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  Speaker 1: Recording by Elaine Conway, England. Blessed Edmund Campion by Louise
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  Speaker 1: Immergen Gwinney, Chapter twelve, The Thick of the Fray fifteen
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  Speaker 1: eighty one. Campion, in between the working of the rollers,
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  Speaker 1: was asked his opinion of certain political utterances in the
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  Speaker 1: works of his old friends Allan and Bristow, and of
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  Speaker 1: Dr Sander. Also whether he considered the Queen true and
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  Speaker 1: lawful or pretense and deprived. He refused to answer. Physical
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  Speaker 1: anguish could be little worse than the ineffable boredom of
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  Speaker 1: these two never quiet questions. He was then asked by
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  Speaker 1: the Government wher, the rack Master and others present, by
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  Speaker 1: whose command and counsel he had returned to England, by
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  Speaker 1: whom in England he had been received and befriended, in
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  Speaker 1: whose houses he had said mass, heard confessions and reconciled persons,
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  Speaker 1: to his church, where his recent book was printed, and
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  Speaker 1: to whom copies were given. Lastly, what was his opinion
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  Speaker 1: of the bull of Pious the fifth against Queen Elizabeth
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  Speaker 1: a letter written at the time to items in the
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  Speaker 1: above category. Houses were searched, persons of mark were apprehended,
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  Speaker 1: tried in the star Chamber, and sentenced. Almost every month's
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  Speaker 1: or town house where Campion had been hobbored became known,
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  Speaker 1: and even the names of those Oxford masters of arts
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  Speaker 1: who had followed him to Lyford. The government gave out
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  Speaker 1: that he had confessed upon the rack and implicated his
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  Speaker 1: two trusting friends. The alleged facts naturally became a general
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  Speaker 1: scandal and bred grief and horror among the Catholics, who
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  Speaker 1: no less than Protestants were thirst driven to believe them.
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  Speaker 1: The secrets were probably given up and a panic by
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  Speaker 1: three serving men and by poor Gervais Pierre point. It
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  Speaker 1: was a common trick of the time, though not peculiar
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  Speaker 1: to it, to show a prisoner a lying list of
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  Speaker 1: names purporting to have been extracted from colleagues, so that
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  Speaker 1: he himself might be trapped into endorsing the suspicions held
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  Speaker 1: in regard to those names. But it is clear that
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  Speaker 1: Campion was brought to mention only a few who, as
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  Speaker 1: he was aware were formerly known to his examiners as
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  Speaker 1: Catholic recussants, and only after a solemn oath from the
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  Speaker 1: Commissioners that no harm could accrue to them in consequence
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  Speaker 1: of such supplementary mention. Even this he had every cause
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  Speaker 1: to regret. The gentlemen and gentlewomen on Lord Burleigh's lists
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  Speaker 1: were carefully informed, when arrested that it was Campion who
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  Speaker 1: had betrayed them, a cruel slander which he could refute
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  Speaker 1: only at the foot of the scaffold. Thanks to the
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  Speaker 1: reports first of his backsliding, then of his treachery, his
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  Speaker 1: great reputation for the time being was clean gone. Having
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  Speaker 1: thus been given forth to the public as a knave,
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  Speaker 1: he was now to be set before them as a fool,
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  Speaker 1: and shown to be one who possessed neither sort of
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  Speaker 1: superiority moral or mental. Many courtiers, having a purely artistic
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  Speaker 1: interest in Edmund Campion, had begged that he might obtain
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  Speaker 1: the chance he had often asked for of being heard
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  Speaker 1: in a disputation. This request was now suddenly granted. The
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  Speaker 1: conference was public and came off of the Norman chapel
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  Speaker 1: of the Tower, which was crowded to Deans Knoll of
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  Speaker 1: Saint Paul's and Day of Windsor were appointed to attack Campion.
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  Speaker 1: He was to answer all objections as he could, but
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  Speaker 1: was forbidden to raise any of his own. Clark, the
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  Speaker 1: bitter Puritan preacher of Gray's Inn, and Whittaker, the Regius
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  Speaker 1: Professor of Divinity in Cambridge, were the notaries the line
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  Speaker 1: to be bated. Did not even know that there was
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  Speaker 1: to be a conference until he was brought to it
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  Speaker 1: under a strong guard. Time for preparation had been denied him.
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  Speaker 1: Platforms and their tables spread with books of reference, pens
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  Speaker 1: and paper. One who was there tells us how easy
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  Speaker 1: and ready were his answers, how modest his mien, how
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  Speaker 1: that high spirited nature so bal ascorn, the abuse and
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  Speaker 1: the jests heaped upon him, as to win great admiration
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  Speaker 1: from the majority of those who heard him for the
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  Speaker 1: first time. He began by asking very pertinently whether this
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  Speaker 1: was a just answer to his challenge, first to rack him,
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  Speaker 1: then to deprive him of books, notes and pen, lastly
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  Speaker 1: to call upon him to debate. And he added, wishing
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  Speaker 1: to be fully understood by the audience, that what he
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  Speaker 1: had asked for was quite another sort of hearing a
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  Speaker 1: hearing under equal conditions before the universities. During the course
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  Speaker 1: of this first confidence, he was twice most unfairly tripped up,
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  Speaker 1: once over a quotation in which he was right, though
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  Speaker 1: he could not then and there prove it, And again
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  Speaker 1: over a page of the Greek Testament in such small
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  Speaker 1: type that he could not read it, and had to
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  Speaker 1: put it by when it was handed to him, thereby
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  Speaker 1: drawing down upon himself the ridiculous taunt that he knew
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  Speaker 1: no Greek. This he took silently and with a smile.
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  Speaker 1: At the end of the six hours he had more
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  Speaker 1: than studies ground. The deans complained afterwards that a number
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  Speaker 1: of gentlemen present, neither unlearned nor ill effected, considered that
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  Speaker 1: Master Campion had the best of it. Some common people
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  Speaker 1: who thought so too, and said so in the streets,
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  Speaker 1: paid dearly for their boldness. One of these gentlemen favorably
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  Speaker 1: impressed was Philip earliv Arundel. Then, in the flush of
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  Speaker 1: worldly pride and pleasure, he was the real victory of
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  Speaker 1: the Jesuit Apostle, for he received at that time and
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  Speaker 1: in that place, the first ray of divine grace strong
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  Speaker 1: enough to change gradually in him. The whole motive and
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  Speaker 1: course of that intensity of life which never failed the howards.
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  Speaker 1: As he stood leaning forward in the foreground of the day,
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  Speaker 1: in that solemn interior, tall and young, with his great,
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  Speaker 1: rough and embroidered doublet and his brilliant dark eyes held
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  Speaker 1: by the pathetic figure of Master Campion, how little could
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  Speaker 1: he have foreseen his own weary term of suffering in
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  Speaker 1: that gloomy fortress, and his sainted death there. At the
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  Speaker 1: end of the years, there were three other conferences under
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  Speaker 1: like conditions, but in other quarters, with four fresh adversaries.
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  Speaker 1: Campion was again appointed only to answer, never to oppose,
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  Speaker 1: that is, to answer miscellaneous and disjointed objections against the
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  Speaker 1: Catholic Church, without ever being allowed to build up any
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  Speaker 1: harmonious apology for his own system. The last conference was
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  Speaker 1: notable for its browbeating and threatening of a too successful adversary.
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  Speaker 1: The Bishop of London privately came to the conclusion that
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  Speaker 1: the verbal tournament was doing no good whatever to the
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  Speaker 1: sacred cause of Protestantism. The council agreed and ended it.
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  Speaker 1: Towards the end of October, Campion was racked for the
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  Speaker 1: third time, and with the utmost severity, so that he
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  Speaker 1: thought they meant this time to kill him, but his
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  Speaker 1: fortitude was unshaken. A rough and honest first cousin to
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  Speaker 1: the Queen, Henry Carey, Lord Hunston, growled that it were
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  Speaker 1: easier to pluck the heart out of Campion's breast than
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  Speaker 1: to wrest from him one word against his conscience. His
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  Speaker 1: arms and legs went quite numb after this final torture.
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  Speaker 1: The keeper, who was won over by his endearing prisoner,
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  Speaker 1: and was always as gentle with him as he dared,
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  Speaker 1: to be, inquired next day. How they felt? Not ill,
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  Speaker 1: said Father Edmund, with all of his old brave brightness.
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  Speaker 1: Not ill, because not at all, never once until now
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  Speaker 1: had he been accused of any conspiracy. But he was
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  Speaker 1: a troublesome person. He must be silenced somehow. With a
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  Speaker 1: tardy inspiration, the council bent all their strength to get
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  Speaker 1: out of Campion, some acknowledgment that he had been mixed
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  Speaker 1: up with the Spanish Roman expedition and the Irish Rising
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  Speaker 1: of the preceding year. Not a shadow of proof could
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  Speaker 1: of course, be produced for such a charge. Then, as
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  Speaker 1: a final an sure means of indicting him on some
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  Speaker 1: other count than that of religion, and of urging his
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  Speaker 1: execution upon the Queen. Walsingham, with Burley's connivants, had the
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  Speaker 1: treasonable plot out of his own inventive head, and got
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  Speaker 1: fuse witnesses to accuse Edmund Campion of it and swear
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  Speaker 1: his life away. The plot of Rhymes and Rome was
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  Speaker 1: described as an attempt to raise this edition and to
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  Speaker 1: throne and to kill the Queen. It had an imaginary
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  Speaker 1: but recent date fifteen eighty Everybody or any body, when
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  Speaker 1: found convenient, could be accused of so elastic a plot.
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  Speaker 1: It was first charged against some twenty priests and laymen
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  Speaker 1: in this year fifteen eighty one, but it was brought
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  Speaker 1: up against the yell of Arundelph four years afterwards, despite
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  Speaker 1: the fact that the supposed interests of the church were
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  Speaker 1: the last things likely to win his attention at the
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  Speaker 1: time Assigned and All Saints Day arrived in England a
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  Speaker 1: suitor for the hand of Queen Elizabeth, Francis, Duke of Alencon,
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  Speaker 1: King of the Netherlands, the short lived heir to the
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  Speaker 1: throne of King Henry the third of France. With that
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  Speaker 1: King Weld, Duke of Anjou, and with Alencon for nine
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  Speaker 1: years passed as for three yet to come. Elizabeth had
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  Speaker 1: carried on negotiations which ended in smoke, but she now
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  Speaker 1: announced that she would marry at last. Little Froggy, as
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  Speaker 1: she endearingly called him, was ugly to a degree, and
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  Speaker 1: many years younger than her Majesty. He was brother in
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  Speaker 1: law to the Queen of Scots, was her majesty's prisoner
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  Speaker 1: at Sheffield. The dominant ultra bigoted party took extreme alarm
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  Speaker 1: at the near prospect of toleration for Catholics, which such
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  Speaker 1: a rule much suggested to them. To reassure them, it
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  Speaker 1: might just now be most useful, thought the Council to
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  Speaker 1: hang a Jesuit or two. On the fourteenth of the month,
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  Speaker 1: Campion and eight others were arraigned before the Grand Jury
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  Speaker 1: in Westminster Hall for treasonable intents of the Queen's deprivation
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  Speaker 1: and murder. These secret and privy practices of sinister devices,
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  Speaker 1: befitting one led astray by the devil, had Edmund Campion.
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  Speaker 1: Clark made his re entry into England. The Pope meanwhile,
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  Speaker 1: being not only aware of his act, but it is
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  Speaker 1: author and onset up. He was commanded, as were all
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  Speaker 1: those lumped with him in a common accusation to plead
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  Speaker 1: guilty or not guilty. Up went all the right arms
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  Speaker 1: of those devoteries and dead men to this world who
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  Speaker 1: traveled only for souls, as Campion himself called them, all,
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  Speaker 1: but his so disabled by the rack that he could
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  Speaker 1: not stir it from the third cuff in which it lay.
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  Speaker 1: But a quick witted comrade turned and took off the cuff,
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  Speaker 1: humbly kissing the sacred hands so wrung for the confession
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  Speaker 1: of Christ, and lifted it high to cry its own mute,
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  Speaker 1: not guilty, with the rest. The Spanish ambassador, Don Bernardino
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  Speaker 1: de Mendoza, standing close by with his secretuary, saw with
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  Speaker 1: a pang of pity that all the fingernails were gone
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  Speaker 1: from Campion's swollen hands. The trial proper began on the
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  Speaker 1: twentieth before such a presence of people of the more honorable,
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  Speaker 1: wise learned, and best sought as was never heard of
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  Speaker 1: in that court in ours or our father's memories before us.
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  Speaker 1: So wonderful an expectation there was to see the end
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  Speaker 1: of this marvelous tragedy of such as they knew in
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  Speaker 1: conscience to be innocent. They all heard Ralph Sherwin say
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  Speaker 1: in a loud, clear voice. The plain ground of our
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  Speaker 1: standing here is religion and not treason. Chief Justice Ray
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  Speaker 1: presided a Catholic at heart, and wretched ever after over
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  Speaker 1: this unwilling day's work. The prosecuting officers for the crime
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  Speaker 1: were the Queen's sergeant, Edmund Anderson, Popham afterwards Chief Justice
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  Speaker 1: and Egerton afterwards the first Lord Elsmere. The chief witnesses
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  Speaker 1: were George Eliot, Anthony Mundy, and he creatures named Sled
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  Speaker 1: and Caddy as evil a quartet as existed in contemporary England,
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  Speaker 1: and worthy forerunners of Oats and Bedloe. They had nothing
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  Speaker 1: left to swear, as campaign reminded the jury, neither religion
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  Speaker 1: nor honesty, in no special order. But with much harder
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  Speaker 1: and diligence, all the old tires and trivial accusations brought
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  Speaker 1: forward and pressed in Campion, being spokesman throughout for the defense,
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  Speaker 1: and his alert mind, despite his weakened body, meeting them
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  Speaker 1: all and routing them. He was charged with having seduced
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  Speaker 1: the Greens subjects from their allegiance and reconciled them to
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  Speaker 1: the Pope. He caught up the word we reconcile them
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  Speaker 1: to the Pope nay, then what reconciliation can there be
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  Speaker 1: to him? Since reconciliation is only due to God, This
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  Speaker 1: word reconcile soundeth not to Alawy's usage, and therefore is
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  Speaker 1: rested against us. In Aptly, the reconciliation that we endeavored
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  Speaker 1: was only to God. As Peter Saith reconciliamini Domino be consiled,
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  Speaker 1: and to the Lord Campion was informed yourself came as
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  Speaker 1: procurator from the Pope and Dr Allan to break these
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  Speaker 1: matters to the English papists. So he rejoined that in
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  Speaker 1: his homeward voyage from Rome, and to take him by
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  Speaker 1: his fower with obedience as a Jesuit, the which accordingly
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  Speaker 1: I enterprised being commanded there too. He had dined with
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  Speaker 1: Dr Allan at Reams, with whom also after dinner I
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  Speaker 1: walked in his garden, and not one jot of our
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  Speaker 1: talk glance to the Crown or state of England. As
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  Speaker 1: to the Pope, he flatly the charging comandment, excuse me
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  Speaker 1: from matters of state and regiment. Followed a change of
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  Speaker 1: tactics after perhaps make those excuses, But shadows for what
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  Speaker 1: meaning had that changing of your name, where too belonged
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  Speaker 1: your disguising in opera, What pleasure had you to roist
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  Speaker 1: it in a velvet hat and a feather above leather,
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  Speaker 1: jerkin and a velvet Venetians, And that be seen a
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  Speaker 1: professed man of religion, which hardly become a layman of gravity. No,
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  Speaker 1: there was a further matter intended. Had you come hither
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  Speaker 1: for love of your country, you would never have wrought
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  Speaker 1: a hagamog, had your intend been to have done well,
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  Speaker 1: never have aided the light to which come him replied
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  Speaker 1: that Saint Paul, in order that living he might benefit
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  Speaker 1: the church more than dying, betook himself to sundry shifts,
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  Speaker 1: but that especially the changing of his name was very
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  Speaker 1: oft and familiar, and that he sometimes thought it expedient
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  Speaker 1: to be hidden lest being discovered. Persecution should ensue thereby,
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  Speaker 1: and the Gospel be greatly forced. If these shifts were
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  Speaker 1: then approved in Paul, why are they now reproved in me?
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  Speaker 1: He an apostle, I a Jesuit. The same cause common
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  Speaker 1: to us both. I wished honestly the planting of the Gospel.
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  Speaker 1: I knew a contrary religion professed. I saw if I
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  Speaker 1: were known, I should be apprehended. I changed my name
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  Speaker 1: I kept secretly, I imitated Paul. Was I therein a traitor?
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  Speaker 1: The wearing of abuf Jerkin, of alvet Hat and such
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  Speaker 1: like is much forced against me. I am not indicted
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  Speaker 1: upon the statute of apparrel. Indeed, I acknowledge an offense
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  Speaker 1: to God woulds as though doing thereof it doth grievously
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  Speaker 1: repent me. And I therefore do our penance as you
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  Speaker 1: see me. This charming rejoinder again, how more like, was
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  Speaker 1: in illusion to his rough gown of Irish freeze at
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  Speaker 1: a huge black nightcap covering half of his newly shaven face.
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  Speaker 1: After all this mere hectoring, some pieces of evidence were produced.
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  Speaker 1: One of these was an intercepted letter which Campion himself
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  Speaker 1: had written on the tower after his first and comparatively
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  Speaker 1: moderate racking, while it was still possible to use his hands.
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  Speaker 1: It was addressed to the admirable and truly holy but
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  Speaker 1: fussy mister Thomas Parent, who world with alarm at the
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  Speaker 1: pretended betrayals, had written to remonstrate with weither Campion. The
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  Speaker 1: Queens' Council now read this passage from Campion's humble reply,
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  Speaker 1: it greethereth me much to have offended the Catholic cause
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  Speaker 1: so highly as to confess the names of some gentlemen
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  Speaker 1: and friends in whose houses I had been entertained. Yet
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  Speaker 1: in this I greatly sherish and comfort myself that I
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  Speaker 1: never discovered any secrets. There declared that I will not
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  Speaker 1: come Rack Comroe. The government of the reader in court
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  Speaker 1: was an obvious one. What concerned more suspiciously were nearer
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  Speaker 1: and to treason than this letter? It must needs be
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  Speaker 1: some grievous matter, and very pernicious, that I the Rack
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  Speaker 1: nor Rope can wring from him. What Campion's even more
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  Speaker 1: obvious answer was that there he spoke is one by
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  Speaker 1: profession and calling a priest, bowed to silence in regard
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  Speaker 1: to what was made known in the confessional, And he
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  Speaker 1: yet pressed on the rack to divulge secrets thus communicated
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  Speaker 1: to him. These were they hidden matters in concealing of
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  Speaker 1: which I had so greatly rejoiced to the revealing, whereof
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  Speaker 1: I cannot nor will not be brought, come Rack, come rope.
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  Speaker 1: Well chosen was this answer of Campions. It has been
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  Speaker 1: pointed out that if he had stated here that he
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  Speaker 1: had told no one who was not already found out,
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  Speaker 1: he would have losed the informers and man hunters afresh
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  Speaker 1: on the whole Catholic community until his other friends, who
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  Speaker 1: had not been found out, are run down. Instead of that,
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  Speaker 1: he drew off attention by reminding the court that he
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  Speaker 1: could not repeat what had been sacramentally convided to him.
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  Speaker 1: Most of his hearers were either Catholic or had been
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  Speaker 1: Catholic and acquiesced. He spoke truth, but he skipped explanations,
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  Speaker 1: and such is more often than not the highest wisdom
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  Speaker 1: in this complex world. There were now read out certain
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  Speaker 1: papers containing oaths to be administered to persons ready to
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  Speaker 1: renounce their obedience to her majesty and to be sworn
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  Speaker 1: of the papal allegiance alone. These were said to have
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  Speaker 1: been found in houses where Campion had alerked and for
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  Speaker 1: religion been entertained, Hence they were of his composing. He
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  Speaker 1: objected that the administering of oaths was repungant, for him
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  Speaker 1: had exceeded his authority. Neither would I commit an offense
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  Speaker 1: so thought to my profession for all the substance and
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  Speaker 1: treasure in the world, he went on to say, assuming
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  Speaker 1: for his purpose that the precious papers were not forged,
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  Speaker 1: though they really were, so that there was proof of
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  Speaker 1: their connection with himself, nor was it even pretended that
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  Speaker 1: they were in his handwriting. Anderson replied with singular perversity
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  Speaker 1: or dune us, you professed papist coming to a house,
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  Speaker 1: and then such reliques found after your departure. How can
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  Speaker 1: it otherwise be implied but that you did both bring
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  Speaker 1: them and leave them there? So it is flat they
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  Speaker 1: came there by means of a papist, ergo by your means,
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  Speaker 1: the logician in Campian dash to the fall. Could it
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  Speaker 1: be shown that no other papist ever visited that house
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  Speaker 1: but himself? If not, they were urging his conclusion before
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  Speaker 1: framing a minor, which is imperfect. He added, it proves nothing, apparently, sergeant,
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  Speaker 1: and was sufficiently enraged by now his highly judicial retort
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  Speaker 1: is on record. If here, as you do in schools,
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  Speaker 1: you bring in your minor and conclusion, you will prove
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  Speaker 1: yourself but a fool, but minor or conclusion. I will
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  Speaker 1: bring it to purpose and on. Elliot then rose as
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  Speaker 1: witness and gave his account to the Sunday Sermon at Lyford.
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  Speaker 1: My master Campion spoke of enormities in England and every
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  Speaker 1: day of change. Soon coming welcomed to the shaken and
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  Speaker 1: dispersed Catholics, dreadable to the heretical masters of the land.
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  Speaker 1: What day should that be break in the Queen's council,
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  Speaker 1: but that wherein the Pope, the King of Spain and
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  Speaker 1: the Duke of Florence have appointed to invade this realm.
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  Speaker 1: Campian turned his eyes on Elliot, Oh Judas, Judas, as
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  Speaker 1: in all other Christian commonwealth, So in England many vices
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  Speaker 1: and iniquities to a band. Whereupon, as in every poor pit,
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  Speaker 1: every prostant death, I pronounced a great day, Not where
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  Speaker 1: in any temporal potentate should minister, but wherein the terrible
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  Speaker 1: juge should reveal all men's consciences, and try any other
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  Speaker 1: day than this God he knows I meant not so
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  Speaker 1: much for the astonishing evidence of this most astonishing of
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  Speaker 1: all trials, one only and a pontus pilot excepted. The
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  Speaker 1: chief count against the defendant was the old one of
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  Speaker 1: the bull of deposition, and the denied authority of the Queen.
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  Speaker 1: In spirituals, that Fredid family skeleton trotted out. Once more
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  Speaker 1: you refused to swear to the supremacy, a notorious token
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  Speaker 1: of an evil willow to the crown Cambion, who was
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  Speaker 1: surely what Anthony would quaintly calls him a sweet disposition
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  Speaker 1: and a well polished man, stated his position once more
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  Speaker 1: loosely and with perfect temper, began by referring to what
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  Speaker 1: passed at the Earl of Leicester's London house not long since.
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  Speaker 1: It pleased her Majesty to demand of me whether I
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  Speaker 1: did acknowledge her to be my queen or no? I
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  Speaker 1: answered that I did acknowledge her Highness not only as
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  Speaker 1: my Queen, but also as my most lawful governess. And
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  Speaker 1: being further required by her Majesty, whether I thought the
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  Speaker 1: Pope might lawfully excommunicator or no? I answered, I confessed
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  Speaker 1: myself an insufficient umpower between her Majesty and the Pope
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  Speaker 1: for so high a controversy, whereof neither the certainty is
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  Speaker 1: yet known, nor the best divines in Christendom stand fully resolved.
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  Speaker 1: I acknowledged her Highness as my governor and sovereign. I
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  Speaker 1: acknowledge her Majesty both in fact and by right to
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  Speaker 1: the Queen. I confessed in an obedience due to the
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  Speaker 1: Crown as to my temporal head and primate. This I said, Then,
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  Speaker 1: so I say now if I failed in aught, I
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  Speaker 1: am now ready to supply it. What would you more?
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  Speaker 1: I will willingly pay to her majesty what is hers?
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  Speaker 1: Yet I must pay to God what is his? For
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  Speaker 1: ex communicating her modesty? It was exacted of me admitting
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  Speaker 1: that ex communication were of effect, and that the Pope
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  Speaker 1: had sufficient authority so to do, whether then I thought
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  Speaker 1: myself discharged of my allegiance or not, said that this
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  Speaker 1: was a dangerous question and that they had to managed
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  Speaker 1: this to manage my blood, admitting why admitting I would
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  Speaker 1: admit his authority and then he should excommunicate her. I
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  Speaker 1: would then do as God should give me grace. But
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  Speaker 1: I had never admitted any such matter, neither ought I
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  Speaker 1: to be rested with any such suppositions. To all this,
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  Speaker 1: no rejoinder was made. It was the identical position taken
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  Speaker 1: up by many another harassed mata. The prosecution next turned
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  Speaker 1: to the remaining prisoners, using the same weak, wrong skirmchine tactics.
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  Speaker 1: Cambion often putting in a word to hard and wanted
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  Speaker 1: to offend another to Guy a third. At a certain
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  Speaker 1: point he exclaimed, so great are the treasons that I
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  Speaker 1: and the others have wrought that the jailer who has
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  Speaker 1: us a child, told me at night that would we
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  Speaker 1: but go to the Anglican services, they would pardon us
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  Speaker 1: straight away. Serrano who reports this as the answered things
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  Speaker 1: in general. At the close of the proceedings, their issue
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  Speaker 1: being pre reigned, Campian was allowed to make a speech
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  Speaker 1: to the jurors. He eloquently begged them to seek the
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  Speaker 1: certainties and to remember the character of the evidence brought
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  Speaker 1: before him, alas he was appealing to bought men who
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  Speaker 1: dared not be true. The bleedings had taken three hours,
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  Speaker 1: the jury deliberated, or seemed to do so for an
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  Speaker 1: hour or more. Public opinion in the hall, as at
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  Speaker 1: the Tower Conferences, was overwhelmingly in favor of Campion. But
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  Speaker 1: the poort twelve, as Alan calls them, came back ful
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  Speaker 1: to be found no friend of Caesar, bringing in a
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  Speaker 1: verdict against the whole company as guilty of the said
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  Speaker 1: treasons and conspiracies. The Lord Chief Justice spoke Campion and
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  Speaker 1: the rest, what can you say why you should not die?
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  Speaker 1: Then Campion broke out into a brief appeal to the
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  Speaker 1: future and the past, a lyric strain such as was
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  Speaker 1: not often heard beneath those ancient rafters is sadly used
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  Speaker 1: to the spectacle of noble hearts in jeopardy. It was
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  Speaker 1: not our death that ever we feared. We knew that
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  Speaker 1: we were not lords of our own lives, and therefore,
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  Speaker 1: for want of answer, would not be guilty of our
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  Speaker 1: own deaths. The only thing that we have now to
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  Speaker 1: say is that if our religion do make us traitors,
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  Speaker 1: we are worthy to be condemned. But otherwise we are
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  Speaker 1: and have been, as true subjects as ever the Queen had.
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  Speaker 1: In condemning us, you condemn all your own answers, or
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  Speaker 1: the ancient priests, bishops and kings, or that was once
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  Speaker 1: the glory of England, the island of saints and of
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  Speaker 1: the most devoted child of the See of Peter. For
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  Speaker 1: what have we taught, however, you may qualify it with
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  Speaker 1: the odious name of treason, that they did not uniformly teach.
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  Speaker 1: To be condemned with these old lights, not of England only,
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  Speaker 1: but of the world by their degenerate descendants, is both
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  Speaker 1: gladness and glory to us godless austerity will live. Their
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  Speaker 1: judgment is not so liable to corruption as that of
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  Speaker 1: those who are our going to sentence as to death,
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  Speaker 1: after which the Lord Chief Justice pronounced the formula in
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  Speaker 1: use for all prisoners condemned to capital punishment. You must
• 28:47
  Speaker 1: go to the place whence he came there, to remain
• 28:50
  Speaker 1: until you shall be drawn through the open city of London,
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  Speaker 1: upon hurdles, to the place of execution, and there be
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  Speaker 1: hanged and let down alive, and your entrails taken out
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  Speaker 1: and burnt in your sight, and your heads to be
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  Speaker 1: cut off, your bodies to be divided in four parts,
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  Speaker 1: to be disposed of at Her Majesty's pleasure, and to
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  Speaker 1: make God have mercy on your souls. Some of the
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  Speaker 1: company raised a storm of protest, but a champion's voice
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  Speaker 1: rose above theirs, crying, we praise thee O God. showIn
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  Speaker 1: seconded him with a shouted anthem of easter tide. This
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  Speaker 1: is the day that the Lord hath made. Let us
• 29:31
  Speaker 1: rejoice to be glad. Therein like expressions of triumph were
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: presently taken up to the amazement of bystanders. Then the
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  Speaker 1: doomed men were parted and were all taken away, Edmund
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  Speaker 1: Campian being put in a barge on the Thames, and
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  Speaker 1: rode back to the tower, where he was heavily shackled
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  Speaker 1: with irons and left alone end of chapter twelve.