{"id":278,"date":"2012-08-31T14:07:14","date_gmt":"2012-08-31T14:07:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/?p=278"},"modified":"2012-08-31T14:10:15","modified_gmt":"2012-08-31T14:10:15","slug":"what-does-the-treatment-of-edmund-campion-tell-us-about-elizabeths-government-by-the-1580s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/heathenhistory.co.uk\/elizabeth\/2012\/08\/31\/what-does-the-treatment-of-edmund-campion-tell-us-about-elizabeths-government-by-the-1580s\/","title":{"rendered":"What does the treatment of Edmund Campion tell us about Elizabeth’s government by the 1580s ?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Edmund Campion does not feature that fully in our course. He was a Jesuit priest seeking to restore the Catholic faith to England. In unit three we look at a quotation from G R Elton<\/strong> where lists his fate\u00a0as an agenda item for the Privy Council to discuss. You may know that he meets a pretty unpleasant end – “For his religious beliefs, he was hanged, drawn and quartered in 1581. He was tied to a wicker hurdle that was dragged by horses along the roads near St Paul’s Cathedral, through Holborn, along Oxford Street and to the place of execution. At Tyburn, he and two other priests were hanged and then, while barely still alive, cut down from the gallows…While each man was still just alive, he was cut open, and his genitals and bowels, removed by the public hangman, were burnt before him.”<\/em><\/p>\n

However, <\/em>in this<\/a>\u00a0article from the Independent, Professor Alford<\/strong> (who you will also come across in unit three – Government) argues that “Queen Elizabeth I’s government was so determined to convict the English Jesuit priest Edmund Campion of treason that it doctored one of the key documents used to prosecute and send him to his execution.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Why does this matter ?<\/p>\n

Well if true it shows that\u00a0Elizabeth and her Privy Council\u00a0remained worried by the threat of\u00a0the Catholics (see the debate in Unit 1). Moreover, just as with the Duke of Norfolk, Mary Queen of Scots,\u00a0and the Earl of Essex, when Elizabeth saw someone as a threat she was\u00a0every bit as ruthless as her half sister.<\/p>\n

Mr Kydd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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