Orange County Friends Meeting
Religious Society of Friends (Quakers)

Santa Ana, California

The Toleration Act, 1689

The Toleration Act of 1689 allowed protestant nonconformists the right to practice in their own places of worship, and effectively brought to an end the persecution of Quakers, subject to their making certain promises that apparently, they were not unwilling to make:

"And every such person that shall make and subscribe the two declarations and profession aforesaid, being thereunto required, shall be exempted from all the pains and penalties of all and every the aforementioned statutes made against popish recusants, or protestant nonconformists ... and also from the penalties of an act ... entitled, an Act for preventing Mischief's that may arise by certain persons called Quakers refusing to take lawful oaths; and enjoy all other the benefits, privileges, and advantages, under the like limitations, provisos, and conditions, which any other dissention should or ought to enjoy by virtue of this act."

 

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