papistic

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But Leisler was a clumsy politician who manipulated elections, jailed all who crossed him, and saw papists everywhere.

From Textbooks • Jan. 18, 2018

The first is that the Puritans, who were more strongly persecuted than the papists, waxed mightily notwithstanding.

From The Age of the Reformation by Smith, Preserved

He then forbade the protestants to enter the church, and put the papists in possession of the whole.

From Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by Foxe, John

In this last place he made a public exposition of the epistle to the Romans, which he went through with such grace and freedom, as greatly alarmed the papists.

From Fox's Book of Martyrs Or A History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Triumphant Deaths of the Primitive Protestant Martyrs by Foxe, John

Buchanan ignores the Reformation; De Thou passes over it with the fewest words, fearing to give offence to either papists or Huguenots.

From The Age of the Reformation by Smith, Preserved