Posted on 08/14/2009 8:33:47 AM PDT by Salvation
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Minor officials in penal times in England who hunted and captured priests and their protectors for prosecution, resulting in imprisonment and capital punishment for ministering to Catholics. In early days pursuivants assisted the heralds and somewhat later served warrants for the king.
1 : an officer of arms ranking below a herald but having similar duties
2 : follower, attendant
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I knew pursuivants were originally a type of heralds, but I didn’t know they’d become law-enforcement officers. It makes sense, though, historically: if a person is carrying warrants or writs, he’d naturally get involved in enforcing the law or serving the arrest warrant.
We often forget that, despite her magnificent contributions to the Western culture, England was a place of most brutal persecutions of Catholic Christians since Nero.
True.
In effect, the pursuivants in England were, as priest-catchers, bounty hunters.
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The word, bounty hunters, flew through my mind yesterday too. LOL!
A bounty hunter is catching someone at least guilty of jumping bail. What were the priests guilty of?
The analogy is with the NKVD informants in Stalin’s Russia or those who helped the SS look for Jews.
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