A subsequent viceregal proclamation ordered all priests to leave Dublin and prohibited the use of images, candles, and beads.
The "Recusancy Acts", which began during the reign of Elizabeth I and which were repealed in 1650,[5] imposed a number of punishments on those who did not participate in Anglican religious activity, including fines, property confiscation, and imprisonment.
After 1570, when Elizabeth was excommunicated by the papal bull Regnans in Excelsis, persecution increased; and the hunting down of the Gerald FitzGerald, 15th Earl of Desmond, the Desmond Rebellions and the desolation of Munster, in addition to the torture, trial before military tribunal, and hanging of Archbishop Dermot O'Hurley outside the walls of Dublin.
Recusant fines were collected on a haphazard basis until the Cromwellian conquest of Ireland in 1649, after which all Catholic worship was banned.
From the Restoration of King Charles II in 1660 no fines or laws about recusancy persisted; state policy allowed for many different churches but preserved the official position of Anglicanism.