Declaration of Indulgence - 1688

1688

The English Indulgence was reissued on 27 April 1688 leading to open resistance from Anglicans. Few clergy read out the indulgence in Church. The Scottish Declaration was reaffirmed in a second proclamation on May 1688. Some Scottish Episcopalians refused to recognise the Indulgence.

William Sancroft Archbishop of Canterbury and six other Bishops presented a petition to the King declaring the Indulgence illegal. James regarded this as rebellion and sedition and promptly had the seven bishops tried; however, the bishops were acquitted. The Presbyterians supported the Church, and of the dissenters only the Quakers gave thanks to the King for the Indulgence.

The Indulgences were voided when James II was deposed in the Glorious Revolution and the Bill of Rights abolished the suspending power (Stat. 1 W. & M. sess. 2. c 2.).

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