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Title: Secret Chambers and Hiding Places
Historic, Romantic, & Legendary Stories & Traditions About
Hiding-Holes, Secret Chambers, Etc.

Author: Allan Fea

Release Date: November 1, 2004 [EBook #13918]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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Produced by Robert J. Hall.

[Illustration: MOSELEY HALL, STAFFORDSHIRE]

SECRET CHAMBERS AND HIDING-PLACES

HISTORIC, ROMANTIC, & LEGENDARY STORIES & TRADITIONS ABOUT
HIDING-HOLES, SECRET CHAMBERS, ETC.

BY ALLAN FEA

AUTHOR OF "THE FLIGHT OF THE KING," "KING MONMOUTH," ETC.

WITH EIGHTY ILLUSTRATIONS

THIRD AND REVISED EDITION

CONTENTS

CHAPTER I

A GREAT DEVISER OF "PRIEST'S HOLES"

CHAPTER II

HINDLIP HALL

CHAPTER III

PRIEST-HUNTING AT BRADDOCKS

CHAPTER IV

THE GUNPOWDER PLOT CONSPIRATORS

CHAPTER V

HARVINGTON, UFTON, AND INGATESTONE

CHAPTER VI

COMPTON WINYATES, SALFORD PRIOR, SAWSTON, OXBURGH, PARHAM, PAXHILL, ETC.

CHAPTER VII

KING-HUNTING: BOSCOBEL, MOSELEY, TRENT, AND HEALE

CHAPTER VIII

CAVALIER-HUNTING, ETC.

CHAPTER IX

JAMES II.'S ESCAPES

CHAPTER X

JAMES II.'S ESCAPES (_continued_): HAM HOUSE, AND "ABDICATION HOUSE"

CHAPTER XI

MYSTERIOUS ROOMS, DEADLY PITS, ETC.

CHAPTER XII

HIDING-PLACES IN JACOBITE DWELLINGS AND IN SCOTTISH CASTLES AND MANSIONS

CHAPTER XIII

CONCEALED DOORS, SUBTERRANEAN PASSAGES, ETC.

CHAPTER XIV

MINIATURE HIDING-HOLES FOR VALUABLES, ETC.

CHAPTER XV

HIDING-PLACES OF SMUGGLERS AND THIEVES

CHAPTER XVI

THE SCOTTISH HIDING-PLACES OF PRINCE CHARLES EDWARD

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

MOSELEY HALL, STAFFORDSHIRE
HINDLIP HALL, WORCESTERSHIRE
BRADDOCKS, ESSEX
FIREPLACE AT BRADDOCKS
ASHBY ST. LEDGERS, NORTHAMPTONSHIRE
THE PLOT ROOM, ASHBY ST. LEDGERS
HUDDINGTON COURT, WORCESTERSHIRE
ENTRANCE PORCH, HUDDINGTON COURT
ENTRANCE TO "PRIEST'S HOLE," HARVINGTON HALL
HARVINGTON HALL, WORCESTERSHIRE
UFTON COURT, BERKSHIRE
" " GARDEN TERRACE, BERKSHIRE
HIDING-PLACE, UFTON COURT
" " "
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