God’s Traitors: Terror & Faith in Elizabethan England (62 page)

11. When asked how his hands and feet felt after a session on the rack, Campion is said to have replied ‘not ill because not at all’.

12. Part of the rope purportedly used to bind Campion to the hurdle upon which he was dragged to Tyburn.

13. The pressing to death of Margaret Clitherow, York, 25 March 1586. The butcher’s wife was the first of three women put to death in Elizabeth’s reign for helping outlawed priests.

14. Mary Queen of Scots’ cipher ‘acknowledged & subscribed’ by Anthony Babington, 1 September 1586.

15. Tresham’s Triangular Lodge at Rushton, built in honour of the Trinity.

16. Lyveden New Bield, devised in a cross formation as Tresham’s tribute to the Passion.

17. Engraving of the Catholic plots against Queen Elizabeth.

19. Philip II of Spain. He may have lost the battle in 1588 (celebrated by 18: the ‘Armada Portrait’ of Queen Elizabeth, previous image), but the war was far from over.

20.William Cecil, Lord Burghley. Catholics complained of a ‘Cecilian Inquisition’, but the relationship between the Vauxes and the Cecils suggests a more subtle picture.

21. William Cecil’s son Robert, Earl of Salisbury.

22. Kirby Hall, Northamptonshire, where Eliza Vaux planned to harbour the Jesuit missionary John Gerard before a pre-emptive raid forced her to change location.

23. The manacles: ‘Such a gripping pain came over me,’ wrote John Gerard after a session hanging from the iron shackles. ‘It was worst in my chest and belly, my hands and arms.’