Mary Habington
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Mary Habington or Abington, née Parker was an English recusant. Antiquarian writers thought that she was the author of the anonymous letter to her brother William Parker, 4th Baron Monteagle which war
Heraldry of Thomas Habington
Elizabethan Hindlip Hall
News of the Gunpowder Plot was brought to Hindlip from Huddington Court
Some priests came from Coughton Court, expecting greater safety at Hindlip
Nicholas Owen (Jesuit)
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Nicholas Owen, S.J., was an English Jesuit lay brother who was the principal builder of priest holes during the reigns of Queen Elizabeth I and James I of England. Owen built many priest holes in the
The torture of Saint Nicholas Owen, S.J. an engraving by Melchior Küsel (17th century)
A priest hole in the staircase made by Nicholas Owen in a 16th-century manor-house, Harvington Hall, Worcestershire.
Another priest hole made by Nicholas Owen in the library in Harvington Hall
The same priest hole inside.