"And wasn't it -- I've heard the story, but I'm a bit hazy about it -- wasn't it owing to your -- is 'recusancy' the word?. From Wordnik.com. [My Friend Prospero] Reference
Rectification Campaign, China recusancy laws, England. From Wordnik.com. [Subject Index Page 64] Reference
England were enough to make an ambitious father dread recusancy in his son. From Wordnik.com. [English Travellers of the Renaissance] Reference
In the last two years, the Queen's policy on dealing with recusancy had changed. From Wordnik.com. [Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine]
The playing company and its hosts were denounced for recusancy to the Star Chamber. From Wordnik.com. [Shakespeare and the Uses of Power] Reference
Continued recusancy was to be punished by placing filth outside the culprit's door on feast-days. From Wordnik.com. [Life in the Medieval University] Reference
It will be well, therefore, to quote one singular example to show how this recusancy was encountered. From Wordnik.com. [Christmas: Its Origin and Associations Together with Its Historical Events and Festive Celebrations During Nineteen Centuries] Reference
Greenwood were formally indicted (May 1587) for recusancy under an act originally directed against Papists. From Wordnik.com. [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 "Banks" to "Bassoon"] Reference
"Surprise" Plot — so alarmed the king that he lost no time in making known his intention to exact no longer the recusancy fines. From Wordnik.com. [London and the Kingdom - Volume II] Reference
September, 1606, the value of his recusancy was granted to Lord Hay. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
The fact was that Sir Nicholas had again been summoned for recusancy. From Wordnik.com. [By What Authority?] Reference
Elizabeth for harbouring of priests, obstinate recusancy, and popish misdoings. From Wordnik.com. [Vanity Fair] Reference
Norbury, now at Swinnerton, always occupied with these endless matters of fines and recusancy. From Wordnik.com. [Come Rack! Come Rope!] Reference
"'The fine is twenty pounds a month,' says he, 'for recusancy,' and then he looks at me again.". From Wordnik.com. [By What Authority?] Reference
James's first act, when his succession was peaceably ensured, was to remit the fines for recusancy. From Wordnik.com. [It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot] Reference
The fines exacted for recusancy sank in King James's first year to about one-sixth of what they used to be. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 7: Gregory XII-Infallability] Reference
They can prove nothing against me -- except, indeed, my recusancy; and that they have known this long time back. From Wordnik.com. [Come Rack! Come Rope!] Reference
They were the immediate and inevitable consequence of any recusancy, on my part, in regard to the rules of the bath. From Wordnik.com. [Sea-Gift. A Novel.] Reference
Old Bailey for recusancy, Rigby appeared on her behalf; compelled to confess himself a Catholic, he was sent to Newgate. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference
I believe the reason of this recusancy is the fear of disgusting my friends, as with a book open always at the same page. From Wordnik.com. [The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II.] Reference
Though churchwarden in 1582, he must have continued to adhere to the ancient faith, for he was twice fined for recusancy in. From Wordnik.com. [Life of John Milton]
When matters had come to this pass, in 1580, the first penal laws were issued, against recusancy and seditious publications. From Wordnik.com. [It Might Have Been The Story of the Gunpowder Plot] Reference
The anti-Lecompton recusancy of Douglas baffled the plotting extremists of the South, and created additional dissension in the. From Wordnik.com. [Abraham Lincoln, a History — Volume 02] Reference
But disorders ensued at home, where recusancy was yet rife; in 1538 the council exiled Farel, Calvin, and the blind evangelist. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux] Reference
Would he have wished that she should at once have given herself up without one maidenly scruple, one word of feminine recusancy?. From Wordnik.com. [Lady Anna] Reference
She told him what had passed, and how Sir Nicholas had been fined again for his recusancy; and how Lady Maxwell had sung one of Sir Thomas. From Wordnik.com. [By What Authority?] Reference
Catholic gentry was limited to an exaction, more or less rigorous at different times, of the fines for recusancy or non-attendance at public worship. From Wordnik.com. [History of the English People Volume 4 (of 8)] Reference
January 22nd, 2010 at 4: 43 pm recusancy. From Wordnik.com. [Balloon Juice » Blog Archive » Miasma] Reference
Posted by recusancy in reply to a comment from liam. From Wordnik.com. [Hillary: I Will Press To Get Florida And Michigan Delegations Seated] Reference
Posted by recusancy in reply to a comment from shermanfirefly. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Response Ad: "In A Dangerous World, It's Judgment That Matters"] Reference
Posted by shermanfirefly in reply to a comment from recusancy. From Wordnik.com. [Obama Response Ad: "In A Dangerous World, It's Judgment That Matters"] Reference
1593, and 10 March following, he paid £120 in fines for recusancy. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon] Reference
Derby to hear cases of recusancy. From Wordnik.com. [Come Rack! Come Rope!] Reference
A hotbed of recusancy. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference
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