Posted on 30/10/04
A 17th-century mirror
Havoc, in its Third YearBy Ronan Bennett Bloomsbury, 244 pages, $35In the 1630s in the north of England, life was brutish, short and altogether miserable, especially for the poor. It also wasn't particularly pleasant for Roman Catholics, also known as Papists for their dedication to the Pope, at a time when Roman Catholicism was known as "the Old Faith." How Catholics were treated depended on the attitudes of local Protestant officials. If hysteria was running high, Catholics were persecuted; if times were calm, they were ignored. Priests, however, were always to be feared and, if caught, were hanged, drawn and quartered, a particularly gruesome form of torture.
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