Organised worship in England for those whose beliefs anticipated those of Christadelphians only truly became possible in 1779 when the Act of Toleration 1689 was amended to permit denial of the Trinity, and only fully when property penalties were removed in the Doctrine of the Trinity Act 1813.

Though the Quakers lost influence after the Glorious Revolution, which deposed James II, the Act of Toleration 1689 put an end to the uniformity laws under which Quakers had been persecuted, permitting them to assemble freely.

* 1689 – The English Parliament passes the Act of Toleration protecting Protestants.

The Whigs, opposing the court religious policies, argued that the Dissenters should be allowed to worship separately from the established Church, and this position ultimately prevailed when the Toleration Act was passed in the wake of the Glorious Revolution ( 1689 ).

The Nuttall Encyclopædia notes that Dissenters were largely forgiven by the Act of Toleration under William III, while Catholics " were not entirely emancipated till 1829 ".

* Toleration Act ( disambiguation )

The Act of Toleration ( 1689 ), the long title being An Act for Exempting their Majestyes Protestant Subjects dissenting from the Church of England from the Penalties of certaine Lawes, gave relief to English Dissenters, but excluded Unitarians.

Once laity and clergy relaxed their vehement opposition to the Doctrine of the Trinity Act 1813 ( sometimes called the Trinitarian Act 1812 and also variously known as the Trinity Act, Unitarian Relief Act and Unitarian Toleration Bill ) that amended the Blasphemy Act 1697 in respect of its Trinitarian provisions, the British and Foreign Unitarian Association was founded in 1825.

Parliament also passes the Act of Toleration protecting Protestants, but with Roman Catholics intentionally excluded.

The Maryland Toleration Act, also known as the Act Concerning Religion, was a law mandating religious tolerance for trinitarian Christians.

Cecilius Calvert, proprietor of the Maryland colony when the Maryland Toleration Act was passed

Partially to confirm the promises he made to them, Calvert wrote the Maryland Toleration Act and encouraged the colonial assembly to pass it.

The Maryland Toleration Act was an act of tolerance, allowing specific religious groups to practice their religion without being punished, but retaining the ability to revoke that right at any time.

In addition to repealing the Maryland Toleration Act with the assistance of Protestant assemblymen, Claiborne and Bennett passed a new law barring Catholics from openly practicing their religion.

They quickly rescinded the Toleration Act and banned public practice of Catholicism, and it would never be reinstated under colonial rule.

Later laws ensuring religious tolerance and freedom, including the British Act of Toleration of 1689, the Holy Experiment in Pennsylvania, and laws concerning religion in other colonies such as South Carolina, may have been influenced by its example.

" It was not until the passage of the First Amendment to the Constitution over a century later that religious freedom was enshrined as a fundamental guarantee, but even that document echoes the Toleration Act in its use of the phrase, " free exercise thereof ".

" Maryland Toleration Act ".

Due to his alliances with England and the Dutch Republic during the Nine Years War, he was forced to cease this practice from 1688, and in 1694 granted an Edict of Toleration.

Section 6 of the Ecclesiastical Courts Jurisdiction Act 1860 provided that nothing contained thereinbefore in that Act was to be taken to repeal or alter section 18 of the Toleration Act 1688.

In 1737, Obadiah Brown I married his first cousin, Mary Harris ( 1718 – 1805 ), daughter of Toleration and Sarah Harris.

Under threat of the French government seeking to protect the work of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, Kamehameha III issued an Edict of Toleration on June 17, 1839 allowing for the establishment of the Hawaii Catholic Church.

The Occasional Conformity Act ( also known as the Toleration Act 1711 ) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain ( statute number 10 Anne c. 6 ), the long title of which is " An Act for preserving the Protestant Religion " which passed on 20 December 1711.

Maximinus has a bad name in Christian annals, as having renewed persecution after the publication of the toleration edict of Galerius ( see Edict of Toleration by Galerius ), acting outwardly as responding to the demands of various urban authorities asking for the expelling of Christians.

* John Coffey ( 2000 ), Persecution and Toleration in Protestant England 1558-1689, Studies in Modern History, Pearson Education

The term dissenter came into use, particularly after the Act of Toleration ( 1689 ), which exempted Nonconformists who had taken the oaths of allegiance and supremacy from penalties for non-attendance at the services of the Church of England.

* A Discourse of the Liberty of Prophesying ( 1646 ), a famous plea for toleration published decades before John Locke's Letters Concerning Toleration.

* John Coffey ( 2000 ), Persecution and Toleration in Protestant England 1558-1689, Studies in modern History, Pearson Education

* Edict of Toleration ( 311 ), by Galerius before his death.

* Edict of Toleration ( 1839 ), by King Kamehameha III of Hawaii.

However, they are quoted at length in Lactantius ' On the Deaths of the Persecutors ( De mortibus persecutorum ), which gives the Latin text of both Galerius's Edict of Toleration as posted at Nicomedia on 30 April 311, and of Licinius's letter of toleration and restitution addressed to the governor of Bithynia, posted at Nicomedia on 13 June 313.

* 1568 – The Edict of Torda ( or Turda ), also known as the Patent of Toleration ( Act of Religious Tolerance and Freedom of Conscience ), was an attempt by King John II Sigismund of Hungary to guarantee religious freedom in his realm.

* 16 September 1664 – Edict of Toleration in the Electorate of Brandenburg ( Germany ), tolerance of the Protestant denominations with each other.

* 1839 – Edict of Toleration ( Hawaii ), which is issued by Kamehameha III to allow Catholic missionaries in addition to Protestants.

Voltaire, in A Treatise of Toleration ( 1763 ), ironically referred to veneration of the Holy Foreskin as being one of a number of superstitions that were " much more reasonable ... than to detest and persecute your brother ".

A series of legal acts assured a constitutional settlement of this new situation, these include The Bill of Rights ( 1689 ), The Mutiny Act ( 1689 ), the Act of Toleration ( 1689 ), and later the Act of Settlement ( 1701 ) and the Act of Union ( 1707 ).

Even although, in his Treatise on Toleration ( 1763 ), the famous French liberal philosopher Voltaire expressed a distaste for religious fanaticism, he was at the same time convinced that religion could be a useful tool to keep the masses under control.

), Persecution and Toleration, Studies in Church History 21 ( 1984 ), 1-27

In 1649 Maryland passed the Maryland Toleration Act, also known as the Act Concerning Religion, a law mandating religious tolerance for Trinitarian Christians only ( excluding Nontrinitarian faiths ).

* The Toleration Party, also known as the American Party, was established in Connecticut to oppose the Federalist Party

In 1649 Maryland passed the Maryland Toleration Act, also known as the Act Concerning Religion, a law mandating religious tolerance for Trinitarian Christians only ( excluding Nontrinitarian faiths ).

* 21 April 1649 – Maryland Toleration Act in the early American colony Province of Maryland, also known as the Act Concerning Religion, was passed by Maryland's colonial assembly mandating religious tolerance for Catholicism.

* 1782 – An Edict of Toleration, also known as the Patent of Toleration, issued by the Holy Roman Emperor, Joseph II, extended religious freedom to non-Catholic Christians living in Habsburg lands, including: Lutherans, Calvinists, and the Greek Orthodox.

The Act of Toleration 1689 also gave rights to Protestant dissenters that were hitherto unknown, while the elimination of a large number of bishops who refused to swear allegiance to the new monarchs allowed the government to pack the episcopate with bishops with decidedly Whiggish leanings.

In 1649 Maryland passed the Maryland Toleration Act, also known as the Act Concerning Religion, a law mandating religious tolerance for trinitarian Christians.

In 1649 Maryland passed the Maryland Toleration Act, also known as the Act Concerning Religion, a law mandating religious tolerance for trinitarian Christians.

Toleration was limited however: Article 28, while declaring that there should be a free press, stated specifically that Bibles, catechisms, liturgies and prayer books could not be printed without episcopal permission ; religious propaganda was also prohibited by the state.