November 14, 1531 - Richard Topcliffe

Richard Topcliffe (14 November 1531 – late 1604) was a priest hunter and practitioner of torture during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland. A landowner and Member of Parliament, he became notorious as the government's chief enforcer of the penal laws against the practice of Catholicism.

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