recusant in a sentence

Examples

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