In Calverton 129 communicants were recorded, no recusants, but a remarkable fifty-two dissenters. The local inns harboured many fugitives and sheltered recusants. Both families were Roman Catholic recusants. Bertie was appointed a commissioner for recusants in Lincolnshire in 1624. Margaret married Sir Thomas Mildmay of Chelmsford, whose family were recusants. Meanwhile, German prisons were thronged with the first batches of recusants. By 1621 there were about forty households of recusants in Midhurst. The said Walter Talbott and all his tenants are recusants. The word, "Recusants", which Fr. The Giffards were Catholics and the most important Recusants in the area. As known recusants the brothers were on several occasions arrested for reasons of national security. Afterwards, efforts to identify recusants and force them to conform increased. Those who refused to attend Church of England services were called recusants. Both Anne and Jane were prominent recusants.