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 ...

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Also, the use of the rack to gain confessions. The Conventicle Act of 1664 and the Independence of the Jury. videoThe Conventicle Act of 1664 and the Independence of the Jury A look at the ...

His remark, "the conventicle of seated monsters who mouth a servile creed in their night is the Vatican and is Lhasa," accords with Wells’s own summation of The Island of Dr. Moreau as a "theological ...

But he was never spotted at any Nonconformist conventicle, never sat as a hearer of one of the capital’s many preaching ministers, never made a personal confession of faith – in fact, like all MPs, ...

Specializes in seventeenth-century literature, Milton, Donne, and comparative literature. He is currently writing a book about how the study of literature in English came to be a respectable academic ...