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Sam Jephcote, BA(Hons), FRSA's avatar

I have a question which may be stupid - about the Athanasian Creed and its historical reference to English History in 1680s (post monmouth rebellion). It was used at feasts as you have said, but would it have also been used in the c17th in mattins or mass as a "stamp of authority" to be used against non conformist prisoners prior to execution as a final "statement" that the Catholick faith and "popery" being the one true religion?

I ask as im writing a book about an ancestor who was executed in 1685 for harbouring a non conformist preacher after the collapse of the Duke of Monmouths army's. As my ancestor was leaning towards non conformism herself would the creed have been enforced against her beliefs at the time of execution?

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