 | 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
...years, shall be present 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
...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
...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... | |
 | Michael Farris - Political Science - 2007 - 528 pages
...assembly consisting of five or more who met "under colour or pretence of any exercise of religion, in other manner than according to the liturgy and practice of the Church of England."50 The first two offenses received the penalties of fines and imprisonment, and the third... | |
 | English literature - 1758 - 420 pages
...fixteen, ftiould be prefent at any aHeinbly, conventicle, or meeting, under colour or pretence of any exercife of religion, in any other manner than according...the liturgy and practice of the church of England, where there were five perfons, or more, befides thofe of the houlhold, in fuch cafes the offenders... | |
 | Arthur Francis Leach - Education - 1979 - 648 pages
...Conventicle, Assembly, 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,... | |
 | Luther Stearns Cushing - Legislation - 1856 - 1100 pages
...present at any conventicle, assembly, or meeting, under color or pretence of any exercise of religion, in other manner than according to the liturgy and practice of the Church of England, in any place within the kingdom of England, dominion of Wales, and town of Berwick upon Tweed, at which... | |
 | Sir Francis Hill - Lincoln (England) - 1956 - 320 pages
...upon him to preach or teach at the meeting under colour or pretence of some exercise of religion in other manner than according to the Liturgy and practice of the Church of England, to have offended. Both he and Lupton were fined £20. Lupton appealed to quarter sessions and was found... | |
 | Nicholas Patrick Wiseman - 1922 - 354 pages
...person to be present at an assembly of more than five persons for the exercise of religion otherwise than according to the liturgy and practice of the Church of England, with still heavier penalties for those who should preach or teach in such an assembly. This was called... | |
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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... 
