Sentence examples for act of protestant from inspiring English sources

Thus, by 1649 when the law was passed, the colonial assembly was dominated by Protestants, and the law was in effect an act of Protestant tolerance for Catholics, rather than the reverse.

A movement to repeal the Catholic Relief Act of 1778, the Protestant Association, started in Scotland under the leadership of an unstable individual called Lord George Gordon.

In addition to repealing the Maryland Toleration Act with the assistance of Protestant assemblymen, Claiborne and Bennett passed a new law barring Catholics from openly practicing their religion.

For example, the Act of Uniformity 1549 prescribed Protestant rites for church services, such as the use of Thomas Cranmer's new Book of Common Prayer.

Again, region and religion matter: the Catholicism of the Gulf, tinged with aspects of African-derived belief, acts in "Sing" as a refutation of Protestant clarity.

To extend the line and secure the Protestant succession, Parliament passed the Act of Settlement 1701, which designated William and Anne's nearest Protestant cousins, the House of Hanover, as the next in line after Anne.

To them, the noisy celebration of a 300-year-old victory over the Catholic King James II is an act of aggression a marking-out of traditionally Protestant turf that becomes more provocative every year as Protestants become fewer.That may be altering, however.

The Act of Settlement in 1701 secured a Protestant monarch for England, an invited Hanoverian.

She added: "The Queen's right to reign in based on the 1701 Act of Settlement that restricted succession to Protestant descendants of Sophia of Hanover.

The Act of Settlement of 1701 ensured a Protestant succession by passing over more than fifty stronger Roman Catholic claimants and proclaiming Georg Ludwig, Elector of Hanover (the great grandson of James I through his mother Sophia of Hanover), King George I of Great Britain.

Evangelicals were the very heart of Protestant anti-Catholicism.