Come Rack! Come Rope!

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Come Rack! Come Rope! is a historical novel by the English priest and writer Robert Hugh Benson. Set in Derbyshire at the time of the Elizabethan persecution of Catholics, the inspiration for the story comes from Dom Bede Camm's account of the recusant Fitzherbert family in Forgotten Shrines. The title

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Come Rack! Come Rope! is a historical novel by the English priest and writer Robert Hugh Benson (1871-1914), a convert to Catholicism from Anglicanism. Set in Derbyshire at the time of the Elizabethan persecution of Catholics, when being or harbouring a priest was considered treason and was punishable with death,

"Come Rack Come Rope" from Benson Robert Hugh. English Anglican priest who joined the Roman Catholic Church (1871-1914).