Dark Pages of English History Being a Short Account of the Penal Laws Against
Dark Pages of English History Being a Short Account of the Penal Laws Against
J R John Ralph Willington
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Two months later a la3^man suffered at Lancaster for refusing to attend the reformed services ; likewise two laymen 7 98 The Penal Laws in Yorkshire and one in Northampton- shire. The fines which Ehzabeth had en- forced on all who would not come to the established worship began now to be so strictly levied, together with all arrears, that many Catholic families were wholly impoverished. In the county of Hereford alone, where these fines for recusancy were exacted rigorously by the Bishops of He...reford and Llandaif, four hundred and nine families suddenly found themselves re- duced to beggary.^* The moneys thus extorted from the sufferers formed a fund, out of which James could pacify the claims and clamours of the needy Scotchmen who had followed the court from their own country. This appropriation of English moneys to satisfy the rapacity of the * Lingard, vol. VII, 51. James I 99 Scottish harpies was no small grievance at a time when the relation between the two nations was none of the friendliest.
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