Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
The Declaration of Indulgence was Charles II of England's attempt to extend religious liberty to Protestant nonconformists and Roman Catholics in his realms, by suspending the execution of the Penal Laws that punished recusants from the Church of England. Charles issued the Declaration on 15 March 1672.
Charles attempted to introduce religious freedom for Catholics and Protestant dissenters with his 1672 Royal Declaration of Indulgence, but the English Parliament forced him to withdraw it. In 1679, Titus Oates 's fabrication of a supposed Popish Plot sparked the Exclusion Crisis when it was revealed that Charles's brother and heir presumptive ...
An Act for rectifying Mistakes in the Names of several of the Commissioners appointed, by an Act made in the last Session of Parliament, [a] to put in Execution an Act made in the same Session, intituled, "An Act for granting an Aid to His Majesty, by a Land Tax to be raised in Great Britain, for the Service of the Year One Thousand Seven ...
Vol. 9. London: His Majesty's Stationery Office. 1803. pp. 245–282 – via Google Books. Chronological Table of and Index to the Statutes. Vol. 1: To the End of the Session 59 Vict. Sess. 2 (1895) (13th ed.). London: Her Majesty's Stationery Office. 1896. p. 73 – via Google Books.
Main page; Contents; Current events; Random article; About Wikipedia; Contact us
An Act to continue and amend Two Acts, made in the Twenty-first [d] and Twenty-eighth [e] Years of His late Majesty's Reign, for encouraging the making of Indico in the British Plantations in America; and for extending the Provisions of an Act of the Thirtieth Year of His late Majesty's Reign, [f] with respect to bringing Prize Goods into this ...
This is a list of acts of the Parliament of Scotland for the year 1672. It lists acts of Parliament of the old Parliament of Scotland , that was merged with the old Parliament of England to form the Parliament of Great Britain , by the Union with England Act 1707 (c. 7).
A Conventicle Preacher before the Justices, painting by Robert Inerarity Herdman. The Conventicle Act 1664 was an Act of the Parliament of England (16 Cha. 2.c. 4 [2]) that forbade conventicles, defined as religious assemblies of more than five people other than an immediate family, outside the auspices of the Church of England and the rubrics of the 1662 Book of Common Prayer.