Edmund Campion's letter to the Privy Council, known as 'Campion's brag,' was seen by Protestants as a declaration of war that proved the Jesuits came to subvert, not just convert.

113:52enterprise is begun. It is of God. It cannot be withstood. So the faith was planted. So it must be restored. And how do you restore it? You restore it by getting rid of the Protestant Jezebel and planting the Catholic Queen of Scots on the throne. And so unsurprisingly among Protestants, the letter is very soon notorious and they call it Campion's brag. Do you think that's unfair? Do you think I mean he's not

114:18saying anything? Just just reading it. I mean, of course, there's a sort of you might say there's kind of ideological arrogance to it. You know, we're we are >> Jesuit. Yeah, but but I mean >> ideological arrogance is the whole point of being I suppose a kind of you know a part of a religious shock force. >> But um I'm surprised that they're so provoked by it.

114:39>> I think it's because he was one of their own. He's writing in the style of an Oxford educated Protestant, but he's turning their weapons against them. M >> I mean again you know to draw the analogy with the Cambridge traitors that's what's kind of shocking to the British establishment was that chaps who'd been to decent colleges and yeah belonged to clubs in St. James's had been working for the communists. And so