The Elizabethan Age underwent a continuing crisis of religion that was marked by a deepening polarization of thought between the supporters of the recently established Protestant Church and the larger number of adherents to the Roman Catholic faith. Of these latter, Edmund Campion may be taken as the archetype. Well known as an Englishman who fled to the Continent for conscience's sake, he returned to England as a Jesuit priest, was executed by the English …showed first 75 words of 4741 total…

…showed last 75 words of 4741 total…Also see DNB, III, 851. 13. DNB, III, 850-854; The Encylopaedia Britannica. 1973. 4, 721. 14. The play Sir Thomas More survived as a manuscript written largely in a hand identifiable as that of Anthony Munday, surfacing in 1727 in the possession of one Alexander Murray and his patron, the 2nd Earl of Oxford (of the Harley creation). 15. Sir Thomas More. Attributed to Anthony Munday. Eds. V. Gabrieli and G. Melchiori. 1990. 12-16. 16. The Diary of Henry Machyn. 1565. Ed. J.G. Nichols. London, 1848.