Exhibit 516

Toleration Act, 1 William and Mary c. 18

Exhibit 516 · Statute

Toleration Act, 1 William and Mary c. 18

paying of tithes or other parochial duties, or any other duties to the church or minister, nor from any prosecution in any ecclesiastical court or elsewhere, for the same

Excuses Protestant dissenters who take the oaths and subscribe the declaration from the penalty statutes on attendance and conventicles, but saves tithes, parochial duties and prosecution in the ecclesiastical courts for them.

Source: Parliament of England (William and Mary)
Date: 24 May 1689
Quoted from: Gee and Hardy no. CXXIII, pp. 657-58 (from Statutes of the Realm VI, 74)
Grade: Primary record
Document: https://archive.org/details/documentsillustr00geehuoft
Accessed: 2026-11-09
Cited by: Findings citing this exhibit
Note: Preamble: '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'.

Cited by

Finding REL-2.6: Primary record Between 1661 and 1673 Parliament required officeholders to receive the sacrament according to the Church of England and fined nonconforming ministers and attenders at conventicles with part of the fines going to informers, and the Toleration Act of 1689 excused Protestant dissenters from the attendance penalties while saving tithes, parochial duties and ecclesiastical-court prosecution.