A married woman, being a Popish recusant, and not conforming within three months after conviction, may be imprisoned by warrant of two justices of the peace (or if a baroness, of a privy councillor or bishop) until she conform, unless the husband pay £10 monthly, or forfeit a third of all his lands.
12. 3 Car. I, cap. 2, 1627.
None of the King’s subjects shall go, or send, or cause to be sent any one to be trained beyond seas in the Roman Catholic religion, or pay any money for the maintenance of others for that purpose, on pain of forfeiting all his goods, lands, and chattels, and being disabled from prosecuting any suit at law.
13. 16 Car. II, cap. 4, 1664. (The Conventicle Act, directed against all Nonconformists.)
All meetings, other than those of the family, of more than five persons declared to be unlawful and seditious conventicles.
Penalty for first offence, a fine of £5 or imprisonment for 3 months; for second, a fine of £10 or imprisonment for 6 months; for third, transportation for 7 years, or a fine of £100.
14. 17 Car. II, cap. 2, 1665. (The Five Mile Act, directed against all Nonconformists.)
No person preaching in an unlawful conventicle or meeting to approach within 5 miles of any corporation sending members to Parliament, without having taken an oath “that it is not lawful upon any pretence whatsoever to take arms against the King.”
No such person shall teach in any public or private school.
Penalty for not complying, a fine of £40.