The Rump Parliament: Religious reforms

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  • Created on: 02-02-18 16:29

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  • Compulsory attendance at Church repealed in the Toleration Act (September 1650)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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