. Quiet roads and sleepy villages. urybrass is that of Alicia, the daughter of John andAgnes Estbury. Of the Yates who once possessed the Manor-there appear to be no memorials. The familymigrated to Buckland in the sixteenth century,where, as before mentioned, their tombs are to befound. The Manor House of Lyford, which is closeto Charney on the south side of the river Ock, wasalso held by the Yates for a couple of centuriesor more, and here in the reign of Elizabeth it wasthat the Jesuit priest, Edmund Campian, was con-cealed and captured in a priests hole, and, con-demned for conspiracy at R

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. Quiet roads and sleepy villages. urybrass is that of Alicia, the daughter of John andAgnes Estbury. Of the Yates who once possessed the Manor-there appear to be no memorials. The familymigrated to Buckland in the sixteenth century,where, as before mentioned, their tombs are to befound. The Manor House of Lyford, which is closeto Charney on the south side of the river Ock, wasalso held by the Yates for a couple of centuriesor more, and here in the reign of Elizabeth it wasthat the Jesuit priest, Edmund Campian, was con-cealed and captured in a priests hole, and, con-demned for conspiracy at Rheims and Rome,executed in 1581. In the same hiding-place twoother priests were taken, John Colleton andThomas Ford. The latter also suffered death, butFather Colleton proved an alibi, for when he wassupposed to be plotting abroad he was really atGrays Inn. In the Salt and Beauchamp Towers ofthe Tower of London, his name, which he carvedupon the walls, may still be seen. The char-acter of the gabled Manor House with pronounced 178. Lattox Cross

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