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Exhibit 513

Act for restraining Non-Conformists from inhabiting in Corporations (Five Mile Act), 17 Charles II c. 2

Exhibit 513 ยท Statute

Act for restraining Non-Conformists from inhabiting in Corporations (Five Mile Act), 17 Charles II c. 2

upon forfeiture of every such offence the summe of Forty pounds of lawfull English money

Bars ministers who have not given unfeigned assent to the Book of Common Prayer from coming within five miles of any corporate town or of their former parish unless they take a non-resistance oath, on penalty of forty pounds, divided in thirds among the king, the parish poor and whoever sues.

Source
Parliament of England (Charles II)
Date
1665
Quoted from
Statutes of the Realm V (17 Car. II c. 2; page not read)
Grade
Primary record
Document
https://archive.org/details/statutes_of_the_realm_5
Accessed
2026-11-09
Cited by
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Note
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Cited by

Finding REL-2.6
Primary record Between 1661 and 1673 Parliament required officeholders to receive the sacrament according to the Church of England and fined nonconforming ministers and attenders at conventicles with part of the fines going to informers, and the Toleration Act of 1689 excused Protestant dissenters from the attendance penalties while saving tithes, parochial duties and ecclesiastical-court prosecution.