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Random House Uk - The catholics: the church and its people in britain and ireland, from the reformation to the present day | roy hattersley

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• Throughout the 300 years that followed the Act of Supremacy—which
• By making Henry VIII head of the Church
• Confirmed in law the breach with Rome—English Catholics were prosecuted
• Persecuted and penalized for the public expression of their faith
• Even after the passing of the emancipation acts Catholics were still the victims of institutionalized discrimination
• The first book to tell the story of the Catholics in Britain in a single volume
• The Catholics includes much previously unpublished information
• It focuses on the lives
• And sometimes deaths
• Of individual Catholics—martyrs and apostates