Lancashire was the most obstinately Catholic county in Elizabethan England. The Hoghton Tower area in the Ribble Valley was a centre of resistance. Seminary priests including Edmund Campion reportedly visited the area. The recusancy raids in Lancashire were effectively military-police operations against an armed and determined religious community with gentry leadership.
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