Act of Toleration

American  

noun

English History.

1. the statute (1689) granting religious freedom to dissenting Protestants upon meeting certain conditions.

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Act of Toleration

The originators of this second church, therefore, separated from the original parent, availed themselves of the Act of Toleration, and became Congregational Dissenters from a Congregational Establishment!

From American Scenes, and Christian Slavery A Recent Tour of Four Thousand Miles in the United States by Ebenezer Davies

I shall only note the dry fact that within thirty years of the last enactment the whole purpose of the statutes was destroyed by the Act of Toleration.

From The Acts of Uniformity Their Scope and Effect by T. A. (Thomas Alexander) Lacey

The legislature, sir, by the Act of Toleration.

From Memorials of the Independent Churches in Northamptonshire with biographical notices of their pastors, and some account of the puritan ministers who laboured in the county. by Thomas Coleman

Passage of the Act of Toleration in Maryland.

From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 11 by Rossiter Johnson

Through the influence of Lord Baltimore an Act of Toleration was passed in 1649, notable as the first decree, voted by a legal assembly, granting complete freedom to all Christians.

From A History of Freedom of Thought by J. B. (John Bagnell) Bury

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