...duly occurred. On 27 May 1689, William gave the royal assent to 'An Act for exempting Their Majesties Protestant Subjects, dissenting from the Church of England, from the Penalties of certain Laws'. 141 With more hope than realism, it was nicknamed the Toleration Act: the word 'toleration' appeared...

...to declare War against the States General. . . in 1672 ( 1689) An Act for exempting their Majestyes Protestant Subjects dissenting from the Church of England from the penalties of certain laws (1689) Act for the Relief and Employment of the Poor ( 1649) An Address agreed upon at the Committee...

...play has been made on the fact that the Act was officially entitled 'for exempting Their Majesties' Protestant subjects, dissenting from the Church of England, from the penalties of certain laws'. Nowhere is the word 'toleration' mentioned.'05 Yet examination of the journals of the Lords and Commons...

...practical politics, and did not grant full toleration. Officially an 'Act for Exempting their Majesties' Protestant Subjects, Dissenting from the Church of England, from the Penalties of Certain Laws', it stated that Trinitarian Protestant Nonconformists who swore the oaths of Supremacy and Allegiance...

...(1973,74), pp. 77-78. toleration through Parliament, entitled, An Act of 'exempting their Majesties' Protestant Subjects Dissenting from the Church of England, from the Penalties of certain laws. 151 Times had not only changed politically for the Particular Baptists but they had also changed theologically....

...William and Mary as British monarchs in 1689, Parliament passed "An Act for exempting their Majesties Protestant subjects, dissenting from the Church of England, from the penalties of certain laws." This Act guaranteed freedom of worship to Trinitarian Protestant Nonconformists, even as it reaffirmed...

...insolent restriction. The full title of this celebrated act is, "An Act for Exempting their Majesties' Protestant Subjects, Dissenting from the Church of England, from the Penalties of Certain Laws." It has eighteen clauses. By this law, when certain conditions were complied with, Dissenters were freed...

...policies that greatly worsened their condition. His Toleration Act of 1689 exempted "Their Majesties' Protestant subjects, dissenting from the Church of England, from the penalties of certain laws," but the Jews were not exempted."7 Even worse, the seventeenth clause of the Act expressly excluded...

...believed to threaten the purity and uniformity of Anglican worship. The "Act for exempting their Majesties protestant subjects, dissenting from the Church of England, from the penalties of certain laws," approved by Parliament in May 1689, would be the last major component of the legislaDissenting Congregations...

...& Mary, c. 18 (1689). The formal title of the Toleration Act was "An Act to Exempt their Majesties' Protestant Subjects Dissenting from the Church of England from the Penalties of Certain Laws." 71. FW Maitland, The Constitutional History of England: A Course of Lectures, ed. HAL Fisher (Cambridge,...