Following the Restoration, the government ordered systematic disarmament of Catholic recusants across England. Yorkshire, with its large recusant gentry community in the North Riding, was a particular focus. Arms seizures from recusant households deprived potential Catholic insurgents of weapons while demonstrating the restored government's continued suspicion of the Catholic community.
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