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 94 REIGN OF ELIZABETH. [CH. 63. vincible resolution, to the wonder of the heretics and the great edification of the Catholics. Two nights after, there was not a particle of earth which his blood had stained, that had not been carried off as a relic, and in- finite sums were given for his shirt and other clothes.' 1 The same 3 1 st of July, Campian was questioned at the Tower, first on his allegiance, and afterwards, since his answer was still equivocal, as to the houses which he had visited, the families which had received him, and the whereabouts of the printing press from which his books were issued. He would confess nothing, and he was racked two days successively. 2 His cour- age was not absolutely proof. He gave up a few names ; and his bearing was contrasted unfavour- ably with Bryant's, who had suffered far more severely. Additional arrests followed, and greater strictness with the ordinary prisoners. Their friends were no longer admitted indiscriminately into the Marshalsea, and in- dulgences were taken away which they had been allowed to purchase. Relations of those who lay under charge August. 1 Mendoza to Philip, August 4, 1581 : MSS. Simancas. 2 Mendoza says that when the rack failed, needles were run under the nails of the fingers and toes of the Jesuits a mode of torture, he tells us, which the Spaniards ex- pected to form one of the worst atro- cities of the Kingdom of Antichrist. ' Aprecian a los clerigos que aciertan &. prender con diversissimos y terri- bles generos de tormentos, y entre otvos usan uno que en Espana se imagina la gente que como el mayor de todos ha de obrar el Autichristo, que es el meter hierros entre las uiras y la carne, y -con este han sido ator- mentados dos clerigos que tienen en la Torre, siendo uno dellos Campian.' Mendoza al Key, 4 de Agosto : MSS. Simancas. Such exceptional barbarity could hardly have escaped the knowledge of the Catholic mar- tyrologists. Mendoza had probably heard some confused account of the thumbscrew.