The Rump Parliament: Religious reforms
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The Church
- The Adultery Act (May 1650) imposed the death penalty for adultery and fornication
- The Blasphemy Act (1650) attacked nonconformists
- Press censorship was imposed in September 1649 to limit the spread millenarian pamphlets
- The first government newspaper, the Mercurius Politicus, was published in June 1650
- Observance of the Sabbath was enforced in April 1650
- Compulsory attendance at Church repealed in the Toleration Act (September 1650)
- A parliamentary vote in favour of establishing Presbyterianism as the national…
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