His father had entertained Edmund Campion at the ancestral home, Mount St. John, early in 1581.
[2] The following May he fell into the hands of the English authorities, whereupon he was arrested and confined to the dungeons for several months.
[1] Harrington was sentenced to be hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn for the crime of being a Catholic priest.
He was given the chance to spare his life if he renounced the Catholic faith and were to attend Protestant services just once.
John Donne was also Catholic, but later embraced the Protestant Church of England, in an effort to spare his own life.