P R E F A C E TO THE ORIGINAL EDITION. THE first eight chapters of the following Life were printed off from time to time, as they appeared in theRa77zblerin the years 1861 and 1862. When the BUJJI c Z ha n P ge - d into the Home and ibre n Rtview this work was dropped, and was only resumed in Noveniber 1S66. Canlpion has had so many biographers that a nelv one may be expected to state his reasons for telling again a tale so often told. They are very simple. In the course of my researches among different archives, I found a quantity of unpublished matter that had never been seen by the former biographers and in reading over the earliest and most authentic memoirs I found so Inany points obacurerl by phrase - making, misunderstood through ignorance of England, or misre resenledth rough thc one-sidedness of those whose iuformation was depended upon, that there seemed ample room for another book on the same subject. I have to express my obligations to the Jesuit Fathers at Stonyhurst, who had the kindness to send the RISS. relating to Campion to London for my convenieuce to Charles Weld, Esq. who look the trouble to copy from a nrs. at the GesG in Rome the whole of Bombinus unpublished additions and corrections for his biography and lastly, to Father Victor de Buck, Bollandist, of Brussels, for several references to rare books, and for encouragement, without mhich the work would never have been resumed. Thc Bibliographical Appendix and the references in the notes will be a suffic