with a breefe reporte intituled The martirdome of Euerard Haunce an English Preest in An. 1581. And nowe you shall heare what most impiously he alledgeth on his behalf which is as followeth Euerard Haunce beeing a Minister of the Heretiques and a benefactour in England beeing in a verie greenous agony of sicknesse as it were neere to the death fell in a sound wherein he remained so long that his freendes altogeather reputed him for dead During the tyme he was in this traunce he seemed in a vision to see the infernall pit of hell and the Soules which were there tormented bothe night and daye with intollerable and greeuous paines yea the Soules of his freendes and most familliars which he verie well knewe in their lyfe time But that which is most straunge he sawe there the places assygned for some other of his freendes who were as then lyuing in the world and in sound and good estate of their health After this vision beeing come againe to him selfe he called for a Catholique Preest who beeing come vnto him how be it his Kinsfolkes were against it greatly as well for his Religiō as for loosing his benefice which was woorth much with great sorrowe repentaunce of his former lyfe he made his confessiō to the Preest wholy renounced his benefice embracing the Catholique faith It so chaunced that he forsooke his Coūtrey admonishing those verie earnestly whose places he had seene prepared for them in hell to amende their liues which they refusing to do dyed within short space after and wēt to hell to their places Then went he to Rheimes in Champaigne for to study Diuinitie where hauing stayed about two yeares and made Preest he felt a great zeale in him selfe to returne into his Countrey where not long since he was taken condemned to death and beeing executed he was ript vp and quartered and as his heart was throwen into the fire it leaped foorth againe three seuerall tymes This is one of our Historians faithfull reportes carrying as great credite as all the other doo these are the myracles of theyr Church whereof in my Englishe Romaine lyfe I wyll rehearse diuers of like aucthority and allowaunce which albeit they wyll vrge many to woonder and meruaile yet shall they be set downe in no other order then as them selues haue reported them and my self haue séen As for Euerard Haunce what he was how he lyued and how he dyed is already so largelie set downe in print that it were but double labour to rip it vp againe Traytour he was to her Maiestie and the Realme and so lyke a Traytour he ended his lyfe as all the rest of them shall I hope except God turne their heartes as I praye hartily he maye that they maye sée their horrible abuses and be hartilie for their haynous offences ¶ An Aunswer vnto an other seditious Pamphlet printed in Englishe and named A true report of the death and Martirdome of Maister Campion Iesuite and Preest Maister Sherwin and Master Brian Preests at Tiborne the .1 of Decemb. 1581. Obserued and written by a Catholique Preest who was present thereat TO rippe vp all the circumstances contayned in this Booke as the whole course thereof is Trayterous false and no trueth at all in it so would it séeme yrksome to any modest eare to abyde the rehearsall of such vnreuerent matter Yet neuerthelesse I wyl bréeflie touche some pointes thereof whereby
deserue them yet that thou wilt not enter into iudgement against me before thou be resolued what I am as also what they are that mooue the slaunders for I know that I am otherwise reported of then I haue deserued or they can prooue For it is the whole felicitye of the aduersarye seeing hee can no way preuayle in his mischeeuous intents to rayse vp slaunders and infamous speeches that way to discredit those whom other wayes they are not able to iniurie Beholde their dealings and be warned by them feare God honour thy Princesse looue those that wish thy welfare and in all causes commend thy selfe to the heauenly protection From Barbican this 22. of March 1582. Thine to commaund Antony Munday ¶ An Aunswer made vnto two seditious Pamphlets the one printed in French the other in English containing a defence of Edmund Campion and his Complices NOt long after I had published my Booke called The Discouerie of Campion there came vnto my hands a seditious Pamphlet printed in the French tongue intituled The Historie of the death which the reuerend Father M. Edmund Campion Preest of the Societie of the name of Iesus and others haue suffered in England for the Catholique Roomish religion or faith the 1. of December 1581. adding vnderneathe Translated out of English into French When I had thorowly perused this Booke nothing the traiterous effects and slaunderous speeches therein contayned receiuing the iudgement likewise of diuers learned and godly men aswell to correct the manifest vntruethes wherewith this Pamphlet is notably stuffed as also that the godly and vertuous may discerne theyr apparant impudencie and wicked nature I resolued my selfe to shape a bréefe aunswer to such a shamelesse Libel my self béeing therin vntruely and malliciously abused First our namelesse Historiographer because hee would ayme his course after some od manner of conueyaunce taketh occasion to begin his Booke with the taking of Campion his bringing to the Tower what happened in his time of staye there and lastly his martirdome as he termeth it with two other holy and deuoute Préestes and in this manner continuing his vnaduised laboure he beginneth as héereafter followeth GEorge Eliot sometime seruaunt to Maister Thomas Roper and sitheÌ„ce belonging to a Gentlewoman the Widdow of Sir VVilliam Peters in whose seruice he made showe to be a sound and good Catholique not long since committed a murder as men say for which offence fearing the daunger that was like to ensue he went and submitted him selfe to one of the cheefe Lordes in the Court and the better to win his fauoure on his owne behalfe promised to deliuer into his handes the Father Edmund Campion This promise sayth he was receiued and vnto the sayde George and an Officer was deliuered commission to take and apprehend the said Edmund Campion Then went they on their way and comming into Barkeshire to house of one Maister Yates George Eliot met with the Cooke of the house with whom he was very well acquainted because they had before bothe serued one Maister The Cooke thinking no ill began to tell him many thinges and that Father Campion was in the house with his Maister vpon which reporte George sent his fellow to the Iustice who was a very great Caluinist and hee in meane while was brought into the house by the sayd Cooke where like an other Iudas Traitour and disloyall he first attended the Sacrifice of the Masse which was celebrated that day by the Father Edmund as also a Sermon which he made in which time behold a goodman came running willing them to take heede of a present treason Scantly was all carryed away that had serued for the Masse and the Sermon but the Iustice was there arriued with very great force besetting the house round about that none should escape away After very dilligent search through all the ChaÌ„bers and other more secret places they were determined to returne as not finding any thing vntill they were aduertised either by George who had vnderstood it of the Cooke or by some other of a certain corner more darke and subtill where they found the Father Edmund and two other Preests hidden who the same day with Gentlemen and other persons were sent vp to London a spectacle of great ioye vnto their aduersaries Thus much of our Frenche Historians woords I thought good in this place to set downe because the disproofe thereto annexed may discouer what trueth all they of his sect frequent in any of their actions This aforenamed George Eliot came home vnto my lodging where I shewed him the slaunders that were vsed of him in the French Booke whereupon taking good aduise and noting the circumstances that so highly touched him vpon his conscience he deliuereth this vnreprooueable aunswer ¶ George Eliot his aunswer to cleere himselfe of the former vntrue obections ABout three yeeres since it was my fortune to serue Maister Thomas Roper of Kent with whom I had not stayed past eleuen wéekes but Payne the Préest of whom mention is made in the Discouerie of Campion set foorth by the Author of this Booke entised me from thence to serue my Lady Peters to whom the sayd Paine serued craftily as Steward of her house With her I continued almoste two yeares in which time béeing my selfe bent somewhat to that religion frequenting the company of a number of Papists I perceiued their dealings to be as they are indéede full of wicked treasons and vnnaturall dispositions too bad to be named The conceyt whereof examining first my dutie to God neâ—t my looue to my Princesse and last the care of my Countrey by the grace and permission of God offered me so great disliking of their dealings that so warily and conueniently as I might I weaned my affection from their abhominable infection neuerthelesse vsing their companyes still for that it gaue me the better occasion to sée into the depth of their horrible inuentions From my Lady Peters in NoueÌ„ber was twelue moneth by intreatie I came to Maister Ropers againe with whom I continued till Whitsontide last wheÌ„ my conscience hardly digesting such a waightie burden as with their deuises and practises it was very sore loden I was constrayned to giue ouer that slauish kinde of life and humbly committed my reconciliation to the right Honorable and my good Lord the Earle of Leicester to whom I made knowne the gréeuous estate of my life which for the space of foure yéeres I had endured amongst them Now whereas it hath pleased my aduersarie to set downe that I committed a murder to auoyde the daunger of Lawe offered to the aforesaid my good Lord to deliuer vnto him Edmund Campion thereby to obtaine my pardon How vntrue this is his honour very well knoweth and so do a number more besyde for in trueth I neyther as then knew Campion had neuer séen him in all my life nor knew wher or in what place he was it is very vnlike then I should make
may be coniectured what all the restis a fardell of follie aptlie figuring bothe him that writ it they who are defended in it and them all that are of that sect and opinion First he findeth him selfe agreeued That Maister Campion should be reported at the tyme of his death tymerous fearefull as also that Sherwin is sayde to shewe more humilitie and discretion and therefore sayeth he dyed a Protestant I will appeale to the right Honorable Woorshipfull that were there present and also to Maister Hearne the other godly Preachers who in offering him comfortable doctrine to strengthen him and establish his faith according as they heartilie desired perceiued him to be very fearfull wauering as it seemed would haue opened something but that this affliction of his minde would not suffer him This is he who was reputed For the flower of Oxensoorde whyle he studied there and since abroade in other forraine Countreyes by whome our Countrey hath gotten great honour the fruites of his learning vertue rare gifts were in him so admirable and wunderfull bothe heere at home and abroade in Italie Germanie and Bohemia an honour to our Countrey a Glasse and mirrour a lyght and lanterne a patterne and example to youth age learned vnlearned religious and the laytie of all sortes state and condition for modestie grauitie eloquence knowledge vertue and pietie Is it not meruaylous to heare the impudencie of this shamelesse Reporter howe according to our French Historian he maketh him selfe the Image of all vntrueth You shall heare Campion his owne confession to those of woorship in this Cittie during the tyme he was in the Tower and then let this large style blazed of him be receyued into iudgement accordinglie He confesseth that he neuer passed farder in Diuinitie then Canisius dictates whose writing is verie well known to our learned Diuines héere in England according as he writ he followed in study so that if he writ false then he followed false if he sayde true then he was in the truth which of these he could not make aunswere which was most certaine This was déepe learning and high knowledge for him to make so prowde a Challenge as he dyd and for this Reporter to write so arrogantly as he dooth inferring such modestie grauitie eloquence knowledge and vertue on him who was nothing acquainted with such singuler giftes Besides this Campion lykewise confessed him selfe that when he was at Praga beyonde the Seas he had lyttle or no helpes at all to imploye his studie which is some reason that he could not be so profounde so present and so well lettered as this gallant gloser fayneth him to be For at verie sildome tymes he had any Bookes to guide him and into such necessitie he was driuen teaching there two Gentlemens sonnes in the Latin tongue as when he had paper he had neither pennes nor inke and when he had inke eyther he wanted pennes or paper so that euer he was without some néedefull thing that should haue holpen him euerie way All these thinges considered maye mooue the simplest body to vnderstād he coulde not be such a fellowe as he was takē for of some This béeing vnderstoode well perceyued by many bothe woorshipfull learned and wise who had conference with him caused them to estéeme of him according and to make reporte of his learning as they found it Which hath made this Reporter vnreuerently and without modestie to reprooue my Lord Bishop of London who sayde of Campions learning as before is expressed which this fellowe ridiculouslie applieth to follie neither giuing him his calling of Honour nor shewing him the reuerence he ought to doo but according to the nature of them all plainlie sheweth his venemous heart And there lykewise he scorneth at Maister Whitakers Booke mislyking my Lords iudgement thereof promising an aunswer thereto as also to publish the disputations in the Tower to the honour of Campion I wyll not gainesay but they may as wel shuffle foorth a shamelesse reporte on theyr owne parte concerning the sayde disputations as they haue this trayterous Libell but when it commeth I trust it shall not passe without the iudgement of those who wil aunswer them to any thing I will omit sayth our Reporter though it be much materiall Campion his vsage in his tyme of imprisonment his constancie and patience his fiue dayes fast from temporall and bodilie sustenaunce his two nightes abstinence from ordinarie sleepe and rest and the time he bestowed in meditation prayer This to be false and vntrue they that can tel haue auouched it wishing all men to estéeme it as an horrible and detestable vntrueth Comparing the māner of the executiō the English with the French I finde them so different the one from the other and bothe of them so far from trueth as I accoūpt it a waste labour to bestowe time in setting thē downe For bothe of them make these Traitors To be so milde patient vertuous as though neuer their like was seen wherfore the bréefe and true manner therof which I my self haue published in my former book shall aunswer all the errors made by them As for the course of rayling he taketh against those of woorship learning and iudgement I will aunswer with the Euangelist Blessed are you when men shal curse you speake all euill against you and make lyes of you for my sake be you glad and reioyce because your reward is the greater in the kingdome of heauen for so haue they dealt with the Prophetes that were before you Now where he saith What charity was it to put pinnes vnder the nailes of Alexander Brian and for his corporall sustenaunce he was driuen to lycke the moysture of the walles It is as all the rest are a most deuillishe and malicious report and that Sir Owen Hopton will affirme with many more who sayeth it to be as false as it is true that God lyueth in heauen But then let me aske him what charity is it for them so vnmercifully to torment the members of Christes body as they doo daylie some tormented three dayes and three nightes together in the Strapado some hanged vp naked by the armes and pricked to death with sharpe Canes others dismembred gréeuouslie and a number persecuted with excéeding tiranny A spectacle of their charitable dealinges shall shortly come foorth in my other Booke howe cruelly they tormented an Englishe man to the death at Roome onelie for his faith and spotlesse Christianitie Then you shall beholde their looue and charitie which forced their owne Doctors into a troubled and vexed conscience beholding the patience triumphing and great ioy this faithful persecuted Martir made bothe at his death and continuing the whole tyme of theyr horrible tormentes He concludeth his Lybell saying God saue the Queene thinking therby to shaddowe his villainous and trayterous heart No no we knowe that all that say Lord Lord shall not enter into the
so His triumphe Englands ruine and decay The Pope his Captaine thirsting for it aye From ease to paine from honour to disgrace From looue to hate to daunger béeing well Thus dyd he fall flying his natiue place and Countrey where by duty he should dwell Our no Apostle comming to restore The bloody sway was sometime héere before His natures flowers were mixt with hūny gall His lewd behauiour enimie to skill A climing minde reiecting wisedomes call A sugred tongue to shrowde a vicious will A Saintlyke face yet such a deuillish hart As sparde no trauaile for his coūtries smart With tongue and pen the trueth he did suppres Stopping the way that Christians did desire Which pleased God for his great wickednes To stay his race wherein he dyd aspire Then his behauiour witnessed the more What he was then as also long before His fare was good yet he a scornefull cheare His prison fayre yet he a froward minde His councell good yet deafned was his eare Perswasions large he obstinate and blinde Oh stubborne mā oh minde nature straūge Whome wisdom pittie grace nor looue could chaunge After great pause they brought him to dispute With Bookes as many as he could demaund His chéefest cause they quickly did confute His proofe layd downe reprooued out of hand So that the simplest present there could say That Campions cause did beare the shame away After his foyles so often to his face It was thought good Iustice his déedes should trie Upon appearaunce of so fowle a case Nature her selfe wild doome deseruedlie Traitour he was by prooues sufficient foūd The Iewrie sawe his Treasons so abound Her Maiestie to be depriu'd of lyfe A forraine power to enter in our Land Secrete rebellion must at home be rife Seducing Préests receiu'd that charge in hād All this was cloaked with Religious showe But Iustice tried and found it was not so Then rightfull doome bequeathed them to dye Whose treasons put her Maiestie in feare Out on the fiend whose mallice wrought so slie Hath wun a number part with him to beare But thinketh he his enuie can preuaile No little Dauid did the Giaunt quaile My gratious Princesse sée your Subiects mone Such secret foes among them should be found Who serue your Grace in duety euery one though treasō séek to make their harts vnsoūd The bloody woolf prayes on y e harmles shéepe So treason séekes in loyall harts to créepe England looke vp thy Children doo rebell Unreuerent actes haue entred in their minde The subiect séekes his rightfull Prince to quell Yea to his natiue Countrey prooues vnkinde Campiō who somtime y u didst swéetly sourse Prepares his venome to destroy his Nourse Eliot reioyce that God prolonged thée To take the man who meant vs all such yll As for thy slaunders take them patiently Enuie drawes blood and yet hée can not kyll Those who by words he séemde to put in feare Haue washt their hāds in iudgement soūd and cleare My selfe as witnesse Sled and all the rest who had their treasons noted in our Booke Account our selues of God most highly blest who gaue vs grace to such attempts to looke And hauing giuen our witnes sound plaine We feare not mallice nor his spightful train The well aduised Iewrie on this cause Who with discretion pondred euerie thing Behelde their treasons with such héedfull pause That they foūd out the depth of Enuies sting Whereby they saw the stirrers of this strife Were farre vnwoorthy any longer life Yea Elderton dooth deskant in his rime The high offences of such gracelesse men Which causeth him to yrke at euerie crime And gainst their treasons to prouide his pen. Yet not without wisedome and modestie To warne all other that liue wickedlie Remember you that would oppresse the cause Our Church is Christes his honour cānot die Though hell him selfe reuest his griefly iawes And ioyne in league with treason poperie Though craft deuise and cruel rage oppresse Christe will his chosen styll in safetie blesse You thought perhaps presūptious Cāpiō could disseuer those whom Christ hath ioynd in one And that our gratious louing shéepheard would Before the woolfe forsake his flock alone No he preserues his Shéepe for greater good And drownes y e rauener in his enuious blood We knowe that Campion liuing did intreate The Subiect from his vowde humilitie Nowe therefore shame his dealings dooth repeate Throughout the world to his great infamie The skies thēselues with lowring angry face Adiudge his déedes woorthy of all disgrace All Europe woonders at this shamelesse man England is fild with rumor of his race London must néedes for it was present than whē Iustice did thrée Traiterous minds deface The stréets y e stones y e steps they halde thē by Pronounst these Traitours woorthy for to die The Tower sayeth he Treason did defend The Barre beares witnesse of his guilty minde Tiborne dooth tell he made a Traitours ende On euery gate example we may finde In vaine they work to laude him w t such fame For heauen earth beares witnes of his shame The rightful sentence giuen of him héere Will charge his conscience in the time to come Although they say he is excused there And shall not taste Gods iudgemēt his doome Saint Paul dooth say in reuerence of y e highest We all shall come before the seate of Christ. There to make aunswer vnto euerie thing And to receyue reward accordinglie If well the Cittie of our heauenlie king Shall recompence our former miserie Where we with Angels voice continuallie Shall laude the gaine we haue so happilie Then blinded mallice shall perceyue and sée His owne deuises Author of his rueth And how true Subiects haue felicitie In recompence of their assured trueth The one condemnd for his disloyaltie The other crownd for his fidelitie Can Treason then preuent our happy peace Or blustring winds assayle our sprouting Trée No soueraine Faith sends down her due encrease And shroudes her Plant in swéete tranquilitie So that the foe presuming on his might Is forste to know Faith can preuent him quite Let vs not feare a mortall Tirant then Séeing Faith Trueth dooth eleuate our harts God hath reserued one to conquer ten Let vs then learne to play true Christiās parts The head of him that sought our Coūtries wo Dooth witnesse shame to all that seeke it so His youth dooth byd vs bannish filthy pride his fleeting hēce to serue our Prince in trueth His lew◠profession dooth lay open wide To fall from God how gréeuous is the rueth His home returne his Challenge deface Saith Subiects keep true harts in euery place His Hardle drawes his sect vnto like ende His spéeches there vnfolde their tretcherie His death dooth say Who so his life dooth spēd In faith and trueth reapes ioy eternallie His first and last and all agrée in one Ther's none to helpe vs but our God alone Blessed be God who cut him off so soone Thāked be Christ which blest his
with forraine Princes might Would vse our England as him pleasde and put our Queene from right Howe that these men were sent before by his perswasion To make all ready gainst the tyme of his inuasion So that destruction suddenlie should come vpon vs all Those onely sau'd had holie Graynes or could the watch woord call All this did Iustice playne discerne with many matters more Where through they had the iust desart that they deseru'd therefore God saue Elizabeth our Quéene God sende her happie raigne And after earthlie Honours héere the heauenlie ioyes to gaine And all that séeke her secrete harme or to annoy her Grace God turne their hearts or that they may enioy but lyttle space Anthony Munday FINIS Honos alit Artes. Not for their religion but for high treason The manner of the afâ—resayde trayâ—erous Booke To buylde vpon heare say prooueth but a slender foundation His Maister was then in the Iayle at Reading iudge then howe Campion could be within with his Mâ—â—ster By that which followeth written by George Eliot him selfe consider of the trueth of this report Who frequenteth their company shall finde all their dealings disloyall and trayterous It is very vnlike that he which neuer sawe Campion in all his life nor knew where he was could make any promise to bring him foorth I sawe the warrant my selfe and neither was Campion Payne or any one named therin but all Preestes Iesuits and such seditious persons A holy kinde of Church whereof the Deuill is Uicar The father of lyes hath made his Children so prompt in his Art that they cannot chuse but make knowledge thereof These horrible treasons which were manifestly prooued to their faces are but fables and lyes sayth he All good Subiectes will say as much as I doo but as for such as will not God cut them off or turne their harts Heere he describeth him selfe and all chose of his sect and condityon 1. Cor. 1. If he had applyed this vnto themselues he had spoken but trueth for they had the fowle ouerthwart euerie way It is their cheefest glorie to reuile and slauÌ„der but therein they aptly shewe themselues The true construction of the former woordes vttred so highlie on the behalfe of Campion A notable vntrueth made on our secrete Authors fyngers endes This is so well known to be false that it scant deserueth any aunswere at all A manifest vntrueth as the reproofe thereof succeeding doth euidentlye declare VVilliam Nicholson his presumptioÌ„ to defend a Craitours cause at the barre wherby he brought him selfe into y e same pâ—edicament I would the Pope would keepe his meere looue to him selfe for we might very well be without it A meete Auncient bearer for such an Idolatrous and superstitious thing Of him that accustometh him selfe in lyes it is verie harde to heare any trueth A verie straunge vision Too straunge to be true Note this This is as true as all the rest is Learning enough in so small a time to be a Preest A notable lye In my English Romaine lyfe you shall reade many of theyr wunderfull miracles Bothe the right honorable and woorshipful with y e great number of people that were there present can witnesse the fearfulnesse and timeriousnesse of Campion Our reporter maketh Campion a wunder to the world in rehearsing those giftes which were neuer in him Campions owne woordes to those of woorship whyle hee was in the Tower Campions estate beeing beyond the Seas whiche if euerie one consider with iudgement they shall well perceyue his glorious reportes to be but fables This Reporter behaueth him selfe vnreuerently to my Lord bishop of London mislyking his iudgement on Campions learning and Master Whitakers Booke A notable lye on the behalfe of Campion Math. 5. An other manifest vntrueth applied on the behalfe of Alexander Brian The maÌ„ner of the Papists charitie to Christes members In my booke which shall shortly come foorth you shall reade the cruelty lately vsed to an English maÌ„ at Roome for the christian faith I would they all bare as true hartes to her Maiestie as he dooth I was not called by the name of Anthony Munday but by an other name which they set downe in their Table A verie trayterous Booke secretly imprinted and made by a Catholique preest They that haÌ„dle pitch will be defiled therewith