ADDITIONS. 



OlNCE the writing hereof, certain things have come to my 

 hands, relating to some particular passages of the foregoing 

 history ; which I have here added, as judging them proper 

 to give some further illustration to it. 



Numb. I. Pag. 35. 

 Campion the Jesuit. 



THE disputations with Campion, that boasting Jesuit, 

 were there spoken of, and the small opinion the Bishop of 

 London had of any good to be obtained thereby, partly in 

 respect of the disputations themselves, wherein commonly 

 not the soundest arguing, but the volublest tongue carrieth 

 away the glory ; and partly because of those flocks of au 

 ditors of little judgment that would be present ; not a few 

 whereof being Campion s well-willers, would not fail to blaze 

 the matter to the Jesuits praise, and the undervaluing of 

 the Protestant Divines, his antagonists, and their cause. 

 And so in truth it happened. For the stopping of which 

 inconveniencies, the last day s conference was managed by 

 writing, each disputant s arguments, by consent, being set 

 down from their mouths by a person appointed for that 

 purpose, (who was Thomas Norton, a Minister of good 

 account,) and so were the answers likewise. Of these things 

 the same Norton gave the Lord Burghley an account in a 

 letter dated Sept. ult. in these words : &quot; I pray your Lord- 

 &quot; ship to pardon me to say, that I think the course hitherto 

 &quot; taken, either by lack of order, or moderation, or conve- 

 &quot; nient respect of admitting men to be hearers, hath been 

 &quot; but fruitless and hurtful, and subject to great harm by 



