Talk:Test Acts

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Scottish and Irish

The article defines Test Acts as something English. However, according to my dictionary (Natinonalencyklopedin, in Swedish) Irland and Scotland also had such laws, and mentions years for introducing and removing them. Probably the article should be expanded with some Irish and Scottish facts as well as the English ones. // habj (talk) 21:41, 1 March 2008 (UTC)

1672 or 1673?

This source says this:

The Declaration of Indulgence and the Test Act

Charles II's proclamation in 1672, suspending by his royal prerogative the penal statutes against Nonconformists (known as the Declaration of Indulgence), was seen by many Members of Parliament as evidence of both the King's sympathy for Catholicism and his preference for absolutist rule.

Their opposition was so fierce that Charles II was forced to cancel it in 1673 and instead to agree to Parliament's Test Act. This required all those wishing to hold office to swear an oath to the King and the Protestant English Church and to sign a declaration denying the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation."

Martinevans123 (talk) 19:32, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

Corporation Act 1661

How could this act, which was introduced in 1661, have been The Corporation Act of James I (who died in 1625)? I can find no obvious reference to it having originated before Charles II's reign (e.g. see Britannica https://www.britannica.com/topic/Corporation-Act). I suggest editing this section to reflect its introduction in the Restoration era. Kitb (talk) 16:35, 17 April 2022 (UTC) PS. I cannot see anything like in in the list of Acts passed during James I's rule (https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Portal:Acts_of_the_Parliament_of_England/James_I ), but I am neither a lawyer nor a historian! Kitb (talk) 16:45, 17 April 2022 (UTC)

@Kitb: the text is referring to an earlier act - the source used says "The Act of 7 Jac. I. c. 2 provided that all such as were naturalized or restored in blood should receive the sacrament of the Lord's Supper" - and 7 Jac. I c. 2 refers to "Naturalization and restoration of blood. DuncanHill (talk) 18:03, 17 April 2022 (UTC)

Thanks for clearing that up! Kitb (talk) 23:16, 17 April 2022 (UTC)

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Oxbridge

The line in the lede

An exception was at Oxbridge, where nonconformists and Catholics could not matriculate (Oxford) or graduate (Cambridge) until 1871, they were seldom enforced after 1800 and the Tory government repealed them in 1828 with little controversy.

appears dodgy. If abolished in 1828, why were they in operation in Cambridge until 1871? The answer is perhaps Universities Tests Act 1871, but in that case the lede's "the Tory government repealed them in 1828" would be wrong William M. Connolley (talk) 13:00, 20 June 2023 (UTC)