| However his continuing recusancy could only have increased the tense relationship with authority which his seemingly seditious plays had instigated. |
| Dispensations from the action of the recusancy laws were given by the Crown in such numbers as to alarm the Puritans. |
| What could they have done to me, said my brother, on account of my recusancy? |
| In the first year of his reign he remitted the recusancy fines. |
| Despite repeated citations for recusancy and persistent heavy fines, he died a rich man, having rooms at the time of his death at the London home of the Earl of Worcester. |
| Even more discontent resulted when the King allowed his Scottish nobles to collect the recusancy fines. |
