This online critical edition presents 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 excerpts from letters written by Catholic priests exiled from England.
The source text is preserved in manuscript form at the Biblioteca Histórica de Santa Cruz, Universidad de Valladolid (Ref. MS 551, fols 211-216). It contains a copy of the printed pamphlet bearing the same title (USTC No. 5012990).
Use the side menu to access the edited text. It is accompanied by a commentary, annotations, an English translation, and digital reproductions of the original manuscript.
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
We extend our sincere thanks to the Biblioteca Histórica de Santa Cruz, Universidad de Valladolid, for granting permission to publish reproductions of MS 551, fols 211-216, on this site.
This educational project is supported by the Centro VirtUVa, Vicerrectorado de Innovación Docente y Transformación Digital, Universidad de Valladolid (PID Realia & Replica, 2023-2024).
The research has been funded by the Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación, Gobierno de España, throught he project MIST – Misiones y transmisiones: Intercambios entre la Península Ibérica y las Islas Británicas de la época moderna extensa (PID2020-113516GB-I00).