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Better than seven years and a half had now elapsed, when she and her father came by invitation to pay a visit to a Mr. Hamilton, grandfather to the late Dacre Hamilton of Monaghan, who the grandfather we mean was one of the most notorious priest-hunters of the day, We need not say that her faithful Connor was still in attendance.
Let us kneel down and offer up ten pathers, ten aves, and a creed, that the Lord may protect them both from their enemies, and grant them a happy marriage, in spite of laws, parliaments, magistrates, spies, persecutors and priest-hunters, and, as our hands are in, let us offer up a few that God may confound that villain, Whitecraft, and bring him snugly to the gallows."
"I suppose I am a fool," he said; "the lad is as safe as in his mother's arms." And he went upstairs to bed. Mary Corbet rose late next morning, and when she came down at last found the others in the garden. She joined them as they walked in the little avenue. "Have not the priest-hunters arrived?" she asked. "What are they about? And you, dear Isabel, how did you sleep?"
Above all, it is marvellous loud." "Then, if we hear it, we shall know the priest-hunters are on us?" asked Mary. Mr. Buxton bowed. "Or that the house is afire," he said, "or that the French or Spanish are landed." To tell the truth, he was just slightly uneasy.
Though more than once he stood in the gravest danger of having his career cut short by the activity of the priest-hunters, he had the good fortune to survive the storm and to see the First Relief Act of 1778 placed upon the statute book. In Scotland a long succession of infant kings and weak regents helped to increase the power of the lords at the expense of the crown.
I think that if the chamber had been filled with but one mob of priest-hunters and Protestants, I should have obeyed him then, even though I should have been torn to pieces the next instant. I went forward without a word, leaving the door open behind me, and flung myself on my knees at the bedside.
One Christmas night towards the close of Elizabeth's reign the castle was seized by a party of priest-hunters, who, with their usual mode of procedure, locked up the members of the family securely before starting on their operations. In the inner quadrangle of the mansion was a very remarkable and ingenious device. A large stone of the solid wall could be pushed aside.
Nor is it easy to find anyone who had not often been indebted for his life to Owen's hiding-places." How effectually "Little John's" peculiar ingenuity baffled the exhaustive searches of the "pursuivants," or priest-hunters, has been shown by contemporary accounts of the searches that took place frequently in suspected houses.
Many of the clergy flew to the metropolis, where they imagined they might be more safe, and a vast number to caverns and mountains, in order to avoid the common danger, and especially from a wholesome, terror of that class of men called priest-hunters.
They must all have finally disappeared from the island, if the people, at last grown indignant at such baseness and cruelty, had not, by the loudness of their execrations, checked the activity of the priest-hunters. Wherever they dared show themselves, they were pelted with stones, and exposed to the summary vengeance of a maddened people.
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