conventicle

It was some time after this that he began to attend conventicles.

He resolved to continue his ministry, and held conventicles in 1663.

By the summer of 1561 the conventicles began to meet at nighttime in the city squares.

He took part in preaching, for example at Hackney and conventicles.

These meetings were well attended and were known as conventicles.

He began to attend conventicles, and became an extreme Covenanter.

Particularly in the south-west many of the people here began to attend illegal field conventicles.

The conventicles resumed after a brief period of suspension.

Even then he led the school holiday conventicles.

Local tradition has it that, prior to the license, "conventicles" were held in a field near to the site of the later Chapel.

The relentless persecution of these conventicles and attempts to break them up by military force had led to open revolt.

Barred from their churches, they held open air field assemblies called conventicles which the authorities suppressed using military force.

By 1684 they were hiding from the authorities in the hills, and increasingly draconian action had ended the large conventicles.

Abandoning the official church, many of the inhabitants began to attend illegal field assemblies, known as conventicles.

He became an important oppositional politician, and among others helped repel the ban on conventicles in 1842.

Opponents were accused of forming illegal puritan conventicles and alehouses.

Shortly after Blackadder's birth, his father began preaching illegally at conventicles in the countryside.

Working like a machine for a week/1 drew up a bewildering list of sects, lodges, conventicles.

James put Catholics in key positions in the government and attendance at conventicles was made punishable by death.

Presbyterians held similar Conventicles and these were also outlawed, even though they were not religious ceremonies.

Some of those who participated in conventicles where Protestant ideas were presented later became Anabaptists.

Their complaints that the conventicles then being held had his encouragement were the chief causes why his fine was not relaxed.

After the Uniformity Act of 1662 he was ejected from his living, but continued to preach in conventicles.

Its original purchasers are not likely to have taken a hand in Royalist plots or saintly conventicles.

In 1684 the congregation of Legerwood were fined for attending Conventicles.