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CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Penal Laws
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This article treats of the penal legislation affecting Catholics in English-speaking countries since the Reformation . Separate heads are devoted to the penal laws: I. In England ; II. In Scotland ; III. In Ireland ; IV. In the American colonies .
In England
By a series of statutes , successive sovereigns and Parliaments from Elizabeth to George III, sought to prevent the practice of the Catholic Faith in England . To the sanguinary laws passed by Elizabeth further measures, sometimes inflicting new disqualifications and penalties, sometimes reiterating previous enactments, were added until this persecuting legislation made its effects felt in every department of human life . Catholics lost not only freedom of worship , but civil rights as well; their estates, property , and sometimes even lives were at the mercy of any informer. The fact that these laws were passed as political occasion demanded deprived them of any coherence or consistency; nor was any codification ever attempted, so that the task of summing up this long and complicated course of legislation is a difficult one. In his historical account of the penal laws, published at the time when partial relief had only just been granted, the eminent "
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