Settling in England In England Religious Communities were still banned by law so the Nuns may well have wondered just how safe they were.  Furthermore, once they had paid for their passage on the ship from France they had just four sous, coins of limited value, between them.  Their situation was very uncertain. The Four Sous (Courtesy Ian Thomas) Imagine their surprise when a set of carriages drew up to collect them and escort them to none other than the Prince of Wales!   Mrs Fitzherbert, the Catholic wife of the Prince, was Godmother to one of the nuns.  Hearing of their plight she had persuaded the Prince to help. The Prince arranged for the Nuns to be accomodated at a converted house in London for a while but they soon moved to Norfolk and then on to Wakefield where they took up residence in Old Heath Hall.   Heath Old Hall Drawn by N.Whittock Used with kind permission of Wakefield City Libraries (Local History Section) A number of alterations had to be made to the building to make it suitable for their needs.  The Dining Room became a chapel, an outbuilding converted into a school, and a building just outside the grounds of the Hall became the Priests' House.  This is the only part of the complex to survive today.