Religion Act 1580

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Religion Act 1580
Act of Parliament
Parliament of England
Long titleAn Act to retain the Queen's Majesty's Subjects in their due Obedience.
Citation23 Eliz. I. c.1
Territorial extent
Other legislation
Relates to
  • 29 Eliz. I. c.6 (1587)
  • 3 Jac. I. c.4 (1605)
  • 31 Geo. III. c.32 (1791)
Text of statute as originally enacted

The Religion Act 1580 (23 Eliz.1 c. 1) was an Act of the Parliament of England during the English Reformation.[1]

The Act made it high treason to persuade English subjects to withdraw their allegiance to the Queen, or from the Church of England to Rome, or to promise obedience to a foreign authority.

The Act also increased the fine for absenteeism from Church to £20 a month or imprisonment until they conformed. Finally, the Act fined and imprisoned those who celebrated the mass and attended a mass.[2]

Notes[]

  1. ^ Tomlins, Thomas Edlyne; Raithby, John (1811). Religion Act 1580 [23 Eliz. I. - A.D. 1580 Chapter I]. Internet Archive. The Statutes at Large, of England and of Great Britain: from Magna Carta to the Union of the Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland. IV. London, Great Britain: George Eyre and Andrew Strahan. pp. 374–377. OCLC 1110419501.
  2. ^ Dudley Julius Medley, A Student's Manual of English Constitutional History. Sixth Edition (Oxford: Basil Blackwell, 1925), p. 638.

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External links[]

  • Tomlins, Thomas Edlyne; Raithby, John (1811). Religion Act 1587 [29 Eliz. I. - A.D. 1587 Chapter VI]. Internet Archive. The Statutes at Large, of England and of Great Britain: from Magna Carta to the Union of the Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland. IV. London, Great Britain: George Eyre and Andrew Strahan. pp. 442–445. OCLC 15609908.
  • Tomlins, Thomas Edlyne; Raithby, John (1811). An Act for the better discovering and repressing of Popish Recusants (1605) [3 Jac. I. - A.D. 1605 Chapter IV]. Internet Archive. The Statutes at Large, of England and of Great Britain: from Magna Carta to the Union of the Kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland. IV. London, Great Britain: George Eyre and Andrew Strahan. pp. 637–649. OCLC 15609908.
  • Frederick, George William (1794). Religion Act 1791 [31 Geo. III. - A.D. 1791 Chapter XXXII]. HaithTrust.org. The Statutes at Large, from the Thirtieth Year to Thirty-fourth Year of Reign of King George the Third. XVI. London, Great Britain: Charles Eyre and Andrew Strahan. pp. 129–134. OCLC 722388097.


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