The arrest of Edmund Campion at Lyford Grange in July 1581 was the most important counter-intelligence success of Elizabethan anti-Catholic operations. Campion had evaded capture for over a year. The betrayal by an informer led to his arrest in a priest hole. After torture in the Tower and a show trial he was hanged drawn and quartered at Tyburn in December 1581. He was canonised in 1970.
Campion and two companions executed Tyburn December 1581
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