31. After the Uniformity Act of 1662 he was ejected from his living, but continued to preach in conventicles . 32. On 10 May 1670 he was arrested at his meeting in George Yard, under the Conventicles Act 1670. 33. In June 1673, while holding a conventicle at Knockdow near Ballantrae, Ayrshire, he was captured by Tolbooth. 34. Barred from their churches, they held open air field assemblies called conventicles which the authorities suppressed using military force. 35. On being turned out of his living after the Restoration, he set up a conventicle at Marlborough, Wiltshire. 36. A conventicle of sixty or more persons to whom he was preaching was broken up at Camberwell in August 1665. 37. Some of the ministers also took to preaching in the open fields in conventicles , often attracting thousands of worshippers. 38. In 1692 93 there was a serious controversy among the senior pastors in Hamburg concerning the admissibility of Pietist conventicles . 39. By 1684 Covenanters were hiding from the authorities in the hills, and increasingly draconian action had ended the large conventicles . 40. In 1681 a mob led by John Hellier attacked the Quakers'meeting hall during persecutions following the Conventicles Act 1670.
