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Recusant definition + fine per absence

Refused church attendance; fined 1 shilling (5 pence) per absence

First Catholic priest execution for Mass (year)

1577

1567: Spanish troops in Netherlands (number + leader)

10,000 troops led by Duke of Alba

Founder of Douai seminary (1568)

William Allen

Year Pope excommunicated Elizabeth

1570

Edmund Campion execution year

1581

1581 Act: Fine for missing church per month

£20 per month

Total Catholic priests executed under Elizabeth

Nearly 150

Catholic strongholds in England (regions)

N&W Yorkshire, S&W Lancashire, Herefordshire, S Wales

1603: % with Catholic sympathies vs active recusants

10% sympathies, 2% active recusants

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