Britain is the last redoubt of specifically anti-catholic laws .

Later in 1634 a political campaign for a general reform of anti-Catholic laws, known as the "Graces", was denied by the viceroy.

Later in the century there was some liberalisation of the anti-Catholic laws on the basis of Enlightenment ideals.

Many of its students, both priests and laymen, returned to England to be put to death under the anti-Catholic laws.

The early anti-Catholic laws were largely the work of republican Jules Ferry in 1882.

A series of anti-Catholic laws and decrees followed each other in rapid succession.

The 1689 anti-Catholic laws had largely been ignored for many years and were rarely enforced.

The injurious social and economic results of these anti-Catholic laws will not be overcome for generations.

In normal times, despite harsh anti-Catholic laws, the extent of persecution depended upon the sympathies of local landowners.

In fact, some English colonies had anti-Catholic laws and anti-Catholicism was rampant.