Papists_Act_1723

Papists Act 1722

Papists Act 1722

United Kingdom legislation

The Papists Act 1722 (9 Geo. 1. c. 24) was an Act of the Parliament of Great Britain, enacted after the discovery of the Jacobite Atterbury Plot. The Act required landowners to take the oaths of allegiance, supremacy, and abjuration, by 25 December 1723; those who declined were to register their estates by 25 March 1724 (N.S)/1723 (O.S).[1]

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If they failed to do so they risked forfeiting their estates.[2] It was repealed by the Papists Act 1723 (10 Geo. 1. c. 4).[3]

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  1. [1]
    Under the calendar used in Britain at the time, the new year did not begin until March 26. Thus, what the British Act noted as "25 March 1723" was the last day of 1723, three months after 25 December 1723.
  2. [2]
    1723 Act at foda.org.uk
  3. [3]
    Danby Pickering, The Statutes at Large: From the Ninth Year of King George I. to the Second Year of King George II., Vol. XV (Cambridge, 1765), p. 100.


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