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complicity in several alleged plots,* nothing could ever be proved 
against him except his non-attendance at church. So loyal was 
he to Elizabeth in matters temporal, that notwithstanding the 
heavy and repeated fines to which he had been subjected, he 
volunteered to supply double the contribution demanded of his 
estate on the approach of the Spanish Armada. It will be within 
the mark to say that he was deprived of two-thirds of his estates. 
By his marriage with Anne, daughter and heiress of Sir Arthur 
Eyre, he came into possession of the valuable manor of Padley, in 
the parish of Hathersage. Sir Thomas having no children, and 
almost all his Elizabethan life being spent in bonds, his next 
brother, John Fitzherbert, resided at the mansion house at Padley, 
and received the rents of this and the Norbury estates. On 
Candlemas-day, 1587, the house at Padley was searched for 
priests ; two were found concealed, Nicholas Garlick and Robert 
Ludlam. These priests were taken to Derby Gaol. On July 25, 
1588, Garlick and Ludlam (together with a third priest seized else- 
where) were hanged, drawn, and quartered, and their heads and 
quarters fixed on poles in prominent places about the county towns, 
solely for the crime of being Roman priests; whilst John Fitz- 
herbert was confined at Derby and in other prisons for the rest 
of his life, finally dying of gaol fever. Richard Fitzherbert, the 
next brother of Sir Thomas, resided at the principal seat of the 
family, at Norbury. When his brother was first imprisoned by 
the Episcopal Commissioners, at the beginning of Elizabeth’s 
reign, Richard escaped to the Continent, and was formally out- 
lawed. On matters becoming rather quieter, Richard Fitzherbert 
returned to Norbury, and lived for a brief time peacably in that 
retired village. But the spies reported his return, and the Privy 
Council, not trusting the Earl of Shrewsbury, the Lord-Lieutenant 
of the County, despatched one Thorne, a notorious pursuivant 
of the roughest character, to effect his capture. 
* See appendix at the end of this article of Interrogatories from the com- 
missioners, administered by torture when he was in prison, to try and prove 
his complicity in a northern rising in 1586. It is painful to have to state that 
both Archbishop Grindal and Archbishop Whitgift were in favour of torture 
being applied to Romanists, as can be proved in their own handwriting. 
