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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' principal victims were members of the Catholic Church, numbering over three quarters of the population in the south, and adherents of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland, a majority of the population in Ulster. These laws included: Education Act 1695; Banishment Act 1697; Registration Act 1704; Popery Act 1704 and 1709 ...
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which in its rivalry with France sought Catholic alliances abroad and Catholic loyalty at home, the laws were repealed through a series of ...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 .
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 (Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1867 (30 & 31 Vict.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))
Catholic emancipation or Catholic relief was a process in the kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland, and later the combined United Kingdom in the late 18th century and early 19th century, that involved reducing and removing many of the restrictions on Roman Catholics introduced by the Act of Uniformity, the Test Acts and the penal laws.
An Act requireing the Practicers of Law to take the Oaths and subscribe the Declaration therein mentioned. (Repealed by Statute Law Revision Act 1867 ( 30 & 31 Vict. c. 59)) Parliamentary Elections Act 1695 [ 2 ]
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