...was, after some debate, passed into a law, under the title of an act for exempting their fnajestiefc' protestant subjects dissenting from the church of England from the penalties of certain laws. Jt enacted, that none of the penal laws should be construed to extend to those dissenters who should...

...declared they were not dissenters, how could they claim the advantages of an act made to protect persons dissenting from the church of England from the penalties of certain laws ? , Yet, such was the liberality of the times, during the beneficent reign of George the second, that,...

...the late king William and queen Mary, intitled, ' An 1 Act for exempting their majesties protes' tant subjects, dissenting from the church • of England, from the penalties of certain 1 laws ;' which act ought inviolably to be observed, and ease given to all conscience« line 1. After...

...of which a large proportion of these persons pretend * Title of the 1st. of W. and M. c. 18. "An act for exempting their majesties' protestant subjects,...church of England, from the penalties of certain laws." Title of the 19th Geo. 3. c. 4. " An act for the further relief of protestant dittenting ministers...

...which it appears they did not much like it. It is entitled, " AD act for exempting their majesty's protestant subjects dissenting from the church of England, from the penalties of certain laws therein mentioned." But the corporation and test acts were not inserted in this act. There is an exception...

...majority of the two houses of parliament. They however readily passed an Act, in the summer of 1689, for exempting their Majesties Protestant Subjects...England from the Penalties of certain Laws; which is commonly called the Act of Toleration. But toleration is a word not to be applied to honest and...

...established; and for confirming the Toleration granted to Protestant Dissenters by an Act intituled ' an Act for exempting their Majesties' Protestant Subjects,...of England, from the penalties of certain . Laws? and for supplying the defects thereof; and for the further securing tfye Protestant succession, by...

...Mary, which gave no positive privilege to dissenters from the national religion, but only provided for exempting their majesties' protestant subjects,...church of England, from the penalties of certain laws, commonly called the toleration act. On the whole, religious establishments, by civil authority and...

...entire consent of all the princes of the empire. * See the seventeenth section, or clause, in the " Act for exempting their Majesties' Protestant subjects...the Church of England from the penalties of certain Statutes," generally called, The Toleration Act. Let this clause be compared with the following Statutes:...

...the reign of the late King- William and Queen Mary, entitled, An Act for exempting their Majesty's Protestant subjects dissenting from the church of England, from the penalties of certain laws ; or any dwelling-house, barn, stable, or other out-house, — that then, every demolishing or pulling...