History A-Level
Declaration of Indulgence
What Declaration of Indulgence means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Declaration of Indulgence
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
James II's 1687 measure suspending penal laws, whose motives dissenters distrusted.
Topics that use Declaration of Indulgence
- Religion: conflict and dissent, 1625–88 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
Related terms
- Anti-Catholic sentiment and the succession
- Catholic court influence
- Clarendon Code
- Presbyterianism
- Puritanism
- The exclusion of Catholics from religious toleration
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