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A Topographical Index of Hiding-Places, II

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 September 2015

Michael Hodgetts
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Part I of this Index was published in Recusant History fifteen years ago, in October 1982. It was designed to serve two purposes: as an appendix to an earlier series of articles in Recusant History, in which I had discussed about thirty of the most important houses; and as a preliminary list of additions and corrections to Granville Squiers, Secret Hiding-Places (1933), which had been out of print since the publisher’s warehouse was bombed on the night of 29 December 1940. In 1989 my own book, also entitled Secret Hiding-Places, was published by Veritas; but, in order to allow room for necessary architectural and genealogical material, it only deals with about 180 houses, against 360 in Squiers, and of the 180 only 120 are in Squiers. Even after 1989, therefore, there remained about 240 houses where the hides had not been discussed in print since 1933, together with a number of others which had never been collected at all. Part II of the Index now lists another 123 houses (making a total of 300), of which 83 were in Squiers and 40 not. There are also further details on a few houses which were included in Part I, but these retain their original reference nos. (in square brackets) and so do not affect these statistics. Houses which were not in Index I but are in Hodgetts 1989 are not included here unless there is more to report on them, as with nos. 230, 236 and 239.

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British Catholic History , Volume 24 , Issue 1 , May 1998 , pp. 1 - 54
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Copyright © Catholic Record Society 1973

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Notes

1 Recusant History 16, 2 (1982–3), pp. 146–216.

2 ‘Elizabethan Priest-Holes: I-VI’ Recusant History 11 (1971–2), pp. 279–298; 12 (1973–4), pp. 99–119, 171–197; 13 (1975–6), pp. 18–55, 254–279; 14 (1977–8), pp. 97–126.

3 In 1956 Squiers told me that since the publication of his book he had collected another two hundred examples. On 7 December that year he wrote to me: ‘If I had a list of my unpublished hides, I might come across with it. All I have at the moment is a mass of unsorted information in files, letters, odd scraps of paper, diaries and even backs of matchboxes. A great deal of this refers to information in books which have yet to be consulted’. When he died in May 1959, the only usable part of this material was that on Moseley Old Hall, which he had worked on for the 1950 ed. of the guidebook and which I have now deposited there. I have no means of telling how many of my additions were among his two hundred, but I have considered and rejected far more than I have included.

4 Listed in Recusant History 16, pp. 209–213, with a few then unidentified omissions, such as nos. 194–5 and 197, the cottage ‘about a hundred yards along the cliff’ from The Ship, Filey, Yorkshire (Squiers, p. 128), and the house near Lydiate Hall (no. 226) with a hide containing ‘a carved oak chair and some books’ (Squiers, p. 159). These account for the differing totals of 350 there and 360 here.

5 Recusant History 19 (1988–9), pp. 386–395.

6 J. S. Leatherbarrow (rector of Martley), Worcestershire (1974), p. 68.

7 Pevsner, , Buildings of England: Berkshire (1966), p. 130 Google Scholar; V.C.H. Berks. 4, p. 344.

8 Cherry, & Pevsner, , The Buildings of England: Devon (1989). pp. 454–5.Google Scholar

9 Collinson, John, Hist.& Antiq. of Somerset (1791, repr. 1983) 3, p. 594.Google Scholar

10 Pevsner, & Williamson, , The Buildings of England: Leicestershire & Rutland (1984), p. 325.Google Scholar

11 Pevsner, , The Buildings of England: Staffordshire (1974), p. 272.Google Scholar

12 C.R.S. 5, p. 72.

13 Squiers, p. 256; Hodgetts, , Secret Hiding-Places (1989), p. 108.Google Scholar

14 Persons, , De Persecutione Anglicana (Rome, 1581), pp. 77–72 Google Scholar; cf n. 5 above.

15 Kelly, Christine, Blessed Thomas Belson(Colin Smythe, Gerrards Cross, 1987), p. 49 Google Scholar, quoting SP 12/192/52, 52(i), 54; 193/11, 11(i), 12, 18–19.

16 The Merry Wives of Windsor, III.3.194–6.

17 Hodgetts, pp. 180–191.

18 Hodgetts, pp. 191–5, 216–219, 232.

19 Gillow, , Haydock Papers (1888), pp. 232–4.Google Scholar

20 Stukeley, William, Itinerarium Curiosum 1 (1776), p. 60 Google Scholar. This journey is dated Boston, December 1713, on p. 61. Cf Foley 5, pp. 228, 433–6.

21 Defoe, A Tour through the Whole Island of Great Britain, ed. Pat Rogers, Folio Society 1983, 2, p. 216. This letter (VII) was written in the summer of 1724, revised early in 1725 and published in June 1725: Rogers 1, p. 10.

22 Fea uncorroborated is only cited here, and should only be cited, in default of any better source, where the hide or the house has been destroyed or altered since he saw it, as in nos. 224, 275.

23 The boundaries of some Welsh counties have now been altered again, but I have ignored this complication.

24 From 1897 to 1986 there were two vols, a year and the pagination was continuous throughout a volume. From 1987 onwards there has been one vol. a year and the pagination begins again with each weekly issue.

1a Squiers, p. 26.