Printer John Twyn was hanged and quartered for publishing a tract justifying Charles I's execution.
Uniformity arrives with teeth. Ministers have to reject the Solemn League and Covenant and accept a new Book of Common Prayer with a Laudian stamp. Some will not do it. The first refusal rate is given as 10%, but the wider process eventually drives out 1,909 ministers from 9,000 parishes. That is a purge. Town corporations get pulled in next through the 1661 Corporation Act, which bars officeholders who will not conform. The Quakers have it worse. Even after George Fox's pacifist declaration, they are treated as especially despised dissenters and targeted by the 1662 Quaker Act. Oaths become the trap. Quakers refuse them, so prison follows, and meetings of more than 16 people are banned. No bonfires this time, but the host is careful about the prisons: they could still kill people in a grimly practical way. Maybe 400 Quakers die. The pressure keeps building with the 1664 Conventicles Act, which bans religious meetings of five or more outside the Anglican rite. Then comes five miles. In 1665, non-juring ministers cannot return within five miles of their former parishes. Steady on, gov. The bundle becomes known as the Clarendon Code, although Clarendon himself seems to have preferred comprehension over repression. That makes the label messier. It also makes a tidy Whiggish story about growing toleration harder to swallow.
