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On This Day In Royal History . 15 March 1672 . King Charles II of England issues the Royal Declaration of Indulgence. . . ◼ The Royal Declaration of Indulgence was Charles II of England’s attempt to extend religious liberty to Protestant nonconformists & Roman Catholics in his realms, by suspending the execution of the Penal Laws that punished recusants from the Church of England. Charles issued the Declaration on 15 March 1672. . ◼ It was highly controversial & Sir Orlando Bridgeman, son of a bishop, resigned as Lord Keeper of the Great Seal, because he refused to apply the Great Seal to it, regarding it as too generous to Catholics. . ◼ The Cavalier Parliament in 1673, compelled Charles to withdraw this declaration & implement, in its place, the first of the Test Acts (1673), which required anyone entering public service in England to deny the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation & take Anglican communion. . ◼ When Charles II’s openly Catholic successor James II attempted to issue a similar Declaration of Indulgence, an order for general religious tolerance, this was one of the grievances that led to the Glorious Revolution that ousted him from the throne. . . . #onthisdayinhistory #thisdayinhistory #d15mar #TheYear1672 #CharlesII #CharlesIIofEngland #KingCharlesII #HouseofStuart #EnglishMonarchy #BritishMonarchy #Royalhistory #Kingofengland #Royals #Royalfamily #Onthisday #Otd #History #Historyfacts #englishroyalty #Monarchy #Portraitpainting #royalcollection . 🎨 Royal Collection Trust/© Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II 2020 . Visit the @royalcollectiontrust (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9xWppKpNp0/?igshid=1a12wmw40f12t

On This Day In Royal History . 15 March 1551 . Lady Mary rides through London . . The Lady Mary, daughter of Henry VIII, sister of king Edward VI & the future Queen Mary I, rode through London causing a stir. . Here is diarist Henry Machyn’s record of the event: . “The xv day the Lady Mary rode through London unto St John’s, her place, with fifty knights & gentlemen in velvet coats & chains of gold afore her, & after her iiij score gentlemen & ladies every one havyng a peyre of bedes of black. She rode through Chepe-syde & thrugh Smythfeld.” . ◼ A note in the diary by historian John Strype notes that the carrying of beads was “to make an open profession, no doubt, of their devotion for the mass” & the carrying of rosaries during Edward’s Protestant reign was definitely a statement. . . . #onthisdayinhistory #thisdayinhistory #d15mar #TheYear1551 #MaryI #QueenMaryI #MaryIofEngland #HouseofTudor #TudorHistory #EnglishMonarchy #BritishMonarchy #Royalhistory #Historic #London #Londonhistory #Tudor #Tudors #Tudorhistory #Portraitpainting #Art #Artwork #LadyMary #Cheapside #Smithfield #Queenofengland (at London, United Kingdom) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9xVt3QJCHG/?igshid=pe8o5s1by9yj