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Conformity, Loyalty and the Jesuit Mission to England of 1580 (2013)
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Kelly, J. E. (2014). Conformity, Loyalty and the Jesuit Mission to England of 1580. In E. Glaser (Ed.), Religious tolerance in the Atlantic world : early modern and contemporary perspectives (149-170). Palgrave Macmillan. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137028044_7

In Elizabethan England, under the 1559 Act of Uniformity, church attendance was compulsory on Sundays and Holy Days for all those aged 14 or over. The law was enforced ‘upon payne of punishement by the Censures of the Churche, and also upon payne tha... Read More about Conformity, Loyalty and the Jesuit Mission to England of 1580.