From: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org (alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest) To: ammf-digest@smoe.org Subject: alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #13976 Reply-To: ammf@fruvous.com Sender: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-ammf-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest Friday, May 24 2024 Volume 14 : Number 13976 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Everyone is Going Crazy Over This... ["Tech Deals" Subject: Everyone is Going Crazy Over This... Everyone is Going Crazy Over This... http://surveydefends.za.com/BIwBhjt8KDBczCCw858JGR669vMJT1fJ6l5D5ulJWNKEl2ytKw http://surveydefends.za.com/BfDsZyLxHn_T-5DhL9oxfwDrqGmoOG2HAZwNCcbyqwoXDAkQ6g tion Act 1689 (1 Will. & Mar. c. 18), also referred to as the Act of Toleration, was an Act of the Parliament of England. Passed in the aftermath of the Glorious Revolution, it received royal assent on 24 May 1689. The Act allowed for freedom of worship to nonconformists who had pledged to the oaths of Allegiance and Supremacy and rejected transubstantiation, i.e., to Protestants who dissented from the Church of England such as Baptists, Congregationalists or English Presbyterians, but not to Roman Catholics. Nonconformists were allowed their own places of worship and their own schoolteachers, so long as they accepted certain oaths of allegiance. The Act intentionally did not apply to Roman Catholics, Jews, nontrinitarians, and atheists. Further, it continued the existing social and political disabilities for dissenters, including their exclusion from holding political offices and also from the universities. Dissenters were required to register their meeting houses and were forbidden from meeting in private homes. Any preachers who dissented had to be licensed. Between 1772 and 1774, Edward Pickard gathered together dissenting ministers, to campaign for the terms of the Toleration Act for dissenting clergy to be modified. Under his leadership, Parliament twice considered bills to modify the law, but both were unsuccessful and it was not until Pickard and many others had ended their efforts that a new attempt was made in 177 ------------------------------ End of alt.music.moxy-fruvous digest V14 #13976 ***********************************************