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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... "
The History of England: As Well Ecclesiastical as Civil - Page 380
by Rapin de Thoyras (M., Paul) - 1731
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The Writings: Old portraits and modern sketches; Personal sketches and ...

John Greenleaf Whittier - 1889 - 452 pages
...person who should be present at any 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, " should be liable to fines of from five to ten shillings; and any person preaching at or giving his...
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The Writings of John Greenleaf Whittier: Poems of nature: poems subjective ...

John Greenleaf Whittier - 1889 - 446 pages
...person who should be present at any 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, " should be liable to fines of from five to ten shillings ; and any person preaching at or giving his...
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The Works of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 6

John Greenleaf Whittier - 1892 - 480 pages
...person who should be present at any 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, "should be liable to fines of from five to ten shillings ; and any person preaching at or giving his...
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The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 20

Pennsylvania - 1896 - 614 pages
...tempting theme. It " 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," and imposed a ruinous series of fines, part of the proceeds of which went to informers. " By this law,"...
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The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Volume 20

Pennsylvania - 1896 - 652 pages
...tempting theme. It " 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," and imposed a ruinous series of fines, part of the proceeds of which went to informers. " By this law,"...
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The Family of William Penn: Founder of Pennsylvania, Ancestry and Descendants

Howard Malcolm Jenkins - 1899 - 370 pages
...same household," in " 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," and imposed a ruinous series of fines, part of the proceeds of which went to informers. " By this law,"...
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Mozley and Whiteley's Law Dictionary

Herbert Newman Mozley, George Crispe Whiteley, Frederick George Neave, Leonard Henry West - Law - 1904 - 368 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 those taking part in them subjected to penalties ; also justices of the peace...
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A History of Hoddesdon in the County of Hertfordshire: Being a Survey of ...

J. A. Tregelles - Great Britain - 1908 - 544 pages
...Conventicle or Unlawful Assembly aforesaid under colour and pretence of the Exercise of Religion in other manner than according to the Liturgy and Practice of the Church of England." Whether or not meetings here were discontinued under this persecution, we do not hear of any others...
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Educational Charters and Documents 598 to 1909

Arthur Francis Leach - Education - 1911 - 650 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,...
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The Autobiography of Richard Baxter

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...
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