The Declaration of Indulgence, also called Declaration for Liberty of Conscience, was a pair of proclamations made by James II of England and Ireland...
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nonconformists and Catholics Declaration of Indulgence (1687) by James II of England granting religious freedom Indulgence This disambiguation page lists...
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original text related to this article: Royal Declaration of Indulgence Declaration of Indulgence (1687) Religion in the United Kingdom Ergang, Robert...
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February 12 – The Declaration of Indulgence is issued in Scotland by King James VII as one of the first steps in establishing freedom of religion in the...
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Catholic emancipation (redirect from Catholic Act of 1792)
1605–1606 Popish Recusants Act 1605 Test Act 1673 Declaration of Indulgence 1687 Bill of Rights 1689 Act of Toleration 1689 Penal laws Education Act 1695...
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Quakers (redirect from The Religious Society of Friends of the Truth)
persecution of Dissenters was relaxed after the Declaration of Indulgence (1687–1688) and stopped under the Act of Toleration 1689. One modern view of Quakerism...
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of the exchequer", involving a repudiation of the state debt in 1672; and the Royal Declaration of Indulgence the same year, "that we might keep all quiet...
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Seven Bishops (redirect from Trial of the Seven Bishops)
withdrawn at will, unlike an Act of Parliament. The Declaration of Indulgence was issued in Scotland on 12 February 1687, then in England on 4 April. Many...
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1687 in the Kingdom of Scotland. Monarch – James VII Secretary of State – John Drummond, 1st Earl of Melfort 12 February – Declaration of Indulgence proclaimed...
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secretly by night. James II's Declaration of Indulgence (1687) gave them renewed liberty, which was confirmed by the accession of William III, though there...
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chronological list of international declarations, declarations of independence, declarations of war, etc. Also known as the Book of Sports. Also known...
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Thomas Powell (American landowner) (category History of New York (state))
after the Declaration of Indulgence (1687–1688) and stopped under the Act of Toleration 1689. Peter Stuyvesant, the Dutch Director-General of New Netherland...
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Te Deum (redirect from A Song of the Church)
Christmas, and on all feasts. The revised Handbook of Indulgences (fourth edition) grants a plenary indulgence, under the usual conditions, to those who recite...
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Sir Jonathan Trelawny, 3rd Baronet (category Alumni of Christ Church, Oxford)
Trelawny and the other bishops petitioned against James II's Declaration of Indulgence in 1687 and 1688, (granting religious tolerance to Catholics) and...
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See the issuance and governance of indulgences. The head of the Apostolic Penitentiary, the Major Penitentiary, is one of the few Vatican officials who...
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Edward Fowler (bishop) (category Bishops of Gloucester)
vicar of St Giles, Cripplegate, but after four years was suspended for being a Whig. When the Declaration of Indulgence was published in 1687 he successfully...
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disclosed anything of importance. On the promulgation of the declaration of indulgence he was employed (1687) to urge its acceptance upon the Presbyterians....
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rule of Andros and organized dissent targeted to influence the court in London. King James published the Declaration of Indulgence in May 1687, and Increase...
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Ferdinando d'Adda (category Cardinal-bishops of Albano)
seditious libel, (in that they had refused to republish the King's Declaration of Indulgence) would be a serious political mistake. He remarked "This matter...
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Joseph Hussey (category Social history of London)
the Hog Hill church, where a piece of land had been bought in 1687 on the basis of the Declaration of Indulgence; and it took on the name "Great Meeting"...
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Thomas Baker (antiquarian) (category Alumni of St John's College, Cambridge)
to read James II's Declaration of Indulgence. The bishop who himself was afterwards specially excepted from William III's Act of Indemnity. Baker, though...
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Toleration Act 1688 (redirect from Toleration Act of 1689)
the 1687 and 1688 Declarations of Indulgence helped spark the constitutional crises that culminated in the Glorious Revolution and the accession of William...
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the Declaration of Indulgence, also known as the Declaration for Liberty of Conscience, in which he used his dispensing power to negate the effect of laws...
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his 1672 Royal Declaration of Indulgence, but the English Parliament forced him to withdraw it. In 1679, Titus Oates's fabrication of a supposed Popish...
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Glorious Revolution (redirect from Abdication of James II of England)
Parliament. In April 1688, he ordered his Declaration of Indulgence read in every church; when the Archbishop of Canterbury and six other bishops refused...
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Mary II (redirect from Mary II of the United Kingdom)
early as 1686. After James took the step of forcing Anglican clergymen to read the Declaration of Indulgence—the proclamation granting religious liberty...
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Daniel Fleming (antiquary) (redirect from Sir Daniel Fleming of Rydal)
parliament of 1685–1687 sat as member for Cockermouth; he opposed the Declaration of Indulgence. He occupied his leisure in antiquarian researches, chiefly in...
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repeal of the Test Act and the penal laws; would they assist candidates who would do so; and would they accept the Declaration of Indulgence. As Lord...
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convicted of murder and burned at the stake on 2 March. 4 April – King James II issues the Declaration of Indulgence (or Declaration for the Liberty of Conscience)...
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James Renwick (Covenanter) (category Alumni of the University of Edinburgh)
under the earl of Argyll in 1685; in 1687, when the declarations of indulgence allowed some liberty of Worship to the Presbyterians, he and his followers...
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