Sawston Hall was one of the most persistent centres of Catholic resistance in the east midlands. The Huddleston family had sheltered the future Mary I in 1553 when Protestant rioters burned the previous house. Their ongoing resistance to Elizabethan recusancy enforcement connected the Marian period to the later Elizabethan underground church. The house was repeatedly raided but the family survived.
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