Ripley Castle, home of the Ingilby family, was one of the most raided Catholic gentry houses in Yorkshire. The family maintained priest holes and harboured seminary priests through the Elizabethan period. Government raids here exemplified the systematic military-police operations against the Yorkshire Catholic network. Several priests sheltered here were later captured and martyred.
Royal pursuivants and local Protestant constables
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