Note 85 — Chapter IV
Reading edition
The Minutes of Council show that the Mayors of Plymouth and Reading were directed to put the Oxford Act in execution against the preachers in Conventicles.—December 2. The constables of the East Riding of Yorkshire refused to disturb meetings.—State Papers, bundle 260, No. 474. The magistrates at Hickes’ Hall complain that the laws respecting Conventicles had been long silent.—December 10.