Some of those convicted of recusancy were non-Catholic, but the term is in general use of the survival of a Catholic resistance to Protestantism in England. Protestants who refused to participate in the Church of England -- Puritans, Presbyterians, Baptists, Quakers, and the later Methodists -- are more typically referred to as Nonconformists, that is those refusing to conform with the practices and beliefs of the Church of England.