Patrick's " Friendly Debate between a Conformist and a Nonconformist " was a controversial tract, defending the Five Mile Act.
12.
In the administration of the Five Mile acts he appears to have shown as much leniency towards the accused as the rigour of these statutes permitted.
13.
The attorney-general of Rye, Samuel Jeake was exiled from the town after being found guilty of preaching under the Five Mile Act 1665.
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At length in 1682 Grew, who had lost his eyesight, was convicted of a breach of the Five Mile Act, and imprisoned for six months in Coventry gaol.
15.
The Five Mile Act ( 1665 ) compelled him to leave, and he settled in Manchester ( not then a corporate town ), where he supported himself by keeping a school.
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On his release he returned to Tavistock, living with his son-in-law, Condy, and preaching occasionally in retired places, but left the town on being warned of impending prosecutions under the Five Miles Act.
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The Five Mile Act in 1665 meant Birmingham, although a large centre of population was not a borough, and was therefore exempt from the effects of the Act and attracted an influx of ex-preachers religious freedom made the town attractive.
18.
There were limited possibilities for opening conventicles ( non-conformist chapels ) after 1664, although the Five Mile Act of 1665 may have caused him to move to Sandiacre, Derbyshire when he was married in that year to Elizabeth, whose family background is not known.
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The congregations that they formed around the non-conforming ministers at this time form the nucleus for the later English Presbyterian, Congregationalist, and Baptist Five Mile Act, forbidding ejected ministers from living within five miles of a parish from which they had been banned, unless they swore an oath never to resist the king, or attempt to alter the government of Church or State.
20.
On the passing of the Five Miles Act of 1665, Richard Baxter drew up a statement of reasons for not taking the oath which exempted from its operation; Seaman persuaded him to abstain from publishing it, and recommended a policy of'silent patience .'He privately ministered to a congregation of his former parishioners, preached publicly after the Great Fire of London of 1666, and after the indulgence of 1672 built a chapel in Meeting-house Yard, Silver Street, Wood Street, Holborn.
