Act of Toleration: England Protects Protestant Worship
The law that freed Protestant dissenters to worship openly kept one hand around the throat of England's Catholics. Parliament's Act of Toleration in 1689 let Baptists, Presbyterians, and Quakers finally build churches without fear of prison—but if you attended Mass, you still couldn't vote, hold office, or own land. William III signed it weeks after taking the throne from Catholic James II. Freedom for some. Exclusion for others. And here's the thing: those anti-Catholic restrictions stayed on the books for another 140 years.
May 24, 1689
337 years ago
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Nonkonformismus
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