
(from the article `Charles II`) ...the Parliament elected in 1661 was determined on an uncompromising Anglican and royalist settlement. The Militia Act of 1661 gave Charles ... ...to compel conformity. The imposition of oaths of allegiance and nonresistance to the crown and an oath recognizing the king`s supremacy in the ... [2 relat...
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In England, statute of 1661 which effectively excluded religious dissenters from public office. All magistrates in England and Wales were obliged to take sacrament according to the Church of...
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