The Penal Laws entry of the 1907 to 1912 Catholic Encyclopedia, hosted at New Advent, surveying the English and Irish statutes penalizing Catholics from the Elizabethan settlement onward. Its account of Elizabeth I's reign states that under the 1585 Act against Jesuits, Seminary Priests and Other Such Like Disobedient Persons, which made it high treason for a Jesuit or seminary priest to remain in England at all, over 150 Catholics died on the scaffold between 1581 and 1603, a figure the entry gives as exclusive of those executed earlier in the reign.
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AuthorCatholic Encyclopedia editorial staff (1907 to 1912 edition) 1 PublisherNew Advent (online edition of the Catholic Encyclopedia) 1 URLhttps://www.newadvent.org/cathen/11611c.htm 1 Assessment
Reliability TierReference-encyclopedia tier 3, a century-old Catholic reference work with an evident institutional viewpoint on its own subject; used here only for its specific execution-count figure, which is consistent with the independently reported range of roughly 150 to 200 given elsewhere for the same 1581 to 1603 span, and recorded as debated below rather than as a single settled number. Sources
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- Religious Events, 15 claims: 10 well-attested, 2 scholarly debate, 2 connected, 1 general references.
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