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Elizabethan Priest-Holes I: Dating and Chronology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 May 2017

Michael Hodgetts
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At sunrise on 14 July 1586, the only three Jesuits then in England, William Weston, Henry Garnet and Robert Southwell, rode westwards out of London. They were making for Harleyford, a mansion on the north bank of the Thames, two miles upstream from Marlow and backed by the beechwoods of the Chilterns. There they lay hidden for a week, ‘discussing', as Weston cautiously wrote, ‘our future methods of work and the prospects that lay before us'. The owner of Harleyford, Robert Bold, was a keen musician, and in the mornings Mass was sung with a mixed choir, organ and other instruments, conducted by no less a master than William Byrd. Perhaps one or more of Byrd's own settings, especially the bare and haunting Mass for Three Voices, was first performed during this octave. Nearly the whole of the morning, says Weston, was taken up by Mass, preaching and confessions.

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Research Article
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British Catholic History , Volume 11 , Issue 6 , October 1972 , pp. 279 - 298
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Copyright © Catholic Record Society 1972

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Notes

The following abbreviations will be used throughout this series of articles:

1. Weston 69-72, 76-78.

2. The three Masses were first published between 1592 and 1595: Clulow, P. J., ‘Publication Dates for Byrd's Latin Masses’. Music and Letters 47, January 1966, pp. 1–9 CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

3. Weston 78; C.R.S. 5, 309; Garnet 35.

4. This is my own analysis of Anstruther, taking 14 July 1586 or the nearest other recorded date as a basis. The results are inevitably approximate and I have only used them to indicate broad trends.

5. S.P. 12/243/76 (Worcestershire Recusant 5, 18-31; 6, 7-20).

6. Weston 1-79.

7. Weston 72.

8. Weston IS.

9. Evelyn Waugh, Edmund Campion (third ed., 1961), 124-5.

10. Chafloner, Memoirs of Missionary Priests (ed, Pollen, 1924), 3.

11. Jessopp, One Generation of a Norfolk House (1879), pp. 67, 79.

12. Foley 3, 666.

13. Eliot, George, A True Report of the Taking of Edmund Campion (ed. Pollard, A. F., Tudor Tracts (1903), pp. 451–474)Google Scholar.

14. Weston 22-24.

15. Weston 28.

16. Weston 45; Devlin 125.

17. Devlin 181-182.

18. Gerard 40.

19. Foley 1, 379-382.

20. Devlin 256.

21. Troubles 3, 221, 139.

22. Troubles 3, 18, 53.

23. Garnet 168.

24. C.R.S. 5, 221-222.

25. Garnet 168.

26. Troubles 3, 113.

27. Forster, Ann, “The Maire Family of County Durham’, Recusant History 10, 332.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

28. Squiers 133-137.

29. Rogers, D. M., ‘Popishe Thackwell and Early Catholic printing in Wales’, Biographical Studies 2, 37.Google Scholar Y Drych is Allison and Rogers Catalogue no. 728.

30. The Countryman, “Winter 1962, 809.

31. Narrative 182-187.

32. Gerard 158.

33. Troubles 3, 11.

34. Squiers 276.

35. Roberts, Frank, ‘The Society of Jesus in Staffordshire’, Staffs. Catholic History 3, 1–2.Google Scholar

36. S.P. 12/243/95; cf. 244/7.

37. Narrative xliv (S.P. 12/248/103).

38. Gerard 58-64.

39. V.C.H. Worcs. 3, 399.

40. Camden Miscellany 9 (1893), Letters from the Bishops to the Privy Council, 1564, pp. 5-6.

41. Gerard 44.

42. Athenae Oxonienses 3, 222-225.

43. Gerard 44-45; Foley 4, 213-216.

44. Foley 4, 215.

45. Nash, Worcestershire 1 (1784), 585.

46. Society of Antiquaries, Prattinton Collection, Box 2/15, nos. 1-6 and Worcestershire Parishes 18, p. 76.

47. Narrative 151.

48. Nash, Worcestershire 1, 586.

49. Vaux xiv; Squiers 60.

50. A. J- Taylor, Raglan Castle (H.M.S.O., 1950), 16, 41.

51. Squiers 130-131.

52. Fea, Allan, After Worcester Fight (1904) 104 Google Scholar.

53. Squiers 239-240.

54. Squiers 68, 126, 173.

55. Squiers 94, 138.

56. Squiers 184.

57. Weston 44-47.

58. This hide is unpublished; it will be described in detail in a later article.

59. Narrative 37.

60. Hodgetts, Staffs. Catholic History 8, 4-5.

61. As at Scotney Old Castle in 1598: ‘Havinge for that purpose both bricklayers and carpenters allways at hand’. Foley 3, 486.

62. Squiers 26-27.

63. Squiers 203-204.

64. Narrative 37.

65. Foley 4, 73.

66. Devlin 356, 359.

67. Weston 3, 8.

68. Gerard 153.

69. Gerard 142.

70. Garnet 122-126; Devlin 240, 252-253.

71. Reid, Patrick R., The Latter Days at Colditz (Paperback, Hodder ed., 1965), 64, 171–173 Google Scholar.

72. Reid, , Latter Days, 268–282 Google Scholar.

73. The Illustrated London News, 1 April 1961, 528-9

74. Narrative ccxlix-ccli.

75. Caraman and Walsh, Martyrs of England and Wales, 1535-1680: A Chronological List (1960).

76. Foley 1, 109-110.

77. Caraman, , Henry Morse (1957), 41.Google Scholar

78. William Palmes, The Life of Mrs. Dorothy Lawson (1855) chapter 5; Caraman, Henry Morse, 32.

79. Foley 3, 121; Anstruther 192.

80. Fea, After Worcester Fight, 160.

81. ibid. 27.

82. Foley 2, 82.

83. Society of Antiquaries, Prattinton Collection, Worcestershire Parishes 18, p. 48: Thomas Habington to Lord Shrewsbury, 8 June 1643, copied from original then (c. 1815) at Grafton, Worcestershire.

84. Fea, After Worcester Fight, 142. Even here it is worth noting that Mrs. Hyde of Heale was née Tichborne, Ibid.

85. Squiers 228-230.

86. Mary Whitmore Jones, The Gunpowder Plot and life of Robert Catesby, also an account of Chastleton House (1909) (I owe this reference to Dr Alan Davidson); Squiers 112-113.

87. Fea, After Worcester Fight, 27.

88. Squiers 263.

89. This stool has since disappeared, but there is a photograph of it in the Stone Collection in Birmingham Reference Library. Postcard copies, one of which I possess, were on sale at the Hall in the 1930's.

90. There is a detailed description of the find in George Buckler, Twenty-two of the Churches of Essex (1856), 117-119.

91. Evelyn's Diary (ed. H. B. Wheatley, 1906), 2, p. 339.

92. Foley 5, 228, 433-436.

93. Foley 5, 482-6.

94. Foley 2, 300.

95. The house belonged to the Pierrepoints in the early seventeenth century, but it is uncertain whether this branch were recusants.

96. Foley 4, 370.

97. Basil Hemphill, O.S.B., The Early Vicars Apostolic of England, (1953), 47–48.Google Scholar In a later letter to Mayes, in 1719, Giffard says: ‘Had the officers that searched the house found me, you would have heard of me being for the fifth time condemned to prison’: Hemphill 48. But that need not imply more than that Giffard slipped out of the back door.

98. Challoner, Memoirs (1924), 553.

99. Birmingham Archdiocesan Archives C. 155, printed in Worcs. Arch. Soc. Trans. 39 (1962), 11-12.

100. Squiers 125, 139, 159-160; Blundell, Nicholas, The Great Diurnall vol. 2 (Lanes. & Cheshire Record Soc, 1970), 152.Google Scholar

101. Gerard 158.