Q. Which of the following was a Catholic and adopted a policy of religious persecution of the Protestants and Puritans of England?
Answer: Mary II
Notes: James I of the Stuart dynasty was a Catholic and adopted a policy of religious persecution of the Protestants and Puritans of England. The English Puritans hated to be brought under the English Catholic Church and therefore decided to leave England to settle elsewhere.

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