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with Cuthbert Mayne in 1577, were becoming routine. Hides had already been built before then: the first reference to one is in 1574 at a search of the Vavasours' house in York, and Edmund Campion was captured in one at Lyford Grange in 1581, but they did not become widespread until well into the 1580s, and there are reports of priests hiding in barns, haystacks and hollow trees. The 1584 Act changed everything, making

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