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Hindlip Hall

Near Worcester

Priests hidden in secret holes for over a week as searchers tore the house apart.

In January 1606 the government came hunting for Henry Garnet, head of the Jesuits in England. At Hindlip Hall the searchers found nothing for days.

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When
January 1606
Where
52.2220, -2.1700
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The old hall was demolished. Its replacement is now West Mercia Police headquarters and is not open to the public.

Cover of Guy Fawkes: Traitor or Faithful? by Cale Mills
From the book

Guy Fawkes: Traitor or Faithful?

He had been sheltering at Hindlip House, near Worcester, a country house with a reputation for its concealed rooms. The searchers spent days going through it.

This book asks one question and keeps asking it: was Guy Fawkes faithful, or a traitor? Most people think they already know. The answer has been handed down for four hundred years, with a bonfire and a rhyme, and it is rarely examined. From the boy from Stonegate in York to the cellar, the Tower and Westminster Hall, every chapter ends with a ledger of what it adds in his favour and what it adds against him. By the last page you may find that the answer you arrived with is not the one you leave with.

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