 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
 | Arthur Francis Leach - Education - 1911 - 648 pages
...or Meeting, within England, Wales or Town of Berwick upon Tweed, for the exercise of religion in any other Manner than according to the Liturgy and Practice of the Church of England, or shall knowingly and wittingly be present at any meeting or Assembly for the exercise of religion,... | |
 | Richard Baxter - 1925 - 380 pages
...informers did but swear in general that I kept " an unlawful meeting in pretence of a religious exercise in other manner than according to the liturgy and practice of the Church of England," he was bound to take this general oath for proof, and to record a judgment; and so that the accusers... | |
 | Edmund Burke - History - 1817 - 862 pages
...was, the collecting together a congregation or assembly of per•ons, and preaching to them, otherwise than according to the liturgy and practice of the Church of England, in a field which had not been licensed. This was Mr. Newstead's crime : it was for this that the Rev.... | |
 | E. Neville Williams - 484 pages
...conventicle, . . . within England, Wales, or town of Berwick upon Tweed, for the exercise of religion in any other manner than according to the liturgy and practice of the Church of England, or shall ... be present at any meeting . . . although the liturgy be there used, where Her Majesty... | |
 | J. P. Kenyon - History - 1986 - 504 pages
...next shall be present at any assembly, conventicle or 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 . . ., at which conventicle . . . there shall be five persons or more assembled together over and besides... | |
 | Bernard Cottret - History - 1991 - 336 pages
...over and besides those of the same household ' would gather ' under colour or pretence of any exercise of religion in other manner than according to the liturgy and practice of the Church of England'. Finally, the Five Mile Act (1665) endeavoured to restrain nonconformists from 'inhabiting in corporations'.... | |
 | Leonard Williams Levy - Religion - 1995 - 708 pages
...have disqualified from civil and military offices any person who attended any religious services other than "according to the liturgy and practice of the Church of England." Whig bishops in the House of Lords managed to defeat the bill, which had passed in the Commons.34 Defoe... | |
 | W. A. Jarrel - Religion - 2001 - 522 pages
...at any assembly, conventicle or meeting under colour or pretence of any exercise of religion, in any other manner than according to the liturgy and practice of the Church of England . . . the offender shall pay five shillings for the first offence."4 Perkins, the leading Puritan writer... | |
 | David Edwin Harrell, Edwin S. Gaustad, John B. Boles, Sally Foreman Griffith - History - 2005 - 860 pages
...shall be present at any assembly, conventicle, or meeting, under color or pretense of any exercise of religion, in other manner than according to the liturgy and practice of the Church of England. . .then, where any five persons or more are so assembled as aforesaid, it shall and may be lawful for... | |
 | Timothy Fitzgerald - Religion - 2007 - 368 pages
...sectaries" who attend "any assembly, conventicle or 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 word "sacred" comes up in a petition from some people in Manchester for a special licence to practice... | |
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