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unusual facts about English Catholic



An Admonition to the Nobility and People of England

The An Admonition to the Nobility and People of England (1588) was written by William Cardinal Allen in an attempt to raise the English Catholics in revolt against their queen, Elizabeth I, at the same time that the Spanish Armada mounted their invasion of England.

Yelverton case

Theresa Longworth, an English Catholic, and Major The Hon. William Charles Yelverton (who later became, in 1870, The 4th Viscount Avonmore), an Irish Protestant, met in 1852.


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1656 in literature

January 1 - Silvester Jenks, English Catholic theologian and philosopher (died 1714)

Battle of Nieuwpoort

:Bostock Regiment (English, raised from the deserting garrison of Deventer and reinforced by English Catholic refugees)

Hallahan

Margaret Hallahan (born 1803), English Catholic nun, foundress of the Dominican Congregation of St. Catherine of Siena

Melleray Abbey

Through the generosity of Sir Thomas Weld, a wealthy English Catholic and the father of Cardinal Weld, they settled (1795) at Lulworth, Dorset, England.

Postgate

Nicholas Postgate (1596 or 1597—1679), English Catholic martyr

Royal veto of the appointment of bishops

Charles Butler, the leader of the English Catholic vetoists, says of that resolution that it