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Ven. Robert Drury
Martyr (1567-1607), was born of a good Buckinghamshire family and was received into the English College at Reims,
1 April, 1588. On 17 September, 1590, he was sent to the new College at Valladolid; here he finished his studies, was
ordained priest and returned to England in 1593. He laboured chiefly in London, where his learning and virtue made him much
respected among his brethren. He was one of the appellants against the archpriest Blackwell, and his name is affixed to the
appeal of 17 November, 1600, dated from the prison at Wisbech. An invitation from the Government to these priests to
acknowledge their allegiance and duty to the queen (dated 5 November, 1602) led to the famous loyal address of 31 January,
1603, drawn up by Dr. William Bishop, and signed by thirteen of the leading priests, including the two martyrs, Drury
and Cadwallader. In this address they acknowledged the queen as their lawful sovereign, repudiated the claim of the pope
to release them from their duty of allegiance to her, and expressed their abhorrence of the forcible attempts already made
to restore the Catholic religion and their determination to reveal any further conspiracies against the Government which
should come to their knowledge. In return they ingenuously pleaded that as they were ready to render to Caesar the things
that were Caesar's, so they might be permitted to yield to the successor of Peter that obedience which Peter himself might
have claimed under the commission of Christ, and so to distinguish between their several duties and obligations as to be
ready on the one hand to spend their blood in defence of her Majesty
, but on the other rather to lose their lives
than infringe the lawful authority of Christ's Catholic Church
. This bold repudiation of the pope's deposing power was
condemned by the theological faculty of Louvain; bit it is noteworthy that its author was selected by the pope himself as
the very man in whose person he would revive the episcopal authority in England; Dr. William Bishop being nominated Bishop
of Chalcedon and first vicar Apostolic in that country in 1623.
The results of the address were disappointing; Elizabeth died within three months of its signature, and James I soon
proved that he would not be satisfied with any purely civil allegiance. He thirsted for spiritual authority, and, with
the assistance of an apostate Jesuit, a new oath of allegiance was drawn up, which in its subtlety was designed to trouble
the conscience of Catholics and divide them on the lawfulness of taking it. It was imposed 5 July, 1606, and about this
time Drury was arrested. He was condemned for his priesthood, but was offered his life if he would take the new oath. A
letter from Father Persons, S.J., against its lawfulness was found on him. The oath declared that the damnable doctrine
of the deposing power was impious and heretical
, and it was condemned by Pope Paul V, 22 September, 1606, as
containing many things contrary to the Faith and Salvation
. This brief, however, was suppressed by the archpriest, and
Drury probably did not know of it. But he felt that his conscience would not permit him to take the oath, and he died a
martyr at Tyburn, 26 February, 1606-7. A curious contemporary account of his martyrdom, entitled A true Report of the
Arraignment ... of a Popish Priest named Robert Drewrie
(London, 1607), which has been reprinted in the Harleian
Miscellany
, calls him a Benedictine, and says he wore his monastic habit at the execution. But this habit
as
described proves to be the cassock and cap work by the secular clergy. The writer adds, There were certain papers shown
at Tyburn which had been found about him, of a very dangerous and traitorous nature, and among them also was his
Benedictine faculty under seal, expressing what power and authority he had from the pope to make men, women, and children
here of his order; what indulgence and pardons he could grant them
, etc. He may have been a confrater or oblate of the
order.
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