[Illustration: COMPTON WINYATES, WARWICKSHIRE]

[Illustration: SAWSTON HALL, CAMBRIDGESHIRE]

[Illustration: PICKERSLEIGH COURT, WORCESTERSHIRE]

[Illustration: SALFORD PRIOR HALL, WARWICKSHIRE]

[Illustration: SALFORD PRIOR HALL]

[Illustration: HIDING-PLACE, SALFORD PRIOR]

[Illustration: HIDING-PLACE, SALFORD PRIOR (SHEWING ENTRANCE)]

Another hiding place as artfully contrived and as little changed
since the day it was manufactured is one at Sawston, the ancestral
seat of the old family of Huddleston. Sawston Hall is a typical
Elizabethan building. The one which preceded it was burnt to the
ground by the adherents of Lady Jane Grey, as the Huddleston
of that day, upon the death of King Edward VI., received his
sister Mary under his protection, and contrived her escape to
Framlingham Castle, where she was carried in disguise, riding
pillion behind a servant.

The secret chamber, as at Harvington, is on the top landing of
the staircase, and the entrance is so cleverly arranged that
it slants into the masonry of a circular tower without showing
the least perceptible sign from the exterior of a space capable
of holding a baby, far less a man. A particular board in the
landing is raised, and beneath it, in a corner of the cavity,