Like most Catholics living in the country, and inhabiting houses of any size, the Digbys made a chapel in their home, "a chapel with a sacristy," says Father Gerard,[43] "furnishing it with costly and beautiful vestments;" and they "obtained a Priest of the Society" (of Jesus) "for their chaplain, who remained with them to Sir Everard's death." Of this priest, Gerard says[44] that he was a man "who for virtue and learning hath not many his betters in England." This was probably Father Strange,[45] who usually passed under the _alias_ of Hungerford. He was the owner of a property, some of which, in Gloucestershire, he sold,[46] and "L2000 thereof is in the Jesuites' bank" said a witness against him. He was imprisoned, after Sir Everard Digby's death, for five or six years.[47] In an underground dungeon in the Tower[48] "he was so severely tortured upon the rack that he dragged on the rest of his life for thirty-three years in the extremest debility, with severe pains in the loins and head." Once when he was in agony upon the rack, a Protestant minister began to argue with him about religion; whereupon, turning to the rack-master, Father Strange[49] "asked him to hoist the minister upon a similar rack, and in like fetters and tortures, otherwise, said he, we shall be fighting upon unequal terms; for the custom everywhere prevails amongst scholars that the condition of the disputants be equal." [43] _Life of Father John Gerard_, p. clv. [44] _A Narrative of the Gunpowder Plot_, p. 89. [45] _Father H. Garnet and the Gunpowder Plot_, by Father Pollen, p. 15. [46] _Records of the English Province._ S.J. Series, ix. x. xi., p. 3. [47] _Ib._, p. 5, and Stoneyhurst MSS. [48] _Ib._, p. 3. [49] _Ib._, p. 4. Another Jesuit Father, at one time private chaplain to Sir Everard Digby, was Father John Percy,[50] who afterwards, under the _alias_ of Fisher, held the famous controversy with Archbishop Laud in the presence of the king and the Countess of Buckingham, to whom he acted as chaplain for ten years. He also had been fearfully tortured in prison, in the reign of Elizabeth; and if he recounted his experiences on the rack to Sir Everard Digby, the hot blood of the latter would be stirred up against the Protestant Governments that could perpetrate or tolerate such iniquities. [50] _Records_, S.J. Series, i., p. 527.