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The Act Against Recusants (1593)
http://history.hanover.edu/texts/engref/er87.htmlThe 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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