The Popish Plot: A study in the history of the reign of Charles IIPollock, John
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The Popish Plot: A study in the history of the reign of Charles II
Pollock, John
Popish Plot, 1678
None of the King’s subjects shall go, or send, or cause to be
sent any one to be trained beyond seas in the Roman Catholic
religion, or pay any money for the maintenance of others for
that purpose, on pain of forfeiting all his goods, lands, and
chattels, and being disabled from prosecuting any suit at law.
13. 16 _Car. II_, _cap._ 4, 1664. (The Conventicle Act, directed
against all Nonconformists.)
All meetings, other than those of the family, of more
than five persons declared to be unlawful and seditious
conventicles.
Penalty for first offence, a fine of £5 or imprisonment for
3 months; for second, a fine of £10 or imprisonment for 6
months; for third, transportation for 7 years, or a fine of
£100.
14. 17 _Car. II_, _cap._ 2, 1665. (The Five Mile Act, directed
against all Nonconformists.)
No person preaching in an unlawful conventicle or meeting to
approach within 5 miles of any corporation sending members
to Parliament, without having taken an oath “that it is not
lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take arms against the
King.”
No such person shall teach in any public or private school.
Penalty for not complying, a fine of £40.
15. 25 _Car. II_, _cap._ 2, 1673.
All persons holding office, civil or military, or having
command, or receiving pay in whatever capacity in the service
or household of the King or the Duke of York, shall before a
specified date appear in the court of Chancery or King’s Bench
or of their respective counties openly to take the oaths of
allegiance and supremacy.
And the said officers shall receive the sacrament of the
Lord’s Supper according to the usage of the church of England
on or before August 1, 1673 in some parish church upon some
Lord’s Day.
Penalty for refusing to take the oaths, incapacity to hold any
office or position of trust either civil or military, and for
executing office after refusal, incapacity to prosecute any
suit at law and fine of £500.
16. 30 _Car. II_, _cap._ 1, 1678.
No peer or member of the House of Commons shall sit or vote
until he has taken the oaths of allegiance and supremacy and
subscribed to a declaration that the worship of the church of
Rome is idolatrous.
Penalty for peers and members offending, disability to hold
office and a fine of £500.
Provided that this does not extend to the Duke of York.
MATERIALS FOR THE HISTORY OF THE POPISH PLOT
1. _Manuscripts._
Public Record Office.
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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