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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.
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 ...
(Acts dated "1672" because session started before 25 March 1673, the end of the civil and legal year 1672.) This session was traditionally cited as 25 Car. 2, 25 Chas. 2 or 25 C. 2; it is listed in the "Chronological Table of the Statutes" as 25 Car. 2.
Declaration of Indulgence may refer to: Declaration of Indulgence (1672) by Charles II of England in favour of nonconformists and Catholics Declaration of Indulgence (1687) by James II of England granting religious freedom
The Declaration of Indulgence, also called Declaration for Liberty of Conscience, [1] was a pair of proclamations made by James II of England and Ireland and VII of Scotland in 1687. The Indulgence was first issued for Scotland on 12 February and then for England on 4 April 1687. [ 2 ]
Wikimedia Commons. He later signed another oath, declaring his allegiance to the state of New Jersey and to the United States. To make a living, he reopened his law practice and trained new students.
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.
Read the full text of the speech as he delivered it that day: I am happy to join with you today in what will go down in history as the greatest demonstration for freedom in the history of our nation.