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TOLERATION ACl\
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The Toleration Acty intitled , an Act for exempting their Majesties Protestant Subjects , dissenting from the Church oj England from the Penalties of certain Laws .
Forasmuch , as some ease to scrupulous consciences , in the exercise of religion , may be an effectual means to unite their majesties Protestant subjects in interest and affection , I . Be it enacted , by the king and queen ' s most excellent majesties , and with the advice and consent of the , lords , spiritual and temporal , and Commons , in this present Parliament assembled , and by the authority of the same , that neither the statute made in the
23 d year of the reign of the late < J ueen Elizabeth , intitled u An Act to retai l the Queen Majesty ' s stibjects in their due obedience ; ndr that statute made in the 29 th year of the said Queen , intitled , art Act for the more speedy and due Execution of certain branches
of the Statute made in the 23 d year of the Qi * een Majesty ' s reign , viz . the aforesaid Act ; nor that branch or clause of a statute , made in the first year of the reign of the said Queefn , intitled , an Act
for the Unity of common Prayer , and Service in the Church , and administration of the Sacraments , whereby all persons , having no lawful dr reasonable excuse to be
absent , are required to resort to their piarish church or chapel , or sortife tisual plate , Where the Coin - moh P ^ yefr shall ! be Used , upon
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pain of punishment , by the censures of the church ; and also , upon pain that every person so offending shall forfeit for every such offence twelvepence . Nor that statute made in the 3 d year of the late king James the First , intitled , an Act for the better Dis .
covering and Repressing Popish Recusants . Nor that after statute , made in the same year , intitled , an Act to prevent and avoid Dan * gers which may grow by Popish Recusants . Nor any other law or statute of this realm , made
against Papists or Popish Recusants , except the statute made in the 25 th year of king Charles the Second , intitled , an Act for preventing Dangers which may happen from Popish Recusants . And except also the statute made
in the 30 th year of the said king Charles the Second , intitled , an Act for the more effectual preserving the King ' s Person and Government , by disabling Papists
from Sitting in either House of Parliament , shall be construed to extend to any person or persons dissenting from the Church of England , that shall take ihe oaths mentioned in a statute made in
this present Parliament , intitled an Act for removing and preventing all Questions and Disputes concerning the Assembling and Sitting of the present Parliament , shall make and subscribe the
declaration , mentioned in a statute , made in the SOth year of the reign of King Charles the Second , intitled , an Act to prevent Papists from Sitting in either House of
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), May 2, 1812, page 325, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1748/page/45/
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