Anti-Catholic Reaction
Publication of the bull was met with an outburst of hostility. The Reformation Journal published an article under the heading The Blight of Popery. "No Popery" processions were held all over England, and windows of Catholic churches were broken. And Parliament passed the Ecclesiastical Titles Act 1851, making it a criminal offence for anyone outside the "united Church of England and Ireland" to use any episcopal title "of any city, town or place, or of any territory or district (under any designation or description whatsoever), in the United Kingdom".
However, this law remained a dead letter and was repealed 20 years later.
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