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Exhibit 514

Second Conventicle Act, 22 Charles II c. 1

Exhibit 514 ยท Statute

Second Conventicle Act, 22 Charles II c. 1

And the other third part thereof to the Informer and Informers and to such person and persons as the said Justice, Justices or cheife Magistrate respectively shall appoint haveing reguard to their diligence and industry in the discovery, disperseing and punishing of the said Conventicles

Penalises presence, at fifth-person meetings 'under colour or pretence of any exercise of religion' other than the Church of England's liturgy, with fines of five and ten shillings, twenty pounds for a preacher or a householder who allows it, and one third of the fines to informers according to their diligence.

Source
Parliament of England (Charles II)
Date
1670
Quoted from
Statutes of the Realm V, pp. 648-49 (OCR); also Gee and Hardy no. CXIX, pp. 623-27
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://archive.org/details/statutes_of_the_realm_5
Accessed
2026-11-09
Cited by
Findings citing this exhibit
Note
The meeting definition quote: 'under colour or pretence of any Exercise of Religion in other manner then according to the Liturgy and practice of the Church of England'. Preamble names 'Seditious Sectaries' who 'contrive Insurrections'; repealed for those taking the oaths by the Toleration Act 1689.

Cited by

Finding REL-2.6
Primary record Between 1661 and 1673 Parliament required officeholders to receive the sacrament according to the Church of England and fined nonconforming ministers and attenders at conventicles with part of the fines going to informers, and the Toleration Act of 1689 excused Protestant dissenters from the attendance penalties while saving tithes, parochial duties and ecclesiastical-court prosecution.