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History of Catholicism in the Tudor period (1485 - 1603). During this time Catholicism went from being the recognised religion of the state to a persecuted minority church.

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Act Against Jesuits and Seminarists (1585) - Mandating the death penalty for English born Jesuits. The Act Against Recusants (1593) - 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. Fox's Book of Martyrs - 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. The Question of Dissimulation Among Elizabethan Catholics - 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. Suppression of Monasteries in England - A Catholic view of the suppression of the Monasteries by Henry VIII.

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