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  • uncertain and so the Test Abolition Act 1867 (30 & 31 Vict. c. 62) repeated the 1829 repeal more explicitly. The 1661, 1672 and 1678 acts were repealed...
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  • Thumbnail for List of acts of the Parliament of England from 1678
    This is a list of acts of the Parliament of England for the year 1678. For acts passed during the period 1707–1800, see the list of acts of the Parliament...
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  • Thumbnail for Sacramental Test Act 1828
    The Sacramental Test Act 1828 (9 Geo. 4. c. 17) was an Act passed by the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It repealed the requirement that government...
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    the throne take the declaration as laid out by the Test Act 1678; Reiterated by section 2 of the Act of Settlement 1701. The form of the declaration was:...
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    presence, although this motion was never voted on. He supported the Test Act 1678, which required that all peers and members of the House of Commons should...
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    1678 (MDCLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar and a common year starting on Tuesday of the Julian calendar, the 1678th...
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  • Catholics were debarred from such employment. Five years later, the Test Act 1678 required all members of either House of Parliament, before taking their...
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  • at or after the consecration thereof by any person whatsovever." In 1678 the act was extended thus: "I, N, do solemnly and sincerely in the presence of...
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    Audley) by the Test Act 1678, much to the regret of the Protestant peers, who held him in high regard. He took his leave on 30 November 1678, with a speech...
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  • Thumbnail for Universities Tests Act 1871
    The Universities Tests Act 1871 (34 & 35 Vict. c. 26) was an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. It abolished religious "Tests" and allowed Roman...
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  • Events from the year 1678 in England. Monarch – Charles II 10 January – England and the Dutch Republic sign a mutual alliance against France. 21 March...
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    when the Duke of York refused to take the oath prescribed by the new Test Act, it became publicly known that he was a Roman Catholic. In the five years...
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  • Thumbnail for Weights and Measures Acts (UK)
    Act 1985, weights and measures acts were only concerned with trade law where the weight or size of the goods being traded was important. The 1985 act...
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  • Thumbnail for Party Wall etc. Act 1996
    however, Part VI of the London Building Acts (Amendment) Act 1939 set out a well tried and tested mechanism for resolving disputes, having evolved over numerous...
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    cocktail bar. Sir Peter Leycester, 1st Baronet (1614 in Nether Tabley – 1678), an English antiquarian and historian Edward Penny RA (1714 in Knutsford...
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    unanimous decision in the case of Sessions v. Morales-Santana (137 S. Ct. 1678, 2017), the Supreme Court struck down the unequal residence requirement for...
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    first Test Act in May 1673, requiring all office-holders to deny Catholic transubstantiation and take Anglican communion. Following the Test Act, the members...
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  • Thumbnail for National Security Act 2023
    The National Security Act 2023 (c. 32) is an act of the Parliament of the United Kingdom which introduced new measures intended to strengthen United Kingdom...
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  • Thumbnail for Cruelty to Animals Act 1876
    Animals Act 1849. It was a public general Act. The Act was replaced 110 years later by the Animals (Scientific Procedures) Act 1986. The Act stipulated...
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    November 1678, people burned effigies of the Pope instead of those of Guy Fawkes. At the end of the year, the parliament passed a bill, a second Test Act, excluding...
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