Clarendon Code enforcement

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Clarendon Code enforcement was a series of strict legal measures in Restoration England aimed at suppressing non-Anglican religious practices and reinforcing the supremacy of the Church of England.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf religious legislation
series of laws
aimedAt enforcing Anglican religious uniformity
suppressing non-Anglican religious practices
appliesTo Stuart period
surface form: Restoration England
appliesToJurisdiction Church of England
English towns and corporations
appliesToPerson English Nonconformist clergy
English municipal officeholders
country Kingdom of England
effect exclusion of Nonconformists from public office
penalties for unauthorized religious meetings
reinforcement of Anglican liturgy and rites
restriction of Nonconformist ministers
endTime late 17th century
enforcedBy Anglican authorities
surface form: Church of England authorities

local magistrates in England
hasConsequence marginalization of Protestant Dissenters
strengthening of Anglican establishment
hasPart Acts of Uniformity
surface form: Act of Uniformity 1662

Conventicle Act 1664
Corporation Act 1661
Five Mile Act 1665
historicalPeriod Restoration
inLanguage English
inspiredLaterEvent campaigns for religious toleration in England
legalForm penal laws
legalStatus statute law of England
legislativeBody Parliament of England
mainSubject Supreme Head of the Church of England
surface form: Church of England supremacy

religious conformity
namedAfter Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon
opposedBy Nonconformism in England
surface form: Protestant Dissenters in England

some members of Parliament of England
opposedGroup Dissenters
Nonconformism in England
surface form: Nonconformists
partOf English penal laws against Dissenters
relatedTo English Civil War aftermath
Restoration religious settlement
religiousDenomination Anglicanism (broadly)
surface form: Anglicanism
startTime 1661
temporalContext reign of Charles II of England

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Restoration religiousPolicy Clarendon Code enforcement
subject surface form: Restoration (England)