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Establishing Commissions against Seminary Priests and Jesuits, also known as the Edict of 1591, was a royal proclamation of Queen Elizabeth I, likely written by Lord Burghley, which denounced Jesuits and seminary priests as seditious.

Background

Edict

Response

In 1592, Robert Persons published Responsio ad Edictum, a satirical response to the edict.^[1]

References

^ Houliston, Victor (1 June 2001). "The Lord Treasurer and the Jesuit: Robert Person's Satirical Responsio to the 1591 Proclamation". The Sixteenth Century Journal. 32 (2): 383–401. doi:10.2307/2671738. ISSN 0361-0160. Retrieved 9 January 2024.

[houliston-1] Houliston, Victor (1 June 2001). "The Lord Treasurer and the Jesuit: Robert Person's Satirical Responsio to the 1591 Proclamation". The Sixteenth Century Journal. 32 (2): 383–401. doi:10.2307/2671738. ISSN 0361-0160. Retrieved 9 January 2024.

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