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restraining Popish recusants". It defined "Popish recusants" as those convicted for not repairing to some Church, Chapel, or usual place of Common Prayer to...

a long period of contention which included the Cornish Rebellion of 1497, the 1549 Prayer Book Rebellion, the Persecution of Recusants, the Poor Laws...

Catholics by the Popish Recusants Act 1605. Recusant fines were collected on a haphazard basis until the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland in 1649, after...

Sheffield, informed the king of over 900 recusants brought before the Assizes in Normanby, and on 24 April, the Popish Recusants Act 1605 was introduced in...

into major political themes and policies of religious discrimination and religious persecution. Major examples of groups that have targeted Catholics in...

the Duke of Buckingham, by then the prime Royal Favourite, and his administration, like Chichester's, was marked by persecution of recusants. He banished...

whether Roman Catholics or Puritans, were fined and physically punished as recusants. English anti-Catholicism was grounded in the fear that the Pope sought...

Catholic recusant and churchwarden of Holy Trinity Church, Long Melford, Suffolk from 1554 to 1558/9. He is chiefly known for his description of the pre-Reformation...

the case left it with little time to deal with anything else. Persecution of recusants continued under Oliver St John, 1st Viscount Grandison (Lord Deputy...

hierarchy and much of the nobility." For 250 years, the government forced members of the pre-Reformation Catholic Church known as recusants to go underground...

Catholic during and after the English Reformation in a time of religious persecution) lords of the manor who were wealthy in the Middle Ages and restored...

nostri temporis (1587), made the whole of Catholic Europe aware of the religious persecution under the rule of Queen Elizabeth I. In 1588, Verstegan was...

year and pretending to conform to Anglicanism, they largely escaped persecution and managed to retain their property and wealth. In 1985, the Vavasour...

civil penalties, and civil disabilities upon recusants from mandatory attendance at weekly Sunday services of the Established Church. The penal laws in general...

Dominican Confraternity of the Holy Rosary. On the renewal of the persecutions, Sir John was summoned to answer a charge of recusancy and was put into prison...

September 1605) was a prominent recusant Catholic landowner in Elizabethan Northamptonshire. He died two years after the accession of James VI and I. Tresham...

be applied to that segment of the church population which concealed its Christian beliefs as a means to avoid persecution. In contrast, many Christians...

passion for strange and unusual buildings. As a recusant Catholic at a time of religious persecution, he spent long periods in prison for his beliefs...

Protestant James I, who became King of England in 1603, was less tolerant of Catholics than many persecuted Recusants had hoped. Catesby therefore planned...

trials. The persecutions started in the diocese of Trier in 1581 and reached the city itself in 1587, where they were to lead to the death of about 368...