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The Question of Dissimulation Among Elizabethan Catholics

http://www.umanitoba.ca/colleges/st_pauls/ccha/Back%20Issues/CCHA1957/Swan.htm

Article by C.M.J.F. Swan in the 1957 Canadian Catholic Historical Association Report. Considers those Catholics who outwardly conformed, either by taking the Oath of Supremacy or by attending the government-mandated Protestant church services.

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The Act Against Recusants (1593)

http://history.hanover.edu/texts/engref/er87.html

The recusants were Englishmen who would not take the Anglican eucharist - at this time they were almost entirely Catholic. This Act was the cornerstone of the "Penal Laws" which were to ensure that English Catholics would be a smaller religious minority than virtually any other Protestant nation.

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Suppression of Monasteries in England

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10455a.htm

A Catholic view of the suppression of the Monasteries by Henry VIII.

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Fox's Book of Martyrs

http://bible.christiansunite.com/foxindex.shtml

This book claimed to chronicle the suppression of English Protestants under the Catholic queen "Bloody Mary". It profoundly influenced the anti-Catholicism that became a defining mark British national identity.

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