Papists
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in the texts
The Constitutional Documents of the Puritan Revolution, 1625–1660
English and continental Roman Catholics, repeatedly identified across the acts and Remonstrance as the source of feared subversion of religion and law.
That you will be graciously pleased to concur with the humble desires of your people in a parliamentary way, for the preserving the peace and safety of the kingdom from the malicious designs of the Popish party:
and the Papists of England, having been ever more addicted to Spain than France, yet they still retained a purpose and resolution to weaken the Protestant parties in all parts, and even in France, whereby to make way for the change of religion which they intended at home.
And because we have reason to believe that those malignant parties, whose proceedings evidently appear to be mainly for the advantage and increase of Popery, is composed, set up, and acted by the subtile practice of the Jesuits and other engineers and factors for Rome, and to the great danger of this kingdom, and most grievous affliction of your loyal subjects, have so far prevailed as to corrupt …
An Essay on Crimes and Punishments
Catholics, referenced as the group Anthony was mistaken for at Sedan, nearly costing him his life.
He fled for refuge to Sedan, where, being taken for a Papist, he narrowly escaped assassination.
Lectures on the Early History of Institutions
Irish Catholics whose lands were later deliberately 'gavelled' by English descendants as a punitive measure.
They ‘gavelled’ the lands of Papists and made them descendible to all the children alike.