Bear with me…
Content coming soon 
Update 18/09/17 – links to currently uploaded posts added below. I have some posts yet to be written. I also need to add an intro to this post
People:
Imprisoned – John Gerard, Catholic Priest, 1597
John Gerard’s story told in the Salt Tower, Tower of London
The Autobiography of a Hunted Priest by John Gerard
Book Review
St Nicholas Owen Priest-Hole Maker by Tony Reynolds
Book Review
Glass window dedication at Harvington Hall
Places:
A refuge for Catholic priests
A safe house for Catholics with an chapel in the attic and what may have been secret access to the chapel
An Old Catholic family provides refuge for Charles I
Harvington Hall – Priest Hides
A tour of the priest hides in pictures and words
Attic chapel with a hide for ‘massing stuff’
Guesthouse with a secret tunnel to the nearby Priory – Used by Lord Lovelace of Hurley (a plotter of the ‘Glorious Revolution’)
History, Lord Lovelace connection and secret tunnels.
Dorney Court and its Recusancy Connections
This house reveals a recently discovered priest hole that is thought to be connect to Burnham Abbey via a secret passage.
The Old Bishop’s Palace – Ely
A prison for 32 Catholic recusants between 1588-97
Plots:
An account of the Gunpowder Plot
Habington’s chest in the Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum
Waiting….. waiting…..
I am sure it will be worth the wait.
I have updated this post now with the posts that I have published. I have more unpublished posts to come (still thoughts in my head that need formulating into posts)
I also need to add an introduction above the links…
Fascinating stuff, CP. You might enjoy Antonia Fraser’s “Gunpowder Plot – Terror & Faith in 1605″ if you haven’t come across it. She sets the event in context so well – and the story unfolds like a good novel.
Funny you should mention that book it is the one I am reading at the moment.