CAMPION READING AN ADDRESS OF WELCOME TO QUEEN MARY _Frontispiece_ CAMPION IN HIS PROCTOR’S ROBES. GATEWAY OF ST. JOHN’S COLLEGE, OXFORD, IN BACKGROUND _to face p._ 16 ‘P[ATER] EDMUNDUS CAMPIANUS, MARTYR’ ” 80 ‘WE HAVE NOT BROKEN THROUGH HERE!’ ” 128 CAMPION BEFORE QUEEN ELIZABETH ” 144 ‘NOT GUILTY!’ ” 160 BLESSED EDMUND CAMPION I YOUTH: LONDON, OXFORD: 1540-1566 THE Campion family seem to have been both gentlefolk and yeomen, and to have been widely scattered over the land: in Northamptonshire, Warwickshire, Essex, Sussex, and Devon. Nothing is definitely known, at present, as to which branch of the Campion family the Blessed Edmund belonged. Unlike many of the martyrs of Tudor and Stuart times, he was what is called a “born” Catholic: in more accurate phrase, a born heathen, as we all are! but baptized in his parents’ religion soon after his birth in London, on the Feast of St. Paul the Apostle, January 25, in the year 1540, New Style. Edmund had two brothers, and a sister, none of whom played any great part in his after life. By the time he entered the Society of Jesus his father and mother were both dead: his written expression is that he had “hopes” they died in full communion with the Church; but evidently he did not know, being abroad, how it had fared with them in those terribly stormy days for Christian souls.