The phrase "a declaration of indulgence" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where someone is formally expressing a leniency or allowance, often in relation to behavior or rules.
Example: "The committee issued a declaration of indulgence, allowing members to take a more relaxed approach to the dress code during the summer months."
Alternatives: "a statement of leniency" or "an announcement of tolerance".
In April 1687, he himself issued a Declaration of Indulgence, like his brother, suspending the penal laws against both dissenters and Roman Catholics.
In 1687 he issued a Declaration of Indulgence, suspending the penal laws against dissenters and recusants, and in April 1688 ordered that a second Declaration of Indulgence be read from every pulpit on two successive Sundays.
Charles issued a Declaration of Indulgence in which he used his power as supreme head of the church to suspend the penal laws against both Protestant dissenters and Roman Catholics, and indeed he allowed dissenters to publicly worship in licensed meeting houses.
It met again in 1673 for a new session and almost immediately attacked the Declaration of Indulgence, declaring that "penal statutes in matters ecclesiastical cannot be suspended but by an act of parliament" and that the suspending power which the King had used was innovatory.
The condom is a declaration of sacrifice in the midst of indulgence.
After King James published the Declaration of Indulgence, Increase Mather sent an appreciation letter to the king regarding the declaration, and suggested to other Massachusetts pastors that they also express gratitude to the king as a means to gain favor and influence.
The Declaration of Indulgence with its granting of a degree of religious liberty to those other than members of the Church of England was even more unpopular with the Anglican-dominated Cavalier Parliament.
The king alienated otherwise supportive Tories with his attempts to relax the Penal Laws, and in 1687 issued the Declaration of Indulgence, establishing some freedom of religion, a move opposed by the Anglican church hierarchy.
Public anger also increased because of the trial of seven bishops who had publicly opposed James's Declaration of Indulgence granting religious liberty to his subjects, a policy which appeared to threaten the establishment of the Anglican Church.
In fact, the last English monarch to sign an executive order was James II, who in 1687 issued the Declaration of Indulgence, in which he used his "legal dispensing power" to negate the effect of laws that punished Catholics and Protestant dissenters, which on the face of it, seems like a rather liberal purpose, except that it came with various concentrations of executive power to his office.
In 1688 James reissued his Declaration of Indulgence for the second consecutive year.
