Conventicle Act information

Conventicle Act may refer to: English Acts of Parliament: Conventicle Act 1664 Conventicles Act 1670 Conventicle Act (Sweden), in effect 1726–1858 in Sweden...

The Conventicle Act 1664 was an Act of the Parliament of England (16 Cha. 2. c. 4) that forbade conventicles, defined as religious assemblies of more than...

A conventicle originally signified no more than an assembly and was frequently used by ancient writers for a church. At a semantic level conventicle is...

harassed and had to move and live with friends to escape their critics. Conventicle Act 1664 Religion in the United Kingdom Declaration of Indulgence (disambiguation)...

refused to comply with this act, and were forced to resign their livings. The Conventicle Act 1664 – This act forbade conventicles (a meeting for unauthorized...

The Conventicles Act 1670 is an Act of the Parliament of England (22 Cha. 2. c. 1) with the long title "An Act to prevent and suppress Seditious Conventicles"...

Religion Act 1592 or the Seditious Sectaries Act 1592 or the Act Against Puritans 1592 or the Conventicle Act 1593 (35 Eliz. 1. c. 1) was an Act of the...

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which Penn deliberately provoked to test the validity of the 1664 Conventicle Act, just renewed in 1670, which denied the right of assembly to "more...

1842 and was controversial due to his preaching in violation of the Conventicle Act. Within the Church of Sweden, however, based on the format of Methodist...

1662 made the use of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer compulsory; the Conventicle Act 1664 prohibited religious assemblies of more than five people, except...

officials, who wanted to keep them in congregations at church. The Conventicle Act, in effect until 1858, prevented them from holding private religious...

services called conventicles in the countryside. The conventicles were proscribed by the Conventicle Act 1664 and the Conventicles Act 1670. Nevertheless...

decrees and parliament acts were issued in the 18th century, such as the Conventicle Act and Kyrkogångsplikt lit. 'church attendance duty'. They forbade Swedish...

of Common Prayer, imprisoned again and ejected in 1662. After the Conventicle Act 1664 he continued to preach in small gatherings at Preston and then...

was again imprisoned for about a year in Lancaster for breaking the Conventicle Act. Shortly after her release, George Fox departed on a religious mission...

by the Conventicle Act, and all churches and cathedrals in England were transferred to the Church of England. With the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829,...

prosecuting Quakers under the Religion Act 1592 (offence to not attend church) and the Conventicle Act 1664 and Conventicles Act 1670 (prohibitions on religious...

opposition to the crown.[citation needed] Prior to 1858, when the Conventicle Act was abolished, there was by law no freedom of religion, as the Lutheran...

official persecution in England and Wales under the Quaker Act 1662 and the Conventicle Act 1664. This persecution of Dissenters was relaxed after the...

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expression was certainly compromised by this law. The second was the Conventicle Act 1664 which reaffirmed that the holding of any secret meeting by those...

civil disobedience. He would worship with other Quakers, although the Conventicle Act 1664 declared that this was a dangerous and seditious activity. The...