GR - Religious Factors

• Toleration Act 1689?

  to join parliament men had to swear allegiance to crown and take Anglican communion
• What were the disadvantages of the Toleration Act?

  excluded Jews and Catholics and people who didn't swear allegiance to Anglican church couldn't go to university
• Features of the Act of Settlement 1701?

  • Monarch can't wage war without parliament's consent
  • Monarch can't leave Britain without parliament's consent
  • Catholics and those married to catholic's could not be monarch's
• What did the Toleration Act of 1689 implement?


  • Restricted power of the church courts
• Conditions of the Dissenters?

  • Dissenters could be exempt from punishment if they accepted the Test Act - there meeting's were however still monitored
  • By 1714 there were 400,000 dissenters worshiping freely - they made up 8% of the population
• What happened regarding the Test Act in 1678?

  The Act was not repealed

  This meant dissenters could not hold public office - public officials still had to swear Anglican oath
• 400 priests refused to swear loyalty to the monarch and were sacked under toleration act