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 THE JESUIT INVASION. women and excited students. A verdict of Guilty was returned against the whole party, and Wray pronounced sentence in the usual form. ' Te Deum laudamus,' exclaimed Campian ; 'Te Deuni confitemur/ ' This is the day which the Lord hath made,' said Sherwin ; 'let us rejoice and be glad in it.' Five days' shrift only was allowed. The execution was ordered for the 25th. The Duke of Alencon, as will presently be seen, was again in England. The Protestants were once more violently agitated at the prospect of the Queen's marriage with him. It was considered that the punishment of the Jesuits during his stay in London would quiet the apprehensions of the country, that it would show the Protestants that they had nothing to fear from him, and the Romanists that they had nothing to hope. 1 A French abbe, at Mendoza's instigation, besought Alencon to intercede for Campian's life. The Duke was in a tennis court, on the point of commencing a game, when the abbe came to him. He hesitated, stroked his- face for a moment, and then turning abruptly away, exclaimed, ' Play.'' For some cause, probably Elizabeth's reluctance, the execution was deferred for a week. She could 1 ' El aprcsurar la execution des- tas cosas es porque se hagau en el tiempo que esta aqui M. de Alencon, y que con esto se aseguren los Pro- testantes Ingleses y Escoceses, y dcs- caezcan los Catholicos, y que todoe entiendan que el no atiende &. cosas de religion, sino solo seguir la voluu- tad de la Reyna.' Don B. de Men- doza al Key, 7 Novieiubrc : MSS. Simancas.