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RECUSANTS, or POPISH RECUSANTS, Eng. law. Persons who refuse to make the declarations against popery, and such as promote, encourage, or profess the popish religion.
2. These are by law liable to restraints, forfeitures and inconveniences, which are imposed upon them by various acts of parliament. Happily in this country no religious sect has the ascendency, and all persons are free to profess what religion they conscientiously believe to be the right one.

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For in his earlier discussion of "Protestant victory" in the Dutch Revolt, MacCulloch neglects even to mention that large numbers of men and women in the northern Netherlands had remained Catholic, although their existence (they were "much more numerous than in England") receives passing mention in one sentence in the midst of several paragraphs about English Catholic recusants. Half the story by Gregory, Brad S. / Commonweal In England especially this approach leads Bossy in intriguing directions, such as questioning if "church papists" stayed in the Church of England because they had a stronger commitment to the moral tradition than recusants. Peace in the Post-Reformation. (Reviews) by Edwards, Kathryn A. / Renaissance Quarterly English recusants, anxious to distance themselves from the more extreme claims of the Counter Reformation popes and show themselves capable of loyalty to a Protestant government; the prince-bishops of Germany seeking to order their own affairs or to accommodate the demands of a local prince; Catholic states like the Republic of Venice concerned to limit papal interference--all embraced versions of conciliarism. Repressed memories by Duffy, Eamon / Commonweal More results

For in his earlier discussion of "Protestant victory" in the Dutch Revolt, MacCulloch neglects even to mention that large numbers of men and women in the northern Netherlands had remained Catholic, although their existence (they were "much more numerous than in England") receives passing mention in one sentence in the midst of several paragraphs about English Catholic recusants.

Half the story by Gregory, Brad S. / Commonweal

In England especially this approach leads Bossy in intriguing directions, such as questioning if "church papists" stayed in the Church of England because they had a stronger commitment to the moral tradition than recusants.

Peace in the Post-Reformation. (Reviews) by Edwards, Kathryn A. / Renaissance Quarterly

English recusants, anxious to distance themselves from the more extreme claims of the Counter Reformation popes and show themselves capable of loyalty to a Protestant government; the prince-bishops of Germany seeking to order their own affairs or to accommodate the demands of a local prince; Catholic states like the Republic of Venice concerned to limit papal interference--all embraced versions of conciliarism.

Repressed memories by Duffy, Eamon / Commonweal

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