Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations in color. See 52731-h.htm or 52731-h.zip: (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52731/52731-h/52731-h.htm) or (http://www.gutenberg.org/files/52731/52731-h.zip) Images of the original pages are available through Internet Archive. See https://archive.org/details/blessededmundcam00guinrich The St. Nicholas Series Edited by the Rev. Dom Bede Camm, O.S.B. BLESSED EDMUND CAMPION “Go seek thy peace in war: Who falls for love of God, shall rise a star!” BEN JONSON [Illustration] Nihil Obstat. D. BEDA CAMM _Censor Deputatus_ Imprimatur: [Illustration] GULIELMUS _Episcopus Arindelensis Vicarius Generalis_ WESTMONASTERII, _die 14 Januarii, 1908._ [Illustration: Campion reading an Address of Welcome to Queen Mary. _p. 3._] BLESSED EDMUND CAMPION by LOUISE IMOGEN GUINEY [Illustration] R. & T. Washbourne, Ltd. Paternoster Row, London And at Manchester, Birmingham, and Glasgow 1914 _All rights reserved_ _Campiani Fratribus e Provincia Angliæ Societatis Jesu Tribus opusculum suum grato affectu Scriptor_ PREFATORY NOTE THIS little book leans much, as every modern work on the subject must do, upon Mr. Richard Simpson’s monograph: _Edmund Campion, Jesuit Protomartyr of England_. In many points supplementing or contradicting that splendid though biased narrative, the present writer has gratefully taken advantage of the researches of the Rev. John Hungerford Pollen, S.J. It may also be useful to state that the contemporary citations, when not otherwise specified, are from two invaluable witnesses, Parsons and Allen. The translated passages have been compared with the originals, and sometimes newly rendered. L. I. G. _St. Ives, Cornwall: Epiphany, 1908._ CONTENTS CHAP. PAGE I. YOUTH: LONDON, OXFORD: 1540-1566 1 II. THE HOUR OF UNREST: OXFORD, DUBLIN: 1566-1570 14 III. STEPS FORWARD: IRELAND: 1571 27 IV. CHEYNEY AGAIN: DOUAY: 1571 40 V. THE CALL TO COME UP HIGHER: DOUAY, PRAGUE: 1571-1573 53 VI. THE WISHED-FOR DAWN: BOHEMIA: 1573-1579 64 VII. A LONG MARCH: ROME, GENEVA, RHEIMS: 1580 75 VIII. INHOSPITABLE HOME: 1580 88 IX. SKIRMISHING: THE ENGLISH COUNTIES: 1580 100 X. MANY LABOURS: AND A BOOK: 1580 112 XI. AT LYFORD GRANGE, AND AFTER: 1581 129 XII. THE THICK OF THE FRAY: 1581 141 XIII. VICTORY: DECEMBER 1, 1581 166 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS