Memoirs Of Missionary Priests And Other Catholics Of Both Sexes That Have Suffered Death In England On Religious Accounts From The Year 1577 To 1684 Volume 1

Author : Bishop Challoner
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780331001020
Total Pages : 520 pages
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Download or read book Memoirs of Missionary Priests, Vol. 1 written by Bishop Challoner and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-14 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Memoirs of Missionary Priests, Vol. 1: And Other Catholics of Both Sexes, That Have Suffered Death in England on Religious Accounts, From the Year 1577 to 1684 As to father Campion, and his companions, to whom their adversa ries pretended to impute treasons of another kind, viz. I know not what conspiracies formed at Rhemes and Rome, we are fully persuaded that they were no more traitors than the rest; and that the true cause ot their death was the hatred of their religion; and therefore we have given them a place with the rest in these memoirs. And, indeed, it seems to have been the more common opinion of the nation, at that time, and even of the queen herself, if we believe Mr. Camden, in his Elizabeth, that these men were not guilty of those pretended conspiracies; which they, for their part, notwithstanding all their rackings and torturings, all, to a man, constantly denied, both in life and death, though they had their lives offered them, if they would own themselves guilty: which thing alone, to every thinking man, must be a full demonstration of their innocence. To pass over other considerations as for instance, that several of them had never been in their lives at the places where they were pretended to have been plot ting; or, if they had ever been there, were not there at least at the time of the pretended plot; several of them had never been seen in their lives, by the perjured witnesses that deposed against them; nor had ever seen one the other (though they were accused to haxe plotted together) till they all met at the bar to take their trials; which, with many other arguments too long to be here inserted, prove abundantly, that they were, indeed, no plotters and that their only guilt was their religion. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.