Uniformity, ACT OF

Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 10: Swastika to Zyrianovsk and Index, p. 366

Uniformity, ACT OF, a measure passed in 1662, by which a number of clergymen, variously stated at from 800 to 2000, were driven out of the English national church. See ENGLAND (CHURCH OF), p. 359, INDEPENDENTS, NONCONFORMISTS, and works cited under the first two articles.

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