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Richard Topcliffe
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Richard Topcliffe was a priest hunter and practitioner of torture during the reign of Queen Elizabeth I of England and Ireland. A landowner and Member of Parliament, he became notorious as the government's chief enforcer of the penal laws against the practice of Catholicism.