Conventicle Act of 1593
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[edit] The Law
The Conventicle Act of 1593 was an English law requiring separatists to convert to Anglicanism. Those who refused to convert were to be executed or most likely exiled.[1]
[edit] Historical Context
Queen Elizabeth I's religious policies favored centralization of the Church and a balancing of Protestant and Catholic factions within England. On the side of the radical Protestant factions laid the Congregationalists whom Elizabeth found subversive to her policies of centralization. Therefore, in an effort to both curb their appeal and deny them the rights to establish their non-centralized churches, Elizabeth issued the Conventicle Act of 1593.
[edit] References
- ^ The Western Heritage. 8E. Donald Kagan, Steven Ozmet, Frank M. Turner, eds. Prentice Hall, 2004.
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