The first Jesuit Jesuit priests entered England. They were dispatched from Rome, via Geneva entering England, disguised as merchants from Calais. If they had been discovered, they would have been executed immediately for treason. Edward Campion and Rober Persons claimed they had no interest in politics of in waging a holy way. However, in 1580 Campion wrote a revealing document aptly titled Campion’s Brag which sounded more inflammatory than he perceived himself to be. In it he wrote, “The expense is reckoned, the enterprise is begun, it is of God, it cannot be withstood. So, the faith that was planted must be restored.” 

The only way to restore Campion’s faith in England was by getting rid of the queen who had supplanted it in the first place. Such religious rhetoric was warmly welcomed by Catholics as missionary zeal. However, the queen and her advisors saw it as dangerous politically charged religious rhetoric. Campion was hunted, arrested, racked, and burned at Tyburn as a warning to all Jesuits and their accomplices.