Toleration Act 1689

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Predicate Object
gptkbp:instanceOf gptkb:Act_of_Parliament
gptkbp:alsoKnownAs gptkb:Act_of_Toleration
gptkbp:appliesTo gptkb:England
gptkb:Wales
gptkbp:category gptkb:History_of_Christianity_in_England
English law
1689 in England
1689 in law
gptkbp:citation 1 Will & Mary c 18
gptkbp:compatibleWith gptkb:Ireland
gptkb:Scotland
gptkbp:dateEnacted 1689
gptkbp:didNotGrantFreedomTo gptkb:Atheists
gptkb:Catholics
gptkb:Unitarians
gptkbp:effect Allowed freedom of worship to Nonconformists
Did not allow Nonconformists to hold public office
Did not extend to Jews
Did not extend to Quakers (fully)
Did not repeal Test Acts
Did not allow Nonconformists to serve in Parliament
Permitted Nonconformist chapels
Permitted Nonconformist schoolmasters
Quakers allowed to affirm rather than swear oaths
Required open doors for worship
Required registration of meeting places
Did not allow Nonconformists to attend universities
gptkbp:enactedBy gptkb:Parliament_of_the_United_Kingdom
gptkbp:followedBy gptkb:Religious_Disabilities_Act_1846
gptkbp:grantedFreedomTo gptkb:Nonconformist_Protestants
gptkbp:historicalSignificance Influenced later religious freedom laws
Step towards religious liberty in England
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label Toleration Act 1689
gptkbp:longTitle An Act for exempting their Majesties’ Protestant subjects dissenting from the Church of England from the penalties of certain laws
gptkbp:monarchDuringTerm gptkb:Mary_II
gptkb:William_III
gptkbp:partOf gptkb:Glorious_Revolution
gptkbp:precededBy gptkb:Act_of_Uniformity_1662
gptkbp:receivedRoyalAssent 24 May 1689
gptkbp:relatedTo gptkb:Act_of_Settlement_1701
gptkb:Bill_of_Rights_1689
gptkbp:requiredAcceptanceOf gptkb:Thirty-Nine_Articles_(with_exceptions)
gptkbp:requiredOathOfAllegiance to the Crown
gptkbp:status Amended
gptkbp:subject gptkb:Dissenters
Religious freedom
gptkbp:bfsParent gptkb:Nonconformist_churches
gptkb:King_William_III
gptkb:Glorious_Revolution
gptkb:William_III_of_England
gptkb:English_Dissenters
gptkbp:bfsLayer 5