Secret passages and Priests’ Holes are to be found in most of the houses built in Tudor times.
Queen Mary, who was a confirmed Roman Catholic, persecuted the Protestants and Queen Elizabeth, when she came to the Throne, persecuted the Jesuits, who went in terror of their lives.
Catholic families hid the Priests in secret passages in their houses until they could escape to the Continent and Services were held in the Priests’ Holes under fear of being caught and hanged.
Secret hiding places were used when the Royalists were being hunted by Cromwellian troops and it is interesting to find that in so many great houses their existence is known only to the Head of the Family and his eldest son.
Ghosts, of course, are to be found in most old houses and, when I was a girl, I lived for two year
