Charles II's religious persecution was enforced using the Conventicle Act, restricting non-conformist worship and banning assemblies of more than five non-Anglicans. Many felt the law was morally ...

He was subjected to continued harassment, however, and eventually returned to Taunton, where he was arrested again in 1665 for holding a conventicle. He died in 1668, and was buried in St Mary’s ...

The interrogation was no doubt a ruthless and efficient one. Claverhouse learned that a conventicle for people from 18 parishes was about to be summoned at Glasgow. He rushed his troops there.

Three hundred years ago, on June 5 1724, an Anglican clergyman by the name of Henry Sacheverell died in Highgate, north London. He was 50 years old.

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"These licences were later withdrawn," said Mr Hill. "In 1684, an illegal 'conventicle' was dispersed by the magistrates. Ralph Ward and Andrew Taylor both spent time in the York town gaol." ...

Charles II's religious persecution was enforced using the Conventicle Act, restricting non-conformist worship and banning assemblies of more than five non-Anglicans. Many felt the law was morally ...

He accused those in power of engineering the ruin of the Anglican Church by “bring[ing] the Church into the Conventicle”, which constituted a “confused diversity of contradictious Opinion”. The Whigs ...