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Small, unofficial religious meeting of laypeople
A conventicle originally meant "an assembly" and was frequently used by ancient writers to mean "a church." At a semantic level, conventicle is a Latinized
Conventicle
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Conventicle Act may refer to: English Acts of Parliament: Conventicle Act 1664 Conventicles Act 1670 Conventicle Act (Sweden), in effect 1726–1858 in Sweden
Conventicle_Act
Act of the Parliament of England restricting freedom of religion
The Conventicle Act 1664 was an act of the Parliament of England (16 Cha. 2. c. 4) that forbade conventicles, defined as religious assemblies of more than
Conventicle_Act_1664
Swedish law regarding religion
The Conventicle Act (Swedish: Konventikelplakatet) was a Swedish law, in effect between 21 January 1726 and 26 October 1858 in Sweden and until 1 July
Conventicle_Act_(Sweden)
Norwegian law regarding religion
the proposal did lead to changes, as Parliament decided to lift the Conventicle Act and introduce freedom of assembly for members of the Norwegian Church
Dissenter_Act_(Norway)
Act of the Parliament of England
The Conventicles Act 1670 (22 Cha. 2. c. 1) is an act of the Parliament of England with the long title "An Act to prevent and suppress Seditious Conventicles"
Conventicles_Act_1670
King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 1660 to 1685
1662 made the use of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer compulsory; the Conventicle Act 1664 prohibited religious assemblies of more than five people, except
Charles_II_of_England
Act of the Parliament of England
Seditious Sectaries Act 1592 or the Act Against Puritans 1592 or the Conventicle Act 1593 (35 Eliz. 1. c. 1) was an act of the Parliament of England.
Religion_Act_1592
Fake religious order from 1348
which men, forming not a convent, but a plainly unlawful and doubtful conventicle, have set over themselves, under the name of Abbot, a certain lunatic
Order_of_Brothelyngham
Scottish Presbyterian soldier (d. 1685)
insurgency at Bothwell Brig and earlier conflicts and for attending a conventicle. He took an active and prominent part in the struggles, of the Covenanters
John_Nisbet
Danish–Norwegian law regarding religion
The Conventicle Act (Danish: Konventikelplakaten, Norwegian: Konventikkelplakaten) was a decree issued 13 January 1741 by King Christian VI of Denmark
Conventicle Act (Denmark–Norway)
Conventicle_Act_(Denmark–Norway)
King of England, Scotland and Ireland from 1685 to 1688
"whoever should preach in a conventicle under a roof, or should attend, either as preacher or as a hearer, a conventicle in the open air, should be punished
James_II_of_England
United Kingdom law of religion and the Church of England
were forced to resign their livings. The Conventicle Act 1664 (16 Cha. 2. c. 4) – This act forbade conventicles (a meeting for unauthorized worship) of
Act_of_Uniformity_1662
worship services called conventicles in the countryside. The conventicles were proscribed by the Conventicle Act 1664 and the Conventicles Act 1670. Nevertheless
Reformed Presbyterian Global Alliance
Reformed_Presbyterian_Global_Alliance
17th-century Scottish Presbyterians
informal "Consultations" and Protestors holding field assemblies or conventicles outside Resolutioner-controlled kirk structures. When the Protectorate
Covenanters
Act of the Parliament of England
section 1 of the Places of Religious Worship Act 1812 (52 Geo. 3. c. 155). Conventicle Act 1664 Religion in the United Kingdom Declaration of Indulgence (disambiguation)
Five_Mile_Act_1665
Christian religious movement
official persecution in England and Wales under the Quaker Act 1662 and the Conventicle Act 1664. This persecution of dissenters was relaxed after the Declaration
Quakers
Scottish Presbyterian executed 1685
Barred from their churches, they held open air field assemblies called conventicles which the authorities suppressed using military force. Margaret Wilson
Margaret Wilson (Scottish martyr)
Margaret_Wilson_(Scottish_martyr)
English writer and religious thinker (1644–1718)
street, which Penn deliberately provoked to test the validity of the 1664 Conventicle Act, just renewed in 1670, which denied the right of assembly to "more
William_Penn
who had been ordered to enforce a court ban on conventicles. After exaggerated stories of this conventicle had spread, he was called to appear before the
John_Blackadder_(preacher)
and a castle or manor house. The castle was an important location for conventicles in the period following the restoration of the House of Stuart. Little
Kinkell,_Fife
Historical religious group of French Protestants
people at night. Protestants went out at nights to their lascivious conventicles, and so the priests and the people began to call them Huguenots in Tours
Huguenots
1692 killing of clan Macdonald members
four served in the Independent Highland Companies used to suppress the Conventicles in 1678–80. They also took part in the raid led by the Marquess of Atholl
Massacre_of_Glencoe
Act of the Parliament of Great Britain
services and take the Lord's Supper. If such a person attended "any conventicle, assembly or meeting" of any other religion, they would be subject to
Occasional Conformity Act 1711
Occasional_Conformity_Act_1711
Lutheran religious movement in Finland
religious event in Finland. The Awakening brought with it a form of the conventicle known as the seurat which consists of singing of hymns as prayer interrupted
Awakening (Finnish religious movement)
Awakening_(Finnish_religious_movement)
Soka Gakkai community-based conventicles
Zadankai (座談会, discussion meetings) are community-based conventicles which serve as the grassroots activity of Soka Gakkai members. They are the means
Zadankai
Village in Scottish Borders, Scotland
rejected by Sir Walter B. Riddell. Lilliesleaf Moor was the scene of many ' Conventicles ' held by the Covenanters, and upon it took place several skirmishes
Lilliesleaf
Branch of Protestant Christianity
Covenanters in a Glen, a depiction of an illegal conventicle
Presbyterianism
Scottish army officer (1648–1689)
objective was the suppression of illegal Presbyterian field meetings or Conventicles, it was also driven by the conflict between the Presbyterian Earl of
John Graham, 1st Viscount Dundee
John_Graham,_1st_Viscount_Dundee
1678 Christian allegory written by John Bunyan
his work while in the Bedfordshire county prison for violations of the Conventicle Act 1664, which prohibited the holding of religious services outside
The_Pilgrim's_Progress
Lisbon alongside seven others. Almeida, said to have resided over a "conventicle of fanchonos", was known to allow in his house "many young men ... he
List of people executed for homosexuality in Europe
List_of_people_executed_for_homosexuality_in_Europe
English non-conformist minister (1636–1678)
Book of Common Prayer, imprisoned again and ejected in 1662. After the Conventicle Act 1664 he continued to preach in small gatherings at Preston and then
John_Westley
Scottish writer
prisoners was John Fraser who was captured with Alexander Shields at a conventicle in London. About 40 of the prisoners had their ears cut and women who
George_Scot_of_Pitlochie
from the Privy Council on 3 September 1672, but having preached at conventicles in 1678, was accused of treason before the Lords of Justiciary, and remitted
John_Campbell_of_Sorn
English minister
1662. In 1663, he was living at Worcester House, Stepney. Either the Conventicle Act (1664) or the Five Miles Act, which came into operation in 1666,
Matthew_Mead_(minister)
English religious dissident
notably William Tylesworth and John Scrivener, attending their secret conventicles where prayers and readings were conducted in English, which was forbidden
Thomas_Harding
British nonconformist minister (1630–1702)
Heywood persistently held conventicles at the houses of the presbyterian gentry and farmers, in open defiance of the Conventicle Act 1664. On the passing
Oliver_Heywood_(minister)
Medieval settlement and old country estate in North Ayrshire, Scotland
leaving two sons and three daughters. To prevent the Covenanters holding 'Conventicles', King Charles II moved highland troops, the 'Highland Host' into the
Perceton
Major branch of Protestantism
18th century, genuine piety was found almost solely in small Pietist conventicles. However, some of the laity preserved Lutheran orthodoxy from both Pietism
Lutheranism
British political party 1678–1760 and 1783–1834
party reproached their antagonists with their affinity to the fanatical conventiclers in Scotland, who were known by the name of Whigs: The country party
Tories (British political party)
Tories_(British_political_party)
Latin word
place of assembly. Its implication transferred to a gathering, such as a conventicle or conference. In the history of the Catholic Church, it is frequently
Conciliabulum
English parish minister
with John Welsh and others, went about from place to place "holding conventicles, marrying, baptizing, and dispensing the Lord's Supper." For nine years
John_Rae_(minister)
17th-century Presbyterian minister
the laws formerly made against them, still keep their house and field conventicles, which are the nurseries and rendezvouses of rebellion; therefore His
Peter_Kid
List of events
Passing of the Triennial Parliaments Act 1664. May – Parliament passes the Conventicle Act 1664 preventing groups of more than five non-followers of the Church
1664_in_England
Human settlement in Scotland
death from disease in a Glasgow prison having been taken prisoner at a conventicle held at Glencairn. The following Dalgarnock local inhabitants were declared
Dalgarnock
Stavanger. The eleventh Storting convened, following the 1841 election. The Conventicle Act was repealed. The Witchcraft Act (Trolldomslov) is abolished. Russian
1842_in_Norway
Series of four novels by Vilhelm Moberg
Andreasson, and their four children. Danjel is the pastor of a local conventicle of the Radical Pietistic Åkianer sect. He has suffered severe persecution
The_Emigrants_(novel_series)
Edict establishing Christianity as the Roman Empire's state religion, issued in AD 380
ignominious name of heretics, and shall not presume to give to their conventicles the name of churches. They will suffer in the first place the chastisement
Edict_of_Thessalonica
English theologian (1616–1683)
in Boston, Massachusetts, to become their minister, but declined. The Conventicle and Five Mile Acts drove him to London; and in 1666, after the Great
John_Owen_(theologian)
Norwegian educator and pietist leader
King Christian VI of Denmark and Norway issued a Royal Decree (the Conventicle Act) on January 13, 1741, which forbade future religious gatherings without
Catharina_Freymann
North American Christian denomination
was becoming overly powerful. There they conducted private services (conventicles), including hymn singing accompanied by guitars, and read scripture from
Evangelical_Covenant_Church
Quaker, founder of the Religious Society of Friends (1614–1702)
was again imprisoned for about a year in Lancaster for breaking the Conventicle Act. Shortly after her release, George Fox departed on a religious mission
Margaret_Fell
1657 petition to Peter Stuyvesant
meeting in small and unsanctioned religious meetings of lay people called conventicles. Thus, Stuyvesant found himself drawn into the religious debates of the
Flushing_Remonstrance
Calendar year
Third Sunday after Epiphany. January 23 (January 12 Old Style) – The Conventicle Act (Konventikelplakatet) is adopted in Sweden, outlawing all non-Lutheran
1726
Denomination of Protestant Christianity
thirteen people including four members of the Heikel family. That year, the Conventicle Act was also repealed in Finland. (In 1891 the Jakobstad Baptist church
Baptists
Seditious Sectaries Act 1592 or the Act Against Puritans 1592 or the Conventicle Act 1592 (repealed) 35 Eliz. 1. c. 1 10 April 1593 An Act For the preventing
List of acts of the Parliament of England from 1592
List_of_acts_of_the_Parliament_of_England_from_1592
English nonjuring clergyman (1667–1743)
officiated in his own house. He was presented at the assizes for keeping a conventicle, and in 1718 and 1729 complaints were made against him to Archbishop
Thomas_Brett_(nonjuror)
Scottish Church of Scotland bishop (1618-1679)
Covenanting sympathies; some took to preaching in the open fields, or conventicles, which often attracted thousands of worshippers. After his appointment
James_Sharp_(bishop)
451 Christian ecumenical council
and public forms. Clerics and Monks, if they shall have dared to hold conventicles and to conspire against the bishop, shall be cast out of their rank.
Council_of_Chalcedon
Scottish minister (1662–1688)
organised a secret meeting of members of this party, probably a field-conventicle, and by his earnest zeal did much to rally them to renewed action. A
James_Renwick_(Covenanter)
of the inhabitants began to attend illegal field assemblies, known as conventicles. Official attempts to suppress these led to a rising in 1679, defeated
History_of_Scotland
Act of the Parliament of England
penal laws (1661-65) that aimed to reduce non-conformity in England. Corporation Act 1661 Act of Uniformity 1662 Conventicle Act 1664 Five Mile Act 1665
Corporation_Act_1661
Anglican liturgical book
1566, modeling their worship on the Knox's order for the Kirk. Their conventicle was disbanded on 4 March 1568, with some arrested and the others fleeing
Scottish_Prayer_Book_(1637)
Mystery religion in the Roman Empire
206 Archived 6 October 2017 at the Wayback Machine: "A few clandestine conventicles may, with stubborn persistence, have been held in the subterranean retreats
Mithraism
Protestant Christian denomination dating back to the 15th century
thoughts and influence reached the country in the mid 1700s. Because of the conventicle act, membership and worship outside of the state church was forbidden
Moravian_Church
indicted in July 1669 at Warwick and Coventry assizes for keeping a conventicle. Robert Wild was married to Joyce. They had at least two sons, both of
Robert_Wild_(poet)
Human settlement in Scotland
folk and lepers. The Covenanting preacher John Blackadder gave his last conventicle on the hill behind the Church in 1678. The building known as the tithe
Whitekirk
English clergyman
He resolved to continue his ministry, and held conventicles in 1663. On the passing of the Conventicle Act (1664) he retired to a house of his own at
William_Jenkyn
Dutch humanist (c. 1466–1536)
are very many who never pray at all. [...] I have never entered their conventicles, but I have sometimes seen them returning from their sermons, the countenances
Erasmus
One who disagrees in matters of opinion, belief, practices etc
being the most usual, as it is the most colourless. Christian anarchism Conventicle Dissident Freedom of religion Liberal Christianity Organizational dissent
Dissenter
English priest (1596–1677)
harass Richard Baxter, who was drawing large audiences in defiance of the conventicle act. Baxter was eventually imprisoned for six months, causing Ryves damage
Bruno_Ryves
c. 38)) Conventicles Act (Scotland) 1670 (repealed) 1670 c. 5 1670 c. 5 13 August 1670 Act against Conventicles. Act against Conventicles. (Repealed
List of acts of the Parliament of Scotland from 1670
List_of_acts_of_the_Parliament_of_Scotland_from_1670
Hill in Scotland
the Early Middle Ages. Alexander Peden may have preached to illegal conventicles of Covenanters from a place known as "Peden's Pulpit" among the summit
Rubers_Law
Spanish clergyman, with humanist and Erasmist tendencies
throughout Europe. On his return to Valladolid in 1552, he joined a conventicle considered heretical. Among this group of religious elites was the corregidor
Agustín_de_Cazalla
1685 law on slavery in the French colonial empire
Americas. [citation needed] The code extends the punishment of pagan slave conventicles to masters who allowed their slaves pagan beliefs and practices, thus
Code_noir
English writer and preacher (1628–1688)
be used in church services, was still two years away, and the Act of Conventicles, which made it illegal to hold religious meetings of five or more people
John_Bunyan
Region in southwestern Scotland
Bible was circulating in Galloway around 1520, and secret groups (proto-conventicles) gathered to hear a man named Alexander Gordon preach from it. With the
Galloway
17th c. parish minister
private house, from whence he made itineraries for the purpose of holding conventicles. His success was so marked, that the Bishop, mortified, threatened to
John_M'Gilligen
Historic Quaker meetinghouse in Brighton, England
Brighton had been prevented from congregating in public by the 1664 Conventicle Act, but some freedom was granted after the Act of Toleration 1689 was
Brighton Friends Meeting House
Brighton_Friends_Meeting_House
Church in West Sussex, England
Arundel Castle. In 1664, Catholic worship was suppressed in England by the Conventicle Act, and all churches and cathedrals in England were transferred to the
Arundel_Cathedral
English nonconformist minister
presbyterian congregation. On the withdrawal of the indulgence (1673) the conventicle was connived at by the corporation in spite of Lord Arlington's remonstrances
Obadiah_Grew
Scottish peer and politician (1634–1701)
penalty for preaching at services held outside the approved church, or Conventicles, and was made a Commissioner of the Treasury in 1678. In 1679, dissidents
Alexander Stuart, 5th Earl of Moray
Alexander_Stuart,_5th_Earl_of_Moray
Former church building in Southampton, England
the People. J. Easton. Malham, John (1 January 1798). A Broom for the Conventicle: Or, the Arguments for Village Preaching Examined, and Fairly Discussed;
All Saints' Church, Southampton
All_Saints'_Church,_Southampton
(Sioux Falls, South Dakota) Swedish Baptist Church (Davenport, Iowa) Conventicle Act (Sweden) Assemblies of God in Brazil Shantz, Douglas H. (2013). An
Swedish_Baptists
assent Long title Conventicles Act 1670 (repealed) 22 Cha. 2. c. 1 11 April 1670 An Act to prevent and suppress Seditious Conventicles. (Repealed by Places
List of acts of the Parliament of England from 1670
List_of_acts_of_the_Parliament_of_England_from_1670
English Member of Parliament for Suffolk
from the Commission of the Peace for Suffolk in 1670 for opposing the Conventicle Act 1664. He served as High Sheriff of Suffolk in 1674. He contested
Sir William Spring, 2nd Baronet
Sir_William_Spring,_2nd_Baronet
Christian movement
Hans Vischer, a former Dominican. Some of those who participated in conventicles where Protestant ideas were presented later became Anabaptists. The population
Anabaptism
him into contact with local religious dissidents. He participated in a conventicle where he illicitly conducted readings of his translation. In 1539, Nisbet
Murdoch_Nisbet
Association football stadium in Glasgow, Scotland
champion Lennox Lewis, which also drew criticism. The 50th anniversary Conventicle of the Boys' Brigade, which had been founded in Glasgow by William Alexander
Hampden_Park
17th c. apothecary and Covenanter
he was still kept prisoner; and, on pretext of being present at field conventicles he was fined £500 sterling, and sent to the Bass, by an act of Privy
John_Spreul_(apothecary)
Laws against Catholics and other nonconformists
Amendment Act 1872 (35 & 36 Vict. c. 35). the Conventicle Act 1664 (16 Cha. 2. c. 4) forbade conventicles (a meeting for unauthorised worship) of more
Penal_law_(British)
Swedish jurist and politician (1805–1885)
the issue of freedom of religion. He fought for the abolition of the Conventicle Act, which banned religious gatherings other than those of the Church
Lars_Vilhelm_Henschen
executed under Elizabeth I 1. Jan Wielmacker Dutchman – member of a conventicle in Aldgate, London 22 July 1575 Smithfield, London 2. Hendrik Ter Woort
List of Protestant martyrs of the English Reformation
List_of_Protestant_martyrs_of_the_English_Reformation
Religious educational institution
1842 and was controversial due to his preaching in violation of the Conventicle Act. Within the Church of Sweden, however, based on the format of Methodist
Sunday_school
English Dissenter
afterwards committed to custody at Skipton, on the charge of keeping a conventicle. Soon after his release he was arrested while riding in Lancashire, and
Thomas_Jollie
Sovereign state in Europe (843–1707)
attend illegal field assemblies led by excluded ministers, known as conventicles. In the early 1680s, a more intense phase of persecution began, in what
Kingdom_of_Scotland
Christian church in Scotland
and numerous ministers also took to preaching in the open fields in conventicles across the south of Scotland, often attracting thousands of worshippers
Scottish_Episcopal_Church
Swedish Baptist pioneer (1815–1887)
Bible Society. In 1857, Palmqvist was baptized. The following year, the Conventicle Act, which outlawed religious meetings other than those of the Lutheran
Per_Palmqvist
English Independent minister (1612–1683)
for All: or the Rump's Funerall Sermon, held forth by Mr. Feak to a Conventicle of Fanatiques at Bedlam, &c. 1660, is a lampoon on Feake. Michael R.
Christopher_Feake
Moldavian/Romanian soldier and politician (1821–1901)
labeled a "Slavophile" by the Austrian press, which reported on his "conventicles" of Iași in connection with a visit by Miroslav Hubmajer, known for having
Grigore_Sturdza
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n.
An assembly for religious worship; esp., such an assembly held privately, as in times of persecution, by Nonconformists or Dissenters in England, or by Covenanters in Scotland; -- often used opprobriously, as if those assembled were heretics or schismatics.
n.
A small assembly or gathering; esp., a secret assembly.
a.
Belonging or going to, or resembling, a conventicle.
n.
One who supports or frequents conventicles.