[4] In 1586, Jerome Bellamy sheltered the rebel Anthony Babington here, following the plot to assassinate Queen Elizabeth I.
[5] Babington was captured at Uxenden, and Jerome Bellamy was hung, drawn, and quartered at Tyburn on 21 September 1586.
His daughter Anne was arrested, apparently for failure to attend church services, and confined to the Gatehouse Prison.
At some point, she was interrogated and raped by Richard Topcliffe, the Queen's chief priest-hunter and torturer, and revealed the movements of Robert Southwell and the location of the Priest hole at Uxenden.
[6] The house remained in the Bellamy family until the early 17th century when it came into the possession of Richard Page of Wembley, one of the governors of Harrow School.