The rest of Duncan's threat was lost in a growling gargling sort of sound, which he made in his throat, and which menaced recusants with no gentle means of conversion.
Still more disquieting was it that a census of recusants showed that their numbers had very considerably increased since the King's accession.
In the end the antagonism took its fiercest shape in the disputation on the new oath of allegiance enjoined on all recusants in 1606.
Proclamation ordering Popish recusants to repair to their homes, and not to come to court or within ten miles of London without special licence, 11 Nov.
Heaven shield, madam," he cried, "you have not companied with recusants so as to become infected with a lack of zeal for the Protestant religion!
Nigh one hundred recusants had repaired to Euston that day for their paschal communion.
So rank a hatred hath grown in her against recusants and mostly priests, that it rages like a madness in her soul, which thirsts for their blood.
The laws against recusants are much relaxed; though sometimes the king, being in want of money, takes one-third of their incomes by way of composition.
And though, for the sake of appearance, proclamations for arresting priests and recusants sometimes came forth, they were always discharged in a short time.
The prosecutions of recusants were absolutely stopped, by cashiering the pursuivants who had been employed in the odious office of detecting them.
As might be expected, the number of recusants increased, probably because many who had attended church to avoid paying fines stayed away as soon as the fines ceased to be required.
In another paragraph of the opinion the chief justice asserted that 'persons are declared recusants if they refuse on a summons to take the oath at the sessions, and can never after such refusal be permitted to take them.
The Armour of Recusants convict shall be taken from them by Warrant from Four Justices of Peace.
All Armour shall be taken from Recusantsby order of four Justices.
Popish Recusants convict above 16 Years of Age, enjoining them not to remove above 5 Miles from their Habitation: if they do, and not being covert (married?
Children of Recusants must be baptized by a lawful Minister, or the Parent forfeits £100.
The condition of Catholic recusantshere is the same as usual, deplorable and full of fears and dangers, more especially since our adversaries have look’d for wars.
Among those from whom it was thus taken away, were Popish Recusants by act of 35 Eliz.
And Charles also bound himself by an oath, that "whenever it should please God to bestow upon him any lady that were Popish, she should have no further liberty but for her own family, and no advantage to any recusants at home.
She had already levied a forced loan, to which the recusants had been made to contribute heavily, and she now received most liberal grants from both Parliament and Convocation.
The poorer recusantswere for some time imprisoned; but the prisons becoming full, officers were sent through the country, visiting all villages and remote places, and extorting what they could.
All magistrates were instructed to enforce the penal laws with rigour, and an elaborate spy system for the discovery of concealed recusants was set on foot.
The House broke up in confusion; therecusants in a body declared their intention not to be present at its deliberations, and the Lord Deputy, finding them resolute, suddenly prorogued the session.
The ten shilling tax on recusants for non-attendance at the Anglican service was rigorously enforced in other cities, and was almost invariably levied with costs, which not seldom swelled the ten shillings to ten pounds.
Several bills were passed against recusants and as a protection to the Protestant religion.
Let it be remembered that the laws against recusants were not enacted until the treasons of Campion, Parry, and others, had rendered such a step on the part of the government unavoidable.
Its real object was not suspected, nor were its hiding-places discovered, though often resorted to by recusants during the reigns of Elizabeth and James I.
Lists were accurately made out and carefully preserved of the recusants who owned property of any sort, and every possible method of espionage was adopted to detect them in the slightest infraction of the bloody code.
As bishops, along with some able men, Elizabeth chose others of an inferior stamp who consented to the plunder of their sees and whom she could use to report on recusants and harry nonconformists.
From 1571 recusants can no longer be reckoned as nonconforming members of the English Church: the law recognized them as separate from it.
Have these recusants imprisoned you with some foul intent, or perverted you by their vile cunning?
It is well known," quoth he, "that the sufferings which be endured by recusantsat this time in our country are such, that many should prefer to die at once than to be subjected to so constant a fear and terror as doth beset them.
If a pursuivant bestrode him, he might discover through his means who be recusants a hundred miles around.
The punishing of recusants and the discipline of those who refused or neglected to go to church was, as already stated, an active occupation of the justices.
These recusants now took up arms to defend themselves, and civil war raged in infant Maryland.
Newgate, sends a certificate of the names of the recusants now in Newgate, "viz.
One of them," it is added, "helped fourrecusants to escape from Newgate.
In the State Papers July 1602 is a list of priests and recusantsin prison, viz.
The stern realities of the first recusantshad been so travestied by the exaggerated imitation of their successors that no faith was placed in the serious earnestness of man or woman.
The Earl of Salisbury was Northumberland's enemy, as Northumberland was looked up to by the popish recusants as a sort of natural leader, though the Earl, on his own avowal, was no papist.
An apostate" Jesuit, named Sir Christopher Perkins, aided in framing this searching test, so the Government knew exactly how to get the unhappy papist recusants tightly within their grip.
For they might reasonably enough conclude that the ammunition was to carry out "the practice for some stir" which Salisbury admits that he knew the recusants had in hand at that Parliament.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "recusants" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
