The exception is Protestant, especially Anglican, resistance to James II's Declaration of Indulgence. Opponents focused on Transubstantiation as an emblem of James's absolutism, savaged Catholic convert John Dryden and feared that James might also demand that priests 'read an Homily for ...
THIS PAST SATURDAY was the anniversary of the birth of King James II and VII of England and Scotland. The third son of Charles I, he was baptised into the Anglican church six weeks after his birth and was created Duke of York at eleven years of age. James married Anne Hyde, the daugh...
King James II was now set on a course of restoring Catholicism to England. He issued aDeclaration of Indulgenceremoving restrictions imposed on those who did not conform to the Church of England. England might have tolerated King James II knowing that his heirs were the Protestant daughters of ...
After the accession of James II in 1685, his overtRoman Catholicismalienated the majority of the population. In 1687 he issued a Declaration ofIndulgence, suspending the penal laws againstNonconformistsand recusants, and in April 1688 ordered that a second Declaration of Indulgence be read from ever...
VII It was my theory, my conviction, it became, as I may say, my attitude, that they had still never "met"; and it was just on this ground I felt it generous to ask him to stand with me at her grave. He did so very modestly and tenderly, and I assumed, though he himself cle...
The exception is Protestant, especially Anglican, resistance to James II's Declaration of Indulgence. Opponents focused on Transubstantiation as an emblem of James's absolutism, savaged Catholic convert John Dryden and feared that James might also demand that priests 'read an Homily for ...
The 1689 Toleration Act clearly marked a new phase in the development of religious dissent, but the persecution of dissenters for holding meetings had already ended as a result of James II's Declaration of Indulgence issued in April 1687, which allowed dissenters to preach in public again. The...