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Elizabeth I expected outward
obedience from her subjects –
and that included their
church attendanceIn Elizabethan England, Catholics were
branded public enemies, their Masses banned
and their priests executed. Jessie Childs
reveals what life was like for recusants and
‘church papists’ in a hostile Protestant state
Elizabeth’s
war with
England’s
Catholics