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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1877 edition. Excerpt: ...a horse that he had expected would be provided for him, and thus he was obliged to spend a night longer on the road than he had intended. The delay saved his life. This was, by the date of Father Southwell's martyrdom, before his admission into the Society. 55 Stonyhurst MSS. Angl. vol. ii. n. 41. infamy she had fallen, and was nearly induced by her importunity to take her to Southwell, who lived hard by,50 and whom she much praised for virtue and learning. She had previously written to her sisters to beg that if he came to her father's house at Uxenden, she might be told at once, and she would come to see him, notwithstanding any bond to the contrary. Thomas and the sisters refused to have any part in this proceeding, so she found some other means of communicating with the martyr, who, shortly after meeting with Thomas Bellamy in Fleet Street, stopped him and claimed acquaintance as a countryman of his mother's, asking him to stay with him that night, and the next morning to ride with him to show him the way to Uxenden. Thomas complied; the next day they started at ten o'clock, and by noon arrived at Mr. Bellamy's house. Topcliffe was then with the Queen at Greenwich, but he had his horses ready laid for three weeks previously, and so rode off in hot haste, and came to Uxenden Hall by midnight, having full directions, written by Anne Bellamy, how to know the house, and where to find the secret place in which the Father was sleeping. Mr. Richard Bellamy was at this time absent from home. The unhappy mother and family were totally ignorant of Anne's fall, and naturally inquired of Topcliffe how he had come by such precise information as to be able to march directly up to the hiding-place and secure its inmate. The veracious and truth-loving...

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