recusancy
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Nearly ruined in fines for persistent recusancy under the penal laws, a lucky speculation or two in building-land and coal mines made it a millionaire over and over again.
From The Red Derelict by Bertram Mitford
Would he have wished that she should at once have given herself up without one maidenly scruple, one word of feminine recusancy?
From Lady Anna by Anthony Trollope
For these were a couple of magistrates—harmless men, indeed, as regarded their hostility to the old Faith—yet Protestants who had sat more than once on the bench in Derby to hear cases of recusancy.
From Come Rack! Come Rope! by Robert Hugh Benson
In July 1603 the fines for recusancy were remitted.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 6 "Groups, Theory of" to "Gwyniad" by Various
In the spring of 1605 the exasperation of the Catholics was increased by James again imposing the recusancy fines, and the little band of plotters increased in numbers, although never allowed to become large.
From London and the Kingdom - Volume II by Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson) Sharpe
