conventions

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In 1400, an Act was passed which provided that:— “None of such sect and wicked doctrines and opinions shall make any conventicles, or in any wise hold or exercise schools.”

From Education in England in the Middle Ages Thesis Approved for the Degree of Doctor of Science in the University of London by Parry, Albert William

The puir wanderers will get hungry and weary in their Free Kirk conventicles, and as the night comes on, they’ll come hame.

From Christine A Fife Fisher Girl by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston

Accordingly a third "Act to prevent and suppress seditious conventicles" was passed by Parliament, and received the royal assent in the Fourth month, 1670.

From A Concise Biographical Sketch of William Penn by Evans, Charles

Edict and proclamation against field-preachings and conventicles came following each other, and the latest was the fiercest and fellest of all which had preceded.

From Ringan Gilhaize or The Covenanters by Galt, John

At these conventicles the marvelous singer who had gained the homage of two continents sat with common workingmen on crude benches and joined with her sweet voice in singing the Pietist hymns.

From The Story of Our Hymns by Ryden, Ernest Edwin