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The Education Act 1695 (7 Will. 3. c. 4 (I)), was an act of the Parliament of Ireland, one of a series of Penal Laws, prohibiting Catholics from sending their children to be educated abroad, and prohibiting catholics from teaching children within Ireland. [1] Its long title is "An Act to restrain Foreign Education". It ruled: [2]
The laws included the Education Act 1695, the Banishment Act 1697, the Registration Act 1704, the Popery Acts 1704 and 1709, and the Disenfranchising Act 1728. Under pressure from the British government, which in its rivalry with France sought Catholic alliances abroad and Catholic loyalty at home, the laws were repealed through a series of ...
The Parliament of Ireland passes the Education Act, one of the penal laws, prohibiting Roman Catholics from sending their children to be educated in Catholic countries abroad. [3] Sir Richard Reynell is dismissed as Lord Chief Justice of the King's Bench in Ireland for incapacity [4] and is succeeded by Sir Richard Pyne.
The Penal Laws were introduced into Ireland in the year 1695, disenfranchising nonconformists in favour of the minority established Church of Ireland, aligned with the Protestant Church of England. The laws' principal victims were members of the Catholic Church , numbering over three quarters of the population in the south, and adherents of the ...
An Act for the further Punishment of Persons going armed or disguised, in Defiance of the Laws of Customs or Excise; and for indemnifying Offenders against those Laws, upon the Terms in this Act mentioned; and for the Relief of Officers of the Customs, in Informations upon Seizures. (Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 59))
From 1766 Catholics favoured reform of the existing state in Ireland. Their politics were represented by the "Catholic Committees" – a moderate organisation of Catholic gentry and Clergy in each county which advocated repeal of the Penal Laws and emphasised their loyalty. Reforms on land ownership then started in 1771 and 1778–79.
From 1695 this provoked a series of harsh penal laws to be enacted by the Parliament of Ireland, to make it difficult for the Irish Catholic gentry who had not taken the oath by 1695 to remain Catholic. The laws were extended for political reasons by the Dublin administration during the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–14), and reforms did ...
Penal laws may refer to: Criminal law; Penal law (British), laws to uphold the establishment of the Church of England against Catholicism; Penal laws (Ireland), laws to coerce the Irish to accept the anglican Church of Ireland from 1695-1829; Penal laws against the Welsh 1401–2, Laws against the Welsh people to coerce obedience to English rule