ABSTRACT
Edmund Campion, who had been joined by a nameless father of the society, took post-horses to Rome. When Campion reached Rome, he went first to see Mercurian, & after he had been with his General and understood his mind about the journey to England & that it should be immediately after the octaves of Easter. He made instant sute that seeing the time was so short he might be distracted with no other thing or cogitation but only to commend himself to God and visit the holy places of the citty and prepare himself for the viage. Campion was completely at one with Mercurian in his 'aversion from medling', and all the time in Rome 'he went every day to pray and say masse in different churches where Apostles or Saints bodies lay'. Campion's devotion to the church of the early martyrs was a conscious and consistent choice, expressed in his desire to avoid 'temporal care' or 'medling'.
