Suppression of Monasteries in England
- A Catholic view of the suppression of the Monasteries by Henry VIII.
- http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10455a.htm

The Question of Dissimulation Among Elizabethan Catholics
- Article by C.M.J.F. Swan in the 1957 Canadian Catholic Historical Association Report. Considers those Catholics who outwardly conformed, either by taking the Oath of Supremacy or by attending the government-mandated Protestant church services.
- http://www.umanitoba.ca/colleges/st_pauls/ccha/Back%20Issues/CCHA1957/Swan.htm

N.D. versus O.E: Anonymity's moral ambiguity in Elizabethan Catholic controversy
- From "Criticism". A study of how the use of anonymity shaped Elizabethan Catholic apologetics.
- http://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m2220/n3_v40/21182129/p1/article.jhtml

Fox's Book of Martyrs
- This book claimed to chronicle the suppression of English Protestants under the Catholic queen "Bloody Mary". It profoundly influenced the anti-Catholicism that became a defining mark British national identity.
- http://bible.christiansunite.com/foxindex.shtml

English Reformation Sources
- A list of pivotal documents regarding the Tudors' religious policies.
- http://members.shaw.ca/reformation/

The Act Against Recusants (1593)
- The recusants were Englishmen who would not take the Anglican eucharist - at this time they were almost entirely Catholic. This Act was the cornerstone of the "Penal Laws" which were to ensure that English Catholics would be a smaller religious
- http://history.hanover.edu/texts/engref/er87.html

Act Against Jesuits and Seminarists (1585)
- Mandating the death penalty for English born Jesuits.
- http://history.hanover.edu/texts/ENGref/er85.html