Sentence examples for declarations of indulgence from inspiring English sources

In 1687, when the declarations of indulgence allowed some liberty of worship to the Presbyterians, he and his followers, often called Renwickites, continued to hold illegal meetings in the fields.

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.

In 1688 James reissued his Declaration of Indulgence for the second consecutive year.

Secondly, in April 1688 James ordered his Declaration of Indulgence to be read out in all Anglican churches.

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.

Bunyan's release from prison came in March 1672 under Charles II's Declaration of Indulgence to the Nonconformists.

The Declaration of Indulgence was withdrawn and under the threat of withholding supply for the war effort he agreed to the passage by parliament of the Test Act.

In April 1687, he himself issued a Declaration of Indulgence, like his brother, suspending the penal laws against both dissenters and Roman Catholics.

The spark was touched off by James himself, when he reissued his Declaration of Indulgence on April 27 , 1688 and on May 4 ordered it to be read in the churches.

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.

With six other bishops he petitioned James for permission not to order his clergy to commend James's second Declaration of Indulgence (April 1688), which suspended religious and civil restrictions against Roman Catholics and Protestant dissenters.