 | Bernard Cottret - History - 1991 - 336 pages
...of freedom, whatever its own starting point. In 1689, the Toleration Act exempted 'their Majesties' Protestant subjects, dissenting from the Church of England, from the penalties of certain laws', which seemed to imply that the Catholics were excepted from its provisions. The old... | |
 | Christopher W. Marsh - History - 1994 - 332 pages
...ed. A. Luders etc., 11 vols. (London, 1810-28), VI, pp. 74-6 ('An Act for exempting their Majesties' protestant subjects dissenting from the Church of England from the penalties of certain laws'). "• Michael Watts, The dissenters (Oxford, 1978), pp. 188-9. 47 I am grateful to Dr... | |
 | J. F. Maclear - Church and state - 1995 - 534 pages
...in the First Year of ... King William and Queen Mary, intituled An Act for exempting His Majesty' s Protestant Subjects dissenting from the Church of England from the Penalties of certain Laws, as provides that that Act . . . should not extend ... to give any Ease, Benefit or Advantage... | |
 | Sheldon J. Godfrey, Judy Godfrey - History - 1995 - 460 pages
...hold a public religious service. The Toleration Act of 1689 - An Act for exempting their Majesties' protestant subjects dissenting from the Church of England from the penalties of certain laws'9 allowed freedom of worship to Protestant Dissenters by granting them an exemption from... | |
 | Dale Hoak, Mordechai Feingold - History - 1996 - 380 pages
...glorious either.) On May 24, 1689, William III accepted as law "An Act for Exempting Their Majesties' Protestant Subjects Dissenting from the Church of England from the Penalties of Certain Laws."2 Contemporaries soon shortened that unwieldy title to the name by which the law has... | |
 | David Hempton - History - 1996 - 262 pages
...did not, of course, repeal the Conventicles or Five Mile Acts; it simply exempted 'their majesties' Protestant subjects, dissenting from the Church of England, from the penalties of certain laws' subject to the fulfilment of clearly stipulated conditions.9 It also required the formal... | |
 | Knud Haakonssen - Biography & Autobiography - 1996 - 370 pages
...political co-operation was rewarded in 1689 by the passage of an Act for Exempting Their Majesties' Protestant Subjects, Dissenting from the Church of England, from the Penalties of Certain Laws'. Equally notoriously, while the Toleration Act provided 'some ease to scrupulous consciences... | |
 | Edward Harley Earl of Oxford, William Hay - History - 1998 - 490 pages
...of their late Majesties King William and Queen Mary, Entituled An Act for Exempting their Majesties Protestant Subjects Dissenting from the Church of England from the Penalties of certain Laws; In the words following. 'I AB Profess Faith in God the Father and in Jesus Christ his... | |
 | Finney - Art - 1999 - 600 pages
..."Toleration Act" (l William & Mary, cap. l8, l689), entitled An Act for exempting their Majesties' Protestant Subjects, dissenting from the Church of England, from the Penalties of tertain Laws, allowed the registration of meetinghouses by orthodox Protestant dissenters. For text,... | |
 | Bernard de Mandeville - Free thought - 1729 - 290 pages
...do so, he quite likely would have mentioned the existence of "An Act for Exempting Their Majesties' Protestant Subjects Dissenting from the Church of England from the Penalties of Certain Laws" — the so-called Toleration Act of May 1689, which some have regarded as a misnomer... | |
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An Act for exempting their Majesties protestant subjects dissenting " from the Church of England from the penalties of certain laws... 
