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  Act of Uniformity 1662 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Act of Uniformity was an act of Parliament, prescribing the form of public prayers, administration of sacraments, and other rites of the Established Church of England.
Conventicle Act (1664) - This act forbade conventicles (a meeting for unauthorized worship) of more than 5 people who were not members of the same household.
Five Mile Act (1665) - This final act of the Clarendon Code was aimed at Nonconformist ministers, who were forbidden from coming within 5 miles of incorporated towns or the place of their former livings.
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 Conventicle Act 1664 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Conventicle Act of 1664, 16 Charles II c.
The operation of these laws at least as far as Protestants were concerned was mitigated somewhat by Charles II's Royal Declaration of Indulgence in (1672), which suspended the execution of penal laws and allowed a certain number of non-conformist chapels to be staffed and constructed, with the pastors subject to royal approval.
The Conventicle Act and Five Mile Act were repealed in 1689.
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 AllRefer.com - Clarendon Code (British And Irish History) - Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Corporation Act (1661) required all officers of incorporated municipalities to take communion according to the rites of the Church of England and to abjure the Presbyterian covenant.
The Act of Uniformity (1662) required all ministers in England and Wales to use and subscribe to the Book of Common Prayer; nearly 2,000 ministers resigned rather than submit to this act.
Charles II, to court popularity with dissenters and to ease the position of Roman Catholics (with whom he was in sympathy), attempted to interfere with the operation of these laws by his unsuccessful declarations of indulgence in 1662 and 1672.
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 Encyclopedia: List of Acts of Parliament in the United Kingdom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
This is a incomplete list of Acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom (or its predecessors) for the years to 1987, and a complete list of Acts passed from 1 January 1988 to the dissolution of Parliament on 11 April 2005.
The Ireland Act 1949 is a UK Act of Parliament which was intended to deal with the consequences of the then recently passed Republic of Ireland Act 1948 as passed by the Irish parliament (Oireachtas).
The Disability Discrimination Act is a UK parliamentary act of 1995, which makes it unlawful to discriminate against people in respect of their disabilities in relation to employment, the provision of goods and services, education and transport.
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And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that the afore-recited act...
Provided that this act shall continue and be in force for two years to commence from the 10th of June, 1662, and no longer.
that every person who shall wittingly and willingly suffer any such conventicle, unlawful assembly, or meeting aforesaid to be held in his or her house, outhouse, barn or room, yard or backside, woods or grounds, shall incur the same penalties and forfeitures as any other offender against this act....
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 CONK! Encyclopedia: Religion_in_the_United_Kingdom   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Education Act 1944 introduced a requirement for a daily act of collective worship and for religious education but did not define what was allowable under these terms.
The act contained provisions to allow parents to withdraw their children from these activities and for teachers to refuse to participate.
The Education Reform Act 1988 introduced a further requirement that the majority of collective worship be "wholly or mainly of a broadly Christian character".
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 GO BRITANNIA! Wales: Status Quo
Congregations in England and Wales had to be brought back into line: the Act of Uniformity of 1662 required all ministers to assent to the rites and liturgy of the Established Church, restored with the accession of Charles II.
Other Acts ensured that such sects as the Quakers and Baptists were forced to meet in secret or join their brethren over the Atlantic Ocean.
Even the Toleration Act of 1689 that allowed Dissenters to worship in their own chapels did nothing to keep them from being excluded from municipal government and the universities.
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 Conventicle Act 1664 - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Conventicle Act 1664
Statute of 1664 in England designed to suppress nonconformists, prohibiting five or more persons from holding religious meetings other than of the established Church.
Similar to an Elizabethan statute 1593, this contentious measure expired 1667 but was then re-enacted in milder form 1670 before being repealed by the Toleration Act 1689.
This information should not be considered complete, up to date, and is not intended to be used in place of a visit, consultation, or advice of a legal, medical, or any other professional.
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 Charles II of England - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Conventicle Act 1664 prohibited religious assemblies of more than five people, except under the auspices of the Church of England.
The Navigation Acts (1650) which hurt Dutch trade and started the First Dutch War (1652-1654), were also responsible for starting the Second Dutch War (1665-1667).
Meanwhile, by a series of five acts around 1670, Charles granted the British East India Company the rights to autonomous territorial acquisitions, to mint money, to command fortresses and troops, to form alliances, to make war and peace, and to exercise both civil and criminal jurisdiction over the acquired areas in India.
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 Encyclopedia: Penal law   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Marriage Act may refer to a number of pieces of legislation: The Marriage Act, 1753 which abolished common-law marriage in England and Wales The Marriage Act, a penal law passed in 1697 discouraging interfaith marriages.
The Banishment Act was a British penal law passed in 1697 that banished all bishops of the Roman Catholic Church from Great Britain to protect the official state church, the Church of England.
The Occasional Conformity Act was an Act of the British Parliament to prevent Nonconformists and Roman Catholics from from taking occasional communion in the Church of England in order to become eligible for public office under the Corporation Act and the Test Act.
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 Aftershocks - Restoration
Although Charles personally favoured toleration, the Cavalier Parliament was determined to punish and marginalise the religious malcontents and radicals (on both sides) who were perceived to be the source of the country's unrest in the previous 20 years.
The 1661 Corporation Act forced all public office-holders to take the Anglican sacraments and swear an oath upholding monarchy and denouncing the Solemn League and Covenant- those who didn't were expelled from office.
In 1664, the Conventicle Act banned all non-Anglican religious assemblies.
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 Encyclopedia: Charles II of England   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Amnesty (from the Greek amnestia, oblivion) is an act of grace by which the supreme power in a state restores those who may have been guilty of any offence against it to the position of innocent persons.
Jump to: navigation, search The Navigation Acts were a set of acts set down by the king of England that restricted trade between the american colonies and other countries.
A bill of attainder (also known as an act or writ of attainder) was an act of legislature declaring a person or group of persons guilty of some crime, and punishing them, without benefit of a trial.
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 Edict of Nantes -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Such an innovative act of toleration stood virtually alone in a Europe where standard practice involved forcing the subjects of a ruler to follow whatever religion that ruler formally adopted -- the application of the principle of (Click link for more info and facts about cuius regio, eius religio) cuius regio, eius religio.
The original Act signed on April 30, promulgating the Edict, has disappeared.
This act, most commonly called the (Click link for more info and facts about revocation of the Edict of Nantes) revocation of the Edict of Nantes, had very damaging results for France.
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 Conventicle Act 1664 - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Conventicle Act 1664   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
Conventicle Act 1664 - Encyclopedia Glossary Meaning Explanation Conventicle Act 1664.
* the Act of Uniformity, 14 Charles II c.
The orginal Conventicle Act 1664 article can be editet
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 An abstract of the life of Margaret Fell
The Conventicle act was passed soon afterwards and persecution of the Friends, in fact, increased.
During 1664, while she was in prison, her daughter Isabel was married to William Yeamans, a Quaker merchant of Bristol.
On returning to Swarthmoor she was again imprisoned in Lancaster for breaking the Conventicle act preventing Quaker meetings where she remained for about a year.
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 Conventicle - Definition of Conventicle by Webster's Online Dictionary
They are commanded to abstain from all conventicles of men whatsoever.
An assembly for religious worship; esp., such an assembly held privately, as in times of persecution, by Nonconformists or Dissenters in England, or by Covenanters in Scotland; - often used opprobriously, as if those assembled were heretics or schismatics.
The first Christians could never have had recourse to nocturnal or clandestine conventicles till driven to them by the violence of persecution.
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 Royal Charles and The Restoration   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
It was accepted by the new Parliament, and Charles was invited “to take the government of the kingdom upon his shoulders.” On May 25, 1660 Charles arrived in Dover, and England had a king once more.
Militia Acts of 1662-1663 required Lord Lieutenants to recruit cavalry and infantry from the ranks of the wealthy.
The so-called Cavalier Parliament, elected in 1661, restored the Church of England and passed a Corporation Act requiring all borough office holders to take communion in the Church of England.
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 Faith & Freedom
Puritan ministers were immediately ejected from the English Church, and in 1661 the Corporation Act was passed barring non-members of the English Church from holding public office -an effort to ensure a pro-monarchy and pro-episcopal Parliament.
Added was the Conventicle Act of 1664 forbidding clergy who were excommunicated by the Act of Uniformity from preaching to gatherings of more than five people.
The Test Act strengthened the Corporation Act, declaring that the Anglican Church's religious rites would be used as a political litmus test to exclude non-conformists from public office.
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 Tockholes-cum-Livesey
The immediate consequence of the Act of Uniformity was to deprive nearly 2,000 ministers of their
Two further acts were passed putting even more pressure on the nonconformists; the Conventicle Act of
After the Conventicle Act of 1664 came into force it is understood that the people of
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 Holy Experiment   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Conventicle Act of 1664 made it unlawful to hold any religious meeting other than that of the authorized Church of England.
The Quakers refused to obey the Conventicle Act, and worshiped openly as Quakers with the result that men, women and children were arrested and carted off to prison, and the following week there would be replacements to suffer the same fate.
The Test Act of 1673 barred from public office, both civil and military, all who refused the sacrament according to the rites of the Church of England.
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 Baptist History
The Act of Uniformity, 1662, requiring all ministers to be re-ordained if not already ordained by a bishop, and to declare their "unfeigned assent" to the Book of Common Prayer.
The Conventicle Act, 1664, the renewal of an Act passed during the reign of Queen Elizabeth which forbade the assembling for religious worship of more than five persons above the age of sixteen (apart from the family) except in accordance with the usage of the Established Church.
The Five Mile Act, 1665 forbade all preachers and teachers who refused the oaths required of them to come within five miles of any corporate town or any place in which they had previously exercised a ministry, 'unless only in passing on the road' or to act as preachers or teachers.
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 Clarendon Code: Free Encyclopedia Articles at Questia.com Online Library
The Second Conventicle Act of 1670 was the most notorious statute for religious conformity in the Clarendon Code.
As a political device to weaken the Whigs, the Clarendon Code was largely superseded by the Test Act of 1673, although some of the...
The Act of Uniformity (1662) made a distinct split unavoidable, since it required episcopal ordination for all...
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 Margaret Fell   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
In 1664 she herself was arrested for failing to take anoath and spent six months in Lancaster Gaol, whereafter she was sentenced to life imprisonment and forfeiture of her property.She remained in prison until 1668, during which time she wrote religious pamphlets andepistles.
She was released by order of the King and council, and in 1669, she married George Fox.On returning to Lancashire after her marriage, she was again imprisoned for about a year in Lancaster for breaking the Conventicle Act.
Shortly after her release, George Fox departed on areligious mission to America, and he too was imprisoned again on his return in 1673.Margaret again traveled to London to intercede on his behalf, and he was eventually freed in 1675.
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 Conventicle Act 1664 -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
The Conventicle Act of 1664, 16 (Click link for more info and facts about Charles II) Charles II c.
This law was part of the programme of (Click link for more info and facts about Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon) Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon, to discourage (Click link for more info and facts about nonconformism) nonconformism and to strengthen the position of the Established Church.
the (Click link for more info and facts about Act of Uniformity) Act of Uniformity, 14 Charles II c.
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 History Part 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
On St. Bartholomew’s Day 1662 the Act of Uniformity came into effect, whereby clergy who could not give assent and consent to everything in the Book of Common Prayer were forced to leave their livings.
The First Conventicle Act in 1664 forbade five or more people to worship together unless it was following the liturgy of the Church of England.
The Second Conventicle Act, which was passed in 1670, brought greater fines upon the congregation and preacher for worshipping illegally.
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 Chapter 2 of "Quakers in Brief" - DM Murray-Rust   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
(The Blasphemy Act was passed in 1650, so Blasphemy had become a secular crime as well as an ecclesiastical sin.) It may seem strange that a group, which maintained that they were living under the guidance of God and who claimed Christ as their Lord and Teacher, should be charged with blasphemy.
In 1670 there was a new Conventicle Act passed; transportation was abandoned, but sequestration of goods and property was increasingly used as a penalty.
In 1689 the Toleration Act was passed, which greatly reduced the pressure on all dissenters, giving them liberty of conscience and making it an offence to disturb anyone else's worship.
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 THE 17th CENTURY   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
During the reign of William and Mary, a number of legislative acts were passed by Parliament that directly affected religion and the universities.
The Clarendon Code, consisting of the Corporation Act (1661), the Act of Conformity (1662), the Conventicle Act (1664) and the Five Mile Act (1665), was intended to keep religious nonconformists out of authority.
An act of parliament in the first year of Queen Elizabeth's reign compelled anyone receiving a degree to take the Oath of Supremacy.
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