[JHavard]

And Edmund Campion, a Jesuit, was drawn and quartered for treason against Elizabeth I of England. He was among 300 Catholics. executed by the Queen's Secret service. Do you know that according to Blackstone, any Catholic priest who in 1760. publicly said mass was subject to life imprisionment?

Hummm, I wonder why?

[RobbyS]

Hummm, I wonder why? The majority of Englishmen were still Catholic when she assumed the throne, and the only way that her Anglican Church could be imposed on the people was to suppress Catholicism (and incidentally the Puritans) by means fair and foul.