It held out hope that the English would find needed timber for
masts, pitch, tar, and ashes for soap.
In Rome in 1600, Giordano Bruno, an Italian monk and priest, was
burned alive at the stake by a court of the inquisition for not
recanting, although tortured, his heretical and blasphemous
philosophy. He had opined that Christianity was irrational and had
no scientific basis, that Christ was only a skillful magician,
that the Bible could not be taken literally, that God and nature
were not separate as taught by Genesis, that the Catholic church
encouraged ignorance from the instinct of self-preservation, and
that the earth and planets revolved around the sun, as did other
planets around other suns.
The Jesuits, a new Catholic order brimming with zeal, sent
missionaries to England to secretly convert people to Catholicism.
The practice of Catholicism had gone underground in England, and
some Catholic house-holders maintained Catholic priests in hidden
places in their homes.
- The Law -
Although estate tails (estates descendible only to the heirs of
the body of the original feofee) by law could not be sold or given
away, this was circumvented by use of a straw man. In
collaboration with the possessor of the property, this straw man
sued the possessor asserting that the property had been wrongfully
taken from the straw man. The possessor pleaded that the crier of
the court who had warranted it should be called to defend the
action.
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