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Article: From persecution to toleration in the West Country, 1672-1692.(Protestant non-conformists)
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- The Historian
- Article date:
- September 22, 2006
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SCHOLARS INCREASINGLY RECOGNIZE that religious toleration for Protestant Nonconformists developed in England only in 1719, although the Whigs repealed the 1711 Occasional Conformity Act and the 1714 Schism Act enacted by the Tories. (1) The 1689 Act of Toleration, or more properly the Act of Exemption, which resulted from the Revolution of 1688, was a politique religious settlement instituted by William III who needed support from Protestant Nonconformists for the new regime. William acted in cooperation with Parliament issuing a royal Declaration of Indulgence rather than acting unilaterally as had James II in 1687 and 1688 and Charles II in 1672. (2)
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