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The Mistress of Harvington

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The next post will say a little more about tactics as well as discussing the injuries these weapons would have caused. On a busy day Harvington Hall attracts many visitors. As well as enjoying the history of the Hall it is a wonderfully peaceful and restful place. Someone once remarked that as soon as you cross the moat it can feel as if time has stood still here.

If you have even a bit of imagination it is easy to sit quietly in the Hall and think about the people who once lived here. Otherwise, we talk about religion, persecution, torture — events that still have echoes today. What about the ordinary folk though? I suspect that for the common people life usually went on, untroubled by events at court.

What would it be like to talk to these people? She is married to the Master of the House, Humphrey Packington and she comes from a fine family in Derbyshire, the Sacheverell family. My day begins early, before the sun is up. I make sure that my mistress has her clothes laid out to wear and that she has water to wash with. Mistress Packington says her prayers every morning before breakfast and I go with her to the little chapel in the house. The Master and Mistress like to keep to the old religion and so do I.

After breakfast, I go about my duties. I make it my business to know what is going around the house and the mistress likes me to tell her what is going on. All of the servants have to look up to me and as I am responsible for helping the Mistress with her clothes and personal things I get to talk to her quite a lot — especially when the master is away on business. My clothes are quite nice too — I have a proper pair of shoes, an underskirt and a nice dress. I carry a lot of keys too — I know where the jewellery is and I am trusted by the Mistress.

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That was hard on the Mistress. I see the Priests that come here and I hear them say the Mass — poor things they are too! Some of them are so young; and they are so brave — especially when everyone knows what dreadful things will happen to them if they are caught by the priest hunters. There are so many treacherous people around these days, spies that would betray us — but they will never hear anything from me! That is all from Susan right now but over the next few weeks I will try to introduce you to a few more of the people around the Hall.

PS — Historical note: Across the UK there are said to be around a hundred old houses which still have a Priest hole. Several of these hides can be seen by visitors to the Hall today. You can see the entrance to the staircase hide in this post well sort of , you have to come to the Hall to really see where it is!

In an earlier post I used this picture very top of this post of a bedroom at Harvington Hall. Entered through a secret passage in one of the bedrooms, the rooftop hide is by far the biggest hide at the Hall. As soon as you enter the attic space you are confronted by a jumble of beams — it is quite easy to become disorientated as to your whereabouts in relation to the Hall below. Of course, this confusion served the purpose of the hide builder perfectly. The rooftop hide in common with several other such hides at Harvington is assumed to be the work of Nicholas Owen, the master builder of such places.

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At the end of the building one comes to a wall, at about chest height there is an entrance to a large space beyond. At one time this entrance had hinges and a bolt, any searcher coming across this may well have assumed that they had reached the end of the building. One story about this hide is that the Hall was visited a few years back by people who had been held as prisoners of war at Colditz castle. There is a famous story that they built a glider in the attic of the castle, planning to use this in an escape attempt click here for more about this story. Apparently, these visitors were shocked to learn of the similarities between their hide and the one at Harvington.

Many of the techniques developed to disguise the entrance to the Colditz hide had been thought up over years earlier by whoever built the hide at Harvington. I made this in Photoshop as a representation of how this may have looked.

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This post takes a look at the main staircase at Harvington Hall. Like a lot of things at Harvington it has a bit of a story to tell — some of which can be told in this post, and some of it not! The original staircase dates from about This would have provided important visitors with a suitably grand entrance. Harvington Hall was built by Humphrey Packington around After he died the Hall passed to his daughter Mary Yate.

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I carry a lot of keys too — I know where the jewellery is and I am trusted by the Mistress. I was one of the first to hear that Mistress Abigail was pregnant, I was there this summer when the baby was born — a little baby girl.

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I was there at her Christening and at her funeral, poor little thing. That was hard on the Mistress. I see the Priests that come here and I hear them say the Mass — poor things they are too!

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Some of them are so young; and they are so brave — especially when everyone knows what dreadful things will happen to them if they are caught by the priest hunters. There are so many treacherous people around these days, spies that would betray us — but they will never hear anything from me! That is all from Susan right now but over the next few weeks I will try to introduce you to a few more of the people around the Hall.

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