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Elizabethan Priest-Holes: V—The North

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 October 2016

Michael Hodgetts
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The choice of houses for this fifth article was not easy. In the first of the series I argued that the building of priest-holes took place in three stages, divided roughly by the Armada and the Gunpowder Plot, the events which mark the beginning and the end of Nicholas Owen’s work. In the second, I discussed a group of hides from the early period, at Ufton, Mapledurham and Compton Wynyates. In the third and fourth I dealt with two groups of houses where there is evidence of Owen’s work: in East Anglia at Oxburgh, Braddocks and Sawston, and in Warwickshire and Worcestershire at Baddesley Clinton, Hindlip and Harvington. In the sixth (and last) article I shall deal with the most fully documented hides of the third period, namely those used by Charles II after the Battle of Worcester. But with such a wealth of material to draw on, which houses should go into the remaining article on the middle period ?

The third and fourth articles were illustrations of the work of two of the Jesuits who met at Baddesley Clinton in October 1591: John Gerard in East Anglia and Edward Oldcorne in Worcestershire. Even to complete the picture for these two priests would require another three articles. No county is richer in hiding-places than Worcestershire and the neighbouring parts of Warwickshire, and Oldcorne’s work extended much further afield, into Herefordshire and even into Wales.

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Research Article
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British Catholic History , Volume 13 , Issue 4 , October 1976 , pp. 254 - 279
Copyright
Copyright © Catholic Record Society 1976

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References

Notes

For the abbreviations used throughout this series of articles, see Recusant History October 1972, p. 296.

1 Foley 4, pp. 215, 271-5.

2 Salisbury Calendar 18, pp. 17, 35-36, cf. p. 201; Mathias, , Whitsun Riot (1963), pp. 82–88.Google Scholar

3 Squiers, pp. 175-7.

4 ‘They were kept in a room at Ludlow Castle and they are not there now‘: Penry Williams, The Council in the Marches of Wales under Elizabeth I (1958), p. 362.

5 Gerard, p. 162.

6 Troubles 1, pp, 187-215.

7 Squiers, pp. 261-8.

8 Troubles 1, p. 209.

9 Squiers, pp. 145, 161.

10 C.R.S. 5, pp. 221-2.

11 Recusant History, October 1972, pp. 283-4.

12 Caraman, The Other Face, p. 121.

13 Squiers, p. 159; Haward, Winifred I., Secret Rooms of North-West England (The Dalesman, Clapham, Lancaster, 1964), p. 21.Google Scholar

14 Haward, p. 49, and photograph between pp. 28 and 29.

15 Recusant History, January 1974, pp. 181-2.

16 Troubles 3, pp. 105-17; Aveling, , Northern Catholics (1966), pp. 55–56, 58, 159-60Google Scholar.

17 Garnet, pp. 127-9.

18 Troubles 3, p. 113.

19 Troubles 3, p. 116.

20 Troubles 3, p. 114.

21 S.P. 12/244, no. 5.

22 Troubles 3, p. 221.

23 Ibid.

24 Ibid.

26 Ibid.

26 Ibid. pp. 221-2.

27 Ibid., pp. 114-15. Garnet’s letter (Stonyhurst Anglia 1, 73) is dated 17 March 1594, which means that this Holy Week search must have been the previous year.

28 Recusant History, October 1970, p. 332.

29 Ibid., pp. 332-3

80 Squiers, pp. 133-5.

81 Recusant History, October 1970, p. 335.

82 Ibid., 335-7.

83 Information from Mr William Scanlon of Hardwick Hall, and from Dr David Crane.

84 Squiers, p. 136.

85 Ibid.

86 Quoted in Recusant History, October 1970, p. 336.

37 Garnet, p. 168.

38 Troubles I, p. 211.

39 Foley 5, p. 530.

40 V.C.H., North Riding 2, p. 510; Pevsner, The Buildings of England: Yorkshire North Riding, p. 392.

41 Allan Fea, Secret Chambers and Hiding Places (1908), p. 274.

42 The Memoirs of Sir Hugh Cholmley, taken from an original Manuscript, in his own Hand writing, now in the Possession of Nathaniel Cholmley of Whitby and Howsham in the County of York, Esquire, 1787: Leeds University Library, Brotherton Collection 46296 (microfilm in Birmingham Reference Library 731324), pp. 14-16.

43 Camm, Forgotten Shrines, pp. 297-8.

44 V.C.H., North Riding 2, pp. 347, 503.

45 Ibid,, p. 344.

46 Aveling, Northern Catholics, p. 162.

47 Foley 3, p. 295; Caraman, The Other Face, p. 107.

48 S.P. 12/270, no. 99.

49 S.P. 12/271, no. 9/1.

50 S.P. 12/271, no. 9.

51 S.P. 12/271, no. 71.

52 Ibid.

53 Ibid.

54 Aveling, Northern Catholics, p. 168.

55 S.P. 12/271, no. 72.

56 Aveling, Northern Catholics, pp. 199-204, 218.

57 Troubles 3, p. 117.

58 Information from Dr J. C. H. Aveling.

60 Country Life, 20 February 1958 and 30 March 1961.

60 Recusant History, January 1974, pp. 172, 191; April 1975, pp. 40, 46.

61 Haward, Winifred I., Secret Rooms of Yorkshire (The Dalesman, Clapham, Lancaster, 1956), p. 25.Google Scholar

62 Information from Mr Peter Brears.

63 Information from Mr Donald Haldane.

64 V.C.H., Lancashire 6, p. 461.

65 Blundell, F. Odo, Old Catholic Lancashire (1925), pp. 17–18 Google Scholar. I have not been able to trace the MS.

66 Recusant History, April 1975, pp. 37-40 and Plates 8, 9; Squiers, p. 156.

67 Ibid.

68 Ibid.

69 Squiers, p. 155.

70 Leatherbarrow, J. S., The Lancashire Elizabethan Recusants (Chetham Society N.S. 110, 1947), pp. 52–54 Google Scholar; British Library, MS. Lansdowne 30, no. 78.

71 C.R.S. 60, p. 41; Leatherbarrow, pp. 80-83, 102-04.

72 C.R.S. 60, p. 37.

73 Ibid., pp. 40-41.

74 Ibid.

75 V.C.H., Lancashire 6, pp. 341-2; C.R.S. 4, p. 188.

76 Leatherbarrow, pp. 52-54.

77 S.P. 12/240, no. 105/ii; Anstruther, p. 20. For the relationship of Perkins and Mompesson, see Harleian Society 56, p. 119; 64, p. 74.

78 Devlin, Christopher, Hamlet’s Divinity and Other Essays (1963), pp. 74–114.Google Scholar

79 C.R.S. 54, no. 597.

80 Anstruther, p. 92.

81 Ibid., p. 91.

82 Caraman, The Other Face, p. 121.

83 V.C.H., Lancashire 3, p. 294 and n. 5.

84 C.R.S. 4, p. 199; C.R.S. 53, p. 124.

85 Robin Fedden and Rosemary Joekes, The National Trust Guide (1973), p. 381.

86 Liverpool City Library, 920 NOR 1/395, printed in Lanes, and Cheshire Hist. Soc. Trans 96-97 (1945-6).

87 British Library, MS. Harleian 360, f. 32v.

88 Hatfield House, Cecil Papers 58/103.

89 C.R.S. 3, p. 108. The reference, not given there, is S.P. 16/151, no. 13.

90 Inscription across the north front: ‘This worke twenty-five yards long was wholly builded by Edw: N: Esq: Ano. 1598’.

91 Recusant History, April 1975, p. 44 and Plates 11, 12, 13.