Thomas Fermor and the Sons of WitneyA recusant family story from Roses to Restoration and the quest for freedom of assembly, press, petition, speech, and religion. Two hundred years of rising economic prosperity elevated Thomas Fermors family from affluence within the Hundreds of the Cotswold, to influence within the House of Commons. But the intensified animosity between royal supremacy and personal independence strengthened the religious fervor, emboldened revolts, and plotted