[457] Spanish State Papers, Elizabeth.
[458] Hatfield State Papers, part ii.
[459] Burghley to Walsingham; in extenso in Digges.
[460] “Courtships of Queen Elizabeth,” by the present writer.
[461] See Camden; Memoires de Nevers; Spanish State Papers, Elizabeth; and “Courtships of Queen Elizabeth.”
[462] Wilkes, Clerk of the Council, was sent to confer with Mary upon the subject. His report in full is in State Papers, Scotland, and at Hatfield.
[463] See his own book, “Treatise on the Execution of Justice,” written in 1583 in answer to Allen’s attacks.
[464] See Simpson’s Life of Campion, Spanish State Papers, Camden’s Elizabeth, and Allen’s De Persecutione Anglicana.
[465] Burghley, writing to Lord Shrewsbury (Lansdowne MSS., 982) in August 1581, telling him of the trial and execution for treason of the priest Everard Duckett, who had denied the Queen’s authority, says in reference to Campion and his companions, “If they shall do the like, the law is like to correct them. For their actions are not matters of religion, but merely of state, tending directly to the deprivation of her Majesty’s crown.” Campion, he says, had been brought before Leicester and Bromley, but had not confessed anything of importance. It appears to have been the result of the admissions wrung from Campion and others about this time as to the houses in which they had lodged that led to the great number of Catholic arrests all over England.
[466] Spanish State Papers, Elizabeth.