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Anton Howes @AntonHowes ยท Jan 31, 2023
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Fantastic thread! In all my recent reading of the proceedings of the early 17thC parliaments, recusancy laws come up CONSTANTLY. MPs seem to have been obsessed - more than any other subject - with making them stricter. Great to read this added context.

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Recusancy laws in England targeted Catholics but also caught nonconformists; and on at least two occasions Jews were fined for recusancy, in 1577 and 1686. The first case is curious, because there weren't supposed to be any Jews in England at the tim
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