(1661): "Clarendon Code" beginning of persecution of Non-conformists in England.

Between 1660 and 1665 the Cavalier Parliament passed four statutes that became known as the Clarendon Code.

Charles's English parliament enacted laws known as the Clarendon Code, designed to shore up the position of the re-established Church of England.

Persecution did not work - witness the Clarendon Code.

The government initially attempted to suppress these schismatic organizations by the Clarendon Code.

He acquiesced to the Clarendon Code even though he favoured a policy of religious tolerance.

Under the penal laws forbidding religious dissent (generally known to history as the Clarendon Code), many ministers were imprisoned in the latter half of the 1660s.

However the Clarendon Code was not actually the work of Clarendon himself, who favoured a policy of greater tolerance towards dissenters.

Other statutes that were part of the Clarendon Code include:

Several pieces of legislation, known collectively as the Clarendon Code, made their lives difficult.