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The application of the 1828 and 1829 acts to Irish acts was uncertain and so the Test Abolition Act 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 62) repeated the 1829 repeal more explicitly. [ 13 ] The 1661, 1672 and 1678 acts were repealed by the Promissory Oaths Act 1871 , the Statute Law Revision Act 1863 and the Parliamentary Oaths Act 1866 respectively. [ 1 ]
The tenth session of the 2nd Parliament of King Charles II (the 'Cavalier Parliament'), which met from 4 February 1673 until 29 March 1673. (Acts dated "1672" because session started before 25 March 1673, the end of the civil and legal year 1672.)
29 March – the Test Act is passed, preventing Roman Catholics from holding public office. [1] 28 May (7 June New Style) – Third Anglo-Dutch War: First Battle of Schooneveld – The Dutch Republic fleet commanded by Michiel de Ruyter defeats the allied Anglo-French fleet commanded by Prince Rupert of the Rhine.
The first provision excluded all non-conformists; the second Catholics only. The Test Act 1673 (25 Cha. 2. c. 2) imposed on all officers, civil and military, a "Declaration against Transubstantiation", whereby Catholics were debarred from such employment. Five years later, the Test Act 1678 (30 Cha. 2.
The Test Act 1673 in England obligated all persons filling any office, civil or military, to take oaths of supremacy and allegiance, to subscribe to a declaration against transubstantiation, and to receive the sacrament within three months of taking office. The oath for the Test Act 1673 was:
To that end, parliament used its purse-strings to force not only the repeal of the Declaration but also the passage of the first Test Act in May 1673, requiring all office-holders to deny Catholic transubstantiation and take Anglican communion. Following the Test Act, the members of the Cabal gradually resigned or were dismissed.
Ultimately the Test Act 1673, requiring them to acknowledge the King as head of the Church, made it impossible for the few remaining Catholics in Parliament to retain their seats. [6] He had not been active in the House, speaking only once (against the impeachment of Clarendon ) and declined to speak up in his own defence during the Common ...
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