Talk:Thomas Vavasour (knight marshal)

Catholic?

I note in the infobox his religion is given as "Catholic". However his History of Parliament Biography, the main citation source, states he was unlikely to have remained in allegiance to his ancestral faith and that he declared (apparently in his will as was a protestant practice) he died "believing in the merits of Christ's Passion", given that he was Member of Parliament under Elizabeth I and James I, he fought against Catholic adversaries, and his sister was in the court service of Elizabeth. Romanists appear never to have sat in parliament after Mary Tudor's reign, but was there any formal law banning Catholics from Parliamentary membership?Cloptonson (talk) 09:40, 29 August 2015 (UTC)