Word: antipapist
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...book, a 17th century antipapist bestseller - The English - American his Travail by Sea end Land: or, A New Survey of the West-India's-can be read for its wonderful period style and detail, but also as a curious psychological document of a man both brave and devious, mean and daring. As edited by Archaeologist-Author J. Eric S. Thompson, it makes a great story...
...antipapist English press of the period, Pierce's next move was meat for scandal. In 1849, only a short time after he had tried unsuccessfully to get a cardinal's hat, he made another spectacular switch ("my allegiance to Rome was a culpable delusion"), sued Cornelia for resumption of his marital rights, and renounced his priesthood. He won the judgment; the Court of Arches ordered Cornelia to leave the convent and return to her husband or go to jail. For weeks Cornelia kept street clothes in her cell, ready to leave the country if Pierce or the authorities...
...powerful, well-rooted faction made up partly of ardently religious men, partly of landlords who dreaded that Mary would give back to the Church the rich monastic properties which Henry VIII had shared out. When the "old" service returned to the parish churches, London was strewn with antipapist pamphlets and broadsheets; men gathered together for armed rebellion. And many an Englishman who had welcomed , a return to the old ways hesitated in insular fear when he saw, on Mary's one hand, the long-absent papal legate and, on the other, her new husband, Prince Philip of Spain...