The 'Toleration Act" of 1689 solved some religious problems of the 17th century

Category
Government
Place
British Isles
Date
1689
Reference
Excerpts from Books and Wikipedia
"If the men who made the Glorious Revolution were unanimous on the Catholic issue, they were more divided about Protestant nonconformity. The outcome was a compromise, the ‘Toleration Act’ of 1689 being in effect an admission by the Anglican establishment that it could never hope to extirpate Puritanism. On the one hand, England remained a confessional state, with access to all public offices and the universities confined to Anglicans; on the other hand, Protestant nonconformists (Baptists, Congregationalists and Quakers, for example) were not punished if they failed to attend Anglican services and were permitted to establish their own chapels and schools. . . . The Glorious Revolution settled the religious problems that had wracked the seventeenth century by tolerating nonconformists and suppressing Catholics in England. The same technique was employed in Ireland, although the situation there was very different because the Catholics constituted around three-quarters of the population (as opposed to c. 2 per cent in England). But following their decisive defeat at the Boyne in 1690, they were in a hopeless position: ‘once again it had been proved that the Stuarts’ efforts to reconquer England from Ireland was as fatal for the Irish as for themselves’ (Keith Feiling)." [Blanning: Pursuit of Glory, p. 262-4]

This event is linked to the following periods

PeriodMiner
Begin
End
Category
Stuarts (Restoration)
1660
1714
British Isles