Braddocks House in Essex was a centre of Elizabethan Catholic resistance in the southeast. The Jesuit Father John Gerard was hidden in its priest hole during a twelve-hour search in 1591 and survived to record the experience in his autobiography. The raid and Gerard narrow escape provide the most detailed first-hand account of what it was like to be hidden during an Elizabethan pursuivant search — a vivid military-intelligence action in miniature.
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