Edmund Campion was executed as a traitor under medieval treason law, not as a heretic, because the Elizabethan state intentionally framed the Jesuit mission as political subversion rather than religious dissent.

120:34tower and Campion is only allowed the Bible. So he's not allowed any other books, no no other reference books. And then there a public trial is staged in Westminster Hall in November 1581. And throughout all these processes, the core argument is the one that we were talking about earlier. Is his mission a pastoral one or is it blatant treason? And this is, you know, they just keep going over and over and

121:02over it and there's never really any doubt as to what the verdict is going to be. So on the 20th of November, Campion is convicted not of heresy, not of any crime of conscience, but as an offender against a statute against treason that had been passed in the reign of Edward III 220 years before. So he is convicted as a traitor. >> Yeah. >> And on the 1st of December, he suffers

121:32the death of a traitor. So he is lashed onto a hurdle. He is taken from his prison to Tyburn, which is now Marble Arch in London, but was the traditional place for executions. And there he suffers the hideous hideous death of a traitor. So he's hanged until he is almost dead. He's then cut down. He is still alive as his bowels and his genitals are are cut off and pulled out

121:56and burnt in front of him. And then when he's dead, his body is quartered and the various quarters are dispatched to gateways around London. And Walssingham and Burley and the Privy Council take a very very grim satisfaction in Campion's fate because it draws what seems to be a line under what had been a very grim year. So first that rebellion in Ireland we talked about the Spanish troops the