21. The mother of John Pitseus, a recusant Bishop in France, lived there. 22. In the Tudor period they were closely associated with religiously conservative and recusant circles. 23. On 24 April he joined Newport in citing a local official as a recusant . 24. The Jacobean poet John Donne was another notable Englishman born into a recusant Catholic family. 25. William Courtenay was denounced in the House of Commons as a papist recusant in 1624. 26. But the descendants of the recusant families are still a force in the land ." 27. On 18 November 1584 he was returned as member for Burghley as a recusant himself. 28. Evidence however shows Piers also hunted recusants . 29. He was commissioner for recusants in 1675 and mayor of Orford from 1677 to 1678. 30. He was stannator at Blackmore in 1673 and commissioner for recusants in Cornwall in 1675.
