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Unholy Trinity - Church, Law and MedicineThe Clarendon Code is the name given to the four Acts passed by Charles II and Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon which reinforced the established Church and restricted the activity of dissenters. Clarendon had hoped for a union in Church and State but these Acts were more brutal than he ever intended and would not lead to the cooling of religious fervour. Meanwhile Nicholas Culpeper was revolutionizing the medical profession by rewriting the medical textbook the Pharmocoepia Londinensis opened medical mysteries to non Latin speakers and the Royal College of Surgeons lost their monopoly in all medical fields but surgery. The third important profession in the 17th Century were the lawyers. Relative peace gave time to the rewriting of the common law, often in favour of commercial interest. With no police force everything had to be proved by lawyers, who grew rich on delays and obfuscation. As it cost Β£40 a year to send a son to one of the Inns of Court law students were almost all sons of gentlemen and peers.
Charles II adored his dogs. According to John Evelyn's diary "He took delight in having a number of little spaniels follow him and lie in his bedchamber, where he often suffered the bitches to puppy and give suck, which rendered it very offensive, and indeed make the whole court nasty and stinking."
The Act of Uniformity imposed upon the clergy the Prayer Book of Queen Elizabeth, with some excisions and additions. One fifth of the clergy, nearly two thousand ministers, refusing to comply, were deprived of their livings. The Conventicle Act sought to prevent the ejected clergy from preaching to audiences of their own. The Five Mile Act forbade them to go within five miles of any city or town corporate or borough or any parish or place where they had preached or held a living.  
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