thumb|Map of the historic counties of England showing the percentage of registered Catholics in the population in 1715–1720
thumb|Map of the historic counties of England showing the percentage of registered Catholics in the population in 1715–1720
Recusancy (from ) was the state of those who remained loyal to the Catholic Church and refused to attend Church of England services after the English Reformation.
Discovered by embedding cosine similarity (sentence-transformers MiniLM, 384-dim).