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notable English Catholic, possibly a convert, was composer William Byrd. Some of Byrd's most popular motets are theorised to have been written for the recusant communities in England, often lamenting the state of England and hoping to a return to Catholicism; a number of such motets were published in the two volumes of Cantiones Sacrae of 1589 and 1591. Byrd also shared correspondence with the Spanish composer Philippe de Monte, with

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