Sentence examples for act of toleration from inspiring English sources

Later laws ensuring religious tolerance and freedom, including the British Act of Toleration of 1689, the Holy Experiment in Pennsylvania, and laws concerning religion in other colonies such as South Carolina, may have been influenced by its example.

The English Parliament's Act of Toleration (1689) left religious issues almost entirely to local discretion.

After the Restoration of the Stuarts in 1660 both groups were subjected to severe disabilities until these were somewhat relaxed by the Act of Toleration of 1689.

In 1689 England's religious solution was defined by an Act of Toleration that continued the established church as episcopal but also made it possible for dissenting groups to have licensed chapels.

William III of England encouraged the passage of the Act of Toleration, which guaranteed religious toleration to certain Protestant nonconformists.

Though the Quakers lost influence after the Glorious Revolution, which deposed James II, the Act of Toleration 1689 put an end to the uniformity laws under which Quakers had been persecuted, permitting them to assemble freely.

The Maryland Toleration Act was an act of tolerance, allowing specific religious groups to practice their religion without being punished, but retaining the ability to revoke that right at any time.

The rebellion and its religious overtones was one of the factors that led to passage of the landmark Maryland Toleration Act of 1649, which declared religious tolerance for Catholics and Protestants in Maryland.

Although Protestant Nonconformists had religious freedom after the Toleration Act of 1689, Catholicism was illegal until 1778.

The English Toleration Act of 1689 was titled "an Act for exempting their Majesties' Protestant subjects dissenting from the Church of England".

The Toleration Act of 1689 eased some of the restrictions, but the specific acts under the Clarendon Code were not repealed until the 19th century.