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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.
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.
Suppression of Monasteries in England
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10455a.htm
A Catholic view of the suppression of the Monasteries by Henry VIII.
N.D. versus O.E: Anonymity's moral ambiguity in Elizabethan Catholic controversy
http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m2220/n3_v40/21182129/p1/article.jhtml
From "Criticism". A study of how the use of anonymity shaped Elizabethan Catholic apologetics.
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.
Act Against Jesuits and Seminarists (1585)
http://history.hanover.edu/texts/ENGref/er85.html
Mandating the death penalty for English born Jesuits.