Pilgrim Ways

from all walks of life. Reginald Pole survived and may be remembered as the last Catholic archbishop of Canterbury.

Stonor Next, Dom Bede takes us to Stonor Park - the seat of Lord Camoys. Situated five miles north of Henley-on-Thames, in Oxfordshire, Stonor holds a unique place in the collective memory of English Catholics and the collection housed under its roof still makes it a destination which will both captivate and inspire. Stonor was home to the printing presses, hidden under the gables, which St.Edmund Campion relied upon to disseminate his tracts in defence of faith. Stonor's little church of the Most Holy Trinity, the secret hiding places, the privations and sufferings of the Stonor family, are all a moving experience for the modern pilgrim whose faith often inspires indifference in others rather than open hostility.

Markenfield Returning north, Dom Bede bids us to Markenfield Hall, three miles away from St.Wilfrid's city of Ripon. Here the faithful planned their desperate rebellion beneath the banner of the Five Wounds of Christ and rode out "for God, Our Lady and the Catholic Faith." Wordsworth captures the moment in "The White Doe of Rylstone: It was in the time when England's Queen Twelve years had reigned, a sovereign dread; Nor yet the restless crown had been Disturbed upon her virgin head; But now the inly-working North Was ripe to send its thousands forth, A potent vassalage, to fight In Percy's and in Nevilles's right, Two earls fast leagued in discontent, Who gave their wishes open vent; And boldly urged a general plea, The rites of ancient piety To be triumphantly restored, By the stern justice of the sword.

The rebellion was ruthlessly crushed. Sir George Bowes, the Provost-Marshall wrote: In Richmondshire, Allertonshire, Cleveland, Ripon and Weatherby, "there is of them executed six hundred and odd."

Ripley Castle and York From Markenfield Hall, Dom Bede takes us to Ripley Castle, four miles from Knaresborough and Harrogate. Here he recounts the story of the Ingleby family. Five miles away from Fountains Abbey (the Cistercian House of Our Lady of the Fountains ( see Chapter Three, The Monasteries), this family seat retains many of the monastery's illuminated books and manuscripts. Then a devout Catholic family, the Inglebys produced a martyr, Francis Ingleby, who was born here in 1557. In 1582, he joined the English seminary which had been established at Rheims. Two years later he returned to Yorkshire as a priest. Among his great supporters and friends was Margaret Clitherow (see Chapter Sixteen, Lancashire), who