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A History of the County of Berkshire
… Windsor to the Tower. 257 Among the prisoners were Papist recusants found in possession of Popish books and 'lewd trash.' 258 The account of a visit by … this was one of the alleged ramifications of the spurious Popish plot which was distracting England at this period. 361 …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… with St. Mary in the Marsh. NONCONFORMITY There were no recusants in Newton in 1676. 89 In 1869 both the Free and …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… the castle was used as a prison for Roman Catholic recusants (see below), after which it again fell into …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… by Nollekens. Bishop Watson 73 and Abbot Feckenham 74 (see Recusants in the Castle) are buried in the church without …
A History of the County of Cambridge and the Isle of Ely
… Wisbech Recusants in the castle RECUSANTS IN THE CASTLE The idea of concentrating Roman … to twenty. 51 At first the discipline was strict, the recusants being locked in separate rooms except for meals and …
Records relating to the Barony of Kendale
… to contract for his estate; ib., iv, 3175. 1654 Among Recusants who petitioned to contract for their estates: … search the house of John Leyburne of Witherslack, being a Popish Recusant; Le Fleming MSS. (Hist. MSS. Com.), 149. 1684 …
A History of the County of Oxford
… was they or their predecessors who performed the annual 'Popish maumetrie' of a puppet show dramatizing the …
A History of the County of Oxford
… seem to have been implicated, and in 1577 only five recusants were reported there. 2 Among them was Thomas Wenman … Norton, refused to sign the Protestation oath. 4 Later recusants, never from more than three or four families at a … but was stopped by the rector. 5 In 1767 ten out of twelve recusants recorded in Witney were women, including a …