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QuoteReplyTopic: Recusants: A North-South divide? Posted: 23-Nov-2011 at 19:03
One of the things i'm researching for my doctorate is recusancy in northern England. Ordinary people seem to have resented southern interference and clung to their Catholic traditions as a gesture of defiance, risking jail and even execution by assisting priests
I won't say too much til after my doctorate's finished, but wealthy Catholics made special modifications to their houses to hide priests. These were often in the most unlikely places: under the stairs, behind revolving book-shelves, and even beneath fireplaces
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