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Toleration Act
Toleration Act, 1689. As the Act's title, ‘for exempting [dissenters] from the penalties of certain laws’, indicates, it did not grant whole-hearted toleration but has been hailed as ‘the grand landmark … in the history of dissent’, for after comprehension failed, it legally sanctioned schism. Those unable to accept Anglican liturgy could worship in unlocked meeting-houses, licensed by the bishop, provided that the minister subscribed to the Thirty-Nine Articles except on baptism and church government. Catholics and unitarians were excluded. Non-Anglicans continued to suffer civil disabilities imposed by the Clarendon code until 1828. By the 1720s even the Whigs, now landed gentry, despising the mainly urban dissenters, made no attempt to extend civil rights.
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JOHN CANNON. "Toleration Act." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN CANNON. "Toleration Act." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O110-TolerationAct.html JOHN CANNON. "Toleration Act." The Oxford Companion to British History. 2002. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O110-TolerationAct.html |
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Toleration Act
Toleration Act (1689) The granting by the English Parliament of freedom of worship to dissenting Protestants, who could not accept the authority or teaching of the Anglican Church. Dissenters were allowed their own ministers, teachers, and places of worship subject to their taking oaths of allegiance and to their acceptance of most of the THIRTY-NINE ARTICLES. The TEST ACTS, which deprived dissenters of public office remained, but from 1727 annual indemnity acts allowed them to hold local offices. Roman Catholics were excluded from the scope of the Act, and had to rely on failure to enforce the penal laws.
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"Toleration Act." A Dictionary of World History. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Toleration Act." A Dictionary of World History. 2000. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O48-TolerationAct.html "Toleration Act." A Dictionary of World History. 2000. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O48-TolerationAct.html |
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Toleration Act
Toleration Act (1719). Introduced by opponents of the Presbyterians to forestall anything more generous, this exempted Protestant dissenters from the restrictions imposed by the Act of Uniformity (1666). In fact these restrictions had long been inoperable, and dissenters remained liable to pay tithes and subject to the authority of the ecclesiastical courts. The act thus fell far short of what Presbyterians had hoped for in the aftermath of the revolution of 1688 and the Whig victory in 1714.
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"Toleration Act." The Oxford Companion to Irish History. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. "Toleration Act." The Oxford Companion to Irish History. 2007. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O245-TolerationAct.html "Toleration Act." The Oxford Companion to Irish History. 2007. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O245-TolerationAct.html |
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Toleration Act
Toleration Act, 1689. Though the Act did not grant whole‐hearted toleration, it has been hailed as ‘the grand landmark … in the history of dissent’, since it legally sanctioned schism. Those unable to accept Anglican liturgy could worship in unlocked meeting‐houses, licensed by the bishop, provided that the minister subscribed to the Thirty‐Nine Articles except on baptism and church government. Catholics and unitarians were excluded.
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JOHN CANNON. "Toleration Act." A Dictionary of British History. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. JOHN CANNON. "Toleration Act." A Dictionary of British History. 2004. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O43-TolerationAct.html JOHN CANNON. "Toleration Act." A Dictionary of British History. 2004. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O43-TolerationAct.html |
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Toleration Act
Toleration Act an act of 1689 granting freedom of worship to dissenters (excluding Roman Catholics and Unitarians) on certain conditions. Its real purpose was to unite all Protestants under William III against the deposed Roman Catholic James II.
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ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Toleration Act." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. 27 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>. ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Toleration Act." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Encyclopedia.com. (May 27, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O214-TolerationAct.html ELIZABETH KNOWLES. "Toleration Act." The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable. 2006. Retrieved May 27, 2012 from Encyclopedia.com: http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O214-TolerationAct.html |
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