From persecution to toleration in the West Country, 1672-1692.(Protestant non-conformists)
From: The Historian
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Date: 9/22/2006
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Author: Timmons, Stephen A.
SCHOLARS INCREASINGLY RECOGNIZE that religious toleration for Protestant Nonconformists developed in England only in 1719, although the Whigs repealed the 1711 Occasional Conformity Act and the 1714 Schism Act enacted by the Tories. (1) The 1689 Act of Toleration, or more properly the Act of Exemption, which resulted from the Revolution of 1688, was a politique religious settlement instituted by William III who needed support from Protestant Nonconformists for the new regime. William ...
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