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Five Mile Act

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Five Mile Act

In England, act of 1665 forbidding dissenting clergy from coming within five miles of their former parishes or of any large towns, unless they swore an oath of nonresistance. The act, part of the post-Restoration attempt to entrench Anglicanism, also tried to prevent dissenters from becoming teachers. Most of the act's effects were repealed by 1689 but it was not formally abolished until 1812.
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Birmingham appealed so much because it was not then incorporated as a borough and was thus exempt from the discriminatory Five Mile Act of Charles II which forbade Dissenting ministers from coming within five miles of a borough.
The Lloyds and Welsh emerge by Birmingham Mail (England)
The editors connect Palmer and her dedicatees to the Presbyterian congregation of Thomas Cawton, a minister permitted to hold services near Westminster during a period that the Five Mile Act kept other dissenters distant from Parliament.
Julia Palmer. The Centuries of Julia Palmer by Arnold, Margaret J. / Renaissance Quarterly
 
 
 
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