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Haigh's Marian Restoration

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Haigh concludes his work by assessing the Marian restoration, the Elizabethan political restoration, and policies aimed at a growing catholic minority such as recusancy. Haigh not for the first time provides a balanced argument. He rejects the notion that “Marys reign was an aberration, an inconvenient disruption of the natural process of Reformation.” Haigh undermines this argument because the “demand for religious change had been weak; protestants had become a significant minority movement and had not broken through to mass support. From the perspective of 1558 it is the reign of Edward which appears an aberration, disrupting the process of Catholic restoration which begun in 1538 and was to continue under Mary.” On the contrary, Haigh

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