Word: antipapist
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...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...