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³ Contrast his judgements, made elsewhere, that Protestantism was by 1553 ‘a formidable and seemingly ineradicable phenomenon in fairly large and very populous areas of marked political importance’, while later recusancy was ‘in every sense a severely limited phenomenon’. See Dickens, , ‘Early expansion’, 189 and ‘The first stages of Romanist recusancy in Yorkshire, 1560–1590’, in Reformation Studies, 159–83Google Scholar, at p. 180.

⁴ See especially Alsop, J. D., ‘Religious preambles in early modern English wills’, this JOURNAL xl (1989), 19–27.Google Scholar

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⁶ See for example Clark, P. A., English Provincial Society, London 1977, 59Google Scholar, or Palliser, D. A., Tudor York, Oxford 1979, 250–1Google Scholar, to name but two of many local studies which handle the testamentary evidence with a more sensitive touch

⁷ See for example the opening of his article, ‘The Reformation in England’, in Reformation Studies, 443–56Google Scholar