God’s Secret Agents: Queen Elizabeth's Forbidden Priests & the Hatching of the Gunpowder Plot (60 page)

Carry on along the passage and you come to the Marble Room, with a triangular fireplace built into the far corner. This fireplace has no chimney-stack beneath it and extends only as far as the ceiling: it is entirely false. If you were to climb up it, through its carefully blackened surrounds, you would enter a bewildering maze of attics above, with a second hide built into the end garret.

Below the Marble Room is Dr Dodd’s Library. At the far end of this library, opposite the window, is a small raised stage, once used as a bookcupboard. The back wall of it is panelled; the sides would once have been panelled too, but now they consist of bare brick and upright timber beams. In the darkest recesses of this stage is a timber beam, the end of which can be raised. It pivots open to reveal a hide beyond, eight foot long, three foot wide and five foot high—luxury in terms of hiding-places—with a small wooden joint-stool as furniture. This stool is too big to pass through the ten-inch-wide entrance to the hide, so it must have been built, or assembled,
in situ.
The hide was discovered by accident in 1897 by boys playing in the, then, derelict hall. It and its companion pieces are some of the very finest hiding-places ever to have been built. They provide enduring evidence of the genius of Nicholas Owen.

*
The existing staircase is a replica: the original was dismantled and moved to Coughton Court in 1910.

Endnotes

CHAPTER ONE

1
Neale, II, pp. 108-9; Mattingley, p. 159; Somerset, p. 451.

2
Mattingley, pp. 159-60.

3
Ibid.
, p. 161.

4
Ibid.

5
Ibid.
, pp. 166-7; Somerset, pp. 451-2; Neale, II, p. 193.

6
Milne-Tyte, pp. 10, 14, 23; Somerset, p. 446.

7
Milne-Tyte, pp. 10, 17, 18, 29; Wernham, p. 342; Elton, p. 356.

8
Milne-Tyte, pp. 45, 129-30; Mattingley, p. 166.

9
Milne-Tyte, p. 10; Somerset, p. 458.

10
Milne-Tyte, pp. 32-33.

11
Somerset, p. 458; Milne-Tyte, pp. 18, 41; C.S.P. Spanish, IV, pp. 373, 479-83.

12
Harleian Miscellany
, I, pp. 119ff.; Somerset, pp. 458-9; Milne-Tyte, p. 84.

13
Milne-Tyte, pp. 84, 90, 101-2, 151.

14
Milne-Tyte, pp. 112-13, 145; C.S.P. Spanish, IV, pp. 419, 479-83.

15
Milne-Tyte, pp. 107-8.

16
C.S.P. Spanish, IV, p. 493; Caraman,
Garnet
, pp. 82-3;
Harleian Miscellany
, I, pp. 132-3.

17
Harleian Miscellany
, I, p. 115; Davies,
Europe
, p. 520; MacCulloch, pp. xix-xx.

18
Somerset, p. 467; Caraman,
Garnet
, p. 83.

19
Gerard, p. 9 and note; Morris,
Condition
, p. 280; Jessopp, p. 161; Elton, p. 370.

20
Gerard, pp. 9ff.; Morris,
Condition
, pp. 280ff.

21
Gerard, p. 1; Morris,
Condition
, pp. ix-xi.

22
Gerard, p. 2.

23
Davies,
Europe
, p. 496; Gerard, pp. 2-3.

24
Gerard, p. 3; S.P. Domestic 12/clxviii/35.

25
Gerard, pp. 3-4.

26
Gerard, pp. 4-5.

27
Gerard, p. 6.

28
Gerard, pp. 7-8, 213 note; S.P. Domestic 12/cxcix/95-6, 12/ccxvii/3, 12/ccxvii/81; Devlin,
Life
, p. 248.

29
Gerard, p. 8.

30
Neale, II, pp. 37ff.; Tierney, III, pp. xxxiii-xxxvii; Aydelotte, pp. 54-5.

31
Gerard, pp. 10-11.

32
Gerard, pp. 11-12; Jessopp, p. 162.

33
Gerard, pp. 12-13.

34
Gerard, p. 13; Jessopp, p. 162.

35
Gerard, pp. 13-14; Jessopp, pp. 162, 225.

36
Gerard, p. 14.

37
Ibid.
, pp. 14-15.

38
Ibid.
, p. 15; Jessopp, p. 164.

39
Strype, III, pp. 87-92; Devlin,
Life
, p. 175.

40
Devlin,
Life
, p. 172.

CHAPTER TWO

1
V.C.H. Oxford, IV, p. 74; Parish Registers of St Peter-le-Bailey; Salter,
Properties
, p. 203; Salter,
Survey
, II, pp. 120-22; Hodgetts,
Owens
, p. 427; Hogge, pp. 291ff.

2
Hogge, pp. 291-2; V.C.H. Oxford, IV, pp. 86, 401; Salter,
Survey
, II, p. 123; Salter,
Names
, pp. 11-12.

3
R.C.H.M. Oxford, pp. 156-8; V.C.H. Oxford, IV, pp. 296-300.

4
V.C.H. Oxford, IV, pp. 85, 365; R.C.H.M. Oxford, p. 155.

5
McCoog, p. 40; McConica, p. 364.

6
McCoog, p. 40; McConica, p. 125.

7
McCoog, p. 40; McConica, p. 125.

8
McCoog, p. 40; McConica, p. 128.

9
McConica, p. 365; Rashdall, pp. 106-7.

10
V.C.H. Oxford, IV, p. 12.

11
McConica, pp. 368-72, 404; McCoog, pp. 43-4.

12
McCoog, p. 45; Fowler, p. 97.

13
McCoog, pp. 47-9; V.C.H. Oxford, III, pp. 20, 238, 251.

14
Fowler, pp. 97, 357; McCoog, p. 49; McConica, pp. 375, 377.

15
Wernham, pp. 99, 181, 208; S.P. Domestic 11/1/7.

16
Plowden, p. 25.

17
Tierney, II, pp. ccxxix, 120.

18
Neale, I, p. 44; Plowden, p. 18.

19
Elton, p. 264; Plowden, p. 18; Tierney, I, pp. 176, 186-7; Neale, I, p. 57.

20
Neale, I, pp. 35, 83; C.S.P. Spanish, I, p. 64; Sander, p. 282 note; Plowden, p. 36.

21
Sander, p. 244.

22
Neale, I, pp. 78-9; Sander, pp. 268, 283-5; Duffy, pp. 567-8.

23
McCoog, p. 251; Plowden, p. 48.

24
Gerard, pp. 18-19 and note, 221 note.

25
C.S.P. Spanish, I, pp. 217-18; V.C.H. Oxford, IV, p. 412; McCoog, p. 54; Rowlands, p. 157.

26
McConica, p. 405; Tierney, II, p. 143.

27
C.S.P. Domestic 1547-1580, p. 186; Rashdall, pp. 111-15; McConica, pp. 381, 408; McCoog, pp. 50-51; V.C.H. Oxford, III, p. 159.

28
Somerset, pp. 122-3.

29
C.S.P. Spanish, I, pp. 156, 217-18; McCoog, p. 51.

30
C.S.P. Spanish, I, p. 303.

31
McConica, pp. 397ff.; Duncan-Jones, pp. 35ff.; Wallace, pp. 60-64; A. Wood,
History
, pp. 154ff.; Plummer, pp. 197ff.

32
C.S.P. Spanish, I, pp. 178-9.

33
Simpson,
Campion
, pp. 12-14; McCoog, p. 87; Watkins, pp. 83, 89.

34
Jessopp, p. 102.

35
Haile, pp. 2ff, 77; Clancy, p. 8.

CHAPTER THREE

1
Sander, p. 261; Tierney, III, pp. 7-8.

2
McCoog, p. 251 note.

3
Plowden, pp. 89-91; Haile, p. 108.

4
Neale, I, pp. 185-6.

5
Davies,
Europe
, pp. 496-502; Clancy, p. 7.

6
Tierney, III, p. 87.

7
Challoner, p. 5; Allen, pp. 108-9; Haile, p. 140.

8
Haile, p. 119.

9
Ibid.
, pp. 34-5, 47.

10
Plowden, pp. 59-60; Haile, p. 58; Knox,
Letters
, p. 21.

11
Haile, pp. 71-5.

12
Ibid.
, pp. 77-80.

13
Plowden, p. 63.

14
Neale, I, pp. 116-17.

15
Magee, pp. 31-2.

16
S.P. Domestic 12/xxi/10, 12/xxiii/9;
Richard II
, I.iii.176.

17
Gerard, p. 1; Cook, p. 42; Devlin,
Life
, p. 17.

18
S.P. Domestic 12/xxiii/9; Devlin,
Life
, p. 10.

19
Devlin,
Life
, p. 16.

20
Knox,
Diaries
, p. lxxvi; Haile, pp. 80ff.

21
Haile, pp. 127, 128, 185.

22
Ibid.
, pp. 134-7, 144.

23
Knox,
Diaries
, pp. lvii-lviii; Munday,
Life
, p. 12.

24
Munday,
Life
, pp. 12ff.

25
Ibid.
, pp. 15, 28; Porter, p. 13.

26
Munday,
Life
, pp. 21-7; Haile, p. 82.

27
Haile, pp. 149-50, 151, 154; Knox,
Letters
, pp. 178-9, 247-8, 264-5.

28
Haile, p. 146; Knox,
Diaries
, p. xlvi; C.S.P. Spanish IV, p. 37.

29
Haile, p. 140.

30
Allen, p. 105.

31
Ibid.

32
Haile, p. 140; Challoner, p. 5; Allen, pp. 105-6.

33
Haile, p. 141; Challoner, p. 5; Plowden, p. 121.

34
Allen, pp. 107-108; Haile, p. 141; Challoner, p. 6.

35
Haile, p. 141.

36
Clancy, p. 140; Simpson,
Campion
, pp. 69-70; Knox,
Diaries
, p. lxxxii; McCoog, p. 293 and note.

37
Simpson,
Campion
, p. 7.

CHAPTER FOUR

1
Simpson,
Campion
, pp. 378-9; Haile, pp. 85-6.

2
Simpson,
Campion
, pp. 1ff., 28-9; Haile, p. 86.

3
Simpson,
Campion
, pp. 73-4.

4
Davies,
Europe
, p. 496.

5
E. Waugh,
Campion
, p. 69.

6
Plowden, pp. 145-6; Harmsen, p. 9.

7
Plowden, pp. 152-3; E. Waugh,
Campion
, pp. 70-71.

8
C.R.S. 39, p. 4; E. Waugh,
Campion
, p. 102.

9
C.R.S. 39, pp. xii-xiii, 319-21; E. Waugh,
Campion
, pp. 72-3.

10
Simpson,
Campion
, pp. 151, 154-6.

11
E. Waugh,
Campion
, pp. 75-9.

12
C.R.S. 39, p. xiii; Simpson,
Campion
, pp. 143, 146; E. Waugh,
Campion
, p. 80; Meyer, p. 271.

13
E. Waugh,
Campion
, pp. 80-81; Simpson,
Campion
, pp. 148-9.

14
Somerset, pp. 321, 325.

15
Wernham, pp. 333, 358; Somerset, p. 326.

16
C.R.S. 39, p. xiii.

17
Simpson,
Campion
, p. 170; Plowden, p. 149.

18
McCoog, p. 68; E. Waugh,
Campion
, p. 82.

19
Simpson,
Campion
, pp. 174-6; Plowden, p. 155.

20
C.R.S. 39, p. xv; E. Waugh,
Campion
, p. 99.

21
C.R.S. 39, p. xv; Foley, III, p. 661.

22
Simpson,
Campion
, pp. 173-4, 223, 297; Simpson,
Associations
, p. 28.

23
Simpson,
Campion
, p. 223; Simpson,
Associations
, p. 28; C.R.S. 39, p. 84; Foley, III, pp. 658-704.

24
C.R.S. 39, p. 44.

25
E. Waugh,
Campion
, p. 82.

26
Knox,
Diaries
, pp. lxviii-lxix; E. Waugh,
Campion
, p. 92.

27
Simpson,
Campion
, p. 177.

28
Holinshed.

29
Holinshed; Hat. Cal. IV, pp. 335-6.

30
Wernham, p. 357.

31
C.S.P. Spanish II, pp. 709-10; Haile, p. 178; Somerset, p. 385; S.P. Domestic 12/cxiv/22; C.R.S. 22, pp. 2ff.

32
Haigh,
Continuity
, p. 51; C.R.S. 60, p. 10; Neale, II, p. 29.

33
E. Waugh,
Campion
, pp. 93-4; Plowden, pp. 157-8.

34
Plowden, pp. 157-8.

35
McCoog, p. 263.

36
Simpson,
Campion
, pp. 179-80.

37
C.R.S. 39, p. 44; E. Waugh,
Campion
, pp. 99-100, 102.

38
C.R.S. 39, p. 57.

39
E. Waugh,
Campion
, pp. 100-102.

40
Simpson,
Campion
, p. 254; C.R.S. 9, pp. 63-9; Knox,
Diaries
, p. lxx; C.R.S. 39, p. 108; V.C.H. Oxford, IV, p. 413.

41
C.R.S. 39, p. xxiii; E. Waugh,
Campion
, pp. 105-106.

42
E. Waugh,
Campion
, p. 110; C.R.S. 39, p. 45.

43
Plowden, p. 166; C.R.S. 39, p.xxx; Allen, p. 39.

44
Neale, I, pp. 383-4.

45
Tierney, III, p. xxiv; Neale, I, pp. 386-9.

46
Simpson,
Campion
, pp. 310-11.

47
Ibid.
, p. 312.

48
Munday,
Answer
, pp. 1ff.; Pollard, pp. 458, 461.

49
Pollard, p. 461.

50
Pollard, pp. 462-3 and note; McCoog, pp. 124-5; Hodgetts,
Recusant History
, p. 151.

51
Pollard, pp. 454, 459.

52
E. Waugh,
Campion
, pp. 130-31.

53
Tierney, III, p. 151.

54
E. Waugh,
Campion
, pp. 149-50.

55
Pollard, pp. 454-5; E. Waugh,
Campion
, pp. 157-8.

56
Simpson,
Campion
, p. 135.

57
Plowden, p. 185.

58
Allen, p. 14; C.S.P. Spanish III, p. 231.

59
Simpson,
Campion
, pp. 378-9; E. Waugh,
Campion
, p. 147.