...reliable and full account of the making of the 'Toleration Act' (or An Act for exempting their Majestyes Protestant Subjects dissenting from the Church of England from the penalties of certain laws as it was properly called) - 1 William and Mary c. 18. H. Horwitz, Revolution Politicks (Cambridge,...

...Mary, c. 18, The Statutes of the realm, ed. A. Luders etc., 11 vols. (London, 1810-28), VI, pp. 74-6 ('An Act for exempting their Majesties' protestant...Church of England from the penalties of certain laws'). "• Michael Watts, The dissenters (Oxford, 1978), pp. 188-9. 47 I am grateful to Dr William Stevenson...

...rights than the right of these others to hold a public religious service. The Toleration Act of 1689 - An Act for exempting their Majesties' protestant subjects...the Church of England from the penalties of certain laws'9 allowed freedom of worship to Protestant Dissenters by granting them an exemption from the penal...

...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 to Persons...

...to James II 's attempts to win their political co-operation was rewarded in 1689 by the passage of an 'Act for Exempting Their Majesties' Protestant...Church of England, from the Penalties of Certain Laws'. Equally notoriously, while the Toleration Act provided 'some ease to scrupulous consciences in the...

...to James II 's attempts to win their political co-operation was rewarded in 1689 by the passage of an Act for Exempting Their Majesties' Protestant Subjects,...the Church of England, from the Penalties of Certain I^aws'. Equally notoriously, while the Toleration Act provided 'some ease to scrupulous consciences...

...not so revolutionary. (It wasn't very glorious either.) On May 24, 1689, William III accepted as law "An Act for Exempting Their Majesties' Protestant...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 been known...

...Contained in An Act made in the First year of their late Majesties King William and Queen Mary, Entituled An Act for Exempting their Majesties Protestant Subjects...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 5 The first parliament...

...modern spelling of the parish name. 7. The "Toleration Act" (l William & Mary, cap. l8, l689), entitled An Act for exempting their Majesties' Protestant Subjects,...from the Church of England, from the Penalties of tertain Laws, allowed the registration of meetinghouses by orthodox Protestant dissenters. For text,...

...allow through the Indulgence Bill. This duly occurred. On 27 May 1689, William gave the royal assent to 'An Act for exempting Their Majesties Protestant Subjects,...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...