 Conventicles," provided that any person who should be present at any meeting, under colour or pretence of any exercise of religion, in other manner than according to the liturgy and practice of the Church of England...  The History of England - Page 97by Rapin de Thoyras (M., Paul) - 1762Full view - About this book
 | John Stoughton - England - 1870 - 610 pages
...whether they could swear that, in a certain case, there was "a pretended, colourable, religious exercise, in other manner than according to the liturgy and practice of the Church of England," and would caution them to consider that, if they swore in the affirmative, they must know exactly what... | |
 | William Crawford Armor - Governors - 1872 - 600 pages
...authority of the Conventicle Act, which was intended to suppress all religious meetings conducted " in any other manner than according to the liturgy and practice of the Church of England." In company with his friend, William Mead, of London, who was taken at the same meeting, Penn was tried... | |
 | Thomas M'Crie - Great Britain - 1872 - 348 pages
...at PERSECUTING EDICTS. 239 any assembly under colour and pretence of the exercise of religion in any other manner than according to the liturgy and practice of the church of England, •where there were five persons or more besides those of the household, in such cases the offenders... | |
 | Charles Evans - Quakers - 1876 - 684 pages
...unlawful for more than five persons beside a family to assemble for performing Divine worship "in any other manner than according to the Liturgy and practice of the Church of England." Where this was violated, the "offender" or " offenders " were to be fined five shillings for the first... | |
 | Samuel Mcpherson Janney - Peace - 1876 - 190 pages
...conventicles," but really intended to suppress all religious meetings conducted "in any other manlier than according to the liturgy and practice of the church of England." It was said to have been enacted at the suggestion of some of the l>isliops. It was not long before... | |
 | Henry John Stephen, James Stephen - Law - 1880 - 824 pages
...persons or more, (exclusive of the family,) assembled for the exercise of religion in any manner other than according to the liturgy and practice of the Church of England, were prohibited, and made subject to pecuniary forfeitures. The He volution of 1688, however, was the... | |
 | John Stoughton - Great Britain - 1881 - 468 pages
...they could swear that, in a certain case, there was " a pretended, colourable, religious exercise, in other manner than according to the liturgy and practice of the Church of England," and would caution them to consider that, if they swore in the affirmative, they must know exactly what... | |
 | Littleton Purnell Bowen - Maryland - 1885 - 576 pages
...congregation, assembly, conventicle and meeting, not permitted or allowed by law, under color or excuse of religion, in other manner than according to the liturgy and practice of the Church of England. At which conventicle, meeting and assembly, were five persons or more assembled together, against the... | |
 | John Jenkins - Charitable uses, trusts, and foundations - 1885 - 258 pages
...present at any assembly, conventicle, or meeting, under colour or pretence of any exercise of religion or other manner than according to the Liturgy and practice of the Church of England in any place in England, Wale?, or Berwick-uponTweed, at which conventicle, meeting, or assembly, there should be... | |
 | Middlesex (England) - Catholics - 1886 - 570 pages
...besides the family of the same Walter Thimbleton were assembled under colour or pretext of exercising religion in other manner than according to the Liturgy and practice of the Church of England against the form of the statute for his aforesaid offence being his second offence forfeited forty... | |
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