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Robert Rochfort is elected Speaker of the Irish House of Commons. [1] 30 September–25 October – an attempt is made in the Irish House of Commons (largely at the instigation of Rochfort) to impeach Charles Porter (Lord Chancellor of Ireland) for his conduct in office. He is acquitted following a speech made in his own defence.
These aspects provided the political basis for the new laws passed for several decades after 1695. Interdicts faced by Catholics and Dissenters under the penal laws were: Exclusion of Catholics from most public offices (since 1607), Presbyterians were also barred from public office from 1707. Ban on intermarriage with Protestants; repealed 1778
An Act for explaining some Doubts that may arise on the Exposition of an Act passed this Session of Parliament, Intituled, "An Act for Confirming Estates and Possessions held and enjoying under the Acts of Settlement and Explanation;" [a] and also for Amending some words in an Act passed the last Session of this present Parliament, Intituled ...
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]
Royal statutes, etc. issued before the development of Parliament. 1225–1267; 1275–1307; 1308–1325; Temp. incert. 1327–1376; 1377–1397; 1399–1411
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 ...
A more favorable agreement is reached with Charles's representative, which promises toleration of Catholicism, a repeal of Poynings' Law, and recognition of lands taken by Irish Catholics during the war. 1690: 1 July: Battle of the Boyne: 1695: The Education Act, one of a series of Penal Laws, is passed in 1695. It prohibits Catholics from ...
The Irish struggle, 1916-1926 edited by Desmond Williams. -Chapter /Partition : the Ulster question (1916-1926) Maureen Wall (1967). The Penal Laws, 1691-1760. Dublin Historical Association. Maureen Wall; Gerard O'Brien; Tom Dunne (1952). Catholic Ireland in the Eighteenth Century: Collected Essays of Maureen Wall. Geography Publications.