Table 1 is based on the records found in NRQSM 2/2 fos 198v-202v; the names of hosts known to be Catholic
recusants or Catholic sympathisers are shown in bold.
The
recusant polyglot Elizabeth Jane Watson made Bohemia her home, as did, for a shorter period, her stepfather, Edward Kelley, and his associate, Dr.
Did Shakespeare purchase New Place in Stratford to assist its bankrupted
recusant owners, or was it simply an opportunist investment?
One finds anti-Spanish hysteria, disarmed
recusants and dissolved monasteries, concealed estates, abuses of the benefit of the clergy, and concerns about effective poor relief.
A preachment that
recusant wives risk bearing two-headed babies remains sensational, even when rooted in and explicitly connected to an educated consideration of England's religious dividedness.
o'clock in the morning, the
recusants were discovered at
Fawkes was a staunch Catholic and a member of the
Recusants, the group which formed most of the plotters.
5, a book mainly of religious songs for communal use assembled in the 1650s and known to have been amongst the
recusants of Wootton Wawen in Warwickshire.
Bushnell notes: "The six
recusants who filed for posterity the reasons for deserting their party did not make a strong case for Andrew Johnson.
While the
recusants were viewed as insufficiently English in their homeland despite their attempts to disentangle religious from political questions, they were considered as less than truly Catholic on the Continent by their Catholic brethren there, especially because of Jansenist and Enlightenment influences within the Jacobite church that resisted Ultramontanism and supported ecumenism.
The authorities may have seen the Catholic
recusants as the main threat to the Church of England at this time, but they weren't always alone in their dissent.
The policy aimed to discipline recalcitrant clergy who refused to comply, at the same time winning over laymen by not strictly enforcing the penal laws against
recusants.
