History of the Early Part of the Reign of James the Second
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The covenant, which had been sosolemnly taken by the whole kingdom, and, among the rest, by the kinghimself, had been declared to be unlawful, and a refusal to abjure it hadbeen made subject to the severest penalties. Episcopacy, which wasdetested by a great majority of the nation, had been established, and allpublic exercise of religion, in the forms to which the people were mostattached, had been prohibited. The attendance upon field conventicleshad been made highly penal, and the preaching a...t them capital, by whichmeans, according to the computation of a late writer, no less remarkablefor the accuracy of his facts than for the force and justness of hisreasonings, at least seventeen thousand persons in one district wereinvolved in criminality, and became the objects of persecution. Afterthis letters had been issued by government, forbidding the intercommuningwith persons who had neglected or refused to appear before the PrivyCouncil, when cited for the above crimes, a proceeding by which not onlyall succour or assistance to such persons, but, according to the strictsense of the word made use of, all intercourse with them, was renderedcriminal, and subjected him who disobeyed the prohibition to the samepenalties, whether capital or others, which were affixed to the allegedcrimes of the party with whom he had intercommuned.
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