This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...tua, with a triple invocation of St. John Baptist, who had previously more than once saved Campion when in similar straits. After the capture there followed a delay of three days at Lyford, before instructions were received from the Council to bring the prisoners, who included several laymen with the three priests, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 Excerpt: ...tua, with a triple invocation of St. John Baptist, who had previously more than once saved Campion when in similar straits. After the capture there followed a delay of three days at Lyford, before instructions were received from the Council to bring the prisoners, who included several laymen with the three priests, under strong escort to London. The party halted at Abingdon, where several Oxford scholars came to see the famous Campion; at Henley, where Campion recognized and saluted Persons' servant, whose master was concealed in the neighbourhood; and at Colebrook, where a number of Catholics and other gentry came to look at Campion, who managed to give such a turn to his conversation with the guard, that the Catholics could understand its secret import. From Colebrook to the Tower the prisoners were treated with great indignity; they were mounted with their faces to their horses' tails, their elbows pinioned, and their legs tied under the horse's belly. On Campion's hat was a large placard, Campion, the seditions Jesuit. Through all the insults and ridicule Campion's fortitude, cheerfulness, and courtesy never failed. On July the 22nd Campion entered the Tower, and was thrust by the Lieutenant, Sir Owen Hopton, into the "Little Ease." On the fourth day, July the 25th, he was conveyed secretly to an interview at which he met the Earls of Leicester and Bedford, two Secretaries of State, and also, it is said, the Queen herself. They told him they found no fault with him save that he was a Papist, and Elizabeth asked him if he regarded her as his true Sovereign, to which he replied, as at his trial, strongly in the affirmative. Of this examination there seems to be no official record extant. When back in the Tower, Hopton, at the instigation no doub...
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