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    The words Popery (adjective Popish) and Papism (adjective Papist, also used to refer to an individual) are mainly historical pejorative words in the English...
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    An Act to prevent the further Growth of Popery (2 Ann. c. 6 (I); commonly known as the Popery Act or the Gavelkind Act) was an Act of the Parliament of...
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    Gordon Riots (redirect from No-Popery Riots)
    reduce official discrimination against British Catholics enacted by the Popery Act 1698. Lord George Gordon, head of the Protestant Association, argued...
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  • Preservative against Popery (also Preservation against Popery) is a name commonly given to a collection of anti-Catholic works published in 1738 by Edmund...
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    during this period. Popery Act 1703 (2 Anne. c. 6 (I)) 3 Geo. 2. c. 3 (I) 2 Geo. 1. c. 12 (I) 9 Geo. 2. c. 5 (I) 7 Geo. 2. c. 26 (I) Popery Act 1703 (2 Anne...
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    The word quixotism is mentioned, for the first time, in Pulpit Popery, True Popery (1688): ...all the Heroical Fictions of Ecclesiastical Quixotism...
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    1. c. 15 (I) 10 Geo. 1. c. 9 (I) Popery Act 1703 (2 Anne. c. 6 (I)) Glebe Act 1698 (10 Will. 3. c. 6 (I)) Popery Act 1703 (2 Anne. c. 6 (I)) 2 Geo....
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    2012. Retrieved 8 November 2008. "Laws in Ireland for the Suppression of Popery". University of Minnesota Law School. Archived from the original on 25 January...
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  • unacquainted with Catholic custom — The Right Reverend Abbot Horne, Relics of Popery Alternatively, in the moment of death a person stretches their legs (Spanish:...
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    The Popery Act 1698 (11 Will. 3. c. 4) was an Act of Parliament of the Parliament of England enacted in 1700. The long title of the Act was "An Act for...
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  • "The Vicar of Bray" is an eighteenth century satirical song recounting the career of The Vicar of Bray and his contortions of principle in order to retain...
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    1862, the journal Weekly Pacquet of Advice from Rome: or, The History of Popery stated: "...that noise of a Popish Plot was nothing in the world but an...
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    In numerous pamphlets and parliamentary speeches between 1675 and 1678, "popery and arbitrary government" were decried for fear of the loss of English liberties...
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  • Schism, Toleration; and what best means may be used against the Growth of Popery is an Anti-Catholic polemical tract by John Milton, first published in London...
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    of Popery amongst us; but lay Popery flat, and there's an end of arbitrary Government and power. It is a mere chimera, or notion, without Popery. Although...
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  • Morning Exercises refers to a religious observance by Puritans in London which started at the beginning of the English Civil War. As most of the citizens...
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    The Popery Act 1627 (3 Cha. 1. c. ) was an Act of Parliament passed by the Parliament of England. Its long title is "An Act to restrain the passing or...
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    sentiment. Puritans delivered sermons regarding the perceived dangers of popery, while during increasingly raucous celebrations common folk burnt effigies...
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    Act for the Settlement of Ireland 1652 Act of Settlement 1662 Penal Laws Popery Act Constitution of 1782 Acts of Union 1800 Gaelic conquests Tuadhmhumhain...
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    Anti-Catholicism (redirect from Anti-popery)
    Clive D. Field, "No Popery's Ghost." Journal of Religion in Europe 7#2 (2014): 116–149. Laws in Ireland for the Suppression of Popery Archived 2008-01-03...
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    From popery came the notion of a standing army and arbitrary power... Formerly the crown of Spain, and now France, supports this root of popery amongst...
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    Act for the Settlement of Ireland 1652 Act of Settlement 1662 Penal Laws Popery Act Constitution of 1782 Acts of Union 1800 Gaelic conquests Tuadhmhumhain...
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    precent th Growth of Popery in England. London: Printed, and are to be sold by A. Baldwin in Warwicklane. 1700. Two Methods to stop Popery and preserve the...
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    of Christmas, considering it a Catholic invention and the "trappings of popery" or the "rags of the Beast". In contrast, the established Anglican Church...
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  • Education Act 1695, the Banishment Act 1697, the Registration Act 1704, the Popery Acts 1704 and 1709, and the Disenfranchising Act 1728. Under pressure from...
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  • converted to Protestantism in 1682 and came to abjure popery, and published Protestancy proved Safer than Popery (1686). His medical reputation was based on his...
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    insidious design for the infringement of our liberties and the introduction of Popery into every department of the State". Wellington responded by immediately...
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    I. The inclusion of illustrations in the edition raised accusations of Popery from opponents of the religious policies of Charles and William Laud, Archbishop...
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    Act for the Settlement of Ireland 1652 Act of Settlement 1662 Penal Laws Popery Act Constitution of 1782 Acts of Union 1800 Gaelic conquests Tuadhmhumhain...
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    between 1555 and 1557. It has a history of religious antagonism and anti-popery, including the burning of an effigy of the Pope. The event attracts tens...
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