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28 THE HISTORY OF HERESIES,
the emissaries who were in search of him. He was at last
betrayed by an apostate Priest, while ho was saying Mass, and
preaching,
in the house of a Catholic. He had not time to
escape, the house was surrounded, and the master shut him up in
a hiding hole, which was so well contrived, that after a most
rigorous search, he could not be discovered. The bailiffs were
going away in despair, when, at the bottom of the staircase they
accidentally broke through a wall, and discovered him on his
knees, offering up his life to God. They put him in prison, and
he was then so violently racked, that when brought to trial and
told to raise up his arm to attest his confession, he had not the
power of doing so, and it was raised up by an assistant. He was
arraigned as a traitor, for thus they indicted the Catholic Priests
in those days, to do away with the honour of martyrdom. They
put them to death, they said, not for preaching their Faith, but
for conspiring against the Queen. When Campion was charged
with treason, he confounded his accusers by replying :
" How
can you charge us with treason, and condemn us for that alone,
when all that is requisite to save ourselves is, that we go to your
preachings (thus changing their Religion) ; it is, then, because we
are Catholics that we are condemned, and not because we are,
as you say, rebels." He was condemned to be drawn on a hurdle
to the place of execution, and hanged. He then declared that he
never rebelled against the Queen, that it was for the Faith alono
he was put to death. He was disembowelled, his heart torn out
and cast into the fire, and his body quartered. Several other
Priests underwent a like punishment for the Faith during this
reign (10).
28. When St. Pius V. learned the cruelties practised by
Elizabeth on the Catholics, he published a Bull against her, on
the 24th of February, 1570 ;
but this was only adding fuel to the
fire, and the persecution became more furious (1 1). It was then,
as we have already related, that she, under false pretences,
beheaded Mary, Queen of Scots (Chap, xi, art. iii, sec. ii, n. 78).
She was desirous, if possible, even to destroy Catholicity
in all
Christian kingdoms, and entered into a league with the Re
formers of the Netherlands, and the Calvinists of France, and
(10) Bartol. Istor. iV Ingliil. <-.
/. 6. 1.
(11) Nat. Alex. t. 19, art. 3, s. <>;
Gotti, c. 144, s. 3, n. 8.