#another day; another instagram edit implying mary i was anti-racist...

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A quarter of a century after Henry VIII's legislation, the parliament of Philip and Mary returned to the [Romany] problem. Notwithstanding past attempts to rid England of 'certain outlandish people calling themselves Egyptians', such people had 'enterprised to come over again into this realm, using their old accustomed devilish and naughty practices and devices, with such abominable living that is not in any Christian realm to be permitted'. The legislation of 1554 raised the rhetorical temperature—the [Romany] were now 'devilish' as well as 'outlandish'— and added punitive weight. The new law again called for their forced removal, imposed fines on facilitators of [Romany] immigration, and death for any [Romany] lingering over a month. Henceforth it was a felony to be [Romany] in England [...] the choice was expulsion, the gallows, or assimilation, provided the law could bring them within reach.

CRESSY, D. (2016). TROUBLE WITH GYPSIES IN EARLY MODERN ENGLAND. The Historical Journal, 59(1), 45–70.