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 REIGN OF ELIZABETH. [CH. 63. the secular judges, f^om whose hands it ought never tc have passed. The Queen was still eager to save Cam- pian. He was promised pardon and liberty if he would consent to appear once in church. When kindness failed torture was again tried, but nothing more could be wrung from him ; and the council then determined to bring him and the other priests to trial. Some delay was necessary, for the last racking had dislocated his limbs, and he could not at once be moved. 1 At last on the 1 4th and I5th of November true bills were found before the grand jury of Middlesex against Campian and fourteen others, for having conspired to deprive the Queen of her style and dignity, with having come to England to seduce her subjects from their allegiance, and with having attempted to induce strangers to in- vade the realm. On the 2oth they were brought to the bar in Westminster Hall and arraigned, Sir Christopher Wray sitting as Chief Jus- tice. Campian was no longer in his secular masquer- ade dress, but in a priest's cassock, with his beard close shaven, and his face half buried in a black cap. The prisoners pleaded all Not Guilty. Campian being un- able to raise his arm, two of his companions raised it for him, first kissing the broken joints. Anderson, the Queen's Serjeant, stated the case for the Crown. Her Majesty, he said, from the day of her Nov. 20. 1 Mendoza writes on the ytli of November to Philip, that the in- dictment was then complete, but that the trial had been postponed. ' No habiendo sacado a juicio a Campian por estar descoyuntado y no poderse mover. MSS. Simancas.