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Excerpt from A Collection of Portraits to Illustrate Granger's Biog. Hist. Of England, and Noble's Continuation to Granger, Vol. 1: Forming a Supplement to Richardson's Copies of Rare Granger Portraits; Containing Twenty-Four Portraits
Edmund campion was born in London on St. Paul's Day, January 1540; educated in the Blue Coat School, Christ's Hospital; and put in scholar in St. John's College, Oxon, by the worthy Founder thereof. He afterwards turned to the Romish Church, and studied some time in the English College at Douay, and at Rome. He returned to England in 1580, where, for preaching and writing seditious Books, he was (by the command of Walsingham) arrested at the House of Edward Yates, Esq., of Lyford, Berks, and committed to the Tower; and being convicted of High Treason by the Stat. 25 Edw. III, he was executed.
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