Toleration Act

Toleration Act, an Act of Parliament passed May 24, 1689, relaxing the stringent conditions of the Act of Uniformity, the Five Mile Act, and the Conventicle Act. Freedom of worship was now secured for those who would take the oath of allegiance and subscribe the declaration against Popery, but Dissenting ministers were required to subscribe the Thirty-nine Articles, except three and part of a fourth. Quakers were exempted from these conditions. The benefits of the Act did not extend to Roman Catholics and Unitarians or Deists.