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 1580. j THE JESUIT INVASION. 3 Campian came next. He crossed on the day of St John the Baptist, his patron saint, as he observed, to whom he had commended his cause and his journey. His pretended calling was that of a jewel merchant, and Ralph Emerson, ' his little man,' followed him with his box and his pack. Campian wanted the cool adroit- ness of his superior. He was suspected and carried be- fore the Mayor, who took him for Allen himself. Allen, he could safely swear that he was not. The Mayor however was on the point of sending him to the council, when God and St John introduced an old man in some authority, who overruled the magistrates and dismissed him. Believing himself thus under the special guard- ianship of heaven, he too went to London, and made his way to the friend in Fetter Lane. The rest came in one by one, and found a hearty welcome from Gil- bert, who, with other young Catholics of family, had formed themselves into an association for the protection of the Jesuits as soon as they should arrive. In the list of its members may be read the names of Charles Arundel, Francis Throgmorton, Anthony Babington, Chidiock Tichbourne, Charles Tilney, Edward Abing- ton, Richard Salisbury, and William Tresham, men im- plicated all of them afterwards in plots for the assassin- ation of the Queen. The subsequent history of all these persons is a sufficient indication of the effect of Jesuit teaching, and of the true object of the Jesuit mission. London was the stronghold of English Protestant- ism. Yet even in London the Government was singu- larly feeble. Campian was known everywhere to have