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Recusancy (from Latin: recusare, lit. 'to refuse') was the
state of
those who
remained loyal to the
Catholic Church and
refused to
attend Church of England...
- The
Recusancy referred to
those who
refused to
attend services of the state-established
Anglican Church of Ireland. The
individuals were
known as "recusants"...
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Lawson (née Constable, 1580–26
March 1632) was an
English noblewoman,
recusant and
Catholic priest harbourer.
Dorothy was born in 1580 in Wing, Buckinghamshire...
- Mawgan-in-Pyder, Cornwall, was an
English politician. He was a
noted recusant, and a
close ****ociate of the
Catholic martyr St.
Cuthbert Mayne. He was...
- The
Popish Recusants Act 1605 (3 Jas. 1. c. 4) was an act of the
Parliament of
England which quickly followed the
Gunpowder Plot of the same year, an...
- The
Recusant's Insignia is a
French medal to
honour French citizens who
evaded the
Compulsory Work
Service (S.T.O.) in ****
Germany and
therefore parti****ted...
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eligible for
public employment, and the
severe penalties pronounced against recusants,
whether Catholic or nonconformist, were
affirmations of this principle...
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evidenced by his
second marriage to
Catherine Vaux, who
belonged to a
notable recusant family. Her mother,
Elizabeth Vaux (née Roper)
sheltered Catholic priests...
- died when
Fawkes was
eight years old,
after which his
mother married a
recusant Catholic.
Fawkes converted to
Catholicism and left for
mainland Europe...
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Arabella Fermor (1696–1737) was the
daughter of a
marriage between two
recusant Roman Catholic families in
Protestant England, the
Fermors of Oxfordshire...
