The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1899-07-23

maid soldiers were coming to search,
who therefore presentlie came running
to the staires' head and cried: Soldiers!
Soldiers are comingr which, his maj
esty hearing. presentlie started out OF
his bedd and ran to his privacie, where
1 secured him the best 1 could, and
then, leaving him, went forth into the
street TO meet the soldiers who were
comeing to search. AS soon as thew
saw me and knew who l was they were
readie to pull me to pieces and take me
away with them, saying 1 was come
from the Worcester fight, but, after
much dispute with them, and by the
neighbours being informed of their
false information that | was not there,
being very Ill a great while, they let
NEE goe, but till saw them clearly all
gone forth of the town 1 returned not.
But as soon as they were returned to
release him"
In corner of the priests hole is
low brick seat. The walls are of brick
and huge oak beams, in one of which
was noticed a wooden pin, about an
inch in diameter, that could be easily
pulled out by the fingers. Through this
straw or reed could be passed to sup
ply an inmate with liquid food, as was
the case at Harrington.
Window seats often contained secret
means of ingress to priests holes. In
the long gallery of Parham hall, Sus-
sex, not far from the chapel" is an
example wherein Charles Paget was
concealed for some days after the fail
ure of the Darlington conspiracy.
If we visit Harrington hall. in Wor-
cestershire. at twilight. and ascend the
massive oak staircase. it will require no
great stretch of imagination TO people it
with 'pursuivants" hunting for their
prey; or if we climb to the top land
ing, TO conJure up an indiStinct form
stealthily removing the door board from
one of the stairs and creeping be-
meath it.
This particular step of a short flight
running from the landing into the gar
rets is. upon closer inspection indeed
movable, and beneath gapes a dark
cavity about five feet square, on tho
floor of which still remains the piece of
sedge mating whereon a, certain Father
Wall reclined a few days prior to his
capture and execution in August, 1879
\ small concealed aperature in the
wainscoting of the "banqueting room"
would admit a straw being thrust from
the hiding hole. through which caudles
and broths could be sucked by the I'M
fortunate inmate, should his friends be
upon the alert
The house of the loyal Sir Richard
Head still exists at Rochester. where
King James II went from Whitehall for
country. He departed thence secretly.
About Il o'clock at night he was rowed
to smack which was waiting without
the fort at Sheerness.
Ufton Courts Secret Chamber.
The curious, many-gabled mansion.
Ufton court. Berkshire, both from its
secluded situation and quaint internal
appears to have been Pc
cullarly suitable for the secretion OF
prosecuted priests.
A remarkable hole is to be seen in one
of the gables close to the ceiling II Is
in shape, and is opened by
a spring bolt that can be unattached by
pulling string which runs through a
tiny hole pierced in the framework Of
the door of the adjoining room The
door OF the hiding place swings upon a
pivot and externally is thickly coated
with plaster, so as to resemble the rest
of the wall. and is so solid that when
sounded there is no hollow sound from
the cavity behind, where it is supposed
the cruci1ix and sacred vessels were Sc
GREETED.
Not far off, in an upper garrett is a
hiding place in the thickness of the wall
large enough TO contain a man stand
ing upright Like the other. the door
or entrance seems part of the plaster
wall intersected by thick oak beams.
any appearance of an opening.
Sawston hall. Cambridge. the fine old
of the Huddlestons. has a re-
hiding place on the top land
ing of quaint spiral staircase. When
One OF the floor boards is raised a
round hole or tunnel is discovered in
the stone masonry slanting into the
wall, where is a space ten or twelve
feet deep, and of sufficient breadth to
contain any sized priest should he sue
iced in squeezing through the afore-
said circular entrance. which would not
admit a very bulky person.
Blocks OF oak fixed upon the inside of
The floor board fit exactly into sockets
;cooped out Of the beams, which run at
light angles. and support the landing,
md unless the movable board is point
I'd out, il is impossible to detect it, so
ingenious is its construction.