...was, after some debate, passed into a law, under the title of an act for exempting their fnajestiefc' protestant subjects dissenting from the church of England from the penalties of certain laws. Jt enacted, that none of the penal laws should be construed to extend to those dissenters who should...

...similar purposes, and has had to encounter similar abuses*. * The toleration act, which is entitled " an act for exempting their Majesties protestant subjects...church of England from the penalties of certain laws," having set forth in the preamble, that " forasmuch at some ease to scrupulous consciences in the exercise...

...which it appears they did not much like it. It is entitled, " AD act for exempting their majesty's protestant subjects dissenting from the church of England, from the penalties of certain laws therein mentioned." But the corporation and test acts were not inserted in this act. There is an exception...

...established; and for confirming the Toleration granted to Protestant Dissenters by an Act intituled ' an Act for exempting their Majesties' Protestant Subjects,...of England, from the penalties of certain . Laws? and for supplying the defects thereof; and for the further securing tfye Protestant succession, by...

...majority of the two houses of parliament. They however readily passed an Act, in the summer of 1689, for exempting their Majesties Protestant Subjects...Church of England from the Penalties of certain Laws; which is commonly called the Act of Toleration. But toleration is a word not to be applied to honest...

...entire consent of all the princes of the empire. * See the seventeenth section, or clause, in the " Act for exempting their Majesties' Protestant subjects...the Church of England from the penalties of certain Statutes," generally called, The Toleration Act. Let this clause be compared with the following Statutes:...

...Mary, which gave no positive privilege to dissenters from the national religion, but only provided for exempting their majesties' protestant subjects,...church of England, from the penalties of certain laws, commonly called the toleration act. On the whole, religious establishments, by civil authority and...

...resist the violence of the party, to which hu * 1 W. andM. c. 18. An Act for exempting their Majesty's protestant subjects, dissenting from the church of England, from the penalties of certain laws. "" '"""" 1701. was compelled to yield, to the sore annoyance of his own feelings. Had William been...

...the reign of the late King- William and Queen Mary, entitled, An Act for exempting their Majesty's Protestant subjects dissenting from the church of England, from the penalties of certain laws ; or any dwelling-house, barn, stable, or other out-house, — that then, every demolishing or pulling...

...of England. The penalties are conditionally suspended by the statute 1 W. and M. «t. Ie Í8. '• for exempting; their majesties protestant subjects,...church of England, from the penalties of certain laws," commonly called the toleration net; which declares, that neither the laws above-mentiened, nor the...