Hostname: page-component-cd9895bd7-dzt6s Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-12-26T05:24:06.868Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

A Topographical Index of Hiding-Places, III

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 September 2015

Michael Hodgetts
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Extract

This is the third and (barring further significant discoveries) the final part of my index, the first and second parts of which were published in Recusant History in October 1982 (nos. 1–177) and May 1998 (nos. 178–300). In Part II, for reasons of space and cost, I omitted, unless there was more to report on them, houses mentioned in my Secret Hiding-Places (1989) but not included in Part I. For reference and analysis, however, it is inconvenient to have a numbered list and a book, each including houses not in the other; and in any case there is now more to report on many of these houses. The one hundred houses in Part III (nos. 301–400) therefore include all sixty-nine of those that were mentioned, however briefly, in Hodgetts 1989 and were not included in Parts I or II. Among them is Scotney Old Castle in Kent (no. 320), which is one of only ten houses in the country where there is a surviving hide mentioned in an Elizabethan or Stuart account of a search. Forty-eight of the hundred were in Granville Squiers’ Secret Hiding-Places (1933).

Type
Research Article
Information
British Catholic History , Volume 27 , Issue 4 , October 2005 , pp. 473 - 520
Copyright
Copyright © Catholic Record Society 2005

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

1 Recusant History 16 (1982–83), pp. 146–216; 24 (1998–99), pp. 1–54.

2 Recusant History 24, p. 1.

3 In numerical order, the ten are Ufton Court, Berkshire (5); Trent Manor, Dorset (26); Braddocks, Essex (35); Salmesbury, Lancashire (61), Boscobel, Shropshire (110); Moseley Old Hall, Staffordshire (129); Baddesley Clinton, Warwickshire (135); the cave in the Little Orme at Llandudno (169); Crosby Hall, Lancashire (225); and Scotney Old Castle, Kent (321). Of these, the place at Samlesbury has been much altered and that at Crosby Hall was badly damaged by fire in 1887. Sledwich, Co. Durham (31) is a doubtful eleventh. For further details of Trent, see [26] below.

4 ‘The hiding-places of Scotland it has been decided to leave for a future volume. I have a list of twenty-five, though I am convinced that there must be many more’: Squiers, Granville, Secret Hiding-Places (1933), p. 144 Google Scholar. Of his twenty-five, sixteen are probably those in Fea 1901 and four those in Fea 1931, pp. 77–79.

5 Squiers, pp. 34–36, 84: Dijkgraaf, Hendrik, The Library of a Jesuit Community at Holbeck, Nottinghamshire (1679), LP Publications, Cambridge, 2003, pp. 76–87.Google Scholar

6 Squiers, pp. 81–83; Caraman, Philip, Henry Garnet and the Gunpowder Plot (1964), p. 99.Google Scholar

7 Hodgetts, , Recusant History 12 (1973–74), pp. 184–94Google Scholar; Wanklyn, Malcolm ed., Inventories of Worcestershire Landed Gentry, 1537–1786, Worcs. Hist. Soc. N.S. 16 (1998), pp. 60–78.Google Scholar

8 Cf Hodgetts, , ‘Loca Secretiora in 1581’, Recusant History 19 (1988–89), pp. 386–94.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

9 SP 12/198/12; cf C.S.P.D. 1581–90, p. 384.

10 Pevsner, , Buildings of England: Berkshire (1966), p. 173 Google Scholar, says simply ‘(LYFORD GRANGE. Edmund Campion was arrested here)’. Cf V.C.H. Berkshire IV, p. 290.

11 Simpson, Richard, Life of Edmund Campion (1896 ed., ‘reprinted from a copy corrected by the learned Author before his death’), pp. 309–320.Google Scholar

12 Bombino, Paolo, Vita et Martyrium Edmundi Campiani (Antwerp 1618), pp. 204–5 (Simpson, p. 320)Google Scholar. There is a copy at Oscott: Pullen, G. F., Recusant Books at St Mary’s, Oscott, I: 1518–1687 (1964), no. 535.Google Scholar

13 Bombino, p. 193; cf Simpson, p. 316: ‘The walls of the house were pierced in every direction, they told him, with galleries and hiding-holes’.

14 ‘They turn to their usual refuges: tears for the women, hides for the priests’: Bombino, p. 197 (Simpson, p. 318).

15 Charles Yate left a son, another Charles, who died before he came of age, and two daughters, one of whom, Winifred, was a nun at Dunkirk. In 1713 her half of Lyford, which by her profession had ‘gone to a superstitious use’, was bought from her by her brother-in-law William Dunn, who, though not a Papist, was ‘inclining thereto’ and had acquired the other half by right of his wife. Estcourt, & Payne, , English Catholic Nonjurors of 1715 (1886), pp. 354–5Google Scholar; H., V.C. Berkshire IV, p. 290.Google Scholar

16 C.R.S. 70, p. 170; Anstruther II, pp. 258–9.

17 Hussey, Christopher, Country Life 79 (1936), pp. 653–4.Google Scholar

18 SP 14/28/122/1, printed in Hodgetts, , ‘Shropshire Priests in 1605’, Worcestershire Recusant 47 (June 1986), pp. 24–36 Google Scholar; the references to Powis (‘Red’) Castle are on pp. 32, 35 (nos. 2, 20–22). Sir Edward Herbert died in 1595; his wife was Mary Stanley. Their son William (1573–1656) was created a Knight of the Bath in 1603 and first Baron in 1626. ‘The Lady Herbert’ may have been Mary (Stanley) or her daughter-in-law Eleanor (Percy), whom William had married by 1600 and who lived until 1650. For them and for the priest in 1644 see G. K. C[ockayne], Complete Peerage, under Powis. The Castle was known as Red Castle (Castell Coch) from the colour of the sandstone: it is not the same as Red Castle in Hawkstone Park near Wem, which was already a ruin in the sixteenth century. See also Haslam, (Pevsner], The Buildings of Wales: Powys (1979), pp. 188–196, with plans.Google Scholar

19 Harris, Philip R., ‘The Reports of William Udall, Informer, 1605–1612: I’, Recusant History 8 (1965–66), p. 217.Google Scholar

20 Ibidem, pp. 202–4, 219 n. 9, 255. Although Sir Edward Brabazon (1549–1616) was Sheriff of Staffordshire in 1606–7 and it was alleged that ‘Doleman’s’ Conference about the Next Succession was printed at his house ‘in Staffordshire’, he in fact lived, when not in Ireland, at Nether Whitacre in Warwickshire. Complete Peerage, under Brabazon; H., V.C. Warwks. IV, pp. 251–4Google Scholar. The Hall, there, 3/4 mile NE of the church, is still moated and has an Elizabethan gatehouse.

21 Hodgetts, , ‘The Godly Garret’ in Rowlands, Marie B. ed., Catholics of Parish and Town, 1558–1778 (C.R.S. Monograph 5/Wolverhampton University, 1999), pp. 36–60.Google Scholar

22 Girouard, Mark, Life in the English Country House (Yale, 1978), pp. 81–118.Google Scholar

23 Birmingham Central Library, City Archives, Holte Deeds (M.S. 21), no. 17.

24 Blount, ’s Boscobel, in Fea, Allan, After Worcester Fight (1904), p. 128 Google Scholar: ‘After supper, a good bed was provided for Mr Lassels and a truckle-bed for Will Jackson in the same chamber, but Mr Lassels (after the chamberlain had left them) laid His Majesty in the best bed and himself in the other, and used the like observance when any opportunity would allow it’.

25 John Gerard: The Autobiography of an Elizabethan, ed. Philip Caraman (2/1956), p. 162.

26 Foley IV, p. 223.

27 John Gerard, pp. 160–1.

28 Ibidem, pp. 150–5.

29 Recusant History 13 (197–76), pp. 47–50; Hodgetts, , Secret Hiding-Places (1989), pp. 97–99.Google Scholar

30 Foley II, pp. 3–6; VII/1, pp. xvi-xvii.

31 John Gerard, pp. 159–160, 169–171. At Irthlingborough Caraman renders ‘up in the dining-room … the great hall’, but these were not synonyms. If the room was ‘up’ (on the first floor) it was the great chamber, which was used for ceremonial dining; a great hall was on the ground floor.

32 Confessions of Nicholas Owen and Edward Oldcorne, Foley IV, pp. 259–260, 222 (from SP 14/216/ 2194, 197).

33 John Gerard, pp. 159–160.

34 Instructions for the search in the hand of Salisbury’s secretary Levinus Monk in Foley IV, p. 73 (SP 14/18/29); inventory of 1582 (see no. 7 above).

35 Foley IV, p. 269 (from SP 14/216/2/195).

36 British Library, MS Harleian 360, f. 101r.

37 SP 14/18/52. For the risks, cf Verstegan to Persons, 5 March 1591–2, in Caraman, Garnet, p. 139, n. 4: ‘The servants of recusants they do either persuade by flattery or compel by torture in hanging them up by the hands to betray their masters in discovering what priests he [sic] doth relieve, what persons do frequent the house and the like’.

page 520 note 1 Squiers to me, 7 December 1956.

page 520 note 2 These items are now at Moseley.

page 520 note 3 Squiers to me, 5 April 1956, 14 July 1956, 3 November 1956.

page 520 note 4 Squiers, pp. 17, 18