This is an online critical edition of Las leyes nuevamente hechas en el Parlamento de Inglaterra este año de M.DC.VI. contra los Católicos ingleses (1606), a Spanish abridged version of two Jacobean penal laws: "Act for the better discovery and repression of Popish Recusants" (3 Jac. I, iv) and "An Act to prevent and avoid Dangers which grow by Popish Recusants" (3 Jac. I, v), to which are appended three extracts from letters by Catholic priests exiled from England.
The source text is the manuscript held by the Biblioteca Histórica de Santa Cruz at the Universidad de Valladolid (Ref. MS 551, fols 211-216). It contains a copy of the printed pamphlet bearing the same title (USTC No. 5012990).
Follow the links on the side menu to read the edited text. It comes with a commentary and annotations, besides an English translation and digital reproductions from the original.
Credits
Coordinated by Anunciación Carrera de la Red and Berta Cano Echevarría.
Edited and annotated jointly by students of the Master in Advanced English Studies (Universidad de Valladolid / Universidad de Salamanca) for the module "The Age of Shakespeare and Cervantes" (2023-2024):
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Adri Cerezo Menac |
Hanan Aharchi |
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Alicia Fernández Viña |
Ana Ferrero Cortes |
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Zuzanna Heinrich |
Gloria Grande Almoguera |
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Andrea Ingelmo Pérez |
Leila Marandi López |
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Silvia Lafuente Sangüesa |
Imane Mrabet |
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Anastasiia Lozova |
Cristina Pérez del Barrio |
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Javier Martín Cáceres |
Yolanda Rama Cousillas |
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Miguel Martín Cáceres |
Valeriia Yefymenko |
Acknowledgements
Our special thanks are due to the Biblioteca Histórica de Santa Cruz of the University of Valladolid for permission to publish reproductions of MS 551, fols 211-216, in this site.
This educational project is supported by the Vicerrectorado de Innovación Docente y Transformación Digital, Universidad de Valladolid (PID Realia & Replica, 2023-2024).
The research behind the critical edition is funded by the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Gobierno de España: MIST, Misiones y transmisiones: Intercambios entre la Península Ibérica y las Islas Británicas de la época moderna extensa (PID2020-113516GB-I00).