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	The Dispatch - Serving the Lexington, NC - News
		Roman Catholics formed a large proportion of recusants, and were those to whom the term initially was applied, but other non-Catholic groups who dissented from the Church of England were, later, also labeled recusants.
		The recusancy laws were in force from the reign of Elizabeth I to that of George III, though not always enforced with equal intensity.
		Recusants were subject to various civil disabilities and penalties under English penal laws, most of which were repealed during the regency and reign of George IV in the early 19th century.
	www.the-dispatch.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=recusancy (506 words)

	Recusancy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		In the history of England, recusancy was a term used to describe the statutory offence of not complying with the establishment of the Church of England.
		Recusants were subject to various civil disabilities and penalties under English penal laws, most of which were repealed during the regency and reign of George IV in the early 19th century.
		One of the famous individual recusants is the English composer, William Byrd.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Recusancy (506 words)

	English Recusants (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The statute defines a recusant as one "Convicted for not repairing to some Church, Chapel, or usual place of Common Prayer to hear Divine Sevice there, but forbearing the same contrary to the tenor of the laws and statutes heretofore made and provided in that behalf".
		But several statutes declare that other offenses shall be deemed acts of recusancy, and that those convicted of them shall be deemed "popish recusants convict".
		The number of recusants was very great, as may be seen by one instance adduced by J.S. Hansom in his preface to the list of convicted recusants in the reign of Charles II, where on one day (24 Feb., 1690) the names of 1755 recusants were presented in he single town of Thirsk.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/r/recusants,english.html (300 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: English Recusants
		As time went on there were other recusants who were not Catholics, but who for one reason or another refrained from attending the Church of England services.
		This fact must be remembered in dealing with the Recusancy lists, though, of course, far the larger number of recusants were Catholics.
		The recusancy laws were in force from the reign of Elizabeth to that of George III, though they were not always put into execution with equal vigour.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/12677a.htm (300 words)

	BerksFHS Family Historian Sep 2002 - Catholic recusancy in Berkshire by Tony Hadland
		Recusancy among the gentry was relatively strong in neighbouring Hampshire and south Oxfordshire.
		In practice, recusant gentry were still interred in family vaults and commemorated by memorials in parish churches.
		Recusant branches of the Yate family lived in the Vale of White Horse at Buckiand Manor and Lyford Grange.
	www.berksfhs.org.uk /journal/Sep2002/CatholicRecusancyInBerkshire.htm (1338 words)

	Elizabethan Recusants and the Recusancy Laws
		The Elizabethan Recusancy Laws were established due to the 1559 Act of Uniformity of Common Prayer and Administration of the Sacrament in which attendance at church became compulsory and non-attendance was punishable by fine or imprisonment.
		The Recusancy Law was originally directed the refusal of Roman Catholics to attend the services of the Church of England.
		The attitude of the Protestant Queen Elizabeth to the Catholic recusants was initially a moderate one.
	www.elizabethan-era.org.uk /elizabethan-recusants-recusancy-laws.htm (518 words)

	GENUKI: The Old Halls, Manors and Families of Derbyshire, Volume I - Padley Hall
		A recusant was not allowed to maintain any suits at law or in equity, neither could he become a professional man, either as lawyer or doctor, nor was he permitted to travel five miles from home without a license.
		If he was convicted of recusancy and did not conform, he was banished the country, and if he returned he committed felony with the punishment of death.
		In the case of a married lady being a recusant, she could be kept in prison unless her husband dubbed up ten pounds a month for her company.
	www.genuki.org.uk:8080 /big/eng/DBY/Tilley/VolumeI/PadleyHall.html (2228 words)

	The Bawdy Court exhibition - Manuscripts & Special Collections - The University of Nottingham
		Accused recusants might be elderly people making an individual stand for the old religion, such as Amy Widmerpool of Widmerpool, said to be at least fifty in 1607, who was presented regularly until 1628.
		The Molyneux family of West Markham was one of the principal recusant families in Nottinghamshire, first appearing in the court presentments in 1608.
		Leaders of recusant communities were often members of old gentry families, whose servants were commonly accused with them for not attending church.
	www.nottingham.ac.uk /is/services/mss/online/online-exhibitions/exhib_archd/e1.phtml (1413 words)

	Recusancy Information
		In the history of England, recusancy was a term used to describe the statutory offence of not complying with the establishment of the Church of England.
		Recusant today tends to apply to the very small number of English Roman Catholics who are neither converts nor descended from immigrants, though some English-speaking sedevacantist Catholics have attempted to adopt the term to describe their own movement.
		But these would not be described as recusant families because of the late date of their conversion.
	www.bookrags.com /Recusancy (375 words)

	Introduction - Crosby Records, A Chapter of Lancashire Recusancy, Cheetham Soc vol 12, 1887
		He was even mean enough to pretend that he had never forgiven the penalties of recusancy; and by demanding the arrears, which had the effect of crowding thirteen payments of /20 per month into one, he reduced many respectable families to indi- gence.
		The legal fine of twenty pounds per lunar month for recusanty was rigorously exacted, and, in default of payment, all the cattle, household furniture, and wearing apparel of the recusants were seized and sold, and he forfeited in addi- tion two-thirds of his lands, tenements, hereditaments, farms and leases.
		In a previous page mention` has been made of the penalties of excommunication inflicted on recusants, and of the riot which ensued near Hereford on the refusal of the curate to bury the body of a Catholic.
	www.isle-of-man.com /manxnotebook/fulltext/cr1887/intro.htm (2575 words)

	Banner of Truth Trust General Articles
		Her thesis is not simply that Shakespeare was a secret practicing Roman Catholic, but that he was trained at Oxford and perhaps at an English seminary abroad and that he devoted his career to embedding coded Catholic messages in his plays.
		But to the careful reader, one trained in decoding the language of recusancy (Asquith provides a glossary of terms for the uninitiated), his intentions are unmistakable.
		She seems to be unaware that a marked-up copy of an early Shakespeare folio survives, carefully vetted by a censor, in the seminary established for English Catholics in Valladolid, Spain.
	www.banneroftruth.org /pages/articles/article_detail.php?874 (615 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: John Talbot
		On 27 August, 1592, the recusants formerly imprisoned at Ely, Banbury, and Broughton were ordered back to their respective prisons; but an exception was made (17 September, 1592) in favor of John Talbot.
		In 1601 he was living in Worcestershire and pressure was brought to bear on him to secure his influence to promote the candidature of Sir Thomas Leighton as one of the parliamentary representatives of the shire.
		In 1604 he was paying £20 a month in fines for his recusancy, the benefit of which was on 26 August granted to Sir William Anstruther, who on 13 October in the same year obtained his pardon.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/14432b.htm (721 words)

	Recusancy
		The laws were not always enforced, but they were always a threat against Catholics.
		Some of those convicted of recusancy were non-Catholic, but the term is in general use of the survival of a Catholic resistance to Protestantism in England.
		Protestants who refused to participate in the Church of England -- Puritans, Presbyterians, Baptists, Quakers, and the later Methodists -- are more typically referred to as Nonconformists[?], that is those refusing to conform with the practices and beliefs of the Church of England.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/re/Recusancy.html (118 words)

	Catholic Dossier - March/April 2002
		The historian A.G. Dickens made a useful distinction between “recusancy” and “survivalism,” and most Catholicism prior to the mid-1570’s was the latter.
		Recusancy (from the Latin word to “refuse”) was not mere clinging to the old ways, in a half-inchoate manner, but a self-conscious belief that the Anglican Church represented a falsification of Christianity and that the Church of Rome was the true church.
		While the Counter-Reformation has usually been seen as the theological refutation of Protestantism and the tightening of Catholic discipline, one of its major goals was to raise the level of religious knowledge of ordinary people (including clergy), many of whom had fallen away from the Church out of sheer ignorance or confusion.
	www.catholic.net /rcc/Periodicals/Dossier/2002-04/column.html (772 words)

	North Westmorland: Catholic recusancy and Protestant Dissent \| British History Online
		Citation: 'North Westmorland: Catholic recusancy and Protestant Dissent', The Later Records relating to North Westmorland: or the Barony of Appleby (1932), pp.
		It then became more than ever necessary to require from the recusants the oaths of Allegiance and Abjuration, as set out in the Act of I William and Mary, and a further declaration against the doctrine of Transubstantiation and the Invocation of Saints according to the Act of 30 Charles 11.
		The following recusants on 5 October, 1778, took and subscribed the oath of Allegiance as prescribed in an Act for the relief of Roman Catholics:—Jeffery, John, Thomas and Mary Wharton.
	www.british-history.ac.uk /report.asp?compid=43496 (1057 words)

	John TALBOT of Grafton (Sir)
		On 27 Aug 1592, the recusants formerly imprisoned at Ely, Banbury, and Broughton were ordered back to their respective prisons; but an exception was made (17 Sep 1592) in favor of John Talbot.
		In 1604 he was paying £20 a month in fines for his recusancy, the benefit of which was on 26 Aug granted to Sir William Anstruther, who on 13 Oct in the same year obtained his pardon.
		In 1605 he was suspected of complicity with the conspirators of the Gunpowder Plot, one of whom, Robert Wintour, of Haddington, near Droitwich, had married his daughter Gertrude.
	www.tudorplace.com.ar /Bios/JohnTalbot.htm (598 words)

	Biographies: Robert Catesby
		At one time, his recusancy fines amounted to one fifth of his considerable estate.
		Through his mother, Robert was related to the major recusant families of Throckmorton, Tresham, Vaux, Monteagle and Habington, and was raised in the atmosphere of secrecy and devotion that surrounded this close-knit, staunchly catholic community.
		The fact that he was a rich, influential and popular member of the gentry went a long way in protecting him from the rigours of recusancy, but not completely.
	www.britannia.com /history/r-catesby.html (1989 words)

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		Recusant Historian's Handbook - Full text of a book to help those studying the Catholic church during the "penal years".
		A Squire's Tale- The Story of Little Crosby - The story of a village in Lancashire UK and one family's struggle to survive the problems of being Recusant in Protestant 17th Century England.
		Thames Valley Recusants - The survival of Catholicism in Berkshire and Oxfordshire between Henry VIII and Catholic Emancipation.
	www.dcpages.com /DC_ODP/?c=Society/Religion_and_Spirituality/Christianity/Denominations/Catholicism/History/By_Region/Europe/United_Kingdom/England/Recusancy (262 words)

	The Kirk Center (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		A series of Recusant schoolmasters at the grammar school in Stratford upon Avon, when Shakespeare was probably a student there, is also suggestive.
		Similarly, E. Honigman makes a plausible case that the William Shakeshafte who served as a teacher and actor in the household of the Catholic Recusant, Sir Alexander Hoghton of Lea in the Lancashire countryside during the “lost years” was the famous playwright.
		Now it would appear that Asquith has missed the point of her own anecdote: Chekhov’s stories were available to mount a covert critique of the horrors of the Soviet tyranny only because they were not tied inextricably to the political and social events of Czarist Russia in the nineteenth century.
	www.kirkcenter.org /bookman/44-4-young.html (1117 words)

	Bretton - Blessed John Bretton & Frances, his wife
		The earliest reference to the Recusancy of John and Frances Bretton occurs in Archbishop Sandys’ List of Yorkshire Recusants returned to the Privy Council in 1577, wherein they are stated to have “no Habilities (Wealth)” “and yet are the most obstinate and perverse”.
		Fourteen other of her servants were similarly favoured with leases of recusant properties in 1590; by 1594 the number had increased to twenty eight - the properties lying in seventeen counties.
		The widow of a convicted felon, she was, moreover, already enrolled at the Exchequer as a persistant recusant: and the Exchequer had a way of dealing ruthlessly with obstinate recusant widows.
	www.bretton.org /john_bretton.htm (5475 words)

	Talk:Irish Catholic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Plantagenet insurgents who supported impostors such as Lambert Simnel and Perkin Warbeck in the face of Henry VII of England also chose Irish exile from England and their movement spurred Irish Catholic recusancy in face of the later Tudors as well as the Ulster Plantation, which led to Hanoverian and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha eras in Ireland.
		Folks from Northern England such as George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore inherited a similar culture that resonated in the Rising of the North and earlier Pilgrimage of Grace.
		Some people are exclusive or inclusive in defining the term; there are those who will not accept those of British descent, just as there are some Britons who refuse to accept Irish assimilating or acclimating to British affairs of their own volition--without peer pressure (such as becoming Protestant) to guide them into naturalisation.
	www.a013.com /wiki/Talk:Irish_Catholic (498 words)

	Stepney Folk:Recusancy:Baptist Church
		, gentleman, all of Stepney, appear as recusants (one who had been absent from services at their parish church) on the Middlesex Sessions Rolls.
		James was discharged on 17 January but the others were not so fortunate.
		Despite the activity of the parish worthies who served on the Vestry non-conformity was taking hold and the first English Baptist church was built in Wapping in 1633.
	website.lineone.net /~fight/Stepney/recusanc.htm (273 words)

	Stonor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Thomas Stonor (1677-1724) inherited the Estate at the age of 10, and a quieter recusancy life began.
		His son Thomas (1710-1772) was only 14 on the death of his father, and his guardian was his uncle Bishop John Talbot Stonor, who continued to live here until his death in 1756.
		Catholic Emancipation Act passed in 1829, which formally ended recusancy and permitted Catholics to take a role in public life.
	www.stonor.com /hgc_2_2.htm (251 words)

	Domestic-Church.Com: Saint Profile: Saint Anne Line
		Everyone was required by law to attend protestant services of the Church of England, and if you didn't go, you were charged with 'recusancy.' This word means disobedience to the lawful state authority.
		From 1570 to 1791 all Roman Catholic were compelled by the state/crown of England to attend the protestant services of the Church of England.
		The sole evidence was having an altar in the house.
	www.domestic-church.com /CONTENT.DCC/19980101/SAINTS/ST_ANNE_LN.HTM (1388 words)

	Metroblogging DC: dc bee suckers
		Websters says that "recusancy" starts with "r e c u s" which is where the wanna-be DC Bee ring leaders cut off the Metblog spell champ mid-word.
		Recusancy- is in the the official spelling bee book, however was not the word Wayan was given.
		A girl by the name of Liz was given he word and she spelled it r-e-s-u-n...
	dc.metblogs.com /archives/2006/05/dc_bee_suckers.phtml (920 words)

	Catholic Record Society Home Page
		It has printed articles on recusancy, family history, the education of priests and layfolk, and the liturgy and spirituality of the English Catholics.
		his fund was established in 1997 from a bequest of Dr David Rogers, a distinguished recusant historian and one-time Chairman of the Society.
		Recusancy and Dissent in Wiltshire: the evidence of the post-Restoration Recusant Rolls
	www.catholic-history.org.uk /crs (1521 words)

	Profile of Robert Catesby
		Sir William Catesby was later assigned a project, which met with the approval of Queen Elizabeth, of founding a catholic colony in America, but this plan was later abandoned in the face of Spanish hostility.
		In 1596 he was arrested because of his known Catholic sympathies as a precautionary measure by the government during an illness of Queen Elizabeth, and held in the Tower along with the Wright brothers John and Christopher and Francis Tresham, and only released on her recovery [9].
		James I now claimed his utter detestation of papists, that "the bishops must see to the severe and exact punishment of every catholic", made a new proclamation on February 22, 1604 ordering all priests out of the realm, and the reversed his repeal of recusancy fines payable immediately with arrears [8].
	www.gunpowder-plot.org /people/rcatesby.htm (2099 words)

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