The Jesuits, etc. Act 1584, was an act of the Parliament of England passed during the English Reformation. The act commanded all Roman Catholic priests to leave the country within 40 days or they woul
Sir John Arundell of Lanherne: he and his wife, Lady Anne Stanley, were the patrons of the Catholic martyr John Cornelius, whom they harboured in their house in breach of the 1584 Act
Gunter Mansion, Abergavenny, where Catholic priests were sheltered for generations, in defiance of the 1584 statute
The Gordon Riots 1780, painting by Charles Green
The English Reformation began in 16th-century England when the Church of England broke away first from the authority of the pope and bishops over the King and then from some doctrines and practices of
Jesuits, etc. Act 1584
…The Jesuits, etc. Act 1584, (27 Eliz. 1. c. 2) was an act of the Parliament of England passed during the English Reformation. The act commanded all Roman Catholic priests to leave the country within 40 days or they would be punished for high treason, unless within the 40 days…
King Henry VIII initiated the separation of the English Church from the Catholic Church by declaring himself, not the Pope, the Supreme Head of the Church of England. Portrait by Hans Holbein the Younger. Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum, Madrid.
The Tyndale Bible was the basis for later English translations.
Catherine of Aragon, Henry VIII's first wife. Attributed to Joannes Corvus, National Portrait Gallery, London.
King Edward VI, under whose reign the Church of England was reformed in a more Protestant direction