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A London priest hunter named Sledd had been a servant to Dr Nicholas Morton at the English College in Rome. After George Haydock had been betrayed to Sledd by one of Haydock's old acquaintances, Sledd went to the house where Haydock took his meals, and recognized the priest Arthur Pitts and law student William Jenneson.
Richard Topcliffe (14 November 1531 – late 1604) [1] was a priest hunter and practitioner of torture [1] during the reign of Elizabeth I of England. A landowner and Member of Parliament, he became notorious as the government's chief enforcer of the penal laws against the practice of Catholicism.
Priest hunter: A priest hunter spied on or captured Catholic priests during Penal Times in the British Isles. [172] Priest hunters were effectively bounty hunters. [173] [174] Catholic emancipation brought the persecution of Catholics to an end. The Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 finally eliminated the bounty for catching priests. Legal: 16: 19 ...
Arnold was also a notable priest hunter during the religious persecution of the Catholic Church in Wales. His strongly anti-Catholic and Whiggist beliefs and private war against underground local Catholic priests, such as St David Lewis, and Recusant laity made Arnold a particularly unpopular and controversial figure in his native Monmouthshire ...
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Another priest hole made by Nicholas Owen in the library in Harvington Hall The same priest hole inside. For many years, Owen worked in the service of the Jesuit priest Henry Garnet and was admitted into the Society of Jesus as a lay brother. [7] He was arrested in 1594 and tortured at the Poultry Compter but revealed nothing. He was released ...
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Catholic priest, one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales [33] [34] 10 September 1641: Ambrose Barlow: Catholic priest, one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales [35] [36] [37] 30 May 1643: George Bouchier: For his activities in the English Civil War [38] 30 May 1643: Robert Yeamans: For his activities in the English Civil War [39] 30 ...