Richard Topcliffe
English politician, priest-hunter and torturer (1531–1604) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Richard Topcliffe (14 November 1531 – late 1604)[1] was a priest hunter and practitioner of torture[1] during the reign of Elizabeth I of England. A landowner and Member of Parliament, he became notorious as the government's chief enforcer of the penal laws against the practice of Catholicism.