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    Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 (10 Geo. 4. c. 7), also known as the Catholic Emancipation Act 1829, removed the sacramental tests that barred Roman Catholics...
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  • Roman Catholics.[citation needed] The penal laws started to be dismantled from 1766. The most significant measure was the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829...
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    The Roman Catholic Relief Act 1791 (31 Geo. 3. c. 32) is an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain passed in 1791 relieving Roman Catholics of certain...
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    The Roman Catholic Relief Act 1793 (33 Geo. 3. c. 21 (Ir.)) was an Act of the Parliament of Ireland, implicitly repealing some of the Irish Penal Laws...
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  • against Catholics in the United Kingdom were repealed by the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829. Under laws passed in the reign of Elizabeth I, any English...
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    Papists Act 1778 or the Catholic Relief Act 1778 is an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain (18 Geo. 3. c. 60) and was the first Act for Roman Catholic relief...
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  • declarations against transubstantiation etc. were repealed by the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829. Until 1871 a religious test was still necessary at the University...
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    Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829, giving Catholics almost equal civil rights, including the right to vote and to hold most public offices. The Catholic...
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    Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829,[clarification needed] legalising the practice of the Catholic faith again, Pope Pius IX re-established the Catholic Church...
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    1834. Wellington oversaw the passage of the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829, while he opposed the Reform Act 1832. He continued to be one of the leading...
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    comprehensive Catholic Emancipation bill in the 1820s which would have repealed all these acts; in the event the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 was more limited...
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    the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829, giving Catholic men almost equal civil rights, including the right to hold most public offices. If Catholics were...
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    in Jewish emancipation in the United Kingdom. Following the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 there had been an unsuccessful attempt in 1830 to also allow...
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  • Ultra-Tories (category Anti-Catholic organizations)
    faction broke away from the governing party in 1829 after the passing of the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829. Many of those labelled Ultra-Tory rejected the...
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    discrimination against Catholics, Peel reversed himself and supported the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 and the 1828 repeal of the Test Act, claiming that "though...
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    right to sit as MPs, which would only come to pass under the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829. From the perspective of Great Britain's elites, the union was...
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    the Promissory Oaths Act 1871 and the Oaths Act 1978. The Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 allowed followers of that religion to be elected to Parliament...
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    "toleration" of Catholicism. The Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 removed most remaining disabilities but prohibited Roman Catholic bishops using the same diocesan...
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    19th centuries remained Catholics in England – their church organization remained illegal until the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829. The medieval English...
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    legal situation of Catholics in England and Wales was altered for the better by the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829, and English Catholics, who before had...
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    serving in Parliament until 1829. On the same day that the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 was enacted, allowing Catholics to sit in Parliament, a more...
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    the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1793; the sacramental test for Catholics was effectively replaced by the 1774 oath. The Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 (10...
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  • Test Acts (redirect from The Test Act)
    declarations against transubstantiation were repealed by the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829. Sir Robert Peel took the lead for the government in the repeal...
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  • O'Connell, Westminster passed the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 removing most of the disabilities imposed upon Catholics. The Anglo-Irish community found...
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    1858 act had special provisions for British Jews and Quakers but did not apply to Roman Catholics MPs, for whom the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 still...
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  • Catholics voting in the United Kingdom had been lifted by the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829. The property qualification remained in place for mainland United...
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    Cathedral of the Most Holy Trinity, Waterford (category Roman Catholic cathedrals in the Republic of Ireland)
    cathedral is the oldest post-Reformation Catholic cathedral in Ireland, pre-dating the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 by some 36 years. The cathedral was designed...
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  • it in Kent at meetings to oppose the Roman Catholic Relief Bill (when passed, the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829). Kentish fire may also be rapturous...
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    quenched". The inscription remained until after the passage of the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829 when it was removed in 1830 following a successful campaign...
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    equal political rights for Catholics within the British political system, successful in the Roman Catholic Relief Act 1829. But as in other European states...
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