Exclusion of Catholics from London

Historical Context Note

Litencyc Editors (Independent Scholar - Europe)

The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 1.2.1.05: English Writing and Culture from the Glorious Revolution to the French Revolution, 1689-1789.
Vol. editors: Paul Baines (University of Liverpool), Daniel Cook (University of Dundee), Pat Rogers (University of South Florida), Nicholas Seager (University of Keele)

Domains

Catholic
Massacres, purges

Dates

Date of occurrence 1689-1828

Places

United Kingdom (Location)

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Empowered the justices of the peace in London and the home counties to arrest all “Papists” and submit them to an oath of allegiance. If they refused they would be “esteemed and adjudged a Popish Recusant Convict” and they would be forbidden to remain within ten mile of the cities of London or Westminster. The Act comes to literary attention in particular because it forced the father of Alexander Pope to give up his business as a linen merchant in Lombard Street and remove the family first to Hammersmith, and then to Binfield in Windsor Forest. This act compounded the restraints already placed by the Test Act and Corporation Act, and prefaced further acts against the catholics, notably that of 1700 which disqualified Catholics from inheriting land or buildings and prohibited…

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Citation: Editors, Litencyc. "Exclusion of Catholics from London". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 11 January 2004 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/stopics.php?rec=true&UID=1462, accessed 24 April 2024.]

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