Has anyone here visited Lambeth Palace - home of the Archbishop of Canterbury?

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Everything in my household growing up was “Protestant versus Catholic.” Which is ironic considering both of my parents were/are essentially atheists with a dim view of the Church.
 
I have heard that Archbishop Welby and Cardinal Nichols are great friends. That helps.
 
tomarin said:
Which groups? Quakers? Methodists? Levelers? Ranters? Diggers? Just curious as I find this period in English history fascinating.
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Long, long history of religious oppression of various kinds against various communities: too much to deal with here. In the second half of the 17th C the Clarendon Code was directed against non-Catholic dissenters, the Test Acts against Catholic recusants. They were catch-all in the sense that they were aimed at all those who declined to be Church of England communicants. So, yes, RC, Presbyterians, Quakers, Baptists, the lot. But things eased fairly rapidly. After 1688 there were easements by new laws and by increasingly feeble enforcement. Still it wasn’t until the 1820s that the Catholic Relief Act was passed. That’s the very short version of the story, not totally inaccurate.
 
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Long, long history of religious oppression of various kinds against various communities: too much to deal with here. In the second half of the 17th C the Clarendon Code was directed against non-Catholic dissenters, the Test Acts against Catholic recusants. They were catch-all in the sense that they were aimed at all those who declined to be Church of England communicants. So, yes, RC, Presbyterians, Quakers, Baptists, the lot. But things eased fairly rapidly. After 1688 there were easements by new laws and by increasingly feeble enforcement. Still it wasn’t until the 1820s that the Catholic Relief Act was passed. That’s the very short version of the story, not totally inaccurate.
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Better than I could do on the subject.
 
GKC said:
Better than I could do on the subject.
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Kind of you to say so, Mr C. Doing 150 years in one paragraph comes out a bit, how shall we say, a bit un-nuanced, though. And un-nuanced history is a bit of a cop-out, isn’t it.
 
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Kind of you to say so, Mr C. Doing 150 years in one paragraph comes out a bit, how shall we say, a bit un-nuanced, though. And un-nuanced history is a bit of a cop-out, isn’t it.
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Sometimes it’s the best one can do, practically. Plus a reminder that it’s complicated, and offer a second course.

I sometimes do 250 years in in sentence, faute de mieux.
 
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Long, long history of religious oppression of various kinds against various communities: too much to deal with here. In the second half of the 17th C the Clarendon Code was directed against non-Catholic dissenters, the Test Acts against Catholic recusants. They were catch-all in the sense that they were aimed at all those who declined to be Church of England communicants. So, yes, RC, Presbyterians, Quakers, Baptists, the lot. But things eased fairly rapidly. After 1688 there were easements by new laws and by increasingly feeble enforcement. Still it wasn’t until the 1820s that the Catholic Relief Act was passed. That’s the very short version of the story, not totally inaccurate.
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Thanks, Picky.
 
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