50 REIGN OF ELIZABETH. [CH. 63. parties among themselves, were saturated with senti- mental devotionalism. ' In this element grew up Edmund Campian and Robert Parsons. Campian was born in 1540, the son of a bookseller in London. Parsons was a few years younger. The first became a fellow of St John's, the other of Balliol. They were dear friends, both ' sound Catholics at heart, and utterly condemning the Queen's and council's new religion/ and both distinguished by a large following of pupils and admirers. Campian was the more showy of the two ; he was patronized by Leicester, when Leicester was coquetting with de Quadra and Rome, and in 1560, when he was twenty, he made an oration at Anne Robsart's funeral, stuffed with high compliments to Lord Robert's virtues. In 1566, when the Queen came to Oxford, he was one of the disputants who had been selected to amuse her, and he gained favour by the skill with which he distributed his compliments between her Majesty and her lover. The arrival of Mary Stuart, and the rebellion of the North, put an end to these halcyon days. Leicester went over to the ultra-Protestants, and being made Chancellor of the University gathered up the reins, and enforced the Act of Uniformity. The English service was intro~ duced into the College chapels ; the oath of allegiance and subscription to the Articles vas exacted of the fel- lows, and those who refused to comply were removed. Allen, foreseeing the coming troubles, had already fled a second time, and gone back to Belgium, where with Philip's help and sanction, he opened a seminary at
