Ontario High School History of England . -way to control the king in his choice of his ministers. It could, if it liked, refuse money,and this was enough; no kingcould long defy a body whichpossessed this power. The Toleration Act, 1698.—Next in importance to the polit-ical was the religious so happened that there weresoon a number of vacant bishop-rics to fill. When an oath ofallegiance to the new ruler wasrequired of all officials in churchand state, Bancroft, Archbishopof Canterbury, six other bishops,and about three hundred clergy,refused it on the ground thatthey had taken a s
Ontario High School History of England . -way to control the king in his choice of his ministers. It could, if it liked, refuse money,and this was enough; no kingcould long defy a body whichpossessed this power. The Toleration Act, 1698.—Next in importance to the polit-ical was the religious so happened that there weresoon a number of vacant bishop-rics to fill. When an oath ofallegiance to the new ruler wasrequired of all officials in churchand state, Bancroft, Archbishopof Canterbury, six other bishops,and about three hundred clergy,refused it on the ground thatthey had taken a similar oath to James and were boundby it as long as he lived. Nothing could shake their. Makv II (IGGi-lGOl) THE REVOLUTION 345 resolution, and they were at last deprived of their singular body of Non-jurors which they formed did notdie out until 1805. Thus it came about that William wasfree to choose an Archbishop of Canterbury who would workfor religious peace. He appointed Tillotson, a man of liberalviews, and named men of like mind to other sees. The timehad come to grant freedom of worship to the Protestantnonconformists. Puritan and Anglican, opposed in the stateand on the battlefield for so many years, had now stoodside by side against the plans of James. So one of the firstthings that Parliament did in 1689 was to pass a TolerationAct, which gave to all Protestants full rights of public wor-ship. The repressive policy of Whitgift and of Laud cameat last to an end. Yet the old fires still burned. x at-tempt to repeal the Test Act (p. 330), which required alloffice-holders to conform to the Anglican Church, also did a Comprehension Bill which
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