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Act of Uniformity

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noun

English History.
  1. any of the three statutes (1549, 1559, 1662) regulating public worship services in the Anglican Church, especially the act of 1662 requiring the use of the Book of Common Prayer.


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The following year, the Act of Uniformity of 1559 brought back the Book of Common Prayer as the only legal form of worship in England.

From Textbooks Dec. 14, 2022

In 1662, Ray resigned his college fellowship, rather than subscribe to the Act of Uniformity passed by Parliament to fortify Charles II’s newly restored monarchy.

From Nature May 1, 2018

Act of Uniformity, an English Act passed in 1662, enjoining upon all ministers to use the Book of Common Prayer on pain of forfeiture of their livings.

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 1 A to Amide by Various

The French churches in England formed a natural link which survived the Act of Uniformity.

From The Anglo-French Entente in the Seventeenth Century by Charles Bastide

By the Act of Uniformity of Charles II, it was reinstated into the rights and liberties from which it had been deposed.

From The Church: Her Books and Her Sacraments by E. E. Holmes

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