Author of "THE FLIGHT OF THE KING" or "KING MONMOUTH"
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This review is from: Secret Chambers and Hiding Places (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press) (Paperback)
I'm going to assume that the book is the reprint of the 1901 book of the same title and author which I had in my hands a short while ago.
This is a book mainly about hiding places in great mansions of Great Britain. There are a few pictures of the mansions but I didnt see any diagrams or detailed technical information on the hiding places. The book is really concentrated on the historical conditions which made some of these hiding places necessary. For example there is a lot on the persecution of the Catholic church in Britain, especially of jesuits, whereby it was forbidden to celebrate a catholic mass and priests often had to hide to escape search parties. Unfortunately these parties were very tenatious and sometimes spent days inside a single building trying to find the hidden priests. There is also a chapter on the hiding and escape of Bonnie Prince Charlie and one on the gun-powder plot. It's interesting to compare all of this with the issues concerning terrorism nowadays. The whole book reminds us of how barbaric Britain, and I suppose Europe was at the time. It's not for the faint-hearted. The writing is charmingly quaint.
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Secret Hiding-Places, Roman Catholic, Scottish Hiding-Places of Prince Charles, Little John, Deadly Pits, Mysterious Rooms, Compton Winyates, Concealed Doors, The Gunpowder Plot Conspirators, Trent House, Civil War, Subterranean Passages, Father Gerard, Hindlip Hall, Robin Philips, Betty Burke, Church of Rome, Sir Edward Hales, Sir Richard Head, Earl of Ailesbury, Duke of York, Prince of Orange, Heale House, Moseley Hall, Baddesley Clinton Browse Sample Pages:
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Secret Hiding-Places, Roman Catholic, Scottish Hiding-Places of Prince Charles, Little John, Deadly Pits, Mysterious Rooms, Compton Winyates, Concealed Doors, The Gunpowder Plot Conspirators, Trent House, Civil War, Subterranean Passages, Father Gerard, Hindlip Hall, Robin Philips, Betty Burke, Church of Rome, Sir Edward Hales, Sir Richard Head, Earl of Ailesbury, Duke of York, Prince of Orange, Heale House, Moseley Hall, Baddesley Clinton Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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